John Anderson at Springfield Raceway. (Lloyd Collins)
R.C. Whitwell and #2 John Anderson swapped the lead several times before Anderson finally took charge and prevailed in the co-sanctioned "Larry Phillips Memorial" at Springfield Raceway. (Lloyd Collins) MLRA/MARS: Anderson On a Roll; Takes "Phillips Memorial" at Springfield
Trenton Berry
SPRINGFIELD, Mo. - Oct. 1. John Anderson swapped the top spot with R.C . Whitwell three times Saturday en route to his first ever win at the Springfield Raceway in Lucas Oil MLRA competition. The win is Anderson's third in the last four series races.
"I had to get up there on the wheel a little bit," Anderson said of his battle with Whitwell. "This is a fast racy little joint." Anderson gained a few points on Al Purkey who finished fourth. "We're having a great time with Al trying to race this thing out. We're doing really well right now."
Jesse Stovall, Brad Looney, and Shane Essary in a fierce fight for positions 7,8,9 at Springfield. (Ron Mitchell)
Battling for fourth place, #56 Tony Jackson, Jr. and Al Purkey race past #51 Billy Koons, Jr. (Lloyd Collins)
For Whitwell, his runner up finish it was his best Lucas Oil MLRA finish of the season. "I had a good battle with John Anderson there," stated Whitwell. "I wish I would have had it a little tick faster, he ended up pulling away."
Jeremy Payne was the evening's hard charger. After winning the B Feature, Payne raced to as high as second, before finishing third.
"It was a good night," commented Payne, who started the 40-lap Lucas Cattle Company A Feature from 15th. "We just started so far back, with this competition, it's hard to get up there and win." The evening's final yellow came out with 10 laps to go. "I was really good the longer we ran. I hated to see that yellow at the end, my car just wouldn't take off."
Justin Wells, Whitwell, Jesse Stovall, Michael Kloos and Justin Asplin all secured heat race wins. Jeremy Payne and Evan Hubert won B Features.
Illinois ace Michael Kloos (6) won his heat race in a rare road trip and came away with a respectable sixth place showing at Springfield. (Ron Mitchell)
Brad Looney could only muster ninth place Springfield, but the bigger prize was his as the Republic, Mo. veteran put the finishing touches on his first MARS series championship. (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)
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