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Scott Bloomquist hooks
up at Bedford Speedway proir to getting his fourth Lucas Oil Racing Series win of the season.
(Gary Shrey photo)
Lucas Oil Series: Bloomquist Takes Third Straight at Bedford
Kevin Kovac
BEDFORD, Pa. - April 29. Scott Bloomquist of Mooresburg, Tenn. continued his streak on Friday as he
captured his third consecutive Lucas Oil Late Model Dirt Series win at Bedford Speedway. Bloomquist
dominated the event, lapping up to the ninth place finisher. Steve Shaver of Vienna, W.V. was second, followed
by Jimmy Owens of Newport, Tenn., Don O’Neal of Martinsville, Ind., and Ray Cook of Brasstown,
N.C.
Jimmy Owens and Steve Shaver (outside) exchanged the second spot a couple of times,
but it Shaver who owned it at the end. (Rick
Schwallie)
Bloomquist and Shaver started on the front row of the 50-lap $10,000 to win event. Bloomquist
bolted to the lead and distanced himself from the battle until the only caution of the race
appeared on lap 16 for a slowing Chris Wall. On the restart, Bloomquist continued his domination as he
pulled away from the hotly contested race for second between Shaver and Owens.
Still keep pacing as one of the top five competitors in America, Don O'Neal bettered
#53 Ray Cook for fourth place at Bedford. (Rick
Schwallie)
Owens briefly took the second spot away from Shaver on lap 41, but by the time the cars had reached the
official scoring line, Shaver was back into second. Shaver then pulled away from Owens in the final laps
to secure the runner-up spot, while Owens had to fight off O’Neal to place third.
One of the area's strongest competitors, #43 Jason Covert duels young Arkansas
driver Jared Landers for eighth place. (Rick
Schwallie)
In Lucas Oil Late Model Dirt Series Victory Lane for the fourth time this season and the 30th time
in his career, Bloomquist stated “The car was good from the time we unloaded it tonight. In the feature
you could run anywhere on the track, you could go three wide out there without any problems.”
Steve Francis races by #1 Coleby Frye on his way to seventh place at
Bedford. (Rick Schwallie)
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Scott James battles #13 Barry Doss in heat race action at Florence (Ky.) Speedway, but in the $2,000-to-win feature, the only thing anyone saw was the tail end of James' #81 car. (Roy Walker)
After plenty of trash-talking via the electronic media between Jeff Matthews and Ivedent Lloyd last week, it was #21 Lloyd who got the final word as he reeled in #33 Matthews to win Friday's LM feature at Oclala, Fla.'s Bubba Raceway Park. (R.E. Wing)
Fans at Markleysburg, Pa.'s Roaring Knob Motorsports Comlex were treated to dual LM features Saturday - one a makeup from a May 5th rainout. (Above) Tim Senic challenges eventual regular feature winner Chuck Harper, while Jared Hawkins (below) claimed the makeup race. (Tommy Micheals)
Henley, Missouri's Jason Russell leads the way to Victory Lane in the ULMS Late Model feature at Lucas Oil Speedway Saturday. (Chris Bork)
Some fierce racing action at Lucas Oil speedway. (Chris Bork)
Dalton, Ga.'s Craig Reece returned to Dixie Speedway Saturday and led all the way to win the Crate LM victory. (Steve Hixson)
Ray Guss Jr. races last week's Quad City Speedway winner, Mike Murphy, Jr. This time, it was advantage Guss. (Chris Damitz)
With a strong motor back into his mount, Veteran Lamar Scoggins claimed last Friday's Crate LM victory at Boyd's Speedway. (Steve Hixson)
Veteran racer Lance Matthees navigates Spring Lake, Minnesota's Deer Creek Speedway before taking Saturday's WISSOTA Late Model checkers. (Jason Durst)
Racing hard at mid-pack, it's the dueling 55s of Cory Mahder (inside) and Greg Nippoldt at Deer Creek. (Jason Durst)
Ryan King (above and below) swept both the Ltd. Late Model and Crate Late Model features Saturday at 411 Motor Speedway in Seymour, Tenn. (Chad Wells)
Still riding his wave in Iowa, Mike Murphy, Jr. in early action before taking the main event win at Davenport last Friday. (Chris Damitz)
Jason Jameson ran a gauntlet to finally capture another win Friday night at Moler
Raceway Park (see main page). (Roy
Walker)
After holding back a charge from Alex Ferree, Chub Frank drove home with a Friday night win at Lernerville Speedway in Sarver, Pa. (John Stivason)
Bobby Pierce, Brett Sievert, and Mike Glynn race in a tight pack in Kankakee (Ill.) Speedway's "Crosstown Cup", but (below) it was ultimately Shawn Toczek (42) here racing the high side of Mike Provenzano, who sailed to the win. (Dan Simpson)
NALMS Suspends Remaining Season
In a statement released to the racing media Monday, Northern All All Stars Late Model Series (NALMS) owners Shawn Hall and Bob Mooney relased the following statement:
To all NALMS drivers and fans,
Northern Allstars Late Model Series regrets to inform all of our drivers and fans that as of today (May 14, 2012) we will suspend all series races for the remaining 2012 season. The primary reason for the decision to discontinue the series was mainly economics. Tracks, teams and fans are having a hard time these days with the cost of living in general. With the cost of fuel, parts, tires, tickets and lodging, many people just cannot afford to travel to our shows, so we feel it's best to stop for now and try to regroup for the 2013 season.
Our series needs to be able to have at least 18 to 20 shows to cover our cost of putting on these shows and our drivers point funds. With many tracks cutting back on their special events and other tracks just choosing not to have specials at all, it's has really cut our options for race tracks down to a very few unless you are willing to travel several hours away from the Central Illinois area, and that is not cost effective for the racing teams or fans.
In closing we would like to thank all of the drivers and fans whom have supported the series over the years and we hope to be able to come back with a bigger and better season for everyone in 2013.
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