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Dalton Back On Track In SpringfieldRaceway USRA Mod Main/Cheevers
Grabs SportMod Feature
by: Ronnie Williams
SPRINGFIELD, IL (August 2) - Under a cool Aug night and an early morning
rain shower, the action at the Springfield Raceway lived up to the billing
as the Quick-Quarter with an excellent racing surface and side by side
action all night long.
The USRA Modified feature had pole setter Sam Petty lead the opening two
laps has Erik Maggard and Bobby Pearish were right along side of the
leader.Pearish who was using a 604 Crate motor this week untries was hanging
on strong.On lap 3,Maggard kept glued to the high side and took over the
lead with Pearish,Petty and a fast moving Jim Body following.Contact between
Petty and Body on lap 5 brought out the first yellow as both drivers went to
the rear.On the restart,current and defending champion Jackie Dalton and
Mitch Keeter were coming quickly from there 5th row starting spots and
applying pressure.The last 3 weeks it has been a Dalton and Maggard classic
battle and tonight was no exception.Dalton moved to his familiar low groove
with Maggard staying on the top side.On lap 9,Dalton made the move stick and
took over the lead as Keeter was following.The second yellow waved on lap 11
as Micheal Maggard spun in turn 2 bunching the field up.On the double file
restart,Keeter picked the high side with Dalton leading and Maggard a solid
third followed by Pearish and Todd Knight.On the restart,Keeter swung
upstairs with Dalton staying on the low-side as Dalton began to pull away
leaving Keeter and Maggard to battle for second place.The duo swapped the
runner-up spot 5 different times as Dalton grabbed his fourth win of the
season followed by Keeter,Maggard in a photo finish battle,Pearish and a
fast moving Todd Knight.
In LateModel action,Rick Lebow grabbed the early lead from his pole spot for
the opening 3 laps before the dirt hall of fame driver Ken Essary came
charging from the rear of the field to take charge on lap 7.After a strong
battle early in the caution free event,Essary pulled away to grab his first
SpringfieldRaceway victory of the season with Lebow,Adam Brown,point leader
Jeremy Manes and Sundance Keepper in a near photo finish battle for
position.
The SportMods picked-up where they left off the previous 3 weeks showing
just how competitive this class is.Billy Dalton brought the 20 car feature
to the green.The yellow waved quickly as Darrell Jackson spun collecting
Mike Hailman with him.On the restart,Dalton grabbed the lead again with john
Yeoman Jr following tightly.Battles were all over the track with 2-3 wide
racing as Willie Wilson and Colt Cheevers were making up ground quickly.The
Yellow waved on lap on lap 8 as Jackson who was trying to stay on the lead
lap spun in turn 2 collecting-up Yeoman,point leader Billy Street,Darian
Hendrix and Corey Pope.Only Street would return to action.On the restart
Dalton would find Colt Cheevers on his back bumper with Wilson and 12th
starting Jeff Albright Jr in the mix.Cheevers would take over the top spot
at the halway point as Albright and Dalton ran side by side for 2
laps.Cheevers started to pull away,but on lap 12,Albright moved into second
and applied pressure to Cheevers.Wih the lead duo battling,Wilson having his
best run of the season,Dalton,Midway point leader Mickey Burrell and Mike
Hailman were battling.The final yellow waved on lap 18 for Jason Wallace as
he retired from the race setting-up the 2 lap shootout.On the
restart,Albright picked the low groove and as the green waved moved to the
inside of Cheevers.Colt used the middle lane to hold off the challanges in
taking his first points race win of the season and becoming the 9th
different winner in 11 races.Albright followed very closely to grab second
followed by Wilson,Burrell and Hailman as 15 of the 20 starters finished on
the lead lap.
The Legends again provided close racing as Paul Horton jumped to the early
lead with Tyler Horton following closely.With 3 wide racing action all over
the oval,Dave Comer came charging to grab the lead on lap 6 and held off
repeated challanges from the Horton family to take the victory with Tyler
Horton following along with Paul Horton,Justin Comer and Kaleb Copher.A
rough night for several top point cars as Park Jones finished 14,Dave Bauer
ended on his top in an incident finishing 15th and Jason Rayle came home
with a 7th place finish.
The Bomber feature saw Mike willoughby grab the opening lead for three laps
until Shawn Strong made a nice move to get the top spot and never looked
back in grabbing the victory with points runner-up James Redus finishing in
the runner-up spot followed by early leader Willoughby,Bill Schoen and Jack
Hamer.
Up next at the SpringfieldRaceway will be a Thursday Night Aug 13th special
as the USMTS Touring Series comes to the Quick-Quarter as part of the Hunt
Championship chase along with a special non-points race for the SportMods
paying $350 to win and Legends.Racing will start at 7:30 for the Special
Hunt race.
For more information visit the website at WWW.SpringfieldRaceway.com or
WWW.USMTS.com or contact Jerry Hoffman at 417-673-7426.
Results
USRA Modifieds
A Ft-1)Jackie Dalton-Carthage 2)Mitch Keeter-Webb City 3)Erik Maggard-Springfield
4)Bobby Pearish-Oronogo 5)Todd Knight-Harrison,Ark. 6)Jim Body-Diamond
7)Danny DeMasters- 8)Larry Tindle-Springfield 9)Wayne Graybeal-Springfield
10)Sam Petty-Niangua 11)Jason Summers-Carl Junction 12)Micheal
Merritt-Springfield DNS-Brian Green-Pierce City
1st Ht-1)Dalton 2)Maggard 3)DeMasters 4)Summers 5)Green 6)Petty 7)Tindle
2nd Ht-1)Keeter 2)Body 3)Knight 4)Graybeal 5)Merritt 6)Pearish
SportMods
A Ft-1)Colt Cheevers-Macks Creek 2)Jeff Albright Jr-Lebanon 3)Willie
Wilson-Springfield 4)Mickey Burrell-Fair Grove 5)Mike Hailman-ReedSprings
6)Dallas Scott-Springfield 7)Billy Dalton-Reeds 8)Andy Beauchamp-Springfield
9)JC Morton-Springfield 10)Billy Street-Joplin 11)Gary Rodocker-Willard
12)Eric Tinderholt-Lampe 13)Chuck Bryant-Walnut Grove 14)Mike
Watson-Springfield 15)Roy Maynard-Alba 16)Jason Wallace-Joplin 17)Jon Yeoman
Jr-Granby 18)Darrell Jackson-Carthage 19)Corey Pope-Clever 20)Dairan
Hendrix-Joplin
B Ft(Top 4 To A Ft)-1)Scott 2)Watson 3)Hendrix 4)Bryant 5)Darrin Crisler-Clever
6)Lamar Neuman-Willard 7)Paul Campenelli-Springfield 8)Derek Mincks-Bolivar
9)Aaron Speck-Republic 10)Jim VanZandt-Springfield DNS-Mike
Barnett-Springfield
1st Ht(Top 4 Top A) 1)Yeoman 2)Jackson 3)Street 4)Tinderholt 5)Neuman
6)Watson 7)Campanelli
2nd Ht-1)Dalton 2)Pope 3)Morton 4)Wallace 5)Scott 6)Crisler
3rd Ht-1)Wilson 2)Burrell 3)Hailman 4)Beauchamp 5)Barnett 6)VanZandt
4th Ht-1)Cheevers 2)Albright 3)Rodocker 4)Maynard 5)Bryant 6)Hendrix 7)Speck
Legends
A Ft-1)Dave Comer-Joplin 2)Tyler Horton-Joplin 3)Paul Horton-Joplin 4)Justin
Comer-Joplin 5)Kaleb Copher-Webb City 6)Rob Watson-Billings 7)Jason Rayle-Springfield
8)Bill Cottrill-Joplin 9)Jay Reynolds-Springfield 10)Tony Jenson-Joplin
11)Billy Cottrill-Joplin 12)Matt Gruenburg-Joplin 13)John Gornet-O'Fallon
14)Park Jones-Joplin 15)David Bauer-Webb City
1st HT-1)Jones 2)D.Comer 3)T.Horton 4)Copher 5)Bauer 6)Gornet
2nd Ht-1)J.Comer 2)Watson 3)Rayle 4)P.Horton 5)Reynolds 6)Gruenberg 7)Jenson
LateModels
A Ft-1)Ken Essary-Cape Fair 2)Rick Lebow-Galena 3)Adam Brown-Aurora 4)Jeremy
Manes-Nixa 5)Sundance Keepper-Springfield 6)Chris Morelock-Springfield
7)Frank Tindle-Galena 8)Bo Chastain-Republic 9)Wesley Briggs-Phillipsburg
10)Jordan Holloway-Monett 11)JP Compton-Crane
1st HT-1)Essary 2)Keepper 3)Manes 4)Tindle 5)Briggs 6)Holloway
2nd Ht-1)Lebow 2)Brown 3)Morelock 4)Compton 5)Chastain
Bombers
A Ft-1)Shawn Strong-Republic 2)James Redus-Springfield 3)Mike
Willoughby-Springfield 4)Bill Schoen-Brighton 5)Jack Hamer-Ava 6)Matt Pilant-Springfield
7)Richard Sanders-Bolivar 8)Randy Phelps-Springfield 9)Kim Kaasa-Springfield
10)Richard Smith-Nixa 11)Ben Thomas-Webb City DNS-John Coats-Joplin Robert
Jones-Springfield
1st HT-1)Schoen 2)Hamer 3)Redus 4)Coats 5)Jones 6)Phelps
2nd Ht-1)Strong 2)Willoughby 3)Smith 4)Thomas 5)Sanders 6)Kassa DQ-Pilant
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