The top three pulled out to a good lead in this caution free race. John Richards sat on the pole and led to the first pit stop, but a mistake entering pit road handed the reins over to Tim Miller and Tryphon Davis. They were joined by Paul Sanders, took turns leading and held everyone else at bay. The three leaders were very close on fuel, but they all made it with Davis fighting off Miller and crossed the line with about a half gallon to spare. The first three weeks of the winter series has yielded three different winners. Next week the series moves to Daytona.

 Winter Truck Standings

Only one caution on this fast and tricky track. Floyd Broadley took the pole. As soon as the race started we saw some side by side racing for quite a few laps. A few scratches on the new paint jobs but no major issues. A few kissed the "safer barrier" and re-arranged their right side door. LOL. It ended up being a fuel run race. Some figured they could run 35 laps with 30 laps of fuel but had to change their strategy as it was simply impossible. Every single driver led some laps as strategies were all over the place. Steve Young was running up front towards the end but Partridge decided not only to take fuel but 4 tires. That 9 second lead held by Steve melted like snow in the Sahara desert. Rob Partridge ran the last laps full out and was able to pass Steve in the ending moments of the race. John Stanley's strategy left him with a dry tank with one to go. Great race by all!

 Early Bird Series 4 Standings

It looked like a "battle royal" was on the cards for the win between Rob Partridge and Andy Graydon, but Rob disco'd on lap 114 of 200. It had been close for the first 100+ laps (despite 3 cautions there were sizeable long runs in between). Once Rob had gone, Andy drove to the end without any further stops as the race went green flag from lap 106 to the end on lap 200. Image:- about to complete lap 99 (lap 100 would bring out the last caution). We'd been running over 34 laps, and the gap from leader Partridge to 2nd placed Graydon had closed to less than a second.

The second race of the eight week winter season comes to a conclusion after 100laps. Only three early catiouns left the second half of the race wide open. Your winner Brandon Mayes nursed his tires just a little but better then second place finisher Bill Booz when he passed Booz with ten to go and never looked back. This sets Mayes leading in points by only 3 as there is a three way tie for second. The points race always comes down to the last race of the season and this season is proving to be just the same. Every driver will continue to bring there A game next week at  Gateway.