Monday Mayhem Dominated by Stovall
Jesse Stovall — Photo by Mike Ruefer
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ALL Photos were taken by Mike Ruefer!
FARLEY, IA (August 3rd, 2015) – Monday was another chance for Jesse Stovall and the rest of Lucas Oil MLRA’s best to get back to action. Just as he has done for much of the season, Stovall held off the entire field and took the checkers. His 50 lap wire-to-wire win is his sixth of the season in MLRA action and 11th overall. The $10,000 winner’s portion he received matches his biggest career single event payday.
“It really feels good to be able to come down here and race on these dirt tracks that have some good character to them,” said Stovall. “This definitely brings our game back up. It’s a really fun place to race.”
Stovall was never seriously challenged, however around the features midway point, third place finishing Terry Phillips significantly narrowed the gap between himself and Stovall. Just as Phillips was continuing forward the yellow waved.
Stovall’s wins have vaulted him up the points charts since missing the opening two features. However, since climbing to second he knows it will be tough to grab the top spot.
“It’s gonna be very, very tough to get anything done with him points wise. So we’ll just keep trying to win races. At the end of the year I just hope we can finish off strong, no matter win or lose the points chase. I knew when I got close to him, he’d (Phillips) turn the heat up. He’s a veteran. He’s a very good racer. He’s done it a lot of years.”
Chad Simpson rolled from the outside of the third row and steadily moved towards the front. He had several attempts to overtake Stovall on restarts, but Stovall was flawless and Simpson settled for second.
“It’s good to run back here in Iowa,” commented Simpson to many of his home state fans. “We’ve raced a lot of races up here. I just needed a few more laps. We’re just gonna keep making this Victory Circle, Jay Dickens go and see what we can do.”
Jason Feger and Tim McCreadie each put together solid runs to complete the top five. McCreadie moved ahead 10 spots during the feature.
Mike Marlar had a good night suddenly come to an end running in fifth, when he spun exiting turn two. Ryan Gustin expired an engine during his heat race and scratched from action for the remainder of the night. JC Wyman also had significant front end damage, from the B feature, and utilized a series provisional to make the feature.
Tuesday night the Lucas Oil MLRA heads to West Liberty Raceway on the Muscatine County Fairgrounds in West Liberty, Iowa. The stop will also pay the winner $10,000. Action gets underway at 7 PM.
Farley Speedway Contingency Awards 8/3/15
Andy’s Frozen Custard Victory Lane – Jesse Stovall
AR Bodies – Mike Fryer
Casey’s General Stores Hard Charger – Jason Rauen
DirtOnDirt.com Pole Winner – Jesse Stovall
Hooker Harness 11th Place – Denny Eckrich
KRC Hard Luck – Ryan Gustin
RacingJunk.com Hard Luck – Ryan Gustin
Landrum Springs Race Winner – Jesse Stovall
Fast Track Photos – Jesse Stovall
Performance Bodies Performer of the Race – Jesse Stovall
RaceNote Crew Chief of the Race – Tony Rogers
Real Racing Wheels – Spencer Diercks
Sunoco Rookie of the Race – Jake O’Neil
Wehrs Machine – RC Whitwell
Lucas Cattle Company A Feature (50 Laps): 1. Jesse Stovall 2. Chad Simpson 3. Terry Philips 4. Jason Feger 5. Tim McCreadie 6. Chase Junghans 7. Gregg Satterlee 8. Justin Kay 9. Dave Eckrich 10. Jason Rauen 11. Denny Eckrich 12. Jason O’Brien 13. Jake O’Neil 14. Austin Siebert 15. Jason Utter 16. Spencer Diercks 17. Mike Marlar 18. Andy Eckrich 19. Chris Simpson 20. RC Whitwell 21. Curt Martin 22. Ray Guss Jr. 23. Jeremy Payne 24. JC Wyman
HotRodProcessing.com B Feature (12 Laps): 1. Spencer Diercks 2. Curt Martin 3. Jake O’Neil 4. Jason Rauen 5. Andy Eckrich 6. Jeremy Payne 7. Mike Fryer 8. Chad Holladay 9. Joel Callahan 10. Lyle Zanker 11. JC Wyman
Hoosier Racing Tires Heat #1 (10Laps): 1. Jesse Stovall 2. Jason Feger 3. Mike Marlar 4. Jason Utter 5. Ray Guss Jr. 6. Spencer Diercks 7. Jason Rauen 8. Chad Holladay 9. Ryan Gustin 10. Austin Siebert
RacingJunk.com Heat #2 (10 Laps): 1. Chris Simpson 2. Justin Kay 3. RC Whitwell 4. Chase Junghans 5. Gregg Satterlee 6. Tim McCreadie 7. Jake O’Neil 8. Joel Callahan 9. JC Wyman 10. Andy Eckrich
G2 Gemini Apparel Heat #3 (10 Laps): 1. Terry Phillips 2. Jason O’Brien 3. Chad Simpson 4. Dave Eckrich 5. Denny Eckrich 6. Jeremy Payne 7. Curt Martin 8. Lyle Zanker 9. Mike Fryer
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