Fulp Grabs Midway Show-Me Racin Series Victory/Turner,Joplin,Stovall Add Names To Winners Circle


LEBANON, MO. (Aug. 18, 2006) - Over 110 race teams checked into the pits for Racing action Friday night at the Lebanon Midway Speedway as the Show-Me Racin Series Late Models made there 1st appearance to the track an action packed event as Jim Fulp withstood a late charge from current series point leader Leslie Essary to grab the Late Model feature on a perfectly racing surface.

The 22 car starting grid previewed how the action was going to be before the packed grandstands with the traditional 4 wide salute.

As the green flew, Jordan Holloway jumped out to the early lead with Jeremy Kelley close behind as Fulp, Mike Hailman and others were treating the crowd to some 3 wide racing in the pack. The 1st Caution flew on lap 3 as Mark Bourey came to a stop. On the double file restart, Holloway jumped to the lead with Kelley close behind as Rick Lebow started his charge to the front with Hailman closing quickly. On lap 5,Fulp took his car to the front after a tight battle with leader Holloway. With Fulp setting a fast pace on the 3 groove racing surface, Hailman moved into 2nd place and closed-up on the leader.Back in the mid pack range,3 wide racing found Kelley, Ken Essary, Jimmy Greenway, Chad Smith, Leslie Essary all swapping spots back and forth. Up front Hailman had caught the leader Fulp and was moving quickly on the low groove as Fulp stayed upstairs.

This battle lasted close until lap 13 when Midway Fastrak regular Jason Otto got sideways in turn 4 bringing out the yellow. With Fulp leading the pack on the restart, Hailman started his charge again until the motor let go ending his night. As the field lined-up for a double file restart, Rick Lebow now became the new player in the game as Fulp shot quickly to the high-side as Lebow went downstairs with Ken Essary, Leslie Essary, Chad Smith and early leader Holloway close behind.On lap 18,Leslie Essary moved around Lebow and set his sights on leader Fulp. The final caution waved on lap 26 as Holloway stalled in turn 4 setting up a tight finish as Fulp brought the field down to the final green restart as Series point leader Leslie Essary closed-up the ground. Heading for the white flag, Leslie powered quickly on the bottom to the leader Fulp as they headed into turn 2.Behind this tight race behind the leaders was the dogfight for 3rd as Lebow, Ken Essary, Smith, Greenway and B feature winner Jarrod Hilton were battling along with Kevin Henson. Going into turn 2,Essary pulled along side of Fulp's 00,but Jimmy had the top groove working strong and withstood the last lap effort of  L.Essary to take home the $1,000 winners share followed closely by Leslie Essary, Ken Essary, Lebow and Rookie contender Chad Smith.

The Factory Stock feature had 22 strong take the green flag as Dylan Keeper took the opening lead with Joe Davenport close behind. With Keeper setting a fast pace, Midway point leader James Ellis was closing quickly along with the "Metric Monte Carlo" of Eric Turner. On lap 6,Turner shot to the high groove of the leader Kepper and took control as the previous weeks winner Troy White was coming quickly from the 11th starting spot along with Bobby Ratterree, Donnie Miller and others battling. A late race caution bunched the field up with Turner leading followed closely by White, Miller and Ratterree along with early leader Keeper and a fast moving Steve James. On the restart, Turner shot to the low groove with White following close behind and Ratterree and Miller battling hard. As the checkereed flew,turner grabbed his 1st ever feature win on the midway with Troy White, Ratterree, Miller and early leader Keeper in the top 5.

The Modifieds put on a great race for the 25 lap feature with extra money going to win and to start in the back part of the field. Darren Fullerton and Jack Jones brought the field down for the green with 3 wide racing as veteran Rex Merritt grabbed the early lead with current USRA National Modified point leader Jesse Stovall close behind as Midway points runner-up eric Hudson grabbed a quick 3rd spot. With Merritt leading the way, Stovall moved to the top groove while Merritt hooked the bottom as this great battle kept the crowd on its feet. On lap 4,Stovall shot to the wall and made the pass on Merritt as Merritt kept it on the hub. With Stovall out in front the race was now for 2nd place as Eric Hudson and Merritt battled until Hudson made the pass on lap 11.A late race caution bunched the field up as Stovall brought them down on the restart. Hudson shot to the bottom as Stovall stayed on the topside. Midway point leader Tony Jackson Jr who had blown a motor in hotlaps brought out the back-up car began his charge to battle Merritt for 3rd made the pass for position as Hudson was applying pressure to leader Stovall. On lap 20 Hudson had Stovall in his sights, but Stovall picked-up the pace and pulled away to record his 1st ever Midway feature win followed by Hudson, Jackson, Merritt, and Jack Jones.

The WingedSprint Car feature went Green,White,Checkered as point leader Clint Todd took advantage of his front row starting spot holding off a late surge from Joe Todd in grabbing the victory followed by Eric Todd,Matt Tatro,and Steve Lawrence.

The SuperStock feature would also see a new winner as Mike Joplin grabbed the lead from his front row starting spot with several charges from JC Newell and Travis Hill.The scary part of the night was while battling for 2nd place,JC Newell,Travis Hill and Bennie Joiner got together on the frontstretch as JC's car went for a barrell roll flipping several times before landing.Newell was able to walk away but the car was destoryed.After the clean-up,Joplin with stood several charges from point leader Ben Newell and Donnie Gennings in grabbing his 1st win of the season as Newell,Gennings,Josh Woddy and Rick Brown followed.

Mike Piercey grabbed the lead from Tyler Brown late in the feature in capturing the Bomber feature with Brown,Shawn Winfrey,Wayne Coffman, and Keith Cheever following.

Next week MidwaySpeedway will present an Enduro feature along with the rescheduled powederpuff.

The powderpuff was postponed due to the length of the racing progrma Friday Night.All ladies who had registered to compete in the powederpuff will be admitted free this week.Also Racing in the FactoryStocks with 18 cars or more recieving extra money in the purse,Superstocks as 15 cars or more also get a chance at extra purse money.Modifieds,Bombers,WingedSprints will all be competing.

Results
Show-Me Racin Series LateModels
1st Ht-1)Ken Essary-Cape Fair 2)Leslie Essary-Crane 3)Jimmy Greenway-Galena 4)Mark Bourey-Monett 5)Chad Pyle-Wheaton 6)Landon Clinton-Willow Springs 7)Blane Reed-Crane 8-Scott Fry-Rocky Comfort

2nd Ht-1)Jim Fulp-Aurora 2)Chad Smith-Springdale,Ark. 3)Mike Hailmann-Redd Springs 4)Kevin Henson-Marionville 5)Chris Hawkins-Neosho 6)Jarrod Hilton-Galena 7)Ron Johnson-Sarcoxie 8)Frank Tindle-Galena

3rd Ht-1)Jeremy Kelley-Walnut Grove 2)Rick Lebow-Galena 3)Jordan Holloway-Monett 4)Roger Wilson-Aurora 5)Ken Patterson-Rogers,Ark 6)Jason Otto-Richland 7)Tyler Milner-Huntsville,Ark 8)Wesley Briggs-Phillipsburg

B Ft-1)Hilton 2)Milner 3)Otto 4)Tindle 5)Briggs 6)Johnson 7)Clinton 8)Fry

A Ft-1)Fulp 2)L.Essary 3)K.Essary 4)Lebow 5)Smith 6)Greenway 7)Hilton 8)Henson 9)Milner 10)Kelley 11)Hawkins 12)Bourey 13)Pyle 14)Otto 15)Patterson 16)Reed 17)Holloway 18)Johnson 19)Tindle 20)Fry 21)Hailmann 22)Wilson

FactoryStocks
1st Ht-1)Steve James-Gravois 2)Troy White-Russellville 3)James Ellis-Richland 4)Dylan Keeper-Hurley 5)Chris Ratterree-Mt Grove 6)Tim Petty-Niangua 7)Jeff Albright Jr-Lebanon DNS-greg Breedlove-Lebanon

2nd Ht-1)Bobby Ratterree-Mt Grove 2)Gary Chambers-Crane 3)Joe Davenport-Groff 4)Sundance Keeper-Springfield 5)Jay Flinn-Versailles 6)Justin Sparks-Houston 7)Rich Allen-Richland 8DNS-Mike Murzynski

3rd Ht-1)Eric Turner-Hermitage 2)Donnie Miller-Houston 3)Mike Shaddy-Lebanon 4)Glen Dismang-Lebanon 5)Kevin LaChance-Marshfield 6)Mike Chandler-Keiser 7)Trent Harrison-Crocker

A Ft-1)Turner 2)White 3)B.Ratterree 4)Miller 5)Keeper 6)James 7)Ellis 8)Shaddy 9)Davenport 10)Petty 11)Flinn 12)Dismang 13)Chambers 14)Allen 15)Chandler 16)LaChance 17)S.Keeper 18)Sparks 19)Harrison 20)Breedlove 21)Albright Jr 22)C.Ratterree

Modifieds
1st Ht-1)Eric Hudson-Rolla 2)Don Luna-St James 3)Darren Fullerton-Fair Grove 4)David Holder-Clearance 5)Wayne Graybeal-Springfield 6)Brian Millsap-Lebanon 7)Sam Petty-Niangua

2nd Ht-1)Tony Jackson Jr-Lebanon 2)Donnie Fellers-Wheatland 3)Jack Jones-Lebanon 4)Ken Dickinson-Camdenton 5)Chris Johnson-Lebanon 6)Wes Long-Springfield 7)Jamie Ragland-Lebanon

3rd Ht-1)Rex Merritt-illings 2)Jesse Stovall-Galena 3)Jim Roach-St Patrick 4)John Fellers-Flemington 5)Brian Schutt-Lebanon 6)Jimmy Willis-Macks Creek

A Ft-1)Stovall 2)Hudson 3)Jackson Jr 4)Merritt 5)Jones 6)Schutt 7)Roach 8)Fellers 9)Graybeal 10)Dickinson 11)J.Fellers 12)Fullerton 13)C.Johnson 14)Long 15)Willis 16)Luna 17)Petty 18)Holder 19)Millsap DNS-Ragland

SuperStocks
1st Ht-1)Donnie Gennings-Eldridge 2)JC Newell-Camdenton 3)Robbie Simmons-Lebanon 4)Mike Joplin-Nixa 5)Ben Newell-Stoutland 6)Josh Woody-Laquey 7)Randy Hill-Lebanon 8)Steve Reese-Crocker

2nd Ht-1)Rick Brown-Stoutland 2)Travis Hill-Lebanon 3)Bill Joiner-Lynchburg 4)Clinton Betts-Stoutland 5)Rick Hill-Lebanon 6)Bill Scharr-St Roberts 7)Bennie Joiner-Lynchburg 8)Jeremy Gardner-Lebanon 9)Travis Arnold-Lebanon

A Ft-1)Joplin 2)B.Newell 3)Gennings 4)Woody 5)Brown 6)R.Hill 7)Rick Hill 8)Simmons 9)Scharr 10)Betts 11)Resse 12)Arnold 13)Bennie Joiner 14)Bill Joiner 15)T.Hill 16)JC Newell 17)Gardner

Winged Sprints
1st Ht-1)Clint Todd-Lynchburg 2)Eric Todd-Falcon 3)Erik Enneking-Waynesville 4)Rob Pardun-St Roberts 5)Scott Wedelstadt-Lebanon 6)Mike Williams-Lynchburg 7)Rusty Quick-Lebanon

2nd Ht-1)Matt Tatro-Crocker 2)Steve Lawrence-Springfield 3)Joe Todd-Falcon 4)Kyle Bellm-Nixa 5)Jeremy Hazel-Lynchburg 6)Keith Breedlove-Lynchburg DNS-John Rowland-Warsaw

A Ft-1-C.Todd 2)J.Todd 3)E.Todd 4)Tatro 5)Lawrence 6)Bellm 7)Enneking 8)Hazel 9)Williams 10)Wedelstadt 11)Pardun 12)Breedlove 13)Quick 14)Rowland

Bombers
1st Ht-1)Mike Piercy-Lebanon 2)Billy Waters-Lynchburg 3)Keith Cheever-Lebanon 4)Wayne Coffman-Lebanon 5)Chad Cromer-Lebanon 6)Brian Goff-Jefferson City 7)Missy Shaw-Rogersville 8)Roger Young-Republic 9)Jack Hamer-Ava

2nd Ht-1)Shawn Winfrey-Lebanon 2)Joe Francis-Lebanon 3)Jennifer Crouch-Lebanon 4)Tyler Brown-Richland 5)Brian Miller-Richland 6)Colby McClain-Conway 7)Jerimiah Mooney-Conway 8)Jerry Goring-Lebanon 9)Billy Smith-Seymour

A Ft-1)Piercy 2)Brown 3)Winfrey 4)Coffman 5)Cheever 6)Waters 7)Shaw 8)Cromer 9)Crouch 10)Goring 11)Smith 12)Hamer 13)Young 14)Miller 15)McClain 16)Francis 17)Goff 18)Mooney