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Up-and-coming sprint car star Tyler Seavey led all 25-laps in dominant fashion to gain his first-career victory in the winged 360 sprint car main event at Marysville Raceway on Saturday.

Seavey became the sixth different sprint car driver to win their first Marysville Raceway main event in 2017. Saturday marked Seavey’s second career win in the No. 18 sprint car. Their first win came at AntiochSpeedway.

From the get go, Seavey was the class of the field. Chasing him for the majority of the race was Mike Monahan and Billy Wallace. Yet, those two drivers fell over four seconds behind Seavey at times during the race.

Seavey was thrilled with the win and received a loud ovation when he parked the car on the front stretch, got out of it and climbed towards the top wing.The best maneuver of the night goes to Jeremy Hawes. The current point leader somehow snuck by Wallace and Monahan on the last lap to steal a second-place finish.

The hard charger of the night award went to young Lucas Ashe of Cottonwood. Ashe started the main event in 15th position and finished in fifth. It was an eye-opening finish for the talented driver.

For the third time this season Woodland’s Peter Paulson was the quick-time leader. His fastest lap on the quarter-mile oval was timed at a 12.188 seconds. Hawes won the first heat race. Oroville’s Heath Hallwon the second heat.

A total of 17 drivers entered point race No. 7. The IMCA Sport Mods entered the 20-lap main event with 14 contenders. After numerous failed attempts to get one lap in, the field was lined up in a single-file fashion. Once the smoke and dust cleared, Jorddon Braaten led the first ten laps. On the eleventh circuit Todd Cooper passed Braaten for the lead.

It was quite the rebound for Cooper, who earlier in the race spun around in front of the field to cause one of the numerous yellow caution flags. Yet, he rebounded and move back up to the front. Todd’s brothe Brian Cooper also worked his way back up through the field after an early incident and finished second.

Braaten drove a solid race and after leading finished third.