{"id":5887,"date":"2024-01-28T02:19:01","date_gmt":"2024-01-28T06:19:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/volusiaspeedwaypark.com\/?p=5887"},"modified":"2024-04-15T15:58:12","modified_gmt":"2024-04-15T19:58:12","slug":"shootout-show-out-impressive-drive-leads-ryan-timms-to-germfree-southern-sprint-car-shootout-crown","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/volusiaspeedwaypark.com\/news\/shootout-show-out-impressive-drive-leads-ryan-timms-to-germfree-southern-sprint-car-shootout-crown\/","title":{"rendered":"SHOOTOUT SHOW OUT: Impressive Drive Leads Ryan Timms to Germfree Southern Sprint Car Shootout Crown"},"content":{"rendered":"
Timms builds huge lead and survives late restart to collect $10,000 Volusia payday (Trent Gower Photo)<\/em><\/p>\n
Last year Ryan Timms impressed by winning night one of the Germfree Southern Sprint Car Shootout in his Volusia Speedway Park debut. But the teenage phenom wanted more in 2024.<\/p>\n
The 2023 prelim win was nice. But Timms\u2019 focus was firmly fixed on the $10,000-to-win finale this time around. And the Oklahoma City, OK gasser pieced together an excellent drive win and bank the $10K on Saturday night.<\/p>\n
Timms started the 30-lap Feature fifth and took over the lead on the 18th lap. He then built a huge lead and held on for the victory on a green-white-checkered restart to seal the deal.<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019m just so stoked to be able to park this thing in Victory Lane and be up here on the podium in first place,\u201d Timms said. \u201cAfter the Heat Race and Qualifying and the first few laps of the main, I knew we had a fast car. I\u2019m just so excited to be up here.\u201d<\/p>\n
Austin McCarl and Justin Peck led the field to green. It was Friday\u2019s winner \u2013 McCarl \u2013 taking the early lap to pace the opening lap. But Peck ripped around him to take over the top spot on the second circuit.<\/p>\n
Behind the lead duo both Timms and Sam Hafertepe Jr. were on the move. Timms leaped from fifth to third by the fourth lap. Hafertepe Jr. managed to roar from eighth to second in the same amount of laps. Timms and Hafertepe were both aided by heartbreak for McCarl on the fourth lap as \u201cThe Big Unit\u201d spun while running second in Turn 4.<\/p>\n
On the restart Peck pulled ahead while Hafertepe and Timms pursued. While Peck maintained a steady advantage, Timms went to work on finding a way by Hafertepe. The teenager worked the bottom of \u201cThe World\u2019s Fastest Half Mile\u201d while Hafertepe committed to the top. On Lap 11 Timms managed to slip ahead of Hafertepe for the runner-up spot.<\/p>\n
When Timms first grabbed second, Peck pulled ahead and added a few more tenths to his lead. But Timms quickly got in the groove and began to chase him down. On Lap 18 Timms rolled the bottom to perfection to drive ahead of Peck for the top spot.<\/p>\n
Timms then began to work through traffic flawlessly. Only two laps after wrestling the lead from Peck, Timms was over a second ahead. The gap ballooned to over two seconds two laps later. The phenom moved wherever he needed to navigate traffic as he distanced himself from the field. When he took the white flag, he was more than four seconds ahead of Peck.<\/p>\n