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Darnell Earns Midway Factory $$$ Special-Strong Patient In
Bomber Win
LEBANON, MO. (August 28) - Despite constant evening rain sprinkles, action
Friday night at the Lebanon Midway Speedway was fast and furious with 2 and
3 groove racing as over 80 race teams checked in.
Action started in the special paying $500 to win feature as the 22 car field
took to the multi-groove track as pole setter Chris Darnell lead the field
down as Brad Gayer and James Flood followed closely.With 3 wide racing for
positions throughout the pack.
On lap 4 the first caution waved as Tim Brown and Chip Shadduz got together
with Brown meeting the backstretchwall as he had moved from 14th to 9th.On
the restart,Flood made a power move down low on Darnell as the duo went side
by side as point leader bob Gustin had moved into third place.On lap
6,Gustin moved around Flood and set his sights on the leader Darnell.With
the top 3 bumper to bumper and wheel to wheel as a tight battle followed
involving Gayer,Donnie Gennings,Troy White and Webster..On lap 8,Gustin made
the pass for the top spot aroud Darnell as Darnell kept running the middle
high groove.Darnell kept close and on lap 11 grabbed the lead back as Flood
was running both low and high looking for a hole to move into.The leaders
started hitting lapped traffic as Darnell had his hands full of both Gustin
and Flood as the battle for fourth was as good with Gayer,Gennings,White and
Sundance Keepper as 20th starter Ben Solberg had moved into the top 10.Gayer
and Gennings both were gaining on the leaders as the yellow waved on lap 15
for Justin Neuman.On the restart,Flood made a power move to pull even with
the leader Darnell.On lap 17the third and final yellow waved as Gayer and
Gennings who were coming quickly on the lead pack got together on the
frontstretch ending a fine run by both drivers.
On the restart,Sundance Keepper went to the top of the track cushion as
Flood tried again to overtake Darnell while Gustin missed his mark and fell
back.Sundance Keepper and Ben Solberg both went topside as Flood was pulling
closer to Darnell.With 1 lap to go,Darnell got the better bite in the turns
and captured the win the third of the season followed closely by
Flood,Keepper,Solberg and Troy White.
The Bomber feature saw Jack Hamer grab the opening lead with Brandon Waters
close behind.Hamer started pulling away leaving everyone to battle.A tight
pack involving Matt Pilant,Waters,Kolt Barker point leader Joe Francis and
Shawn Strong were fighting for positions.With Hamer in front,Shawn Strong
who started 5th,pulled to the outside groove and pulled into second place
setting his sights on Hamer.On lap 7,the yellow waved for Matt Pilant while
running third pulling Strong on Hamer's bumper.On the restart,Hamer
withstood the challange for 1 lap as Strong made his move to grab the
lead.Hamer would cut down a tire on lap 9 ending his strong run as Strong
drove away leaving the rest to battle in a wild finish.Brandon Waters
grabbed second place with Rodney Yost,Francis and Pilant following.
The B-Mod feature provided excellent 3 wide racing as Tyler Brown grabbed
the opening lap lead from his pole spot.JC Morton took control on lap 2 with
3 wide battles behind.Point leader Mickey Burrell made several attempts to
grab the lead from Morton and on lap 4,sliced between Morton and
Brown.Reggie Jackson was taking to the top groove and was gaining
quickly.With Burrell leading,Morton started to gain again while battling
Jackson for the spot.On lap 10,last weeks winner Colt Cheevers moved from
11th to 6th pulled in with problems.Burrell started pulling away leaving
Jackson,Brown and Morton to battle as they finish in those positions as
points runner-up Josh woody completed the top 5.
The LateModelSportsman feature saw a new winner as Steve Beach grabbed the
opening lead with JC Newell battling beside of him.Beach and Newell showed
the crowd how to race side by side as Bennie Joiner began a strong run to
the front runners.On lap 6,Bennie Joiner went to the top groove and moved
into the second place spot gaining on the leader.
Joiner pulled to the back bumper of Beach until lap 9 when he got sideways
in turn 4 going for the lead.Beach had to withstand a late race surge from
JC Newell to grab the win with JC Newell,point leader Ben Newell,Joiner and
Mike Jones completing the top 5.
In the Enduro classes,Brian Schutt dominated the feature after an early
battle with Willie Payne and Steve Steinmark to take his second straight
feature with Grant Sharp taking home second while Willie Payne took home the
FarmTruck feature portion.
Racing continues Friday Night Sept 4 with regular racing action featuring
points racing in the FactoryStocks,B-Mods,LateModelSportsman,Bombers and the
Purestocks.
For more information visit the website at WWW.LebanonMidwaySpeedway.com or
contact Jack Jones at 417-594-0594.
Results
FactoryStocks
A Ft-1)Chris Darnell-Springfield 2)James Flood-Billings 3)Sundance Keepper-Springfield
4)Ben Solberg-Springfield 5)Troy White-Russellville 6)Tyson Troutman-Houston
7)Bob Gustin-Osage Beach 8)Ray Smith-Centertown 9)Donnie Miller-Houston
10)Chip Shaddux-Hermitage 11)Bill Scharr-St Roberts 12)Tim Petty-Niangua
13)Jay Flinn-Lebanon 14)Matt Wilson-Mt Grove 15)Chris Wynn-Niangua 16)Donnie
Gennings-Eldridge 17)Brad Gayer-Houston 18)Brian Webster-Richland 19)Justin
Neuman-Crocker 20)Dylan Keepper-Hurley 21)Tim Brown-Stoutland 22)Derek
Brown-Stoutland DNS-John Darnell-Springfield Danny Muhlrein-Seneca
1st Ht-1)C.Darnell 2)Petty 3)Troutman 4)Scharr 5)Shaddux 6)Flinn 7)Wilson
8)Wynn
2nd HT-1)Gayer 2)Webster 3)White 4)S.Keepper 5)Neuman 6)D.Keepper
7)J.Darnell 8)D.Brown
3rd Ht-1)Flood 2)Gennings 3)Gustin 4)Miller 5)T.Brown 6)Smith 7)Solberg
8)Muhlrein
Bombers
A Ft-1)Shawn Strong-Republic 2)Brandon Waters-Lynchburg 3)Rodney
Yost-Squires 4)Joe Francis-Lebanon 5)Matt Pilant-Lebanon 6)Brian
Warner-Phillipsburg 7)Jason Brumley-Camdenton 8)Monk Barker-Lebanon 9)Kolt
Barker-Lebanon 10)Josh Lewis-Stoutland 11)Jack Hamer-Ava 12)Andrew Cheever-Lebanon
DNS-Kevin Forshey-Dixon
1st Ht-1)Hamer 2)Pilant 3)Strong 4)Yost 5)Lewis 6)M.Barker 7)Warner
2nd Ht-1)Waters 2)Francis 3)K.Barker 4)Brumley 5)Cheever DNS-Forshey
B-Mods
A Ft-1)Mickey Burrell-Fair Grove 2)Reggie Jackson-Lebanon 3)Tyler Brown-Stoutland
4)JC Morton-Springfield 5)Josh Woody-Buckhorn 6)Brian Webster-Richland
7)Jason Otto-Richland 8)Andrew Smith-Nixa 9)Micheal Stake-Lebanon 10)Greg
Strong-Nixa 11)Trever Ellingson-Lebanon 12)Derek Cook-Lebanon 13)Rob
White-Lebanon 14)Jamie Petty-Niangua 15)Brian Myers-Lebanon 16)Colt
Cheevers-Macks Creek DNS-Kris Jackson-Lebanon
1st Ht-1)T.Brown 2)Stake 3)Jackson 4)Webster 5)Ellingson 6)Smith 7)Myers
8)Cheevers DNS-Cook
2nd Ht-1)Morton 2)Burrell 3)Otto 4)Woody 5)Strong 6)Jackson 7)White 8)Petty
LateModelSportsman
A Ft-1)Steve Beach-Eldon 2)JC Newell-Decaturville 3)Ben Newell-Stoutland
4)Bennie Joiner-Lebanon 5)Mike Jones-Lebanon 6)Bradley McDowell-Eldon
7)Donny Betts-Stoutland 8)Clinton Betts-Stoutland 9)Myron McDowell-Tuscumbia
DNS-Bill Joiner-Lebanon
1st HT-1)Beach 2)Bennie Joiner 3)B.McDowell 4)Bill Joiner 5)Jones
2nd Ht-1)B.Newell 2)JC Newell 3)D.Betts 4)M.McDowell 5)C.Betts
Enduro
Cars-Brian Schutt-Lebanon Grant Sharp-Conway
Trucks-Willie Payne-Lebanon Steve Steinmark-Lebanon
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