Al Purkey emerges from his mount after winning Saturday's combined MLRA/MARS event at Springfield (Mo.) Raceway. (Ron Mitchell)
MLRA/MARS: Purkey Unchallenged For Back to Back Wins
Brian Garrison
SPRINGFIELD, Mo. - May 14. Al Purkey of Coffeyville, Kan. picked up his second victory of the year with the MARS DIRTcar Series at Springfield Raceway. Purkey led all 40 laps of the $3,000 to win feature that was co-sanctioned with the MLRA. Purkey withstood challenges from six-time and defending MARS champion Terry Phillips of Springfield, Mo., who finished second.
Billy Moyer pulls up between #22 Alan Vaughn and #2 John Anderson as he rumbles from his 16th place start to finish third at Springfield. (Ron Mitchell)
Billy Moyer of Batesville, Ark. started 16th and was the race's hard charger as he worked his way up to third place. Jack Sullivan of Greenbrier, Ark. and Jesse Stovall of Galena, Mo. completed the top five. Prior to the race, MARS
Jesse Stovall slipped his #00 into second briefly after a late restart, but #75 Terry Phillips soon regained the spot, where he finished. Stovall gave up his third spot to Billyy Moyer by race's end. (Ron Mitchell)
point leader Brad Looney of Republic, Mo. held just a slim two point lead over Phillips. Looney would finish sixth in the final rundown and slip to second in points, just five points behind Phillips.
Al Purkey at Springfield Raceway. (Lloyd Collins)
Jack Sullivan races with #21 Billy Moyer and #14 Brad Looney before taking his #1 GRT to fourth place. (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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