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SRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) — Justin Haley became the youngest winner in more than 80 years of championship racing at the Illinois State Fairgrounds, winning the ARCA Racing Series event Sunday at 17.
Racing a stock car on dirt for the first time, Haley, from Winamac, Indiana, held off Illinois favorites A.J. Fike and Ryan Unzicker during a green-white-checker finish on the mile track.
Driving Mason Mitchell Motorsports' No. 98 Chevrolet, Haley surpassed Justin Allgaier — the 2006 champion in his hometown event at 20 — as the youngest major winner at the track that opened in 1934.
Fike was second, followed Unzicker, 61-year-old former NASCAR driver Ken Schrader and season points leader Chase Briscoe.
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