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story by John Rittenoure - ENID, Okla. (August 8, 2021) - It has been a long time coming, but Dustin Allen found his way back to the winners circle Saturday night at Enid Speedway.
Allen won his career first Complete Well Testing Sooner Late Model Series A-Feature in the season opener at Crawford County Speedway. Since then Allen only logged two more top 10 finishes over six events. Now he has one more.
Allen drove past early leader Lee Allen after just a couple of laps then pulled out to a large lead on the Enid Speedway 3/8’s mile oval. Meanwhile, Kip Hughes was charging his way through the field from his 11th place starting position working his way to third behind AJ Brochu who passed Allen for second.
With no yellow flags it appeared Allen would win by a large margin until the yellow finally waved on lap 22. That allowed the field to restart on Allen’s rear bumper. On the restart Hughes shot around Brochu for second and was hoping for a shot at the leader. But Allen pulled away for his second victory leaving Hughes with second and Brochu third. Eddie Tidwell finished fourth ahead of Bobby McGehee in fifth and points leader Hayden Ross in sixth.
After 16 events Ross continues to lead the points chase by 85 points over 3-time defending champion Hughes.
The Sport Mod feature was looking like an Elliott 1-2 sweep in the early going of the 20-lap feature Robert Elliott moved into second behind Race Elliott on the third lap. However, just a few laps later Race Elliott slowed and Robert took over winning for the second time this season. Jason Weber drove into second with five laps remaining. Bryan Root finished third.
It was Joe Adams winning for the second time in Ok Factory Stocks. Adams drove off the outside front row into a lead he never gave up. JD Choate challenged Adams after the halfway point in the 20-lapper. Johnie Rauschenberg moved up to challenge Choate and took over second with five laps remaining. Choate finished third.
Nikk Sands raced into an early lead and turned back a challenge from Dylan Whitley to win a third Hot Shot feature. Whitley pulled up behind Sands midway through the race and stayed close all the way to the finish.
Sooner Late Model Series
HEAT 1 (10 Laps)
1, 11-Dustin Allen. 2, 22-AJ Brochu. 3, 42R-Ross McCarthney. 4, 21B-Brandon Kenny. 5, 64-
Jay Sale. 6, 84-Gary Kilbourn.
HEAT 2 (10 Laps)
1, 229-Damian Patocka. 2, 96-John Herring. 3, 55-Zach Nickell. 4, 4-Kip Hughes. 5, Mc20-
Bobby McGehee. 6, 29S-Scott Donnell.
HEAT 3 (10 Laps)
1, 1-Eddie Tidwell. 2, 65-Lee Allen. 3, 51-Eddie Martin. 4, 81-Troy Bynum. 5, 42c-Courtney
McCartney. 6, 66-Hayden Ross.
A FEATURE (25 Laps)
1, 11-Dustin Allen. 2, 4-Kip Hughes. 3, 22-AJ Brochu. 4, 1-Eddie Tidwell. 5, Mc20-Bobby
McGehee. 6, 66-Hayden Ross. 7, 84-Gary Kilbourn. 8, 42c-Courtney McCartney. 9, 96-John
Herring. 10, 29S-Scott Donnell. 11, 21B-Brandon Kenny. 12, 65-Lee Allen. 13, 42R-Ross
McCarthney. 14, 81-Troy Bynum. 15, 55-Zach Nickell. 16, 229-Damian Patocka. 17, 51-
Eddie Martin. 18, 64-Jay Sale.
Sport Modified
HEAT 1 (8 Laps)
1, 09R-Race Elliott. 2, 09-Robert Elliott. 3, 00-Caleb Slater. 4, 14-Brandon Gritz. 5, 19-RJ
Ramer. 6, 11-Matthew Nelson. 7, 19X-Chris Golden.
HEAT 2 (8 Laps)
1, 11F-Jason Weber. 2, 101-Jeff Rozelle. 3, 15-Bryan Root. 4, 78-Leon Ramirez. 5, 21C-
Johnny Cummins. 6, 99A-Aren Watson. 7, 81-Mark Harrison. (DNS).
A FEATURE (20 Laps)
1, 09-Robert Elliott. 2, 14-Brandon Gritz. 3, 11F-Jason Weber. 4, 15-Bryan Root. 5, 101-Jeff
Rozelle. 6, 19-RJ Ramer. 7, 21C-Johnny Cummins. 8, 78-Leon Ramirez. 9, 11-Matthew
Nelson. 10, 09R-Race Elliott. 11, 19X-Chris Golden. 12, 99A-Aren Watson. 13, 00-Caleb
Slater. 14, 81-Mark Harrison. (DNS).
Ok Factory Stock
HEAT 1 (8 Laps)
1, 29C-Dustin Choate. 2, 42-Dakota Stewart. 3, 25P-Paul Blocker. 4, 213-Dustin Schechter.
5, 4M-Zach Cox. 6, 070-Justin McBride. 7, 19-Mark Smith.
HEAT 2 (8 Laps)
1, 1F-Johnie Rauschenberg. 2, 30-Brad Savoie. 3, 88K-Andrew Kunkel. 4, 7X-Tim Russo. 5,
64-Robert Stewart. 6, 29-Jeffrey Lynch. 7, 81-Tyler Scruggs.
HEAT 3 (8 Laps)
1, K6-Joe Adams. 2, 7C-JD Choate. 3, 3-Logan Macy. 4, 16-Skylar McCall. 5, 32-David Dunkin. 6, 4CF-Dustin Schoonover.
A FEATURE (20 Laps)
1, K6-Joe Adams. 2, 1F-Johnie Rauschenberg. 3, 7C-JD Choate. 4, 81-Tyler Scruggs. 5,
30-Brad Savoie. 6, 88K-Andrew Kunkel. 7, 4M-Zach Cox. 8, 32-David Dunkin. 9, 42-Dakota
Stewart. 10, 16-Skylar McCall. 11, 213-Dustin Schechter. 12, 3-Logan Macy. 13, 25P-Paul
Blocker. 14, 070-Justin McBride. 15, 29C-Dustin Choate. 16, 7X-Tim Russo. 17, 21H-Daryl
Hoskins. 18, 19-Mark Smith. (DNS). 19, 29-Jeffrey Lynch. (DNS). 20, 4CF-Dustin
Schoonover. (DNS). 21, 64-Robert Stewart. (DNS).
Hot Shot
HEAT 1 (8 Laps)
1, 69N-Nikk Sands. 2, 19B-Amanda Jones. 3, 21-Makayla Rauschenberg. 4, 3H-Luke
Howard. 5, 47-Matthew Aytes. 6, 5C-Christopher Clark.
HEAT 2 (8 Laps)
1, 16W-Dylan Whitley. 2, 2X-Seth Boster. 3, 2-Harley Knouse. 4, 19-Caleb Ramer. 5, 54-
Matt Harvey. 6, 4B-Tucker Boyer.
A FEATURE (15 Laps)
1, 69N-Nikk Sands. 2, 16W-Dylan Whitley. 3, 21-Makayla Rauschenberg. 4, 2X-Seth Boster.
5, 19B-Amanda Jones. 6, 2-Harley Knouse. 7, 47-Matthew Aytes. 8, 3H-Luke Howard. 9,
19-Caleb Ramer. 10, 54-Matt Harvey. 11, 5C-Christopher Clark. 12, 4B-Tucker Boyer.