Leslie Essary after his second straight Show-Me Series win at Thunderbird Speedway. (Trenton Berry) Show-Me Racing Series: Essary Scores Second Straight at Thunderbird Trenton Berry MUSKOGEE, Okla. - June 10. With the first visit of the season to Thunderbird Speedway, the Race Brothers Show Me Racin Series has its first repeat winner of the season. Crane, Missouri’s Leslie Essary took the lead on lap seven and pulled away from the field for his 27th career win with the tour. “You had to get the passing done pretty early or they had to make a mistake, it was really hard to pass tonight,” stated Essary in victory lane following his run from the fifth starting position. When asked about his recent run of success, Essary was quick to share the credit. “I owe a lot of it to Justin Wells. We talked to Justin a little bit and got on his setup a little and did a few things of our own. It’s working so far.” 
Leslie Essary raced to his second Show-Me Racing Series win of the season at
Muskogee, Oklahoma's Thunderbird Speedway. (Andrew Towne)
Ken Essary finished second in his Ford powered Swartz Chassis. Justin Wells was again the evening’s hard charger coming from tenth to finish third. Larry Campbell had a good point night finishing fourth. Randy Zimmerman finished fifth to earn his second top five finish of the season. There were two yellows slowing the pace. Jason Redman slowed at the top of turn two on lap four. A debris caution was also thrown on lap nine, with the final 16 laps ran caution free.
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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)
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