|
Ragland Snags Third Midway USRA Win As Solberg Becomes 7th
Different Factory Winner
LEBANON, Mo. (July 17) - With perfect weather conditions and 79 raceteams in
the pits racing action was fast and furious Friday night at the Lebanon
Midway Speedway as 2 new winners visited victory lane this season with close
racing action all night long.
Defending USRA Modified champion Jamie Ragland returned back to his home
track for the action Friday night and took advantage of a front row starting
spot in gathering his third feature win of the 2009 Midway season.Ragland
took to the bottom groove on the start as outside front row starter Justin
Neuman swung to the outside groove keeping Ragland in his sight while Brian
Green and Donnie Fellers were battling along with Rex Merritt.The first
yellow waved on lap 13 when Colson Kirk spun in turn 4 closing the field
up.On the restart,ragland kept glued to the bottom while Neuman kept the
middle lane hot staying close behind.On lap 14,veteran Rex Merritt got
around both Fellers and Green to take over third place and began his charge
to the front.The yellow waved on lap 16 as Wayne Graybeal came to a halt on
the frontstretch.On the restart,Merritt and Neuman went side by side as
Merritt was glued to the bottom lane and closing quickly on Ragland with
Neuman still running the high line.On lap 17,brian Green's strong run ended
as he spun in turn 4 setting up a 3 lap shootout.On the restart,Merritt
pulled to ragland's back bumper as Neuman was searching for a faster
line.Ragland would pull away off turn 2,but Merritt and Neuman closed-up in
turns 3&4.Ragland would hold off the last lap efforts to grab his third win
of the season with Neuman,Merritt,previous weeks winner Rusty Dukes and
Terry Kirk completing the top 5.
The FactoryStock feature saw 23 cars take the green flag as Ben Solberg shot
from his front row starting spot over Brad Gideon and never looked back as
the 20 lap feature went without a caution flag.While Solberg was long
gone,Gideon and former champion Dylan Keepper kept a hard fought battle for
the runner-up spot as James Flood was charging from the 12th starting spot
to contend. along with Tim Riffle and Tim Petty.Solberg would go on to
become the 7th different winner out of 9 races for the Factorys as
Gideon,Keepper,Flood and Riffle completed the top 5.
The B-Mod feature saw plenty of action throughout the field.Rob White
grabbed the opening lead with Josh Woody close behind and JC Morton swinging
the car to the top groove to contend early as point leader Jason Otto and
Tyler Brown were having a tight battle.A lap 5 caution waved bunching the
field up.On the restart,Woody went to the outside groove of White and took
the lead.On the next lap contact between the front two sent Woody around and
White to the pits.This put JC Morton in the lead with Otto,Brown and a fast
moving Micheal Stake up front.Last weeks winner Mickey Burrell had moved
from 11th to the top 5 and was coming quickly.Morton continued to lead until
lap 12 when Otto took over the top spot with Brown following closely.On lap
14,Morton spun in turn 2 as Otto and Brown got together on the backstretch
taking the top 3 runners out of contention.This put Burrell in the lead and
Mickey held on the final 5 laps to grab his third win of the season with
Stake having his best ever finish in second followed closely by Woody,Brian
Webster and Jack Lancaster at the stripe.
A first ever time winner in the Purestock class took the victory as
Lebanon's John McGinnis took advantage of his front row starting spot for
the 12 lap feature as he grabbed the opening lead and held off a late race
surge from point leader Les Hayes and Corey Barker to become the 5th
different winner in the new class this season.McGinnis had opened a 5 car
length lead then fell back towards the end as Hayes and Barker both made a
last lap run to the front spot,but McGinnis hit his marks strong.Behind the
lead trio was Brian Warner and previous winner Adam Lowrance.
The LateModelSportsman class provided lots of action as Bill Joiner grabbed
the opening lap lead,but Bennie Joiner took over on lap 2.Bennie looking for
his first ever career win was using the top lane flawlessly as Bill Joiner
and JC Newell kept a good close battle for second place.With a long green
flag run point leader Ben Newell came charging from 11th to move into the
third place spot on lap 9 and begin his move to the front.Bennie Joiner
continued to lead as Ben moved around both Bill Joiner and JC Newell to
close-up on he leader Bennie.On lap 13,Ben shot to the inside of a lapped
car as Bennie went to the outside lane coming to the white flag.Ben took
over the top spot and recorded his sixth straight Sportsman feature win as
Bill Joiner,JC Newell,Clinton Betts, and Bradley McDowell completed the top
5 as Bennie spun on the final lap sending him back to a seventh place finish
despite an outstanding effort.
The pitcrew challange went to the final team as Myron McDowell had to use
his crew to push his car across the line as it wouldn't start after they
changed the right rear tire.The crew quickly reacted as Myron
McDowell,bradley McDowell and jackman Kenny Conn went home $100 richer from
EZ Port-Potties by setting the total fast time by 1 second over runner-up
Micheal Stake's team
Up Next Friday night July 24th will be on track autograph and meet the
drivers night.Action will find the USRA
Modifieds,FactoryStocks,B-Mods,Bombers and Purestocks competing as fans get
to go trackside at intermission and greet the drivers competing that
evening.
Gates open at 5 with practice at 7 and racing at 8PM.More information can be
gathered by visiting the website at WWW.LebanonMidwaySpeedway.com or
contacting Jack Jones at 417-594-0594.
Results
USRA Modifieds
A Ft-1)Jamie Ragland-Lebanon 2)Justin Neuman-Crocker 3)Rex Merritt-Billings
4)Rusty Dukes-Fair Grove 5)terry Kirk-Urbana 6)Donnie Fellers-Wheatland
7)Sam Petty-Niangua 8)Brian Green-Pierce City 9)Colson Kirk-Urbana 10)Wayne
Graybeal-Springfield 11)Tony Moore-Lebanon 12)DeWayne Applegate-Bolivar
1st Ht-1)Ragland 2)Dukes 3)Green 4)Graybeal 5)Petty 6)Applegate
2nd Ht-1)Neuman 2)Fellers 3)Merritt 4)T.Kirk 5)C.Kirk 6)Moore
FactoryStocks
A Ft-1)Ben Solberg-Springfield 2)Brad Gideon-Springfield 3)Dylan Keepper-Hurley
4)James Flood-Billings 5)Tim Riffle-Phillipsburg 6)Chip Shaddux-Hermitage
7)Heath Sheridan-West Plains 8)Sundance Keepper-Springfield 9)Donnie
Miller-Houston 10)Darren Fox-Mt Grove 11)Doug Rich-Macks Creek 12)Tyson
Troutman-Houston 13)Bob Gustin-Osage Beach 14)Bill Scharr-St Roberts 15)Mike
Teeters-Lebanon 16)Joe Francis-Lebanon 17)Mark Davis-Grovesprings 18)Jack
Hamer-Ava 19)Travis Burnett-Ava 20)Jay Flinn-Lebanon 21)Tim Petty-Niangua
22)Tim Bostwick-Urbana 23)Chris Wynn-Niangua DNS-Matt wilson-Mt Grove Lonnie
Henderson-Lebanon
1st Ht-1)Solberg 2)Miller 3)Sheridan 4)Troutman 5)Bostwick 6)Flinn
2nd Ht-1)Flood 2)Gideon 3)Rich 4)Francis 5)S.Keepper 6)Wynn
3rd Ht-1)Petty 2)Riffle 3)Fox 4)Gustin 5)Davis 6)Burnett
4th Ht-1)D.Keepper 2)Shaddox 3)Scharr 4)Teeters 5)Hamer 6)Wilson 7)Henderson
B-Mods
A Ft-1)Mickey Burrell-Fair Grove 2)Micheal Stake-Lebanon 3)Josh
Woody-Buckhorn 4)Brian Webster-Richland 5)Jack Lancaster-Urbana 6)Chris
Tonoli-Hermitage 7)JC Morton-Springfield 8)Jason Otto-Richland 9)Greg
Strong-Nixa 10)Shawn Eggerman-Willard 11)Trevor Ellingson-Lebanon 12)Brian
Cook-Lebanon 13)Tyler Brown-Stoutland 14)Tim Ballinger-Fair Grove 15)Derek
Cook-Lebanon 16)Luke Stephens-Stoutland 17)Tim Ballinger-Halfway 18)Rob
White-Lebanon 19)Brian Myers-Lebanon
1st Ht-1)White 2)Morton 3)Stake 4)D.Cook 5)Strong 6)Eggerman 7)Myers
2nd Ht-1)Woody 2)T.Brown 3)Ted Ballinger 4)Tonoli 5)Ellingson 6)Webster
3rd HT-1)Otto 2)Burrell 3)Lancaster 4)Stephens 5)Tim Ballinger 6)B.Cook
PureStocks
A Ft-1)John McGinnis-Lebanon 2)Les Hayes-Camdenton 3)Corey Barker-Lebanon
4)Brian Warner-Phillipsburg 5)Adam Lowrance-Lebanon 6)Robert Doublin-Lebanon
7)Jake Anthony-Lebanon 8)Shorty Doublin-Lebanon 9)Frank Bryson-Lebanon
10)Jeff Delong-Lebanon 11)Jason Brumley-Camdenton 12)Joey Long-Mansfield
1st Ht-1)McGinnis 2)Brumley 3)Barker 4)S.Doublin 5)Delong 6)Long
2nd Ht-1)Hayes 2)Warner 3)Bryson 4)Anthony 5)R.Doublin 6)Lowrance
LateModelSportsman
A Ft-1)Ben Newell-Stoutland 2)Bill Joiner-Lebanon 3)JC Newell-Decatureville
4)Clinton Betts-Stoutland 5)Bradley McDowell-Eldon 6)Donny Betts-Stoutland
7)Bennie Joiner-Lebanon 8)Micheal Jones-Lebanon 9)Myron McDowell-Tuscumbia
10)Bill Webster-Richland 11)Leland Seymour-Springfield
1st Ht-1)Bill Joiner 2)Jones 3)JC Newll 4)D.Betts 5)M.McDowell 6)Webster
2nd Ht-1)B.Newell 2)Bennie Joiner 3)B.McDowell 4)C.Betts 5)Seymour
 |
