Billy Moyer races #00 Jesse Stovall before rolling to his 13th special event win of the season as the MLRA returned to West Plains Speedway last night. (Lloyd Collins)
Illinois ace Michael Kloos (6) made a rare road trip to mix it up with #58 Gary Christian, #88 Wendell Wallace, and the MLRA regulars. (Lloyd Collins)
MLRA: Moyer Prevails at West Plains; Anderson Nudges Into Narrow Points Lead
Trenton Berry
WEST PLAINS, Mo. - Billy Moyer passed polesitter Jesse Stovall on lap five, and led the remaining 25 laps to score his 37th career Lucas Oil MLRA win.
In AAA Missouri Victory Lane, Moyer talked about his early pass for the lead on Stovall. "He just overcharged the corner there a little bit. I just ran a little lower than he did. It was going to get interesting there, it looked like."
At the end of the night, #2 John Anderson held a slim four-point lead over #33 Al Purkey in MLRA championship points.(Lloyd Collins)
Continuing to step up his game after a mid-season slump, R.C. Whitwell races under #1 Jack Sullivan before posting third at West Plains. (Lloyd Collins)
Moyer encountered lapped traffic late in the race as the final 11 laps were contested caution free.
The championship battle isn't much clearer after tonight's race. John Anderson finished seventh, after he and David Turner got together coming off turn four. Terry Phillips was also in the wreck. Turner and Anderson continued on, while Phillips retired for the evening. Al Purkey was the ninth place finisher, and is now down four points to Anderson with the final race of the season Saturday.
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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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