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Payne Defends Kuntz Memorial In MARS Action At Springfield Raceway
by: Ronnie Williams
SPRINGFIELD, Mo. (July 11) — Jeremy Payne overtook teammate and fellow
Springfield, Mo., driver Terry Phillips on the 16th lap and led the rest of
the way for his second straight victory in the Andy's Frozen Custard John
Kuntz Memorial at Springfield Raceway. Payne earned $2,500 for winning the
35-lap O'Reilly MARS DIRT car Series event honoring the late sponsor of the
Phillips-Payne team.
Close racing action in the middle stages of the feature saw a tight battle
between race winner Payne and Justin Wells.Wells had gathered to the top
groove of the Quick-Quarter dirt oval as Payne kept to the middle racing
lane.While gaining on the leader Phillips,contact was made twice between
Payne and Wells before Payne started his charge to the front-running
Phillips bringing the apacity crowd to their feet.
Phillips, who led the first 15 laps, faded to finish fifth in a race slowed
by three cautions for single-car incidents. Justin Wells of Aurora, Mo.,
finished second followed by Eric Turner of Springfield and Brandon McCormick
of Lebanon, Mo.
In support action,current SportMod point leader Billy Street slowly made his
charge from the 12th starting spot and overtook leader Billy Dalton on lap 6
of the 15 lap feature.The feature marred by early cautions and several
single car spins featured some great action after lap 8 till the
finish.Dalton recorded his best finish of the season with the runner-up spot
after a hard fought battle with John Yeoman Jr as Roy Maynard and JC Morton
completed the top 5.
The Legends feature provided plenty of 3 wide racing as Jay Reynolds grabbed
the opening lead for 2 laps only to spin in turn 2.Justin Comer then took
his turn in the top spot while Jason Rayle was challanging.David Bauer came
charging to the front on lap 9 and withstood a late race challange by by
Comer to capture his third win of the season with Comer,Rayle,early front
runner Paul Horton and point leader Park Jones completing the top 5.
Jeremy Teaver spoiled the Schudy family sweep in the Pro-4 division by
overtaking leader Kory Schudy on lap 8 with withstanding several challanges
by Kory and Kris Schudy in taking the victory.Kory Schudy,Kris Schudy,Pat
Schudy and Ben Seaton completed the top 5 as the feature provided excellent
racing.
Action resumes Next Sat Night with the regular racing series action
featuring the USRA Modifieds,Bombers,SportMods,Legends and LateModels along
with Scout America Night.Any Boy Scout or Girl Scout in Uniform will be
admitted Free.Gates will open at 5 with Hotlaps at 6:45 and Racing at 7:30
Sharp.For more information contact Jerry Hoffman at 417-673-7426.
Results
MARS LateModels
A Ft-Andy's Frozen Custard John Kuntz Memorial: (1) Jeremy Payne-Springfield
(2) Justin Wells-Aurora (3) Eric Turner-Hermitage (4) Brandon
McCormick-Lebanon (5) Terry Phillips-Springfield (6) Ken Essary-Cape Fair
(7) Kevin Henson-Marionville (8) Jim Fulp-Galena (9) Tony Jackson
Jr.-Lebanon (10) Patrick Johnson-Ash Grove (11) Chris Morelock-Springfield
(12) Leroy Johnson-Springfield (13) Darrell Mooneyham-Verona (14) Jeremy
Manes-Nixa (15) Rylan Long-Greenfield (16) Jack Sullivan-GreenBrier,Ark (17)
Phil Edmondson-Marionville (18) Adam Brown-Aurora (19) Brent
Kreke-O'Fallon,ILL (20) Kevin Brown-Crane 21) Jordan Holloway-Monett
1st Ht-1)Payne 2)Turner 3)McCormick 4)Essary 5)Kreke 6)Manes 7)L.Johnson
2nd Ht-1)Phillips 2)Sullivan 3)Wells 4)Mooneyham 5)Henson 6)Holloway
7)A.Brown
3rd Ht-1)Jackson Jr 2)Fulp 3)Long 4)P.Johnson 5)Edmundson 6)Morelock
7)K.Brown
SportMods
A Ft-1)Billy Street-Joplin 2)Billy Dalton-Reeds 3)John Yeoman Jr-Granby
4)Roy Maynard-Alba 5)JC Morton-Springfield 6)Mike Hailman-ReedSprings 7)Eric
Tinderholt-Lampe 8)Mike Watson-Springfield 9)Darrin Crisler-Clever 10)Andy
Beauchamp-Springfield 11)Taylor Huddleston-Webb City 12)Gary Rodocker-Willard
13)Jim VanZandt-Springfield 14)Chuck Bryant-Walnut Grove 15)Darrell
Jackson-Carthage 16)Rob Lewis-Joplin 17)Dallas Scott-Springfield 18)Rich
Hert-Verona 19)Jerry Lankton-Lampe 20)Andrew Smith-Willard 21)Sean
Williams-Willard DNS-Mike Barnett-Springfield
1st Ht-1)Tinderholt 2)Lewis 3)Street 4)Watson 5)Beauchamp 6)Jackson 7)Bryant
8)Barnett
2nd Ht-1)Lankton 2)Yeoman 3)Dalton 4)Hailman 5)Morton 6)Huddleston 7)Crisler
3rd Ht-1)Maynard 2)Williams 3)VanZandt 4)Smith 5)Scott 6)Hert 7)Rodocker
Legends
A Ft-1)David Bauer-Webb City 2)Justin Comer-Joplin 3)Jason Rayle-Springfield
4)Paul Horton-Joplin 5)Park Jones-Joplin 6)Jay Reynolds-Springfield 7)Kaleb
Copher-Webb City 8)Tyler Horton-Joplin 9)Dave Comer-Joplin 10)Rob
Watson-Billings 11)Trever Drake-Webb City 12)Gary Hockman-Rolla 13)Billy
Cottrill-Joplin 14)Tony Jenson-Joplin 15)Caleb Smith-Joplin 16) Matt
Gruenberg-Joplin 17)Bill Cottrill-Joplin DNS-John Gornet-O'Fallon
1st Ht-1)D.Comer 2)J.Comer 3)Jones 4)Drake 5)Billy Cottrill 6)Jenson
2nd Ht-1)Rayle 2)T.Horton 3)Bill Cottrill 4)Watson 5)Hockman 6)Gornet
3rd Ht-1)Bauer 2)Copher 3)Reynolds 4)P.Horton 5)Smith 6)Gruenburg
Pro-4's
A Ft-1)Jeremy Teaver 2)Kory Schudy 3)Kris Schudy 4)Pat Schudy 5)Ben Seaton
6)Phil Robertson 7)Bob Widener 8)Theresa Widener 9)Robert Hamlin 10)Tracy
Cornell 11)Aaron Cornell 12)Darin Widener
1st HT-1)Kory Schudy 2)Teaver 3)A.Cornell 4)Robertson 5)B.Widener 6)Hamblin
2nd Ht-1)P.Schudy 2)Seaton 3)Kris Schudy 4)Widener 5)T.Widener 6)T.Cornell
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