SAPULPA — Saturday night at Creek County Speedway smelled like race fuel, burnt ceramic dust and rash decisions made at full throttle.
In other words, it was perfect. By the time the clay globs settled, Lane and Bentley Traster had turned the place into a Prue town showcase.
Lane won the Duvall Electric USRA Modifi ed feature.
Bentley won the Traster Construction Mini Stock feature.
Lane fi nished second behind him.
Two drivers, two divisions, two wins, three podium fi nishes.
One little town on the shores of Keystone Lake making a lot of noise.
Lane struck fi rst in the Modifi eds.
He started third in the 20lap feature and drove the No.
2 past enough tra c to take the win over Charles Day of Yukon and Chris Wilhite Jr. of Chandler.
This was no random Saturday-night miracle held together with duct tape and optimism.
Lane had already won his heat race from the pole. By feature time, he had seen the track, found the fast way around it and apparently decided everyone else could fi gure it out later.
Day moved from fourth to second.
Wilhite charged from ninth to third.
Neither caught Traster.
That gave Prue its fi rst feature win of the night.
Then came the Mini Stocks. Lane started on the pole in the No. 2. Bentley lined up beside him in the No. 15.
They had already fi nished one-two in the heat race, with Lane ahead.
The feature changed the family order.
Bentley moved from second to fi rst and took the win. Lane dropped one spot and fi nished second, which still left the Trasters with both ends of the front row when it counted.
Everybody else was racing for the privilege of appearing in their rear-view mirrors.
Shawn Crowell fi nished third, followed by Megan Terry and Kaegen Stevens.
The result looked less like a race and more like a family photo taken at 60 miles an hour.
Bentley in front. Lane beside him. Dirt stuck to everything.
Lane's fi nal scorecard for the night was ridiculous in the best possible way: a Modifi ed heat win, a Modifi ed feature win, a Mini Stock heat win and a second-place Mini Stock fi nish.
Four races. Three wins. One runner-up.
There are drivers who spend an entire season looking for a night like that.
Lane knocked it out.
Bentley was right there with him, taking second in the heat and then winning the race that paid.
The Trasters owned the headlines, but they were not the only local racers who gave the crowd something worth watching.
Sand Springs driver Robert Scott pulled double duty and made both his cars count.
Scott started eighth in the American Waste Control USRA B-Mod feature and drove the No. 4K to fi fth, picking up three positions along the way.
Then he climbed into the No. 29 Factory Stock, won his heat and started the 20lap feature from the pole.
He fi nished third behind Grant Reeves of Wann and Keith Heaslet of Indianola.
A heat win. A feature podium. A top-fi ve fi nish in another class.
That is a full night’s work before you even start scraping the mud o the wheels.
Ashley Scott fi nished seventh in the Factory Stock feature after starting ninth.
Troy Minton moved from 13th to 12th in the B-Mod feature.
Charles Kerley was credited with 13th in the Factory Stocks after an early exit.
David Baker made the Champ/305 Sprint feature for Sand Springs. He moved forward in his heat, transferring into the 25-lap main, where he was credited with 16th after a DNF.
Mannford’s JT Moss also earned his way into the Champ/305 Sprint feature in the No. 45X.
Moss started sixth in his heat and moved up to fi fth, then rolled o 12th in the feature and fi nished 12th.
It was a steady, clean night in a division where steady and clean are often the only things separating a fi nish from a trailer loaded too early.
Levi Bumgarner, also of Mannford, drove the No. 00 Factory Stock. He started third and fi nished fi fth in his heat, then started 10th in the feature and was credited with 11th after a DNF.
Terlton’s Toby Cooper made the Factory Stock feature in the No. 03 and fi nished 10th after starting 12th.
Drumright’s Fred Mattox nearly stole the whole Champ/305 show.
Mattox started fourth in his heat and won it, putting the No. 26M on the pole for the feature.
He fi nished third behind Blake Edwards and Joshua Tyre.
Edwards started second and won the 25-lapper. Tyre moved from fourth to second. Mattox lost two positions but still left with a podium fi nish.
That is the thing about Creek County.
They come from all over. Nobody gets anything for free. The track is tight. The corners arrive before you are ready. Tra c piles up going in. One bad line can turn a good night into a long ride home with headphones on.
Saturday, the local racers handled it well. Robert Scott brought home a podium. Fred Mattox brought home a podium. JT Moss put together a solid sprint-car night.
But Prue owned the evening.
Lane Traster won the Modifi ed feature. Bentley Traster won the Mini Stock feature. Lane fi nished second right behind him.
There are race nights where a driver survives. There are race nights where a driver shines. Then there are race nights where one family leaves with all the hardware, like it was the Traster Invitational and only the Trasters were invited.
Creek County supplied the dirt.
Prue took care of everything else.