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Tyler Peterson parks in RydellCars.com Victory Lane for the 5th time in 2014

By Mike Spieker

GRAND FORKS, ND (August 22) - Tyler Peterson's stellar season got a little better on season championship night, presented by RydellCar.com at River Cities Speedway. The Hickson, ND driver not only won for the fifth time at RCS, but he also claimed his second consecutive track championship.

Peterson started the 18 lap main event from the pole and grabbed the point over Darren Pfau to lead the first lap. The battle for the lead heated up on the lap seven restart when Scott Bintz of Jamestown, ND got his RealTruck.com #1s wound up on the cushion and pulled alongside Peterson. Bintz made the pass in turn four as they came to complete lap eight. After being shuffled back to second, Peterson regrouped and made one last charge at Bintz on lap 10. The leaders headed into turn one where Peterson threw is #1TPO to the inside of Bintz. The drivers raced side by side for a full circuit where Peterson executed the same maneuver in turn one and completed the pass down the back stretch. Once out front, Peterson drove seven more smooth laps around the tacky bullring and went on to take his 13th checkered flag of the year.

"To win (the track championship) two years in a row is pretty awesome," said Peterson after the race. "The race with Bintz was pretty good too. I heard him coming behind me, then he passed me and I thought, 'What the heck?', but we just raced hard and I got back to the lead and kept it there."