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LITTON TOPS SUPR TEXAS WORLD DIRT TRACK CHAMPIONSHIPS AT
TEXAS MOTOR SPEEDWAY
FORT WORTH, Tex. (February 28) - Rob Litton picked up his second Texas World
Dirt Track title, but the road to the winner's circle was an easy one.
Litton was challenged early by Kurt Kile with the two making contact in the
latter stages, that sent Kile around. In the final laps Litton had to hold
off 2008 SUPR Rookie of the Year, Kevin Sitton for the win.
Polesitter Doug Ingalls as first into turn 1 at the start of the 22-car,
40-lap, $3,500 to win SUPR season opener. But it was Litton coming out of
turn 2 with lead followed by Ku. Kile, John Anderson, Lee Davis and Ingalls.
As the top 6 began to string out, Allen Tippen and Patrik Daniel were side
by side for eighth. Sitton got along side and by Ingalls on lap 3 for sixth,
then put Tippen in his wake on lap 4 for fifth.
Sitton continued his march to the front putting pressure on Anderson for
fourth on lap 8. In the pack, James Ward and Ingalls were dicing for sixth,
while Howard Willis was making his way up to seventh from near the back of
he field. Ku. Kile snck past Lton for the top spot on ap 19 as they
negotiated traffic. Litton regrabbed the point on lap 20, with Sitton and
Anderson door to door for third.
The lead duo got hung up in traffic, while Ward and Willis moved their way
into the top five. As the race wound down to the final five laps, Ku. Kile
got into the back of Litton sending Ku. Kile around and to the rear of the
field for the restart. Sitton tried to hang on to Litton once the green
waved as they put some distance on Ward and Willis. who were separated by
lapped cars.
Ward slipped too high on lap 36 loosing ground and regaining control right
in front of Willis making a battle for third. Up front Litton was inching
his way ahead of Sitton. As Litton took the white flag he held a five car
length edge over Sitton and motored on to the checkers in the LMS Truck
Center, Litton Motorsports, TWM Racing Products, Wall to Wall Performance
Engines, Stuckey Enterprises, Rocket Chassis, where he found Victory Lane
once before in 2004.
"It was a lot of luck," said Litton. "We've got a bunch of guys that work on
the car and they do a great job. We try to be as prepared as we can, but it
takes some luck too."
"Even in our heat race there was always someone close. With 60 cars from
across the country, you know there's a tough field. You always know
someone's right there. When we got out in clean air the car felt real good.
I knew someone would have to be unbelievably good to get around me. Lapped
traffic is different story."
"We don't have any communication with the crew, but we do use hand signals.
It's still hard to tell who's behind you. Here you can look up at the
scoreboard and tell who's there."
"This is our first race with #68, that was his number when he raced. He's
started a new company, '48 Ford Truck, that's why we changed the number."
SUPR Late Model Main
1 68 Rob Litton, Alexandria, La.
2 20s Kevin Sitton, Baytown
3 W3 James Ward, Lettsworth, La.
4 23w Howard Willis, Dayton
5 14 David Ashley, Zachary, La.
6 21 Lee Davis, Greenwood, La.
7 77K Kurt Kile, Nichols, Iowa
8 71a Allen Tippen, Minden, La.
9 93 Ray Moore, Haughton, La.
10 43G Jeremy Grady, Story City, Iowa
11 75D Patrik Daniel, Wils Point
12 75S Cody Skythad, Fargo, N.D.
13 11c Jeff Chandler, Minden, La.
14 10B Mike Balcaen, Winnipeg, Canada
15 R51 Rusty Cummings, Minden, La.
16 47E Tom Earl III, Haslet
17 88 Kevin Kile, West Liberty, Iowa
18 14M Doug Ingalls, Longview
19 R5 Kyle Cummings, Sibley, La.
20 c28 Kenny Merchant, Ruston, La.
21 5M Jon Mitchell, Texarkana
22 2A John Anderson, Omaha, Nebr.
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