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In 2011 "Action" Jack Sullivan really struggled in the season,but the
Greenbrier,Ark hotshoe came loaded to hunt Missouri Turkey honors by leading
all 30 laps of an action packed Late Model feature.
After the top 8 redrew from passing points, it was Dustin Mooneyham and
Sullivan in row 1 while top point car and defending event winner Justin
Wells and Jesse Stovall rolled off from row 2.
At the drop of the green,Sullivan shot to the front in his GRT house car/AAA
Diesel/Russell Baker Engines while Jesse"The Undertaker" Stovall followed
with Terry Phillips,Wells,Mooneyham and 2011 MARS Champion Brad Looney in
tow.Sullivan was wasting no time in proving that we was back in 2012 as he
quickly opened-up a half a straight away advantage.With some quick paced
laps,Stovall,Wells and Phillips were thrilling the crowd with side by side
action as Mid-South area drivers Jon Kirby and Kyle Beard were coming
forward quickly. THe first caution waved on lap 4 for Eric Tinderholt as he
slowed bunching the field-up.On the restart,sullivan again rocketed forward
leaving the battle for second a 3 way dog-fight.Caution waved on lap 9 as
MARS champion Brad Looney slowed going on the backstretch with problems
again bunching the field up.On the double-file restart,Wells got some extra
bit and moved around Stovall to take second place as Philips was lurking in
the shawdows as Kirby now was coming to the front runners. along with RC
Whitwell.On lap 21 the leaders began to get into lapped traffic.With
Sullivan holding a 7 car length lead,Wells was starting to close-up with
Stovall and Phillips going back and forth.On lap 23,the race turned a
different outlook as Stovall was going through lapped traffic along with
Wells.Wells went around traffic in turn 2 and Stovall was in the wrong place
at the wrong time and got collected-up ending his night with heavy
damage.The drivers douled-up for a restart with Sullivan ready to hold off
Wells and Phillips while Kirby and Whitwell had moved forward.On the
restart,Brandon McCormick pulled high in turn 1 ending his night and forcing
a single-file restart with 7 laps to go.Sullivan powered awayto take the
$2,000 to win honors with Wells,Phillips,Kirby and Whitwell in the top 5. 14
of the 20 starters finished on the lead lap.
A Stellar field of USRA Modifieds checked-in with $1200 on the line and a
first shot at USRA National Modified points.The redraw placed Brian Green
and Central Missouri area champion Terry Schultz of Sedalia on the front row
while Kansas City hot-shoe Tim Setzer and Lebanon top gun Jamie Ragland took
row 2 and 2010 Springfield champion Mitch Keeter and high point driver Terry
Phillips in rown 3.Green would bring the field down as Schultz stayed with
him as Schultz tok early control.After lap 1 was completed,Green and Setzer
made contact with Green going around and both going to the rear.On the
restart,Schultz found Ragland on hib bumper with Keeter,Phillips and a fast
moving Erik Maggard coming forward.The USRA Modifieds were thrilling the
large crowd as Phillips moved around Ragland on lap 3 and gave chase to
Schultz.Caution waved on lap 5 for Jim Black,2011 USRA Springfield track
champion Jackie Dalton and Jessy Willard.On the restart,Phillips picked the
low lane putting Ragland on the outside.Schultz in his Dale's Towing/GRT by
Phillips was wasting no time in going forward as Phillips in the Andy's
Frozen Custard/GRT by Phillips,Ragland in his East 32 Meat/Allen Autosports
machine,Erik Maggard in his BAS Security/Shaw race cars and Mitch Keeter in
his Mid-America Rebuilders/Hoffman racecars were swapping spots in the top
5.By lap 11,Brad Buck and a fast moving Mickey Burrell were moving into the
top 5 as Schultz was keeping Phillips at bay up front.Going through lapped
traffic,Schultz was with standing the Phillips challanges as the field was
running without rear spoliers for this event.On lap 23 of the 30 lap
feature,Schultz had something break going into turn 2 and slowed as Phillips
took over the lead.In the battle for second place,Mickey Burrell was one of
the fastest cars in the closing laps,but no time to run down Phillips as he
grabbed the win to become the only driver to ever repeat in the Turkey
Classic having the honors in the 2009 Edition for A-Mods.Burrell grabbed the
runner-up spot with Maggard,Brad Buck and Ragland completing the top 5. 13
of the 20 starters finished on the lead lap.
THe
B-Mods got the crowd going to start the feature events with some outstanding
side by side racing action in their 20 lap feature.The redraw placed
Springfield regular Andy Beauchamp and Lebanon's Kris Jackson on the front
row while former Springfield regular Sean Williams and veteran Scotty Drake
in row 2 while 30 plus time winner in 2011 Shawn Strong and last years
points runner-up JC Morton in row 3.On the start,Jackson who captured a
feature win last season at the "Quick-Quarter" wasted no time in grabbing
the lead with Beauchamp,Strong,Drake and Lebanon's Michael Stake in the top
5.With Jackson setting a fast pace,Beauchamp and Drake battled side by side
while defending event winner Jesse Sobbing was pacing himself in the top
10.On lap 5,Drake moved into the runner-up spot and began to chase Jackson
while Stake was quietly moving forward in the standings.The 1st of 2 yellows
waved on lap 7 as Young Logan Martin spun in turn 3 bunching the field-up.Jackson
shot ahead with Drake riding the extreme top groove in second place as
Morton and Sean Williams were making their way into the top 5 standings. On
lap 11,the final caution waved as Jeff Miller went around in turn 4 giving
the field a last shot at leader Jackson.Jackson again provedto much tonight
as he pulled away as Drake now had Stake,Morton and Strong challanging as
Sobbing was climbing fast.On lap 17,Stake's strong run ended as he spun
coming out of turn 4 and to the infield as the track stayed Green
flag.Jackson would claim the victory and the $750 pay-day also as Drake in
his GM 602 Crate motor grabbed the runner-up spot.Morton running a track
spec motor crossed in third place after falling backwards early in the
feature while Strong and Sobbing grabbed the top 5.17 of the 20 starters
finished on the lead lap in another outstanding feature for B-Mods.
The Legends came out 22 cars strong for the feature with Justin Comer and
Wayne Johnston on the front row.Johnston grabbed the opening lead with Comer
and Mike Hailman in tow as 2-3 wide action was the norm for Legends.2011
track champion Dave Comer began to make a strong charge from the 8th
starting spot and was running down the lead duo of leader Johnston and
Hailman as Chuck Comer and youngster Caleb McDugle were charging hard. THe
only caution came for Bill Cottrill and Tyler horton in turn 4 as the duo
made contact.Johnston and Hailman went side by side as comer was coming
quickly.After a spirited battle Hailman finall got around johnston to take
the lead as comer and Johnston went wheel to wheel.Hailman got a small break
and was able to pull away as Johnston and Comer kept the battle on.Hailamn
went on to grab the win with Dave comer,Johnston,Caleb McDugle and Chuck
Comer following.18 of the 22 staters finished on the lead lap while 2 of the
new clas of Young Guns Legend drivers for kids 18 and under Kylan Garner and
Wesley Smith finished on the lead lap respectively in 12th and 13th.
Up next At Springfield Raceway will be March Madness on Sat March 24th with
the MLRA and MARS Super Late model Series drivers doing battle.This wil lbe
the opening point event for the MLRA Late Models in 2012 with a star-studded
field of Late models expected along with A-Mods,B-Mods and Midwest Modz.
For more information visit the website at
WWW.SpringfieldRaceway.Com
Results-5th Annual O'Reilly Turkey Classic By Bad Boy Mowers
Late Models
A ft-1)Jack Sullivan 2)Justin Wells 3)Terry Phillips 4)Jon Kirby 5)RC
Whitwell 6)Dustin Mooneyham 7)Kyle Beard 8)Tony Jackson Jr 9)Dylan Smith
10)Scott Schmitt 11)Chris Morelock 12)Jon Stinson 13)Chris Hawkins 14)Randy
Roth 15)Brandon McCormick 16)Jesse Stovall 17)Dewayne Kiefer 18)Scott Fry
19)Brad Looney 20)Eric Tinderholt
1st B Ft(Top 4 to A) 1)Morelock 2)Tinderholt 3)Jackson 4)Roth 5)Justin
Asplin 6)Shane Essary 7)Steve Johnston 8)Jeff Roth
2nd B-1)Dylan Smith 2)Brandon McCormick 3)Keifer 4)Fry 5)Mike Hammerlee
6)Jon Driskell 7)Jimmy Greenway 8)Don Miere
1st Ht-1)Sullivan 2)Mooneyham 3)Hawkins 4)Tinderholt 5)Roth 6)Miere
7)Essary
2nd Ht-1)Phillips 2)Schmitt 3)Beard 4)D Smith 5)Keifer 6)Asplin 7)Driskell
3rd Ht-1)Wells 2)Stovall 3) Stinson 4)Morelock 5)Roth 6)Hammerrlee
7)Johnson
4th Ht-1)Looney 2)Kirby 3)Whitwell 4)Greenway 5)Fry 6)Jackson Jr
7)McCormick
USRA A-Mods
A Ft-1)Terry Phillips 2)Mickey Burrell 3)Erik Maggard 4)Brad Buck 5)Jamie
Ragland 6)Mitch Keeter 7)Bobby Pearish 8)Tim Setzer 9)Andy Morris 10)Jackie
Dalton 11)Colson Kirk 12)Brian Green 13)Jessy Willard 14)Chris Giles 15)Curt
Rackers 16)Glenn Bratti 17)Jim Black 18)Terry Schultz 19)Jim Body 20)Jason
Thompson
1st B Ft-(Top 4 To A)-1)Dalton 2)Thompson 3)Rackers 4)Giles 5)Brett Hanson
6)Steve Martin 7)Ronnie Woods 8)Scott Crigler 9)Nick Whitehead 10)Tim Simon
11)Scotty Bough
2nd B Ft(Top 4 To A)-1)pearish 2)Black 3)Willard 4)Kirk 5)Matt Dotson
6)Chris Tonoli 7)Dustin Campbell 8)Rob Muilenburg 9)Kyle Schmidt 10)John
Yeoman III
1st Ht-1)Keeter 2)Burrell 3)Body 4)Bratti 5)Giles 6)Dotson 7)Bough 8)Muilenburg
2nd Ht-1)Schultz 2)Setzer 3)Maggard 4)Yeoman III 5)Dalton 6)Kirk 7)Willard
8)Crigler 9)Campbell
3rd Ht-1)Phillips 2)Buck 3)Black 4)Thompson 5)Schmidt 6)Pearish 7)Woods 8)Tonoli
9)Hanson
4th Ht-1)Ragland 2)Green 3)Morris 4)Rackers 5)Simon 6)Martin 7)Dotson
8)Whitehead
B-Mods
A Ft-1)Kris Jackson 2)Scott Drake 3)JC Morton 4)Shawn Strong 5)Jesse Sobbing
6)Andy Beauchamp 7)Jerry Lankton 8)Michael Maggard 9)Mike Hailman 10)Bobby
Maggard Jr 11)Rusty Forrest 12)Jeremy Chambers 13)Logan Martin 14)Bob Kerbs
15)Robert Baltzell 16)Bart Barker 17)Gary Rodocker 18)Michael Stake 19)Sean
Williams 20)Jeff Miller
1st B(Top 4 To A)-1)Maggard Jr 2)Forrest 3)Rodocker 4)Kerbs 5)Terry
Williams 6)Ryan Edde 7)Zane Blanchard 8)Shawn Eggeman 9)Danner 10)Ken Scott
11)Grant Sharp
2nd B(Top 4 To A)-1)Hailman 2)Michael Maggard 3)Chambers 4)Barker 5)John
Brooks 6)Bobby Ratterree 7)Bill Schaar 8)Blake Ellis 9)Chuck Becker 10)Zack
Zeugin 11)Jeremy Thulin
1st Ht-1)Beauchamp 2)Martin 3)Baltzell 4)Barker 5)Maggard Jr 6)Williams
7)Blanchard 8)Sharp 9)Danner
2nd Ht-1)Stake 2)Morton 3) D.Williams 4)Sobbing 5)Michael Maggard 6)Zeugin
7)Schaar 8)Kerbs
3rd Ht-1-Jackson 2)Drake 3)Forrest 4)Brooks 5)Thulin 6)Scott 7)Eggeman
8)Ellis 9)Ratterree
4th Ht-1)Lankton 2)Miller 3)Strong 4)Hailman 5)Edde 6)Rodocker 7)Chambers
8)Becker
Legends
A Ft-1_Mike Hailman 2)Dave Comer 3)Wayne Johnston 4)Caleb McDugle 5)Chuck
Comer 6)Justin Comer 7)Calvin Garner 8)Paul Horton 9)Rob Watson 10)Billy
Cottrill 11)Rodney Baird 12)Kylan Garner(Young Lion) 13)Wesley Smith(Young
Lion) 14)Bill Cottrill 15)Matt Gruenburg 16)Rick Nichols 17)Larry Smoot
18)Doug Wilson 19)James McDugle 20)Tyler Horton 21)Graysen Cox(Young Lion)
22)Brian Boucher
1st Ht-1)C Comer 2)Johnston 3)J McDugle 4)Nichols 5)Boucher 6)Smith
7)Wilson
2nd Ht-1)J Comer 2)C McDugle 3)Gruenburg 4)C Garner 5)Billy Cottril 6)Smoot
7)T Horton 8)Cox
3rd Ht-1)Hailman 2)D Comer 3)Bill Cottril 4)Watson 5)P Horton 6)K Garner
7)Baird
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