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Halloween 200 No Scare For Kimmel

SALEM, Ind. - Will Kimmel put his bad luck streak behind him and cruised to his first career Halloween 200 victory on Sunday night at Salem Speedway.

"Man everything went great for us here tonight," said the Sellersburg, Ind. driver who collected $10,000 for the victory.

"The car has been excellent here the last couple of races, and we haven't been able to show it. But we got to show it tonight."

Alex Ware, Austin Baum, and Roger Williams made up the front row of the forty-seven car starting field. Brian Bayer would jump to the early race lead from his fifth starting spot with Kimmel a close second.

The first caution of the 200-lap main event came on lap eight as three cars got tangled up in turn-three. On the restart Bayer, Kimmel, David Bayens, Shawn Smith, and Dale Harper would break away from the rest of the field, nose-to-tail up front.

Another three-car incident in turn-one prompted the first round of pit stops with around forty laps in the books. Kimmel elected to pit while Bayer, Bayens, Smith, and Harper stayed on track.

Todd Kempf brought out the caution flag on lap seventy-one, giving opportunity for the next round of pit stops. Kimmel would inherit the race lead as the majority of the field made their mandatory pit stop in the first one hundred laps.

Kimmel would stretch his lead to more than a one second advantage over Chuck Barnes, Jr. and Skeeter Crum before a caution around the halfway point of the event would tighten the field up once more.

On the restart, Kimmel once again stretched his lead to nearly two seconds as Crum, Barnes, Jr., and Harper battled behind him. A caution with sixty-six laps to-go gave opportunity for the field to make another round of pit stops.

Alex Ware brought the field back to green with fifty laps to-go before a multi-car pileup in turn-three brought caution flag conditions back to the speedway. Baum led the field back to green but suffered heavy damage after making contact with the outside wall in turn-one.

Kimmel, Crum, Bayer, Kyle Hadley, and Brett Hudson made up the top five in the running order after the restart with twenty-seven laps to go. Bayer and Hadley battled for the third spot before contact with Hadley coming out of turn-two sent Bayer hard into the inside retaining wall on the back straightaway.

Kimmel pulled away yet again on the restart with less than twenty laps to-go with Brett Hudson in second. Another pair of cautions kept the field bunched up in the closing laps. On the final restart Shawn Smith got around Hudson with four laps to-go, but it was all Kimmel upfront.

Kimmel crossed the finish line ahead of Smith, Hudson, Jeff Caudell, and Allen Williams, Jr.

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Official Results

1. Will Kimmel
2. Shawn Smith
3. Brett Hudson
4. Jeff Caudell
5. Allen Williams, Jr.
6. Skeeter Crum
7. Kyle Hadley
8. Calvin Parham
9. Chuck Barnes Sr.
10. Andrew Teepe
11. Craig Luther
12. Dr. Jeff Berg
13. Justin Pirtle
14. Nick Reed Jr.
15. Johnny Magee
16. Dale Harper
17. Wayne Green, Jr.
18. Mike Todd
19. Todd Kempf
20. Alex Ware
21. Brandon Deckard
22. Mike Royal
23. Jesse Cottrell
24. Brian Bayer
25. Austin Baum
26. Chuck Barnes Jr.
27. Roger Williams
28. Kenny Gibson
29. Heath Helton
30. Aaron Abbott
31. Trent Bayer
32. David Bayens
33. Perry Whitsett
34. Harold Bratcher
35. Shayne Slider
36. Logan Clark
37. Chuck Freeman
38. Richard Dickens
39. Blake Hillard
40. Scott Wisman
41. Dylan Oliver
42. Billy Williams
43. Danny Smith
44. Tony Conway
45. Tyler Hopkins
46. Jerry Lewis
47. Brian Hopkins

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