ANDERSON, Ind. —
Tennessee driver David Moyes III continued his dominance in the Grant Fritz/Greg Dietzen Memorial for the Legends division by recording his third consecutive win Saturday at Anderson Speedway.
Moyes, who set fast time during qualifications, ran in the tire tracks of Travis Braden for most of the middle stages of the race and when lapped traffic presented him with the opportunity, he powered into the lead.
With Braden and Moyes closing on the lapped car of Nick Wilson, the two leaders split Wilson entering turn three on Lap 68. Moyes went low and Braden used the high line, but it was Moyes exiting the corner in the lead.
At the finish it was Moyes winning by less than a straight away with Braden, Robbins, Andrea Hans and Chris Weddle rounding out the top five.
There were only 12 of the 25 cars that started the 100-lap event running at the finish, with ten drivers on the lead lap.
Kentucky driver Ben Rhodes lead the first three laps when he was passed by Elwood’s John Robbins on lap four with an inside move coming off the fourth corner.
Robbins led until Lap 24 when Braden and Moyes slipped inside entering the turn three. From that point Braden and Moyes pulled away from the remainder of the field.
There were two multi-car crashes in the first 30 laps of the event.
The first was caused when Taylor Webb lost an engine entering turn one on Lap 15 and collected the cars of Ben Rhodes, Shelby Campbell and James Edsall III.
Webb was running second at the time and Rhodes was running fourth and Edsall was fifth.
Fifteen laps later five cars got together coming off the second corner while battling for the tenth position. Among those involved in the incident were Cullen Canmasta, Angie Donahue and Kevin Donahue.
The caution flag waved on Lap 51 for debris, again on Lap 69 when Sterling Shaw spun in turn two and on Lap 80 when Wilson made contact with the turn two outside retaining wall.
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