OKTAHA — It was a Slader night at Outlaw Motor Speedway here Friday with rookie Kyle winning his first feature of his career and his old man, Brian, gaining his fourth.

Not old enough to legally drive a car, Kyle Slader shook off a rookie season full of early disappointments to win the feature in Pure Stock racing. His dad won the Hobby Stock chase.

Slader, 14, who attended Oktaha Middle School this past year and will be a freshman when school starts in August, did a masterful job of driving to hold off Muskogee’s Matt Burnett to claim the checkered flag. The two came out of turn four side-by-side is a dash to the checkered flag.

“There was no way he was going to pass me,” Kyle said after the race. “I thought I had a good lead and kind of slacked up. When I saw him coming after me, I really started to race.”

At the finish, Slader had a quarter-panel lead. He had led from the outside pole.

In the meantime, Burnett fought his way to second after nine laps and from there pulled to Slader’s bumper with three laps remaining. Twice in the final two laps he pulled along side the talented teenager, only to be rebuffed in turns three and four.

Running in the high groove, Slader refused to be intimidated by the more experienced Burnett, holding his line. That paid dividends at the end.

“That was the place top race tonight,” Slader said of the high trip around the three-eighths mile oval. “I knew if I kept my line, Matt would have a hard time getting around me. The low groove was good, but not as fast as the high groove.”

Finishing behind Burnett in third was Lee McClain of Chouteau. Justin Sellars of Muskogee was fourth.

Burnett was seeking his division-leading fifth feature win. Slader went into the night with numerous first place finishes in the heat races and a couple of runner-up finishes in the feature.

Hobby Stock

Brian Slader held off a determined challenge from Colton Dunlap to surprisingly win the feature, also his first of the year. He didn’t know he won until he glanced up and saw his number on the scoreboard in the first position.

“Brian thought that he was second,” said track steward Mike Northrup. “He told me when he pulled into the pits that he thought that No. 11 had run away from the field.”

Northrup was referring to Siloam Springs, Ark., driver Jeff Metcalf, who had a big lead the halfway point with Slader and the rest of the field a distant second. Metcalf pulled into the infield with engine problems, relinquishing first to Slader on lap 11.