Don O'Neal
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By Terry Young
Don O'Neal of Martinsville, Indiana rolled out a brand new car for tonights 40 lap main event at Paducak International Raceway and poicked up right where he left off with the old car... going to victory lane and picking up a $10,000 winners check to go with his 6th UMP Summer Nationals A-Main win. Amazingly, O'Neal has amassed a 50% winners record in the mini-tour thus far and has earned over $56,000.00.
O'Neal is sponsored by O'Neal Wood Products, The Living Room Center, ALLSTAR Automotive, A-1 Salvage and drives a C.J. Rayburn chassis with horsepower from JAY DICKENS and traction from HOOSIER by Smash.
Terry English looked strong in the opening laps and appeared he may be able to stop the rampage that has been displayed by O'Neal over the tour. But O'Neal would overtake English on the 20th lap off of turn 4, only to see English slide back past entering turn 1. O'Neal would slide English a volley off of two to get back to the point and was never headed again after that.
Following the duo at the stripe was Shannon Babb with yet another top 3 finish. Babb has not finished worse than third in an A-Main event yet during the series when he has been running at the end.
Rounding out the top 10 were Scott James, Billy Moyer, Darren Miller, Tait Davenport, Rodney Melvin, Chris Carlson and Kevin Weaver.
Fast Time:
1. Don O'Neal 15.986
Dash:
1. James
2. O'Neal
3. Davenport
4. English
5. Babb
6. Josh Williams
7. Justin Allgaier
8. Randy Korte
9. Melvin
Heat 1:
1. Moyer
2. Allgaier
3. Weaver
4. John Gill
5.Jarrod Holshouser
6. Steve Sheppard, Jr.
7. Rohn Moon
Heat 2:
1. Miller
2. Joe Morris
3. Mike Jewell
4. Dennis Erb
5. Billy James
6. Carlson
Heat 3:
1. Melvin
2. Phil Walker
3. Williams
4. Billy Faust
5. Michael Steele
6. Chad Smith
7. Tony Albright
Consi:
1. Billy James
2. Holshouser
3. Michael Steele
4. Carlson
5. Sheppard, Jr.
6. Smith
7. Albright
8. Moon
Feature: 40 Laps
1 Don O’Neal 71
2 Terry English 96
3 Shannon Babb 18
4 Scott James 83
5 Billy Moyer 21
6 Darren Miller 32
7 Tait Davenport 6
8 Rodney Melvin 27
9 Kevin Weaver 12
10 Jeremy Williams 8
11 Mike Jewell 9
12 John Gill 77
13 Justin Allgaeir 1a
14 Bill Faust 26
15 Randy Sellars 3
16 Phil Walker 2
17 Billy James 5
18 Chirs Carlson 12
19 Joe Morris 83
20 Dennis Erb 28
21 Jarryd Holshouser 41
The UMP Summer nationals will invade the I-55 Raceway Saturday night for a $10,000 to win 40 lap main event, stop #13 of the 26 stop tour. The track can be reached by calling (636) 479-3219 or by visiting them on the world wide web at WWW.I55RACEWAY.COM
The UMP Summer Nationals tour is sponsored by Hoosier Tire Midwest, Hoosier Racing Tire, Intercomp Scales, C.J. Rayburn Race Cars and Bert Transmission.
UMP Modifieds
Feature:
1 Bart Richardson
2 Jim Shereck
3 Matt Mevert
4 Ricky Waggoner
5 Kevin Cole
6 Steve Copeland
7 Ron Wall
8 Troy English
9 Danny Tribble
10 Steve Cole
11 Terry Baker
12 John Smithson
13 George Hertter
14 Ronnie Short
15 Justin Cherry
16 Jason Riggs
17 Lloyd Lingle
18 Jeff Elliott
