3-IN-A-ROW FOR PURSLEY AT ELDORA iRACING CHALLENGE
Rossburg, Ohio (April 23, 2020)………Daison Pursley is simply en fuego right now.
For the third-straight USAC iRacing event, the 15-year-old USAC NOS Energy Drink National Midget Rookie for Keith Kunz/Curb-Agajanian Motorsports collected the victory, this time in a sprint car Thursday night at Eldora Speedway in round four of the USAC AMSOIL iRacing Challenge presented by NOS Energy Drink.
In recent weeks, Pursley won the AME Electrical FALS Invitational midget iRace at Fairbury American Legion Speedway on April 11, then followed up with another iRacing midget triumph on April 16 at Williams Grove Speedway.
Pursley endured a green-white-checkered finish, escaping from the challenge of second and third-running Logan Seavey and Aiden Purdue in turn one, taking the high line to victory lane and winning margin of 0.988 over Seavey, Purdue and a hard-charging Zeb Wise in fourth after playing the alphabet soup from the D-Main to the C, B and A-Mains. Carson Sousa rounded out the top-five.
“We ended up having a pretty good lead there, but I was still racing like they were right under my bumper,” Pursley said. “Unfortunately, that caution came out and we had to race a green-white-checkered. I was so nervous running right there with Seavey and them. I knew the slider was going to probably end up coming into turn one, but I just didn’t know how to approach it. Luckily, we were able to get the win there.”
Connor Leoffler earned the Hard Charger award, finishing 6th after starting 24th; Clinton Boyles was the Hard Work award winner; Wise was rewarded as the Passing Master for the event, passing the most cars throughout the night.
Prize money is courtesy of Baldwin Brothers Racing, Hayward Motorsports, Petry Motorsports and TOPP Motorsports, Flowdynamics and B & W Auto Mart.
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USAC AMSOIL iRACING CHALLENGE PRESENTED BY NOS ENERGY DRINK SPRINT CAR RACE RESULTS: April 23, 2020 – Eldora Speedway – Rossburg, Ohio
FAST QUALIFIER: Logan Seavey-15.177
FIRST HEAT WINNER: Logan Seavey
SECOND HEAT WINNER: Daison Pursley
THIRD HEAT WINNER: Cannon McIntosh
FOURTH HEAT WINNER: Ronnie wuerdeman
FIFTH HEAT WINNER: Kaidon Brown
D-MAIN WINNER: Zeb Wise
C-MAIN HEAT WINNER: Jake Neuman
SEMI WINNER: Brayden Fox
FEATURE: (30 laps) 1. Daison Pursley, 2. Logan Seavey, 3. Aiden Purdue, 4. Zeb Wise, 5. Carson Sousa, 6. Connor Leoffler, 7. Cannon McIntosh, 8. Jake Neuman, 9. Kevin Thomas Jr., 10. Jake Swanson, 11. Colby Johnson, 12. Trey Gropp, 13. Justin Grant, 14. Isaac Chapple, 15. Brayden Fox, 16. Anton Hernandez, 17. Kaidon Brown, 18. Clinton Boyles, 19. Joel Rayborne, 20. Tony Gualda, 21. Robert Dalby, 22. Ronnie Wuerdeman, 23. Stephen Schnapf, 24. Brady Bacon. NT
