The oval at Brown County Speedway, Aberdeen, is about the ideal size when it comes to racing, because no lead is ever too safe. The smaller track prevents drivers from pulling away from the field as sooner or later lap traffic becomes an issue.

One driver zipped around the slower cars, and another used it to his advantage to record feature wins Friday night.

Tim Estenson of Fargo, N.D., won the NOSA 410 Sprint Car feature, weaving in and out of traffic on the way to the checkered flag.

“They come up fast,” Estenson said of the slower cars.” This place don’t have much of a straightaway here, always turning, but look ahead is huge. Always look straightaway ahead and not two feet in front of you, and I was able to do that tonight.”

Estenson said the track conditions completely changed after a rain shower moved through the area, causing a delay in the action.

“The track was totally opposite of the heat race,” Estenson said. “Hats off the track to get it in and letting us have a really good race.”

Estenson was running second early in the event, when the race leader was involved in a collision and unable to continue. Estenson took over the lead and never trailed the rest of the way, despite a late-restart, bunching up the field.

“You never know what challenges are going to come late in the race,” Estenson said, “and fortunately we were there to get one late and not be deep in traffic again.”

There were more than two dozen Sprint Car drivers on hand for their only appearance this summer at BCS. The field included 16-year-old Amelia Eischenschenk of Fargo.

“My uncle is Donny Schatz, so I grew up racing all my life,” she said of the legendary Sprint Car driver. “It’s just what we do as a family.”

Eischenschenk, who will be a junior in high school this fall, was asked if she felt intimidated facing older drivers.

“No not really, you’ve just go to keep your mind to it, and keep doing what you do,” she said. “You can’t think about that.”

Amelia’s twin sister Laila is also a Sprint Car driver and was among the field on Friday night.

“It’s pretty cool. We raced each other in go-karts,” Amelia said of their past racing experiences. “It’s pretty nice to have your twin sister race against you every night.”

Garrett Gross of Aberdeen won the Modified feature and was able to stay clear of lap traffic in the race. He fought off Dylan Zabel of Selby to take the checkered flag.

“I was running a little high and once I saw his nose up that second restart, I just darted to the bottom, and I really just kept it low the rest of the race,” Gross said, “and I felt like I was flying and I probably was.”

It was the second-career feature win for Gross. He said he enjoyed the tacky racing surface.

“It was just a fun tacked-up track,” he said, “get all the g-forces.”

Bath’s Taylor Schmidt took advantage of lap traffic to overtake Scott Bintz of Jamestown, N.D., during the Midwest Modified feature.

Schmidt trailed for most of the race before passing Bintz, who got caught up in the slower cars.

“It helped me out a lot when he got bunched up in lap traffic. I kind of snuck around him,” Schmidt said. “We raced each other clean, passed each other clean. I don’t know if we really even touched.”

Schmidt said he wasn’t paying too close of attention to the lap counter, because he had his hands full with Bintz.

“I was looking at the lap counter, but to be honest, when you’re beside that (number) 1S, you’ve got to keep your eyes right in front of you,” Schmidt said. “You don’t want to keep your eyes anywhere else. It was a good race. It came down to lap traffic. It was fun.”

Racing continues at 7 p.m. Friday with a fireworks display to follow.

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https://www.myracepass.com/events/526086/races