By Dan Beaver
Justin Grant won the Hangtown 100 USAC National Midget race at Placerville (Calif.) Speedway in a race that also featured the last two NASCAR Cup champions, Kyle Larson and Chase Elliott.
The $20,000 payday, the most lucrative of Grant’s time behind the wheel of a midget, was the third win of the season and eighth of his USAC Midget career – and it came after an up-and-down effort in Thursday and Friday night’s preliminaries.
Grant, who finished third in Night 1 of the three-day show and 11th in Night 2, had to overcome a seventh-place starting position and a challenge from Buddy Kofoid to take the checkers. Both drivers had to come from deeper in the pack than they would have liked after Kofoid drew the sixth starting position. […]
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