Once Jordan Yaggy won a heat race on Aug. 1 for the 27th annual USA Nationals Cedar Lake Speedway in New Richmond, Wis., the rest of his weekend was simply gravy.

It wasn’t just because the 23-year-old driver from Rochester, Minn., had cracked the starting field for the 100-lap crown jewel event for the first time. The accomplishment was certainly a big deal for Yaggy — after all, he entered the qualifying night of Cedar Lake’s $50,000-to-win spectacular with a whopping 24 open-competition MORE