8/24/2024
Ryan Unzicker
Ryan Unzicker adds MARS triumph at Red Hill Raceway
A pair of MARS Late Model Championship Series events over the weekend for Ryan Unzicker resulted in his seventh trip of the season to Victory Lane in a special wrap honoring Megan's Mission Foundation.
For the Gary Gerstner Memorial on Friday at Tri-City Speedway (Granite City, Ill.), Unzicker backed up a third-place heat showing with an eighth-to-fourth run in the $5,000-to-win feature.
On Saturday evening at Red Hill Raceway (Sumner, Ill.), Ryan raced into the weekend finale with a runner-up heat finish. Taking advantage after race-long pacesetter Jason Feger bobbled on lap 20, Unzicker paced the final 10 circuits to claim his seventh win of the season and the $5,000 payday. He finished 0.651 seconds ahead of Feger with Justin Duty rounding out the podium.
“Jason set a pretty torrid pace there at the beginning. I knew I had a pretty good pace, but honestly, I knew it was gonna be tough to beat him,” Unzicker said. “I just got lucky on the restart, he pushed up a little bit and my car was good enough to get underneath.”
With the win, Ryan reduced Feger's point lead atop the MARS standings to 37 markers.
Full results from the events available at www.MARSRacingSeries.com.
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