Taylor Velasquez Grabs First URSS Feature Win At “Boot Hill 1000”

The Memorial Day weekend URSS Double Header at DCRP finished with the “Young Guns of the URSS” putting on a show as the Rebels ran a caution free 25 lap A-Feature to cap off the weekend. Mother Nature tried her best to delay the racing action, but for those fans who stuck it out Turpin, Oklahoma’s Taylor Velasquez rim rode his way to Victory Lane to score his first URSS Feature Event win.

Liberal’s Ty Williams lead the field to the green and took the lead with Velasquez hot on his heels. Outside pole-sitter Randy Washburn grabbed third with Ken Lutters and Darren Berry rounding out the top five. Berry made quick work of Washburn and set his sights of the leaders. Eighth starter Ray Seemann worked his way past Lutters to grab the fifth spot on lap five and quickly took the fourth position from Washburn on lap six.

Lap eight saw Tanner Mullins work his way from his twentieth starting position to grab the tenth spot to challenge Mike Woodruff for the ninth spot. Up front Williams and Velasquez used the high line as Berry and Seemann worked the low line as they all wove their way through lapped traffic. By lap fifteen, Mullins had moved up to the eighth position and was battling Tyler Knight for the seventh spot. Lap sixteen saw Velasquez make the pass on Williams for the top spot and Seemann take the third spot from Berry.

As the laps were winding down, Mullins continued to use the high side to make his move as he took the sixth spot from Washburn and set his sights on fifth running Brian Herbert. As the white flag flew for the leaders, Mullins used lapped traffic to grab the fifth position from Herbert. With the fans on their feet, the checkers fell and Velasquez picked up his first URSS Feature win. Williams, Seemann, Berry and Mullens rounded out the top five.

The Weld Racing Wheels “Hard Charger Award” went to Tanner Mullins who charged his way through the field from his twentieth starting position to grab the fifth spot.

The Keizer Aluminum Wheels B-Main award went to Nick King.

Non-Qualifier winners were Nick King and Taylor Milton.

Heat Race winners were Ray Seemann, Tyler Knight, Taylor Velasquez and Brian Herbert.

A-Main:  1-Taylor Velasquez (21), 2-Ty Williams (1), 3-Ray Seemann (72), 4-Darren Berry (12), 5-Tanner Mullins (02), 6-Brian Herbert (97), 7-Tyler Knight (11K), 8-Randy Washburn (0T), 9-Mike Woodruff (83X), 10-Ken Lutters (79), 11-Brandon Fisher (14), 12-Nick King (83), 13-Kris Miller (33), 14-Taylor Milton (91X), 15-Smokey Fairbank (2), 16-Brian May (8), 17-Bill Hays, (2H), 18-Lance Davis (9dj), 19-Darren Bowman (9B), 20-Kirby Hagans (4)

Non-Qualifier Races (Top Five to A-Main)

#1: 1-Nick King, 2-Kris Miller, 3-Bill Hays, 4-Darren Bowman, 5-Brian May, 6-John Colbert, 7-Jerry Caldwell, 8-Josh Fairbank, 9-Corey Koberstien, 10-Reed Bernbeck (DNF), Jeff Radcliffe (DNS)

#2: 1-Taylor Milton, 2-Brandon Fisher, 3-Lance Davis, 4-Smokey Fairbank, 5-Tanner Mullens, 6-Willie Wynn, 7-Randy Bantam, 8-Steve Dalton, Larry Radcliffe (DNS), Keefe Hemel (DNS)