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Kelsey Steele overcomes crash to grab Arena Racing victory at DeltaPlex Arena
Caught in the Catchfence™Kelsey Steele’s latest win involved a little duct tape and a lot of praying.
The Coopersville driver and daughter of three-time ARCA Racing champion Tim Steele put another feather in her already impressive cap, overcoming a two-car crash to capture the checkered flag at the AMP Energy 150 on Saturday at DeltaPlex Arena.
A little improvisation helped her succeed. Steele ran into the back of a crash involving Brad Huisken and Mitch Meppelink, but Steele hung on and took her taped-together vehicle to the finish line.
She finished 1.14 seconds ahead of Huisken and 1.5 seconds in front of Dave Sensiba.
Actually, to say her car was taped together may be an understatement.
Steele’s crew saw its careful tape job malfunction while she was rounding the track, and the back part of the car body flew off with 37 laps remaining in the feature.
“I’ve never had half a car missing before this,” Steele said.
“Pretty much the back end was gone. I backed away from the crash (involving Huisken and Meppelink) thinking nothing would happen, and I must have gotten caught up in their cars a bit.
“My dad told me that part of my body on the car was missing, and I just had to go on and move forward.”
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