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Giovanni Scelzi Wins High Limit Racing Opener at Texas Motor Speedway

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Scelzi takes a late lead from Rico Abreu to win the 25-lap opener, with Tyler Courtney finishing second on championship weekend.

Giovanni Scelzi Wins High Limit Racing Opener at Texas Motor Speedway

Scelzi’s late charge decides the Texas opener

Giovanni Scelzi opened High Limit Racing’s championship weekend with a win at the Texas Motor Speedway Dirt Track, taking the lead from Rico Abreu with eight laps remaining and holding on through a close fight in traffic. Tyler Courtney passed Abreu for second with two laps left, leaving Abreu third in the 25-lap feature.

The opening night’s A Feature paid $10,000 to win. Tanner Holmes and Daison Pursley started on the front row, while Scelzi began seventh. Holmes led early after getting away well on the bottom. Abreu moved past Pursley for second, then challenged Holmes before making his move for the lead with 13 laps to go, taking advantage of a bobble off turn two.

Scelzi worked forward and took second with 10 laps left. Two laps later, he slid past Abreu into turn one. The lead changed hands again as the pair traded sliders while negotiating lap traffic; Scelzi came out ahead. Courtney then made his pass on Abreu late in the race. Scelzi’s victory put him ahead of the two drivers who had started in front of him, while Holmes finished eighth and Pursley fifth.

How the field was set

Rico Abreu topped Group A qualifying with a two-lap time of 13.151 seconds. Pursley was next at 13.167, followed by Holmes at 13.228. In Group B, Scelzi was quickest at 13.124 seconds, ahead of Tanner Thorson at 13.174 and Justin Peck at 13.225. Those results put Scelzi among the fastest qualifiers, though he started the feature seventh after the Dash.

Holmes won the seven-lap Dash from the front, with Pursley second and Abreu third. Scelzi finished seventh in that race. Four eight-lap heats went to Holmes, Brady Bacon, Kasey Kahne and Brenham Crouch. Peck won the 12-lap B Feature, followed by Ashton Torgerson and Rees Moran.

In practice, Peck set the fastest listed Hot Laps time at 13.316 seconds. Roger Crockett was second at 13.353, and Courtney third at 13.375. Abreu ranked ninth at 13.499, Scelzi tenth at 13.505 and Holmes 20th at 13.756. The gap between the practice order and the feature result reflects how much changed over qualifying, preliminary races and the 25-lap main event.

Full 410 results

The feature’s top five were Scelzi, Courtney, Abreu, Thorson and Pursley. Brent Marks finished sixth, Chase Randall seventh, Holmes eighth, Bacon ninth and Ryan Timms tenth. The remaining finishers were Kerry Madsen in 11th, Crouch 12th, Austin McCarl 13th, Peck 14th, Kahne 15th, Brian Brown 16th, Crockett 17th, Moran 18th, Sye Lynch 19th, Danny Sams III 20th, Ayrton Gennetten 21st, Torgerson 22nd, Chris Martin 23rd and Landon Crawley 24th.

Practice

Dirt Draft Hot Laps: 1. 26-Justin Peck, 13.316[29]; 2. 11-Roger Crockett, 13.353[5]; 3. 7BC-Tyler Courtney, 13.375[2]; 4. 19-Brent Marks, 13.385[33]; 5. 5-Brenham Crouch, 13.405[27]; 6. 55-Brady Bacon, 13.436[7]; 7. 21-Brian Brown, 13.459[9]; 8. 88-Tanner Thorson, 13.485[28]; 9. 24-Rico Abreu, 13.499[6]; 10. 77-Giovanni Scelzi, 13.505[24]; 11. 45X-Ashton Torgerson, 13.514[4]; 12. 4-Kasey Kahne, 13.523[22]; 13. 3-Ayrton Gennetten, 13.561[11]; 14. 22M-Rees Moran, 13.562[30]; 15. 9-Daison Pursley, 13.619[14]; 16. 42-Sye Lynch, 13.687[16]; 17. 17A-Jack Anderson, 13.690[1]; 18. 1-Kasey Jedrzejek, 13.692[8]; 19. 10-Ryan Timms, 13.725[23]; 20. 13-Tanner Holmes, 13.756[17]; 21. 12X-Landon Crawley, 13.792[26]; 22. 10X-Justin Henderson, 13.842[19]; 23. 44-Chris Martin, 13.879[20]; 24. 9R-Chase Randall, 13.889[18]; 25. 17GP-Kerry Madsen, 13.910[13]; 26. 88W-Austin McCarl, 14.076[12]; 27. 7T-Landon Thompson, 14.149[31]; 28. G5-Gage Pulkrabek, 14.210[21]; 29. 0-Eric Baldaccini, 14.477[15]; 30. 98P-Ryan Padgett, 14.508[25]; 31. 71W-Weston Gorham, 15.262[10]; 32. 74-Xavier Doney, 15.262[3]; 33. 2B-JJ Hickle, 15.262[32]; 34. 24D-Danny Sams III, 15.262[34].

Qualifying

Capital Custom Trailers Qualifying A (2 Laps): 1. 24-Rico Abreu, 13.151[6]; 2. 9-Daison Pursley, 13.167[14]; 3. 13-Tanner Holmes, 13.228[17]; 4. 55-Brady Bacon, 13.264[7]; 5. 11-Roger Crockett, 13.286[5]; 6. 21-Brian Brown, 13.318[9]; 7. 17GP-Kerry Madsen, 13.349[13]; 8. 45X-Ashton Torgerson, 13.479[4]; 9. 42-Sye Lynch, 13.509[16]; 10. 7BC-Tyler Courtney, 13.510[2]; 11. 17A-Jack Anderson, 13.545[1]; 12. 88W-Austin McCarl, 13.581[12]; 13. 3-Ayrton Gennetten, 13.586[11]; 14. 1-Kasey Jedrzejek, 13.625[8]; 15. 71W-Weston Gorham, 13.783[10]; 16. 0-Eric Baldaccini, 13.990[15]; 17. 74-Xavier Doney, 55:55.555[3].

Capital Custom Trailers Qualifying B (2 Laps): 1. 77-Giovanni Scelzi, 13.124[7]; 2. 88-Tanner Thorson, 13.174[11]; 3. 26-Justin Peck, 13.225[12]; 4. 5-Brenham Crouch, 13.274[10]; 5. 4-Kasey Kahne, 13.286[5]; 6. 19-Brent Marks, 13.416[16]; 7. 9R-Chase Randall, 13.436[1]; 8. 10-Ryan Timms, 13.441[6]; 9. 24D-Danny Sams III, 13.490[17]; 10. 44-Chris Martin, 13.518[3]; 11. 12X-Landon Crawley, 13.538[9]; 12. 10X-Justin Henderson, 13.612[2]; 13. 22M-Rees Moran, 13.705[13]; 14. 2B-JJ Hickle, 13.705[15]; 15. G5-Gage Pulkrabek, 14.029[4]; 16. 7T-Landon Thompson, 14.029[14]; 17. 98P-Ryan Padgett, 55:55.555[8].

Heats and Dash

TJ Forged Heat 1 (8 Laps): 1. 13-Tanner Holmes[1]; 2. 11-Roger Crockett[2]; 3. 17GP-Kerry Madsen[3]; 4. 24-Rico Abreu[4]; 5. 42-Sye Lynch[5]; 6. 3-Ayrton Gennetten[7]; 7. 17A-Jack Anderson[6]; 8. 71W-Weston Gorham[8]; 9. 74-Xavier Doney[9].

DMI Heat 2 (8 Laps): 1. 55-Brady Bacon[1]; 2. 7BC-Tyler Courtney[5]; 3. 9-Daison Pursley[4]; 4. 21-Brian Brown[2]; 5. 88W-Austin McCarl[6]; 6. 45X-Ashton Torgerson[3]; 7. 0-Eric Baldaccini[8]; 8. 1-Kasey Jedrzejek[7].

BR Motorsports Heat 3 (8 Laps): 1. 4-Kasey Kahne[2]; 2. 77-Giovanni Scelzi[4]; 3. 9R-Chase Randall[3]; 4. 24D-Danny Sams III[5]; 5. 12X-Landon Crawley[6]; 6. G5-Gage Pulkrabek[8]; 7. 22M-Rees Moran[7]; 8. 26-Justin Peck[1]; 9. 98P-Ryan Padgett[9].

Rod End Supply Heat 4 (8 Laps): 1. 5-Brenham Crouch[1]; 2. 19-Brent Marks[2]; 3. 88-Tanner Thorson[4]; 4. 10-Ryan Timms[3]; 5. 44-Chris Martin[5]; 6. 2B-JJ Hickle[7]; 7. 10X-Justin Henderson[6]; 8. 7T-Landon Thompson[8].

FK Rod Ends Dash (7 Laps): 1. 13-Tanner Holmes[1]; 2. 9-Daison Pursley[2]; 3. 24-Rico Abreu[3]; 4. 5-Brenham Crouch[5]; 5. 88-Tanner Thorson[4]; 6. 55-Brady Bacon[6]; 7. 77-Giovanni Scelzi[8]; 8. 4-Kasey Kahne[7].

B Feature and A Feature

Winters Performance B Feature (12 Laps): 1. 26-Justin Peck[2]; 2. 45X-Ashton Torgerson[1]; 3. 22M-Rees Moran[8]; 4. 3-Ayrton Gennetten[3]; 5. 1-Kasey Jedrzejek[11]; 6. 17A-Jack Anderson[5]; 7. 74-Xavier Doney[13]; 8. 71W-Weston Gorham[9]; 9. 0-Eric Baldaccini[7]; 10. 10X-Justin Henderson[10]; 11. G5-Gage Pulkrabek[4]; 12. 7T-Landon Thompson[12]; 13. 2B-JJ Hickle[6]; 14. 98P-Ryan Padgett[14].

Interstate Batteries A Feature (25 Laps): 1. 77-Giovanni Scelzi[7]; 2. 7BC-Tyler Courtney[11]; 3. 24-Rico Abreu[3]; 4. 88-Tanner Thorson[5]; 5. 9-Daison Pursley[2]; 6. 19-Brent Marks[10]; 7. 9R-Chase Randall[12]; 8. 13-Tanner Holmes[1]; 9. 55-Brady Bacon[6]; 10. 10-Ryan Timms[16]; 11. 17GP-Kerry Madsen[13]; 12. 5-Brenham Crouch[4]; 13. 88W-Austin McCarl[19]; 14. 26-Justin Peck[21]; 15. 4-Kasey Kahne[8]; 16. 21-Brian Brown[15]; 17. 11-Roger Crockett[9]; 18. 22M-Rees Moran[23]; 19. 42-Sye Lynch[17]; 20. 24D-Danny Sams III[14]; 21. 3-Ayrton Gennetten[24]; 22. 45X-Ashton Torgerson[22]; 23. 44-Chris Martin[20]; 24. 12X-Landon Crawley[18].