News Item: : MORRIS RETURNS TO MMS, RAMSEY RETURNS TO VICTORY LANE
(Category: GENERAL NEWS)
Posted by jwmartin
Monday 19 July 2010 - 09:41:53
Rogers outlasts competition to win Heritage Truck Centers 250
JW Martin
Derrick Lancaster wanted it. Mike Looney had it. Wayne Ramsey took it.
One week after recording his worst finish of the season, the Bull & Bones Late Model Stock Car division points leader returned to victory lane following a drama-laden race in the Collision Plus 150.
“We had a night to forget,” said Ramsey of his sixteenth place finish a week prior. “And tonight is a night to remember.”
Ramsey notched his third win of 2010 Saturday night amidst sporadic rain and a sea of controversy.
Mike Looney’s No. 47 Weigh Station Chevrolet earned the Price’s Body Shop pole award, and remained in command of the 23-car field when the second caution of the night was displayed for a single-car spin on lap 95.
Outside pole sitter Richard Boswell had trailed Looney from the outset, and while the No. 72 had managed to keep pace with the lead machine, Boswell was incapable of pressuring Looney for first.
That changed as the pair came to the restart, with precipitation beginning to fall over Motor Mile Speedway.
“I knew that restart I had to go. One, that late in the race, you might not have another restart. Two, the rain is coming,” Boswell explained afterward. “I got a real good restart, and I had to give it everything I had. And he was doing the same thing--- and I’m not saying that if I was in that position, I wouldn’t have done the same thing and come down.
“We had as good of a car as [Looney]. Unless we were able to get him early, we weren’t going to get him. And I had the position--- I’ve got tire marks on my fender, and that’s having position.”
As the leaders sprinted into turn one on lap 107, Boswell’s Chevrolet connected with the left-rear quarter panel of Looney’s No. 47 entering the corner. The impact sent Looney streaking up the banking and into the outside wall.
Boswell was black flagged for rough driving in the aftermath of the incident. Looney, openly disgusted at the outcome, expressed his displeasure with Boswell as he jogged down the turn one banking under the ensuing yellow flag.
Looney, once poised to claim the checkered flag, was relegated to a demoralizing nineteenth-place finish.
“Every time he comes up here he gets into something with somebody,” Looney explained. “I don’t know if he thinks he’s a hot shot because he’s buddies with Dale Jr., but I’m not impressed. I’m pretty mad. We had that race won..."
The outcome of the lap 107 altercation yielded the lead to an unassuming Derrick Lancaster, scored in third. For the first time in 2010, Lancaster would log the next 28 circuits from the point at the .416-mile speedway.
But just as he had acquired the lead, contact would take it away when a nudge triggered the third and final lead change of the event exiting turn four with ten laps to go.
The lap 140 exchange was the climax of a battle for position between Lancaster and Wayne Ramsey, who had marched to the front after an uncharacteristic eighth place qualifying effort. Lancaster had been under assault for the top spot for five laps before a slip out of turn four opened the door for Ramsey.
“Derrick [Lancaster] seems to be upset with me, but his car was really free the longer we ran. I had a good run, he got sideways, and I was there and we touched,” said Ramsey. “Circumstances from last week considered, to come back and win, this is probably the best win of the season.”
Behind Ramsey at the checkers was Kelly Kingery, solidifying his best performance of the season with a runner-up showing in the wake of the late-race dust up among the frontrunners.
“I’d rather be lucky than good,” Kingery said. “We just kept dodging all the little mishaps… I wish Ramsey would’ve stayed wherever he was racing before. I'd have me a win right now."
Lancaster would fade to third in the waning laps. The podium run marks the team’s best effort of the year, however, and by virtue of the finish, Lancaster sits fifth in the standings.
“I didn’t really have anything for them, they got away from me,” Lancaster stated. “Wayne Ramsey is racing for points--- he’s got it all to lose, not me…”
Tommy Lemons, Jr. and Brandon Dean rounded out the top five.
Defending track champion Philip Morris made an ill-fated return to the Radford oval following a three-race hiatus, finishing twenty-third after a right front tire issue sidelined the No. 26 Clarence’s Steakhouse Chevrolet on lap 28.
USAR Heritage Truck Centers 250
Parts failed Saturday night. Points leader Clay Rogers did not.
Rogers collected his fifth win of the season in USAR Pro Cup competition convincingly; a brief encounter with runner-up Brandon Ward at the two-thirds mark of the contest proved the only challenge of the race for the top spot.
“This is a hard track on equipment. Brandon [Ward] came hard. He caught me in a session where I was trying to save my brakes. He came so fast that by the time I got back on the wheel, he had caught me. But we were able to drive away,” Rogers explained from victory lane. “Anytime you can get a win, it’s awesome. This is a fun racetrack to race on.”
Underbody issues abounded as attrition reigned in the Heritage Truck Centers 250; only seven of the 21 starters saw the checkers at race’s end. Motor complications sidelined local favorites Caleb Holman and Jeff Agnew, who was running third at the time of trouble.
A.J. Frank, Mark McFarland and Logan Ruffin rounded out the top five.
This news item is from Motor Mile Speedway :: 6749 Lee Highway Radford, VA 24141 :: (540) 639-1700
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(Category: GENERAL NEWS)
Posted by jwmartin
Monday 19 July 2010 - 09:41:53
Rogers outlasts competition to win Heritage Truck Centers 250
JW Martin
Derrick Lancaster wanted it. Mike Looney had it. Wayne Ramsey took it.
One week after recording his worst finish of the season, the Bull & Bones Late Model Stock Car division points leader returned to victory lane following a drama-laden race in the Collision Plus 150.
“We had a night to forget,” said Ramsey of his sixteenth place finish a week prior. “And tonight is a night to remember.”
Ramsey notched his third win of 2010 Saturday night amidst sporadic rain and a sea of controversy.
Mike Looney’s No. 47 Weigh Station Chevrolet earned the Price’s Body Shop pole award, and remained in command of the 23-car field when the second caution of the night was displayed for a single-car spin on lap 95.
Outside pole sitter Richard Boswell had trailed Looney from the outset, and while the No. 72 had managed to keep pace with the lead machine, Boswell was incapable of pressuring Looney for first.
That changed as the pair came to the restart, with precipitation beginning to fall over Motor Mile Speedway.
“I knew that restart I had to go. One, that late in the race, you might not have another restart. Two, the rain is coming,” Boswell explained afterward. “I got a real good restart, and I had to give it everything I had. And he was doing the same thing--- and I’m not saying that if I was in that position, I wouldn’t have done the same thing and come down.
“We had as good of a car as [Looney]. Unless we were able to get him early, we weren’t going to get him. And I had the position--- I’ve got tire marks on my fender, and that’s having position.”
As the leaders sprinted into turn one on lap 107, Boswell’s Chevrolet connected with the left-rear quarter panel of Looney’s No. 47 entering the corner. The impact sent Looney streaking up the banking and into the outside wall.
Boswell was black flagged for rough driving in the aftermath of the incident. Looney, openly disgusted at the outcome, expressed his displeasure with Boswell as he jogged down the turn one banking under the ensuing yellow flag.
Looney, once poised to claim the checkered flag, was relegated to a demoralizing nineteenth-place finish.
“Every time he comes up here he gets into something with somebody,” Looney explained. “I don’t know if he thinks he’s a hot shot because he’s buddies with Dale Jr., but I’m not impressed. I’m pretty mad. We had that race won..."
The outcome of the lap 107 altercation yielded the lead to an unassuming Derrick Lancaster, scored in third. For the first time in 2010, Lancaster would log the next 28 circuits from the point at the .416-mile speedway.
But just as he had acquired the lead, contact would take it away when a nudge triggered the third and final lead change of the event exiting turn four with ten laps to go.
The lap 140 exchange was the climax of a battle for position between Lancaster and Wayne Ramsey, who had marched to the front after an uncharacteristic eighth place qualifying effort. Lancaster had been under assault for the top spot for five laps before a slip out of turn four opened the door for Ramsey.
“Derrick [Lancaster] seems to be upset with me, but his car was really free the longer we ran. I had a good run, he got sideways, and I was there and we touched,” said Ramsey. “Circumstances from last week considered, to come back and win, this is probably the best win of the season.”
Behind Ramsey at the checkers was Kelly Kingery, solidifying his best performance of the season with a runner-up showing in the wake of the late-race dust up among the frontrunners.
“I’d rather be lucky than good,” Kingery said. “We just kept dodging all the little mishaps… I wish Ramsey would’ve stayed wherever he was racing before. I'd have me a win right now."
Lancaster would fade to third in the waning laps. The podium run marks the team’s best effort of the year, however, and by virtue of the finish, Lancaster sits fifth in the standings.
“I didn’t really have anything for them, they got away from me,” Lancaster stated. “Wayne Ramsey is racing for points--- he’s got it all to lose, not me…”
Tommy Lemons, Jr. and Brandon Dean rounded out the top five.
Defending track champion Philip Morris made an ill-fated return to the Radford oval following a three-race hiatus, finishing twenty-third after a right front tire issue sidelined the No. 26 Clarence’s Steakhouse Chevrolet on lap 28.
USAR Heritage Truck Centers 250
Parts failed Saturday night. Points leader Clay Rogers did not.
Rogers collected his fifth win of the season in USAR Pro Cup competition convincingly; a brief encounter with runner-up Brandon Ward at the two-thirds mark of the contest proved the only challenge of the race for the top spot.
“This is a hard track on equipment. Brandon [Ward] came hard. He caught me in a session where I was trying to save my brakes. He came so fast that by the time I got back on the wheel, he had caught me. But we were able to drive away,” Rogers explained from victory lane. “Anytime you can get a win, it’s awesome. This is a fun racetrack to race on.”
Underbody issues abounded as attrition reigned in the Heritage Truck Centers 250; only seven of the 21 starters saw the checkers at race’s end. Motor complications sidelined local favorites Caleb Holman and Jeff Agnew, who was running third at the time of trouble.
A.J. Frank, Mark McFarland and Logan Ruffin rounded out the top five.
This news item is from Motor Mile Speedway :: 6749 Lee Highway Radford, VA 24141 :: (540) 639-1700
( http://www.motormilespeedway.com/_mms_2008/news.php?extend.306 )