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Masters wins Iron Man Challenge Thriller at "The Creek"

SPRING VALLEY, Minn. (July 22) -- Jake Masters of Graettinger, Iowa, was a little concerned when a caution flag waved with two laps to go in Thursday's USRA Stock Car feature. His comfortable four-car-length lead disappeared when a yellow flag set up a green-white-checkered finish.

Lynn Panos helped to make it perhaps the most dramatic finish in the three-year history of the Industrial Material Surplus Iron Man Challenge.

Masters had stayed strictly on the high side of the track and slowly pulled away from Panos over the final eight laps of the 25-lap feature. online ingyenes nyerőgépes játékok But the veteran Panos, from Protivin, Iowa, who led the first 15 laps, stayed side by side with Masters on the late restart and made the finish one that had to be decided by technology.

The transponders on the top two cars showed that Masters beat Panos across the finish line by one-thousandth of a second. Kyle Falck, who started 10th, made it a good three-car battle, finishing just behind Panos.

“I didn't know about that last (restart),� Masters said. “It took me a couple of laps to get warmed up again. rabona kaszinó online At the line, I thought I had my nose ahead of (Panos), but we don't have to worry about that with the transponders here.�

Masters and Panos put on a good show at the front of the 26-car field for about five laps in the middle of the race. Masters, who started seventh, moved up from fifth to second in a span of two laps in the middle of the race. tippmix hu He and Panos raced side by side, with Masters up high and Panos below him, for the next four laps. They traded the lead three times before Panos led at the white flag, but Masters led the only lap that counted.

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