The yellow lights came on with seven laps remaining in Friday’s USAC Midget A-Main at Port City Raceway, prompting race leaders to slow down on the track.
Although, that’s easier said than done, especially with a race track that is as worn in as Port City’s was at the time of Taylor Reimer’s spin that brought out the caution.
Chase McDermand, who was chasing his first career USAC victory and leading the race, slowed in turns one and two before being ran into by USAC Midget points leader Justin Grant.
After Grant’s car got into McDermand’s, the night quickly went from something special to an angering end for the young gun.
Here's video of Justin Grant getting into Chase McDermand – who was chasing his first career #USACMidget win – as the yellow lights came on at Port City.
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Grant went on to capture his third USAC Midget points victory of the year, sweeping the opening trio of races this season after cancelations made other events all said and done.
He offered his apologies to McDermand after the race.
“I felt terrible with what happened there with Chase,” Grant said on FloRacing. “I slid him eight or ten times there and never hit him – I faded up behind him. They called yellow as I was fading up my slider. I don’t know if he slowed up a little bit and didn’t get all the way up to the cushion where he had been or if I just plugged him. Either way, I feel terrible about that. I feel like I crashed a guy under yellow and that certainly wasn’t my intent.”
“I can’t really say a whole lot about what happened, other than I’m sorry that it happened,” Grant continued on the broadcast. “It’s real, real glass-slick across the center there. I knew when they called yellow, I was like ‘Oh, keep going bud, keep going, because I’m coming behind you.’ You’ve got no control coming across the glass like that.”
The series is back at the track tomorrow, where McDermand will again go for his first career victory and Grant will try to make it four in a row to start the year in the books. FloRacing will have the broadcast as usual.
USAC Midget Results
T-Town Midget Showdown
Port City Raceway
Friday, April 22, 2022
1. Justin Grant
2. Buddy Kofoid
3. Kaylee Bryson
4. Cannon McIntosh
5. Logan Seavey
6. Ethan Mitchell
7. Bryant Wiedeman
8. Mitchel Moles
9. Zach Daum
10. Thomas Meseraull
11. Andrew Felker
12. Ryan Timms
13. Maria Cofer
14. Taylor Reimer
15. Dominic Gorden
16. Mariah Ede
17. Hayden Reinbold
18. Chase McDermand
19. Tanner Thorson
20. Noah Harris
21. Tanner Berryhill
22. Andrew Deal
23. Trey Gropp
24. Brenham Crouch
