Springfield,Mo.-Springfield's Terry Phillips overcame a tight early battle with Bill Frye and used a lap 17 restart in capturing his third consectutive Larry Phillips Memorial win Sat night at the SpringfieldRaceway in taking home the $2575 win.The race moved this season to the SpringfieldRaceway was especially sweet for son Terry as he started his racing career at the Springfield track in an IMCA Modified.
The 40 car field was narrowed down to a 20 car starting grid after 5 thrilling heat races and 2 Last Chances with the best in the Midwest on hand in the unsanctioned event.
Terry Phillips and former MARS champion Bill frye brought the field down to the green with Phillips taking the opening lead.Frye found a high spot in turn 4 and moved his car to the lead on lap 2 with Phillips glued to the bottom lane.The lead duo thrilled the crowd by swapping the top spot back and forth with each giving plenty of racing room to each other.On lap 10 Phillips took back the top spot with Frye staying close.Behind the leaders,Jeremy Payne,Brad Looney,Justin Wells and Eric Turner were battling hard for positions.The only caution flew on lap 18 as Bobby Maggard Jr stalled on the frontstretch and Rex Merritt came to a stop in turn 1.
On the double file restart,Frye picked the bottom groove with Jeremy Payne on his outside.On the restart,Phillips shot ahead and never looked back in pulling away.Frye was starting to gain in the latter stages of the race as Phillips was making his way through lapped traffic.On the final lap in turn 4,Payne made contact with Frye sending him spinning around as the field took the checkered flag.For Phillips it marked his third consectutive feature win with his late father's name in the Memorial race.Payne crossed the stripe in second but was dropped to the bottom of the standings for the contact with Frye moving a fast moving Brad Looney,Show-me Series champion Justin Wells,MARS Runner-up Eric Turner and Tony Jackson Jr completing the top 5.12 of the 20 starters finished on the lead lap in the 35 lap feature while 17 were running at the end of the feature..Heat race winners included Justin Wells,Bill Frye,Terry Phillips,John Beck and Brandon McCormick.Last chance races went to Mike Harris and Chuck Comer.
In support action Steve Muilenburg use a last lap low groove pass over leader David Kirkland in top the action packed feature event.Kirkland making his first SportMod event of the season took the lead from a tight pack of runners on lap 3 and lead until Muilenburg made the winning pass. Kirkland,Dean Willie,point champion Billy Street and JC Morton completed the top 5 as the feature only had 1 caution during the 20 lap event which featured 3 different leaders.12 cars stayed on the lead lap and the lead pack included as many as 10 runners in contention for the win.Heat race wnners were Billy Street,Muilenburg,Kirkland and Jim VanZandt while the last chance race went to Jerry Lankton over the 29 Entries
Johnny Fennawald made the long trip to Springfield worth his wild as the Northern A-Mod shoe took the early lead from veteran Rex Merritt and never looked back.Merritt got 1 last chance on a lap 18 restart but Fennawald proved to strong Following the lead duo to the stripe were Erik Maggard,Jody Tillman and Jamie Ragland.THe 20 lap feature only had 1 yellow late in the race on lap 18 as 14 of the 20 starters finished on the lead lap as 17 were running at the end.Heat race winners included Maggard,Steve Martin,Merritt and Tillman.Merritt earned the pole with the most passing points with Fenewald along side.
The Bombers provided another great event at SpringfieldRaceway as the 16 car field took the Green with points runner-up James Redus grabbing the opening lead from pole setter Bob Maggard Sr.With Redus opening up a lead,Shawn Strong started making his way to the front.On lap 10,Strong caught Redus, but Redus with stood several challanges from Strong in capturing the win with Tyler Schoen,Dan Wood and pole setter Maggard completing the top 5.Maggard and Strong captured the heat race wins.
The race attracted 120 race teams in 4 classes under a beautiful Ozarks skies and good weather.
The next racing action at the SpringfieldRaceway will be the Turkey Classic on Sat November 28th with action starting at 2PM.LateModels will battle for $2,000 to win and $200 to start with action also including A-Mods,SportMods and Legends.LateModels will run under Mars DirtCar Series rules.The RainDate will be Sunday Afternoon November 29th.
For more information visit the website at WWW.SpringfieldRaceway.com or contact Jerry Hoffman at 417-673-7426.
Results-Larry Philips Memorial
LateModels
A Ft-1)Terry Phillips(1) 2)Brad Looney(5) 3)Justin Wells(7) 4)Eric Turner(9) 5)Tony Jackson Jr (10) 6)Ken Essary (14) 7)Larry Campbell (8) 8)Brandon McCormick (6) 9)Shane Essary (15) 10)Mike Harris (17) 11)Ed Dixon (11) 12)John Beck (3) 13)Darrell Mooneyham (12) 14)Rylan Long (19) 15)Chuck Comer(20) 16)Rex Merritt(13) 17)Bobby Maggard Jr (16) 18)Rick Lebow (18) 19)Bill Frye (2) 20)Jeremy Payne (4)
Last Chance Race 1-1)Harris 2)Long 3)Justin Asplin 4)Joey Mack 5)Larry Jones 6)Darrell Moser 7)Dwight Neihoff 8)Glen Yarbrough 9)Patrick Johnson 10)Randy Galloway 11)Steve Johnson DNS-Jimmy Seagraves
Last Chance Race 2-1)Comer 2)Lebow 3)Chris Morelock 4)Kevin Brown 5)Jordan Holloway 6)Chad Williams 7)Mike Hammerle 8)Brian Bolster 9)Donnie Timmerman 10)James Rutledge DNS-Adam Brown,Matt Menzie
1st Ht-1)Wells 2)Jackson Jr 3)S.Essary 4)Harris 5)Asplin 6)Williams 7)S Johnson 8)Holloway
2nd Ht-1)Frye 2)Dixon 3)Campbell 4)Lebow 5)Hammerle 6)Moser 7)Timmerman 8)Neihoff
3rd Ht-1)Phillips 2)Mooneyham 3)Maggard Jr 4)K.Essary 5)Jones 6)Brown 7)Yarbrough 8)Rutledge
4th Ht-1)Beck 2)Looney 3)Turner 4)Long 5)Comer 6)Galloway DNS-A Brown,Seagraves
5th Ht-1)McCormick 2)Payne 3)Merritt 4)Morelock 5)P Johnson 6)Bolster 7)Mack DNS-Menzie
A Mods
A Ft-1)Johnny Fennewald (2) 2)Rex Merritt (1) 3)Erik Maggard (5) 4)Jody Tillman (4) 5)Jamie Ragland (7) 6)Jim Body (10) 7)Dean Willie (3) 8)Jason Pursley (14) 9)Jim Pearcy Jr(8) 10)Darrell Moser Jr(15) 11)Steve Martin (6) 12)Dalton Greven (20) 13)Rob Muilenburg (18) 14)Brian Green (12) 15)Sundance Keepper(17) 16)Eric Lampe (13) 17)Terry Kirk (19) 18)Matt Dotson (9) 19)Jon Yeoman (11) 20)Steve Muilenburg (16)
Last Chance Race 1-1)Keepper 2)Kirk 3)Bobby Pearish 4)Jon Sheets 5)Tim Dotson 6)Eric Clay 7)Mike Arbuckle 8)Todd Knight 9)Danney Atkinson
Last Chance Race 2-1)R.Muilenburg 2)Greven 3)Chase Jones 4)Cody Elnicki 5)Ed Griggs 6)Dean Hensler 7)Josh Bindseil 8)Chase Meade
1st HT-1)E Maggard 2)Fennewald 3)Yeoman 4)S Muilenburg 5)Greven 6)Keepper 7)Sheets 8)Atkinson 9)Clay
2nd Ht-1)Martin 2)M Dotson 3)Piercey Jr 4)Lampe 5)Moser Jr 6)T Dotson 7)Bindsell 8)Elnicki
3rd Ht-1)Merritt 2)Body 3)Ragland 4)Pursley 5)Jones 6)R Muilenburg 7)Pearish 8)Knight
4th Ht-1)Tillman 2)Willie 3)Green 4)Arbuckle 5)Kirk 6)Hensler 7)Meade 8)Griggs
SportMods
A Ft-1)Steve Muilenburg(1) 2)David Kirkland (4) 3)Dean Willie (2) 4)Billy Street (6) 5)JC Morton (3) 6)Mickey Burrell(11) 7)Sean Williams (5) 8)Roy Maynard (12) 9)Jimmy VanZandt (7) 10)Micheal Stake (14) 11)Chad Williams (10) 12)Eric Tinderholt (18) 13)Jerry Lankton (17) 14)Jon Yeoman Jr (13) 15)Randy Lebow (19) 16)Mike Watson (20) 17)Brad Moad (16) 18)Earl Muilenburg (9) 19)Darrin Crisler (15) 20)Jeff Albright Jr (8)
Last Chance Race-1)Lankton 2)Tinderholt 3)Lebow 4)Watson 5)Willie Wilson 6)Gary Rodocker 7)Rich Hert 8)Dallas Scott 9)Randy Phillips 10)Aaron Speck 11)Tom Gerleve 12)David Williams DNS-Larry Tindle
1st HT-1)Street 2)Willie 3)Burrell 4)Stake 5)Wilson 6)Scott 7)Williams 8)Tindle
2nd Ht-1)Muilenburg 2)Morton 3)Albright Jr 4)Crisler 5)Rodocker 6)Phillips 7)Hert
3rd Ht-1)Kirkland 2)S Williams 3)Maynard 4)Yeoman Jr 5)Lankton 6)Speck 7)Gerleve
4th Ht-1)VanZandt 2)E Muilenburg 3)R Williams 4)Moad 5)Tinderholt 6)Lebow 7)Watson
Bombers
A Ft-1)James Redus(2) 2)Shawn Strong (3) 3)Tyler Schoen (5) 4)Dan Wood (8) 5)Bob Maggard Sr (1) 6)Robert High (13) 7)Matt Pilant (15) 8)Mark Selsor (6) 9)Rusty Forrestt (9) 10)Rex Freize (7) 11)Bill Schoen (4) 12)Rodney Yost (16) 13)John Long (14) 14)Daniel Harris (12) 15)JR Aitken (10) 16)John Coats(11)
1st HT-1)Strong 2)B Schoen 3)T Schoen 4)Selsor 5)Wood 6)Harris 7)High 8)Pilant
2nd Ht-1)Maggard Sr 2)Redus 3)Freize 4)Forrestt 5)Aitken 6)Coats 7)Long 8)Yost
The 40 car field was narrowed down to a 20 car starting grid after 5 thrilling heat races and 2 Last Chances with the best in the Midwest on hand in the unsanctioned event.
Terry Phillips and former MARS champion Bill frye brought the field down to the green with Phillips taking the opening lead.Frye found a high spot in turn 4 and moved his car to the lead on lap 2 with Phillips glued to the bottom lane.The lead duo thrilled the crowd by swapping the top spot back and forth with each giving plenty of racing room to each other.On lap 10 Phillips took back the top spot with Frye staying close.Behind the leaders,Jeremy Payne,Brad Looney,Justin Wells and Eric Turner were battling hard for positions.The only caution flew on lap 18 as Bobby Maggard Jr stalled on the frontstretch and Rex Merritt came to a stop in turn 1.
On the double file restart,Frye picked the bottom groove with Jeremy Payne on his outside.On the restart,Phillips shot ahead and never looked back in pulling away.Frye was starting to gain in the latter stages of the race as Phillips was making his way through lapped traffic.On the final lap in turn 4,Payne made contact with Frye sending him spinning around as the field took the checkered flag.For Phillips it marked his third consectutive feature win with his late father's name in the Memorial race.Payne crossed the stripe in second but was dropped to the bottom of the standings for the contact with Frye moving a fast moving Brad Looney,Show-me Series champion Justin Wells,MARS Runner-up Eric Turner and Tony Jackson Jr completing the top 5.12 of the 20 starters finished on the lead lap in the 35 lap feature while 17 were running at the end of the feature..Heat race winners included Justin Wells,Bill Frye,Terry Phillips,John Beck and Brandon McCormick.Last chance races went to Mike Harris and Chuck Comer.
In support action Steve Muilenburg use a last lap low groove pass over leader David Kirkland in top the action packed feature event.Kirkland making his first SportMod event of the season took the lead from a tight pack of runners on lap 3 and lead until Muilenburg made the winning pass. Kirkland,Dean Willie,point champion Billy Street and JC Morton completed the top 5 as the feature only had 1 caution during the 20 lap event which featured 3 different leaders.12 cars stayed on the lead lap and the lead pack included as many as 10 runners in contention for the win.Heat race wnners were Billy Street,Muilenburg,Kirkland and Jim VanZandt while the last chance race went to Jerry Lankton over the 29 Entries
Johnny Fennawald made the long trip to Springfield worth his wild as the Northern A-Mod shoe took the early lead from veteran Rex Merritt and never looked back.Merritt got 1 last chance on a lap 18 restart but Fennawald proved to strong Following the lead duo to the stripe were Erik Maggard,Jody Tillman and Jamie Ragland.THe 20 lap feature only had 1 yellow late in the race on lap 18 as 14 of the 20 starters finished on the lead lap as 17 were running at the end.Heat race winners included Maggard,Steve Martin,Merritt and Tillman.Merritt earned the pole with the most passing points with Fenewald along side.
The Bombers provided another great event at SpringfieldRaceway as the 16 car field took the Green with points runner-up James Redus grabbing the opening lead from pole setter Bob Maggard Sr.With Redus opening up a lead,Shawn Strong started making his way to the front.On lap 10,Strong caught Redus, but Redus with stood several challanges from Strong in capturing the win with Tyler Schoen,Dan Wood and pole setter Maggard completing the top 5.Maggard and Strong captured the heat race wins.
The race attracted 120 race teams in 4 classes under a beautiful Ozarks skies and good weather.
The next racing action at the SpringfieldRaceway will be the Turkey Classic on Sat November 28th with action starting at 2PM.LateModels will battle for $2,000 to win and $200 to start with action also including A-Mods,SportMods and Legends.LateModels will run under Mars DirtCar Series rules.The RainDate will be Sunday Afternoon November 29th.
For more information visit the website at WWW.SpringfieldRaceway.com or contact Jerry Hoffman at 417-673-7426.
Results-Larry Philips Memorial
LateModels
A Ft-1)Terry Phillips(1) 2)Brad Looney(5) 3)Justin Wells(7) 4)Eric Turner(9) 5)Tony Jackson Jr (10) 6)Ken Essary (14) 7)Larry Campbell (8) 8)Brandon McCormick (6) 9)Shane Essary (15) 10)Mike Harris (17) 11)Ed Dixon (11) 12)John Beck (3) 13)Darrell Mooneyham (12) 14)Rylan Long (19) 15)Chuck Comer(20) 16)Rex Merritt(13) 17)Bobby Maggard Jr (16) 18)Rick Lebow (18) 19)Bill Frye (2) 20)Jeremy Payne (4)
Last Chance Race 1-1)Harris 2)Long 3)Justin Asplin 4)Joey Mack 5)Larry Jones 6)Darrell Moser 7)Dwight Neihoff 8)Glen Yarbrough 9)Patrick Johnson 10)Randy Galloway 11)Steve Johnson DNS-Jimmy Seagraves
Last Chance Race 2-1)Comer 2)Lebow 3)Chris Morelock 4)Kevin Brown 5)Jordan Holloway 6)Chad Williams 7)Mike Hammerle 8)Brian Bolster 9)Donnie Timmerman 10)James Rutledge DNS-Adam Brown,Matt Menzie
1st Ht-1)Wells 2)Jackson Jr 3)S.Essary 4)Harris 5)Asplin 6)Williams 7)S Johnson 8)Holloway
2nd Ht-1)Frye 2)Dixon 3)Campbell 4)Lebow 5)Hammerle 6)Moser 7)Timmerman 8)Neihoff
3rd Ht-1)Phillips 2)Mooneyham 3)Maggard Jr 4)K.Essary 5)Jones 6)Brown 7)Yarbrough 8)Rutledge
4th Ht-1)Beck 2)Looney 3)Turner 4)Long 5)Comer 6)Galloway DNS-A Brown,Seagraves
5th Ht-1)McCormick 2)Payne 3)Merritt 4)Morelock 5)P Johnson 6)Bolster 7)Mack DNS-Menzie
A Mods
A Ft-1)Johnny Fennewald (2) 2)Rex Merritt (1) 3)Erik Maggard (5) 4)Jody Tillman (4) 5)Jamie Ragland (7) 6)Jim Body (10) 7)Dean Willie (3) 8)Jason Pursley (14) 9)Jim Pearcy Jr(8) 10)Darrell Moser Jr(15) 11)Steve Martin (6) 12)Dalton Greven (20) 13)Rob Muilenburg (18) 14)Brian Green (12) 15)Sundance Keepper(17) 16)Eric Lampe (13) 17)Terry Kirk (19) 18)Matt Dotson (9) 19)Jon Yeoman (11) 20)Steve Muilenburg (16)
Last Chance Race 1-1)Keepper 2)Kirk 3)Bobby Pearish 4)Jon Sheets 5)Tim Dotson 6)Eric Clay 7)Mike Arbuckle 8)Todd Knight 9)Danney Atkinson
Last Chance Race 2-1)R.Muilenburg 2)Greven 3)Chase Jones 4)Cody Elnicki 5)Ed Griggs 6)Dean Hensler 7)Josh Bindseil 8)Chase Meade
1st HT-1)E Maggard 2)Fennewald 3)Yeoman 4)S Muilenburg 5)Greven 6)Keepper 7)Sheets 8)Atkinson 9)Clay
2nd Ht-1)Martin 2)M Dotson 3)Piercey Jr 4)Lampe 5)Moser Jr 6)T Dotson 7)Bindsell 8)Elnicki
3rd Ht-1)Merritt 2)Body 3)Ragland 4)Pursley 5)Jones 6)R Muilenburg 7)Pearish 8)Knight
4th Ht-1)Tillman 2)Willie 3)Green 4)Arbuckle 5)Kirk 6)Hensler 7)Meade 8)Griggs
SportMods
A Ft-1)Steve Muilenburg(1) 2)David Kirkland (4) 3)Dean Willie (2) 4)Billy Street (6) 5)JC Morton (3) 6)Mickey Burrell(11) 7)Sean Williams (5) 8)Roy Maynard (12) 9)Jimmy VanZandt (7) 10)Micheal Stake (14) 11)Chad Williams (10) 12)Eric Tinderholt (18) 13)Jerry Lankton (17) 14)Jon Yeoman Jr (13) 15)Randy Lebow (19) 16)Mike Watson (20) 17)Brad Moad (16) 18)Earl Muilenburg (9) 19)Darrin Crisler (15) 20)Jeff Albright Jr (8)
Last Chance Race-1)Lankton 2)Tinderholt 3)Lebow 4)Watson 5)Willie Wilson 6)Gary Rodocker 7)Rich Hert 8)Dallas Scott 9)Randy Phillips 10)Aaron Speck 11)Tom Gerleve 12)David Williams DNS-Larry Tindle
1st HT-1)Street 2)Willie 3)Burrell 4)Stake 5)Wilson 6)Scott 7)Williams 8)Tindle
2nd Ht-1)Muilenburg 2)Morton 3)Albright Jr 4)Crisler 5)Rodocker 6)Phillips 7)Hert
3rd Ht-1)Kirkland 2)S Williams 3)Maynard 4)Yeoman Jr 5)Lankton 6)Speck 7)Gerleve
4th Ht-1)VanZandt 2)E Muilenburg 3)R Williams 4)Moad 5)Tinderholt 6)Lebow 7)Watson
Bombers
A Ft-1)James Redus(2) 2)Shawn Strong (3) 3)Tyler Schoen (5) 4)Dan Wood (8) 5)Bob Maggard Sr (1) 6)Robert High (13) 7)Matt Pilant (15) 8)Mark Selsor (6) 9)Rusty Forrestt (9) 10)Rex Freize (7) 11)Bill Schoen (4) 12)Rodney Yost (16) 13)John Long (14) 14)Daniel Harris (12) 15)JR Aitken (10) 16)John Coats(11)
1st HT-1)Strong 2)B Schoen 3)T Schoen 4)Selsor 5)Wood 6)Harris 7)High 8)Pilant
2nd Ht-1)Maggard Sr 2)Redus 3)Freize 4)Forrestt 5)Aitken 6)Coats 7)Long 8)Yost
