Lebanon,Mo-The 2009 season championships were held Friday night at the LebanonMidwaySpeedway as 6 class champions were crowned and the racing action was fast and close all night long.
The FactoryStock feature saw 21 cars take the opening green with point leader Bob Gustin grabbing the lead early with defending champion Tim Petty right behind him followed by Ben Solberg.By lap 4,Sundance Keepper had moved into contention with Gustin still leading as drivers were swapping spots all over the track.Ben Solberg's strong run early ended as he spun in turn 4 on lap 7 as he went to the tail of the field.On the restart on lap 8,Tyson Troutman had moved into the second place spot and was gaining on Gustin as 13th place starter Donnie Gennings had moved into the top 5 while other deep field starters Brad Gideon,Ted Welschmeyer and Kenny Carroll had come forward.With Gustin holding to the top spot,Sundance Keepper moved back into second on lap 11 as Troutman,Petty,Gennings and Chad Smith were 2 wide for positions.On lap 15,Troutman moved back into the second place spot as Gennings,Keepper and Matt Beckner were battling.On lap 18,Gennings moved into second place and closed-up quickly on the leader Gustin.With the white flag displayed,Gennings made a hard charge to the bottom of the racetrack and made the last lap run on Gustin.In the end,Gustin took the win by 1/2 car length with Gennings making it close.Troutman,Keepper, and Beckner followed.Gustin was able to claim the season long battle.
The USRA Modified feature saw the front row of point leader Donnie Fellers and Sam Petty bring the field to the green with Fellers grabbing the opening spot,but Justin Neuman jumped to the top groove along with defending champion Jamie Ragland to go around the front row.Neuman with a new powerplany under the hood went on the dominate the 20 lap feature as Ragland moved into second place with Fellers,Petty and Jeff Albright Jr following at the stripe.Neuman showed everyone after missing the last 2 point shows that he was back in strong form with several season ending Modified specials coming up as he grabbed his first win of the season.Fellers with his third place finish grabbed his first Midway season title by being consistant and being at every race scheduled.
The B-Mods again provided excellent racing action and a new winner along with a new first time champion.Point leader Mickey Burrell and Josh Woody brought the field to the green only to go yellow quickly as Woody,Jamie Barker,Trevor Ellingson,Ted Ballinger and Derek Cook were all involved in an incident in turn 4.On the restart,JC morton grabbed the opening lead over Burrell as they ran side by side for the opening 5 laps.Tyler Brown had been patient during the early part of the feature moved around Morton on lap 6 and set his sights on Burrell while rookie Micheal Stake and defending champion Jason Otto battled behind the leaders.On lap 8,Brown moved around Burrell to take the lead as Morton followed in tow.From there Brown opened-up the lead but with 4 laps left,Morton started closing up the gap while Burrell stayed a solid third.With two laps remaining,Brown again pulled away to grab his first win of the season followed by early leader morton,Burrell,Stake and Otto following.Burrell claimed the season long points title in a very competitive battle all season long.
The Bomber feature lots of action as point leader Joe Francis and Shawn Strong brought the field to the green with Francis leading the opening two laps.On lap 3,Strong took over the lead as Francis and Brandon Waters and Jack Hamer followed.Strong would lead until lap 7 when motor problems took him to the pits giving Francis the lead as Waters was applying pressure.Kolt Barker who started 11th had quietly moved up to the third place running position along with Matt Pilant battling.Francis would hold on to take the feature win as Barker moved into the runner-up spot when the checked flew followed by Pilant,Melvin Smith and Waters at the finish.Francis took his first ever track championship with consistant running all season long.
The LateModelSportman class was all Ben Newell has the 2-time and defending champion grabbed the lead on lap 1 and never looked back.Following Newell to the line was Bradley McDowell,Bill Joiner,Myron McDowell and Leland Seymour.Ben Newell who only lost 2 features all season long grabbed his third Midway title and was the only defending champion to keep his title.
The PureStocks battle went to the last laps as point leader Les Hayes opened-up an early lead with Adam Lowrance and John McGinnis following.Tom Monnahan moved the police machine up to second place on lap 3 to challange and then on lap 4 moved around Hayes to take the lead with Scotty Jones moving into the runner-up spot on lap 6.Hayes saw his chances to take the point title go up in the air as a broken Axel took the point leader to the pits forcing Adam Lowrance to win the feature to have any chance of the title.Monnahan fought off Jones and then withsttod a late race charge by Danny Caffey in taking his first win of the season.Caffey,Lowrance,Justin McDowell, and Jones completed the top 5 with Hayes taking the season title by 5 points over Lowrance.
Racing will get back underway Friday Night Sept 25 and Sat Night Sept 26th with the running of the 6th annual Coca-Cola Fall Brawl.
Friday Night will feature qualifying heats and pole dashes for the A-Mods,FactoryStocks,B-Mods,Bombers and LateModelSportsman along with heats and a feature for the PureStocks.Admission Friday night will be $10 for Adultswith kids 11-15 $5 and 10 and under Free.Racing will start at 8PM.
Sat night Sept 26th will see over Last Chance races and feature events in the A-Mods,FactoryStocks,B-Mods,Bombers and LateModelSportsman along with a Big season ending Enduro for both the Hillbilly Farm Trucks and EnduroCars as over $20,000 in purse money is up for grabs as admission on Sat night is $15 for Adults.Racing to start at 7:30PM.
For more information visit the website at WWW.LebanonMidwaySpeedway.com or contact Jack Jones at 417-594-0594
Results
FactoryStocks
A Ft-1)Bob Gustin-Osage Beach 2)Donnie Gennings-Eldridge 3)Tyson Troutman-Houston 4)Sindance Keepper-Springfield 5)Matt Beckner-Linn 6)Doug Rich-Macks Creek 7)Ted Welschmeyer-Tibbets 8)Chip Shaddux-Hermitage 9)Ben Solberg-Springfield 10)Donnie Miller-Houston 11)Dean Smith-Mammoth Springs,Ark. 12)Mike Murzynski-St Roberts 13)Kenny Carroll-Camdenton 14)Matt Wilson-Mt Grove 15)Tim Petty-Niangua 16)Chad Smith-Crocker 17)Brad Gideon-Springfield 18)Bill Scharr-St Roberts 19)Jay Flinn-Lebanon 20)Dylan Keepper-Hurley 21)Chris Wynn-Niangua
1st Ht-1)Rich 2)Carroll 3)Welschmeyer 4)Smith 5)Becker 6)Murzynski 7)D.Smith
2nd Ht-1)Gennings 2)Gideon 3)Shaddux 4)Wilson 5)Flinn 6)D.Keepper 7)Wynn
3rd Ht-1)Troutman 2)Petty 3)Solberg 4)S.Keepper 5)Gustin 6)Scharr 7)Miller
USRA Modifieds
A Ft-1)Justin Neuman-Crocker 2)Jamie Ragland-Lebanon 3)Donnie Fellers-Wheatland 4)Sam Petty-Niangua 5)Jeff Albright Jr-Lebanon 6)Kris Jackson-Lebanon 7)Tony Moore-Lebanon 8)Eric Lampe-Springfield 9)Jim Pearcy Jr-Springfield
1st Ht-1)Pearcy Jr 2)Albright Jr 3)Lampe 4)Moore
2nd Ht-1)Neuman 2)Ragland 3)Fellers 4)Petty 5)Jackson
B-Mods
A Ft-1)Tyler Brown-Stoutland 2)JC Morton-Springfield 3)Mickey Burrell-Fair Grove 4)Micheal Stake-Lebanon 5)Jason Otto-Richland 6)Brian Webster-Richland 7)Jamie Barker-Lebanon 8)Josh Woody-Buckhorn 9)Trevor Ellingson-Lebanon 10)Jack Lancaster-Urbana 11)Derek Cook-Lebanon 12)Andy Anderson-Hermitage 13)Ted Ballinger-Halfway 14)Brian Myers-Lebanon 15)Ron Myers-Lebanon DNS-Rob White-Lebanon Greg Strong-nixa
1st Ht-1)Barker 2)Ellingson 3)Stake 4)R.Myers 5)Anderson 6)B.Myers 7)White 8)Strong
2nd Ht-1)Ballinger 2)Lancaster 3)Webster 4)Morton 5)Otto 6)Brown 7)Cook 8)Woody 9)Burrell
Bombers
A Ft-1)Joe Francis-Lebanon 2)Kolt Barker-Lebanon 3)Matt Pilant-Lebanon 4)Melvin Smith-Buffalo 5)Brandon Waters-Lynchburg 6)Jack Hamer-Ava 7)Rodney Yost-Squires 8)Kevin Forshey-Dixon 9)JR Aitken-Brighton 10)Andrew Cheever-Lebanon 11)Shawn Strong-Republic 12)Keith Cheever-Lebanon 13)Josh Lewis-Stoutland 14)Brian Warner-Phillipsburg DNS-Monk Barker-Lebanon
1st HT-1)Pilant 2)Smith 3)Aitken 4)K.Barker 5)K.Cheever 6)A.Cheever DNS-M.Barker
2nd Ht-1)Waters 2)Francis 3)Hamer 4)Lewis 5)Yost 6)Warner 7)Strong 8)Forshey
LateModelSportsman
A Ft-1)Ben Newell-Stoutland 2)Bradley McDowell-Eldon 3)Bill Joiner-Lebanon 4)Myron McDowell-Tuscumbia 5)Leland Seymour-Springfield 6) Jeff Scroggins-Brookline 7)Bennie Joiner-Lebanon 8)JC Newell-Decaturville DNS-Clinton Betts-Stoutland Donny Betts-Stoutland Micheal Jones-Lebanon
1st Ht-1)Scroggins 2)M McDowell 3)D Betts 4)C Betts 5)Seymour
2nd Ht-1)JC Newell 2)Bennie Joiner 3)B Newell 4)B McDowell 5)Bill Joiner 6)Jones
PureStocks
A Ft-1)Tom Monnahan-Grovesprings 2)Danney Caffey-Conway 3)Adam Lowrance-Lebanon 4)Justin McDowell-Tuscumbia 5)Scotty Jones-Lebanon 6)Robert Doublin-Lebanon 7)Adam Williams-Lebanon 8)Joey Long-Mansfield 9)Jeff Delong-Lebanon 10)Joe Aitken-Brighton 11)Jason Brumley-Camdenton 12)Shorty Doublin-Lebanon 13)John McGinnis-Lebanon 14)Tom Powers-Camdenton 15)Les Hayes-Camdenton DNS-Billy Waters-Lynchburg
1st Ht-1)Jones 2)Powers 3)Aitken 4)Williams 5)Long 6)McDowell 7)Caffey 8)Waters
2nd Ht-1)Monnahan 2)S.Doublin 3)Delong 4)McGinnis 5)Brumley 6)Hayes 7)R Doublin 8)Lowrance
The FactoryStock feature saw 21 cars take the opening green with point leader Bob Gustin grabbing the lead early with defending champion Tim Petty right behind him followed by Ben Solberg.By lap 4,Sundance Keepper had moved into contention with Gustin still leading as drivers were swapping spots all over the track.Ben Solberg's strong run early ended as he spun in turn 4 on lap 7 as he went to the tail of the field.On the restart on lap 8,Tyson Troutman had moved into the second place spot and was gaining on Gustin as 13th place starter Donnie Gennings had moved into the top 5 while other deep field starters Brad Gideon,Ted Welschmeyer and Kenny Carroll had come forward.With Gustin holding to the top spot,Sundance Keepper moved back into second on lap 11 as Troutman,Petty,Gennings and Chad Smith were 2 wide for positions.On lap 15,Troutman moved back into the second place spot as Gennings,Keepper and Matt Beckner were battling.On lap 18,Gennings moved into second place and closed-up quickly on the leader Gustin.With the white flag displayed,Gennings made a hard charge to the bottom of the racetrack and made the last lap run on Gustin.In the end,Gustin took the win by 1/2 car length with Gennings making it close.Troutman,Keepper, and Beckner followed.Gustin was able to claim the season long battle.
The USRA Modified feature saw the front row of point leader Donnie Fellers and Sam Petty bring the field to the green with Fellers grabbing the opening spot,but Justin Neuman jumped to the top groove along with defending champion Jamie Ragland to go around the front row.Neuman with a new powerplany under the hood went on the dominate the 20 lap feature as Ragland moved into second place with Fellers,Petty and Jeff Albright Jr following at the stripe.Neuman showed everyone after missing the last 2 point shows that he was back in strong form with several season ending Modified specials coming up as he grabbed his first win of the season.Fellers with his third place finish grabbed his first Midway season title by being consistant and being at every race scheduled.
The B-Mods again provided excellent racing action and a new winner along with a new first time champion.Point leader Mickey Burrell and Josh Woody brought the field to the green only to go yellow quickly as Woody,Jamie Barker,Trevor Ellingson,Ted Ballinger and Derek Cook were all involved in an incident in turn 4.On the restart,JC morton grabbed the opening lead over Burrell as they ran side by side for the opening 5 laps.Tyler Brown had been patient during the early part of the feature moved around Morton on lap 6 and set his sights on Burrell while rookie Micheal Stake and defending champion Jason Otto battled behind the leaders.On lap 8,Brown moved around Burrell to take the lead as Morton followed in tow.From there Brown opened-up the lead but with 4 laps left,Morton started closing up the gap while Burrell stayed a solid third.With two laps remaining,Brown again pulled away to grab his first win of the season followed by early leader morton,Burrell,Stake and Otto following.Burrell claimed the season long points title in a very competitive battle all season long.
The Bomber feature lots of action as point leader Joe Francis and Shawn Strong brought the field to the green with Francis leading the opening two laps.On lap 3,Strong took over the lead as Francis and Brandon Waters and Jack Hamer followed.Strong would lead until lap 7 when motor problems took him to the pits giving Francis the lead as Waters was applying pressure.Kolt Barker who started 11th had quietly moved up to the third place running position along with Matt Pilant battling.Francis would hold on to take the feature win as Barker moved into the runner-up spot when the checked flew followed by Pilant,Melvin Smith and Waters at the finish.Francis took his first ever track championship with consistant running all season long.
The LateModelSportman class was all Ben Newell has the 2-time and defending champion grabbed the lead on lap 1 and never looked back.Following Newell to the line was Bradley McDowell,Bill Joiner,Myron McDowell and Leland Seymour.Ben Newell who only lost 2 features all season long grabbed his third Midway title and was the only defending champion to keep his title.
The PureStocks battle went to the last laps as point leader Les Hayes opened-up an early lead with Adam Lowrance and John McGinnis following.Tom Monnahan moved the police machine up to second place on lap 3 to challange and then on lap 4 moved around Hayes to take the lead with Scotty Jones moving into the runner-up spot on lap 6.Hayes saw his chances to take the point title go up in the air as a broken Axel took the point leader to the pits forcing Adam Lowrance to win the feature to have any chance of the title.Monnahan fought off Jones and then withsttod a late race charge by Danny Caffey in taking his first win of the season.Caffey,Lowrance,Justin McDowell, and Jones completed the top 5 with Hayes taking the season title by 5 points over Lowrance.
Racing will get back underway Friday Night Sept 25 and Sat Night Sept 26th with the running of the 6th annual Coca-Cola Fall Brawl.
Friday Night will feature qualifying heats and pole dashes for the A-Mods,FactoryStocks,B-Mods,Bombers and LateModelSportsman along with heats and a feature for the PureStocks.Admission Friday night will be $10 for Adultswith kids 11-15 $5 and 10 and under Free.Racing will start at 8PM.
Sat night Sept 26th will see over Last Chance races and feature events in the A-Mods,FactoryStocks,B-Mods,Bombers and LateModelSportsman along with a Big season ending Enduro for both the Hillbilly Farm Trucks and EnduroCars as over $20,000 in purse money is up for grabs as admission on Sat night is $15 for Adults.Racing to start at 7:30PM.
For more information visit the website at WWW.LebanonMidwaySpeedway.com or contact Jack Jones at 417-594-0594
Results
FactoryStocks
A Ft-1)Bob Gustin-Osage Beach 2)Donnie Gennings-Eldridge 3)Tyson Troutman-Houston 4)Sindance Keepper-Springfield 5)Matt Beckner-Linn 6)Doug Rich-Macks Creek 7)Ted Welschmeyer-Tibbets 8)Chip Shaddux-Hermitage 9)Ben Solberg-Springfield 10)Donnie Miller-Houston 11)Dean Smith-Mammoth Springs,Ark. 12)Mike Murzynski-St Roberts 13)Kenny Carroll-Camdenton 14)Matt Wilson-Mt Grove 15)Tim Petty-Niangua 16)Chad Smith-Crocker 17)Brad Gideon-Springfield 18)Bill Scharr-St Roberts 19)Jay Flinn-Lebanon 20)Dylan Keepper-Hurley 21)Chris Wynn-Niangua
1st Ht-1)Rich 2)Carroll 3)Welschmeyer 4)Smith 5)Becker 6)Murzynski 7)D.Smith
2nd Ht-1)Gennings 2)Gideon 3)Shaddux 4)Wilson 5)Flinn 6)D.Keepper 7)Wynn
3rd Ht-1)Troutman 2)Petty 3)Solberg 4)S.Keepper 5)Gustin 6)Scharr 7)Miller
USRA Modifieds
A Ft-1)Justin Neuman-Crocker 2)Jamie Ragland-Lebanon 3)Donnie Fellers-Wheatland 4)Sam Petty-Niangua 5)Jeff Albright Jr-Lebanon 6)Kris Jackson-Lebanon 7)Tony Moore-Lebanon 8)Eric Lampe-Springfield 9)Jim Pearcy Jr-Springfield
1st Ht-1)Pearcy Jr 2)Albright Jr 3)Lampe 4)Moore
2nd Ht-1)Neuman 2)Ragland 3)Fellers 4)Petty 5)Jackson
B-Mods
A Ft-1)Tyler Brown-Stoutland 2)JC Morton-Springfield 3)Mickey Burrell-Fair Grove 4)Micheal Stake-Lebanon 5)Jason Otto-Richland 6)Brian Webster-Richland 7)Jamie Barker-Lebanon 8)Josh Woody-Buckhorn 9)Trevor Ellingson-Lebanon 10)Jack Lancaster-Urbana 11)Derek Cook-Lebanon 12)Andy Anderson-Hermitage 13)Ted Ballinger-Halfway 14)Brian Myers-Lebanon 15)Ron Myers-Lebanon DNS-Rob White-Lebanon Greg Strong-nixa
1st Ht-1)Barker 2)Ellingson 3)Stake 4)R.Myers 5)Anderson 6)B.Myers 7)White 8)Strong
2nd Ht-1)Ballinger 2)Lancaster 3)Webster 4)Morton 5)Otto 6)Brown 7)Cook 8)Woody 9)Burrell
Bombers
A Ft-1)Joe Francis-Lebanon 2)Kolt Barker-Lebanon 3)Matt Pilant-Lebanon 4)Melvin Smith-Buffalo 5)Brandon Waters-Lynchburg 6)Jack Hamer-Ava 7)Rodney Yost-Squires 8)Kevin Forshey-Dixon 9)JR Aitken-Brighton 10)Andrew Cheever-Lebanon 11)Shawn Strong-Republic 12)Keith Cheever-Lebanon 13)Josh Lewis-Stoutland 14)Brian Warner-Phillipsburg DNS-Monk Barker-Lebanon
1st HT-1)Pilant 2)Smith 3)Aitken 4)K.Barker 5)K.Cheever 6)A.Cheever DNS-M.Barker
2nd Ht-1)Waters 2)Francis 3)Hamer 4)Lewis 5)Yost 6)Warner 7)Strong 8)Forshey
LateModelSportsman
A Ft-1)Ben Newell-Stoutland 2)Bradley McDowell-Eldon 3)Bill Joiner-Lebanon 4)Myron McDowell-Tuscumbia 5)Leland Seymour-Springfield 6) Jeff Scroggins-Brookline 7)Bennie Joiner-Lebanon 8)JC Newell-Decaturville DNS-Clinton Betts-Stoutland Donny Betts-Stoutland Micheal Jones-Lebanon
1st Ht-1)Scroggins 2)M McDowell 3)D Betts 4)C Betts 5)Seymour
2nd Ht-1)JC Newell 2)Bennie Joiner 3)B Newell 4)B McDowell 5)Bill Joiner 6)Jones
PureStocks
A Ft-1)Tom Monnahan-Grovesprings 2)Danney Caffey-Conway 3)Adam Lowrance-Lebanon 4)Justin McDowell-Tuscumbia 5)Scotty Jones-Lebanon 6)Robert Doublin-Lebanon 7)Adam Williams-Lebanon 8)Joey Long-Mansfield 9)Jeff Delong-Lebanon 10)Joe Aitken-Brighton 11)Jason Brumley-Camdenton 12)Shorty Doublin-Lebanon 13)John McGinnis-Lebanon 14)Tom Powers-Camdenton 15)Les Hayes-Camdenton DNS-Billy Waters-Lynchburg
1st Ht-1)Jones 2)Powers 3)Aitken 4)Williams 5)Long 6)McDowell 7)Caffey 8)Waters
2nd Ht-1)Monnahan 2)S.Doublin 3)Delong 4)McGinnis 5)Brumley 6)Hayes 7)R Doublin 8)Lowrance
