While she was not optimistic about her chances pre-race, Hailie Deegan got a bit of help in the form of lapped traffic to claim the win in the K&N Pro Series West opener.
Jagger Jones had trouble trying to get by the lapped car of Kenny Bumbera, which opened the door for Deegan to slip by.
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“In the end we wouldn’t have caught him if it weren’t for the lapped cars,” she said. “And they got in his way. If I was him, I’d be mad. Really mad. But some peoples losses are other peoples wins and we ended up getting it done. I knew what we had to do to win. I knew it was going to come down to the last lap again and we made it happen.”
