It was not an easy road for The Edge to get to, as he fought off aches, pain and bruises from a hard crash he took earlier in the week when USAC visited Lincoln Speedway. None of that suffering compared to his biggest challenge that he had to deal with that night, Mother Nature, as fans and teams sat through multiple rain delays on Saturday evening before the checkered flag finally dropped at 1:13am.
Brian timed 4th quick in time trials with a time of 13.887. He went out 5th in his heat and finished 2nd starting him on the outside of row two for the feature. With seven laps down, rain decided to fall and cause a 90 minute delay as Brian was running in 5th. Drivers were later called back out to help run in the track. Just as they were ready to take the green, rain came back once again and caused another delay. Lincoln was eager to get this program in as they called the drivers back out to the track. On the restart, Montieth wasted very little time making his way up through the field as he was sitting in the runner-up spot by lap 18.
He ended up catching and passing the leader with two laps to go before the caution flag came out. The previous leader who lead the beginning 28 laps, and who was now sitting in 2nd, got caught up in the caution after the yellow flag came out. The pass counted, but the lap did not and Brian now was in the lead. With two laps two go, Brian lead the field and scored his 4th win of the season for the Premier Auto Works Race Team.
Brain will return to racing action this Friday when the All Stars come back to Williams Grove on June 10th and Lincoln Speedway on the 11th. Qualifying is set to begin Friday at 7:30pm. Be sure to follow Brian on twitter to get his latest racing action and results throughout the racing evenings.
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