Brad Looney races outside of #18 Ronny Lee Hollingsworth before beating the Northport, Ala. driver to the finish line in MARS action at Salina Highbanks Speedway. The win completed a weekend sweep that included a win at Brill's Motor Speedway on Friday (Ron Mitchell)
Brandon McCormick, #56 Tony Jackson, Jr., and #77 Justin Asplin scramble for position at Salina Highbanks on Saturday night. (Ron Mitchell) MARS: Looney Sweeps at Salina Brian Garrison SALINA, Okla. – June 4. Brad Looney entered the season with a single victory with the MARS DIRTcar Series, and now he’s at four and counting. The 36-year-old driver from Republic, Mo. continued a torrid streak on Saturday at the Salina Highbanks Speedway, racing to his third consecutive victory on the tour. The series points leader earned $3,000 in adding the victory to a triumph six days earlier in Monett, Mo. and the previous night at Brill’s Motor Speedway in Meeker, Okla.
Ronny Lee Hollingsworth races by Dustin Mooneyham on his way to second at Salina. It was an impressive weekend for the second generation driver from Alabama, who scored third at Brill's in Friday. (Ron Mitchell) Looney becomes just the fourth driver in the history of the 11-year-old series to record three straight victories (others include Terry Phillips, Wendell Wallace, and Bill Frye. Phillips owns the series record by winning four straight on four different occasions). At Salina, Looney qualified on the pole by gaining the most passing points from the heat races. To his outside would be six-time and defending MARS champion Terry Phillips. Phillips led the first half of the 30-lap feature and the first caution would wave on lap 16 for Jimmy Miller of Conway, Ark. and Jeremy Payne of Springfield, Mo. Payne would be unable to continue.
Tommy Weder, Jr. races #00 Jesse Stovall before advancing to third at Salina Speedway.. (Ron Mitchell) On the double file restart, Phillips led the field to green, but Looney benefitted from a great restart and challenged Phillips for the lead. The pair would exchange the lead several times over the next three laps before Looney took control for good on lap 19. The race's second caution waved on lap 21 as Phillips made contact with Ronny Hollingsworth of Northport, Ala. Looney was able to stay out front over the next nine laps and take the win over Hollingsworth, Tommy Weder, Jr. of Woodward, Okla., Eric Turner of Springfield, Mo., and Jason Hughes of Watts, Okla.
Brad Looney at Salina Speedway. (Ron Mitchell)
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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)
A-Team Leaders from 1997-2011 (Click on link for complete rundown)
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