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Panos claims Iron Man USRA Stock Car checkers at Deer Creek Speedway

SPRING VALLEY, Minn.—USRA Stock Cars shared the spotlight Thursday night at the Deer Creek Speedway as the Iron Man Challenge joined the co-sanctioned USMTS/USRA Modifieds for opening night of the 4th Annual World Modified Dirt Track Championship presented by Red Tail Tackle.

A wild 20-lap main event that saw drivers jockeying for positions throughout the tightly-bunched field ended with Lynn Panos holding off last year’s series champ Mitch Hovden for his first Iron Man victory of the 2014 campaign.

Tom Schmitt, who added an Iron Man title to his résumé in 2012 to go along with his pair of USRA Stock Car national championships, took the lead at the onset from the outside of the front row from polesitter Andy Altenburg.

While Schmitt settled in to a rhythm up front, the action was intense behind the leader with drivers challenging the high-banked clay oval three and, sometimes, four wide.

 

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