Zilisch, who owns LMP2 class victories within the Daytona 24 and Sebring 12 this 12 months, took the lead for the primary time on lap 108 of 150 after stepping into William Sawalich whereas the 2 raced side-by-side for the lead.
Sawalich, who began on the pole and led 67 laps, hit the wall arduous and was knocked out of the race.
A late-race warning arrange a restart with eight laps remaining, however the 17-yeaar-old Zilisch acquired an excellent bounce on Gio Ruggiero and held him off by 0.986 seconds to assert his first collection win.
The victory counts each as a nationwide collection win and in ARCA East, the place Zilisch is competing for the collection title.
“I can’t even lie, these first 70 laps I used to be fairly intimidated,” Zilisch mentioned. “I used to be saying, ‘Oh the automotive’s free, the automotive’s free.’ We have been sitting beneath the crimson (flag) on the backstretch and I used to be like, ‘Rattling, I simply have to get on the gasoline.’
“I used to be getting down on myself there. I used to be operating fifth, sixth and wasn’t making up any floor. Simply so grateful for this complete group. These restarts have been hectic, however we stored it up entrance and acquired ourselves a win right here at The Mile.”
Carson Kvapil completed third, Lavar Scott was fourth and Andres Perez rounded out the highest 5.
The race was halted for almost eight minutes following a wreck on lap 75 which began when Christian Rose, the collection factors chief going into the race, had a tire go down and slammed arduous into the wall off Flip 4.
Amber Balcaen tried to keep away from Rose’s broken No. 32 automotive, which was briefly trailing flames, and spun and hit the within wall. After exiting the automotive, she walked gingerly with assist earlier than getting on a stretcher and was transported to the infield care heart.
Balcaen was launched from the care heart together with her left foot and ankle wrapped closely. She mentioned she was “nice” however could be searching for additional analysis of her foot.
