Kelsi Pederson Records Popular Lightning Sprint Win

Kelsi Pederson in RydellCars.com Victory Lane. Photo by Mike Spieker | Speedway-Shots.com

GRAND FORKS, N.D. (June 23, 2017) – Kelsi Pederson, daughter of Late Model driver Joey Pederson, led from green to checkered in the NLSA Lightning Sprint feature. The young lady out of East Grand Forks, Minn. held off veteran driver Dexter Dvergsten in the closing laps in lapped traffic to score her first career win.

Pederson turned the fastest lap of the event at 12.622 seconds, averaging 85.565mph around the high-banked three-tenths mile oval.

A Feature  (20 Laps): 1. 93-Kelsi Pederson, [1]; 2. 11-Dexter Dvergsten, [3]; 3. 9-Kevin Thomas Sr., [7]; 4. 4-Eric Johnson, [5]; 5. 2T-Presley Truedson, [4]; 6. 22B-Brandon Johnson, [2]; 7. 13-Alan Truscinski, [6]; 8. 10-Alex Truscinski, [8]; 9. 6-Brody Hutton, [13]; 10. 17K-Zachary Kwiatkoski, [9]; 11. 40-Lawrence Veralrud, [16]; 12. 11M-Brendan Mullen, [12]; 13. 16-Josh Abrahamson, [10]; 14. 100-Jason Berg, [11]; 15. 1-Mark Williams, [14]; 16. 24-Brett Schmiedeberg, [15]; 17. (DNF) 30M-Parker Monroe, [17]
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Heat 1 (8 Laps): 1. 93-Kelsi Pederson, [5]; 2. 13-Alan Truscinski, [3]; 3. 9-Kevin Thomas Sr., [4]; 4. 4-Eric Johnson, [8]; 5. 10-Alex Truscinski, [6]; 6. 1-Mark Williams, [1]; 7. 100-Jason Berg, [9]; 8. 24-Brett Schmiedeberg, [7]; 9. (DNF) 30M-Parker Monroe, [2]
Heat 2 (8 Laps): 1. 11-Dexter Dvergsten, [2]; 2. 2T-Presley Truedson, [4]; 3. 22B-Brandon Johnson, [8]; 4. 17K-Zachary Kwiatkoski, [1]; 5. 16-Josh Abrahamson, [3]; 6. 11M-Brendan Mullen, [5]; 7. 6-Brody Hutton, [7]; 8. 40-Lawrence Veralrud, [6]