Jim Body won the USRA Modified feature on Saturday, July 21, 2018, a the Springfield Raceway in Springfield, Mo.

Jim Body took control on the opening lap of the USRA Modified feature and held back repeated challenges from Ryan Gilmore until Gilmore jumped the cushion with two laps to go in capturing his second straight feature win Saturday night at the Springfield Raceway in an action-packed feature for the top spot.

Body, who last week made it look pretty easy in the feature, earned the pole spot in qualifying with Gilmore to his outside. On the start, Body shot to the inside lane as Gilmore went top side and then the hard charger from Diamond used a diamond move on the track in turns 1 and 2 to keep Gilmore at bay.

Gilmore continued to pound the top cushion as Body placed his Body Truck Repair/Yeoman Engines/Shaw by Bone No. 71 in different spots on the racy smooth surface to keep Gilmore's Danny Martin Trucking/GMPP Engines/Hoffman Race Cars No. 3366 glued to his back bumper.

Several times out of turn 2, Body, who was using The Diamond Drifting move of going in low and fast and drifting upwards off turn 2 found Gilmore right on his back bumper as the duo keep the crowd on the edge of their seats while current track points leader Jody Tillman in his Indian Point Marina/Yeoman Engines/Hoffman Race Cars No. 85 was staying about six car-lengths back but never able to gain any ground.

With two laps remaining, Gilmore overshot the top cushion in turn 2 allowing Body to pull away in a flawless run for the hard charger. Gilmore quickly recovered to maintain second place with Tillman, former track champion Jackie Dalton (in Danny Martin's car) and James Thompson completing the top 5 in the caution-free event.

"With the USMTS event coming to Springfield in a couple of weeks, we really hope to keep this roll going and make the show to uphold the local talent," Body said. "Things have been falling in place and we knew even when we were running second and third we had a winning car."

For Body, whose Shaw by Bone car was built by Tony Bone it has been an emotional ride as Bone passed away after a fight with cancer two weeks ago, just as Body began his ride to the winners circle.

In Out-Pace USRA B-Mod action, defending track and national champion Gilmore took charge at the middle point of the feature from leader Dalton following a restart and drove away late in the race to a stellar performance.

Dalton, the current Springfield track points leader and ranked in the top 10 in the Summit USRA Weekly Racing Series national standings, brought the field to the green with Aaron Scroggins to his outside while Gilmore and Rex Merritt occupied row 2. The action was typical Springfield action with three-wide racing all over the place as Dalton wasted no time in grabbing the top spot as Gilmore glued to the bottom of the quarter-mile track.

A couple of cautions slowed the lightning fast pace and kept the 20-car field tight. At lap 10, Gilmore found the move he needed and went past Dalton in grabbing the lead and pulling away leaving the race for second spot between Dalton, Scroggins and a fast moving Lexy VanZandt as the young lady found the bottom lanes to her liking while other rode the top groove.

Dalton's car acted as if something broke, but the Carthage veteran got back in control after Scroggins got by. When the checkered flew, Gilmore was entering lapped traffic as Scroggins, Dalton, VanZandt and Sam Petty completed the top 5.

Ryan Gillmore won the Out-Pace USRA B-Mod feature on Saturday, July 21, 2018, a the Springfield Raceway in Springfield, Mo.

Summit USRA Weekly Racing Series action continues next Saturday, July 28,with a full race card along with the Cash Money Super Dirt Car Series Late Models

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OFFICIAL RESULTS
United States Racing Association
Summit USRA Weekly Racing Series
Springfield Raceway, Springfield, Mo.
Saturday, July 21, 2018

Showing finishing position, starting position in parentheses, car number and driver.

USRA MODIFIEDS

Feature:
1. (1) 71 Jim Body
2. (2) 3366 Ryan Gilmore
3. (4) 85 Jody Tillman
4. (7) 33 Jackie Dalton
5. (8) 11T James Thompson
6. (5) 33D Danny DeMasters
7. (6) 49 Andrew Smith
8. (3) 8 Nathan Gold

OUT-PACE USRA B-MODS

Feature:
1. (3) 66 Ryan Gilmore
2. (2) 1/4 Aaron Scroggins
3. (1) 21 Jackie Dalton
4. (6) 25 Lexy VanZandt
5. (14) 9 Sam Petty
6. (4) 25M Rex Merritt
7. (9) 71III Jimmy Body III
8. (17) 55B Bill Schahuber
9. (10) D7 Shawn Duncan
10. (7) 3A Aaron Speck
11. (11) 21X Cody Ryder
12. (12) 50B Andy Beauchamp
13. (18) 32F Michael Foster
14. (19) 32 Kelly Hicks
15. (20) 24 Cody Acklin
16. (16) 34 Jacob Long
17. (15) 8 Dillion McCowan
18. (13) 8X Jeff Scroggins
19. (5) 26P Bobby Pearish
20. (8) 20m Mike Mansker
DNS – 86 Shawn Ply
DNS – 02 Kyle Long
DNS – 17R Rod Inman
DNS – 54G Mike Green