MARS Late Models To Invade Southwest Missouri Ovals
by: Ronnie Williams
LEBANON, MO (July 6) - The popular O'Reilly MARS Super Late Model Series
will be back in Action after a couple of weeks off in Southwest Missouri
with stops at the Action track at the Midway Speedway in Lebanon on Friday
Night July 10th and at the Quick-Quarter of the Springfield Raceway on Sat
night July 11th.
Friday night action at the Midway will feature B-Mods,FactoryStocks and
Bombers competing in track points races along with the Traveling MARS
LateModel Series.
Going into action this Friday night at Lebanon Hermitage Missouri driver and
leading Rookie contender Eric Turner leads the MARS points standings with a
118 point lead over Jeremy Payne of Springfield.Defending MARS champion
Terry Phillips of Springfield is only 1 point behind teammate Payne while
two Lebanon drivers Tony Jackson Jr and Brandon McCormick hold down the top
5.Currently after 12 MARS features this season they have had 6 different
feature winners.Wendell Wallace leads in victories with 3 followed by Turner
and Payne both with 2 wins,Phillips has 1 along with Nebraska driver Kyle
Berek and the most recent winner Kenny Essary of Cape Fair.
Friday night gates open at 5 with hotlaps at 7 and Racing at 8PM with
grandstand admission prices being Adults $15. Kids 10 and under
Free.Pitpasses will be $30.
Sat night the Martians then travel to SpringfieldRaceway for the running of
the John Kuntz/Andy's Frozen Custard Memorial.Gates open Sat night in the
Grandstands at 5 with Hotlaps set for 6:45 with Racing at 7:30 sharp.Support
classes will include SportMods,and Legends competing for SpringfieldRaceway
points along with the Pro-4's.Grandstand Admission Sat night will be Adults
$20.Kids prices are 6-12 $5 and under 6 are Free.Pitpasses will be $30.
Drivers expected to battle on the Weekend swing include
Turner,phillips,Payne,Jackson Jr,McCormick,2 time IMCA National Champion and
front runner on the Show-Me Series Justin Wells,Ken Essary,Darrell Mooneyham
and many others.UMP National Points are awarded at both Tracks for these
events.
For more information visit the websites at
WWW.LebanonMidwaySpeedway.com
WWW.SpringfieldRaceway.com
or contact Jack Jones at 417-594-0594 for Midway or Jerry Hoffman at
417-673-7426.Raceday Track Phones are 417-588-4430(Midway)
417-863-0097(SpringfieldRaceway).
Current MARS Point Standings
1) Eric Turner (R) 893
2) Jeremy Payne 775
3) Terry Phillips 774
4) Tony Jackson Jr. (R) 703
5) Brandon McCormick 673
6) Wendell Wallace 539
7) Al Purkey 517
8 ) Darrell Mooneyham 469
9) Rylan Long (R) 382
10) Brad Looney 350
11) Bill Frye 323
12) Will Vaught 314
13) Gary Christian 306
14) Bill Koons 281
15) Leroy Johnson 255
LebanonMidway Point Standings
B-Mods
1-8-Jason Otto-Richland 293
2-86-Jeff Albright Jr -Lebanon 287
3-73-Mickey Burrell-Fair Grove 279
4-T10-Tyler Brown-Stoutland 267
5-21-Josh Woody-Buckhorn 264
6-18-JC Morton-Springfield 243
7-17T-Ted Ballinger-Halfway 197
8-91-Brian Webster-Richland 187
9-7c-Derek Cook-Lebanon 153
10-5-Rob White-Lebanon 146
FactoryStocks
1- 02- Bob Gustin-Osage Beach 358
2-26M-Donnie Miller-Houston 305
3-22-Tim Petty-Niangua 294
4-72-Ben Solberg-Springfield 279
5-51-Bill Scharr-St Roberts 248
6-99-Matt Wilson-Mt Grove 204
7-6 7/8-Sundance Keeper-Springfield 200
8-75-Dylan Keeper-Hurley 199
9-76-Lonnie Henderson-Lebanon 192
10-56-Mark Davis-Grovesprings 161
Bombers
1-32-Joe Francis -Lebanon 349
2-14-Shawn Strong-Republic 308
3-18-Brandon Waters-Lynchburg 302
4-111-Rodney Yost-Squires 276
5-7L-Josh Lewis-Stoutland 262
6-714-Jack Hamer-Ava 225
7-00-Brian Warner-Phillipsburg 185
8-024-Kevin Forshey-Dixon 166
9-92-Keith Cheever-Lebanon 166
10-26-Kolt Barker-Lebanon 146
SpringfieldRaceway
SportMods
1.Billy Street-Joplin 159
2.Roy Maynard-Alba 121
3.Mike Hailman-ReedSprings 120
4.JC Morton-Springfield 112
5.Mike Watson-Springfield 99
6.Darrin Crisler-Clever 97
7.Sean Williams-Willard 89
8.Darrell Jackson-Carthage 86
8.Willie Wilson-Springfield 86
10.Dallas Scott-Springfield 77
Legends
1.Park Jones-Joplin 150
2.Jason Rayle-Springfield 130
3.David Bauer-Webb City 125
4.David Comer-Joplin 115
5.Rob Watson-Billings 112
6.Kaleb Copher-Joplin 103
7.Justin Comer-Joplin 100
8.Paul Horton-Joplin 95
9.Bill Cottrill-Joplin 89
10.Tyler Horton-Joplin 84
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