Zach Sobotka invaded unfamiliar territory when he visited the Thunder Mountain Speedway for the DIRTcar Sportsman Central Region event.\u00a0 When Dave Farney waved the double checkered, Sobotka led all 30 laps and collected a cool $1,000 for the victory.<\/p>\n
The effort didn\u2019t go unchallenged as the winner from the Saturday night previous, Hunter Lapp, was dogging the back deck of Sobotka in the closing stages making for a dramatic finish.<\/p>\n
\u201cI knew he (Lapp) was there, I just tried to hold the bottom each lap and hope not to make a mistake,\u201d Sobotka said, \u201cWith not running here, you really didn\u2019t know if the track would change or if you were running the right lane.\u201d<\/p>\n
When the two entered turn three coming for the white flag, Lapp got his mount under Sobotka and were door to door.\u00a0 \u201cYea, I left the bottom open just a bit but I made sure I got back down there,\u201d Zach then went on about his year, \u201cWe have some wins this year, but not as much as we would want to, hopefully we can keep it going.\u201d<\/p>\n
Lapp has collected two wins in weekly competition coming into the Series event which has him leading the track standings.\u00a0 Taking home the win not only would had him defending his home turf, but would be a career highlight.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe tried, I got under him (Sobotka) on that one lap but the door closed and I didn\u2019t want to get into him,\u201d he went on about the late stages, \u201cI tried to do the same line on the last lap but he protected, did what he should have.\u00a0 Hey, we will take second, we have been pretty good here and this was another good run.\u201d<\/p>\n
Alan Fink has been the winningest driver at Thunder Mountain and is second in points.\u00a0 He was sizing up the front two but just didn\u2019t get the run to close in and challenge.\u00a0 \u201cThe track was pretty much bottom only for our race. So it was tough to see if I could have a chance.\u201d<\/p>\n
For Fink, he\u2019s been enjoying taking a ride down Interstate 81 each Saturday night.\u00a0 Last season he was crowned champion and hopes to have the same result this year.\u00a0 \u201cI hope we can win the title again, we will give it a shot.\u201d<\/p>\n
World Short Track DIRTcar Sportsman Champ, Dave Rogers came home in fourth in his first ever Thunder Mountain visit over Mike Fowler.\u00a0 Sixth through tenth were Tyler Corcoran, Will Eastman, Will Shields, Hoosier Racing Tire Weekly Championship point leader Andrew Buff and Jamie Kamrowski.<\/p>\n
Winning the free Hoosier Tire was Corcoran.<\/p>\n
DIRTcar Sportsman Central Region Series<\/strong> \u2013 ZACH SOBOTKA ($1,000), Hunter Lapp, Alan Fink, Dave Rogers, Mike Fowler, Tyler Corcoran, Will Eastman, Will Shields, Andrew Buff, Jamie Kamrowski, Gordon Smith, Jeremy Hamilton, Jordan Millard, Dana Davis, Ricky Thompson, Zach Buff, Dane Hedlund, Mike Austin, Chris Mackey<\/p>\n \n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Zach Sobotka invaded unfamiliar territory when he visited the Thunder Mountain Speedway for the DIRTcar Sportsman Central Region event.\u00a0 When Dave Farney waved the double checkered, Sobotka led all 30 laps and collected a cool $1,000 for the victory. The effort didn\u2019t go unchallenged as the winner from the Saturday night previous, Hunter Lapp, was […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":186,"featured_media":39709,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[663,160],"tags":[698,1294,611,1293,1003,236,659],"division":[],"series":[],"regions":[],"class_list":["post-39708","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-recap","category-sportsman-modifieds","tag-alan-fink","tag-dave-rogers","tag-dirtcar-sportsman-modifieds","tag-hunter-lapp","tag-mike-fowler","tag-thunder-mountain-speedway","tag-zach-sobotka"],"yoast_head":"\n