Aaron Ridley after his first special event win of the season with the PRO Series at Talladega Short Track. (Mark Bochiardy) PRO Series: Ridley All the Way For First Series Win at Talladega by Ben Shelton EASTABOGA, Ala. - Aug. 20. For the second straight night the PRO Dirt Car Series saw a first time winner on the tour as Aaron Ridley from Chatsworth, Ga. raced to the $2,000 feature win at Talladega Short Track. .jpg "Aaron Ridley at Talladega Short Track")
Aaron Ridley showed the
way in a flag-to-flag rout of the PRO Series outing Saturday at Talladega Short
Track. (Mark
Bochiardy)
Tim Busha powers under Eric Cooley late in the TST event, only to give it up later to Jason Hiett. The Cooley-Busha duel would continue on the cool down lap and on to the scales.(Mark Bochiardy) Twenty-three Super Late Models entered the event atop the 1/3 mile oval, and it was Ridley, who blazed to fast time honors to earn the Southern Belle Pole Award for the feature. After setting fast time in his own group Jason Wilson started in the second spot for the main event.
After winning the PRO Series event the previous night at Green Valley Speedway, #1 Jason Hiett passes Jason Wilson for third on his way to second at Talladega Short Track. (Mark Bochiardy)
Old Columbus, Miss. foes Johnny Stokes and #86 Rick Rickman battle it out at mid-field at Talladega Short Track. (Mark Bochiardy) Ridley was in control from the drop of the green flag and despite a late race challenge from the previous night’s winner, Jason Hiett, he was able to race his way to the win in the 40 lap event. Rounding out the top five at the finish line was Hiett, Tim Busha, Eric Cooley, and Jason Wilson.
PRO Series points leader Eric Cooley checks on his crew's adjustments before finishing fourth at TST. (Mark Bochiardy)
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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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