$20G to win World of Outlaw Late Models @Battleground Speedway on March 20th & 21st!!

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Practice Thursday and we RACE THIS FRIDAY & SATURDAY!!!
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'KID ROCKET' Coming to TEXAS! ~ KEVIN SITTON tunes up with Texas Motor Speedway runner-up!
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With the way things started in Florida, no doubt that "Kid Rocket" otherwise known as Josh Richards -- a 20-year old Dirt Late Model sensation from the hills of West Virgiania who already has 4 years of World of Outlaw Late Model Racing under his belt -- has to be the early odds-on favorite to win the first Lonestar 100 at Battleground.

Josh is coming off a great Speedweeks in Florida where he scored 5 Dirt Late Model wins -- 3 with the Lucas Oil Late Models at East Bay, all within 24 hours, 1 with UMP DIRTcar at Voluisian and one with the World of Outlaws which happened to be the third straight year that Josh has won the WoO opener. Those five netted him over $45,000 in winnings plus he had some other top ten finishes.

There's folks out there who already predicted this though. I found this a www.worldofoutlaws.com/LateModel :

Concord, NC — By Kevin Kovac, WoO LMS P.R. Director
Josh Richards is ready to reach the mountaintop of the World of Outlaws Late Model Series.

That’s the press contingent’s consensus opinion of the 20-year-old sensation from Shinnston, W.Va., who was voted the overwhelming favorite to win the national tour’s 2009 points championship in the second annual WoO LMS Pre-Season Media Poll.

Two-dozen writers, photographers and broadcasters who cover the WoO LMS participated in the poll, which asked the press members to predict the top-five finishers in the tour’s 2009 points standings. Points were distributed to each driver named on the media ballots using a 5-4-3-2-1 system.

Richards tallied 106 points in the poll, including an impressive 17 first-place votes. No other driver received more than three first-place selections and Richards appeared on all 24 media ballots – a clear sign of the good feelings swirling around the young driver entering the 2009 WoO LMS campaign, which kicks off on Feb. 12 and 14 with a pair of programs during the 38th annual Alltel DIRTcar Nationals by UNOH at Volusia Speedway Park in Barberville, Fla.

Coming off a breakout 2008 season that saw him win a career-high six A-Mains (tied for the series lead) and finish second in the points standings, Richards carries plenty of momentum into the new year. He captured the tour’s ’08 season finale during the VAULT World Finals at The Dirt Track @ Lowe’s Motor Speedway in Concord, N.C., and tuned up for the WoO LMS by winning three features last week in other Florida action.

The 2005 WoO LMS Rookie of the Year is set to make his fifth fulltime assault on the tour behind the wheel of his father Mark’s Seubert Calf Ranches-sponsored Rocket Chassis house car. Prior to his runner-up finish in last year’s points battle, he placed eighth (2005), ninth (2006) and sixth (2007) in the standings.

One media member provided a comment that neatly sums up the general feeling about Richards’s prospects in 2009.

“He kicked off 2008 with a win (at Volusia) and closed it with a win,” wrote the journalist. “This year he’ll be good the whole year – ‘Kid Rocket’ becomes ‘King Rocket.’”



So, Loxley, Alabama is up next for the not-yet-crowned Kid Rocket and the rest of the World of Outlaw Late Model competitors on March 13th and 14th and then we'll see what he has when he comes to Texas on March 20th and 21st!
http://www.stlracing.com/forums/showthread.php?t=124888
 
Hoping to have a good showing for the hometown crowd at Battleground, Baytown, Texas racer Kevin Sitton with a big motor on loan, tuned up by pulling off an excellent 2nd place finish in a field of 60 Late Models at the Texas Motor Speedway Dirt Track in Fort Worth Saturday night!

Kevin is the reigning SUPR Late Model Rookie-of-the-Year after winning 3 features on that tour in 2008. He also came up through the Houston-area's tough Limited Modified ranks.

Can he catch a Rocket? We'll see in less than 3 weeks!!!
 
This is who I heard to expect so far:

Darrell Lanigan - Union, KY
Josh Richards – Shinnston, WV
Steve Francis – Ashland, KY
Shane Clanton – Locust Grove, GA
Chub Frank – Bear Lake, PA
Rick Eckert – York, PA
Clint Smith – Senoia, GA
Tim Fuller – Watertown, NY
Vic Coffey – Caledonia, NY
Brady Smith – Solon Springs, WI
Joe Isabell – Pennellville, NY
Brent Robinson – Smithfield, VA
Russ King – Bristolville, OH
Tyler Reddick – Corning, CA
Dustin Hapka – Grand Forks, ND
Chas Shellenberger – Winfield, PA
Chuck Hummer – Ottawa Lake, MI
Jeff Isabell Jr. – Pennellville, NY
Shannon Babb – Moweaqua, IL
Brian Birkhofer – Muscatine, IA
Jimmy Mars – Menomonie, WI
Duke Whiseant – Texarkana, AR
Sean Beardsley – Central Square, NY
Chris Wall - Holden, LA
Kevin Sitton - Baytown, TX
Brady Smith - WI
Ray Moore - Shreveport, LA
Al Purkey - Coffeyville, KS
Wendell Wallace - Batesville, AR
 




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