12/16/2023
Jimmy Owens pulls double duty in Gateway Dirt Nationals
To close out his busy 2023 racing season, Jimmy Owens traveled to the Dome at America's Center (St. Louis, Mo.) for the seventh-annual Gateway Dirt Nationals on Thursday afternoon to compete in both the Super Late Model and Modified divisions.
Racing just the Modified on Thursday, Jimmy qualified 10th-fastest in his group before finishing third in his heat race. For the first preliminary feature of the weekend, Owens finished 12th after 20-laps.
With 64 Late Models checked in for Friday's action, Owens missed the eight ball in qualifying but made up three positions in his heat race to finish runner-up. For the $5,000-to-win preliminary feature, Jimmy collected a Top-10 finish in seventh.
With the star-studded main events slated for Saturday, Owens finished runner-up in both his qualifiers which placed him on the sixth row of the Modified feature and on the seventh row for the Late Model portion. In the $30,000-to-win Late Model feature, Jimmy was an early retiree and was scored 20th. With $5,000 on the line in the Modified, Owens wound up just outside the Top-10 in 11th.
Full results from the special weekend are available at www.GatewayDirt.com.
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