Tyler Courtney wins High Limit thriller at East Bay
TAMPA, Fla. — The box score from Tuesday's "Battle at the Finale" finale is a tad misleading, showing that Tyler Courtney passed Brad Sweet for the lead on Lap 7 and then controlled the top spot until the checkered flag. That, however, leaves out the part where there was an epic four-car battle for the lead in lap traffic and the part where Corey Day nearly gave us an all-time photo finish at the end of it all.
While never officially leading a lap, young stars Zeb Wise and Corey Day both snared the lead away from "Sunshine" at different points in the $15,000-to-win finale at East Bay Raceway Park, but the Clauson-Marshall Racing, NOS Energy Drink #7BC prevailed and welcomed every challenge he faced.
Starting with "The Big Cat" Brad Sweet leading the opening six laps, lap traffic changed things when the Kasey Kahne Racing, NAPA Auto Parts #49 began to slip and the battle for the lead ahead of him heated up. In the middle of a swarm of back markers, at one point the front-four cars of Courtney, Corey Day, Zeb Wise, and Sweet were all under a blanket battling for the lead.
There was one jaw-dropping moment when Wise, Day and Abreu all went three-wide for P2 behind Courtney and contact ensued, sending Rico's Rothwell Hyde #24 airborne down the backstretch, yet somehow he landed on all four wheels and kept racing.
In the end, it became a two-horse race with Tyler Courtney committed to the bottom and Clovis, CA 18-year-old Corey Day ripping the fence and building huge momentum runs around the outside. During the green-white-checkered finish, Day was outside of Courtney at the white flag and setup for a potential photo finish, but one little mistake on the 30th and final lap locked-up the win for "Sunshine."
The $15,000 win marked Tyler Courtney's first trip to Whiskey Myers Victory Lane with the series, making him the eighth winner in High Limit Racing history. It also made him the first driver to win with both High Limit and the World of Outlaws this season, doing so within a one-week span, proving the Clauson-Marshall Racing #7BC is one of the top cars in the country.
Driving for Jason Meyers, Corey Day gave the Sander Engineering #14 the ride of a lifetime on the fence at East Bay Raceway Park, but ultimately fell 0.458-seconds short as he finished a career-best runner-up behind Courtney. A P2 and P6 finish for the teenage superstar makes him tied for the way-too-soon championship lead in the 59-race High Limit campaign.
After starting on the pole, leading laps, and then fading outside the top-five at one point, Brad Sweet rallied back to put the Kasey Kahne Racing #49 on the podium. Runs of P3 and P4 for "The Big Cat" have him tied for the High Limit championship lead with California prodigy Corey Day.
The High Limit Racing season will resume next weekend when the Sprint Cars join the Lucas Oil Late Model Series for "Deuces Wild" weekend on February 22-24 at Georgia's Golden Isles Speedway. Tickets are available for purchase at HighLimitRacing.com.
TUESDAY RESULTS
February 13, 2024
HIGH LIMIT 410 WINGED SPRINT CARS
A Feature (30 Laps): 1. 7BC-Tyler Courtney[2]; 2. 14-Corey Day[6]; 3. 49-Brad Sweet[1]; 4. 26-Zeb Wise[9]; 5. 19-Brent Marks[7]; 6. 9P-Parker Price Miller[23]; 7. 55-Chris Windom[14]; 8. 5-Spencer Bayston[4]; 9. 1A-Jacob Allen[10]; 10. 5T-Ryan Timms[16]; 11. 88-Tanner Thorson[21]; 12. 13-Justin Peck[15]; 13. 83-Dominic Scelzi[3]; 14. 9-Kasey Kahne[11]; 15. 39M-Anthony Macri[20]; 16. 88X-Austin McCarl[12]; 17. 24-Rico Abreu[13]; 18. 8-Cory Eliason[26]; 19. 1-Brenham Crouch[25]; 20. 28M-Conner Morrell[19]; 21. 24D-Danny Sams III[17]; 22. 16T-Cole Macedo[8]; 23. 47-Dale Howard[24]; 24. 47R-Eric Riggins Jr[18]; 25. 87-Aaron Reutzel[22]; 26. 57-Kyle Larson[5]
B Feature (12 Laps): 1. 88-Tanner Thorson[1]; 2. 87-Aaron Reutzel[4]; 3. 9P-Parker Price Miller[6]; 4. 47-Dale Howard[3]; 5. 15H-Sam Hafertepe Jr[2]; 6. 48-Danny Dietrich[7]; 7. 49X-Tim Shaffer[8]; 8. 44-Chris Martin[9]; 9. 45-Devon Borden[10]; 10. 11M-Brendan Mullen[17]; 11. 1-Brenham Crouch[11]; 12. 9M-Liam Martin[12]; 13. 8-Cory Eliason[15]; 14. 17-Dylan Norris[16]; 15. 22-Riley Goodno[14]; 16. 23-Lance Moss[18]; 17. 34-Sterling Cling[5]; 18. (DNF) 24T-Christopher Thram[13]
C Feature (10 Laps): 1. 11M-Brendan Mullen[1]; 2. 23-Lance Moss[4]; 3. 10X-Reese Nowotarski[2]; 4. 6G-Bryan Gossel[6]; 5. 15-Ryan Turner[17]; 6. 12S-Adyn Schmidt[3]; 7. 10SR-Keith Sheffer Jr[7]; 8. G5-Gage Pulkrabek[13]; 9. 64-Andy Pake[15]; 10. 77K-Steven Kisamore[18]; 11. 10BR-Jason Blonde[16]; 12. 16G-Austyn Gossel[8]; 13. 2C-Wayne Johnson[14]; 14. 4-Danny Smith[20]; 15. 28F-Davie Franek[5]; 16. 97UK-Ryan Harrison[9]; 17. 16TH-Kevin Newton[10]; 18. 24X-TJ Greve[11]; 19. 2MD-Cap Henry[12]; 20. 43M-Mark Smith[19]; 21. 9D-Steve Diamond Jr[21]
FK Rod Ends Dash (7 Laps): 1. 49-Brad Sweet[1]; 2. 7BC-Tyler Courtney[4]; 3. 83-Dominic Scelzi[2]; 4. 5-Spencer Bayston[3]; 5. 57-Kyle Larson[5]; 6. 14-Corey Day[7]; 7. 19-Brent Marks[6]; 8. 16T-Cole Macedo[8]
TJ Forged Heat 1 (8 Laps): 1. 7BC-Tyler Courtney[2]; 2. 26-Zeb Wise[1]; 3. 9-Kasey Kahne[3]; 4. 57-Kyle Larson[4]; 5. 47R-Eric Riggins Jr[5]; 6. 47-Dale Howard[7]; 7. 34-Sterling Cling[6]; 8. 44-Chris Martin[9]; 9. 24T-Christopher Thram[10]; 10. 11M-Brendan Mullen[11]; 11. 28F-Davie Franek[12]; 12. 97UK-Ryan Harrison[8]
DMI Heat 2 (8 Laps): 1. 19-Brent Marks[1]; 2. 83-Dominic Scelzi[2]; 3. 24-Rico Abreu[3]; 4. 5T-Ryan Timms[6]; 5. 28M-Conner Morrell[10]; 6. 88-Tanner Thorson[4]; 7. 48-Danny Dietrich[7]; 8. 1-Brenham Crouch[9]; 9. 8-Cory Eliason[5]; 10. 12S-Adyn Schmidt[11]; 11. 10SR-Keith Sheffer Jr[8]; 12. (DNS) 24X-TJ Greve
BR Motorsports Heat 3 (8 Laps): 1. 5-Spencer Bayston[1]; 2. 1A-Jacob Allen[3]; 3. 88X-Austin McCarl[2]; 4. 13-Justin Peck[7]; 5. 16T-Cole Macedo[4]; 6. 87-Aaron Reutzel[6]; 7. 49X-Tim Shaffer[10]; 8. 45-Devon Borden[5]; 9. 22-Riley Goodno[8]; 10. 10X-Reese Nowotarski[9]; 11. 6G-Bryan Gossel[12]; 12. 16TH-Kevin Newton[11]
Winters Performance Heat 4 (8 Laps): 1. 49-Brad Sweet[4]; 2. 14-Corey Day[3]; 3. 55-Chris Windom[8]; 4. 24D-Danny Sams III[2]; 5. 39M-Anthony Macri[5]; 6. 9P-Parker Price Miller[9]; 7. 15H-Sam Hafertepe Jr[1]; 8. 9M-Liam Martin[12]; 9. 17-Dylan Norris[6]; 10. 23-Lance Moss[10]; 11. 16G-Austyn Gossel[7]; 12. (DNF) 2MD-Cap Henry[11]
Capital Custom Trailers Qualifying A: 1. 26-Zeb Wise, 00:12.229[25]; 2. 19-Brent Marks, 00:12.249[8]; 3. 7BC-Tyler Courtney, 00:12.273[10]; 4. 83-Dominic Scelzi, 00:12.308[13]; 5. 9-Kasey Kahne, 00:12.353[11]; 6. 24-Rico Abreu, 00:12.453[16]; 7. 47R-Eric Riggins Jr, 00:12.462[5]; 8. 8-Cory Eliason, 00:12.485[23]; 9. 34-Sterling Cling, 00:12.495[21]; 10. 5T-Ryan Timms, 00:12.618[22]; 11. 47-Dale Howard, 00:12.674[19]; 12. 48-Danny Dietrich, 00:12.725[7]; 13. 97UK-Ryan Harrison, 00:12.726[12]; 14. 10SR-Keith Sheffer Jr, 00:12.739[4]; 15. 44-Chris Martin, 00:12.789[24]; 16. 1-Brenham Crouch, 00:12.846[26]; 17. 24T-Christopher Thram, 00:12.966[6]; 18. 28M-Conner Morrell, 00:13.006[20]; 19. 11M-Brendan Mullen, 00:13.055[9]; 20. 12S-Adyn Schmidt, 00:13.164[2]; 21. 24X-TJ Greve, 00:13.174[18]; 22. 6G-Bryan Gossel, 00:13.348[15]; 23. 9M-Liam Martin, 00:13.390[14]; 24. 4-Danny Smith, 00:13.470[3]; 25. G5-Gage Pulkrabek, 00:13.504[1]; 26. 9D-Steve Diamond Jr, 00:14.298[17]; 27. (DNS) 7B-Ben Brown
Capital Custom Trailers Qualifying B: 1. 5-Spencer Bayston, 00:12.544[5]; 2. 15H-Sam Hafertepe Jr, 00:12.583[4]; 3. 88X-Austin McCarl, 00:12.617[1]; 4. 24D-Danny Sams III, 00:12.652[12]; 5. 1A-Jacob Allen, 00:12.661[10]; 6. 14-Corey Day, 00:12.662[15]; 7. 45-Devon Borden, 00:12.682[8]; 8. 39M-Anthony Macri, 00:12.708[24]; 9. 87-Aaron Reutzel, 00:12.733[3]; 10. 17-Dylan Norris, 00:12.745[9]; 11. 13-Justin Peck, 00:12.790[18]; 12. 16G-Austyn Gossel, 00:12.875[19]; 13. 22-Riley Goodno, 00:12.894[16]; 14. 55-Chris Windom, 00:12.915[17]; 15. 10X-Reese Nowotarski, 00:12.927[11]; 16. 9P-Parker Price Miller, 00:12.940[25]; 17. 49X-Tim Shaffer, 00:12.997[26]; 18. 23-Lance Moss, 00:13.010[20]; 19. 16TH-Kevin Newton, 00:13.030[13]; 20. 2MD-Cap Henry, 00:13.048[21]; 21. 43M-Mark Smith, 00:13.065[7]; 22. 64-Andy Pake, 00:13.070[14]; 23. 28F-Davie Franek, 00:13.128[22]; 24. 2C-Wayne Johnson, 00:13.231[23]; 25. 77K-Steven Kisamore, 00:13.559[6]; 26. 10BR-Jason Blonde, 00:13.578[2]; 27. 15-Ryan Turner, 00:13.645[27]
Non-Qualifier (8 Laps): 1. 28F-Davie Franek[6]; 2. 24X-TJ Greve[1]; 3. 6G-Bryan Gossel[3]; 4. 9M-Liam Martin[5]; 5. G5-Gage Pulkrabek[9]; 6. 2C-Wayne Johnson[8]; 7. 64-Andy Pake[4]; 8. 10BR-Jason Blonde[12]; 9. 15-Ryan Turner[13]; 10. 77K-Steven Kisamore[10]; 11. (DNS) 43M-Mark Smith; 12. (DNS) 4-Danny Smith; 13. (DNS) 9D-Steve Diamond Jr
HIGH LIMIT SERIES AS OF 2/13/2024
Pos Competitor Points
1 Brad Sweet 133
2 Corey Day 133
3 Tyler Courtney 124
4 Brent Marks 120
5 Tanner Thorson 119
6 Zeb Wise 116
7 Spencer Bayston 110
8 Anthony Macri 106
9 Parker Price Miller 106
10 Kyle Larson 102
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