Landers bounces back to win Tribute to Don and Billie Gibson

 

Wheatland, Missouri (May 27, 2016) – Jared Landers turned disappointment to elation in the span of 24 hours.

The Batesville, Arkansas-driver captured the Tribute to Don and Billie Gibson on Friday night at Lucas Oil Speedway on Night Two of the Show-Me 100 Presented by ProtectTheHarvest.com.

Landers, felled by a spin and mechanical issues on opening night of the three-race weekend leading into Saturday’s Show-Me 100, earned $6,000 for his fifth career Lucas Oil Dirt Late Model Series victory.

Teammate Scott Bloomquist finished second and Tim McCreadie came home third.

Now the stage is set for the main event, Saturday’s $30,000-to-win Show-Me 100.

Based on feature results the first two nights, with drivers accumulating points for the finishes, three-time Show-Me 100 winners Jimmie Owens and reigning race champ Jonathan Davenport will make up the front row.

Action begins at 7 p.m. with hot laps, followed by B-Mains at 7:30 along with the Midwest Sheet Metal Challenge for the top 24 remaining non-qualifiers. That winner receives $2,500 – or the option to start at the tail of the feature.

Landers said he first thought about calling it a weekend after his motor broke early in Thursday’s Cowboy Classic.

“We needed this win,” Landers said in a victory lane interview. “I’m glad the crew is behind us. They needed it more than anybody. We weren’t going to race today but … I’m glad we did.”

Landers and McCreadie traded the lead three times in the first 10 laps, with Landers moving out to a straightway-margin advantage after going in front on lap 10.

But as the cars weaved into lapped traffic, McCreadie and Bloomquist began to close in. The trio had to take evasive measures when Brantlee Gotschall’s car suddenly slowed in front of them on lap 22, bringing out a caution.

Landers roared away on the restart and opened up a cushion over Bloomquist, but the pair caught lapped cars again with five laps to go. Landers weaved his way through traffic to hang on for the victory in a race named in honor of the Gibsons, former owners of West Plains Motor Speedway where the Show-Me originated.

“It’s nice to see Jared win,” Bloomquist said. They  both drive Bloomquist Race Cars and the 52-year-old veteran is considered a mentor to the 24-year-old Landers.

“The whole family and crew, they all work hard,” the Mooresburg, Tennessee-driver added of Landers. “They had some problems last night just like we did and we both rebounded. Hopefully this sets the stage for tomorrow. I’ll be glad to race him for it tomorrow.”

McCreadie finished third, Owens was fourth, Steve Francis came from 16th to finish fifth and Dennis Erb Jr., was sixth.

Davenport faded over the final 15 laps and finished 10th. He had won his previous four features at Lucas Oil Speedway, including Thursday’s Cowboy Classic.

Will Vaught of Crane, who wrecked in time trials on Thursday and did not race the rest of the night, made it into Thursday’s feature by winning a B-main. He started finished seventh after starting 20th, the highest of the Missouri qualifiers. Springfield’s Terry Phillips was 14th, Lebanon’s Tony Jackson Jr. 15th and Billings’ Jesse Stovall was 16th.

McCreadie posted fast qualifying time with a lap of 14.927 seconds, then won his heat race to nail down the pole position for the feature.

Other heat race winners were Landers, Billy Moyer, Darrell Lanigan, Davenport and Bloomquist with Lanigan joining McCreadie on the front row for the feature.

Show-Me 100 lineup: (first 16, remainder of field will be set in Saturday preliminaries:

Row 1 – Jimmy Owens, Jonathan Davenport

Row 2 – Chris Simpson, Dennis Erb Jr.

Row 3 – Jared Landers, Steve Francis

Row 4 – Tim McCreadie, Scott Bloomquist

Row 5 – Brandon Sheppard, Darrell Lanigan

Row 6 – Chris Brown, Don O’Neal

Row 7 – Garrett Alberson, Shannon Babb

Row 8 – Tony Jackson Jr., Ryan Gustin

Row 9 – Billy Moyer, Jason Rauen

Modified feature: Hometown driver Mike Striegel led wire-to-wire to take the Pitts Homes USRA Modified feature and the $500 payoff.

Terry Schultz of Sedalia followed up his feature win on Thursday with a runner-up finish and Hermitage’s Eric Turner finished third.

Striegel, who lives

just across Highway 54 from the speedway, pumped his fists and waved his armsin a victory lane celebration.

“The guy that was behindme has probably won more races in a Modified here than anybody,” Striegel said of Turner. “He came up beside me (afterward) and gave me a thumbs-up.”

The Modifieds run for a $1,200 prize on Saturday night.

Gates open at 4 p.m. Saturday with hot laps at 7 and racing at 7:30.

Ticket prices for the final night of the Show-Me 100 are:

Adults (16 and up) $30
Seniors (62 and up)/Military $27
Youth (6-15) $10
Kids (5 and under) FREE
Family Pass $60
Pit Pass $40

LUCAS OIL SPEEDWAY RESULTS, MAY 27
LUCAS OIL/LUCAS MLRA LATE MODELS
A-Main Tribute to Don and Billie Gibson – 1, Jared Landers. 2, Scott Bloomquist. 3, Tim McCreadie. 4, Jimmy Owens. 5, Steve Francis. 6, Dennis Erb Jr. 7, Will Vaught. 8, Chad Simpson. 9, Jake O’Neil. 10, Jonathan Davenport. 11, Billy Moyer. 12, Don O’Neal. 13, Darrell Lanigan. 14, Terry Phillips. 15, Tony Jackson Jr. 16, Jesse Stovall. 17, Garrett Alberson. 18, Brandon Sheppard. 19, Robert Baker. 20, Chris Brown. 21, Jack Sullivan. 22, Jason Rauen. 23, Chris Spieker. 24, Brantlee Gotschall.
Heat 1 (top 3 advance to feature) – 1, Tim McCreadie. 2, Brandon Sheppard. 3, Tony Jackson Jr. 4, Jesse Stovall. 5, Tommy Weder Jr. 6, Colton Flinner. 7, Bobby Pierce. 8, Kyle Beard. 9, Jacob Magee. 10, Rick Kimberling.
Heat 2 (top 3 advance) – 1, Jared Landers. 2, Garrett Alberson. 3, Steve Francis. 4, Jack Sullivan. 5, Matt Furman. 6, Gavin Landers. 7, Chris Simpson. 8, Hunter Rasdon. 9, Payton Looney.
Heat 3 (top 3 advance) – 1, Billy Moyer. 2, Dennis Erb Jr. 3, Chris Spieker. 4, Mason Oberkramer. 5, Josh Poe. 6, Austin Siebert. 7, Brian Birkhofer. 8, Earl Pearson Jr. 9, Jeremy Payne.
Heat 4 (top 3 advance) – 1, Darrell Lanigan. 2, Don O’Neal. 3, Jake O’Neil. 4, Will Vaught. 5, Jason Rauen. 6, Jason Papich. 7, J.C. Wyman. 8, Tad Pospisil. 9, Tanner Kellick. 10, R.C. Whitwell.
Heat 5 (top 3 advance) – 1, Jonathan Davenport. 2, Jimmy Owens. 3, Robert Baker. 4, Chris Brown. 5, Shannon Babb. 6, Scott Lewis. 7, Wendell Wallace. 8, Ryan Gustin. 9, Timothy Culp.
Heat 6 (top 3 advance) – 1, Scott Bloomquist. 2, Chad Simpson 3, Terry Phillips. 4, Tyler Reddick. 5, Brantley Gotschall. 6, Bryon Allison. 7, Dave Eckrich. 8, Reid Millard. 9, Justin Kay.
B-Main 1 (top 2 advance) – 1, Jesse Stovall. 2, Jack Sullivan. 3, Bobby Pierce. 4, Tommy Weder. 5, Gavin Landers. 6, Matt Furman. 7, Colton Flinner. 8, Jacob Magee.
B-Main 2 (top 2 advance) – 1, Will Vaught. 2, Jason Rauen. 3, Jason Papich. 4, Josh Poe. 5, Austin Siebert. 6, J.C. Wyman. 7, Tad Pospisil. 8, Earl Pearson Jr. 9, Tanner Kellick. 10, Mason Oberkramer.
B-Main 3 (top 2 advance) – 1, Chris Brown. 2, Brantlee Gotschall. 3, Tyler Reddick. 4, Shannon Babb. 5, Scott Lewis. 6, Ryan Gustin. 7, Wendell Wallace. 8, Bryon Allison. 9, Dave Eckrich. 10, Justin Kay.

PITTS HOMES USRA MODIFIEDS
A-Feature: 1. Mike Striegel (Hermitage, MO), 2. Terry Schultz (Sedalia, MO), 3. Eric Turner (Hermitage, MO), 4. Chad Lyle (Oak Grove, Mo), 5. Jeff Cutshaw (Bolivar, MO), 6. Logan Martin (West Plains, MO), 7. Bryce Schniepp (Wichita, KS), 8. Dylan Hoover (Vandalia, MO), 9. Jon Sheets (Nevada, MO), 10. Robert Powers (Campbell, Mo), 11. Chase Domer (Nevada, MO), 12. Greg Burt (Enid, OK), 13. Daniel Wosoba (El Dorado Springs, MO), 14. Gene Nichols (Lowell, Ar), 15. William Heath (Nevada City, MO), 16. Johnny Fennewald (Appleton City, MO), 17. Daniel Franklin (Eurika Springs, AR), 18. Dereck Ramirez (Woodward, Ok), 19. Joseph Giesler (Ozora, MO), 20. Nick Whitehead (Springfield, Mo), 21. Jason Pursley (Hermitage, MO), 22. Dustin Allen (Enid, OK), 23. RC Whitwell (Tucson, AZ), 24. Cody Schniepp (Wichita, KS).
B-Feature: 1. Dylan Hoover (Vandalia, MO), 2. Daniel Franklin (Eureka Springs, AR), 3. Jason Pursley (Hermitage, MO), 4. Cody Schniepp (Wichita, KS), 5. Gene Nichols (Lowell, Ar), 6. Bryce Schniepp (Wichita, KS), 7. Joseph Giesler (Ozora, MO), 8. William Heath (Nevada City Ca, MO), 9. Jordan Turner (Batesville, AR), 10. Kevin Holman (Essex, MO), 11. Lucas Gibbs (Udall, KS), 12. Logan Rogers (German Valley, Il.), 13. Lucas Dobbs (El Dorado Springs, MO), 14. Blonde Bomber Mitchell (Pea Ridge, Ar), 15. Chris Tonoli (Hermitage, MO), 16. Robert Heydenreich (Bolivar, MO).
Heat 1: 1. Chad Lyle (Oak Grove, Mo), 2. Jeff Cutshaw (Bolivar, MO), 3. Robert Powers (Campbell, Mo), 4. Logan Martin (West Plains, MO), 5. Dereck Ramirez (Woodward, Ok), 6. Daniel Wosoba (El Dorado Springs, MO), 7. Jason Pursley (Hermitage, MO), 8. Cody Schniepp (Wichita, KS), 9. William Heath (Nevada City Ca, MO), 10. Kevin Holman (Essex, MO), 11. Robert Heydenreich (Bolivar, MO).
Heat 2: 1. Mike Striegel (Hermitage, MO), 2. Johnny Fennewald (Appleton City, MO), 3. RC Whitwell (Tucson, AZ), 4. Dustin Allen (Enid, OK), 5. Terry Schultz (Sedalia, MO), 6. Lucas Dobbs (El Dorado Springs, MO), 7. Daniel Franklin (Eurika Springs, AR), 8. Lucas Gibbs (Udall, KS), 9. Gene Nichols (Lowell, Ar), 10. Bryce Schniepp (Wichita, KS), 11. Chris Tonoli (Hermitage, MO).
Heat 3: 1. Eric Turner (Hermitage, MO), 2. Greg Burt (Enid, OK), 3. Jon Sheets (Nevada, MO), 4. Chase Domer (Nevada, MO), 5. Nick Whitehead (Springfield, Mo), 6. Dylan Hoover (Vandalia, MO), 7. Jordan Turner (Batesville, AR), 8. Logan Rogers (German Valley, Il.), 9. Joseph Giesler (Ozora, MO), 10. Blonde Bomber Mitchell (Pea Ridge, Ark.).

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