Little Rock, Arkansas (04/04/09) - Wendell Wallace outgunned JFR Graphics Pole Qualifier, Jeff Chandler into turn one in the 40 lap, O'Reilly MSRA Super Late Model event at I-30 Speedway in Little Rock, Arkansas on Saturday night, and never looked back en route to the $2,000 payday.
Twenty-Eight Super Late Models, representing six different states, signed in to battle for the $2,000 to win/$400 to start purse in front of a huge crowd at I-30 Speedway. Via heat race action, Jeff Chandler accumulated the most passing points and earned the pole position for the 40 lap feature on a very well prepared, ¼ mile, red clay oval. However, it was outside front row starter, Wendell Wallace, who used the highline to rocket into the lead as the field entered turn one with Chandler, Allen Tippen, Howard Willis, and Kyle Beard in tow.
During the race’s early stages drivers were battling two and three wide throughout the pack, while Wallace began to establish his domination at the front of the pack in his #88 Wincrest Farms/GRT/Gaerte Racing Engines Super Late Model. By lap 11, Wallace was already encountering lapped traffic as sixth starting Kyle Beard and Ray Moore, moved into the second and third spots respectively as Jeff Chandler began to fade.
The race continued to endure a long green flag run as it approached the midpoint with Wallace, Beard, Moore, Jeff Chandler, and Howard Willis making up the top five. While the top five diced things up, Greenbriar, Arkansas’ driver, Jack Sullivan, was making his own noise as he had advanced from his fourteenth starting spot to the sixth position by lap 24.
The race’s only caution would fly on lap 30, when disaster was narrowly adverted when sixth and seventh running, Jon Mitchell and Billy Moyer Jr. made contact down the front straightaway with Moyer Jr. making hard contact with the wall, yet somehow managing to keep rolling. The caution was displayed for possible debris on the track from the melee as Moyer Jr. retained his running position.
At the time of the caution, the top five running order consisted of Wendell Wallace, Kyle Beard, Ray Moore, Jack Sullivan, and Jeff Chandler. During the caution Bill Frye retired his #66 GRT By Frye to the pit area with a broken right front tire rod.
On the ensuing restart Wallace would once again motor away from the field as Moore slipped by Beard for second and Billy Moyer Jr. jumped from seventh to fifth.
The remainder of the race would go caution free as “The Batesville Bullet” Wendell Wallace, picked up his first O’Reilly MSRA win of 2009. Ray Moore, Kyle Beard, Jack Sullivan, and Billy Moyer Jr. rounded out the top five.
Heat race action was topped by Jeff Chandler, Wendell Wallace, Allen Tippen, and Howard Willis. Jeff Floyd and Bill Frye claimed wins in the twin b-mains.
Two-time defending O’Reilly MSRA Champion, Joey Mack, had a tough night and had to utilize a provisional to start the feature as did Jeff Sloan. Mack started in the 19th spot and advanced his way to a 14th place finish. His five position advancement was more than any other O’Reilly MSRA member, and he received the Larry Shaw Race Cars Hard Charger Award.
Jeff Sloan retired early in the feature with an ill-handling race car and was awarded the Quarter Master Hard Luck Award.
Wendell Wallace earned the COMP Cams Top Performer Award for the night.
The next event on tap for the O’Reilly MSRA Super Late Model tour will be on Saturday, April 11th as they make their first ever visit to Clayton Allen’s Riverside International Speedway in West Memphis, Arkansas. The event will serve as a challenge race with the O’Reilly SUPR Super Late Models, and will be the first time that the two tours have ever gone head to head.
Enthusiasm for the first Super Late Model Special at Riverside International Speedway in nearly two decades is at an overflowing high and a large crowd is expected for the event. For more information, please visit www.RiversideInternationalSpeedway.com .
The O'Reilly MSRA is sponsored by and would like to thank primary sponsor O'Reilly Auto Parts, their Associate Sponsors- GRT Race Cars, Hoosier Racing Tires, COMP Cams, Larry Shaw Race Cars, Quarter Master, Kuntz & Company, Mark Martin Auto Group, JFR Graphics, RiceTec, ASI Racewear, ROCKHARD Powdercoat, Inc., Boomland, NEA Supergas, and MSR Mafia.com Marketing Services; and their contingency sponsors - Suspension Spring Specialists, BSB Manufacturing, Boston's Restaurant and Sports Bar Pizza, Five Star Bodies, Joe Gibbs Racing Oil, Schaeffer Oil, & FSR Products.
For the latest information on the O'Reilly MSRA Super Late Model Series, please visit www.MSRADirt.com
Feature Results
1. Wendell Wallace (Batesville, AR)
2. Ray Moore (Shreveport, LA)
3. Kyle Beard (Trumann, AR)
4. Jack Sullivan (Greenbriar, AR)
5. Billy Moyer Jr. (Batesville, AR)
6. Jeff Chandler (Minden, LA)
7. Allen Tippen (Minden, LA)
8. Howard Willis (Houston, TX)
9. Lee Davis (Greenwood, LA)
10. Jon Mitchell (Texarkana, AR)
11. Jon Kirby (Russellville, AR)
12. Gary Christian (Broken Bow, OK)
13. Jeff Floyd (Walnut Ridge, AR)
14. Joey Mack (Benton, MO)
15. Mike Bowers (North Little Rock, AR)
16. Jeff Wells Jr. (Trumann, AR)
17. Dewaine Hottinger (Russellville, AR)
18. Tom Earl III (Haslett, TX)
19. Bill Frye (Greenbriar, AR)
20. Jeff Sloan (East Prairie , MO)
Entries: 28 (Representing Six States)
Heat Winners: Jeff Chandler, Wendell Wallace, Allen Tippen, Howard Willis
B-Main Transfers: Jeff Floyd, Dewaine Hottinger, Bill Frye, Jeff Wells Jr.
JFR Graphics Pole Sitter: Jeff Chandler
Quarter Master Hard Luck Award: Jeff Sloan
Provisionals: Joey Mack, Jeff Sloan
Larry Shaw Race Cars Hard Charger: Joey Mack (19th-14th)
COMP Cams Top Performer: Wendell Wallace
Cautions: 1
Red Flag: 0
Leaders: Wendell Wallace (1-40)
Twenty-Eight Super Late Models, representing six different states, signed in to battle for the $2,000 to win/$400 to start purse in front of a huge crowd at I-30 Speedway. Via heat race action, Jeff Chandler accumulated the most passing points and earned the pole position for the 40 lap feature on a very well prepared, ¼ mile, red clay oval. However, it was outside front row starter, Wendell Wallace, who used the highline to rocket into the lead as the field entered turn one with Chandler, Allen Tippen, Howard Willis, and Kyle Beard in tow.
During the race’s early stages drivers were battling two and three wide throughout the pack, while Wallace began to establish his domination at the front of the pack in his #88 Wincrest Farms/GRT/Gaerte Racing Engines Super Late Model. By lap 11, Wallace was already encountering lapped traffic as sixth starting Kyle Beard and Ray Moore, moved into the second and third spots respectively as Jeff Chandler began to fade.
The race continued to endure a long green flag run as it approached the midpoint with Wallace, Beard, Moore, Jeff Chandler, and Howard Willis making up the top five. While the top five diced things up, Greenbriar, Arkansas’ driver, Jack Sullivan, was making his own noise as he had advanced from his fourteenth starting spot to the sixth position by lap 24.
The race’s only caution would fly on lap 30, when disaster was narrowly adverted when sixth and seventh running, Jon Mitchell and Billy Moyer Jr. made contact down the front straightaway with Moyer Jr. making hard contact with the wall, yet somehow managing to keep rolling. The caution was displayed for possible debris on the track from the melee as Moyer Jr. retained his running position.
At the time of the caution, the top five running order consisted of Wendell Wallace, Kyle Beard, Ray Moore, Jack Sullivan, and Jeff Chandler. During the caution Bill Frye retired his #66 GRT By Frye to the pit area with a broken right front tire rod.
On the ensuing restart Wallace would once again motor away from the field as Moore slipped by Beard for second and Billy Moyer Jr. jumped from seventh to fifth.
The remainder of the race would go caution free as “The Batesville Bullet” Wendell Wallace, picked up his first O’Reilly MSRA win of 2009. Ray Moore, Kyle Beard, Jack Sullivan, and Billy Moyer Jr. rounded out the top five.
Heat race action was topped by Jeff Chandler, Wendell Wallace, Allen Tippen, and Howard Willis. Jeff Floyd and Bill Frye claimed wins in the twin b-mains.
Two-time defending O’Reilly MSRA Champion, Joey Mack, had a tough night and had to utilize a provisional to start the feature as did Jeff Sloan. Mack started in the 19th spot and advanced his way to a 14th place finish. His five position advancement was more than any other O’Reilly MSRA member, and he received the Larry Shaw Race Cars Hard Charger Award.
Jeff Sloan retired early in the feature with an ill-handling race car and was awarded the Quarter Master Hard Luck Award.
Wendell Wallace earned the COMP Cams Top Performer Award for the night.
The next event on tap for the O’Reilly MSRA Super Late Model tour will be on Saturday, April 11th as they make their first ever visit to Clayton Allen’s Riverside International Speedway in West Memphis, Arkansas. The event will serve as a challenge race with the O’Reilly SUPR Super Late Models, and will be the first time that the two tours have ever gone head to head.
Enthusiasm for the first Super Late Model Special at Riverside International Speedway in nearly two decades is at an overflowing high and a large crowd is expected for the event. For more information, please visit www.RiversideInternationalSpeedway.com .
The O'Reilly MSRA is sponsored by and would like to thank primary sponsor O'Reilly Auto Parts, their Associate Sponsors- GRT Race Cars, Hoosier Racing Tires, COMP Cams, Larry Shaw Race Cars, Quarter Master, Kuntz & Company, Mark Martin Auto Group, JFR Graphics, RiceTec, ASI Racewear, ROCKHARD Powdercoat, Inc., Boomland, NEA Supergas, and MSR Mafia.com Marketing Services; and their contingency sponsors - Suspension Spring Specialists, BSB Manufacturing, Boston's Restaurant and Sports Bar Pizza, Five Star Bodies, Joe Gibbs Racing Oil, Schaeffer Oil, & FSR Products.
For the latest information on the O'Reilly MSRA Super Late Model Series, please visit www.MSRADirt.com
Feature Results
1. Wendell Wallace (Batesville, AR)
2. Ray Moore (Shreveport, LA)
3. Kyle Beard (Trumann, AR)
4. Jack Sullivan (Greenbriar, AR)
5. Billy Moyer Jr. (Batesville, AR)
6. Jeff Chandler (Minden, LA)
7. Allen Tippen (Minden, LA)
8. Howard Willis (Houston, TX)
9. Lee Davis (Greenwood, LA)
10. Jon Mitchell (Texarkana, AR)
11. Jon Kirby (Russellville, AR)
12. Gary Christian (Broken Bow, OK)
13. Jeff Floyd (Walnut Ridge, AR)
14. Joey Mack (Benton, MO)
15. Mike Bowers (North Little Rock, AR)
16. Jeff Wells Jr. (Trumann, AR)
17. Dewaine Hottinger (Russellville, AR)
18. Tom Earl III (Haslett, TX)
19. Bill Frye (Greenbriar, AR)
20. Jeff Sloan (East Prairie , MO)
Entries: 28 (Representing Six States)
Heat Winners: Jeff Chandler, Wendell Wallace, Allen Tippen, Howard Willis
B-Main Transfers: Jeff Floyd, Dewaine Hottinger, Bill Frye, Jeff Wells Jr.
JFR Graphics Pole Sitter: Jeff Chandler
Quarter Master Hard Luck Award: Jeff Sloan
Provisionals: Joey Mack, Jeff Sloan
Larry Shaw Race Cars Hard Charger: Joey Mack (19th-14th)
COMP Cams Top Performer: Wendell Wallace
Cautions: 1
Red Flag: 0
Leaders: Wendell Wallace (1-40)
