Scott Bloomquist leads Don O'Neal on the first lap of the Dixie Speedway Lucas Oil Series event on Saturday. O'Neal was out by lap two and Bloomquist went on to his 18th special event win of the season. (Craig Whyte)
Lucas Oil Series: Bloomquist Point Lead Gets Some Breathing Room at
Dixie
James Essex
WOODSTOCK, Ga. – Oct. 8. Scott Bloomquist of Mooresburg, Tenn. picked
up a big win on Saturday at Dixie Speedway. The victory marked his sixth career Lucas Oil Dixie Shootout, in
front of the near-record crowd. With the $10,000 to win triumph, Bloomquist extended his Lucas Oil Late
Model Dirt Series points lead to 65 over Jimmy Owens of Newport, Tenn., who finished fourth.
Bloomquist grabbed the lead at the start of the race with Don O’Neal and Ray Cook
behind him. O’Neal developed problems on the second lap as his car began having handling problems, which
forced him out of the race.
Putting in a stout second place performance against the Lucas Series reulars, Ray
Cook moves outside of provisional starter Eric Wells. (Craig Whyte)
Houston area standout Chris Brown and East Tennessee's Billy Ogle, Jr. mix it up at
midpack before settling for 13th and 14th. (Craig
Whyte)
When the race resumed Bloomquist held the point with Cook in the runner-up
slot. Bloomquist pulled away from Cook as the race progressed. Bloomquist started to hit heavy traffic
with 13 laps complete. With heavy traffic to deal with for the leader, Cook and Casebolt started to close on
him at the halfway mark of the race. Casebolt moved into second on lap 28 passing Cook as the trio of
Bloomquist, Casebolt and Cook were all battling for the lead.
Casebolt tried a repeatedly to get underneath Bloomquist for the lead as they
continued to race through traffic. With 37 laps scored a caution came out for 2011 Dixie Speedway Track
Champion, Michael Page who slowed on the front stretch. During the caution Casebolt relinquished his
second place running position as he headed to the pits with axle issue in his car.
Cook then moved into second with Chris Madden now running third. On the
restart Madden took over second as Cook dropped to third. Madden ran second until he fell out of the race
with just two laps remaining.
Area standout Chip Brindle and #23 John Blankenship at Dixie.
(Craig Whyte)
Steve Francis and #41 Brad Neat race for position inside the top ten at
Dixie. (Craig Whyte)
Bloomquist cruised to the finish unchallenged in the final laps as he secured
his 15th Lucas Oil Late Model Dirt Series win of 2011. His victory comes in his Roush-Yates Ford powered
Bloomquist Race Cars entry. “It was a good points night for us, we set fast time in our group and led
every lap here tonight in the heat and feature. There are still two more races to go so it’s not over yet. I
know Jimmy will fight all the way to end next week at KC.”
Cook, in one of his best Lucas Oil Series finishes of the year took second and
Clanton placed third. Owens, who started 11th, came home fourth, while Reddick had his second consecutive top
five finish.
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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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