Appalachian Mt. Speedweek: Matt Parks Stops Hubbard For First AMS Trophy series report PORT ROYAL, Pa. - June 9. Matt Parks of Three Springs drove the race of his career to score the $5,000 victory in Thursday’s 40-lap Appalachian Mountain Dirt Late Model Speedweek Series feature at Port Royal Speedway. And all he had to do to pick up the win was hold off current speedweek point leader and two-time series winner Austin Hubbard of Laurel, Delaware, for the final 34 circuits.
Local driver Matt Parks after his
Appalachian Mt. Speedweek win at Port Royal, Pa. (Gary Shrey)
Parks started the race on the pole and led the first five laps over Dan Stone of Thompson before fifth starter Hubbard motored into second. From that point to the finish, Hubbard threw everything he had at Parks’ racer and in fact drew even on more than one occasion only to see Parks pull away to a slight lead running the outside groove of the racetrack. In all, Parks withstood a total of six restarts with the lead, holding off Stone on the first two and Hubbard for the balance. Amid lapped traffic with 17 laps to go, Parks began pulling away from Hubbard only to see two of the aforementioned restarts take place within the last four circuits, taking away the advantage he had built up within the final 10 laps. Hubbard, the winner the previous two nights at Williams Grove and Lincoln Speedways respectively, settled for second. Stone was third followed by Vic Coffey and Jamie Lathroum, who pitted with a flat tire on the fifth lap before roaring back through the field. Heats for the 40-car field went to Lathroum, Coffey, Dylan Yoder and Jeremy Miller. Twin B Mains went to Terry Naugle and Jerry Bard.
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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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