American Racing News Vol 1, Issue 2 Issue 6 | Page 30

BOAT CRUISES TO FIRST CAREER SERIES VICTORY
IN USAC MIDGETS' JEFFERSON COUNTY DEBUT
USAC PR | BRAD BROWN / www.ibracn.com PHOTO

Fairbury, Nebraska.........In the
USAC Midget National Championship's return to the state of Nebraska after a nine-year hiatus,
Phoenix, Arizona's Chad Boat
broke through in his 65th career
series start, leading the final 19
laps to take his first series victory in
front of a standing-room-only
crowd at Riverside Chevrolet's
"Tuesday Night Thunder" in USAC's
first ever visit to Fairbury, Nebraska's Jefferson County Speedway.
The night's 35-lap feature marked
just the sixth the time a USAC National Midget main event of this
distance had been held, and the
first occasion since February of

1979 when Bob Wente took the
victory at the Indiana State Fairgrounds Coliseum.

his Tucker-Boat Motorsports/
PristineAuction.com - K & C Drywall/ Spike/Speedway Toyota.

Chad Boat, the 2008 USAC National
Midget Rookie of the Year, collected his first career series victory in
Riverside Chevrolet's "Tuesday
Night Thunder" at Jefferson County
Speedway in Fairbury, Nebraska.

"I knew my car was going to come
to me on the bottom on that last
restart, so I wasn't super nervous,"
Boat admitted. "I was committed
to the top, but Tyler Thomas
showed me the bottom in (turns)
one and two and I just went down
there to make them beat me on
the top. What a great car we had,
though! Those laps in the middle of
the race, when everybody else was
on the bottom and we were up
top, this thing was hauling! It was
dicey getting through the lapped
traffic, but it's exciting to get my

Boat, the 2008 series Rookie of the
Year, has found success in his first
full year of USAC National Midget
competition since the 2010 season,
joining Shane Golobic (Du Quoin)
and Spencer Bayston (Gas City) to
become the third different first
time winner in the series in 2016 in