American Racing News Vol 1, Issue 2 Issue 8 | Page 43

However, as opposed to their
terrible luck at Granite City,
every break seemed to work in
Bacon's advantage at Wayne
City. Each time Bacon reached
the tail end of the field with
the possibility of getting hung
up traffic looming over him,
the caution came out for an
incident somewhere else on
the track, which bunched up
the field and provided Bacon a
clear racetrack when action
resumed and the ensuing laps
following each restart.
It may not have mattered,
though, as Bacon was clearly
the class of the field Friday
night with only Tanner
Thorson offering a brief
challenge on a restart at the
halfway point. Thorson was
able to stay nose-to-tail with
Bacon midway through the
back straightaway on lap 21
before Bacon once again broke
away, separating himself from

Thorson by a half-straight
within a handful of laps.
After a bevy of late-race
cautions put a clamp on the
action before it could even
resume, Bacon answered the
bell each and every time
racing got back underway,
holding off all challengers on
each restart and never turning
a wheel wrong during the
entirety of his 40-lap run to
take the checkered flag in the
4th annual race honoring the
life of Leffler, the four-time
USAC National champion.
Thorson finished in the
runner-up spot followed by
Carson Macedo, Windom and
Andrew Felker.
Although Thorson's three-race
winning streak was snapped,
his second-place finish in his
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