Tickets for Sunday's World Cup final between England and New Zealand at Lord's are being offered for resale with a mark-up of thousands of pounds, despite the ICC warning it will cancel tickets purchased via unauthorised outlets.

The ICC provides its own platform on which unwanted tickets can be sold on, and has repeatedly made clear its dissatisfaction with secondary ticketing sites offering seats at vastly inflated prices.

On Friday morning, two seats in the Compton Stand were on sale on StubHub for £16,584.80 (US$20,776) each - more than 50 times their face value of £295. Several other packages were being touted at prices of £3000-4000 (US$3700-5000).

The ICC has previously counselled those with unwanted tickets not to use unauthorised resale sites: "The only way fans can guarantee their ticket will be valid is to buy it from the Official Ticket Re-sale Platform, which allows fans unable to attend the remaining matches to sell to other genuine fans at face value," a spokesman said earlier in the week.

"Anyone purchasing tickets from an unauthorised source, either online or in person, faces the risk of being left out of pocket and unable to enter the venue."

Tickets for the final were originally sold in Platinum, Gold, Silver and Bronze bands, ranging in price from £395 (US$495) to £95 (US$120). The ICC site offers fans until midday on Saturday to put unwanted tickets up for sale.

There had previously been concerns about the possibility of low attendance for the semi-final between England and Australia at Edgbaston - although in the end the ground was very near full - with many tickets having been bought in advance by India fans expecting their side to play there. A similar situation could affect the final, after India suffered a surprise defeat to New Zealand at Old Trafford.

England and New Zealand will contest the World Cup final, with both teams looking to lift the trophy for the first time. The game will be broadcast free-to-air in both countries, after the respective host broadcasters made arrangements to lower their paywalls.

LOS ANGELES -- The celebration was cut short for a member of the World Cup champion U.S. women's soccer team after she discovered someone had burglarized her hotel room in Los Angeles.

Allie Long tweeted on Thursday it happened after the team was honored at The ESPYS on Wednesday night.

Long wrote "someone stole my wedding ring, cash and the key to my favorite city." She's referring to the symbolic key that New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio gave the players following a ticker-tape parade on Wednesday.

After the @ESPYS show someone stole my wedding ring, cash and the key to my favorite city after just receiving it from my hotel room. Do you make copies @NYCMayor ? I would love a new one.

— Allie Long (@ALLIE_LONG) July 12, 2019

In the post, she asked de Blasio if they make copies because she "would love a new one." de Blasio says he will send her a replacement key to the city.

So sorry to hear it, Allie. Hang in there. Don't worry about the key. Like any good New Yorker, we keep a spare for our neighbors! We got you covered. https://t.co/B5xqZPMZnU

— Mayor Bill de Blasio (@NYCMayor) July 12, 2019

KABC-TV reports the LAPD is reviewing video from the hotel where Long was staying.

Golden State Warriors guard Stephen Curry says he is ready for the "new challenge" of bringing his new-look team to the same level that reached five straight NBA Finals.

Speaking Thursday after a practice round for the American Century Championship celebrity golf tournament, Curry addressed the losses of Kevin Durant, Andre Iguodala and DeMarcus Cousins, among others. He said he understood Durant's decision to join the Brooklyn Nets, saying "you want to find your happiness, wherever that is."

"I mean, the three years that we had were special," Curry said. "With K.D., we had three straight Finals appearances. We won two of them, and we accomplished a lot as a group.

"Everybody talks about the amount of talent that we had on that team, but that doesn't guarantee that you can figure it out on the court, that you can put all the pieces together to be successful. I'm really proud of what we accomplished."

Curry hasn't spent much time with the Warriors' big pickup of the offseason, D'Angelo Russell, but he said he was looking forward to the versatility that the former Nets player can bring.

"The chemistry will develop quickly. We'll be really purposeful about that and trying to set the tone for how we're going to play this year," Curry said. "It's about encouraging each other and having confidence that we'll bring the best out of each other. Then when Klay (Thompson) gets back as well, add him to the backcourt mix. It's going to be fun."

Curry noted that he is now the oldest Warriors player after the offseason moves and that he will "have to step my game up."

"You talk about Andre and Shaun (Livingston), two guys that do things the right way, having the ultimate level of professionalism, leadership, and just have a presence when they walk in the room. ... So it's going to be fun, going to be hard to watch them on different teams. But look at all that we accomplished, and those are things we'll remember for a lifetime."

Curry will be playing in the celebrity golf tournament for the seventh time. He finished 11th in 2018, and his best result was a pair of fourth-place finishes in 2013 and 2017.

As discussions between the Houston Rockets and the Oklahoma City Thunder on a blockbuster deal for Russell Westbrook grew serious Thursday, Daryl Morey, Houston's general manager, called James Harden to discuss how both stars might work together. Harden gently cut Morey off and reminded him: "I know how to play with Russ and he knows how to play with me," Morey recounted to ESPN.com late Thursday in Las Vegas.

They played together for three seasons, two of the three foundational superstars who drove the Thunder to the 2012 Finals. Harden was 22 when LeBron James and the Miami Heat overwhelmed Oklahoma City in that series. Westbrook and Kevin Durant were 23. They were one of the youngest teams ever to advance so far. They looked like a dynasty in the making.

Harden never played another game for Oklahoma City. The Thunder traded him to the Rockets in October 2012, in a deal that has proved to be a pivotal moment in NBA history. The trade did not kill Oklahoma City. The Thunder never reached the Finals again, but they made legitimate runs in 2013, 2014 and 2016. Injuries derailed the first two -- two more "what-ifs."

The 73-win Warriors rallied from a 3-1 deficit against Oklahoma City in 2016, an all-time gut punch. The Thunder didn't just beat Golden State in Games 3 and 4 of that series. They overwhelmed them with size and speed and athleticism. They made the Warriors look helpless. They became the team Sam Presti, its architect, envisioned -- the team the rest of the league feared they might become.

And the Warriors summoned something more, because the Warriors are champions (even if they were not champions at the end of that season). Klay Thompson's 11 3-pointers in Game 6 to save Golden State's season literally changed the entire landscape of the league for the next half-decade. The history of the NBA in the 2010s is perhaps more closely interwoven with the history of the Thunder than it is with any other team -- even if the Thunder never won the championship in the Westbrook era.

If you have to boil that history down to two moments, they are the Harden trade and that fateful Game 6. The first cost Oklahoma City a player who has finished in the top-five in MVP voting five times since. The second might have cost them a title, and a chance to keep Durant.

Harden became a different sort of player in Houston, and has shape-shifted since into something we have never quite seen. Westbrook became a very different player when Durant left him as the only remaining star in Oklahoma City. They are probably the two most ball-dominant players in the NBA. They have recorded the two highest single-season usage rates in NBA history: Westbrook in 2017, Harden in 2019. They were the top-two finishers in one of the most contentious MVP races ever, and one of the delightful subplots of this strange, fascinating trade will be watching die-hard Houston fans grapple with accepting the star they derided as an unjust MVP usurper.

In their years apart, Westbrook and Harden have developed such singularly relentless, controlling styles that it is hard to imagine them playing any other way. It is almost hard to remember how they meshed seven and eight seasons ago. Houston is betting the two stars can remember -- that they can ease back into old habits, and blend what they are now with what they once were together.

That was Harden's message to Morey over the phone on Thursday. That was Westbrook's message in choosing the Rockets as one of his destinations -- along with the Miami Heat, who may now pursue Paul as something of a consolation prize. (The Rockets hoped to turn the deal into a three-team trade, according to ESPN's Adrian Wojnarowski. That they could not do so suggests Presti might feel he can wring more for Paul by doing that deal on his own. Trading Paul could also deflate Oklahoma City's win total, and vault the Thunder higher in the 2020 draft. An under-the-radar loser here: Atlanta, who owns Oklahoma City's lottery-protected 2022 first-round pick. The Thunder are starting a deep rebuild. If that pick falls in the lottery, the Hawks get two second-rounders instead.)

Westbrook was enthusiastic about playing with Harden again, per sources familiar with the talks. That kind of buy-in matters. Both superstars will have to change for this to work, even though Mike D'Antoni will probably stagger minutes as rigidly as he did with Harden and Paul. D'Antoni's experience coaching Westbrook on Team USA boosted Houston's comfort level making this deal, sources say. The Thunder belonged to Westbrook in almost every way. The Rockets do not. Maybe that alone will spur some change in him.

The Harden-Paul combination worked so well in part because Paul is lethal on catch-and-shoot 3s. Westbrook is not. Westbrook has hit about 33% of such shots combined over the past three seasons, per NBA.com. He is one of the worst high-volume 3-point shooters in NBA history.

He has, frankly, been useless away from the ball, save for the occasional slash inside for an offensive rebound. (Steven Adams is maybe the biggest winner in this deal, by the way. He can actually grab some defensive rebounds now. He is one of the league's burliest rebounders, and yet his career defensive rebounding rate is almost on par with that of Andrea Bargnani -- one of the worst big man rebounders ever.)

Westbrook rarely cuts when someone else has the controls. He did enjoy cutting baseline for dunks out of one scripted action centered around Durant, but that set left with Durant. He mostly chills well beyond the 3-point line, hands on knees.

Defenders have learned to ignore Westbrook when he goes into passive off-ball mode. That will now amount to a double-team on Harden. Depending on how much time remains on the shot clock, clogging the paint could short-circuit Houston's offense.

There is an obvious solution: Give the ball to Westbrook a lot! Harden is a much better shooter than Westbrook. He draws more attention away from the ball. He can rest more while Westbrook runs the show. He will get more catch-and-shoot 3s, and he attempted only 70 of them among 1,028 3-pointers last season, per NBA.com. The Rockets might generate more easy fast-break buckets with Westbrook rebounding and sprinting the ball up the floor like a madman.

None of this is unfamiliar to Harden. He just spent two seasons sharing the offense with another of the league's most ball-dominant players in Paul -- a classic, old-school puppet-master point guard. Their partnership appeared uneasy at times. A bit awkward. Harden is not exactly an active-ball cutter. But the Paul-Harden duet got Houston within a whisker of the 2018 Finals, where they would likely have been heavy favorites against LeBron's last Cleveland team.

Westbrook's shaky jumper makes this partnership a little more complicated. Harden might have to cede more ballhandling duty to Westbrook when they share the floor than he did with Paul. The Rockets know that. They are excited to see what Westbrook can do running pick-and-rolls with Clint Capela and three capable shooters -- Harden, P.J. Tucker and Eric Gordon in Houston's projected starting lineup -- flanking them. The floor will open up even more when Houston goes to its Tuckwagon lineup, with Tucker at center over Capela.

Westbrook rarely enjoyed that kind of pristine spacing in Oklahoma City. There was always at least one other player -- a bricky wing, a paint-bound power forward -- cramping space for Westbrook and Adams. For all his flaws and apparent decline over the past two seasons, Westbrook is still a monster athlete. He gets from the arc to the rim faster than almost anyone. When defenders duck under picks -- a common tactic against Westbrook -- he can sometimes put his head down and beat them to the other side of that screen anyway. Dealing with Westbrook takes a mental and physical toll. He is always coming at you. Always. It wears.

When Westbrook did get chances to run a real spread pick-and-roll in Oklahoma City, defenses had few answers beyond hoping someone would miss an open kickout 3.

Of course, getting to that look a little more involves shifting the ball from Harden's hands into Westbrook's. Harden is better with the ball than Westbrook. It isn't close, or at least it hasn't been for years now. Harden has been more efficient in pick-and-rolls, isolations, even in transition. Taking the ball from one player and giving to a worse player is generally a bad idea.

But Houston is hoping it is more imperfect solution than bad idea. They will do it only so much, anyway. Dealing to pair Westbrook and Harden is a wager that they are still malleable after years of getting to do whatever they have wanted. The Rockets will need Westbrook to cut when Harden has the ball; to run into Harden's kickout passes, catch them at full speed, and zip by defenders who had planted themselves in the paint; to rediscover his transition efficiency; to screen for Harden, and vice versa, when matchups call for it.

Harden has to do all the above, too. They both have to recommit to defense.

Westbrook is three and a half years younger than Paul. At bottom, this is a talent play by Houston. During Harden's championship window, the Rockets approach one-for-one trades with a very simple calculus: Are we getting the better player right now? Most statistics suggest they are, even if the current per-minute gap is pretty small -- too small to justify coughing up two picks and two pick swaps when there was not much of a market for Westbrook. Age suggests the gap will widen during the life of Westbrook's contract, which runs one year longer than Paul's. The Rockets are also betting Westbrook's deal will be easier to trade if it comes to that.

The thinking goes that as Paul ages, his superior fit next to Harden won't matter as much as Westbrook's superior talent -- and that Westbrook and Harden will iron out at least some of those fit issues.

The price is really the issue. Most rebuilding teams with holes at point guard -- or just lots of holes -- expressed little interest in giving up any real assets for Westbrook, sources say. That might have changed by Dec. 15, when most free agents signed this week become trade-eligible again -- and by which point some team will feel more desperate than it does today. But given the initial cool response to Westbrook's availability, the Thunder were correct to pounce early. (I have said many times I would not have given up any real assets for Westbrook. The Heat trading Goran Dragic and blah contracts for him seemed like a fair endgame. The market was indeed cool. But remember the old NBA adage: It only takes one.)

They were not going to send him to some woebegone destination. They could not treat the MVP who stayed that way. That left Miami and Houston. It is unclear if Miami was a serious-enough suitor for Houston to give up all of these draft assets.

The Heat don't have a lot of those left to trade, and that complicated talks for Westbrook. They might have been reluctant to deal Bam Adebayo or Justise Winslow; with one or both gone, who would Westbrook and Jimmy Butler play with long-term?

Miami already owes two first-rounders (their 2021 pick, and a protected 2023 pick) to Oklahoma City, a dynamic that complicated trade possibilities. Would the Thunder trade Miami a player who might improve the Heat -- and thus devalue the picks Miami has to send the Thunder?

But there were ways around that constraint. The Thunder could have pushed Miami to lift protections on the 2023 pick. They could have traded both back to Miami and pushed for some or all of the Heat's 2022, 2024 and 2026 picks. Extending the obligation to 2024 and later would have delayed the transfer of those picks well beyond the primes of Westbrook and Jimmy Butler -- in other words, into a future with a higher chance of the Heat being bad. The 2022 draft might be the long-awaited super draft, with both high school players and the last group of one-and-done stars. A good team's future picks have more trade value than its present-day picks.

This kind of push-and-pull infected talks between Houston and Oklahoma City on Thursday. (Talks between the Heat and Thunder had quieted by then, sources say.) The Rockets tried to coax Oklahoma City into taking Houston's 2020 first-rounder, sources say. Oklahoma City refused, and pushed for picks further out. Houston relented, and the two settled on Houston's 2024 and 2026 picks -- both with just top-four protection.

Those protections are light. Harden will turn 35 in 2024. There is more risk here for Houston than would appear warranted. But this is the summer of risk -- of teams sensing a Warriors-free window, and going all-in.

The Rockets can probably talk themselves into this by arguing that shedding Paul would have cost them one first-round pick. The other pick (plus the swaps) is the cost of the talent gap, now and over the next three seasons. Tilman Fertitta wanted a flashy shake-up. He got one.

This is inarguably great return for Oklahoma City. The Thunder have received seven future first-round picks combined in deals sending out Westbrook and George. They have received so many future first-round picks, it will be interesting to see if they can even roster all of them. (They probably don't intend to; teams generally accumulate picks like this to package at least a couple of them in trades.). They have received so many first-round picks, you almost forget they also got Shai Gilgeous-Alexander -- a long-armed menace with All-Star potential.

The once-in-a-lifetime event of Kawhi Leonard holding the Clippers up against a ticking clock gave Presti leverage to turn George into an instant rebuild. This deal is the coda. It's cliched to say the teardown is the easy part, and the buildup is the hard part. That is mostly true. But Presti nailed this teardown to an extent rarely seen.

For Houston, I'm not sure this deal ups their 2020 title chances as much as they hope -- or much at all -- unless the chemistry issues between Harden and Paul were intractable. The Rockets have downplayed those issues publicly and privately, and continued to in the wake of the Westbrook deal. That is what teams do. Capela sent Paul off with a moving Twitter tribute.

But if those issues were real to the point of dividing a potential title contender, the Rockets had to do something. The burden is on both Westbrook and Harden to prove that this trade was better for Houston's 2020 title odds than standing pat would have been.

The European and Commonwealth medallist is now No.2 on the UK all-time rankings behind Paula Radcliffe

Laura Weightman’s performance at the Prefontaine Classic in Stanford last month was so good it saw her move to second on the British 3000m all-time list and storm on to the cover of AW.

Running 8:26.07, the two-time European 1500m medallist and Commonwealth 1500m and 5000m medallist took a huge chunk off her previous best of 8:43.46 from 2013, with only Paula Radcliffe having ever run quicker among Brits.

Weightman finished fifth in a race won by Sifan Hassan in a European record of 8:18.49 and the two will meet again on the track at Friday’s Herculis EBS meeting in Monaco, where they will race the “Brave Like Gabe Mile”, named in honour of US international Gabe Grunewald, who died last month from cancer.

Ahead of the meeting, Weightman spoke with Stuart Weir to reflect on her 3000m PB performance, discuss her best distance and share insight into her coaching set up with former world 1500m record-holder and 1983 world champion Steve Cram.

Did you expect to run that time at the Prefontaine Classic?

“I was surprised I ran so fast. I knew I was in shape and we knew that a low 8:30 was a realistic target going into the race. But to come away with 8:26, in the manner in which I ran the race – being competitive and finishing fifth and beating some high-quality athletes in doing so – that was quite a shock. But I was delighted to run so fast.”

The 3000m is not a championship distance – do you find it hard to run?

“I’ve not run it that often and my last one was back in 2013 in Stretford, Manchester – a track I love (Trafford Grand Prix where she ran 8:43.46). It’s definitely a different kind of race but it’s a distance that is well suited to me with my strength and speed mix. So it is an event that I really enjoy doing.”

What do you think is your best distance?

“The 3000m potentially could be my best distance. I’ve shown that I’ve got strength and speed so I’m definitely excited to explore some more 5000m to see where that could go, translating that 8:26 (for 3000m) up to 5000m. But I definitely see myself as a 1500m runner as well.”

What will you aim to run at the IAAF World Championships in Doha?

“We haven’t decided yet. We will definitely experiment with all the events and distances to see where my ability lies over 5000m whilst I still believe I’m a strong 1500m runner. This is a year where we can try out both events and see where we think my best strength will lie for a championship performance.”

Would it be possible to run 1500m and 5000m in the same championship?

“I think if the scheduling allowed it, yes. But in Doha there is a timetable clash so it would be too much of an ask to double up so I will be focusing on one event.

Tell me about your coach.

“I’ve been working with Steve for just over 10 years – I figured out the weekend of Stanford (Pre Classic) that was around the time he had been coaching me for 10 years. That is quite a long time, especially in elite sport, to be working with the same coach but it’s definitely a relationship from which I have hugely benefited. I probably wouldn’t be where I am today without the work we’ve done together and am extremely grateful to be learning from him all the time.”

Is it an advantage that he has been an elite athlete?

“He is so experienced and he’s got the knowledge. He has got the experience from all the championships and being a world record-holder and Olympic medallist. He’s got so much he can pass on to me and I am definitely learning from him all the time.”

MARSHALLTOWN, Iowa — The Dale DeFrance Memorial/Bill Davis Memorial race was held Thursday night at Marshalltown Speedway during the Central Iowa Fair and Jeff Aikey made his trip from Cedar Rapids very profitable.

After winning the IMCA modified main from the outside front row, Aikey stated in the post-race interview he had to start last in the IMCA late model 44 lapper. He also claimed he was going to win it.

He was wrong on his starting spot as he gridded 19th in the 21-car field, but accurately called his victory in a dramatic finish to the evening.

The 44 laps matched the number Dale DeFrance ran on his car and it took nearly all of them for Aikey to take the lead. Darrell DeFrance, Dale’s son, led the first 5 laps from his pole start with fifth-starting Richie Gustin putting on the pressure.

But it was Brian Harris who used the high line out of turn two on lap six to take over, but only for a pair of times around the high-banked quarter mile. R. Gustin used a slider in turn four on lap eight to take the lead and soon established a multiple car length gap.

A 35-lap stretch of all green saw R. Gustin stretch his lead while a tremendous battle for 2nd carried on between Harris, Aikey, and Cory Dumpert. After multiple passes, sliders, and side by side racing, it was Aikey who emerged with second place.

He quickly closed on R. Gustin and raced the top line out of turn four to end lap 39 with the lead. A late race yellow allowed R. Gustin another shot at the lead, but Aikey held on for the $1,500 win.

Besides Aikey winning from 19th, Dumpert finished second from his 14th starting spot while DeFrance took third.

In other IMCA divisions, Todd Reitzer won the stock car finale, Brayton Carter took the Northern Sport Mod main, and Eric Satton won his 12th hobby stock trophy of the season. The mod lite main was taken by first-time visitor Dillon Raffurty.

A 126-car field appeared for the Thursday night special.

LAKE ODESSA, Mich. — Brian Shirley became the man to beat during the final weekend of the DIRTcar Summer Nationals with a $5,000 triumph Thursday night at I-96 Speedway.

It was the second victory in as many nights for Shirley and his series-best sixth of this year’s Hell Tour. More importantly, he regained the point lead from Bobby Pierce, who finished 17^thon this night.

Shirley led all 40 laps, holding off several late-race charges from Frank Heckenast Jr.

David Mielke finished third with Ryan VanderVeen and Rusty Schlenk rounding out the top five.

Nick Hoffman picked up another DIRTcar modified triumph.

The finish:

Brian Shirley, Frank Heckenast Jr., David Mielke, Ryan VanderVeen, Rusty Schlenk, Jason Feger, Travis Stemler, Jeep Van Wormer, Scott Fisk, Kyle Roberts, Bryant Dickinson, Jake Rendel, Truck Robertson, Chuck Hummer, Brandon Thirlby, Hillard Miller, Bobby Pierce, Jason Playter Jr., Paul Stubber, Rob Anderzack, Devin Shiels, Brad Harden.

BANKS, Ore. — Mitchell Faccinto became the first driver to repeat victory during the Western Sprint Car Tour when he won the 30-lap feature at Sunset Speedway on Thursday night.

Faccinto was aboard Stan Greenberg’s blue No. 37 sponsored by the Western Metal Co. He picked up $2,000 after starting from second position.

Steven Tiner finished in the second pole after starting on the pole. Justin Sanders, the victor from the night before, wagged a race long battle with Jake Wheeler and came home in the third spot.

Tiner and Faccinto would bring the twenty-car starting field down for the green, but Colby Copeland would spin in the third turn and came a complete restart.  On the restart, Faccinto would use a pass line pass in the first turn to overtake Tiner.

Faccinto then sent sail around the red clay quarter-mile oval. The race would slow again on lap three with a single-car spin in the fourth turn. Once again, Faccinto had a clear track but that would quickly go away as he came up on slower cars.

Faccinto would use caution working lapped traffic allowing Tiner to catch up and at one point got along side of Faccinto as both cars exited the fourth turn. Tiner, however, had the same slower cars to deal with and never had another shot at the leader.

The race would slow again when a car tagged the fourth turn wall on lap 16. The caution left Faccinto a clear track on the restart and he clicked off the remaining laps without a challenge.

Sanders got around Wheeler on lap 26 with a turn one pass. The leaders choose the high groove around the tiny bullring and there were no position changes after that.

DONNELLSON, Iowa — Mason Daniel claimed his first Sprint Invaders victory Thursday night at Lee County Speedway.

The win was worth $1,500 to the Springville, Calif., native and came aboard the Mason Daniel Racing No. 33m.

Ayrton Gennetten, who had dominated the Golden Eagle Distributors Shake-up Dash, took the early lead from outside row on in the 20-lap main event.  Sixteen-year-old Riley Goodno, who was making his first Sprint Invaders appearance, trailed him from the pole, followed by Daniel, Kaley Gharst and Josh Higday.

Colton Fisher spun with a lap in the books, bringing the first of two cautions. The second came on the restart.  Gharst shot from fourth to second on the dry surface, before something went awry in turn three for him, and he spun to the infield and out of the race.

Gennetten led Goodno, Daniel, Higday and Jamie Ball back to green. Daniel quickly ducked under Goodno into second and pursued the leader, while Ball garnered fourth. 2016 series champion, Chris Martin, was on the move as well, having worked from his 14th starting spot to fifth by lap four.

Gennetten entered lapped traffic on the ninth circuit. Two laps later, a lapped car got sideways in front of him. The third-generation driver from Missouri checked up, and Daniel seized the opportunity, exploding into the lead. About the same time, Ball worked his way by Goodno into third.

Daniel pulled away to the checkers ahead of Gennetten, Ball, hard-charger Martin and Goodno.

“Early in the race, I was able to get third, and get to second after a couple yellows,” said Daniel. “It was mainly about saving your tires. Once the rubber came in, I knew if I could stay within somewhat of a distance to him…when we got in lapped traffic, it would be harder for him.  That’s what happened, and once we got the lead, we never looked back. I first came here last year and ran fifth. I came here earlier this year in a 410 and got second. Now, I finally got to get a win here. It’s pretty cool. It’s a very fun race track. It’s up there in my favorites.”

“Both times I’ve been here, the same thing happened,” said Gennetten.  “The last time, (Josh) Schneiderman and I were racing for the lead and a lapped car spun out in front of us and took us out. This time, a lapped car just got shoved up in the loose stuff and came down the track. I thought he was going to the infield, so I sort of checked up. That’s all Mason needed to get by me.  We were fast all night. I can’t say enough about the help we had tonight. It was great to have Jeff (Mitrisin) helping us. We were fast. Sometimes it just doesn’t go that way. We’ll see what’s in store for us Saturday at Knoxville.”

The finish:

Mason Daniel, Ayrton Gennetten, Jamie Ball, Chris Martin, Riley Goodno, Josh Higday, John Schulz, Carson McCarl, Parker Price-Miller, Harold Pohren, Cody Wehrle, Josh Schneiderman, Tanner Gebhardt, Daniel Bergquist, Dustin Selvage, Dustin Clark, Justin Buchholz, Colton Fisher, Kaley Gharst, Jon Agan.