Round 20: Talladega

Race 20a

Lap 1 - Colin Lindsay and William Brock take the green!

Lap 3 - Lead Change! Ryan Bolden squeezes underneath Lindsay into turn 1 and into the top spot!

Lap 3 - Lead Change! Jerald Reddington takes his turn at the front as he slingshots past Bolden in turns 3 and 4!

Lap 4 - Lead Change! Yuki Tamura takes the leaders FOUR WIDE on the bottom! She boldly goes out front!

Lap 4 - Lead Change! Tylor Thaber makes quick work of Tamura after pushing her out front!

Lap 4 - CAUTION! A big crash breaks out behind the leaders as a result of that four wide battle!

Lap 4 - Lead Change! Just as quickly as he got rid of Tamura, Benoit Lothaire-Irvine moves Thaber to the top and goes out front as they race back to the caution!

Lap 5 - Lead Change! Brandon Chrasta noses Lothaire-Irvine at the line to take the caution!

Lap 9 - Brandon Chrasta takes the restart!

Lap 9 - Lead Change! Benoit wastes no time taking the top spot right back!

Lap 10 - Lead Change! Rookie Troy Nickerson makes a bold dive underneath to lead a WTSS race!

Lap 10 - Lead Change! Jerald Reddington breezes past Troy through turns 3 and 4!

Lap 11 - Lead Change! Ji-Yeon Hu now takes her turn at the front as she zooms past Reddington!

Lap 12 - Lead Change! Reddington right back past! He powers back by Ji-Yeon!

Lap 13 - Lead Change! Joshua Michaels slings past Reddington with ease!

Lap 20 - Lead Change! Matt Purpura finally is the one to overpower Michaels off turn 2!

Lap 21 - Lead Change! Ryan Bolden scurries past Purpura into the tri-oval!

Lap 22 - Lead Change! Benoit now holds it against the line and goes past Bolden!

Lap 22 - Lead Change! Jerald Reddington once again finds himself out front as he goes back past!

Lap 23 - Lead Change! Daniel Voyles steams past Reddington into turn 1!

Lap 27 - Lead Change! Reddington finally gets back past Voyles through turns 1 and 2!

Lap 28 - Lead Change! Voyles returns back out front!

Lap 34 - Lead Change! Voyles merges back onto the track after green flag pit stops and relinquishes the top spot to Zachary Fitzwater!

Lap 35 - Lead Change! Luis Torres makes quick work of Fitzwater into turn 1!

Lap 35 - Lead Change! Sean Angel leaves Torres out to dry!

Lap 41 - Lead Change! Torres returns the favor after 6 laps of chasing Angel back!

Lap 41 - Lead Change! Daniel Voyles zips past Torres to get back into the front!

Lap 42 - OH NO! TROY NICKERSON NEARLY TURNS TYLOR THABER! HOW DID THEY ALL SAVE THAT?!?

Lap 43 - Lead Change! Kev Shearer gets helped past Voyles into turn 3!

Lap 43 - Lead Change! Sean Angel turns that help into an opportunity to get back out front!

Lap 50 - WHITE FLAG! Sean Angel has one more lap to hang on to the lead! Can he hold off a hungry pack of cars one more time around Talladega?!

Lap 50 - Lead Change! Luis Torres switches lanes on Angel and plays him like a fiddle! Torres leads with one corner and a straightaway to go!

Lap 50 - CHECKERED FLAG! LUIS TORRES DOES IT! He's going to defend his race win here from Season 5! Westfall and Luis Torres return to victory lane here in Talladega!

Race results

race 20b

Lap 1 - Lance Kubica and Ben Dover take the green!

Lap 1 - Lead Change! Kubica doesn't get through the gears as good! Ben Dover goes around the outside and to the front!

Lap 1 - Lead Change! Joe Srigley makes fast work of Dover through turns 3 and 4!

Lap 2 - Lead Change! Chris Louviere now flies past on the bottom of Srigley!

Lap 2 - Lead Change! Kyle Koeppl now takes his turn out front here in the early running!

Lap 3 - Lead Change! Kaede Nishidake steals it from Koeppl easily into turn 3!

Lap 4 - Lead Change! Rei Takita now gets pushed out front!

Lap 5 - Lead Change! Mitchell Marc now gets helped up front!

Lap 6 - Lead Change! Noah Sweet abandons ship and now gets out front!

Lap 7 - Lead Change! William Duncan makes an incredible four wide pass on the bottom!

Lap 8 - Lead Change! Connor Mire with help on the bottom slipstreams past Duncan!

Lap 9 - Lead Change! Jeffrey Finguy abandons both leaders and goes for his own in turns 1 and 2!

Lap 10 - CAUTION! Trouble in the back! 7 or 8 cars involved!

Lap 10 - Lead Change! Brenden Berg goes four wide on the bottom to take the top spot coming to the caution!

Lap 15 - Brenden Berg takes the restart!

Lap 19 - Lead Change! Logan Hill surges past Berg through turns 1 and 2!

Lap 36 - CAUTION! OH NO! MASSIVE CRASH! Ben Dover turns William Duncan into Nishidake and Ryan DeLuso! Duncan flies into the air!

Lap 37 - Eric Cardona and others stay out?? I'm not sure how any of thse drivers plan on making it on fuel, but I guess game on then.

Lap 40 - Cardona and others have abandoned ship! Ben Dover now takes the lead as his crew seem to believe in this preposterous strategy.

Lap 42 - Ben Dover takes the restart! 9 to go!

Lap 42 - Lead Change! Lance Kubica pulls past Dover as they round turns 3 and 4!

Lap 42 - Lead Change! They can't make it! There was no way! I'm not sure what any of them were thinking! Mark Nutt goes out front!

Lap 43 - Lead Change! Shrimp Engrits now makes quick work of his teammate with help from Bobby Fraser!

Lap 44 - Lead Change! Stephen Pollard SOARS past the leaders into turn 1! He's got a fast piece with just 7 to go!

Lap 50 - WHITE FLAG! Stephen Pollard is just one lap from career win #1 in WTSS if he can just hang on!

Lap 50 - OH MY! The lapped car of Kelsey Parker uproots your race leader Pollard! What is she doing?!

Lap 50 - Lead Change! Shrimp Engrits inherits the top spot as they enter the third turn!

Lap 50 - Lead Change! Austin Mero makes the pass on Engrits entering the tri-oval! CAN HE HANG ON?!

Lap 50 - CHECKERED FLAG! LAST LAP PASS AGAIN! Austin Mero made a heads up move when it counted and it's going to PAY OFF! Austin Mero wins in Talladega! Career win #2!

Race results

Point Standings