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Ricky Thornton, Jr. takes Lucas Oil Late Model Series win at 300 Raceway!

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FARLEY, Iowa (May 19, 2023) – Ricky Thornton Jr. scored a perfect night at 300 Raceway as he was the overall fast qualifier, won his heat, and led all but the first ten laps of the Simon’s Trucking “You Call-We Haul” 50 main event on Friday night. It was Thornton’s fourth Lucas Oil Late Model Dirt Series win of the season as he closed to within ten points of series point leader, Hudson O’Neal, who finished third.

Tim McCreadie, the two-time and reigning series champion came home in second just in front of O’Neal at the stripe. Mason Zeigler, who led the first ten circuits of the race was fourth and defending race winner, Tyler Erb was fifth.

Zeigler, the 2018 Lucas Oil Late Model Dirt Series Rookie of the Year, was making his first start with the series since Speedweeks. Zeigler looked stout from the start as he set a rapid pace at the drop of the green. However, lapped traffic allowed Thornton to close the gap in a hurry on Zeigler as Thornton dove down low entering turn two to take the lead on lap 11.

Zeigler then ran second for several circuits until McCreadie, who started third was able to get by the Pennsylvania racer. O’Neal recovered from two restarts and battled with McCreadie near the end as the two were close at the finish line with McCreadie just edging out O’Neal.

Thornton, who started from the pole fell back to second in the early going to Zeigler but bounced back passing Zeigler in traffic to take over a lead he never relinquished. “I just didn’t get a good enough start and that allowed Mason to get out in front. I was just kind of dictating off him how fast I needed to go. We got into lapped traffic, and it was kind of hairy there for a while. It worked out for me.”

“There for a while I thought I couldn’t qualify anymore. It was real good tonight. I didn’t hot lap very good, but we qualified really well. It makes your night way easier when you start up front in the heat races and in front of the feature,” said the 32-year-old Martinsville, Indiana racer. “It’s a lot better than starting 20th and driving my tail off to just to get to fifth or sixth.”

McCreadie, who is still looking for his first series win of the season finished 3.5 seconds behind Thornton at the checkers. “It’s just nice to put a normal night together where you are not running B-Mains and not changing everything under the car. I saw the rain here last night and I have been here when it’s rains it’s usually a real tough track, but tonight it was real good and racy. This is one of the few places when you pull a slider at least you clear a guy. It’s nice to see these guys race with a little civility out there and not just slide over your nose or do anything like that. We were clearing each other and crossing back over and having a lot of fun out there. It started to latch up a little bit in that last heat and the track crew went to work and it was a good race to be a part of.”

O’Neal, who entered the race 50 points ahead of both Thornton and Brandon Overton will carry the Midwest Sheet Metal orange spoiler onto 34 Raceway on Saturday night with a 10-point advantage. “I really didn’t do my job. I had a pretty good race car and I just messed up on two restarts right back-to-back and fell all the way back to sixth or seventh or whatever it was. It just set me behind the whole race. I just couldn’t quite scratch my way back fast enough to get back to them. McCreadie and I got to battling for second there at the end and that was pretty fun.”

The winner’s Todd and Vickie Burns-owned, SSI Motorsports, Longhorn Chassis is powered by a Clements Racing Engine and sponsored by Big River Steel, Hoker Trucking, Sub-Surface of Indiana, Dyno One Inc., West Side Tractor Sales, Certified Inspection Service Company, Inc., D&E Outside Services, Midwest Sheet Metal, Sunoco Race Fuels, Bilstein Shocks, and Murty Farms.

Completing the top ten were Devin Moran, Jimmy Owens, Brandon Overton, Chad Simpson, and Daulton Wilson.

Lucas Oil Late Model Dirt Series

Race Summary

Simon’s Trucking You Call We Haul 50

Friday, May 19, 2023

300 Raceway – Farley, IA

Allstar Performance Time Trials

Fast Time Group A: Ricky Thornton, Jr. / 14.630 seconds (overall)

Fast Time Group B: Mason Zeigler / 14.656 seconds

26 entries

DIRT SUPER LATE MODELS


Simons Trucking You Call We Haul 50 (50 Laps): 1. 20RT-Ricky Thornton Jr[1]; 2. 39-Tim McCreadie[3]; 3. 1H-Hudson O’Neal[4]; 4. 25Z-Mason Zeigler[2]; 5. 1T-Tyler Erb[7]; 6. 99-Devin Moran[5]; 7. 20-Jimmy Owens[11]; 8. 76-Brandon Overton[20]; 9. 25C-Chad Simpson[12]; 10. 18D-Daulton Wilson[10]; 11. 46-Earl Pearson Jr[9]; 12. 7-Ross Robinson[13]; 13. 49-Jonathan Davenport[6]; 14. 16-Tyler Bruening[15]; 15. 49T-Jake Timm[14]; 16. 58-Garrett Alberson[16]; 17. 11-Spencer Hughes[8]; 18. T22-Tegan Evans[25]; 19. 22-Daniel Hilsabeck[23]; 20. 99B-Boom Briggs[22]; 21. 40-Joel Callahan[21]; 22. 111B-Max Blair[18]; 23. 98-Jason Rauen[17]; 24. 4G-Kody Evans[19]; 25. 29-Spencer Diercks[26]; 26. 17-Tim Simpson[24]

Penske Shocks Heat 1 (8 Laps): 1. 20RT-Ricky Thornton Jr[1]; 2. 1H-Hudson O’Neal[2]; 3. 1T-Tyler Erb[4]; 4. 18D-Daulton Wilson[3]; 5. 7-Ross Robinson[6]; 6. 58-Garrett Alberson[8]; 7. 4G-Kody Evans[5]; 8. 99B-Boom Briggs[7]; 9. T22-Tegan Evans[9]

Summit Racing Equipment Heat 2 (8 Laps): 1. 25Z-Mason Zeigler[1]; 2. 99-Devin Moran[2]; 3. 11-Spencer Hughes[4]; 4. 20-Jimmy Owens[3]; 5. 49T-Jake Timm[6]; 6. 98-Jason Rauen[8]; 7. 76-Brandon Overton[9]; 8. 22-Daniel Hilsabeck[5]; 9. 29-Spencer Diercks[7]

Simpson Race Products Heat 3 (8 Laps): 1. 39-Tim McCreadie[2]; 2. 49-Jonathan Davenport[1]; 3. 46-Earl Pearson Jr[4]; 4. 25C-Chad Simpson[3]; 5. 16-Tyler Bruening[5]; 6. 111B-Max Blair[6]; 7. 40-Joel Callahan[7]; 8. 17-Tim Simpson[8]

Qualifying (2 Laps): 1. 20RT-Ricky Thornton Jr, 00:14.630[8]; 2. 25Z-Mason Zeigler, 00:14.656[17]; 3. 49-Jonathan Davenport, 00:14.700[7]; 4. 1H-Hudson O’Neal, 00:14.701[11]; 5. 99-Devin Moran, 00:14.840[6]; 6. 39-Tim McCreadie, 00:14.861[10]; 7. 18D-Daulton Wilson, 00:14.884[19]; 8. 20-Jimmy Owens, 00:14.967[18]; 9. 25C-Chad Simpson, 00:14.975[9]; 10. 1T-Tyler Erb, 00:15.021[4]; 11. 11-Spencer Hughes, 00:15.033[20]; 12. 46-Earl Pearson Jr, 00:15.049[5]; 13. 4G-Kody Evans, 00:15.089[24]; 14. 22-Daniel Hilsabeck, 00:15.090[16]; 15. 16-Tyler Bruening, 00:15.116[3]; 16. 7-Ross Robinson, 00:15.179[1]; 17. 49T-Jake Timm, 00:15.248[2]; 18. 111B-Max Blair, 00:15.260[12]; 19. 99B-Boom Briggs, 00:15.304[15]; 20. 29-Spencer Diercks, 00:15.325[13]; 21. 40-Joel Callahan, 00:15.458[14]; 22. 58-Garrett Alberson, 00:15.491[25]; 23. 98-Jason Rauen, 00:15.688[21]; 24. 17-Tim Simpson, 00:16.054[22]; 25. T22-Tegan Evans, 00:17.402[26]; 26. 76-Brandon Overton, 00:59.999[23]

Hot Laps – GROUP 1: 1. 46-Earl Pearson Jr, 00:15.042[5]; 2. 49-Jonathan Davenport, 00:15.145[7]; 3. 25C-Chad Simpson, 00:15.216[9]; 4. 49T-Jake Timm, 00:15.418[2]; 5. 20RT-Ricky Thornton Jr, 00:15.434[8]; 6. 1T-Tyler Erb, 00:15.446[4]; 7. 16-Tyler Bruening, 00:15.490[3]; 8. 99-Devin Moran, 00:15.576[6]; 9. 7-Ross Robinson, 00:15.655[1]

Hot Laps – GROUP 2: 1. 1H-Hudson O’Neal, 00:15.130[2]; 2. 39-Tim McCreadie, 00:15.173[1]; 3. 25Z-Mason Zeigler, 00:15.329[8]; 4. 111B-Max Blair, 00:15.350[3]; 5. 20-Jimmy Owens, 00:15.637[9]; 6. 22-Daniel Hilsabeck, 00:15.695[7]; 7. 99B-Boom Briggs, 00:15.745[6]; 8. 29-Spencer Diercks, 00:15.747[4]; 9. 40-Joel Callahan, 00:16.199[5]

Hot Laps – GROUP 3: 1. 11-Spencer Hughes, 00:15.328[2]; 2. 18D-Daulton Wilson, 00:15.582[1]; 3. 4G-Kody Evans, 00:15.663[6]; 4. 58-Garrett Alberson, 00:15.776[7]; 5. 98-Jason Rauen, 00:16.148[3]; 6. T22-Tegan Evans, 00:16.635[8]; 7. 17-Tim Simpson, 00:16.909[4]

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