Wing Take North Alabama Border Wars 50!
Despite the weather and cautions pushing the racing late into the night, the Border Wars 50 at NAS for the Mississippi State Championship Challenge Series at North Alabama Speedway in Tuscumbia was one heck of a race. After setting fast time during Brown Engineering Pole Qualifying Steve Russell started the event out battling “The Boaz Bullett” Tim Busha for the lead for the first half of the event. Russell would slip high in turn two and try to recover from running off the track until nearly half way down the backstretch and settle into seventh place mid race setting the stage for more great racing action. Rodney Wing worked his way up from fifth starting position into the battle for the point and then battled Busha door-to-door for most of the race. There were many times when the top 4 cars battled so close you could throw a blanket over them.
Russell began to charge back through the field and once Wing got past Busha late in the race and Wing set sail on the field to cruise to the win. Russell took over the side-by-side battle for second and then also cleared traffic and tried to run down Wing late in the event to no avail. Action late in the event would see fabulous racing with multi car battles for position with the battle for third place being the focus of contention. At the end of the attrition filled yet exciting 50-lap main Rodney Wing of Meridian, MS would take the win in the MSCCS’ maiden voyage in North Alabama Speedway with Steve Russell coming in second and Louisiana’s Garrett Durrett earnign a very hard fought third place finish. Chris Wall and Daniel Miller would round out the top five in a very good race.
MSCCS Race Stats
July 16th North Alabama Speedway
Tuscumbia, AL
27 cars on hand
50-laps $2,500 to win
Brown Engineering Fast Gun Award: Steve Russell 14.66
Boland Performance Top Rookie: Chris Wall
Cliburn Tank Line B-Main Winners: David Gentry and James Dean
Provisional Starters: Anthony Burroughs and Scotty Peeler
Official NAS MSCCS Finish:
1-Rodney Wing 2-Steve Russell 3-Garrett Durrett 4-Chris Wall 5-Daniel Miller 6-Tim Busha 7-James Dean 8-Marty Hardy 9-Dennis Duncan 10-David Moplus 11-Willian Burns 12-Phillip Cooper 13-Scott Slay 14-Tony Simmons 15-Jay Brinkley 16-Chris Ragan 17-Anthony Burroughs 18-Jerry Owens 19-Scotty Peeler 20-Dewayne Riddle 21-David Gentry 22-Mark Mears
Rushing Earns $5,000 John L Cliett Tribute Victory!
The series then moved down the Columbus Speedway for the 5th Annual $5,000 to win John l Cliett Tribute for what would be another classic battle. Anthony Rushing has a habit of starting on the pole of feature events at Columbus Speedway, setting sail, and making big wins at "The Baddest Bullring in the South" look easy. Detractors have often even doubted that "The Kosciusko Kamikaze" could take a win from anywhere other than up front at Columbus. Saturday night at the Carl Hogan Automotive Group 5th Annual John L. Cliett Tribute, Rushing would be forced to either help prove that theory, or disprove it altogether.
Despite a threatening forecast and periodic rainfall during the day, Johnny Stokes and crew would stick to their guns to their guns, and the continuous massaging of the high-banked-red clay oval over the course of the evening provided one of the finest fast racing surfaces ever seen at "The Bullring". A very good crowd of fans came out to see the Mississippi State Championship Challenge Series Super Late Model special event as well as a full show in all other divisions at Columbus. 34 of the region's finest Super Late Model drivers made up the field of the prestigious event honoring the man known as "The One and Only".
"Lugnut" Rodney Wing would take the fast time in MidsouthRacing.com Pole Qualifying with a 14.41 to take the Brown Engineering Fast Gun Award, just over Shane Clanton's 14.49. The field would qualify and run heat races in Columbus' group format, and four action-packed heat races saw Wing, Clanton, "The Wild Child" James Dean, and Marty Hardy take wins to lead the top 16 drivers to be locked into the feature field. Two B-Mains helped fill out the 22-car MSCCS main event roster, with Scott Slay taking the first win from the pole while Garrett Durrett charged from 7th to take the win in the incredible second last-chance race. Dennis Duncan would receive the MSCCS points provisional and Glenn Roberts took the Columbus Speedway track points provisional to fill out the field.
Starting ceremonies included well-received talks with Mississippi dirt racing legends "The Mississippi Flyer" Jerry Inmon, a National Dirt Track Hall of Famer, and "The Tupelo Flash" Don Hester, with Hester giving the command to start engines.
The feature race began with a three-wide blast through turns 1 and 2, but polesitter Wing came up limp as Clanton and Bub McCool raced by on the backstretch. Wing would leave the track with mechanical trouble and would not be able to return, and the field lined up for a complete restart with Dean moving up a row to take over the pole. Clanton, Dean, and "The Ragin' Rebel" David Breazeale would then pick up with the three-wide racing for the point at the start, with Clanton coming out on top as the field raced down the back side. Philip Cooper would go under McCool as David Breazeale ran the rim for a three-way, door-to-door dance for second with Clanton and Dean out front. McCool would race to the low side of Breazeale, and Breazeale would shed the #57J and dive to the inside of Dean in a race for second place as Kenny Merchant began to show his face near the front of the pack.
Merchant would move up to join the wild action, racing three-wide with Marty Hardy and Rushing while Breazeale continued working the hub on topside flyer Dean for second place. The two would run several successive laps side-by-side through the turns and the straights, the action never letting up until the #2R of Roberts brought out the first of what would be a series of cautions for the next several laps on lap 8.
Rushing, Cooper, and McCool sparred wildly for one lap until Breazeale experienced mechanical trouble, then got hung in the infield mud (due to persistent rains) to bring out a lap 10 caution. Breazeale would pull off to the pits but did return to the track. On the restart, the field raced hard around the speedway and McCool, Dean, Rushing, and Cooper blasted 4-wide through turn 4 as Clanton pulled up lame right above them after tossing a driveshaft, bringing out a second lap 10 caution. More three-wide action (this time for the lead) in two saw Cooper spin to the wall and bottle up "Ravishing" Rick Rickman and "The Phenix City Assassin" Terrance Nowell high in turn 1, with Rickman unable to continue. At this point, Dean, McCool, 10th-starting Rushing, Hardy, and 13th-starting Merchant made up the top ten.
Rushing would pull under McCool on the lap 10 restart, and McCool responded by blasting by both Rushing and Dean down the backstretch and hard into turn 3. Dean would hold on as McCool bobbled before the last of the brutal series of early-race cautions fell on lap 12 with Durrett getting hung up at the pit road exit while trying to get off the track. With the mayhem out of the way, it was time to really get down to business.
McCool would attack the hub as Dean raced around halfway up the banking, while Rushing started to inch in using the top groove. As the three leaders danced around on the track racing wildly, Rushing dove to the hub to mount another offense. Hardy, now 4th, would come in on the bottom to challenge, as Rushing once again went up top with McCool now on the hub as Dean held the lead. Merchant, running the rim, would move side-by-side with Hardy, still on the bottom, and Rushing would clear McCool to take second place and dive inside Dean, now on the rim, to begin a long series of challenges for the lead. McCool, Merchant, and Hardy blasted three-wide around the track, all right on the bumpers of the two battling leaders.
McCool would drive inside Rushing again, and soon Dean, Rushing, and McCool engaged in a 3-wide battle for the top spot. Lap after lap McCool would run the hub below Rushing, the #70 1/2 running the middle of the track, as Dean sailed up top and held the slightest of advantages. McCool would ease back to fend off a hard-charging Hardy, who had retaken 4th place from Merchant. Dean and Rushing then ran door-to-door all the way around the track for several laps until Dean finally wrenched the lead back for himself as Merchant and McCool continued to wage war for 3rd.
Merchant would take third place on lap 26, and McCool would immediately begin to mount a fresh challenge as the two caught up with Rushing. Merchant would shrug off McCool for the moment and move to the inside of Rushing through turns 1 and 2, but Rushing would run off after Dean. "The Pontotoc Pirate" Steve Russell could be seen racing side-by-side with Nowell, who had come alive not far back in the pack, as Rushing sailed the rim after Dean, now running the hub of the track in the lead. Rushing would take the top spot from Dean on lap 29, and Dean would pull right back up to the new leader just before another caution fell as Russell experienced car trouble. Rushing, Dean, Merchant, McCool, and Hardy would make up the top five at this point.
Dean would blast to the hub on Rushing as the race resumed, with McCool following suit under Merchant as Hardy went to the bottom running 4th. McCool would continued running alongside Merchant lap after lap, while 12th-starting Nowell came in to race Hardy as he marched toward the front. McCool regained 3rd place on lap 34, and Hardy picked up the torch to battle Merchant for 4th place in several laps of side-by-side action. Merchant then quickly lost several positions on the backstretch, falling backwards into another wild battle with Ricky Williams and Scott Slay for 7th place before the final caution fell on lap 40 for Glenn Roberts.
McCool would dive under Dean as the final leg of the 59-lap event began, with Hardy soon driving under both to the extreme hub. As Rushing held on not far ahead, the three fought tooth-and-nail for the runner-up spot until Nowell raced in to grab 4th place from Hardy. McCool would gain ground on Dean with every door-to-door lap, and the battle heated with each passing lap until McCool took second as Nowell ran right on Dean's bumper. Hardy would dive in again as the battle for 3rd now went triple-wide, then Hardy and Nowell shed Dean and raced side-by-side as McCool chased Rushing.
Nowell would take 3rd for himself on lap 47, then clear McCool and take second place on the following lap. Hardy and Dean would race top-and-bottom for 4th as Nowell began reeling in Rushing. Dean would begin to fall back, and Hardy once again came after McCool, going inside and holding to the night's theme of side-by-side action.
Nowell would be on Rushing's rear bumper on the final lap, with McCool diving to the hub under both black cars. The #16 of James Dean would spin on the front stretch and come to a stop as the drivers blasted down the backstretch and through turns 3 and 4 as the white flag waved. The leaders would blaze by the sideways Dean across the finish line to take the checkered flag. Rushing would collect the hard-earned win, followed by Nowell, McCool, Hardy, and 19th-starting B-Main transfer Williams. Slay, Duncan, Merchant, Wayne Martin, and Cooper rounded out the top ten. Rushing's win gives him 4 out of 5 John L. Cliett Tribute trophies, with 2003 winner Mike Boland being the only other winner of the prestigious event. Rushing, who started the race in 10th place, rode to victory in a Jay Dickens-powered Rocket Chassis Monte Carlo shod with American Racer tires to take home the $5,000 prize atop the richest purse in MSCCS history. Williams would receive the $250 Hard Charger award presented by the Columbus Speedway "Lies and Rumors Lounge", a section of supportive fans.
A big congratulations should go out to the Marty Hardy racing team of Jackson, Mississippi as the #M6 driver continued his recent surge and was the combined high points driver over the weekend giving him the title of 2004 “Border Wars” Champion.
MSCCS Race Stats
July 17th Columbus Speedway
Columbus, MS
34 cars on hand
59-laps $5,000 to win
Brown Engineering Fast Gun Award: Rodney Wing 14.41
Hard Charger Award: Ricky Williams
Heat Race Winners: Rodney Wing, Shane Clanton, James Dean, Marty Hardy
Cliburn Tank Lines B-Main Winners: Scott Slay and Garrett Durrett
Provisional Starters: Dennis Duncan and Glenn Roberts
Official MSCCS Columbus Speedway Finish:
1-Anthony Rushing 2-Terrance Nowell 3-Bub McCool 4-Marty Hardy 5-Ricky Williams 6-Scott Slay 7-Dennis Duncan 8-Kenny Merchant 9-Wayne Martin 10-Phillip Cooper 11-James Dean 12-Glenn Roberts 13-Steve Russell 14-David Breazeale 15-Tombo Callahan 16-Shawn Edwards 17-Garrett Durrett 18-Rick Rickman 19-Brandon Register 20-Shane Clanton 21-Trey Cullom 22-Rodney Wing
For more information about the Mississippi State Championship Challenge Series please visit the MSCCS website at www.stateseries.com or call Charles Thrash at 601-917-2335 days or 601-482-5251 evenings.
Upcoming MSSCS Events:
August 7th-Queen City Speedway-$2,500 to win
August 14th-Simpson County Motorsports Park-$2,500 to win
2004 MSCCS Winners:
3/6 South Mississippi Speedway – Jimbo McDuffie
3/20 Queen City Speedway – Anthony Rushing
3/27 SCMP – Scott Slay
4/10 Jackson Motor Speedway – Dennis Duncan
4/16 Southern Speedway – Scott Slay
4/17 South Mississippi Speedway – Mike Boland
5/21 Columbus Speedway – Scott Slay
6/4 Queen City Speedway – Mike Boland
6/5 Jackson Motor Speedway – Rodney Wing
6/12 Simpson County Motorsports Park – Dennis Duncan
7/9 Southern Speedway-Scott Slay
7/10 South Mississippi Speedway-KI Davis III
7/16 North Alabama Speedway-Rodney Wing
7/17 Columbus Speedway-Anthony Rushing
Brown Engineering Fast Gun Award Standings:
Mike Boland – 2
David Breazeale - 2
Chris Wall -2
Anthony Rushing – 2
Scott Slay – 1
Randy Walters – 1
James Dean – 1
Dennis Duncan-1
Phillip Cooper-1
Rodney Wing-1
MSCCS Points through July 17th:
1-Scott Slay-1631 2-Dennis Duncan-1536 3- Rodney Wing 1400 4-Chris Wall-1392 ® 5-Phillip Cooper-1164 6-James Dean-1125 7- Marty Hardy-1000 8-David Breazeale-924 9- Mike Boland-920 10-Randy Little-835 11-Jason Cliburn-745 12-David Molpus-715 ® 13-Keith Miller-710 14-Anthony Rushing-708 15-Josh Fuller-525 ®
MSCCS 2004 corporate sponsors:
Hoosier Tire South, Jimmy Smith's American Race Tires, Cliburn Tank Lines, Brown Engineering, Boland Performance, Schaeffer's Oil, Behind the Wheel/Late Model America, Warrior Race Cars, Clausen Racing, GRT Race Cars, Styling Signs and Decals, Oval Craft, J Michael Cox, and midsouthracing.com
Despite the weather and cautions pushing the racing late into the night, the Border Wars 50 at NAS for the Mississippi State Championship Challenge Series at North Alabama Speedway in Tuscumbia was one heck of a race. After setting fast time during Brown Engineering Pole Qualifying Steve Russell started the event out battling “The Boaz Bullett” Tim Busha for the lead for the first half of the event. Russell would slip high in turn two and try to recover from running off the track until nearly half way down the backstretch and settle into seventh place mid race setting the stage for more great racing action. Rodney Wing worked his way up from fifth starting position into the battle for the point and then battled Busha door-to-door for most of the race. There were many times when the top 4 cars battled so close you could throw a blanket over them.
Russell began to charge back through the field and once Wing got past Busha late in the race and Wing set sail on the field to cruise to the win. Russell took over the side-by-side battle for second and then also cleared traffic and tried to run down Wing late in the event to no avail. Action late in the event would see fabulous racing with multi car battles for position with the battle for third place being the focus of contention. At the end of the attrition filled yet exciting 50-lap main Rodney Wing of Meridian, MS would take the win in the MSCCS’ maiden voyage in North Alabama Speedway with Steve Russell coming in second and Louisiana’s Garrett Durrett earnign a very hard fought third place finish. Chris Wall and Daniel Miller would round out the top five in a very good race.
MSCCS Race Stats
July 16th North Alabama Speedway
Tuscumbia, AL
27 cars on hand
50-laps $2,500 to win
Brown Engineering Fast Gun Award: Steve Russell 14.66
Boland Performance Top Rookie: Chris Wall
Cliburn Tank Line B-Main Winners: David Gentry and James Dean
Provisional Starters: Anthony Burroughs and Scotty Peeler
Official NAS MSCCS Finish:
1-Rodney Wing 2-Steve Russell 3-Garrett Durrett 4-Chris Wall 5-Daniel Miller 6-Tim Busha 7-James Dean 8-Marty Hardy 9-Dennis Duncan 10-David Moplus 11-Willian Burns 12-Phillip Cooper 13-Scott Slay 14-Tony Simmons 15-Jay Brinkley 16-Chris Ragan 17-Anthony Burroughs 18-Jerry Owens 19-Scotty Peeler 20-Dewayne Riddle 21-David Gentry 22-Mark Mears
Rushing Earns $5,000 John L Cliett Tribute Victory!
The series then moved down the Columbus Speedway for the 5th Annual $5,000 to win John l Cliett Tribute for what would be another classic battle. Anthony Rushing has a habit of starting on the pole of feature events at Columbus Speedway, setting sail, and making big wins at "The Baddest Bullring in the South" look easy. Detractors have often even doubted that "The Kosciusko Kamikaze" could take a win from anywhere other than up front at Columbus. Saturday night at the Carl Hogan Automotive Group 5th Annual John L. Cliett Tribute, Rushing would be forced to either help prove that theory, or disprove it altogether.
Despite a threatening forecast and periodic rainfall during the day, Johnny Stokes and crew would stick to their guns to their guns, and the continuous massaging of the high-banked-red clay oval over the course of the evening provided one of the finest fast racing surfaces ever seen at "The Bullring". A very good crowd of fans came out to see the Mississippi State Championship Challenge Series Super Late Model special event as well as a full show in all other divisions at Columbus. 34 of the region's finest Super Late Model drivers made up the field of the prestigious event honoring the man known as "The One and Only".
"Lugnut" Rodney Wing would take the fast time in MidsouthRacing.com Pole Qualifying with a 14.41 to take the Brown Engineering Fast Gun Award, just over Shane Clanton's 14.49. The field would qualify and run heat races in Columbus' group format, and four action-packed heat races saw Wing, Clanton, "The Wild Child" James Dean, and Marty Hardy take wins to lead the top 16 drivers to be locked into the feature field. Two B-Mains helped fill out the 22-car MSCCS main event roster, with Scott Slay taking the first win from the pole while Garrett Durrett charged from 7th to take the win in the incredible second last-chance race. Dennis Duncan would receive the MSCCS points provisional and Glenn Roberts took the Columbus Speedway track points provisional to fill out the field.
Starting ceremonies included well-received talks with Mississippi dirt racing legends "The Mississippi Flyer" Jerry Inmon, a National Dirt Track Hall of Famer, and "The Tupelo Flash" Don Hester, with Hester giving the command to start engines.
The feature race began with a three-wide blast through turns 1 and 2, but polesitter Wing came up limp as Clanton and Bub McCool raced by on the backstretch. Wing would leave the track with mechanical trouble and would not be able to return, and the field lined up for a complete restart with Dean moving up a row to take over the pole. Clanton, Dean, and "The Ragin' Rebel" David Breazeale would then pick up with the three-wide racing for the point at the start, with Clanton coming out on top as the field raced down the back side. Philip Cooper would go under McCool as David Breazeale ran the rim for a three-way, door-to-door dance for second with Clanton and Dean out front. McCool would race to the low side of Breazeale, and Breazeale would shed the #57J and dive to the inside of Dean in a race for second place as Kenny Merchant began to show his face near the front of the pack.
Merchant would move up to join the wild action, racing three-wide with Marty Hardy and Rushing while Breazeale continued working the hub on topside flyer Dean for second place. The two would run several successive laps side-by-side through the turns and the straights, the action never letting up until the #2R of Roberts brought out the first of what would be a series of cautions for the next several laps on lap 8.
Rushing, Cooper, and McCool sparred wildly for one lap until Breazeale experienced mechanical trouble, then got hung in the infield mud (due to persistent rains) to bring out a lap 10 caution. Breazeale would pull off to the pits but did return to the track. On the restart, the field raced hard around the speedway and McCool, Dean, Rushing, and Cooper blasted 4-wide through turn 4 as Clanton pulled up lame right above them after tossing a driveshaft, bringing out a second lap 10 caution. More three-wide action (this time for the lead) in two saw Cooper spin to the wall and bottle up "Ravishing" Rick Rickman and "The Phenix City Assassin" Terrance Nowell high in turn 1, with Rickman unable to continue. At this point, Dean, McCool, 10th-starting Rushing, Hardy, and 13th-starting Merchant made up the top ten.
Rushing would pull under McCool on the lap 10 restart, and McCool responded by blasting by both Rushing and Dean down the backstretch and hard into turn 3. Dean would hold on as McCool bobbled before the last of the brutal series of early-race cautions fell on lap 12 with Durrett getting hung up at the pit road exit while trying to get off the track. With the mayhem out of the way, it was time to really get down to business.
McCool would attack the hub as Dean raced around halfway up the banking, while Rushing started to inch in using the top groove. As the three leaders danced around on the track racing wildly, Rushing dove to the hub to mount another offense. Hardy, now 4th, would come in on the bottom to challenge, as Rushing once again went up top with McCool now on the hub as Dean held the lead. Merchant, running the rim, would move side-by-side with Hardy, still on the bottom, and Rushing would clear McCool to take second place and dive inside Dean, now on the rim, to begin a long series of challenges for the lead. McCool, Merchant, and Hardy blasted three-wide around the track, all right on the bumpers of the two battling leaders.
McCool would drive inside Rushing again, and soon Dean, Rushing, and McCool engaged in a 3-wide battle for the top spot. Lap after lap McCool would run the hub below Rushing, the #70 1/2 running the middle of the track, as Dean sailed up top and held the slightest of advantages. McCool would ease back to fend off a hard-charging Hardy, who had retaken 4th place from Merchant. Dean and Rushing then ran door-to-door all the way around the track for several laps until Dean finally wrenched the lead back for himself as Merchant and McCool continued to wage war for 3rd.
Merchant would take third place on lap 26, and McCool would immediately begin to mount a fresh challenge as the two caught up with Rushing. Merchant would shrug off McCool for the moment and move to the inside of Rushing through turns 1 and 2, but Rushing would run off after Dean. "The Pontotoc Pirate" Steve Russell could be seen racing side-by-side with Nowell, who had come alive not far back in the pack, as Rushing sailed the rim after Dean, now running the hub of the track in the lead. Rushing would take the top spot from Dean on lap 29, and Dean would pull right back up to the new leader just before another caution fell as Russell experienced car trouble. Rushing, Dean, Merchant, McCool, and Hardy would make up the top five at this point.
Dean would blast to the hub on Rushing as the race resumed, with McCool following suit under Merchant as Hardy went to the bottom running 4th. McCool would continued running alongside Merchant lap after lap, while 12th-starting Nowell came in to race Hardy as he marched toward the front. McCool regained 3rd place on lap 34, and Hardy picked up the torch to battle Merchant for 4th place in several laps of side-by-side action. Merchant then quickly lost several positions on the backstretch, falling backwards into another wild battle with Ricky Williams and Scott Slay for 7th place before the final caution fell on lap 40 for Glenn Roberts.
McCool would dive under Dean as the final leg of the 59-lap event began, with Hardy soon driving under both to the extreme hub. As Rushing held on not far ahead, the three fought tooth-and-nail for the runner-up spot until Nowell raced in to grab 4th place from Hardy. McCool would gain ground on Dean with every door-to-door lap, and the battle heated with each passing lap until McCool took second as Nowell ran right on Dean's bumper. Hardy would dive in again as the battle for 3rd now went triple-wide, then Hardy and Nowell shed Dean and raced side-by-side as McCool chased Rushing.
Nowell would take 3rd for himself on lap 47, then clear McCool and take second place on the following lap. Hardy and Dean would race top-and-bottom for 4th as Nowell began reeling in Rushing. Dean would begin to fall back, and Hardy once again came after McCool, going inside and holding to the night's theme of side-by-side action.
Nowell would be on Rushing's rear bumper on the final lap, with McCool diving to the hub under both black cars. The #16 of James Dean would spin on the front stretch and come to a stop as the drivers blasted down the backstretch and through turns 3 and 4 as the white flag waved. The leaders would blaze by the sideways Dean across the finish line to take the checkered flag. Rushing would collect the hard-earned win, followed by Nowell, McCool, Hardy, and 19th-starting B-Main transfer Williams. Slay, Duncan, Merchant, Wayne Martin, and Cooper rounded out the top ten. Rushing's win gives him 4 out of 5 John L. Cliett Tribute trophies, with 2003 winner Mike Boland being the only other winner of the prestigious event. Rushing, who started the race in 10th place, rode to victory in a Jay Dickens-powered Rocket Chassis Monte Carlo shod with American Racer tires to take home the $5,000 prize atop the richest purse in MSCCS history. Williams would receive the $250 Hard Charger award presented by the Columbus Speedway "Lies and Rumors Lounge", a section of supportive fans.
A big congratulations should go out to the Marty Hardy racing team of Jackson, Mississippi as the #M6 driver continued his recent surge and was the combined high points driver over the weekend giving him the title of 2004 “Border Wars” Champion.
MSCCS Race Stats
July 17th Columbus Speedway
Columbus, MS
34 cars on hand
59-laps $5,000 to win
Brown Engineering Fast Gun Award: Rodney Wing 14.41
Hard Charger Award: Ricky Williams
Heat Race Winners: Rodney Wing, Shane Clanton, James Dean, Marty Hardy
Cliburn Tank Lines B-Main Winners: Scott Slay and Garrett Durrett
Provisional Starters: Dennis Duncan and Glenn Roberts
Official MSCCS Columbus Speedway Finish:
1-Anthony Rushing 2-Terrance Nowell 3-Bub McCool 4-Marty Hardy 5-Ricky Williams 6-Scott Slay 7-Dennis Duncan 8-Kenny Merchant 9-Wayne Martin 10-Phillip Cooper 11-James Dean 12-Glenn Roberts 13-Steve Russell 14-David Breazeale 15-Tombo Callahan 16-Shawn Edwards 17-Garrett Durrett 18-Rick Rickman 19-Brandon Register 20-Shane Clanton 21-Trey Cullom 22-Rodney Wing
For more information about the Mississippi State Championship Challenge Series please visit the MSCCS website at www.stateseries.com or call Charles Thrash at 601-917-2335 days or 601-482-5251 evenings.
Upcoming MSSCS Events:
August 7th-Queen City Speedway-$2,500 to win
August 14th-Simpson County Motorsports Park-$2,500 to win
2004 MSCCS Winners:
3/6 South Mississippi Speedway – Jimbo McDuffie
3/20 Queen City Speedway – Anthony Rushing
3/27 SCMP – Scott Slay
4/10 Jackson Motor Speedway – Dennis Duncan
4/16 Southern Speedway – Scott Slay
4/17 South Mississippi Speedway – Mike Boland
5/21 Columbus Speedway – Scott Slay
6/4 Queen City Speedway – Mike Boland
6/5 Jackson Motor Speedway – Rodney Wing
6/12 Simpson County Motorsports Park – Dennis Duncan
7/9 Southern Speedway-Scott Slay
7/10 South Mississippi Speedway-KI Davis III
7/16 North Alabama Speedway-Rodney Wing
7/17 Columbus Speedway-Anthony Rushing
Brown Engineering Fast Gun Award Standings:
Mike Boland – 2
David Breazeale - 2
Chris Wall -2
Anthony Rushing – 2
Scott Slay – 1
Randy Walters – 1
James Dean – 1
Dennis Duncan-1
Phillip Cooper-1
Rodney Wing-1
MSCCS Points through July 17th:
1-Scott Slay-1631 2-Dennis Duncan-1536 3- Rodney Wing 1400 4-Chris Wall-1392 ® 5-Phillip Cooper-1164 6-James Dean-1125 7- Marty Hardy-1000 8-David Breazeale-924 9- Mike Boland-920 10-Randy Little-835 11-Jason Cliburn-745 12-David Molpus-715 ® 13-Keith Miller-710 14-Anthony Rushing-708 15-Josh Fuller-525 ®
MSCCS 2004 corporate sponsors:
Hoosier Tire South, Jimmy Smith's American Race Tires, Cliburn Tank Lines, Brown Engineering, Boland Performance, Schaeffer's Oil, Behind the Wheel/Late Model America, Warrior Race Cars, Clausen Racing, GRT Race Cars, Styling Signs and Decals, Oval Craft, J Michael Cox, and midsouthracing.com
