Harris Clash to Strickler

The 2013 edition of the Harris Clash was dominated by North Carolina driver Kyle Strickler ,who becomes the events first repeat winner in its 22 year history. Strickler led all 25 laps after drawing a front row starting position and was out to a seven second lead before the races only caution came on lap nineteen. On the restart Strickler pulled away again to win comfortably. The race behind Strickler was action packed as Richie Gustin drove from seventeenth to second, passing Jesse Sobbing with two laps remaining, and Mike Van Genderen came from twenty-second to sixth. Eric Dailey was given the promoter’s provisional twenty-fifth starting spot being a former champion (2011) of the event and drove up to an eleventh place finish. Last years runner-up Jeremy Mills had just made the pass for the fourth position when he broke and came to a stop in turn four to bring out the race’s only caution, and finished twentieth.



The format of eight heat races with only the top two transferring to the feature created some excellent heat races. Heats were won by Bill Davis, Jeremy Mills, Jesse Sobbing, Kyle Strickler, Kevin Stoa, Dylan Smith, Todd Shute, and Taimon Wehr.

The night was marred with a few accidents, the worst coming in the first Modified B-Main when former Harris Clash champion (2007) Clayton Christensen got up and over a wheel of a car in front of him and barrel rolled a few times through turn two.
A total of 69 Modifieds and 45 SportMods were entered for the evening.
Harris Clash Finish: 1. Kyle Strickler (2); 2. Richie Gustin (17); 3. Jesse Sobbing (1); 4. Randy Havlik (11); 5. Todd Shute (6); 6. Mike Van Genderen (22); 7. Luke Wanninger; 8. Mark Elliott (15); 9. Dylan Smith (8); 10. Scott Dickey (18); 11. Eric Dailey (25); 12. Josh Gilman (21); 13. Cayden Carter (24); 14. Taimon Wehr (7); 15. Mitch McGrath (19); 16. Nate Caruth; 17. Bill Davis Jr.; 18. Greg Cox (12); 19. Brian Foote (13); 20. Jeremy Mills (5); 21. Colt Mather (10); 22. Jon Snyder (9); 23. Josh Most (14); 24. Josh Foster (20); 25. Kevin Stoa (4).

Doug Smith led all twenty laps of the SportMod feature. Jared Timmerman was fast at the end coming from ninth to third, while Tyler Gross charged from seventeenth to sixth, and Eric Elliott clawed his way from twenty-first to eighth.
SportMod Finish: 1. Doug Smith (2); 2. Paul Nagel (3); 3. Jared Timmerman (9); 4. Austin Kaplan (5); 5. Matt Lettow (1); 6. Tyler Gross (17); 7. Kyle Prauner (6); 8. Eric Elliott (21); 9. Carter VanDenBerg (12); 10. Ben Kates (11); 11. Jarod Weston (20); 12. Tyler Leullen; 13. Allan Hopp (19); 14. Jerry Hoffman; 15. Cole Ferguson (7); 16. Joshua Pfeifer (8); 17. Nick Roberts (18); 18. Jim Gillenwater (10); 19. Brett Lowry (4); 20. Josh Sink (15); 21. Austin Schrage (13);