WHEATLAND, Mo. Score Night Two of the USMTS King of America XIV as a victory for the reigning United States Modified Touring Series champion.

Jim Chisholm led all 40 laps to earn the $5,000 first prize, but it wasnt necessarily an easy drive for the 22-year-old who broke onto the national scene a year ago. He had to withstand five restarts while leading and was up to the challenge on each.

They gave us another great race track, Chisholm said. I think we ran every single line on this thing tonight. Were super-excited for tomorrow.

Saturday nights finale will be a $20,000-to-win event for the Summit USMTS Modifieds.

The King of America and the Jamboree are super-big USMTS races and drivers showed up this weekend, Chisholm said. Theres a lot of talent that didnt make the show tonight. Theres a lot of talent that should be in the show, but its hard sledding.

Reece Solander wound up second after threatening Chisholms lead over the second half of the 40-lapper.

Chisholm rolled off from the pole and led Nathan Smith in the sprint into turn one and was in front of Stormy Scott by .354 seconds as the first caution came out on lap four.

Smith got past Scott on the restart, but Chisholm took advantage of those two battling for second to run off to a two-second command by lap 10. Following the second caution, Scott regained second with Chad Wheeler in third, but Chisholms lead grew to just under a second by the races midway point on lap 20.

Solander roared past Scott on the top side for second on lap 22 and began to close in on the leader, applying all-out pressure for the lead. Chisholm repelled the charge and by the three-tenths of the second on lap 26 when the events third caution flew.

Chisholm chose the low side on the double-file restart and held off Solander when a multi-car incident once again slowed the action. Chisholm led by three car lengths with 10 to go with Wheeler running just behind Solander.

I like to be able to choose for the bottom for starts like that, Chisholm said of his strategy. If you have a guy below you, you have to worry about running over him and hurting your equipment so I had a couple of really good restarts doing it that way and stayed with it.

Chisholm, who won USMTS races on back-to-back nights last August at Lucas Oil Speedway, joked that the best spotters in the sport are in Wheatland meaning the giant jumbotron overlooking turn three. He was able to spy Solander making a strong charge.

Its very clear when someones coming up on you, Chisholm said. You know youre in the good when they dont show you. You just watch it lap after lap and it kind of lets you know.

As the race remained green, Chisholm gradually pulled away and had a 1.3-second command by a fifth caution wiped out his margin out on lap 33.

Just as he did time and again, Chisholm was flawless as the green waved and drove away over the final laps to beat Solander by 1.8 seconds.

Solander, not far removed from running USRA B-Mods, was thrilled with his strong run.

I think Jim might have been watching the jumbotron, but my right-rear tire went away any way, so I dont know if we would have had him, Solander said, adding that its pretty cool to have such a strong USMTS run.

We were hoping for a win, but well definitely take a second. That feels like a success to us, Solander said.

Cade Dillard, winner of Thursdays King of America opener, rallied from 10th to third, with Scott fourth and Kyle Strickler fifth.

The finish:

Feature (40 laps): 1. 24C-Jim Chisholm[1]; 2. 5-Reece Solander[4]; 3. 97-Cade Dillard[10]; 4. 2S-Stormy Scott[3]; 5. 8-Kyle Strickler[22]; 6. 88-Chad Wheeler[5]; 7. 1B-Bobby Williams[8]; 8. 15W-Alex Williamson[12]; 9. 02-Tanner Mullens[15]; 10. 91-Joe Duvall[6]; 11. 19-Dustin Sorensen[16]; 12. 21-Jacob Bleess[13]; 13. 712-Trevor Hughes[26]; 14. 4W-Tyler Wolff[18]; 15. 15WG-Wyatt Gaggero[17]; 16. 55H-AJ Hoff[27]; 17. 21K-Kyle Brown[23]; 18. 4TW-Tim Ward[14]; 19. 2SS-Mark Smith[29]; 20. 3B-Nic Bidinger[19]; 21. 20-Rodney Sanders[9]; 22. 80XX-Jason Langford[7]; 23. 65-Tyler Davis[11]; 24. 88S-Nathan Smith[2]; 25. 99L-Steve Lavasseur[31]; 26. 58X-Gary Christian[32]; 27. 15WX-Kale Westover[21]; 28. 65X-Carlos Ahumada Jr[28]; 29. 17-Henry Chambers[30]; 30. 90-Ryan Wetzstein[20]; 31. 75-Terry Phillips[24]; 32. 25-Joe Chisholm[25]