Jerry Rice may have been nudged out of the Budweiser Grand Nationals track championship last season, but he was on top of the world Saturday night after winning his first main event race in the Intermountain Pro Race Trucks Series.
Rice, in his first full year with the trucks, conquered a main event win in only the second race of the season.
Rice started in the lead of the 40-lap main event race which went caution free, but the No. 8 truck of Nick Lynch quickly became Rice's biggest issue on the track. Lynch has always run well at MVS, and the sight of Lynch in his mirror had Rice playing defense for the remainder of the race.
"I'm pretty amazed I pulled that off," an exuberant Rice said after the race. "We have radios and mirrors in the truck and my spotter told me he (Lynch) was clear of traffic and he was coming up. He just kept getting bigger and bigger in my mirror."
However lap traffic late in the race turned into Rice's favor, with Lynch having some difficulty getting around the slower vehicles.
"I think Nick got stuck in it," Rice added. "I got under it and he had to go on the outside. I was just hoping there wasn't going to be a caution."
Alan Larson finished third in the main event race behind Lynch, with Kenny Vanderham placing fourth.
