Briggs Danner had provided much of the excitement throughout Saturday night’s Evans Building Salt City 100 at Hutchinson, Kansas’ Salt City Speedway as he see-sawed between the third and fourth position for the first three-quarters of the 100-lapper.

But when it came to crunch time, the Allentown, Pennsylvania native delivered as he raced from third to first in a three-lap stretch between the 77th and 79th circuit, then had just enough tread on his right rear tire down the stretch to earn his first career USAC Silver Crown victory.

Danner, a three-time USAC AMSOIL National Sprint Car winner in his own right, was making just his 10th career Silver Crown start aboard the Advanced Materials Technologies – Fuel Mart – E. Schneider & Sons/DRC/R07 Chevy, which provided Arizona-based DMW Motorsports its first USAC victory after seven seasons of trying.

“I’m happy for (car owner) Mickey (Meyer) and I’m happy for everybody back home who put in a lot of work,” Danner said. “We’ve been really good so many times and we maybe should’ve had one earlier this year but blew up (at Belleville), but to bring the backup car here, to make this haul and to put it in victory lane, that feels good for sure. That’s going to make traveling home a little bit easier.”

In becoming the second consecutive first-time USAC Silver Crown winner to emerge from the Salt City 100 in each of its first two years, Danner also became the first Pennsylvanian to win a Crown race anywhere since Rich Tobias Jr. at the Du Quoin State Fairgrounds in Illinois back in 2003.

Danner also put an exclamation point on his first career series win worth $10,000. On the 100th and final lap, he posted the fastest lap of the race with a time of 22.155 seconds, nearly four tenths of a second quicker than anybody else in the field. That also earned Danner the Inferno Armor Fire Move of the Night.

Results USAC Silver Crown Series Salt City 100 At Salt City Speedway

1. Briggs Danner (3)

 2. C.J. Leary (1)

3. Chase Stockon (7)

 4. Matt Westfall (6)

5. Kip Hughes (11)

6. Justin Grant (5)

 7. Danny Jennings (13)

8. Saban Bibent (10)

9. Travis Mahoney (12)

10. Mario Clouser (2)

 11. Kyle Steffens (9)

12. Jake Swanson (4)

13. Shane Cockrum (8)

14. Dave Berkheimer (14)