HUMBOLDT — Daniel Ebert of Lake Shore, Minn., was crowned King of America by topping all-comers Saturday at Humboldt Speedway’s season-opening extravaganza.
Ebert picked up his third career USMTS victory, winning by nearly 5 seconds over runner-up Terry Phillips.
Ebert passed Phillips, who had won Thursday’s feature race, about midway through Saturday’s feature and steadily pulled away to win the $12,000 first prize.
“Unbelievable really,” Ebert told usmts.com. “Early in the go I was just searching — trying some high, trying some low — and decided to go back to the bottom and see where we’ve been running. I just kept working him and working him but I had to be real careful not to slide my tires.”
Ebert is the 11th different driver to win King of America in the 12 years of the event.
MEANWHILE, Lebanon, Mo., driver Kris Jackson won the Battle of the Bullring feature in the USRA B-Mod division.
Jackson took advantage of his pole position to top Ryan Gillmore of Springfield, Mo., at the end of the 40-lap feature.
Andy Bryant of Fort Scott took third, Muskogee, Okla., racer Kyle Slader was fourth and Shadren Solander of St. Joseph, Mo., was fifth.
Iola racer Reece Solander wound up in sixth.
King of America XII
USMTA Modifieds
1. (8) 60 Dan Ebert
2. (1) 75 Terry Phillips
3. (4) 10C Cayden Carter
4. (30) 20 Rodney Sanders
5. (2) 33Z Zack VanderBeek
6. (7) 24C Jim Chisholm
7. (6) 0 Jake O’Neil
8. (16) 12 Jason Hughes
9. (17) 4 Jeremy Nelson
10. (3) 4W Tyler Wolff
11. (18) 38T Dylan Thornton
12. (15) 1ST Johnny Scott
13. (5) 49 Jake Timm
14. (11) 55 Ryan Gustin
15. (25) K9 Will Krup
16. (27) 65X Carlos Ahumada Jr.
17. (29) 21 Jacob Bleess
18. (26) 10B Brandon Givens
19. (24) 58X Gary Christian
20. (12) 45 Chase Holland
21. (22) 87 Darron Fuqua
22. (23) 4R Dereck Ramirez
23. (28) 21K Kyle Brown
24. (10) 15W Kale Westover
25. (20) 15W Alex Williamson
26. (14) 02 Tanner Mullens
27. (9) 7 Al Hejna
28. (19) 26G Ryan Gierke
29. (21) 174 Ethan Dotson
30. (13) 21KT Ricky Thornton Jr.
Battle at the Bullring
USRA B-Mods
1. J2-Kris Jackson[1]
2. 66-Ryan Gillmore[5]
3. 28-Andy Bryant[7
4. 19K-Kyle Slader[11]
5. 56-Shadren Turner[8]
6. 5-Reece Solander[21]
7. ZEE28-Randy Zimmerman[2]
8. X2-Brian Bolin[10]
9. 14-Adam Brotherton[17]
10. 2-Scott Splittstoesser[3]
11. 23DD-George Dalbeck[9]
12. RED1-Dan Wheeler[24]
13. 33-Dustin Daniels[19]
14. 22-Brian McGowen[20]
15. 55K-Colson Kirk[23]
16. 16-Garrett Paull[4]
17. 42-Jerry Morgan[18]
18. 18-JC Morton[13]
19. 6T-Michael Taylor III[14]
20. 28K-Krew Walburn[22]
21. 21-Jacob Ellison[6]
22. 8S-Jon Sheets[15]
23. 33C-Cole Boston[12]
24. 53-Logan Anderson[16]
