Multiple Yellow flags turn Golden for Gossar at Mt Lawn

The 20025 racing season came to an end last Saturday evening at Mt Lawn Speedway with the running of the 100 lap Crown Vic Challenge sponsored by Quality Builders, a fifteen minute Enduro for Grocery Getters and a 15 lap event for MLF’s (Mt Lawn Females) driving Mini Vans.

In the Crown Vic Challenge 47 cars took the green flag with Austin McIntyre of Muncie leading the first 7 laps when Billy Riddle of Anderson took over. The first yellow came out on lap 17 causing the first of many double file restarts. McIntyre took back the lead on lap 18 until Randy Owen of Anderson took over took him on lap 21. The second yellow came out on lap 20. The next yellow’s came out on lap 25, 31, 42, and 59 with Owen still leading until Drew Evans of Shirley took over the top spot on lap 72. The yellow on lap 59 came as a result of a spin from Chuck Cook of Wilkinson and Evans. Cook indicated the he may have caused the incident and therefore only he had to restart at the tail of the field. The final yellow came out on lap 75 creating a 25 lap dash to the finish. Evans led until lap 90 but received heavy pressure fast qualifier Caleb Burge of Anderson, Trent Gossar of Markleville and Owen. Burge got the lead on lap 91 but Evans took the lead back on lap 96. Evans took the white flag on lap 99 and looked like the sure winner but Gossar had other plans and took the lead and the checkered flag to win the 100 lap Crown Vic Challenge. Gossar led on 1 lap of the 100 but it was the lap that really counted.

The race leaders were McIntyre (1-7 and 18-20), Riddle (8-17), Owen (21-71) Evans (72-90 and 96-99), Burge (91-95) and finally Gossar (100). There were seven cautions. The race took 1:48 to complete. Margin of victory .328 seconds.

In the fifteen minute Grocery Getter event after 5 lead changes Christina Cornett of Anderson picked up win. Ronnie Phipps of Anderson was second followed by Mike Warrell of Anderson, Jeff Williams of Anderson, Kyle Stagmal, Ron Phipps of Anderson, Justin Cook, Brayden Couch, James Allen, Kierstan Moreland of Alexandria, Thomas Evans of New Castle, Michael Shinsy of Indy, Jeffery Alexander of Shirely, Billy Pittman of New Castle, Maygan Lee of Westwood, Rusty Cornett of Anderson, Adam Lee of Westwood, Toby Andis of Martinsville and Jacob Daniels of Indy,

The final event for 2025 was the MLF (Mt Lawn Females) Mini Vans which had only 2 leaders Terri Williams Smith of New Castle 1-3 and Tiffany Adkins of Anderson (4-14) and Smith (15). Smith took the lead back from Adkins on lap 15 and won the race by .017 second. Adkins was second followed by Bailey Van Hook of Shirley, Savannah Couch of New Castle, Hailey Byrd, Brittany Tharp of Anderson, Victoria Kindler of Shirley, Zoey Crowder, Betty Blankenship of New Castle, Sabrina Prohel of Greenfield, Amanda Doan and Kimberly Prohel of Greenfield.

The Staff and Management of Mt Lawn Speedway would like to thank all participants, fans and workers for making the 2025 season a success. The ’26 season will be here before we know it. Plans are for the season the start around the first of May and end somewhere around the end of September.

The 2025 racing banquet will be held at the Knightstown American Legion Post on Sunday Nov 16. Doors will open at 4:30 with a cash bar available with dinner at 6:00. Tickets are $35 and must be ordered no later than midnight Nov 7 to allow time for the Legion to order food. Dinner recipients will have their choice of Smoked Pork chops from Rhims, deep fried Cod by Brian Ratcliff or Fried Chicken, 2 sides and desert. Award presentation will be at 7:00.