Eric Todd Squeaks AMSOIL Sprint Challenge

LEBANON, MO. (July 20) - Clear skies and a smooth surface produced some close racing in all classes and defending AMSOIL Sprint challange winner Eric Todd faced some tough challanges as the Sprint feature awaited $1,000 to the winner.

The highest paying Sprint event for the 305 Sprint cars took the green flag with Matt Tatro jumping out to the opening lead with Bradley Roberts clsoe behind along with Doug Rose.With Tatro setting a fast pace.On lap 3,the features only caution waved as Keith Breedlove spun in turn 4.On the restart Tatro pulled away as point leader JP Compton moved around both Roberts and Rose to grab 2nd place on lap 5 and set his sights on leader Tatro as Eric Todd was moving through the field from his 7th starting spot.Tatro and Compton then battle wheel to wheel until Compton moved to the top spot on lap 7 as Eric Todd had caught the lead duo and placed his car into 2nd place on lap 8.Leader Compton and Eric Todd then began a classic battle swapping the top spot back and forth as defending track champion Clint Todd started moving through the field from his 10th starting spot.On lap 16,Eric Todd caught leader Compton making a small bobble as he shot to the lead only to find Compton charge right back as Clint Todd,Bradley Roberts and early leader Tatro were in a tight battle for 3rd.On lap 18,Todd pulled away from the battle with Compton in grabbing the $1,000 payday with Compton,Clint Todd,,Roberts and Tatro completing the top 5.

The FactoryStock new winners list just keeps growing as Donnie Miller brought the field to the green with Ben Solberg right behind him.The yellow would waved as point leader Dylan Keepper,Bobby Ratterree and Bob Gustin were all involved in a hard crash in turn 2.Ratterree and Gustin would continue,but Keeppers night ended early.on the restart,Miller a school principal in Houston was trying to overcome a tough season as he and Solberg were battling hard.Solberg was delovping rear wheel problems as Sundance Keepper charged around to grab 2nd place and closed in on Miller as early season point leader Bob Gustin was rebounding from the opening lap problem and and caught Keepper to battle for 2nd place while Miller was keeping his car on a smooth drive in the middle of the track.A late caution alowed Gustin to close up on leader Miller,but Miller would keep out of trouble to grab the win with Gustin,Sundance Keepper,Glen Dismang and Greg Breedlove completing the top 5.

The A-Modified feature would also see a new winner as Steve Martin grabbed the lead on the opening lap and would never look back from the pack while a tight battle developed between Steve Muilenburg,point leader Jamie Ragland and Eric Hudson along with Don Luna.While Martin pulled away from the filed it was former winners Muilenburg,Ragland, Hudson and Luna to battle for the runner-up spots before crossing the stripe in that order.

The SuperStock feature had extra money in the entire purse from AMSOIL as Mark Davis grabbed the early lead only to have problems sending him to the pits on lap 2.Bill Joiner then grabbed the lead as defending champion Ben Newell battled and took the top spot on lap 4 as Larry Pruitt was charging from his 7th starting spot and battle both Bill and Bennie Joiner for the 2nd place spot.On lap 9,contact between those 3 sent all to the rear as last weeks winner JC Newell found himself behind leader Ben Newell.On the restart,JC tried Ben several laps,but lap 13 would prove lucky for JC as Ben got the car sideways in turn 2 while battling for the lead bringing out the yellow and sending him to the rear.From there JC held off a late charge from Larry Pruitt to record his 2nd win of the season with Pruitt,Travis Hill,Clinton Betts and Ben Newell at the stripe.

The Bomber feature was a wild affair as Wayne Coffman grabbed the opening lead with Jack Hamer following close.With Coffman looking for his 1st win,Joe Francis,Dusty Rhoads and Jamie Barker were charging through the field as Rhoads grabbed the lead on lap 5 and left the race to everyone for 2nd place in grabbing his 2nd win of the season.Francis,Barker,early leader Coffman and Keith Cheever completed the top 5 over the tough field.

The B-Mods were brought down to the green with point leader Jason Otto jumping to the lead with Jack Lancaster pulling along side of him as the duo touched as Lancaster had a flat tire.On the restart,Otto jumped to the lead as TR Phillips closed in quickly along with Troy Young,On lap 3,Phillips spun moving Troy young into 2nd place as former winner Steve Muilenburg came charging from 11th starting spot.On lap 4,leader Otto had atire go down sending him to the pits as Troy young grabbed the lead as Colt Cheevers and Earl Muilenburg battled for 3rd place.On lap 12,Steve Muilenburg pulled to the inside of Young and grabbed the lead in recording his 2nd win of the season followed by Young,a hard charging Jody Saultz,Jack Lancaster and Ed Wilson at the finish.

The Ozark Mountain Midgets made there debut with Barry Lamb and Dustin Arnall swapping the top spot with Lamb grabbing the win.
Next week the A-Modifieds will run double features along withregular racing in the B-Mods,SuperStocks,FactoryStocks,Bombers and WingedSprints.

Results
AMSOIL Sprint Challange
A Ft-1)Eric Todd-Falcon 2)JP Compton-Crane 3)Clint Todd-Lynchburg 4)Bradley Roberts-Cole Camp 5)Matt Tatro-Crocker 6)Cody Baker-Lone Jack 7)Joe Todd-Lynchburg 8)Doug Rose-Lincoln 9)Rusty Quick-Lebanon 10)Dustin Arnall-Hartville 11)Jeremy Hazel-Lynchburg 12)Scott Wedelstadt-Lebanon 13)Keith Breedlove-Lynchburg

1st Ht-1)Roberts 2)Tatro 3)J.Todd 4)E.Todd 5)Quick 6)Hazel 7)Wedelstadt

2nd Ht-1)Rose 2)Arnall 3)Compton 4)Baker 5)Breedlove 6)C.Todd


FactoryStocks
A Ft-1)Donnie Miller-Houston 2)Bob Gustin-Osage Beach 3)Sundance Keepper-Springfield 4)Glen Dismang-Lebanon 5)Greg Breedlove-Lebanon 6)Bobby Ratterree-Mt Grove 7)Lonnie Henderson-Lebanon 8)Dale Berry-Tuscumbia 9)Brian Webster-Richland 10)Joe Davenport-Graff 11)Ben Solberg-Springfield 12)James Ellis-Richland 13)Dylan Keepper-Hurley 14)Mike Smith-Crocker DNS-Sheldon Stoufer-Camdenton

1st HT-1)Solberg 2)Miller 3)Ratterree 4)D.Keepper 5)Breedlove 6)Smith 7)Berry 8)Stoufer

2nd HT-1)Gustin 2)S.Keepper 3)Ellis 4)Dismang 5)Webster 6)Henderson 7)Davenport


A-Mods
A Ft-1)Steve Martin-Ozark 2)Steve Muilenburg-Sparta 3)Eric Hudson-Rolla 4)Jamie Ragland-Lebanon 5)Don Luna-St James 6)Chris Johnson-Lebanon 7)Jimmy Willis-Macks Creek 8)David Hendrix-Buckhorn 9)Sam Petty-Niangua 10)Jack Jones-Lebanon 11)Brian Brown-Lebanon

1st Ht-1)Martin 2)Hudson 3)Ragland 4)Luna 5)Johnson DNS-Brown

2nd Ht-1)Muilenburg 2)Hendrix 3)Willis 4)Petty 5)Jones


SuperStocks
Ft-1)JC Newell-Camdenton 2)Larry Pruitt-Jerome 3)Travis Hill-Lebanon 4)Clinton Betts-Stoutland 5)Ben Newell-Stoutland 6)Bill Joiner-Lynchburg 7)Bill Scharr-St Roberts 8)Bennie Joiner-Lynchburg 9)Mark Davis-Grovesprings 10)Donnie Gennings-Eldridge

1st Ht-1)Pruitt 2)B.Newell 3)JC Newell 4)Betts 5)Davis

2nd Ht-1)Gennings 2)Hill 3)Bennie Joiner 4)Bill Joiner DNS-Scharr


B-Mods
A Ft-1)Steve Muilenburg-Sparta 2)Troy Young-Lebanon 3)Jody Saultz-Camdenton 4)Jack Lancaster-Urbana 5)Ed Wilson-Waynesville 6)Jeff Albright Jr-Lebanon 7)Luke Stephens-Stoutland 8)TR Phillips-Nixa 9)Charlie Gentile-Sparta 10)Jamie Petty-Niangua 11)Tom Littleton-St Roberts 12)Earl Muilenburg-Sparta 13)Greg Strong-Nixa 14)Jerimiah Mooney-Lebanon 15)Jason Otto-Richland 16)Colt Cheevers-Macks Creek

1st Ht-1)Otto 2)Muilenburg 3)Phillips 4)Wilson 5)Gentile 6)Strong 7)Petty 8)Stephens

2nd Ht-1)Lancaster 2)Young 3)E.Muilenburg 4)Albright 5)Saultz 6)Littleton 7)Cheevers 8)Mooney


Bombers
A Ft-1)Dusty Rhoads-Lebanon 2)Joe Francis-Lebanon 3)Jamie Barker-Lebanon 4)Wayne Coffman-Lebanon 5)Keith Cheever-Lebanon 6)Jack Hamer-Ava 7)Chris Cheever-Lebanon 8)Jennifer Crouch-Lebanon 9)Brandon Waters-Lynchburg 10)Jerry Goring-Lebanon 11)Billy Waters-Lynchburg 12)Jason Creasley-Falcon 13)Grant Sharp-Conway 14)Art Forshey-Dixon 15)Brian Warner-Phillipsburg 16)Mike Piercy-Lebanon 17)Bobby Mooney-Camdenton 18)Adam Lowrance-Lebanon DNS-Bill Barlow-Sparta,Cody Harmon-Lebanon

1st Ht-1)Francis 2)Crouch 3)Sharp 4)Coffman 5)Piercy 6)K.Cheever 7)Goring 8)Warner 9)Barlow 10)Harmon

2nd Ht-1)Barker 2)Rhoads 3)C.Cheever 4)Hamer 5)Brandon Waters 6)Forshey 7)Lowrance 8)Creasly 9)Billy Waters 10)Mooney


Ozark Mt Midgets
A Ft-1)Barry Lamb-Moran,Kansas 2)Dustin Arnall-hartville 3)Chris Schofield-Raymore 4)Merrill Lamb-Moran,Kansas DNS-Neil Gamble-Hurley