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By Ronnie Williams:
Springfield, MO. (August 21, 2010) -The Springfield Raceway hosted the Race Brothers Farm & Home Supply Show Me Racing Series Late Models Saturday night and it was the teacher taking the pupil to school as National Dirt Hall of Famer Ken "The Flying Farmer" Essary of Cape Fair, MO was able to put a halt to Aurora, Missouri's Justin Wells domination in the 2010 season with a near perfect drive on the Quick-Quarter in capturing the Late Model A feature.
Essary, the series founder while in the early years was teaching Wells about the Late Model Racing world, hasn't taught Wells everything he knows about the Springfield Raceway as Essary held off repeated challenges from Randy Zimmerman of Fort Scott, KS and then a late race surge from the point leader Wells in taking his first win of the 2010 seson.
After the top 8 redraw, Zimmerman and Essary brought the 22 car field down to the green flag as Essary jumped to the top cushion quickly while Zimmerman stayed to his inside. Caution flew quickly as Wells who was starting 6th spun in turn 2 as others stopped to avoid contact. Under Series rules if more than 1 car stops on the start, then all go back to an original restart. Again Essary and Zimmerman went side by side with Essary going to the extreme top of the quarter mile clay oval. Going into the turns, Zimmerman would would pull even as the veterans battled. Larry Campbell of Van Buren, AR and Wells were hooked-up in a tight battle for third place. Caution flew on lap 8 as Don Cloyd spun bunching the field up as Essary lead the double-file restart with Zimmerman staying close as Campbell, Wells, Dustin Mooneyham of Aurora, MO, Brandon McCormick of Lebanon, MO and Jarrod Hilton all fought for position as 2-3 wide racing was the norm. During the long green run, Essary began to pull away to a four car length lead as Zimmerman the series points runner-up would find point leader Wells starting to mount a charge. Heading into lapped traffic, Essary was moving both high and low as Wells who had gotten by Campbell was pulling even with Zimmerman. On lap 19, Wells made the pass on the low side and began to run down the leader Essary. With only three laps to go, Wells using the middle and low grooves pulled to within two car lengths of Essary as the race was on. Lapped traffic held strong as essary was using every bit of the smooth quick surface to hold off Wells. As the white flag flew, Wells was riding smoothly on the bottom and pulled to Essary's rear quarter panel, but the Springfield Turkey Classic winner hadn't showed his full hand yet as Essary drifted a little high off the turns and moved through the middle of the track to grab his first win of the season with wells a close second as Zimmerman,Campbell and Dustin Mooneyham rounding out the top five.
Results-Race Bros Farm And Home Supply Night Late Models
A Feature results (22 cars) -1)Ken Essary 2)Justin Wells 3)Randy Zimmerman 4)Larry Campbell 5)Dustin Mooneyham 6)Brandon McCormick 7)Jarrod Hilton 8)Colt Dunlap 9)Chris Morelock 10)Darrell Mooneyham 11)Brandon Cheek 12)Joe Gorby 13)Patrick Johnson 14)Ray Peacock 15)Scott Fry 16)Jon Driskell 17)Don Cloyd 18)Mark Penticuff 19)Dwight Neihoff 20)Ron Johnson 21)Jordan Holloway 22)Larry Jones
1st Heat-1)Campbell 2)Essary 3)Zimmerman 4)Peacock 5)Cheek 6)P.Johnson 7)Cloyd
2nd Heat-1)Hilton 2)McCormick 3)Penticuff 4)Fry 5)Driskell 6)R Johnson 7)Neihoff
3rd Heat-1)Wells 2)Dustin Mooneyham 3)Darrell Mooneyham 4)Morelock 5)Dunlap 6)Jones 7)Gorby DNS-Holloway
The Show Me Racing Series would like to thank their sponsors for the 2010 racing season. Race Brothers Farm and Home Supply, Hoosier Tire Midwest, Custom Cams, Brodix Heads, Duralite Racing Wheels, Schoenfeld Headers, Performance Bodies, Hypercoils, BSB Manufacturing, Peterson Fluid Systems, GRT Race Cars, Greenlawn Funeral Homes, Frankland Rear Ends, Gary's Used Engine Parts, Midwest Sheet Metal, Talon Broadcasting, Morelock Racing, B & P Discount Grocery, IHG Hotels, Country Dodge, Kluhsman Race Components, Bilstein Shocks and Powertrain Industries.
Additional information can be found at www.showmeracingseries.com.
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