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09/18/06
 

Darren Miller Sets New One-Lap Record On Springfield Mile Before Rain Postpones UMP Late Model Illinois Fall Nationals Feature To Oct. 1

SPRINGFIELD, IL – Sept. 17, 2006 – Darrin Miller of Chadwick, Ill., blazed around the Springfield Mile to set a new dirt Late Model track record before rain postponed Sunday afternoon’s UMP-sanctioned 15th annual Best Western Illinois Fall Nationals.
Miller, 29, registered a lap of 27.581 seconds around the one-mile oval at the Illinois State Fairgrounds during the 22-car time-trial session, breaking his own record of 27.649 seconds, set on Sept. 19, 2004. He then roared from the fourth starting spot to the lead in one lap en route to capturing the day’s first heat.
But as Miller readied his Rocket No. 32d to start from the pole position in the 30-lap feature, dark skies that had been building behind the track’s covered grandstand began to drop rain. The precipitation became progressively heavier, forcing event promoter Bob Sargent of Track Enterprises to postpone the remainder of the program.
The Illinois Fall Nationals features for the UMP Late Models and Modifieds will be run on Sun., Oct. 1. A tentative starting time of 2 p.m. has been established for the card.
Event officials announced that rainchecks and pit armbands from Sunday’s show will be accepted for admission on Oct. 1.
Sargent said the postponement is the first in the history of the Fall Nationals, which has been an annual attraction at the storied Springfield Mile since 1992.
Miller will be looking for his first-ever victory in the Fall Nationals, which offers a $12,000 top prize. He’ll share the front row with fellow heat winner Brian Birkhofer of Muscatine, Iowa, a three-time winner of the event.
Jimmy Mars of Menominee, Wis., was the day’s other heat winner and will start third in the feature. It was his second career start at the Springfield Mile.
The postponement to Oct. 1 will force Miller, Birkhofer and Mars, among others, to make an overnight haul to Springfield after competing in the previous night’s Knoxville Late Model Nationals at Knoxville (Iowa) Raceway.

UMP Late Model 30-Lap Feature Lineup (Sun., Oct. 1): 1. Darren Miller, 2. Brian Birkhofer, 3. Jimmy Mars, 4. Terry Babb, 5. Jackie Boggs, 6. Roger Brickler, 7. Dennis Erb Jr., 8. Joe Ross Jr., 9. Mark Voight, 10. Jayme Zidar, 11. Craig Smith, 12. Jeremy Conaway, 13. Justin Allgaier, 14. Tim Lance, 15. Butch Kruckeberg, 16. Chris Fetter, 17. Jason Cleaver, 18. J.D. Rittler, 19. Gary Hunt, 20. Gary Wilson, 21. Mike Fannin, 22. Kenny VanDorn.

Wendell Wallace Masters Slick I-55 Raceway Surface For UMP-Sanctioned Pepsi Nationals Victory

PEVELY, MO – Sept. 16, 2006 – When a racetrack turns slick, Wendell Wallace turns it on.
The latest example was Wallace’s convincing victory on Saturday night in the UMP-sanctioned Pepsi Nationals 50 at I-55 Raceway.
“Wendell’s hard to beat in that slick stuff,” second-place finisher Randy Korte conceded after being unable to stop Wallace on the one-third-mile oval’s smooth, shiny surface. “That’s his kind of deal.”
“Wally is awful good when the track’s like that,” added Shannon Babb, who placed third. “He has a really good setup for slick tracks, so I’m not surprised to see him win the thing.”
Wallace, 40, of Batesville, Ark., didn’t downplay his slick-track expertise after earning $10,000 for his first career win in I-55’s traditional season-ending dirt Late Model event.
“We just geared up for it to be as slick as it could get,” said Wallace. “The slick tracks are where our program is a little bit better.”
After capturing a heat and the dash, Wallace took the feature green flag from the pole position in his Gaerte-powered GRT No. 88. He was initially outgunned for the lead by Highland, Ill.’s Korte, who started second, but he surged by Korte to assume command for good on lap 18.
Korte settled for second place, several car lengths ahead of Moweaqua, Ill.’s Babb. Sixth-starter Jimmy Mars of Menominie, Wis., and eighth-starter Brian Shirley of Chatham, Ill., completed the top five.
“Randy was awful good early on, but I just got through the lapped cars better than he did,” described the modest Wallace, who recorded his ninth overall triumph of the 2006 season. “I caught a break.”
Korte, 41, didn’t see Wallace’s deciding pass quite the same way. Korte, who is on the verge of clinching the 2006 UMP Late Model national championship, simply wasn’t strong enough to race with Wallace, who beat him to the finish line by nearly a full straightaway margin.
“We’ve been wondering what we could’ve done to the car to make it better, but Wendell’s just hard to beat on that kind of track,” said Korte, who drove his familiar Rocket No. 00. “I was kinda surprised I kept him at bay as long as I did.”
“Our car would just come and go. It seemed like it would be good for a few laps, then it would just be junk for a few. I don’t know if that was me using the tires up too much or something else, but we couldn’t run with Wendell because of it.”
Wallace maintained full control after the race was slowed, on lap 21, for a second and final caution flag. Even lapped traffic gave him little trouble.
“I just moved around in different grooves the whole race,” said Wallace, whose biggest triumph of ’06 came in late May when he topped the Show-Me 100 at West Plains (Mo.) Motor Speedway for the second time in his career. “One time I’d be good in a certain spot for five laps, then it seemed like that groove would slow down so I’d have to change my line and do something different.
“That’s the raciest I think I’ve ever seen this place.”
It was also the first time Wallace had ever visited Victory Lane at the high-banked track owned by NASCAR Nextel Cup veteran Kenny Schrader.
“We’ve had a couple good runs here over the years, but we were never able to seal the deal,” he said. “If feels good to finally get it done.”
Babb, who won I-55’s UMP Summernationals event earlier this year en route to capturing his second straight tour championship, was unable to tame a decidedly different track surface this time around.
“We won the Summernationals show here, but it was wet and sticky that night,” said the 32-year-old Babb, who drove Billy Moyer Sr.’s Rayburn No. 18. “It was super-slick tonight, but the track was excellent. It couldn’t be any better.
“I just needed to be better down the straightaway. I could roll around the corner pretty good, but they’d leave me down the straightaway because I was just spinning (wheels).”
Shirley, 25, entered the Pepsi Nationals with plenty of confidence, thanks to five wins in six starts this season at I-55 and a $6,000 victory in the previous night’s MARS/UMP ‘USA World 50’ at Paducah (Ky.) International Raceway.
But the rising star was searching for answers after finishing a quiet fifth in Ed Petroff’s Rocket No. 3s on a surface that was slicker than he’s been accustomed.
“When you don’t win, you just want to figure out what could’ve been better,” said Shirley. “I know my car wasn’t good enough to win, and that’s why I came over to talk to (Babb after the race) to see how he felt about his car.”
Rounding out the top 10 was four-time UMP Late Model national champion Rodney Melvin of Benton, Ill.; Jack Sullivan of Greenbriar, Ark.; 22-year-old Michael Kloos of Trenton, Ill.; MARS regular Jeff Taylor of Cave City, Ark.; and defending World of Outlaws Late Model Series champion Billy Moyer of Batesville, Ark., who won last year’s Pepsi Nationals headliner.
The race’s only significant crash occurred on lap six after Ed Dixon got sideways in turn three and was hit by Matt Taylor. Mark Oller was also involved.
Thirty-five cars entered the event.
The original format called for the passing points system to be used for qualifying, but group time trials were run instead.
MARS tour points leader Bill Frye of Greenbriar, Ark., set fast time with a lap of 12.945 seconds, but he had a short night. His car’s motor exploded in a cloud of smoke as he set the pace two laps in the first heat, and he promptly loaded up and left the track.
Heat winners were Kloos, Babb, Wallace and Korte. Tim Manville and Joe Ross Jr. captured the B-Mains.

UMP Late Model Pepsi Nationals Feature Finish (50 laps): 1. Wendall Wallace, 2. Randy Korte, 3. Shannon Babb, 4. Jimmy Mars, 5. Brian Shirley, 6. Rodney Melvin, 7. Jack Sullivan, 8. Michael Kloos, 9. Jeff Taylor, 10. Billy Moyer, 11. Billy Faust, 12. Chad Zobrist, 13. Ryan Dauber, 14. Bryan Collins, 15. Jeff Johns, 16. Tim Manville, 17. Dave Jumper, 18. Kevin Cole, 19. Joe Ross Jr., 20. Tim Ratajczyk, 21. Joe Morris, 22. Ed Dixon, 23. Mark Oller, 24. Matt Taylor
DNQ: Rich Whaley, Ron Sensel, Jeremy Conaway, Ron McQuerry, Rich Lawson, Bill Frye, Steve Shive, Billy Moyer Jr., Dick Taylor, Chip Morgan, Tracy Wampler.

Shirley’s Red-Hot Summer Continues With Triumph In Friday’s MARS/UMP Clash ‘USA World 50’ At Paducah International Raceway

PADUCAH, KY – Sept. 15, 2006 – The most spectacular summer of Brian Shirley’s racing career rolled on Friday night at Paducah International Raceway.
Shirley scored his ninth victory in a two-month span, leading from flag-to-flag to capture the Mid-American Racing Series/United Midwestern Promoters Clash ‘USA World 50.’
The budding 25-year-old star from Chatham, Ill., earned $6,000 for his performance in the prestigious event, which for decades was a signature race at PIR but has been off the three-eighths-mile oval’s schedule in recent years. Track owners Kenny Schrader, Dale Earnhardt Jr. and Bob Sargent, who combined to purchase and rebuild the facility in November 2005, decided to bring back the historic 50-lapper this year and run it in memory of well-known regional racing personalities Bob Memmer and Wayne Coakley.
Shirley’s triumph was the second of his career in both MARS competition and at PIR. All those wins have come this year.
“It’s just an unbelievable feeling to get on a roll like this,” said Shirley, who was winless in 2006 until breaking through on July 15 at I-55 Raceway in Pevely, Mo. “I didn’t think I’d ever get a string of wins going, but it’s happening.”
Steering the Petroff Towing/J&J Steel Rayburn No. 3s owned by longtime St. Louis-area motorsports supporter Ed Petroff, Shirley was flawless from start to finish in the final co-sanctioned MARS/UMP show of the season. He grabbed the lead from his pole starting spot at the initial green flag and never looked back.
Shirley crossed the finish line nearly a half-straightaway ahead of three-time MARS champion Bill Frye of Greenbriar, Ark., who started on the outside pole and ran in the runner-up spot for the entire distance.
Terry English of Benton, Ky., started and finished third, a couple car lengths behind Frye. PIR regular Johnny Tindal of Paducah, Ky., improved one position to place fourth, and Wendell Wallace of Batesville, Ark., advanced from the 13th starting spot to complete the top five.
Shirley entered the night’s action extremely confident he could continue his hot streak – not a surprise, considering he’s been so stout in his PIR appearances this season. He led the track’s Tri-Track Challenge and UMP Summernationals events earlier this year before absorbing tough defeats, and on Aug. 24 he scored his first-ever win at Paducah in a NASCAR Night dirt Late Model special.
“I felt like if I just went out there and ran my race, I could win the race,” bottom-lined Shirley. “I knew I was gonna have a good car after how we did here last month. We kinda checked out on ‘em that night, and basically based our setup tonight off of that.”
Shirley hit it on the nose again. He simply perched his car in Paducah’s upper groove and controlled the race, which was slowed by five caution flags.
“I just rolled it in nice and easy around the top,” said Shirley. “The car just drove itself.”
The race’s final caution flag, on lap 45 for a flat left-rear tire on top-10 runner Ryan Dauber’s car, got Shirley’s attention because he had “paid attention to the scoreboard” and knew Frye was still lurking behind him. But he handled the restart with a veteran’s expertise.
“At the end I got a little tense because I knew it was five-to-go, and you always hate to see a restart,” he said. “But I feel like I’ve raced against great drivers like Frye, Shannon Babb and Billy Moyer, so I feel like I’m capable of running with them on any given night.
“You know they’re respectable drivers and they’re gonna run you clean, so you don’t have to worry about them doing anything dirty to you.”
Frye, 45, had no answer for Shirley’s speed.
“He was pretty good,” said Frye, who drove a GRT car. “He was gonna have to get hung up (in lapped traffic) to give me a chance.”
A second-place finish helped Frye extend his MARS points lead to 64 markers over fellow three-time tour champ Terry Phillips of Springfield, Mo., who salvaged a sixth-place finish despite losing the right-rear window on his car when he clipped DuQuoin, Ill., racer Scott Ford’s spinning machine in turn four on the sixth lap.
Moving closer to another title was good enough for Frye, who didn’t want to risk pushing his car too hard after it sustained some damage early in the race.
“I ran over Joey Mack’s caliper after he lost a wheel (on lap two), and I think it bent my rack because it hit the cross-member,” reported Frye, who was also the runner-up when Shirley recorded his first career MARS win on Aug. 12 at I-55 Raceway. “My front end never felt right after that, so I didn’t have the confidence to run that cushion like (Shirley) did. I think I could’ve been faster up there, but the front end just didn’t feel right, so I decided I’d rather finish than finish in the wall.”
Frye, who also carries sponsorship from Petroff Towing, was impressed by Shirley’s high-side acumen. He saw Shirley’s years as a flat-track motorcycle racer shining through as he forcefully slid around the high-banked speedway.
“I was watching him run that up there,” said Frye, “and I thought to myself, Now I can see how he ran (against) the hay bales on a motorcycle on the mile (dirt tracks).”
Contenders who fell by the wayside during the ‘USA World 50’ included two-time defending UMP Summernationals champion Shannon Babb of Moweaqua, Ill., who raced as high as sixth before he retired on lap 24 because broken body braces left his car with handling problems; Jimmy Mars of Menomonie, Wis., who was ready to crack the top 10 when a right-rear flat tire put him out on lap 20; and third-place MARS points man Jeff Taylor of Cave City, Ark., who relinquished fifth place due to terminal engine woes on lap 30.
Forty-five cars entered the event, which was run before a healthy crowd.
With the passing-points system in place to set the top-16 feature starters, heat winners were Ford, Dauber, Kevin Cole of Buckner, Ill., Tindal and Frye. Dane Dacus of Arlington, Tenn., and Mars captured the B-Mains.
Two events remain on the 2006 MARS schedule: the Sept. 22-23 Larry Phillips Memorial at Missouri’s Lebanon I-44 Speedway, and an Oct. 7 date at Bolivar (Mo.) Speedway.
MARS/UMP Clash Feature Finish (50 laps): 1. Brian Shirley, 2. Bill Frye, 3. Terry English, 4. Johnny Tindal, 5. Wendell Wallace, 6. Terry Phillips, 7. Randy Korte, 8. Jeff Floyd, 9. Kevin Cole, 10. Billy James, 11. Dane Dacus, 12. Steve Rushin, 13. Todd Hall, 14. Dillon Thompson, 15. Justin Wells, 16. Jordan Jones, 17. Ryan Dauber, 18. Scott Ford, 19. Jeff Taylor, 20. Michael Steele, 21. Rusty Griffaw, 22. Shannon Babb, 23. Jimmy Mars, 24. Joey Mack.
DNQ: Jack Sullivan, Patrick Sheltra, Billy Faust, Donnie Rollins, Royal Jones, Rod Reed, Billy Moyer, Tim Brown, Will Vaught, Randall Sweeney, Rodney Melvin, Joe Morris, Matt Liner, Tim Manville, Jeff Sloan, Jimmy Owens, Brandon McCormick, Michael Kloos, Billy Millikin, Scott Riggs, Kyle Monroe, Phil Walker.
MARS Points Standings (after Sept. 15): 1. Bill Frye 1,702; 2. Terry English 1,638; 3. Jeff Taylor 1,424; 4. Steve Rushin 1,337; 5. Jeff Floyd 1,328; 6. Justin Wells 1,323; 7. Billy James 1,301; 8. Will Vaught 1,287; 9. Dane Dacus 1,107; 10. Joey Mack 1,061; 11. Wendell Wallace 987; 12. Brandon McCormick 976; 13. Jordan Jones 938; 14. Jack Sullivan 736; 15. Leslie Essary 715.

DIRTVision Offers Internet Coverage of Dirt Kart Winternationals And WKA Dirt World Championships At Volusia Speedway Park Dec. 27-Jan. 1

BARBERVILLE, FL – Sept. 13, 2006 – Could a dirt karter ask for anything more than six days of racing in the Florida sun following Christmas?
They sure can – specifically, coverage of the event on DIRTVision.com so friends and family unable to make the trip south can watch the Dirt Kart Winternationals action on a computer screen in the comfort of their homes.
DIRTVision.com, the live internet audio and video arm of DIRT MotorSports, will provide unprecedented coverage of the Outlaw Dirt Kart Winternationals and WKA Dirt World Championships scheduled for Dec. 27-Jan. 1 at Volusia Speedway Park outside Daytona Beach, Fla.
DIRT MotorSports and the World Karting Association (WKA) officials announced in late August that they have aligned to promote the six-day Dirt Kart Winternationals at Volusia Speedway Park’s new kart facility. The week will include Outlaw Dirt Kart Winternationals events on Dec. 27, Dec. 31 and Jan. 1 and the famed Briggs & Stratton Speedway WKA Dirt World Championships Dec. 28-30.
The WKA Dirt World Championships have been an end-of-the-year staple at Daytona Beach Municipal Stadium for a quarter century. The move to Volusia Speedway Park for the 2006 edition will provide hundreds of racers a dedicated kart facility more conducive to side-by-side dirt racing.
All of the racing action from the 22 divisions slated to compete will be available on DIRTVision.com, which has previously featured live audio and video coverage of DIRT MotorSports’ national and regional touring dirt-track series, including the World of Outlaws Sprints and Late Models, Advance Auto Parts Modifieds, UMP Late Models and MARS Late Models.
"We are ready to bring leading edge broadcast technology to the karting world with six days of live streaming video, audio and results,” said DIRTVision producer Matt Thomas. “This event schedule represents one of our biggest undertakings, with over 30 hours of streaming scheduled in six days.
“Fans and families from coast-to-coast or anywhere in the world can subscribe to watch the programming we will offer from Volusia Speedway Park."
There will be a FREE preview of the live streaming video, audio and results offered on DIRTVision.com during the first night of the Outlaw Dirt Kart Winternationals, on Dec. 27. If internet viewers like what they see, they can subscribe to watch and listen to the events for the remainder of the week.
A DIRTVision subscription for the Dirt Kart Winternationals at Volusia Speedway Park will provide access to the live events daily as well as “On Demand” archived events the following week. The cost will be $7.99 for one-day viewing or $19.99 for the entire week.
DIRT MotorSports will also offer a technological bonus to all karters in action during the week-long racing extravaganza. The company will have its World of Outlaws Sprint Series Mobile Media Center on hand for the Winternationals, providing karters live timing, scoring and DIRTVision video streams on a big screen. In addition, the WoO Mobile Media Center’s presence will provide WiFi wireless internet access for the pit area so racers can get on the internet and check e-mail throughout the week.
For more information on DIRTVision, including subscription details, visit DIRTVision.com.
Information on the Dirt Kart Winternationals is available at www.volusiaspeedwaypark.com or www.worldkarting.com.

This Year's Pittsburgher 100 Plays Critical Role In Battle For $120,000
World of Outlaws Late Model Series Points Title

IMPERIAL, PA - Sept. 14, 2006 - The Pittsburgher 100 is back on the World of
Outlaws Late Model Series schedule this season - just in time for the 18th
annual early-autumn classic to play a critical role in determining the
tour's 2006 points champion.

After a one-year hiatus, the stars of the WoO LMS will return to
Pittsburgh's Pennsylvania Motor Speedway for the rich $18,000-to-win event
set for Sept. 22-23.

Only one WoO LMS event remains following western Pennsylvania's most
prestigious dirt Late Model show, so the six drivers still in contention for
the tour's title have plenty riding on the weekend. Specifically, they're
all eyeing that $120,000 prize earmarked for the points champ - the biggest
single check any dirt Late Model driver will receive in 2006.

"We're excited that the Pittsburgher will be so important to the World of
Outlaws Late Model Series points race," said Judy Gower, the public
relations director of the track known as the 'Monster Half-Mile.' "That just
adds more interest to an event that means so much to everyone in the area."

Tim McCreadie of Watertown, N.Y., will arrive at PPMS leading the WoO LMS
standings by 28 points over Shane Clanton of Locust Grove, Ga. Defending
tour champion Billy Moyer of Batesville, Ark., sits 38 points behind in
third, followed by Chub Frank of Bear Lake, Pa. (-56 points), Darrell
Lanigan of Union, Ky. (-58) and Steve Francis of Ashland, Ky. (-62).

McCreadie, 32, can assure himself a first career WoO LMS crown by finishing
sixth or better in the Pittsburgher 100 and the tour's season finale on Oct.
13-14 at Volusia Speedway Park in Barberville, Fla., but that's a task
easier said than done. One misstep at PPMS - like he had in his only
previous appearance at the track - could push McCreadie out of the driver's
seat in the points race.

In the 2004 version of the Pittsburgher, McCreadie, who was on his way to
winning that year's tour Rookie of the Year award, was involved in a tangle
and finished a dismal 24th. Bart Hartman of Zanesville, Ohio, was the winner
of that evening's 60-lap feature, the second half of what was scheduled as a
two-race WoO LMS weekend. (The previous night's 40-lap event was canceled
due to transformer problems that dimmed the track's lighting.)

McCreadie and the 31-year-old Clanton, who will make his first-ever visit to
PPMS, have the least experience at the fast, spacious oval of the WoO LMS
title contenders. Moyer, a 48-year-old who is one of dirt Late Model
racing's alltime greats, and Lanigan have a bit more, while Frank and
Francis have frequented special shows at PPMS for the last two decades.

The Pittsburgher 100 is one of the few major dirt Late Model events in the
country that Moyer has not won. He's made the feature field three times,
finishing as high as second, in 1991.

Lanigan, 36, has made five starts in the Pittsburgher 100, with a top finish
of fifth, in 1995. He was a quiet 14th-place finisher in the '04 version
sanctioned by the WoO LMS.

Francis, who turned 39 on Sept. 10, has never had much luck in 11 career
Pittsburgher starts. His best finish is a seventh, accomplished in 1994 and
2000.

The 44-year-old Frank, meanwhile, would appear to have an edge considering
his track record in the Pittsburgher 100. In fact, last year marked the
first time he did not compete in the event in its history.

Frank scored just a single top-10 finish (eighth in 1990) during the first
nine Pittsburgher 100s, but since then he's finished out of the top five
just twice (10th in 2000, 21st in 2004). His sterling recent results include
a victory in 2001, three third-place finishes (1998, 1999, 2003) and a
fourth (2002).

The WoO LMS title chasers will face plenty of fierce competition in the
Pittsburgher from a field that traditionally exceeds 60 cars. Numerous
national and regional standouts will invade the track, including Brian
Birkhofer of Muscatine, Iowa, who has the event on his schedule.

Chester, W.Va.'s Lou Bradich, who clinched the 2006 dirt Late Model
championship at PPMS on Sept. 9, will lead the local contingent. He's
looking to better his career-best Pittsburgher finish of fifth, accomplished
in last year's event.

Other PPMS regulars who will bid to shoot down the WoO stars are Michael
Davis of Rayland, Ohio, who emerged with three victories this season;
veteran Lynn Geisler of Cranberry, Pa., who has finished as high as third in
the 100 (1989); former track champion Dave Wade of Clinon, Pa.; and Steve
Baker of Fairmont, W.Va., who co-owns Rocket Chassis with Mark Richards, the
father of teenager WoO LMS sensation Josh Richards of Shinnston, W.Va.

In the past a Saturday-Sunday afternoon event, this year the Pittsburgher
100 activities will be run under the lights on Fri., Sept. 22, and Sat.,
Sept. 23. A practice will be held on Thurs., Sept. 21, from 7-10 p.m. for
dirt Late Model, E-Mod and Pure Stock racers.

Sun., Sept. 24, will be reserved as a raindate.

"We think running at night on Friday and Saturday will really provide better
racing for the fans," said Gower.

On Fri., Sept. 22, pit gates are scheduled to open at 4 p.m. and spectator
gates at 5 p.m. WoO LMS time trials are set for 7 p.m., followed by
qualifying heat races for the WoO LMS, E-Mods and Pure Stocks.

Pit gates will open for the Sat., Sept. 23, program at 11 a.m. and spectator
gates at 12 noon. Racing will begin at 7 p.m., featuring WoO LMS B-Mains,
specials for the E-Mods and Pure Stocks, and the 18th annual Pittsburgher
100, which will not have a halfway fuel stop.

Thursday's practice boasts free admission to the grandstand. Adult general
admission is $25 on Friday and $40 on Saturday, with a two-day pass
available for $40. Kids 9-14 will be admitted for $10 each day, and kids 9
and under are free.

Pit passes are $15 on Thursday, $30 on Friday and $50 on Saturday, with
two-day passes for Friday and Saturday available for $50.

For more information visit www.ppms.com or call 412-279-7223 (office),
724-853-7223 (office) or 724-695-0393 (race day).

Previous Pittsburgher 100 Winners:
1989 - Scott Bloomquist
1990 - Bob Wearing Jr.
1991 - Donnie Moran
1992 - Davey Johnson
1993 - Scott Bloomquist
1994 - Davey Johnson
1995 - Scott Bloomquist
1996 - Tim Hitt
1997 - Rick Aukland
1998 - Tim Hitt
1999 - Todd Andrews
2000 - Davey Johnson
2001 - Chub Frank
2002 - Rick Aukland
2003 - Matt Urban
2004 - Bart Hartman
2005 - Donnie Moran

UMP At The World 100: Summernationals Standouts Shannon Babb & Jeep VanWormer Shine In Classic Race At Eldora Speedway

ROSSBURG, OH – Sept. 11, 2006 – Two major players on this year’s United Midwestern Promoters (UMP) Summernationals tour were also major factors in the biggest dirt Late Model event of the season.
Two-time defending UMP Summernationals champion Shannon Babb of Moweaqua, Ill., and Jeep VanWormer of Piconning, Mich., who finished second to Babb in this year’s Summernationals points standings, played starring roles in Saturday night’s 36th annual World 100 at Eldora Speedway.
Babb, 32, led more laps than any other driver and finished second to Jacksonville, Fla.’s Earl Pearson Jr., while VanWormer, 31, became the darling of the standing-room-only crowd with an electric run to a third-place finish.
For much of the night it appeared that Babb was ready to gain a dose of redemption in the World 100, which was sanctioned by DIRT MotorSports’ UMP division. One year earlier he had crossed the finish line first in the event, but was disqualified for weighing in light at the scales.
Qualifying couldn’t have gone better for Babb. He went from wallowing in fifth place midway through the 15-lap fifth heat – two spots from a transfer spot – to an important victory thanks to help from two caution flags; he pulled off a three-wide pass to claim third on a lap-eight restart and grabbed the lead on a lap-11 restart.
With the outside-pole position for the main secured, Babb set the pace for laps 1-26 and 28-80. But his Billy Moyer Sr.-owned Rayburn car wasn’t fast enough to hold off Pearson, and thus he gracefully accepted defeat.
“We’re happy, but we would’ve been happier if we could’ve won it – especially after what happened last year,” said Babb, whose best finish in six previous World 100 feature starts was a third in 2002. “Earl was definitely better than us tonight. We were just trying to hold our own and keep everybody behind us. They got to eating me up at the end.
“For what the car felt like, I can’t believe we ran second. I really wasn’t as good as I needed to be. I can’t believe all those guys didn’t pass me.
“Last year and other times I’ve been here before, about halfway through the race my car would start getting tight, and I’d start getting more traction and going,” he added. “I was waiting for the thing to start to get going tonight, but it just didn’t.
“The track was prepared perfect tonight, and it never did get more traction in one spot. I guess it stayed slicker longer that I expected, so my car didn’t come in like I had planned on it.
“But that’s what makes dirt racing so fun. You gotta time your car to come in when it counts.”
It was still an eventful race for Babb, who survived a mid-race scrape, plenty of head-turning pressure from VanWormer and his involvement in the wild late-race battle that made the 2006 World 100 one of the most exciting in history.
Bobb’s closest call on lap 40, when he and VanWormer split the lapped car driven by Ray Cook of Brasstown, N.C., between turns three and four while battling for the lead. Babb made contact with Cook, sending the Southerner into the turn-four wall, while VanWormer simultaneously slapped the turn-four wall hard after sliding into the lead. A caution flag for Cook’s car kept Babb in the top spot.
“I just timed it wrong going down the backstraightaway,” Babb said of the incident. “I was starting to go at the same time Jeep went by me, and I got into Cook there. I sure as heck didn’t mean to. You definitely don’t want to crash nobody, especially when you’re leading.”
Babb then had to deal with VanWormer, who was tossing his MasterSbilt car around the half-mile oval with wild abandon. VanWormer changed lanes and scraped the outside wall repeatedly, often showering sparks on his rival racers.
“I felt like I was riding around there with a time bomb ticking on my back bumper,” Babb said of his struggle for position with VanWormer. “I could see sparks (from VanWormer’s car) flying all over.”
Babb was impressed – and not surprised – by VanWormer’s speed.
“He definitely was super fast and definitely has the capability of winning this race,” said Babb, who has 20 wins this season and is ranked in the top 10 of the UMP Late Model national points standings. “Everybody hates to hear it, but if he would’ve toned down just a little bit, maybe he would’ve driven by us all and lapped everybody.
“He’s been here running a little bit, and like everybody knows, the more you run some place, the better you’ll get. I’ve never run any of these other (weekly Late Model) shows here because there’s been something else going on, but I probably should to get more laps. The (purse) money might not be as much in some shows, but if you run ‘em, someday it might pay off big.
“Like maybe when (Eldora owner Tony) Stewart has another million-to-win show for us next year or sometime soon,” smiled Babb, trying to drop a hint to the NASCAR Nextel Cup Series star.
VanWormer, meanwhile, was the center of fans’ attention in the pit area following the race. With Pearson taking care of his post-race winner’s responsibilities with the media upstairs in Eldora’s VIP tower, people flocked to the hauler of the driver who provided them countless thrills en route to a third-place finish in the 100-lapper.
“Our crowd was pretty big tonight. You would’ve thought we won the damn race,” quipped the affable VanWormer, leaning against his car’s right-side door while interacting with fans long after the checkered flag had fallen. “I don’t think there’s a t-shirt left in the trailer. We were doing good selling them this weekend, but everybody wanted one after the race.”
VanWormer, who came to Eldora sporting a new purple-dominated paint scheme on his No. 55, admitted that his aggressiveness likely dive-bombed his opportunity to win the World 100 in just his second career feature start.
“I wish I would’ve stayed off the wall. We might have won this thing,” said VanWormer, who finished 16th in the 2004 World 100. “I didn’t have as much drive (late in the race). The spoiler’s knocked off and bumper’s dragging, so the car definitely didn’t handle like it did at the start.
“But it’s the World 100, so it’s hard not to get excited. Especially when you’re running up front, you can see the lead, and you can see those guys aren’t driving away from you.”
When asked what he would do differently if he could run the race again, VanWormer said he would “try to be more patient.” He didn’t think he could’ve simply driven away from the field to win the 100, but he realized that some mistakes – like when he slid high after Pearson passed him for the lead on lap 86 and fell to third – cost him dearly.
Nevertheless, VanWormer, who announced his contender status on Saturday with a spectacular run forward from the eighth starting spot to win the second heat race, had no regrets about his performance.
“I’m just overwhelmed,” said VanWormer, who entered the weekend ranked 15th in the UMP Late Model national points standings. “Running third in the World 100 is pretty cool. Leading it was cooler.
“We didn’t win it, but everybody at this racetrack knows I was here. They’ll look at me in a different light every time we come to Eldora.
“We’ve had a great year, did really well in the Summernationals (two wins while competing in all 26 events),” he added. “But running like we did tonight puts us where we need to be.
“When you run good in the World 100, it helps. It makes sponsors open up and say, ‘This guy’s on the verge.’”
Six other drivers ranked in the top 15 of the UMP Late Model national points standings entered the World 100, which offered UMP points.
* Randy Korte of Highland, Ill., who is rolling toward the $25,000 UMP Late Model national championship with four weekends of points racing left in the 2006 season, timed 26th-fastest on Friday and qualified for the feature by taking the runner-up spot in Saturday’s second heat.
But Korte, who started eighth in the 100, didn’t last long. On lap 17 a tangle with Brian Birkhofer of Muscatine, Iowa, in turn four ripped the nosepiece off Korte’s No. 00, forcing him to the pit area. The nosepiece got lodged in the rearend of Birkhofer’s car until finally shaking free onto the track on lap 27.
* Wes Steidinger of Fairbury, Ill., who won UMP Late Model titles this season at Fairbury Speedway and Farmer City (Ill.) Raceway and is eighth in the UMP national points standings, missed qualifying for his first career World 100 by just one position. The 23-year-old, who timed 45th-fastest, finished fifth in the first B-Main.
* Dennis Erb Jr. of Carpentersville, Ill., who sits second in the current UMP national standings, was bidding for a transfer spot in the second B-Main when he tangled on the white flag lap with Eddie Carrier Jr. of Salt Rock, W.Va. The 33-year-old driver retired to the pit area.
* Ryan Dauber of Tonica, Ill., who is 11th in the UMP national rankings, was buried with a 16th-place starting spot in the sixth heat after timing 96th-fastest. The 29-year-old made a strong advance to finish eighth in the preliminary, but he fell short of making his first World 100 field, finishing 11th in the second B-Main.
* Veteran Kevin Weaver of Gibson City, Ill., a former UMP national and Summernationals champion who ranks 12th in the current UMP national standings, timed 72nd-fastest and battled a loose race car while finishing 11th in the sixth heat. The World 100 runner-up in 1998 advanced from the 24th starting spot to finish 14th in the second B-Main.
* Jason Feger of Bloomington, Ill., sporting a new “tumbling dice” design on the doors of his No. 25 for the World 100, timed a sparkling 23rd-fastest on Friday. But the 28-year-old racer, who entered the weekend 13th in the UMP national points and leading UMP’s Indiana State points, fell from the third starting spot to a 10th-place finish in the fifth heat, then missed the World 100 after finishing 16th in the first B-Main.

Josh Richards Falls Short Of Victory But Is Highest-Finishing World of
Outlaws Late Model Series Regular In World 100 at Eldora Speedway

ROSSBURG, OH - Sept. 10, 2006 - 'Kid Rocket' almost pulled it off.

Teenage sensation Josh Richards's bid to win Saturday night's 36th annual
World 100 at Eldora Speedway in just his second career start fell short, but
his fourth-place performance still made him the highest-finishing World of
Outlaws Late Model Series regular in the prestigious dirt Late Model event.

Richards, 18, had no qualms with his run in the show, which was sanctioned
by DIRT MotorSports's United Midwestern Promoters (UMP) division. He enjoyed
being the evening's leader of the WoO LMS brigade, which numbered eight
drivers strong in the feature.

"I'll take fourth in the World 100 any day," he proudly said following the
race.

Earl Pearson Jr. of Jacksonville, Fla., emerged victorious in the thrilling
event, which observers immediately considered one of the most memorable in
World 100 history. He started from the pole position, but didn't take the
lead until lap 86 when he got the extreme inside line to work for him.

The final 25 laps saw Richards in the middle of a titanic battle at the
front of the pack that included Pearson, Shannon Babb of Moweaqua, Ill., and
Jeep VanWormer of Piconning, Mich. Several other drivers, including WoO LMS
regulars Dale McDowell of Chickamauga, Ga., and Clint Smith of Locust Grove,
Ga., were also in the mix.

Richards, who started 10th in his father Mark's Rocket Chassis House Car,
climbed as high as second, on lap 79. But moments after Richards challenged
Babb for the lead, VanWormer passed both Richards and Babb with a high-side
assault to assume command.

Pearson then came on to pass Richards, Babb and VanWormer in succession and
grab the lead for good. He marched on to earn $39,000 for his first career
World 100 triumph, taking the checkered flag several car lengths ahead of
Babb.

VanWormer finished third, while Richards, who attempted to pass Babb for
second on lap 94 during the race's frenetic final moments, settled for
fourth place. It was Richards's best career World 100 finish, easily topping
the 25th-place run he had in his first start a year ago.

The sheer intensity of the World's late stages amazed Richards, who realized
he was part of a special race.

"When we were all racing so hard for the lead, I was like, 'Holy cow, I
can't believe this is going on!'" offered Richards, the 2005 WoO LMS Rookie
of the Year. "I thought, Whoa! This is the World 100!

"With so much stuff happening you can easily get caught up in all it (the
excitement). You just try to pretend it's like a video game and focus on
what you're doing."

As he accepted well-wishes while sitting on the door of his No. 1 outside
his team's hauler following the 100, Richards summed up his night: "That's
the most fun I've ever had racing."

Of course, Richards felt he should've finished a bit higher.

"I had probably a second-place car, but there were some mistakes I made," he
analyzed. "I thought the middle of the track was pretty good, but Earl
showed me the bottom when he went by. I should've moved down there earlier,
but I didn't know my car was good down there.

"I learned a lot, though. Being in a race like that is great experience."

SUPER COMEBACK: No driver made a bigger rally during the World 100 weekend
than Clint Smith, the second-winningest racer (four victories) on this
year's WoO LMS.

Smith, 41, appeared to be in serious trouble after timing a dismal
88th-fastest in Friday's qualifications. He said the evening's thick cushion
hampered his J.P. Drilling GRT car, which is "super good in the slick, but
ain't too good for the Baja (rough) situations."

Nevertheless, Smith moved from the 15th starting spot to a sixth-place
finish in Saturday's second heat; advanced to a transfer spot (third) in the
second B-Main; and marched from the 26th starting spot in the 100 to sixth
at the finish.

And Smith's run had the makings of being even more spectacular. After the
race's final caution flag flew on lap 40, he spent the remainder of the
distance charging forward and actually caught the lead pack in the race's
late stages.

Some driving miscalculations - and trouble passing a fellow WoO LMS regular
to crack the top five - prevented him from climbing higher than sixth.

"When I caught the (lead) crowd there, I probably should've just been
patient around the top," said Smith, who drove his JP Drilling GRT No. 44.
"I got to diving to the bottom, and trying to slide, and that got my
momentum messed up. I just wasn't patient enough.

"And sometimes people who race with you all the time will race you harder
and won't let you go on, and that's what happened to us. If I could've just
got by him, I think I could've done something, maybe even gone on to win the
race. I lost the last 15 laps because of it."

Smith was pleased with his performance, which came one year after he
finished a career-best fourth in the World 100, but.

"After we ran those guys down from way back, none of what we'd done just to
make the race mattered anymore, because now you're supposed to win the race
like you started sixth," he said. "In that sense I'm not happy, but what we
accomplished today was probably better than anybody's ever done before. So
we gotta be happy with the way we came back."

Smith was also excited for World 100 winning driver Earl Pearson Jr. and car
owners Carlton and Kemp Lamm.

"Congratulations to Earl Pearson and the whole Dunn Benson crowd," Smith
said following the race. "Carlton and Kemp deserved it. I drove for them for
five years (during the mid- to late-'90s). They deserved to win one, and
maybe we'll get us one next year."

NO TWO STRAIGHT: Dale McDowell won a heat race and spent virtually the
entire feature distance running in the top five, but his bid for a second
consecutive World 100 triumph ended with a seventh-place finish.

"I needed to be a little bit tighter in traffic," said McDowell, who drove
his familiar Rocket No. 17M. "My car was a little free, so I couldn't stop
and take back off. When my momentum got slowed down, they'd get away form
me."

McDowell, 40, was "right there in the mix for everything" as the race wound
down, but he couldn't match Pearson's mastery of the inside groove.

"Earl had a good car right around the bottom," acknowledged McDowell.
"Everybody was sliding a little bit, and he found a little brown down there.
I was too free to go down there."

A last-lap scramble hurt McDowell.

"There at the end (Chris) Madden (who led laps 26-27 before pitting with a
flat tire) was racing with us for some reason in the middle of all that, and
that cost me a couple positions," said McDowell. "I think we were gonna end
up fifth."

WoO SECTION: WoO LMS regulars finished in four consecutive World 100
positions at mid-pack - Rick Eckert of York, Pa. (12th), Tim McCreadie of
Watertown, N.Y. (13th), Darrell Lanigan of Union, Ky. (14th) and Chub Frank
of Bear Lake, Pa. (15th).

Frank had the best starting spot of the group, taking the green flag from
13th after finishing third in Saturday's first heat. But the 2004 World 100
winner never was a factor in the main.

"We made some changes to the car before the race that we shouldn't have,"
said Frank, who drove a two-race-old Rocket mount.

McCreadie, whose first career World 100 start a year ago resulted in a
seventh-place finish, was the WoO LMS standardbearer in Friday's time trials
with his 10th-fastest lap. But his fears of being unable to transfer to the
feature through a stacked fourth heat were realized; he finished fourth
behind heavy-hitters McDowell, Richards and Steve Shaver of Vienna, W.Va.

After making the cut with a runner-up finish in the second B-Main, McCreadie
made some headway from the 24th starting spot dung the 100's first half. He
sat 10th when a caution flag came out on lap 40, but his Sweeteners Plus
Rocket No. 39 leveled off soon after and he ultimately lost some spots
during the 60-lap green-flag stretch that closed the race.

Eckert, whose 51st-fastest time-trial lap left him with the ninth starting
spot in the third heat, was able to work his way out of trouble to make the
100. He missed a heat transfer position by two, then finished third in the
first B-Main.

But Eckert wasn't able to get his Raye Vest-owned Rocket in contention from
the 25th starting spot in the 100. He ran around his final 12th-place
position for most of the event.

Lanigan, who won the first B-Main, tried to improve his Rocket No. 29 by
pitting during the lap-40 caution period. But adding some wedge to the
machine didn't change the fortunes of Lanigan, who finished a quiet 14th.

OFF THE MARK: Steve Francis, the 1999 World 100 winner, nearly was a notable
DNQ for the fourth consecutive year. If not for fellow WoO LMS regular Eddie
Carrier Jr.'s late-race problems in the second B-Main, he wouldn't have
claimed the final transfer position for the feature.

Francis wasn't able to take advantage of his new life. He was off the pace
and lapped by the 12th circuit of the 100, then pulled off shortly
thereafter. He returned to the race later in the distance to try uncovering
where his Rocket car's setup had gone wrong.

"We were fortunate to even get in the race," said a disappointed Francis.
"We didn't really deserve to make it, but it is the World 100 so you take
it.

"We just couldn't go forward. Tonight was just more of the same struggles
we've been having lately."

RARE DNQ: Defending WoO LMS champion Billy Moyer of Batesville, Ark., who
leads all drivers with five career World 100 victories, found himself in the
unusual position of watching the huge feature from atop his trailer.

Moyer, 48, was just out of a transfer spot on lap six of the fourth heat
when a flat right-rear tire forced him to the pit area. He didn't return and
was thus done for the night, leaving him a World 100 non-qualifier for just
the second time since 1987 (he also missed the race in 2002).

"The tire just blew out," said Moyer, whose Rayburn No. 21 sported a
predominantly black paint scheme for the weekend. "It's just par for the
course for us this season."

FRUSTRATING WEEKEND: Shane Clanton of Locust Grove, Ga., entered the World
100 on a high, coming off a win on Sept. 4 at Tri-City Speedway in Franklin,
Pa., that moved him to second in the WoO LMS points standings.

The 31-year-old's hopes of making the World 100 for the third straight year
weren't realized. He scratched his Rocket No. 25 from further action after
its oil-pressure sending unit broke during the sixth lap, causing oil to
pour onto his lap.

BAD BREAK: Eddie Carrier Jr. of Salt Rock, W.Va., who is on the verge of
winning the 2006 WoO LMS Rookie of the Year award, nearly pulled off a
memorable rally to get in the World 100 for the second time in the last
three years.

After timing a lackluster 66th on Friday, Carrier advanced from the 11th
starting spot to a finish fifth in the sixth heat race. He then moved
forward in the second B-Main to secure the fourth and final transfer spot
late in the distance - only to suffer a heartbreaking defeat with the
checkered flag close at hand.

With the white flag waving Carrier spun on the homestretch after contact
with Dennis Erb Jr. of Carpentersville, Ill. Carrier kept his Rocket car
moving and was thus allowed to remain in fourth place for the ensuing
green-white-checkered restart, but he fell off the pace entering turn one
when green-flag racing resumed.

"I caught the frontstretch wall a little bit when I spun and bent the
(right-front) bumper," said Carrier. "On the restart the bumper rolled under
the car in turn one, so I had to pull off."

LEARNING EXPERIENCE: WoO LMS travelers Garrett Durrett of Simsboro, La., and
John Blankenship of Williamson, W.Va., didn't qualify for the World 100, but
they gained more valuable experience at Eldora.

Durrett and Blankenship - both of whom made their second career appearances
at the World 100 - timed 48th and 49th, respectively, on Friday. But neither
driver moved forward during heat action (Blankenship finished ninth, Durrett
10th), then fell short in the B-Mains as well (Blankenship took 13th in the
first B and Durrett was ninth in the second).

"We had a pretty good qualifying lap," said Durrett. "But I learned you
gotta be better in the heat race than we were tonight. If we had just
maintained our spot instead of falling back, we might have had a better
chance in the B."

FILLING IN: WoO LMS Rookie of the Year contender Eric Jacobsen of Santa
Cruz, Calif., was the tour's lone regular not on hand for the World 100. He
was forced to skip the event due to business commitments back home.

But Jacobsen entered his Rocket No. 5 in the World with fellow Californian
Bobby Hogge behind the wheel. The 2005 champion and current points leader of
the Western Dirt Late Model Tour, Hogge, 29, had previously arranged to make
his first-ever start at Eldora in Jacobsen's backup car, but he became the
team's focus when Jacobsen bagged his trip.

Hogge, who timed 80th fastest, saw his weekend end when he spun across the
finish line in the second heat, but he relished his visit to Eldora.

"I'm going tell everybody back home, 'If there's any way possible, you've
got to bring your own stuff here one day,'" said Hogge. "It's a real
experience."

World 100 Finish: 1. Earl Pearson Jr., 2. Shannon Babb, 3. Jeep VanWormer,
4. Josh Richards, 5. Scott Bloomquist, 6. Clint Smith, 7. Scott Bloomquist,
8. Brian Birkhofer, 9. Matt Miller, 10. Payton Taylor, 11. Steve Shaver, 12.
Rick Eckert, 13. Tim McCreadie, 14. Darrell Lanigan, 15. Chub Frank, 16.
Jimmy Mars, 17. Chris Madden, 18. Nick Marolf, 19. Donnie Moran, 20. Billy
Drake, 21. Brad Neat, 22. Vic Hill, 23. Ray Cook, 24. Jimmy Owens, 25. Steve
Francis, 26. Terry Phillips, 27. Aaron Scott, 28. Randy Korte.

Heat No. 1 Finish: Jimmy Owens, Nick Marolf, Chub Frank, Darrell Lanigan,
Don O'Neal, Steve Smith, Jared Landers, Shawn Toczek, John Blankenship, Greg
Johnson, Patrick Sheltra, Johnny Johnson, Dennis Roberson, Jesse Lay, Brad
Hall, Jay Johnson, Jordan Bland, Marty O'Neal, Vic Hill, Greg Lucas.

Heat No. 2 Finish: Jeep VanWormer, Randy Korte, Matt Miller, Scott
Bloomquist, Dennis Erb, Clint Smith, Josh McGuire, Darren Miller, Scott
James, Jerry Rice, Bobby Hensley, David Webb, Mike Balzano, Terry Babb,
Bobby Hogge, Tim Tungate, Doug Drown, Michael Chilton, Brad Neat, Randall
Sweeney.

Heat No. 3 Finish: Chris Madden, Brian Birkhofer, Donnie Moran, Terry
Phillips, Rick Eckert, Wes Steidinger, Davey Johnson, Shannon Thornsberry,
Jack Sullivan, John Mason, Brad Eitinear, Shawn Negangard, Rick Rickman, Rod
Conley, Barry Bragdon, Johnny Cloer Jr., Eric Smith, Rick Corbin, Frank
Heckenast Jr., R.J. Conley.

Heat No. 4 Finish: Dale McDowell, Josh Richards, Steve Shaver, Tim
McCreadie, Wendell Wallace, Michael England, Dan Schlieper, Brian Ruhlman,
Ben Adkins, Jerry Bowersock, Justin Ratliff, Jason Montgomery, Jeff Kohn,
Junior Schickel, Wayne Maffett Jr., Chris Combs, Billy Moyer, Dustin Neat,
Curt Spalding, Duane Chamberlain.

Heat No. 5 Finish: Shannon Babb, Payton Taylor, Billy Drake, Jimmy Mars,
Jackie Boggs, Bart Hartman, Freddy Smith, Curtis Roberts, Steve Casebolt
Jr., Jason Feger, Chad Smith, Bob Lanter, Mike Mataragas, Bill Williams,
Damon Eller, D.J. Wells, Jonathan Davenport, Devon Shiels, Brett Wyatt, Cody
Mahoney.

Heat No. 6 Finish: Earl Pearson Jr., Aaron Scott, Ray Cook, Steve Francis,
Eddie Carrier Jr., Brady Smith, Ricky Arms, Ryan Dauber, Brandon Kinzer,
Garrett Durrett, Kevin Weaver, Josh Williams, Jamie Elam, Audie McWilliams,
Chad Ruhlman, Ron DeHaven, Booper Bare, Bobby Kitchen, Shane Clanton,
Chuckie May.

B-Main No. 1 Finish: Darrell Lanigan, Terry Phillips, Rick Eckert, Jimmy
Mars, Wes Steidinger, Jackie Boggs, Freddy Smith, Bart Hartman, Steve Smith,
Jared Landers, Davey Johnson, Greg Johnson, John Blankenship, Patrick
Sheltra, Jack Sullivan, Jason Feger, Steve Casebolt Jr., Brad Eitinear,
Shawn Toczek, John Mason, Curtis Roberts, Don O'Neal, Shannon Thornsberry.

B-Main No. 2 Finish: Scott Bloomquist, Tim McCreadie, Clint Smith, Steve
Francis, Darren Miller, Michael England, Dan Schlieper, Brady Smith, Garrett
Durrett, Wendell Wallace, Ryan Dauber, Brandon Kinzer, Brian Ruhlman, Kevin
Weaver, Ricky Arms, Justiin Ratliff, Ben Adkins, Scott James, Eddie Carrier
Jr., Dennis Erb Jr., Josh McGuire, Robby Hensley, Jerry Bowersock.

McCreadie Leads World of Outlaws Late Model Series Contingent In Qualifying
For World 100 at Eldora Speedway

ROSSBURG, OH - Sept. 8, 2006 - Tim McCreadie led the World of Outlaws Late
Model Series contingent in Friday night's qualifying for the World 100 at
Eldora Speedway.

But the tour's current points leader wasn't smiling after registering the
10th-fastest lap (16.005 seconds) in the 195-car time-trial session.

When surprise fast-timer Vic Hill of Norristown, Tenn., pulled a '6' pill
for the heat-race invert, McCreadie cursed his speed.

"I think our car's good, and I think our car's capable of winning,"
McCreadie said after the completion of four-and-a-half hours of qualifying
for the crown jewel event sanctioned by DIRT MotorSports' United Midwestern
Promoters (UMP) division. "But it might not even be in the show."

McCreadie, 32, of Watertown, N.Y., has only entered a handful of events at
Eldora in his young dirt Late Model career, but he knows what a '6' invert
means to a top-10 qualifier: transferring to the World 100 through a heat
race will be very difficult.

The top-36 qualifiers will be inverted for Saturday night's six 15-lap heat
races, which means the drivers who timed 31-36 have pole starting spots.
McCreadie, meanwhile, will start fifth in a heat that transfers just its
top-three finishers to the A-Main.

"I was hating (Hill) when he drew that '6' invert," quipped McCreadie, who
turned his fast lap despite timing midway through the first round.

"You watch those heats and most will be won from the second starting spot,"
analyzed McCreadie. "The worst thing to have to do is start on the bottom -
and (starting fifth) you got good guys starting up in front of you."

McCreadie will certainly take the green flag behind some talented racers in
Saturday night's fourth heat. Three of them - polesitter Josh Richards of
Shinnston, W.Va., second-starter Dale McDowell of Chickamauga, Ga., and
third-starter Billy Moyer of Batesville, Ark. - are fellow WoO LMS regulars.

And McDowell and Moyer, of course, are former World 100 winners. McDowell is
the race's defending champion, and Moyer is the only driver to win the event
five times.

"It's just hard to pass in the heats when the track is fast (moist with
bite)," said McCreadie, who drove his familiar Sweeteners Plus Rocket No.
39. "It's just wide-open all the way around, like racing at Daytona. It will
take a lot of slide-jobs to get to the front."

Chub Frank of Sugar Grove, Pa., was the second-fastest WoO LMS regular in
qualifying, coming in at 13th place with a lap of 16.029 seconds. That gave
him the fourth starting spot in Saturday's first heat, alongside fellow WoO
regular Darrell Lanigan of Union, Ky., who was one of the few drivers to
turn a significantly better lap in the second round of qualifying
(19th-fastest overall).

Richards, 18, was disappointed with his time-trial effort; he said it was
his first trip to Eldora for a major event in which he didn't qualify in the
top 20. But the inversion turned his frown upside down, since being
34th-fastest earned him a coveted pole starting spot in the fourth heat.

Steve Francis of Ashland, Ky., who won the World 100 in 1999, timed
18th-fastest in his Mopar No. 15 to put seven WoO LMS drivers in the heat
inversion. He starts fourth in the sixth heat.

Shane Clanton of Locust Grove, Ga., who is ranked second in the 2006 WoO LMS
points standings, narrowly missed the inversion (42nd place) despite
experiencing a trying night. He was slowed by a bent right-front nosepiece
during his first time-trial lap, and drivetrain trouble as he rolled out for
his second-round circuit forced him to immediately pull in.

WoO LMS rookie Garrett Durrett of Simsboro, La., and second-year tour
traveler John Blankenship of Williamson, W.Va., were pleased with their
time-trial runs. They timed 48th and 49th, respectively, in pursuit of their
first World 100 feature starts.

Rick Eckert of York, Pa., the winningest driver on the WoO LMS this season,
struggled to a 51st-place qualifying lap, leaving him mired with the ninth
starting spot in the third heat. His night started off in frightening
fashion when a split oil line caused smoke to belch out of his Raye
Vest-owned No. 24 at the end of his hot-lap session, but the problem had no
aftereffects on his effort.

Other WoO LMS regulars who faced major challenges to qualify through heats
thanks to lackluster time-trial laps were rookie Eddie Carrier Jr. of Salt
Rock, W.Va. (66th-fastest) and Clint Smith of Senoia., Ga. (88th-fastest),
who finished fourth in last year's World 100.

The only WoO LMS regular unable to attend the event was Rookie of the Year
contender Eric Jacobsen of Santa Cruz, Calif. But Jacobsen entered his No. 5
car in the weekend's action with fellow Californian Bobby Hogge behind the
wheel, and Hogge made the 120-car cut-off to advance to Saturday's heats,
timing 80th.

Vic Hill, a regular at Volunteer Speedway in Bulls Gap, Tenn., who is well
known as an engine builder, took advantage of an early qualifying position
in Round 1 to shock the huge Eldora crowd - and himself - with the fastest
lap of the night. His lap of 15.736 seconds edged Brad Neat of Dunnville,
Ky., whose lap of 15.745 seconds also came very early in qualifying.

"I've only been here three times in my life," said the happy Hill. "It
hasn't soaked in yet. I just wanted to come here and do well."

Barring terminal problems to their cars, Hill and Neat will make the World
100 starting field if they don't qualify through their heats. The two
fastest drivers from time trials who don't qualify in the heats earn the
19th and 20th starting spots in the A-Main.

John Mason of Millersburg, Ohio, Michael England of Slick Rock, Ky., and
Shannon Babb of Moweaqua, Ill., who crossed the finish line first in last
year's World 100 but was disqualified for weighing in light, completed the
top-five qualifiers.

Heat races are set to begin at 7 p.m. on Saturday (Sept. 9).

Visit www.dirtmotorsports.com for updates on the exploits of the World of
Outlaws Late Model Series drivers in the World 100, and visit
www.eldoraspeedway.com for more information on the event.

World 100 Time Trial Results (Best of two laps - WoO Drivers In Caps):
1 Vic Hill 15.736
2 Brad Neat 15.745
3 John Mason 15.756
4 Michael England 15.757
5 Shannon Babb 15.822
6 Brady Smith 15.834
7 Brad Hall 15.92
8 Darren Miller 15.956
9 Chris Madden 15.984
10 TIM McCREADIE 16.005
11 Jimmy Mars 16.01
12 Earl Pearson, Jr. 16.026
13 CHUB FRANK 16.029
14 Jerry Rice 16.037
15 Donnie Moran 16.053
16 Steve Shaver 16.086
17 Billy Drake 16.095
18 STEVE FRANCIS 16.116
19 DARRELL LANIGAN 16.124
20 Matt Miller 16.174
21 Terry Phillips 16.181
22 BILLY MOYER 16.216
23 Jason Feger 16.233
24 Jimmy Owens 16.235
25 Ricky Arms 16.235
26 Randy Korte 16.26
27 Brian Birkhofer 16.261
28 DALE McDOWELL 16.262
29 Jonathan Davenport 16.271
30 Aaron Scott 16.272
31 Nick Marolf 16.276
32 Tim Tungate 16.277
33 Davey Johnson 16.289
34 JOSH RICHARDS 16.291
35 Peyton Taylor 16.299
36 Ray Cook 16.304
37 Shawn Toczek 16.336
38 Scott Bloomquist 16.336
39 R.J. Conley 16.339
40 Wendell Wallace 16.343
41 Bart Hartman 16.347
42 SHANE CLANTON 16.348
43 Steve Smith 16.357
44 Jeep VanWormer 16.365
45 Wes Steidinger 16.372
46 Ben Adkins 16.376
47 Chad Smith 16.378
48 GARRETT DURRETT 16.382
49 JOHN BLANKENSHIP 16.388
50 Josh McGuire 16.392
51 RICK ECKERT 16.402
52 Dan Schlieper 16.405
53 Steve Casebolt Jr 16.411
54 Brandon Kinzer 16.414
55 Jesse Lay 16.416
56 Michael Chilton 16.435
57 Jack Sullivan 16.443
58 Curt Spalding 16.473
59 Freddy Smith 16.488
60 Josh Williams 16.493
61 Jordan Bland 16.51
62 David Webb 16.53
63 Shannon Thornsberry 16.547
64 Brian Ruhlman 16.55
65 Damon Eller 16.55
66 EDDIE CARRIER JR. 16.565
67 Patrick Sheltra 16.572
68 Dennis Erb 16.587
69 Shawn Negangard 16.589
70 Justin Rattliff 16.589
71 Jackie Boggs 16.603
72 Kevin Weaver 16.618
73 Jared Landers 16.619
74 Mike Balzano 16.632
75 Brad Eitinear 16.643
76 Jerry Bowersock 16.652
77 Brett Wyatt 16.664
78 Audie McWilliams 16.666
79 Don O'Neal 16.677
80 Bobby Hogge 16.678
81 Rod Conley 16.718
82 Jason Montgomery 16.753
83 Rick Aukland 16.755
84 Jamie Elam 16.784
85 Dennis Roberson 16.795
86 CLINT SMITH 16.82
87 Barry Bragdon 16.829
88 Brad Coffey 16.851
89 Devon Shiels 16.857
90 Chad Ruhlman 16.869
91 Greg Lucas 16.876
92 John Gill 16.88
93 Johnny Cloer Jr 16.881
94 Chris Combs 16.885
95 D.J. Wells 16.912
96 Ryan Dauber 16.914
97 Johnny Johnson 16.916
98 Scott James 16.927
99 Frank Heckenast, Jr. 16.936
100 JR Shickel 16.947
101 Bob Lanter 16.957
102 John 'Booper' Bare 16.964
103 Marty O'Neal 16.971
104 Randle Sweeney 16.977
105 Curtis Roberts 16.984
106 Dustin Neat 16.984
107 Rick Corbin 16.984
108 Bobby Kitchen 17.001
109 Jay Johnson 17.022
110 Terry Babb 17.037
111 Rick Rickman 17.04
112 Wayne Maffett Jr. 17.043
113 Cody Mahoney 17.054
114 Chuckie May 17.055
115 Greg Johnson 17.075
116 Robby Hensley 17.086
117 Eric Smith 17.094
118 Jeff Kohn 17.095
119 Bill Williams 17.101
120 Ronnie Dehaven Jr. 17.11
121 Doug Drown 17.115
122 Jeff Floyd 17.118
123 Duane Chamberlain 17.15
124 Casey Noonan 17.161
125 Mike Mataragas 17.231
126 Anthony Adams 17.253
127 Scott Fisk 17.271
128 Tim Sabo 17.318
129 Chad Hina 17.318
130 Phil Walker 17.345
131 Don Hammer 17.357
132 Troy Cruse 17.36
133 Kevin Mack 17.361
134 Russ Cheffler 17.387
135 Jason Jameson 17.39
136 Tim Isenberg 17.407
137 Wayne Chinn 17.429
138 Derrick Chandler 17.44
139 Scott Knepley 17.444
140 Terry Wilforbarger 17.476
141 Blake Chinn 17.477
142 Scott Edmisten 17.502
143 Danny Hatcher 17.521
144 Michael Watson 17.528
145 Jason Keltner 17.542
146 Clint Jameson 17.547
147 Mike Collins 17.556
148 Ky Harper 17.562
149 Larry Kingseed 17.593
150 David Kirker 17.619
151 Anthony White 17.654
152 Chris Ross 17.675
153 Troy Eads 17.683
154 Mike Marteney 17.72
155 Joe Godsey 17.722
156 Craig Leist 17.732
157 Larry Pickelheimer, Jr. 17.77
158 Earl Smith 17.802
159 Jon Horner 17.836
160 Jeff Watson 17.849
161 Ryan VanderVeen 17.859
162 Devin Sebree 17.872
163 Shane Allen 17.894
164 Scott Goyings 17.921
165 George Scheffler 17.936
166 Dennis Potridge 17.963
167 CJ Rayburn 17.965
168 Shaun Smith 17.973
169 Ryan Unzicker 18.018
170 Jeff Semmens 18.03
171 Danny Ferguson 18.036
172 Jay VanDyke 18.057
173 Cale Kern 18.091
174 Jack Emmons 18.182
175 Chad Evans 18.227
176 Dan Walden 18.243
177 Anthony Hill 18.304
178 Butch Smith 18.36
179 Marvin Schilling 18.392
180 John Lawhorn 18.442
181 Brian Claudnic 18.445
182 April Farmer 18.483
183 Chris Winters 18.57
184 John Jackson 18.626
185 J.D. Lease 18.643
186 Doug Zartler 18.71
187 Greg Ruckel 18.732
188 Mike Roble 18.764
189 Joe Denby 18.852
190 Kevin Phillips 19.62
191 Jeff Clapp 99.992
192 Daren Friedman 99.992
193 Delmas Conley 99.993
194 Jeff Raisor 99.998
195 Bill Hahn 99.9993

Heat Line up
HEAT 1
Row 1 Nick Marolf / Ricky Arms
Row 2 Darrell Lanigan / Chub Frank
Row 3 Brad Hall / Vic Hill
Row 4 Shawn Toczek / Steve Smith
Row 5 John Blankenship / Jesse Lay
Row 6 Jordan Bland / Patrick Sheltra
Row 7 Jared Landers / Don O'Neal
Row 8 Dennis Roberson / Greg Lucas
Row 9 Johnny Johnson / Marty O'Neal
Row 10 Jay Johnson / Greg Johnson

HEAT 2
Row 1 Tim Tungate / Randy Korte
Row 2 Matt Miller / Jerry Rice
Row 3 Darren Miller / Brad Neat
Row 4 Scott Bloomquist / Jeep VanWormer
Row 5 Josh McGuire / Michael Chilton
Row 6 David Webb / Dennis Erb
Row 7 Mike Balzano / Bobby Hogge
Row 8 Clint Smith / John Gill
Row 9 Scott James / Randle Sweeney
Row 10 Terry Babb / Robby Hensley

HEAT 3
Row 1 Davey Johnson / Brian Birkhofer
Row 2 Terry Phillips / Donnie Moran
Row 3 Chris Madden / John Mason
Row 4 R.J. Conley / Wes Steidinger
Row 5 Rick Eckert / Jack Sullivan
Row 6 Shannon Thornsberry / Shawn Negangard
Row 7 Brad Eitinear / Rod Conley
Row 8 Barry Bragdon / Johnny Cloer Jr
Row 9 Frank Heckenast, Jr. / Curtis Roberts
Row 10 Rick Rickman / Eric Smith

HEAT 4
Row 1 Josh Richards / Dale McDowell
Row 2 Billy Moyer / Steve Shaver
Row 3 Tim McCreadie / Michael England
Row 4 Wendell Wallace / Ben Adkins
Row 5 Dan Schlieper / Curt Spalding
Row 6 Brian Ruhlman / Justin Rattliff
Row 7 Jerry Bowersock / Jason Montgomery
Row 8 Brad Coffey / Chris Combs
Row 9 JR Shickel / Dustin Neat
Row 10 Wayne Maffett Jr. / Jeff Kohn

HEAT 5
Row 1 Peyton Taylor / Jonathan Davenport
Row 2 Jason Feger / Billy Drake
Row 3 Jimmy Mars / Shannon Babb
Row 4 Bart Hartman / Chad Smith
Row 5 Steve Casebolt Jr / Freddy Smith
Row 6 Damon Eller / Jackie Boggs
Row 7 Brett Wyatt / Rick Aukland
Row 8 Devon Shiels / D. J. Wells
Row 9 Bob Lanter / Rick Corbin
Row 10 Cody Mahoney / Bill Williams

HEAT 6
Row 1 Ray Cook / Aaron Scott
Row 2 Jimmy Owens / Steve Francis
Row 3 Earl Pearson, Jr. / Brady Smith
Row 4 Shane Clanton / Garrett Durrett
Row 5 Brandon Kinzer / Josh Williams
Row 6 Eddie Carrier Jr. / Kevin Weaver
Row 7 Audie McWilliams / Jamie Elam
Row 8 Chad Ruhlman / Ryan Dauber
Row 9 John 'Booper' Bare / Bobby Kitchen
Row 10 Chuckie May / Ronnie Dehaven Jr.

World of Outlaws Late Model Series Stars Ready To Take On The 'World' This
Weekend At Eldora Speedway

NORMAN, OK. - Sept. 7, 2006 - They're ready to take on the 'world.'

The 14 drivers who follow the World of Outlaws Late Model Series will spend
this weekend chasing the coveted globe trophy that goes to the winner of the
36th annual World 100 at Eldora Speedway in Rossburg, Ohio.

It's a good bet that a WoO LMS star will be in the mix for the $39,000 prize
posted at the top of the event, which is sanctioned by DIRT MotorSports'
United Midwestern Promoters (UMP) division.

Four current WoO LMS regulars - defending tour champion Billy Moyer of
Batesville, Ark., Steve Francis of Ashland, Ky., Chub Frank of Bear Lake,
Pa., and Dale McDowell of Chickamauga, Ga. - have earned a coveted triumph
in the dirt Late Model class's most prestigious race.

What's more, just three WoO LMS travelers - rookies Eric Jacobsen of Santa
Cruz, Calif., and Garrett Durrett of Simsboro, La., and second-year driver
John Blankenship of Williamson, W.Va. - are looking to crack the World 100
starting field for the first time in their careers.

The defending World 100 champion is DALE McDOWELL, who hopes to right a
difficult season on the WoO LMS trail (no wins in 28 events) by becoming the
first driver to capture back-to-back World 100s since Donnie Moran of
Dresden, Ohio, in 1996 and '97.

McDowell, 40, also would like to experience the full thrill of a World 100
triumph. Last year his excitement was tempered a bit because he was handed
the win after apparent victor Shannon Babb of Moweaqua, Ill., was
disqualified for weighing in light post-race.

"I don't think when you inherit one like that you can actually celebrate
like you do when you come across the line first," said McDowell, who
admitted feeling bad for Babb. "If and when I do win it again, then I'll
celebrate like I should."

McDowell's victory wasn't completely devoid of emotion, of course. He was
already smiling - albeit a bit worn out - about what he thought was a
runner-up finish.

"That was gonna be our best finish regardless, so we were happy about making
progress at Eldora," said McDowell, whose top finish in five previous World
100 feature starts had been a third in 2004. "But I wasn't feeling too good
after the race. My head-rest had broken about lap 50, so I drove the last 40
laps with one hand holding my head up off the sheet metal and I was a little
sick to my stomach when I got back to the trailer after going across the
scales (before Babb).

"Then they (officials) came down and said we had won it. That definitely
made my neck feel better."

McDowell heads to Eldora this weekend with the Rocket car his team has "in
the best shape" to take on the World 100 challenge.

"It's really a lot of hard work," he said of the event. "You're constantly
trying to read the racetrack, figure out where the groove is and see what
tires everybody is running."

No one in the history of the World 100 has won the race more times than
BILLY MOYER, who owns five victories in the classic.

Thus there's no better driver to ask if the joy of winning the World 100
gets better with each conquest.

"I'd say it does," said the 48-year-old dirt Late Model legend. "The first
one always gives you that special feeling, like you can't believe you've
finally done it. The ones after that - well, maybe you don't enjoy them as
much as you should because you think, Ah, I'm gonna get another one. But you
come to realize they're hard to get, so when you get a little older you
savor them a little more."

Moyer scored his five wins in a 10-year span from 1991 to 2000, so he's
looking to recapture his old Eldora magic. The setups he used are now
different, and the famed racetrack he mastered has changed a bit.

Moyer will enter the World in a Rayburn car he's run during the 2006 season.

"We're not going with anything special," he said. "You gotta go with what
you know."

CHUB FRANK enjoyed his lone World 100 triumph in 2004. It was an experience
he wouldn't trade for another race with a bigger paycheck.

"Before I won it I always thought, Give me the Dream (Eldora's
$100,000-to-win event in June) instead of the World," said Frank, who has
qualified for the World four times (all since 2001). "But now I'm thinking
I'd probably take the World instead of the Dream. It's probably the hardest
race to win - everybody is there, and that place is tough to start with.

"When you get out of the car on the podium and those fans are all screaming
and yelling, that's pretty awesome. Now we wanna win it again so we can
really cement that we won one of the big ones, you could say."

Frank, 44, plans to chase another World 100 globe driving a new Rocket car
he debuted in a victorious WoO LMS run on Sept. 3 at Tri-City Speedway in
Franklin, Pa.

Winning the World 100 in 1999 fulfilled a childhood dream for STEVE FRANCIS.

"I went there as a kid (in the late '70s) to watch the race," said Francis.
"So when I started racing, the World and the Dirt Track World Championship
were two of the races I wanted to win. I've been fortunate enough to get 'em
both - and both in the same year.

"The World is kind of our Daytona 500," he continued. "When we won it, it
was the best feeling in the world."

Francis, who turns 39 on Sunday, will run the same Mopar by Stanton-powered
Rocket No. 15 that he drove to a UMP Late Model victory earlier this year at
Volusia Speedway Park in Barberville, Fla. He'll be trying to turn around
his recent struggles at the World 100, which he's failed to qualify for in
each of the past three years.

"You gotta have everything go right all weekend," said Francis, who has
started 15 World 100s since 1986. "From drawing the right time-trial pill to
getting the right inversion pull, you need some luck on your side."

TIM McCREADIE will take to the track at Eldora just two top-six finishes
away from clinching his first-ever WoO LMS points championship, but
pocketing the $120,000 that goes with that crown isn't the Watertown, N.Y.,
standout's only remaining goal this season.

In just his third full season of dirt Late Model racing, McCreadie, 32, is
still pursuing his first victory in a major event like the World 100.

"I'd just like to win one of the bigger Late Model races," said McCreadie,
whose finished seventh in his first career World 100 appearance last year.
"I haven't really run (the World) enough to really know what it means to win
it compared to me winning at Syracuse (the DIRT Modified Eckerd 200 at the
New York mile track), but I'd love to do it.

"I know going to the World is like going to Knoxville for the Sprints and
Syracuse for the Modifieds. It's pretty wild. There's a lot of people;
there's gonna be people sitting on the ground because they run out of room
in the grandstands. Those people are all there for time trials, and you know
when somebody has a good lap because the place will erupt."

McCreadie also knows the World 100 is pressure-packed.

"You only get a couple hot laps, then two time-trial laps, and they invert
cars for the heats," said McCreadie, who will drive one of the Rocket cars
from his Sweeteners Plus Racing fleet. "That place isn't the easier place to
pass on in heat races because it's so wide open, so it makes it interesting.

"You can be on your game all you want, but you gotta have luck on your side.
That's why I'd rather have luck in the heats, because that will get me in
the feature. Then I want to be on my game once I'm in."

RICK ECKERT of York, Pa., has tasted victory at Eldora Speedway in the Dream
event, but he hasn't matched that success in the World 100. In seven feature
starts since 1994 he has a top finish of fourth, in 1999, and he's failed to
qualify for three of the last five events.

"There's races, like the Dream, that pay more money, but the World is the
one everybody talks about," said the 40-year-old Eckert, who finished sixth
in last year's World 100. "So that's the one everybody needs to win. I'm
sure it would be cool to win it. It's the biggest crowd we race in front of
all year, and it helps your career, trying to get product sponsors and stuff
like that.

"It's a real nice feather to have in your hat."

Eckert, who leads the 2006 WoO LMS in wins with eight, will go to the post
this weekend with a tried-and-true Rocket car field by Raye Vest.

"I really don't take anything special or trick," he said. "I go there with
my basic stuff. I went there with some different stuff in the past and
usually ran worse."

Another former Dream winner looking to add a World 100 score to his resume
is DARRELL LANIGAN, who always circles the dates of the major events at the
'Big E.'

"I put a lot of pressure on myself to go to Eldora and win one of the big
races," said the Union, Ky., star. "I think everybody goes there with their
game-face on, so it's a real challenging place.

"The prestige of the race gets you pumped up," he added. "The Dream pays
more, but just having that (World 100) globe would mean a lot to me."

Lanigan, 36, will always remember the thrill of his victory in the 2003
Dream event. He figures a World 100 triumph would only be more intense.

"It's unreal," he said of winning at Eldora. "I told someone that after you
come across that scale and make the right-hand turn to go up on that stage,
it's one of the highlights of a racing career."

Lanigan put a new motor in his Rocket No. 29 for the Sept. 3-4 WoO LMS
doubleheader at Tri-City Speedway "to get a feel for it before Eldora." He's
made 12 World 100 feature starts since 1990, with a top finish of second, in
1999.

CLINT SMITH of Senoia, Ga., enters the weekend's action with confidence
after finishing fourth in last year's World 100.

"Eldora is a track you gotta go to a lot to get good at, but I feel
comfortable there," said Smith, whose only other World 100 feature starts
were in 1999 (ninth place after starting at the rear of the field) and 2004
(19th). "We just try to go with the best stuff we have going that particular
month and see what happens."

Smith, 41, knows what a World 100 victory would mean.

"It's by far the biggest dirt Late Model race," said Smith, who will run a
GRT mount this weekend. "If you ask, I'd say 75 out of 100 people would say
they'd rather win that race than the $100,000 Dream. When it's all said and
done, they want that globe.

"You know if you ever won that race, you were the baddest at that time."

The World 100 is extremely important to SHANE CLANTON of Locust Grove, Ga.

"I don't know if it's the fans or the atmosphere around Eldora that makes it
such a big deal," said Clanton. "But the main thing for us is that all the
manufacturers that build parts for us are keying on four races, and (the
World is) one of them. They're all there watching, or they know who does
well in the race.

"Two years ago I made all four big races, and I guess that got me on the map
because everybody knew who I was after that. It made it easier to get
product deals."

Clanton, 31, has entered the World 100 three times and qualified for the
main event the last two years. He finished 11th in both 2004 and 2005.

"You gotta have luck and good car to win it," analyzed Clanton, who is
second in the WoO LMS points standings. "We ran fourth in the Dream this
year, and we're going back with the same (Rocket) car and got a new motor to
put in it."

Teenage sensation JOSH RICHARDS of Shinnston, W.Va., will make his second
appearance at the World 100. The 2005 WoO LMS Rookie of the Year qualified
last year in his initial attempt and got as high as sixth before a broken
driveshaft knocked him out, leaving him 25th in the final rundown.

Richards, 18, was awestruck after he made the cut last year.

"I went to watch few years ago before I'd even sat in a Late Model," said
Richards, an 18-year-old who graduated from high school earlier this year.
"A couple years later I was in the World 100. When we did the four-wide
(parade lap) last year and I looked up in the stands at all those people, I
was like, 'Holy cow, I can't believe I'm out here right now!'

"It's definitely an adrenalin rush. It just makes you wanna go racing."

Richards will drive the same Rocket Chassis House Car that he ran in last
year's World and Bart Hartman of Zanesville, Ohio, drove in the 2004
edition. It will sport a different setup than he used last year.

"I usually run a swing-arm (suspension) to start off qualifying, but this
time we're gonna qualify on a four-link," said Richards, who missed
qualifying for this year's Dream by one spot. "We're gonna try some
different stuff that I think will be pretty good."

EDDIE CARRIER JR. of Salt Rock, W.Va., who is on the verge of clinching the
2006 WoO LMS Rookie of the Year award, had had some success at Eldora in
recent years. He made the World 100 field once, finishing 17th in 2004, and
has qualified for the Dream the last two years.

The 35-year-old driver takes a calm approach to the huge event.

"You can't let yourself get caught up in all the hoopla because it will mess
with your head," said Carrier, whose father, Eddie Sr., qualified for the
World 100 in 1989, 1991 and 1992. "When I go, I just try to stay in the
truck on Wednesday night and all day Thursday until we get in pit. Then we
take our car through tech and I just hang out in the pit area. I hardly ever
go up top (where the parties are). I try to stay away from all that stuff
and concentrate on racing."

Carrier's World 100 plans were scrambled a bit when the engine he hoped to
run in the race broke a crank during hot laps on Sept. 3 at Tri-City
Speedway, but he enters the event with an air of confidence because he's
been a WoO LMS regular this season.

"Going out and running this deal has helped us with the big races," said
Carrier. "A lot of guys won't tell you this, but you get intimidated when
you go to races like (the World) if you ain't been running aginst these
(superstar) guys. After being on the road with them, now when you roll in
there, you're like, 'I've been running against these guys every weekend.
This isn't anything different.'"

WoO LMS rookie ERIC JACOBSEN is just hoping to show some improvement in his
second attempt at the World 100.

"The track is different than anything we typically run on. There's noting
even close to it in California," said Jacobsen, 37, whose young dirt Late
Model career began on the bullrings of his native California. "I probably
haven't got a car that's even capable of running good there yet. I'm still
trying to get used to the technique of driving around that place. You gotta
drive up against the wall and steer through the turns more, and I haven't
figured out how to get a car to work there yet."

Noting that "everything about it makes it the toughest race there is,"
Jacobsen is a big fan of the event.

"I tell everybody back home, 'Whether you take a car there or get in a plane
and go catch it as a fan, you gotta go there once to really understand what
it's all about,'" Jacobsen said of the World 100.

Second-year WoO LMS traveler JOHN BLANKENSHIP admits that he was
"overwhelmed" by the World 100 scene in his first trip there last year.

"I didn't really know it was that big," he said.

The 25-year-old returns this year hoping he can catch some breaks and make
the field for the first time.

"I've never had any luck at Eldora," he said. "I usually blow a motor up or
crash. I guess to get better you really gotta go up there and run some
weekly races to learn the track, but we haven't been able to do that."

After spectating at the World 100 in the past, WoO LMS rookie GARRETT
DURRETT entered the event as a driver for the first time last year and
failed to qualify. He knows he'll be fighting an uphill battle to make this
year's field - not only because a broken motor on Sept. 3 at Tri-City
Speedway put his team's engine program behind the eight-ball, but because he
has scant experience at the high-banked oval.

"You gotta keep going there to get laps, get experience," said Durrett.
"I've only been there four times. By about the eighth time, maybe you'll get
it figured out."

Time trials and non-qualifiers events for the World 100 are scheduled for
Fri., Sept. 8. Heat races, last-chance events and the World 100 final will
be run on Sun., Sept. 9.

Visit www.dirtmotorsports.com this weekend for updates on the exploits of
the World of Outlaws Late Model Series drivers, and visit
www.eldoraspeedway.com for more information on the World 100.

World of Outlaws Late Model Series News & Notes 9/6: Wrapping Up Tri-City
Speedway's Oil Region Labor Day Classic Weekend

FRANKLIN, PA - Sept. 6, 2006 -
THRILLERS: The pair of 50-lap features that comprised the Sunday-Monday Oil
Region Labor Day Classic Weekend at Tri-City Speedway in Franklin, Pa.,
boasted spectacular finishes, continuing a recent trend in World of Outlaws
Late Model Series competition.

Four of the last seven tour events have been dramatically decided in the
final moments, starting with the Aug. 4 show at Lernerville Speedway in
Sarver, Pa., when Rick Eckert's furious bid to overtake eventual winner Tim
McCreadie ended with a turn-four spin as the checkered flag was waving. Next
was Josh Richards's pass of McCreadie with two laps left to win the 50-lap
feature on Aug. 26 at Columbus (Miss.) Speedway, setting the stage for the
thrillers at Tri-City.

Sunday's feature appeared to belong to Billy Moyer, who as the race wound
down was headed toward a win he desperately needed to keep his WoO LMS title
hopes alive. But with Moyer slowed by a deflating right-rear tire over the
final five laps, Chub Frank closed in and was able to make a final bonsai
charge on the outside of turns three and four on the last lap. One of the
few WoO LMS regulars who had run more than one dirt Late Model event at
Tri-City in their careers, Frank won the race after surviving contact with
Moyer that sent the defending tour champion spinning in turn four just a
half-straightaway from the finish line.

On Monday, Darrell Lanigan was cruising toward victory when he ran into the
back of Dick Barton's slowing car in turn one. Lanigan kept his car rolling,
however, and, despite the significant right-side bodywork and suspension
damage it sustained, thought he could still pull out the win by getting back
to the start/finish first. But the caution flag that was put out for
Barton's stricken car doomed Lanigan, who couldn't summon enough speed from
his beat-up machine during the ensuing green-white-checkered finish and
watched Shane Clanton pass him for the win.

DETERMINED: Tri-City Speedway co-promoters Roger Crick and Mike Graham
refused to let the weather dive-bomb their biggest weekend of the year.

Once it became clear that the rainy remnants of Tropical Storm Ernesto would
hit the track Friday night and Saturday morning, Crick and Graham arranged a
Monday raindate with DIRT MotorSports officials to preserve two nights of
racing. They held off on postponing Saturday's card to Monday until shortly
after noon, when it became apparent that the conditions wouldn't improve
sufficiently to allow racing.

On Sunday the co-promoters faced a series of pesky light showers and misty
conditions that put track prep behind schedule and brought them to the brink
of canceling the program. It went on, however, and the muddy pit area ended
up overflowing with 130 cars - a handful of the 45 dirt Late Models on hand
even had to pit in the parking lot - and a solid crowd populated the
grandstands.

APOLOGETIC: Chub Frank certainly felt bad about precipitating Shane
Clanton's 360-degree spin as they battled for the lead on lap 39 of Monday
night's main.

It was clear afterward that there were no hard feelings between Frank and
Clanton, who went on to win after WoO LMS competition director Bret Emrick
ruled he could restart in the lead because he did not lose forward momentum
when a caution flag was thrown as he spun.

"I have him coming up to the house right now (to spend Monday working on his
car)," Frank, who lives about a half-hour from Tri-City, said before driving
his hauler out of the pit area. "I just went down and talked to him a minute
ago and told him it was my fault."

STILL ON TOP: WoO LMS points leader Tim McCreadie wasn't happy after leaving
Tri-City with two seventh-place finishes.

"We weren't good either night," said McCreadie, who was plagued by a
skipping engine in Monday's main. "We have to get better because I don't
want to just run around to protect the points in the next two shows."

McCreadie lost some of his points lead, ending the doubleheader 28 points
ahead of Clanton and 38 in front of Moyer. But he could have lost more.
After all, Clanton spun on lap 20 of Sunday's main and had to charge from
the rear to finish sixth, and Moyer lost a possible win on Sunday thanks to
his last-lap twirl and on Monday had to rally to finish fourth after
executing a 360-degree spin off turn two while battling Frank for the lead
on lap 20.

With two events remaining on the 2006 WoO LMS schedule - the Pittsburgher
100 on Sept. 22-23 at Pittsburgh's Pennsylvania Motor Speedway in Imperial,
Pa., and the Gator 100 on Oct. 13-14 at Volusia Speedway Park in
Barberville, Fla. - McCreadie can assure himself the $120,000 title by
finishing sixth or better in both races.

GREAT RUNS: Sometimes practice makes perfect.

Or almost perfect.

Robbie Blair, whose home in Titusville, Pa., is roughly 15 miles from
Tri-City, prepared for the doubleheader by spending a day hot-lapping at the
track last week. The driver who won Tri-City's last dirt Late Model
championship, in 1997, parlayed that track time into a superb holiday
weekend, finishing third (after setting a new track record in time trials)
on Sunday and bettering that with a runner-up placing on Monday.

"We did some testing here and it probably helped us a little," said the
soft-spoken Blair. "It definitely got us in the ballpark with setup and
tires."

Blair, who has frequently entered WoO LMS events over the past three
seasons, came into the doubleheader with a career-best tour finish of third,
on June 29, 2005, at Fulton (N.Y.) Speedway.

The only blemish of Blair's visit to Tri-City was his 16-year-old son Max's
hard crash during Sunday night's second B-Main. Max, who has been running
steel-block Late Model events in the area this season, caught the inside
berm in turn four and spun into the outside wall with his car's left side.
The young driver gingerly climbed out of his mangled machine and refused
medical treatment, but Robbie took him to the hospital after the racing
program to get checked out.

"They x-rayed him and ran some tests," Robbie said of Max. "They didn't find
anything, and we finally got home at 5:30 in the morning. He's just real
sore."

ETCETERA.
* Josh Richards's second-place finish in Sunday's main continued his
second-half surge and pushed him past Clint Smith to ninth in the WoO LMS
points standings.

But on Monday the 18-year-old finished outside the top 10 for the just the
second time in his last 12 starts. His Rocket House Car's left-front spindle
snout broke as he ran fifth on the final lap, forcing him to retire and
settle for a 17th-place finish.

* The heavy rain that swamped Tri-City Speedway created heavy, fast track
conditions for Sunday's card. That also meant plenty of clay was flying,
leading to visibility problems for many drivers.

"I ran out of (helmet) tear-offs and my shield was fogging up," said
Richards. "Then I really couldn't see when (Rick) Eckert was blowing oil
back at me.

"Once Eckert got out of the way and the oil wasn't there, it wasn't that
bad," he nonchalantly added, as if just anyone can race over 100 mph without
a clear field of vision. "I have a skirt on my helmet, so on the
straightaway I was putting my shield up and cleaning it with the skirt."

WoO LMS regular John Blankenship also ran out of tear-offs on Sunday night.
His solution? He stopped in turn four during a lap-17 caution period and had
a crewman bring him a new helmet, which he quickly put on.

* Dale McDowell's miserable, winless 2006 season on the WoO trail continued
at Tri-City.

On Sunday, McDowell had to relinquish the 10th starting spot for the main
and start at the rear because ignition trouble in the pit area caused him to
report late to the lineup on the racetrack. He seemed to be recovering well
on Monday after setting fast time and settling into a top-five spot for the
feature's first half, but he was hampered after a lap-29 caution flag by a
broken left-front lower control arm and limped to a 10th-place finish.

"We can't catch a break even when we have a decent car," said McDowell.

* Steve Francis fell one spot, to sixth, in the WoO LMS points standings
after finishing ninth in Monday's main. He was seventh when the deciding
green-white-checkered restart began, but he got shuffled backward in the
final-lap scramble, finishing behind even Lanigan, whose damaged car was
severely handicapped.

* Rick Eckert's tumble from title contention rolled on at Tri-City. He led
the first 30 laps of Sunday's main before a busted oil line forced him to
the pit area, and on Monday he retired Raye Vest's No. 24 with a damaged
nose while running third on lap 16.

Since winning his tour-best eighth feature of the season on July 8 at Sharon
Speedway in Hartford, Ohio, Eckert has recorded just one top-five and three
top-10 finishes in 11 events. He's now in danger of losing seventh place in
the points standings to McDowell, who trails Eckert by a mere 18 points.

* A last-lap burst forward netted Eddie Carrier Jr. a fifth-place finish in
Monday's feature. It tied his best career run on the WoO LMS, a fifth on
June 16 at Western Kentucky Speedway in Madisonville, Ky.

Carrier is on the verge of clinching the 2006 WoO LMS Rookie of the Year
award. He leads Eric Jacobsen by 144 points and Garrett Durrett by 173
markers.

* Jacobsen's flickering RoY hopes took a hit on Sunday when he failed to
qualify. His night started off well - he recorded the fifth-fastest time -
but mechanical trouble and a spin-out during his heat put him in a hole that
he was never able to escape.

* Durrett's Sunday-night outing ended with a burnt piston on lap 36. He
pulled his car to a stop in turn four, where it was enveloped in a huge,
thick cloud of smoke.

"I couldn't even breathe for a second because there so much smoke in the
car," said Durrett.

* After coming back from a broken drive flange during Sunday heat action to
win a B-Main, Clint Smith was Mr. Excitement during the feature. While
rallying from a lap-five tangle with Rick Briggs he tossed his No. 44 around
the extreme outside of the track, well above the cushion, en route to a
12th-place finish.

* Speaking of Briggs, the driver popularly known as 'Boom' showed the WoO
boys that he's not just a top mechanic.

Briggs, 35, of Bear Lake, Pa., won the 2004 Snap-on Crew Chief of the Year
Award while traveling the WoO LMS with his cousin Chub Frank. But he's
stepped off the road this year to concentrate more on his own dirt Late
Model driving career on the local circuit, so he relished the opportunity to
take on Chub and his friends from the tour at Tri-City.

'Boom' was smiling after scoring a 13th-place finish in Sunday night's main,
but he was absolutely beaming after placing a WoO LMS career-best sixth in
Monday's headliner.

* Seconds after Max Blair slammed the turn-four wall during Sunday's second
B-Main, fellow first-time WoO LMS entrant Denny Fenton of Clearfield, Pa.,
slid head-on into the barrier just feet behind Blair. He received medical
treatment, but reports indicate he was only shaken and sore from the impact.

* Dan Stone towed out from Northeast Pennsylvania with his No. 21d and made
the cut for Monday's main, but a lap-29 tangle on the homestretch that saw
him get hooked together with Chad Ruhlman ended his run.

Stone, who has entered seven WoO LMS events this season, said he's planning
to haul south next month to run the tour's season finale Gator 100 at
Volusia Speedway Park.

Clanton Spins But Still Wins First World of Outlaws Late Model Series
Feature of 2006 Monday At Tri-City Speedway

FRANKLIN, PA - Sept. 4, 2006 - Shane Clanton won't soon forget his first
victory on the 2006 World of Outlaws Late Model Series.

The reason is simple.

"We worked hard for it," Clanton pronounced after capturing Monday night's
50-lap Oil Region Labor Day Classic finale at Tri-City Speedway.

>From a pre-feature engine change to a mid-pack starting spot, from a
late-race spin to a dramatic twist of fate with the white flag waving - yes,
it was a truly eventful march to the WoO LMS promised land for the tour
regular from Locust Grove, Ga.

Winless through the first 27 shows of the WoO LMS schedule, Clanton finally
broke through after surviving a 360-degree twirl on lap 39 and benefiting
from the misfortune of Union, Ky.'s Darrell Lanigan, whose cruise to victory
was short-circuited by a final-lap tangle with a limping lapped car.

"The breaks went our way for once," said Clanton, who earned $10,000 for his
third career WoO LMS triumph. "It's been a long time coming."

Clanton, 31, took the lead from a handicapped Lanigan during the
green-white-checkered finish that closed the race and beat Robbie Blair of
Titusville, Pa., to the checkered flag by 1.143 seconds.

Chub Frank of Bear Lake, Pa., who won the previous night's Oil Region Labor
Day Classic opener, finished a close third. Billy Moyer of Batesville, Ark.,
who rallied after losing seven positions on lap 20 when he executed a
360-degree spin off turn two while battling Frank for the lead, was fourth
and WoO LMS Rookie of the Year points leader Eddie Carrier Jr. of Salt Rock,
W.Va., placed fifth.

Clanton's night - and hopes of cutting into Tim McCreadie's 42-point lead in
the WoO LMS standings - seemed to be on thin ice after his RSD Enterprises
Rocket No. 25 developed engine problems during heat competition. He secured
a transfer spot, but a broken rocker arm and bent lifter prompted a motor
swap prior to the feature.

"We weren't gonna take a chance (running a repaired powerplant)," said
Clanton, whose crew received assistance with the engine change from fellow
racers Rick Eckert of York, Pa., and Steve Francis of Ashland, Ky., plus
McCreadie's chief mechanic Tommy Grecco.

Things didn't get much better for Clanton when the main began. The race's
13th starter lost several positions in the opening laps, putting him in a
huge hole.

But Clanton fought his way out.

"We went with a little harder tire, and when it took off we were good," said
Clanton, who cracked the top five by lap 21. "I tightened the car up to run
the bottom and we started making up ground down there."

Clanton moved into serious contention on lap 31, passing Lanigan for second.
He quickly ran down Frank, who had overtaken Lanigan for the lead on lap 12.

With a powerful surge to the inside of turns three and four, Clanton slid by
Frank's Lester Buildings Rocket No. 1* to assume command as lap 39 was
scored. But later that same circuit Frank made contact with Clanton entering
turn three, causing Clanton to spin in the middle of the track.

"He got a good run down the backstraightaway," Clanton said of Frank. "He
got in there a little hot, and I didn't see him. He got in my door and spun
me out."

What was going through Clanton's mind as his bid for victory was seemingly
spinning away?

"Kill Chub," quipped Clanton, who is friendly with Frank. "I passed him
clean, and then he got into me. I was mad, but that's racing."

A caution flag flew as Clanton lost control of his car, but after spinning
360 degrees he blended into the field and tore off. WoO LMS competition
director Bret Emrick then made the controversial decision to put Clanton
back in the lead for the ensuing restart, reasoning that Clanton had not
lost his forward momentum and thus couldn't be blamed for precipitating the
caution flag.

"They threw a caution, but I never stopped turning," described Clanton. "I
kept the wheels going. I just stepped on the gas and spun it around 360.

"I guess a lot of guys see it a couple different ways, but I feel like it
was the right call."

So did Frank, who stood to regain the top spot if Clanton had been banished
to the rear of the field. The local favorite accepted full responsibility
for Clanton's spin.

"He passed me, and then I thought, Well, that bottom must be good, so I
drove down there," said Frank, who started from the pole position after
winning the dash. "He slid up (entering turn three) and I got a run back
underneath him. He thought I was on the outside, though, so he didn't see me
underneath him and we got together.

"I felt real bad. I definitely didn't want to spin him out and make him lose
the race, plus he's in the points deal.

"I was so glad he got his position back and went on to win the race," added
Frank, who was hampered by a right-front suspension problem during the
race's late stages. "I know he just kept rotating, so he never stopped - and
that means he deserved to get his spot back."

But Clanton didn't parlay his new lease on life into a runaway victory. He
pulled ahead on the restart, but, on lap 41, Lanigan, who had laps 1-11,
used an outside charge to move back in front.

"I don't know if I killed the tires doing that 360," analyzed Clanton. "But
Lanigan got going back on the top (of the half-mile oval) and had a better
car then."

Lanigan, 36, had his Lanigan Autosports Rocket No. 29 a half-straightaway
ahead of Clanton when he took the white flag. Then disaster struck.

When Lanigan barreled into turn one in the outside groove, he suddenly found
Ashville, N.Y., veteran Dick Barton's car directly in his path. Barton, a
WoO LMS winner on July 1 at Stateline Speedway in Busti, N.Y., had slowed
with engine trouble.

Lanigan slammed into the back of Barton's machine, crushing the right side
bodywork of his car.

"When you're going that fast, you're already committed to a line," said
Lanigan. "You ain't gonna change it at the last minute when somebody is
crawling along in front of you. There was nothing I could do to avoid that
guy."

Lanigan managed to keep his mount moving, however, and was still ahead of
Clanton on the backstretch when the caution lights winked on for Barton's
stricken No. 28b. He was not happy to see the race's sixth and final caution
flag displayed; he felt it ended his only chance of holding on for the win.

With his car's right-front suspension significantly damaged, Lanigan knew he
couldn't stay in front for long during a green-white-checkered finish that
extended the event to 51 scored laps.

"They (the starter) already threw the white flag, so we (should) race back
to the checker," reasoned Lanigan. "Every race we've been to, if something
happens after the leader starts the white-flag lap, we race back to the
checker.

"Last night we raced back to the checker (after second-place Billy Moyer
spun in turn four on the final lap). Tonight they throw a yellow and we
don't race back."

Lanigan restarted at the head of the pack, but, hampered by an ill-handling
car, he immediately ceded the lead to Clanton between turns one and two. He
continued fading over the remaining distance and crossed the finish line
eighth.

"I thought he had a shot at holding on if he parked it on the bottom,"
Clanton said of Lanigan. "But he couldn't hold it there. He slid up and we
got under him."

Clanton rolled to his first WoO LMS win since Oct. 26, 2005, at Golden Isles
Speedway in Waycross, Ga. The victory also allowed him to move within 28
points of McCreadie, who finished a quiet seventh, with two events remaining
on the tour's '06 schedule.

"It feels good," said Clanton. "There's two more races to go and we have a
little momentum. I got a chance now (in the points race)."

Chasing Clanton across the finish line was Blair, who won the last dirt Late
Model points championship at Tri-City, in 1997. He backed up his third-place
run in Sunday's main with a career-best WoO LMS finish.

Blair said he didn't "know what to say about (officials) putting that guy
(Clanton) back up front" after the spin, but he was pleased with his
performance.

"I felt like I was as good as the guys I was racing with up front," said
Blair, who started fourth in his Rocket car. "If I could keep hitting (the
groove) right in (turns) one and two, I thought I could even get 'em.

"But that spot I needed to hit was only a few feet wide, and I couldn't hit
it every lap."

Dale McDowell of Chickamauga, Ga., paced the 37-car time-trial session,
turning a lap of 18.888 seconds.

Heat winners were Josh Richards of Shinnston, W.Va., Blair, Lanigan and
Frank. Chad Ruhlman of Beemus Pt., N.Y., and Clint Smith of Senoia, Ga.,
split the B-Mains.

The WoO LMS is off until visiting Pittsburgh's Pennsylvania Motor Speedway
in Imperial, Pa., on Sept. 22-23 for the Pittsburgher 100.

Results of WoO Late Model Series(Finishing Position/Start/Driver/Laps
Completed/Money Won): 1. (13) Shane Clanton/51 $10,000; 2. (4) Robbie
Blair/51 $6,000; 3. (1) Chub Frank/51 $3,500; 4. (8) Billy Moyer/51 $2,500;
5. (11) Eddie Carrier Jr./51 $2,200; 6. (22) Rick Briggs/51 $2,000; 7. (7)
Tim McCreadie/51 $1,800; 8. (2) Darrell Lanigan/51 $1,600; 9. (10) Steve
Francis/51 $1,400; 10. (5) Dale McDowell/51 $1,200; 11. (14) Alex Ferree/51
$1,000; 12. (16) Todd Andrews/51 $900; 13. (9) Dave Hess Jr./51 $800; 14.
(26) Brent Rhebergen/51 $700; 15. (12) Eric Jacobsen/51 $700; 16. (18) Clint
Smith/51 $700; 17. (3) Josh Richards/49 $700; 18. (20) Dick Barton/48 $700;
19. (23) John Blankenship/42 $700; 20. (25) Wally Fox/35 $700; 21. (21) Dan
Stone/29 $700; 22. (17) Chad Ruhlman/29 $700; 23. (15) Matt Lux/26 $700; 24.
(24) Garrett Durrett/25 $700; 25. (6) Rick Eckert/16 $700; 26. (19) Dutch
Davies/10 $700.

Time of Race: 38 Mins., 20.807 Secs.
Margin of Victory: 1.143 Secs.
Yellow Flags: 6 (Laps 16, 21, 26, 29, 39, 49)
Lap Leaders: Lanigan (1-11); Frank (12-38); Clanton (39-40); Lanigan
(41-49); Clanton (50-51).

Time Trial Results (Position/No./Driver/Hometown/Best Lap):
1. 17M-Dale McDowell/Chickamauga, GA 18.888
2. 24-Rick Eckert/York, PA 18.908
3. 39-Tim McCreadie/Watertown, NY 18.924
4. 21-Billy Moyer/Batesville, AR 18.958
5. 1-Josh Richards/Shinnston, WV 19.057
6. W11-Robbie Blair/Titusville, PA 19.135
7. 29-Darrell Lanigan/Union, KY 19.155
8. 1*-Chub Frank/Bear Lake, PA 19.203
9. 25-Shane Clanton/Locust Grove, GA 19.225
10. 4-Alex Ferree/Saxonburg, PA 19.312
11. 28-Eddie Carrier Jr./Salt Rock, WV 19.340
12. 42-Todd Andrews/Eldred, PA 19.354
13. 20-Chad Ruhlman/Beemus Pt., NY 19.374
14. 55s-Chris Schneider/Tarentum, PA 19.422
15. 21L-Matt Lux/Franklin, PA 19.453
16. 5-Eric Jacobsen/Santa Cruz, CA 19.497
17. 44H-Dave Hess Jr./Waterford, PA 19.558
18. 15-Steve Francis/Ashland, KY 19.558
19. 44-Clint Smith/Senoia, GA 19.560
20. 58c-Garrett Durrett/Simsboro, LA 19.607
21. 1U-Matt Urban/North East, PA 19.661
22. 21d-Dan Stone/Thompson, PA 19.694
23. 2V-Chad Valone/Warren, PA 19.739
24. 07R-Brent Rhebergen/Clymer, NY 19.779
25. 33h-Chris Hackett/Erie, PA 19.831
26. 23-John Blankenship/Williamson, WV 19.875
27. 22b-Darrell Bossard/Centerville, PA 19.893
28. 99B-Rick Briggs/Bear Lake, PA 19.984
29. 3H-Stephen Hollabaugh/Guys Mills, PA 20.037
30. 40-Dutch Davies/Warren, PA 20.173
31. 90-Wally Fox/Cooperstown, PA 20.216
32. 8-Jason Morell/North East, PA 20.376
33. 22H-Bump Hedman/Sugar Grove, PA 20.379
34. 47-Matt Gaston/Rochester Mills, PA 20.771
35. 28b-Dick Barton/Ashville, NY N/T
36. 9I-Rick Isadore/Cyclone, PA N/T-DQ (Light)
37. 1G-Rich Gardner/Waterford, PA N/T-DQ (Light)

Heat No. 1 (10 laps - Top 4 Transfer): Richards, McDowell, Hess, Clanton,
Ruhlman, Hackett, Urban, Hedman, Hollabaugh, Gardner.
Heat No. 2 (10 laps - Top 4 Transfer): Blair, Eckert, Francis, Ferree,
Stone, Davies, Schneider, Gaston, Blankenship.
Heat No. 3 (10 laps - Top 4 Transfer): Lanigan, McCreadie, Carrier, Lux,
Smith, Barton, Valone, Bossard, Fox.
Heat No. 4 (10 laps - Top 4 Transfer): Frank, Moyer, Jacobsen, Andrews,
Durrett, Briggs, Isadore, Morell, Rhebergen.
B-Main No. 1 (12 laps - Top 3 Transfer): Ruhlman, Davies, Stone,
Blankenship, Urban, Hackett, Hollabaugh, Hedman, Gaston, Gardner, Schneider.
B-Main No. 2 (12 laps - Top 3 Transfer): Smith, Barton, Briggs, Durrett,
Rhebergen, Valone, Isadore, Bossard, Fox, Morell.
Dash (4 laps): Frank, Lanigan, Richards, Blair.

WoO Late Model Series Points Standings (after Sept. 4): 1. Tim McCreadie
3,848; 2. Shane Clanton 3,820; 3. Billy Moyer 3,810; 4. Chub Frank 3,792; 5.
Darrell Lanigan 3,790; 6. Steve Francis 3,786; 7. Rick Eckert 3,674; 8. Dale
McDowell 3,656; 9. Josh Richards 3,608; 10. Clint Smith 3,599; 11. Eddie
Carrier Jr. 3,217; 12. John Blankenship 3,150; 13. Eric Jacobsen 3,073; 14.
Garrett Durrett 3,044; 15. Robbie Blair 1,065.

Chub Wins As Moyer Spins In Last-Lap World of Outlaws Late Model Series
Thriller Sunday Night At Tri-City Speedway

FRANKLIN, PA - Sept. 3, 2006 - Chub Frank knew he stole a victory in Sunday
night's 50-lap World of Outlaws Late Model Series event at Tri-City
Speedway.

"We really didn't have the winning car tonight, but it don't matter," said
the driver affectionately known as 'Chubzilla.' "They paid me the money."

Frank, 44, of Bear Lake, Pa., pocketed the evening's $10,000 top prize after
pulling off a dramatic, go-for-broke pass of defending WoO LMS champion
Billy Moyer on the final lap.

The local favorite's triumph came at the expense of Batesville, Ark.'s
Moyer, who absorbed a crushing defeat in the rough-and-tumble main. Contact
with Frank as the leaders rounded turn four with the checkered flag waving
caused Moyer to spin onto the track's inside berm, and only a risky maneuver
allowed him to pull back into the pack and cross the finish line in eighth
place.

Josh Richards of Shinnston, W.Va., narrowly avoided Moyer's spinning car and
finished second, 1.769 seconds behind Frank.

Robbie Blair of Titusville, Pa., who was the track champion when Tri-City
last ran dirt Late Models regularly in 1997, finished third, followed by
18th-starter Steve Francis of Ashland, Ky., and Darrell Lanigan of Union,
Ky., who rallied after pitting to change a blown left-rear tire on lap 16.

Frank, whose shop is barely a half-hour's drive from the half-mile oval,
entered a brand-new Lester Buildings Rocket No. 1* in the opening round of
the two-night Oil Region Labor Day Weekend Classic. The car performed
solidly, if not spectacularly, in its debut.

"I really didn't think my car was all that good," said Frank, who plans to
run the machine in the Sept. 8-9 UMP-sanctioned World 100 at Eldora Speedway
in Rossburg, Ohio. "I was having trouble at both ends of the track."

But as the main neared its conclusion, Frank found himself closing in on
Moyer, who had inherited the top spot when race-long pacesetter Rick Eckert
of York, Pa., finally succumbed to a leaking oil line on lap 30.

Frank, who started from the pole position but slipped back as far as third,
prepared to make a final bid for the win when Moyer lost some momentum upon
approaching the slower car driven by Bob Salathe of Bedford, Pa., on the
last lap.

"Those last five laps (Moyer) started slowing down, and that just gave me a
chance," said Frank. "On the last lap I was thinking, If he just leaves me
that top (in turn three), I'm gonna hammer it in one time around there on
the cushion and hope it don't flip over."

Throwing caution to the wind, Frank tossed his car to the outside of the
track and it stuck. He emerged with the lead off turn four and flashed to
his third WoO LMS victory of the season.

"I never cracked the throttle - I just mashed it," described Frank. "I just
ran 'er in there wide-open.

"I don't know if I hit the wall, but it was damn close as I was coming
across the finish line. I wasn't liftin' until I got there.

"It sure was exciting for me," he added of his heroics, "because I thought I
was gonna wreck."

Frank felt the contact with Moyer, but he didn't realize Moyer had spun out
of contention.

"He slid up and hit me right there in front of my left-rear tire," said
Frank, who recorded his seventh career win on the WoO LMS. "He'd been
sliding up across the track and coming off the (fourth) corner high, and I
think that's what he was trying to do on the last lap.

"But I just tried to run 'er in there wide-open and get beside him before he
got a chance to get up there, so he probably didn't even know I was up there
until it was too late."

Moyer, 48, didn't see the race's deciding moment in quite the same manner.

"There were lapped cars in the way and no lay-over flag (from the starter)
to get them to move," said a dejected Moyer, whose pace was slowed over the
final five laps by a deflating right-rear tire. "And Chub didn't lift any
for sure. He turned me on around. When I felt him hit me, I knew he was
there."

Moyer's Rayburn car sustained significant front-end damage, but that didn't
stop him from completing the final yards of the feature. After spinning to a
stop inside of turn four with his nose pointed toward the outside wall,
Moyer stepped on the gas and lurched forward when he thought he saw some
daylight.

Moyer pulled directly in front of WoO LMS points leader Tim McCreadie of
Watertown, N.Y., who was attempting to hold off Lanigan and Shane Clanton of
Locust Grove, Ga., for a sixth-place finish. McCreadie got on the brakes
hard, but contact from Moyer squeezed him into the outside wall.

McCreadie kept his car straight and beat Moyer to the finish line, but
Lanigan and Clanton drove by to leave him with a seventh-place finish.

"I have no idea what happened," McCreadie said of his close call on the last
lap. "I was shocked when Billy came up the track in front of me. It scared
me. It's not very safe to do that.

"It cost me some spots and some money."

But it didn't cost McCreadie his points lead. He entered the show with a
42-point edge over Moyer, and he ended the night with the same lead over
Clanton, who grabbed second in the standings after coming back from a lap-20
spin in turn two to finish sixth.

The driver with the best seat in the house for the Frank/Moyer scrape was
Richards, the 18-year-old sensation who was coming off a victory in the Aug.
26 WoO LMS event at Columbus (Miss.) Speedway.

"I started the last lap running third and thinking, We got a pretty good
finish here," said Richards, who started fifth in his father Mark's Rocket
Chassis house car. "Then I rolled into three and saw Chub go out there and
go for the win.

"I think Moyer just turned and gassed up when Chub got alongside him, and
then got himself around. Chub was already up against the cushion as far as
he could go. It was just hard racing.

"When Moyer was going around I moved up and missed him, and I thought, This
is gonna be bad for the rest of the guys."

Eight caution flags slowed the event, which was run on a clay surface left
spongy and very fast by heavy rain from the remnants of Tropical Storm
Ernesto. The deluge forced speedway officials to call off Saturday night's
program and reset the weekend doubleheader for Sunday and Monday nights.

Sunday's weather remained unstable, with several quick showers and episodes
of light mist hampering track-prep efforts. The start of on-track
competition was delayed roughly an hour from the night's scheduled starting
time of 6 o'clock.

Blair set a new track record during the 45-car time-trial session, turning a
lap of 17.830 seconds. He beat Todd Andrews's mark of 17.983 seconds,
established in 2004.

Heat winners were Blair, Moyer, Frank and Eckert. Brent Rhebergen of Clymer,
N.Y., and Francis captured the B-Mains, and Frank won the pole dash.

The second round of the WoO LMS Oil Region Labor Day Weekend Classic at
Tri-City hits the track today (Mon., Sept. 4) at 4 o'clock.

Results of WoO Late Model Series(Finishing Position/Start/Driver/Laps
Completed/Money Won): 1. (1) Chub Frank/50 $10,000; 2. (5) Josh Richards/50
$6,000; 3. (4) Robbie Blair/50 $3,500; 4. (18) Steve Francis/50 $2,500; 5.
(6) Darrell Lanigan/50 $2,200; 6. (7) Shane Clanton/50 $2,000; 7. (12) Tim
McCreadie/50 $1,800; 8. (3) Billy Moyer/50 $1,600; 9. (9) David Scott/50
$1,400; 10. (14) Alex Ferree/50 $1,200; 11. (10) Dale McDowell/50 $1,000;
12. (21) Clint Smith/50 $900; 13. (15) Rick Briggs/50 $800; 14. (16) Dutch
Davies/50 $700; 15. (2) Rick Eckert/50 $700; 16. (17) Brent Rhebergen/50
$700; 17. (24) John Blankenship/50 $700; 18. (19) Eddie Carrier Jr./50 $700;
19. (22) Bob Salathe/50 $700; 20. (11) Garrett Durrett/35 $700; 21. (20)
Bump Hedman/20 $700; 22. (21) Mike Blose/18 $700; 23. (8) Todd Andrews/17
$700; 24. (25) Matt Lux/16 $700; 25. (26) Darrell Bossard/14 $700; 26. (13)
Jared Miley/2 $700.

Time of Race: 55 Mins., 19.740 Secs.
Margin of Victory: 1.769 Secs.
Yellow Flags: 8 (Laps 2, 5, 16, 17, 18, 20, 30, 36)
Lap Leaders: Eckert (1-30); Moyer (31-49); Frank (50).
Provisionals: Smith, Blankenship, Lux, Bossard.

Time Trial Results (Position/No./Driver/Hometown/Best Lap):
1. w11-Robbie Blair/Titusville, PA 17.830 (NTR)
2. 29-Darrell Lanigan/Union, KY 17.999
3. 58c-Garrett Durrett/Simsboro, LA 18.239
4. 24-Rick Eckert/York, PA 18.261
5. 5-Eric Jacobsen/Santa Cruz, CA 18.284
6. 21-Billy Moyer/Batesville, AR 18.288
7. 15-Steve Francis/Ashland, KY 18.344
8. 42-Todd Andrews/Eldred, PA 18.440
9. 1-Josh Richards/Shinnston, WV 18.444
10. 3H-Stephen Hollabaugh/Guys Mills, PA 18.456
11. 25-Shane Clanton/Locust Grove, WV 18.462
12. 44-Clint Smith/Senoia, GA 18.462
13. 1U-Matt Urban/North East, PA 18.474
14. 17M-Dale McDowell/Chickamagua, GA 18.499
15. 1*-Chub Frank/Bear Lake, PA 18.507
16. 39-Tim McCreadie/Watertown, NY 18.533
17. 3d-David Scott/Garland, PA 18.543
18. 28-Eddie Carrier Jr./Salt Rock, WV 18.649
19. 99B-Rick Briggs/Bear Lake, PA 18.663
20. 40-Dutch Davies/Warren, PA 18.699
21. H1-Jared Miley/South Park, PA 18.729
22. 4-Alex Ferree/Saxonburg, PA 18.733
23. 32-Jeff Hoffman/Clarendon, PA 18.749
24. 55-Denny Fenton/Clearfield, PA 18.761
25. 55s-Chris Schneider/Tarentum, PA 18.771
26. 07R-Brent Rhebergen/Clymer, NY 18.815
27. 47-Matt Gaston/Rochester Mills, PA 18.860
28. 23-John Blankenship/Williamson, WV 18.866
29. 48-John Flinner/Zelionople, PA 19.007
30. 22b-Darrell Bossard/Centerville, PA 19.017
31. No7-Jason Dupont/Lewis Run, PA 19.090
32. 111-Max Blair/Titusville, PA 19.104
33. 5-Mike Blose/New Bethlehem, PA 19.166
34. 90-Wally Fox/Cooperstown, PA 19.168
35. 33-Bob Moskey/St. Clairsville, OH 19.196
36. 22-Greg Satterlee/Rochester Mills, PA 19.341
37. 21d-Dan Stone/Thompson, PA 19.364
38. 21A-Pete Alspaugh/Russell, PA 19.452
39. RG3-Bob Salathe/Bedford, PA 19.468
40. 22H-Bump Hedman/Sugar Grove, PA 19.505
41. 21L-Matt Lux/Franklin, PA 19.628
42. 44H-Dave Hess Jr./Waterford, PA 19.631
43. 33H-Chris Hackett/Erie, PA 19.647
44. 9I-Rick Isadore/Cyclone, PA 19.737
45. 26g-George Labarbera/Sugar Grove, PA 20.297

Heat No. 1 (10 laps - Top 4 Transfer): R. Blair, Richards, Scott, Miley,
Urban, Schneider, Stone, Lux, Labarbera, Flinner, Jacobsen.
Heat No. 2 (10 laps - Top 4 Transfer): Moyer, Lanigan, McDowell, Ferree,
Hallabaugh, Rhebergen, Carrier, Hess, Fox, Bossard, Alspaugh.
Heat No. 3 (10 laps - Top 4 Transfer): Frank, Clanton, Durrett, Briggs,
Francis, Salathe, Hoffman, Hackett, Dupont, Moskey, Gaston.
Heat No. 4 (10 laps - Top 4 Transfer): Eckert, Andrews, McCreadie, Davies,
M. Blair, Satterlee, Hedman, Blankenship, Fenton, Isadore, Smith.
B-Main No. 1 (12 laps - Top 3 Transfer): Rhebergen, Carrier, Blose, Hess,
Urban, Stone, Flinner, Schneider, Bossard, Fox, Labarbera, Jacobsen, Lux,
Hollabaugh (DNS) Alspaugh.
B-Main No. 2 (12 laps - Top 3 Transfer): Francis, Hedman, Salathe,
Blankenship, Hackett, Isadore, Moskey, Hoffman, Smith, Satterlee, Dupont,
Gaston, M. Blair, Fenton.
Dash (4 laps): Frank, Eckert, Moyer, Blair.

WoO Late Model Series Points Standings (after Sept. 3): 1. Tim McCreadie
3,712; 2. Shane Clanton 3,670; 3. Billy Moyer 3,668; 4. Darrell Lanigan
3,656; 5. Steve Francis 3,654; 6. Chub Frank 3,648; 7. Rick Eckert 3,574; 8.
Dale McDowell 3,526; 9. Josh Richards 3,492; 10. Clint Smith 3,481; 11.
Eddie Carrier Jr. 3,077; 12. John Blankenship 3,038; 13. Eric Jacobsen
2,953; 14. Garrett Durrett 2,942; 15. Mike Balzano 998.

McCreadie Heads To Tri-City Speedway Doubleheader This Weekend With Expanded
World of Outlaws Late Model Series Points Lead

FRANKLIN, PA - Aug. 31, 2006 - Just days ago Tim McCreadie was clinging to
the World of Outlaws Late Model Series points lead - an edge so scant, over
so many drivers, that he couldn't afford a single misstep.

McCreadie made no mistakes in the Aug. 26 tour event at Columbus (Miss.)
Speedway, but his closest rivals did.

So now the Watertown, N.Y., star heads into this Saturday and Sunday's Oil
Region Labor Day Classic Weekend at Tri-City Speedway boasting one of the
largest points leads any driver has had on this year's highly-competitive
Woo LMS.

McCreadie, 32, holds a 42-point advantage over defending tour champion Billy
Moyer of Batesville, Ark., who finished 15th at Columbus after spinning and
being hit by two cars late in the 50-lap feature. A second-place finish at
Columbus helped McCreadie more than double the 16-point lead over Moyer that
he brought into the show.

That's a significant jump for McCreadie, considering the fact that the
top-five drivers in the standings were separated by a mere 42 points
entering the Columbus event.

Now fifth-place Steve Francis of Ashland, Ky., who encountered mechanical
trouble early in the Columbus main, is 64 points behind McCreadie - a
deficit that will be hard to overcome in the four races left on the 2006 WoO
LMS, in which drivers can make up a maximum of 48 points per event in a
24-car feature.

Can McCreadie taste the $120,000 that goes to the WoO LMS champion?

"Not yet," he said. "There's still a long way to go. We're just gonna go out
and try to win races."

Nevertheless, McCreadie does concede that the points race is something he's
"thinking about."

And why not? A rich WoO LMS title would clearly be the biggest achievement
of McCreadie's still-burgeoning racing career.

Consider: McCreadie, the son of Northeast DIRT Modified legend 'Barefoot'
Bob McCreadie, never won the overall Mr. DIRT Modified points championship
when he competed in the open-wheel big-block division fulltime from 1997 to
2003. But in just his third full season of dirt Late Model action, he's
already on the cusp of reigning supreme on the nation's premier traveling
tour.

McCreadie can clinch the WoO LMS crown if he finishes no worse than fifth in
each of the four events remaining on the schedule -- this weekend's
doubleheader at Tri-City, the Sept. 22-23 Pittsburgher 100 at Pittsburgh's
Pennsylvania Motor Speedway in Imperial, Pa., and the Oct. 13-14 Gator 100
at Volusia Speedway Park in Barberville, Fla.

Four top-five finishes by McCreadie, who already has 12 of them in '06
(including two wins), would make whatever Moyer and the other title
contenders do in the final four shows a moot point.

McCreadie is excited that back-to-back 50-lappers at Tri-City will kick off
his final push for the biggest single check any dirt Late Model driver will
sign this year. After all, McCreadie has more experience at the half-mile
oval, which has not run dirt Late Models regularly in nearly a decade, than
many of his tour rivals.

While most of the WoO LMS regulars have only last year's series stop at
Tri-City to draw knowledge from, McCreadie has made several DIRT big-block
Modified starts at the western Pennsy facility since 1997. He's enjoyed
success at the track, finishing second in 100-lap Advance Auto Parts Super
DIRT Series events in 2001 and 2002.

McCreadie didn't fare quite as well in Tri-City's first-ever WoO LMS event,
on Sept. 4, 2005, finishing eighth. But he's confident that he'll show
improvement in his second dirt Late Model appearance.

"I struggled at Tri-City last year," said McCreadie. "But places we have
struggled at in the past, we have gotten better when we've gone back this
year. Hopefully that happens again at Tri-City."

The Oil Region Labor Day Classic also gives McCreadie and his Sweeteners
Plus Racing team a welcome respite from the rigors of racing far away from
home.

"It's only a few hours away from our shop (in Avon, N.Y., south of
Rochester)," said McCreadie, the 2004 WoO LMS Rookie of the Year and
third-place finisher in last year's standings. "We've been on the road in
the Midwest for most of the last month, so it'll be a big help to spend the
week in the shop before the shows at Tri-City."

Moyer, meanwhile, will need two strong performances - and McCreadie to run
below par - to get himself back in position to defend his championship. He
led the points standings until an early-August slump dropped him to fifth,
but consecutive wins, on Aug. 14 at Farmer City (Ill.) Raceway and Aug. 15
at Lake Ozark Speedway in Eldon, Mo., seemed to revive him before he ran
into trouble at Columbus.

The 48-year-old Moyer hopes the speed he flashed in his only two WoO LMS
victories of the season will propel him to a successful visit to Tri-City.

"Now we'll just see if we can still salvage something (in the championship
battle)," said Moyer, who finished sixth in last year's WoO LMS 50 at
Tri-City.

Shane Clanton of Locust Grove, Ga., hasn't won a feature on this year's
tour, but his consistency has him third in the standings, 44 points behind
McCreadie. He finished 10th in last year's event at Tri-City.

Other drivers who desperately need top finishes this weekend to keep their
flickering title hopes alive are fourth-place Darrell Lanigan of Union, Ky.
(60 points behind McCreadie), Francis and sixth-place Chub Frank of Bear
Lake, Pa., a popular western Pennsy native who is 78 points in arrears of
McCreadie.

Rick Eckert of York, Pa., who won last year's WoO LMS event at Tri-City and
is the tour's winningest driver in 2006 with eight victories, has tumbled
backward in the points battle since spinning out of an almost certain
second-place finish on the final lap of the Aug. 4 event at Lernerville
Speedway in Sarver, Pa. Finishing 19th rather than second in that 50-lapper
dropped Eckert from second to sixth in the standings in the blink of an eye,
and he's now ranked seventh, 122 points behind McCreadie.

Tri-City's Oil Region Labor Day Classic will consist of complete WoO LMS
shows topped by $10,000-to-win 50-lap features on both Saturday (Sept. 2)
and Sunday (Sept. 3). Gates will open each day at 3 p.m., and competition
will begin at 6 p.m.

Adult admission will be $30 each night, with a $50 two-day pass available.

Tri-City's E-Mods and Pro Stocks will also be in action both nights.

For more information visit www.tricityspeedway.com or call 814-473-4038.

World of Outlaws Late Model Series At A Glance: Sept. 2-3 At Tri-City Speedway

NORMAN, OK - Aug. 29, 2006 -
WHAT:
* The World of Outlaws Late Model Series heads to western Pennsylvania this
weekend for a critical doubleheader at Tri-City Speedway in Franklin. With
just four events remaining on the 2006 tour schedule, the two 50-lappers
that comprise Tri-City's Oil Region Labor Day Classic Weekend will loom
large in determining the driver who walks off with the $120,000 points
championship.

WHEN:
* On Sat., Sept. 2, and Sun., Sept. 3, the WoO LMS will run separate
complete shows at the semi-banked, half-mile Tri-City oval. Each leg of the
Oil Region Labor Day Classic Weekend will include time trials, heat races,
B-Mains, a pole dash and a 50-lap feature.
Both features will pay $10,000 to win, and the weekend's total purse will
exceed $100,000.
Tri-City's RPM Auto Sales E Mods and E.F. Rogers Plumbing & Heating Pro
Stocks will also be in action each night.
Gates will open each night at 3 p.m.; no fans will be allowed to reserve
seats with blankets until Saturday at that time. Competition is scheduled to
start with time trials at 6 p.m.

WHERE:
* Tri-City Speedway is located seven miles north of Franklin, Pa., off State
Route 417.

TICKETS:
* Adult grandstand admission will be $30 each night, or a two-day ticket
costs $50. Pre-sale tickets, which offer a $2 discount and provide immediate
access to the grandstands so fans can avoid long lines each night, are also
available at Tri-City Speedway or the track's main office in Rimersburg, Pa.

PREVIOUS WINNERS:
* Rick Eckert of York, Pa., captured the only previous WoO LMS held at
Tri-City Speedway, on Sept. 4, 2005.

INFORMATION:
* Visit www.tricityspeedway.com or contact the track office at 814-473-4038.

WHAT THE WoO DRIVERS THINK:
* Tim McCreadie of Watertown, N.Y., on the WoO LMS points race, which he
sits atop of entering the Tri-City doubleheader: "You're always thinking
about the points, but I still want to win races. Would you rather capitalize
(in the points standings) by winning races, or capitalize by getting lucky?
I want some luck, but we're in this thing to win races."
* McCreadie on racing at Tri-City: "I struggled at Tri-City last year
(finishing eighth). But places we have struggled at in the past, we have
gotten better when we've gone back this year. Hopefully that happens again
at Tri-City."
* Defending WoO LMS champion Billy Moyer of Batesville, Ark., who is second
in the tour standings, 42 points behind McCreadie: "Last year was the time
only we've been to Tri-City, and we were O.K. there (finishing sixth). But
we need a real good weekend if we're gonna have any chance at the
championship."
* Shane Clanton of Locust Grove, Ga., who is winless in 2006 on the WoO LMS
but is third in the points standings, 44 points behind McCreadie: "We're
still in it (the points race). It's gonna take some luck to catch McCreadie,
but luck's been the difference (in the standings) all year."

STORYLINES:
* Will McCreadie's past experience racing a DIRT Modified at Tri-City help
put him on the brink of his first-ever WoO LMS championship?
* Can a return to the track he won at one year ago bring an end to
eight-time '06 victor Rick Eckert's nine-race winless slump on the WoO LMS
and move him closer to Scott Bloomquist's 2004 WoO LMS single-season win
record of 10?
* Can 1997 Tri-City Super Late Model champion Robbie Blair of Titusville,
Pa., defend his home turf and turn back the WoO LMS invaders?
* Will Chub Frank of Bear Lake, Pa., take advantage of a weekend close to
home to keep alive his flickering WoO LMS title hopes?

NOTABLE:
* The doubleheader will be the only dirt Late Model events contested in 2006
at Tri-City.
* Several drivers will pull double-duty during the weekend, entering the WoO
LMS and companion E-Mod events. Locals Brent Rhebergen and Matt Lux, who
scored a top-five finish in the July 8 WoO LMS event at Sharon Speedway in
Hartford, Ohio, intend to run both events, while others who could join them
include Chub Frank, Robbie Blair, Alan Dellinger, Darrell Bossard, Carl
McKinney and Dave Hess Jr.
* On Saturday night after the racing program is completed, Engles Trucking
and Ray's Racing Specialties will return as sponsors of "South Ghetto," a
post-event holiday weekend party in the parking lot featuring a huge bonfire
and the live band "Intent," which entertained the crowd last year. This bash
is expected to draw even more fans this season, especially with free camping
offered at the speedway.

TELEVISION EXPOSURE:
Saturday's WoO LMS action will taped for broadcast on SPEED. The first night
of the Oil Region Labor Day Classic is scheduled to air on Sun., Oct. 8, at
6 p.m. eastern time.
In addition, for the second consecutive year, SPEED's 'Wind Tunnel with Dave
Despain' show will feature a live remote from Tri-City Speedway on Sunday
night. WoO LMS star Rick Eckert will be the featured guest on 'Wind Tunnel,'
answering questions from Despain via satellite between 9 and 10 p.m.

ON THE INTERNET:
If fans can't get to a track to see the tour, they can
experience the excitement of the World of Outlaws Late Model Series live on
Dirtvision.com through the DIRT Radio Network.
To listen to the audio broadcasts, log on to www.dirtvision.com and click on
the DIRT Radio Network logo.
Listeners will need Windows Media Player 9 or higher to listen to the DIRT
Radio Network. For technical support or questions, e-mail
webmaster@dirtvision.com.

2006 World of Outlaws Late Model Series Points Standings (after 8-26-06) and
Statistical Update (Pos.-Driver-Residence-Races Entered-Feature
Starts-Wins-Top 5's-Top 10's-Fast Times-Heat Wins-Dash Wins-B'
Wins-Earnings-Points-Trail By):
2006 World of Outlaws Late Model Series Points Standings (after 8-15-06):
1. Tim McCreadie/Watertown,NY 26-26-2-12-20-4-8-0-1-$88,600-3,576-0
2. Billy Moyer/Batesville,AR 26-26-2-12-21-2-10-2-2-$70,900-3,534-42
3. Shane Clanton/Locust Grove,GA 26-26-0-11-21-2-9-2-1-$57,300-3,532-44
4. Darrell Lanigan/Union,KY 26-26-2-14-20-0-11-5-1-$72,600-3,516-60
5. Steve Francis/Ashland,KY 26-26-2-12-20-2-12-1-1-$86,300-3,512-64
6. Chub Frank/Bear Lake,PA 26-26-2-8-19-2-4-1-1-$67,900-3,498-78
7. Rick Eckert/York,PA 26-26-8-11-15-1-7-2-1-$104,500-3,454-122
8. Dale McDowell/Chickamauga,GA 26-26-0-7-17-1-4-1-0-$47,000-3,398-178
9. Clint Smith/Senoia,GA 26-25-4-8-15-0-4-4-3-$70,310-3,355-221
10. Josh Richards/Shinnston,WV 26-26-1-5-16-2-4-2-2-$48,600-3,346-230
11. Eddie Carrier Jr.®/Salt Rock,WV 25-24-0-1-3-0-1-0-2-$20,810-2,963-613
12. John Blankenship/Williamson,WV 26-22-0-1-6-0-1-0-3-$25,140-2,922-654
13. Eric Jacobsen®/Santa Cruz,CA 26-22-0-1-3-0-0-0-1-$20,140-2,878-698
14. Garrett Durrett®/Simsboro,LA 26-22-0-0-1-0-0-0-5-$17,310-2,832-744
15. Mike Balzano/Parkersburg,WV 9-7-0-0-1-0-0-0-0-$6,220-998-2,578

World of Outlaws Late Model Series News & Notes: Columbus Speedway 8/26

COLUMBUS, MS - Aug. 28, 2006 -
PROUD PAPA: Mark Richards wasn't merely a happy car owner after Saturday
night's World of Outlaws Late Model Series 'Battle at the Bullring 50' at
Columbus Speedway.

He was also the beaming father of the evening's victor.

"When it's your car, it's exciting to win like that," Richards said after
watching his 18-year-old son Josh pull off a late-race pass of Tim McCreadie
for his first WoO LMS triumph of the season. "Having your son as the driver
just makes it more exciting.

"I'm a proud father, real proud."

The elder Richards, 45, has seen his rising-star boy come into his own
during the second half of the campaign.

"It's been kind of a rough season, but since (Ohio's) Sharon (Speedway on
July 8) things have turned around," said Mark Richards, who co-owns Rocket
Chassis in Shinnston, W.Va., and fields the company's house car that Josh
drives. "Josh had a good year last year and came into this season with high
expectations, but we struggled for awhile. He's really picked it up here
this last month, though, and he's got to where he's pumped up a lot more and
really ready to race again."

Beginning with his third-place finish in Sharon's event, Josh has rolled up
five top-five and nine top-10 finishes in his last 10 WoO LMS starts. His
only DNF came on Aug. 4 at Lernerville Speedway in Sarver, Pa., where he
jumped the cushion and flipped for the first time in his career while
battling for a top-five spot.

What's been the key to Josh's success?

"It seems like we're getting it together as a team," said Mark Richards. "We
have some good (crew) guys now. Jimmy Frye and Jeff Dillinger have made a
big difference helping Josh and I out. We lost a crewman about three months
ago and it put us in a bind; for awhile it was just me and him, and it was
tough. With Jimmy and Jeff on board, it's just put a little more continuity
into the team.

"And Timmy (McCreadie) has been a big influence on Josh lately," Mark added.
"Dale McDowell has also really been pushing him to give him that confidence
factor."

PULLING AWAY: McCreadie's second-place finish in the 50-lapper - coupled
with the problems encountered by title contenders Billy Moyer, Darrell
Lanigan and Steve Francis - helped him expand his WoO LMS points lead to 42
markers over Moyer.

That's a pretty healthy edge on the WoO LMS, which employs a
points-computation system in which there's only a 48-point difference
between first place and 24th. But McCreadie isn't going to change his
competitive spirit over the final four events to preserve his lead in
pursuit of the $120,000 championship check.

"You're always thinking about the points, but I still want to win races,"
said McCreadie. "Would you rather capitalize (in the points standings) by
winning races, or capitalize by getting lucky?

"I want some luck, but we're in this thing to win races."

BIG BLOW: Moyer's hopes of repeating as champion took a hit when he spun out
of fifth place while rounding turns one and two on lap 36. His car was
struck by Mike Boland and Ronny Lee Hollingsworth, inflicting front-end
damage that ended his night.

"The motor wouldn't run on the bottom-end," explained Moyer, who entered the
night trailing McCreadie by 16 points after winning two straight races. "The
track was already hard to drive, but it was even harder with the motor doing
that.

"I tried to spin the tires to get the thing out of pushing, but I came
around too hard and lost it. We were still probably gonna be alright there,
but that guy running 10th cleaned me out.

"Now we'll just see if we can still salvage something (in the championship
battle)."

CRUSHER?: The late-season push toward the top of the points standings that
Steve Francis had been making was halted at Columbus, where a broken panhard
bar and driveshaft ended his bid just seven laps into the feature.

"We got messed up in our heat race and got ourselves behind (after turning
the fastest lap in qualifying)," said Francis, who started 13th. "But when
they dropped the green and I just drove right through the field, I tought,
Hell, this thing's good. We're in good shape.

"Then I broke a panhard bar - hard racing, I guess."

Francis was sullen after falling in the standings from fourth (26 points
behind McCreadie) to fifth (64 points back).

"With McCreadie finishing where he did, I think that buried us," he said. "I
don't think there's enough races left (to catch up)."

Francis's crew did repair his car and he returned to the event on lap 46
during the final caution period. The four additional laps gained one
position in the finishing order, moving him past his closest rival in the
standings, Darrell Lanigan, who also dropped out on lap seven, to 21st
place.

"I didn't know if I could gain anything on Lanigan or not when we went back
out there," said Francis. "But I lost this thing (WoO LMS championship) last
year in a tiebreaker (to Moyer), so if I got two points more on Lanigan,
that's two points."

UPLIFTING RUN: WoO LMS Rookie of the Year contender Eric Jacobsen was
smiling after placing fourth in the feature - his first top-five in a bumpy
'06 season and his best finish ever on the tour, topping the fifth place he
registered on July 26, 2005, at Missouri's Lebanon I-44 Speedway.

"I'm finally feeling what I like to feel on the racetrack," said Jacobsen,
who has a pair of top-10 finishes in the last three WoO LMS events. "We have
good equipment, but so many things have happened this year that have gotten
us behind. We're finally getting everything together and our results are
improving."

BAD BOY: Jacobsen was "scolded" by WoO LMS competition director Bret Emrick
before even getting to the track.

Jacobsen, who flies from his California home to compete in tour events, and
Emrick ended up on the same connecting flight from Atlanta to Columbus,
Miss., on Friday night. They didn't know it, however, until getting on the
plane, which took off slightly behind schedule because of.Jacobsen.

The flight was help up while an airline employee paged Jacobsen, the only
ticketed passenger not on board at the scheduled departure time. Jacobsen,
who had lost track of time while watching the Steelers-Eagles pre-season
football game inside a bar in the terminal, heard the announcement and
rushed to the gate.

As Jacobsen sheepishly walked to his seat on a plane filled with passengers
agitated by his tardiness, he heard someone say, "So you're the one who held
us up."

Jacobsen looked up toward the source of the barb. He saw Emrick grinning in
a window seat.

DISAPPOINTING NIGHT: Buoyed by the spectacular 19-win season he's enjoying
on the Deep South circuit, Chris Wall of Holden, La., entered Saturday's
action with high hopes of upsetting the WoO LMS superstars.

But Wall, who in mid-July won the last national-touring series event at
Columbus Speedway, never quite got on track. He timed an underwhelming 21st,
then was passed for the final transfer spot in the first heat by Francis. A
flat tire while leading the first B-Main forced him to the pit area, but he
rallied to finish third and make the cut. A broken axle six laps into the
feature eliminated Wall, who raced using a SUPR spec motor (362 cubic
inches, aluminum Brodix head and intake, steel block).

The early exit was a downer for Wall, who is known as the 'Intimagator'
because he and his wife, Missy, own and operate the C&M Gator Farm in
Springfield, La., and his legion of fans. His popularity at Columbus is
unquestioned; despite the fact that he lives five hours away, the track was
teeming with fans wearing his distinctive 'Intimagator' t-shirts.

Wall was planning to make the UMP-sanctioned World 100 on Sept. 8-9 at
Eldora Speedway in Rossburg, Ohio, his next big-show appearance, but after
Saturday's program he reluctantly announced that he must scrap the event
from his schedule due to business commitments.

According to a post on Wall's website, Hurricanes Katrina and Rita had a big
effect on their business, which consists of gathering gator eggs from
pre-marked nests in the marshes of southern Louisiana, hatching them in
incubators at their farm and then raising the gators for sale to several
markets. Because salt water rushed into the marshes and the storms shocked
the gators there, female gators are not producing as many eggs for
collection this year. As a result, the Walles and other gator farmers have
had to look for other tracts of land to contract for egg gathering.

Walls and his wife were able to locate some areas heavily populated with
gator eggs. Unfortunately for Wall's World 100 dreams, one of the
stipulations of his deal to collect eggs on the tract is that the work must
be done the same week as the race.

BUILD YOUR OWN SUITE: One of the unique features at Columbus Speedway is the
dozens of "VIP boxes" that circle the track.

These structures - called "Columbus Condos," "bird houses" and a variety of
other names - are erected by their individual owners. Columbus promoter
Johnny Stokes said race teams, businesses and other groups have been paying
the track for the right to put up personal "suites" for the last six years.

BRUISED UP: Chub Frank finished a respectable fifth in the feature, but he
headed home with a Rocket car that sported plenty of battle scars from a
rough-and-tumble night.

Frank's troubles began during the third heat when a scrape with Garrett
Durrett caused him to hit the turn-two wall with the nose of his machine. He
returned after a quick pit stop and, with some help from a tangle involving
three cars ahead of him, came back to qualify.

The rough track surface and tight racing contributed to the body damage that
was visible on Frank's No. 1* following the feature.

ETCETERA.
* Simsboro, La.'s Durrett was anxious to race at Columbus, a track he's run
more than a dozen times in his young dirt Late Model career.
The 21-year-old WoO LMS Rookie of the Year contender didn't have a smooth
night, but he persevered through a right-front brake problem and a flat tire
to finish 11th in the feature. He climbed as high as eighth after starting
18th.
* Salt Rock, W.Va's Eddie Carrier Jr., who leads the WoO LMS Rookie of the
Year chase, appeared primed for his best outing of the season after timing
second-fastest in qualifying. But he had a heat win stolen from him on the
final lap by Shane Clanton, and he slipped to a 10th-place finish in the
main after running in the top five early.
* Dale McDowell finished sixth in the 50-lapper, but he could've placed
higher if not for a trip to the infield to change a right-rear tire on lap
36. He cut the shoe when he clipped Moyer's spinning car in turn two.
* The first driver out of the feature was Georgia's Clint Smith, who brought
out a caution flag on lap three after his car's left-rear suspension gave
out.
* Rick Eckert's fall from the WoO LMS points chase continued with a
19th-place finish in his first-ever start at Columbus. He stopped in turn
three on the 29th lap after a bent panhard bar caused his car's driveshaft
to fail - a common malady on Saturday due to the track's rough spots
exacting a heavy toll on the machines.
* A surprise entrant was Wendell Wallace of Batesville, Ark., who was a WoO
LMS regular for part of DIRT's inaugural season running the tour in 2004.
"We were planning to run the three (DIRT-owned) MARS shows this weekend,"
said Wallace. "But last night Bolivar (Mo.) was canceled and the weather for
Lebanon (Mo.) tonight didn't look good, so we came here."
Wallace, who made a five-hour haul to Columbus, was running fifth in the
feature when mechanical trouble knocked out his No. 88 on lap 32.
* Young Ronny Lee Hollingsworth of Northport, Ala., ran as high as fifth in
the feature before retiring during a lap-39 caution period.
* Columbus's hometown boy Rick Rickman missed the final transfer spot in the
second B-Main by one position, but a provisional got him in the feature and
he took full advantage of his new life. He climbed forward from 24th to
finish eighth and earned a $300 bonus from DIRT MotorSports, which posted
$1,000 in cash that was divided among the top-three finishing drivers who
weren't ranked in the top 20 of a national touring series or had never won a
WoO LMS event.
* The night's wildest crash involved Jimbo McDuffie of Meridian, Miss., who
flipped between turns three and four after his car tossed a left-rear wheel
during the second heat. He was shaken but otherwise uninjured.

World of Outlaws Late Model Series Star Rick Eckert To Be Featured Guest
Sunday On SPEED's 'Wind Tunnel with Dave Despain'

NORMAN, OK - Aug. 28, 2006 - World of Outlaws Late Model Series star Rick
Eckert will be the featured guest Sunday (Sept. 3) on SPEED television's
'Wind Tunnel with Dave Despain.'

Eckert, 40, of York, Pa., will talk live with Despain via satellite from
Tri-City Speedway in Franklin, Pa., where he will be competing in the second
night of the WoO LMS Oil Region Labor Day Classic.

Sunday's edition of 'Wind Tunnel' will air on SPEED from 9 p.m. to 10 p.m.
eastern time. A set in the pit area and a satellite uplink will be
established to allow Eckert to appear live on the broadcast with Despain,
who will be stationed in the 'Wind Tunnel' studio in Charlotte.

Eckert, who won last year's WoO LMS event at Tri-City Speedway, is the
tour's winningest driver in 2006. He will discuss with Despain his pursuit
of Scott Bloomquist's WoO LMS single-season win record, the UMP-sanctioned
World 100 at Eldora Speedway in Rossburg, Ohio, on Sept. 8-9 and a variety
of other topics.

One year ago WoO LMS standout Chub Frank of Bear Lake, Pa., appeared live on
'Wind Tunnel' during the tour's visit to Tri-City Speedway.

Richards Overtakes McCreadie For Dramatic World of Outlaws Late Model Series
Victory At Columbus Speedway

COLUMBUS, MI - Aug. 26, 2006 - It's true that Josh Richards won his first
World of Outlaws Late Model Series event of 2006 after starting from the
pole position.

But that fact doesn't show how hard the teenage sensation worked to score a
dramatic victory in Saturday night's 'Battle at the Bullring 50' at Columbus
Speedway.

Richards, 18, of Shinnston, W.Va., authored a powerful rally to defeat tour
points leader Tim McCreadie of Watertown, N.Y., who appeared ready to ruin
Kid Rocket's evening when he took the lead on lap 33. A lap-46 caution flag,
however, allowed Richards one final shot and he seized the moment, regaining
the top spot from McCreadie on lap 48 and then roaring to the checkered
flag.

"That was fun," said Richards, who earned a $10,000 paycheck for his
first-ever visit to the high-banked, three-tenths-mile oval. "To lead the
first 30-some laps and then have to get back past McCreadie - man, that
makes this win pretty satisfying."

McCreadie, who started the race from the outside pole, settled for second
place in his Sweeteners Plus Rocket No. 39. The run helped him expand his
WoO LMS points lead from 16 to 42 points over defending tour champion Billy
Moyer of Batesville, Ark., one of three title contenders who ran into
trouble during a marathon event that was slowed by 10 caution flags.

Shane Clanton of Locust Grove, Ga., ran near the front of the pack for the
entire distance in the RSD Enterprises Rocket and finished third -- the same
position he started. Eric Jacobsen of Santa Cruz, Calif., recorded a
season-best finish of fourth in his Well Pict Berries/Soil Fume Inc. Rocket
after starting 16th, and Chub Frank of Bear Lake, Pa., battled from the 11th
starting to take fifth in his Lester Buildings Rocket.

Richards was behind the wheel of his father Mark's familiar Seubert Calf
Ranches-sponsored Rocket House Car No. 1. Ironically, it was the same
machine he drove to his only previous WoO LMS triumph, on Aug. 15, 2005, at
Lebanon Valley Speedway in West Lebanon, N.Y.

The rising star's second career victory came one race after he had
registered his best finish this season on the WoO LMS: second place on Aug.
15 at Lake Ozark Speedway in Eldon, Mo.

"We struggled some at the beginning of the year, but ever since we had a
good run at (Ohio's) Sharon (Speedway on July 8) we've been getting
consistently better," said Richards. "I don't know what it is, but we've
really started running well and having more fun."

There was little doubt Richards had the feature's fastest car on Saturday,
as evidenced by the half-straightaway lead he built during a rare period of
extended green-flag racing from lap 14 to 28.

Nevertheless, he came precariously close to absorbing a tough loss after
McCreadie passed him to assume command on lap 33.

"I was lost for a little bit with the racetrack," revealed Richards. "After
leading so long (from the initial green flag) I didn't know where the
fastest lane was, and before I knew it Timmy was by me."

With some assistance from his father, who was stationed in the infield,
Richards found his footing.

"My Dad was trying to tell me to slow down and get to the bottom," said
Richards. "I didn't see him signaling me for awhile, but once I moved down
there I realized that's where I needed to be."

Richards dived underneath McCreadie's car entering turn one on a lap-46
restart. The next circuit Richards's dirt Late Model bounced off the ground
when he caught a rut between turns one and two, but he maintained control
and surged ahead of McCreadie down the backstretch.

When Richards slid across the track in front of McCreadie through turns and
four and emerged with the lead as lap 48 was scored, he was home free.

"The car just stuck right around the bottom," said Richards, who used a
Cornett engine. "I ran in too hard (on lap 47) and just about flipped in one
and two, but then it grabbed the track when it came down and I got a great
run off two."

McCreadie, 32, certainly did not like losing in the race's final moments,
but he conceded that Richards deserved to win the event.

"He had a better car than us all night," said McCreadie. "I should've never
got by him. He just made a mistake. The track actually got a lot better from
the middle to the bottom, and I found it when he didn't know it was there.

"Once I showed him the groove, we never pulled away from him."

McCreadie knew Richards was faster after the last restart, but he gave it
everything he had to stay in front.

"I raced him hard into one. I didn't give him an inch," McCreadie said of
the race's deciding moment. "He just ran it down hard into three and bounced
across the track in front of me. That was good, hard racing.

"Josh did a heck of a job. There's no shame in losing to him. He drove the
wheels off it."

A bit behind the leaders at the finish was Clanton, who was in the mix
throughout the race but had to be satisfied with a third-place finish rather
than his first WoO LMS victory of the season.

"We went a little hard on tires and I think it cost us the race," said
Clanton. "I needed eight or 10 laps to get going, and every time we got that
many laps strung together there would be a caution."

Clanton, who turns 31 on Aug. 29, did move from fifth to third in the WoO
LMS points standings. He's 44 markers behind McCreadie.

Clanton's advance in the standings was helped by the misfortune suffered by
Moyer, Darrell Lanigan of Union, Ky., and Steve Francis of Asland, Ky., who
entered the event ranked second through fourth.

Francis was the first driver to be struck down. After cracking the top 10
from the 13th starting spot, his Mopar No. 15 fell off the pace and stopped
on lap seven due to a bent panhard bar and broken driveshaft.

Moments later Lanigan experienced the same mechanical failure as Francis on
the difficult track, which tested equipment with rough spots in the corners.
He pulled into the infield on a lap-seven restart while running third.

Moyer appeared headed to a top-five finish that would allow to keep pace
with McCreadie in the standings when he spun between turns one and two while
holding fourth place on lap 36. Moyer's prone car was hit by Mike Boland of
Cuba, Ala., and Ronny Lee Hollingsworth of Northport, Ala., inflicting
front-end damage that ended his night.

Rounding out the top 10 in the event was Dale McDowell of Chickamauga, Ga.,
who pitted to change a flat tire on lap 36; regional racers Jay Blair of
Angie, La., Rick Rickman of Columbus, Miss., and Boland; and Eddie Carrier
Jr. of Salt Rock, W.Va.

DIRT MotorSports' $1,000 non-touring/local driver bonus - for the
top-finishing racers who are not in the top-20 of a national touring series
and haven't won a WoO LMS event - was divided by Blair ($500), Rick Rickman
($300) and Boland ($200).

Francis started the program off on a high note during the 39-car time-trial
session, setting fast time with a lap of 13.75 seconds.

Heat winners were McCreadie, Clanton, Moyer and Richards. Eddie Rickman of
Columbus, Miss., and Garrett Durrett of Simsboro, La., captured the B-Mains,
and Richards topped the pole dash.

Results of WoO Late Model Series(Finishing Position/Start/Driver/Laps
Completed/Money Won): 1. (1) Josh Richards/50 $10,000; 2. (2) Tim
McCreadie/50 $6,000; 3. (3) Shane Clanton/50 $3,500; 4. (16) Eric
Jacobsen/50 $2,500; 5. (11) Chub Frank/50 $2,200; 6. (7) Dale McDowell/50
$2,000; 7. (22) Jay Blair/50 $1,800; 8. (24) Rick Rickman/50 $1,600; 9. (14)
Mike Boland/50 $1,400; 10. (6) Eddie Carrier Jr./50 $1,200; 11. (18) Garrett
Durrett/50 $1,000; 12. (12) Jamie Elam/46 $900; 13. (20) David Breazeale/45
$800; 14. (9) Ronny Lee Hollingsworth/39 $700; 15. (4) Billy Moyer/36 $700;
16. (19) Jack Sullivan/34 $700; 17. (8) Wendell Wallace/34 $700; 18. (23)
John Blankenship/31 $700; 19. (15) Rick Eckert/28 $700; 20. (17) Eddie
Rickman/17 $700; 21. (13) Steve Francis/11 $700; 22. (5) Darrell Lanigan/8
$700; 23. (21) Chris Wall/6 $700; 24. (10) Clint Smith/2 $700.

Yellow Flags: 10 (Laps 3, 7, 14, 28, 29, 32, 32, 36, 39, 46)
Lap Leaders: Richards (1-32); McCreadie (33-47); Richards (48-50).

Time Trial Results (Position/No./Driver/Hometown/Best Lap):
1. 15-Steve Francis/Ashland, KY 13.75
2. 28-Eddie Carrier Jr./Salt Rock, WV 13.93
3. 21-Billy Moyer/Batesville, AR 13.96
4. 1-Josh Richards/Shinnston, WV 13.96
5. 29-Darrell Lanigan/Union, KY 13.97
6. 25-Shane Clanton/Locust Grove, GA 14.10
7. 17M-Dale McDowell/Chickamauga, GA 14.19
8. 12E-Jamie Elam/Sanitobia, MS 14.22
9. 39-Tim McCreadie/Watertown, NY 14.23
10. 44-Clint Smith/Senoia, GA 14.24
11. 12-Jason Smith/Laurel, MS 14.32
12. 88-Wendell Wallace/Batesville, AR 14.32
13. 33d-Scott Dedwylder/Vossburg, MS 14.33
14. 222-Mike Boland/Cuba, AL 14.34
15. 24-Rick Eckert/York, PA 14.35
16. 5-Eric Jacobsen/Santa Cruz, CA 14.35
17. 18-Ronny Lee Hollingsworth/Northport, AL 14.38
18. 18s-Jack Sullivan/Greenbriar, AR 14.40
19. 58c-Garrett Durrett/Simsboro, LA 14.43
20. 86-Rick Rickman/Columbus, MS 14.45
21. 71-Chris Wall/Holden, LA 14.46
22. 23-John Blankenship/Williamson, WV 14.51
23. 2x-Jay Blair/Angie, LA 14.55
24. 54-David Breazeale/Four Corners, MS 14.56
25. 51-Dean Carpenter/Coldwater, MS 14.61
26. c16-Chris Ragan/Ramer/TN 14.61
27. 1*-Chub Frank/Bear Lake, PA 14.64
28. 1F-Scott Flurry/Smithville, MS 14.64
29. 68-Eddie Rickman/Columbus, MS 14.70
30. 5E-Shawn Edwards/Louisville, MS 14.76
31. 1c-Chad Thrash/Meridian, MS 14.80
32. 07-Randy Walters/Laurel, MS 14.93
33. 74-Scott Randolph/Baxter, TN 14.93
34. 760-Jimbo McDuffie/Meridian, MS 14.96
35. 0K-Kelly Hanvey/Coleman, AL 14.98
36. 33-Terry Wilson/West, MS 15.15
37. 20-Tombo Callahan/Weir, MS 15.31
38. 57-Roger Shirley/Meridian, MS 15.34
39. 16-Mike Poyner/Grenada, MS N/T

Heat No. 1 (10 laps - Top 4 Transfer): McCreadie, Lanigan, Hollingsworth,
Francis, Wall, E. Rickman, Carpenter, Callahan, Randolph, Dedwylder.

Heat No. 2 (10 laps - Top 4 Transfer): Clanton, Carrier, C. Smith, Boland,
Ragan, Blankenship, Edwards, Sullivan, McDuffie, Shirley.

Heat No. 3 (10 laps - Top 4 Transfer): Moyer, McDowell, Frank, Eckert,
Blair, Durrett, Thrash, J. Smith, Hanvey, Poyner.

Heat No. 4 (10 laps - Top 4 Transfer): Richards, Wallace, Elam, Jacobsen,
Flurry, Wilson, Breazeale, Walters, R. Rickman.

B-Main No. 1 (12 laps - Top 3 Transfer): E. Rickman, Sullivan, Wall,
Blankenship, Callahan, Carpenter, Randolph, Raga, Edwards, Shirley (DNS)
McDuffie, Dedwylder.

B-Main No. 2 (12 laps - Top 3 Transfer): Durrett, Breazeale, Blair, R.
Rickman, Thrash, Wilson, Flurry, Poyner (DNS) Walters, J. Smith, Hanvey.

Dash (6 laps): Richards, McCreadie, Clanton, Moyer.

WoO Late Model Series Points Standings (after Aug. 26): 1. Tim McCreadie
3,576; 2. Billy Moyer 3,534; 3. Shane Clanton 3,532; 4. Darrell Lanigan
3,516; 5. Steve Francis 3,512; 6. Chub Frank 3,498; 7. Rick Eckert 3,454; 8.
Dale McDowell 3,398; 9. Clint Smith 3,355; 10. Josh Richards 3,346; 11.
Eddie Carrier Jr. 2,963; 12. John Blankenship 2,922; 13. Eric Jacobsen
2,878; 14. Garrett Durrett 2,832; 15. Mike Balzano 998.

LISTEN ONLINE: If fans can't get to a track to see the series, they can
experience the excitement of the World of Outlaws Late Model Series live on
Dirtvision.com through the DIRT Radio Network.

To listen to the audio broadcasts, log on to www.dirtvision.com and click on
the DIRT Radio Network logo.

Listeners will need Windows Media Player 9 or higher to listen to the DIRT
Radio Network. For technical support or questions, e-mail
webmaster@dirtvision.com.

DIRT MotorSports Aligns With WKA To Present Dirt Kart World Championships Dec. 27-Jan. 1 At Florida’s Volusia Speedway Park

BARBERVILLE, FL – Aug. 25, 2006 - Beginning Dec. 27 and running through Jan. 1, racers from across the nation will be able to enjoy the dirt karting event of the year.
DIRT MotorSports and the World Karting Association (WKA) have aligned to present the Outlaw Dirt Kart and WKA Dirt World Championships, encompassing six consecutive days of competition at Volusia Speedway Park in Barberville, Fla., just 20 minutes west of Daytona Beach.
The centerpiece of the week-long karting spectacular is the famed Briggs & Stratton Speedway WKA Dirt World Championships, which have been a winter-time staple in Daytona Beach for 26 years. For all but one year of the event’s existence the WKA Dirt World Championships have been contested on a quarter-mile limerock-surface track inside Daytona Beach Municipal Stadium, but negotiations with DIRT MotorSports led WKA officials to move the event to Volusia Speedway Park’s national-caliber karting facility.
The site change will only help the WKA Dirt World Championships remain the most prestigious event in the country for dirt karters. Volusia Speedway Park is well known for being the “mecca” for dirt track auto racing every February, and its hosting of the Dirt Kartweek activities enhances the possibility of this year’s WKA Dirt Nationals being one of the largest -- if not the largest -- in history.
"Most importantly, our customers need to know that this event is alive and well,” said WKA President Randy Kugler. “Although there have been some changes, Florida will continue to be the focal point of karting the last week of December.
“WKA and DIRT MotorSports -- specifically Mike Hunter (VSP’s karting director) -- are prepared to make the Dirt World Championships a happening."
The Dirt Kartweek action for 22 divisions will kick off on Wed., Dec. 27, with an Outlaw Dirt Kart event. The WKA Dirt World Championships will then take center stage from Thurs., Dec. 28 through Sat., Dec. 30 (event and entry information forthcoming), and then Outlaw Dirt Kart competition will close out the week with events on Sun., Dec. 31, and Mon., Jan. 1.
The marriage of DIRT MotorSports and the WKA for this event was a natural fit.
“It only makes good business sense given DIRT MotorSports’ acquisitions of the top-three dirt sanctioning bodies in America: the World of Outlaws Late Models and Sprints as well as the mighty DIRT Modifieds,” said Buddy Long, WKA Director of Operations. “Aligning itself with the top karting organization in America for its biggest event of the year is a testament to DIRT’s continued business plan to provide the best in motorsports entertainment, no matter what level.”
The Dirt Kart World Championships is a perfect event for the DIRT-owned Volusia Speedway Park, which now boasts a top-notch dirt kart track alongside its nationally-known high-banked, half-mile clay oval.
"With the acquisition of Volusia Speedway Park by DIRT MotorSports last summer, an emphasis has been focused on DIRT’s mission to promote and grow the sport of dirt track racing at all levels,” said Mike Hunter, who organizes the kart competition at Volusia. “Last winter the three-eighths-mile asphalt track that surrounded the kart track was torn out and a new state-of-the-art karting facility was built.
“The kart facility was designed to stage world-class events like the WKA Dirt World Championships in December. From the spacious pit area to the paved pits, staging and grid areas, the track brings the best features and is participant friendly."
Volusia has been hosting state races for various karting organizations for the last two years, and in December 2005 it presented a Dirt Kartweek Winternationals that drew over 400 entries and impressed the WKA’s Kugler. The well-constructed track offers two- and three-wide racing, which bodes well for the most competitive Daytona Dirt Kartweek series ever seen.
"I cannot think of a better combination than WKA and Volusia Speedway Park for this event,” said Harvey Fink, who this summer assumed the position of VSP General Manager. “Our wide-open space, free camping, a great facility and the professionalism WKA brings will make this a 'must attend' event."
Over 50 acres of pit area will be available at VSP, which will also offer 24-hour access to the property to race teams that camp in their trailers.
Many special touches are being planned to make the week unforgettable for karters, crews, family members and sponsors, including activity tents, a free cookout on Dec. 26 and discounted motel and restaurant prices for event participants.
More detailed event and entry information will be announced in the near future.
Visit www.worldkarting.com or www.volusiaspeedwaypark.com for further info.

Clint Smith Doesn’t Think He Has Advantage In Saturday’s World of Outlaws Late Model Series Event At Columbus Speedway

NORMAN, OK – Aug. 23, 2006 – Clint Smith has more experience racing at Columbus Speedway than most of his rivals on the World of Outlaws Late Model Series.

He’s also the national tour’s second-winningest driver in 2006 and has captured two of its last five events.

But that doesn’t mean Senoia, Ga.’s Smith enters the WoO LMS ‘Battle at the Bullring 50’ this Saturday night (Aug. 26) at the Mississippi track feeling like he has any special edge.

“Racing with these guys here, you don’t have an advantage anywhere,” Smith bluntly said of the high competition level on the WoO LMS. “You’ve got so many guys who can win the first time they’re at a track.”

Smith, 41, has been entering special events at the ‘Baddest Bullring in the South’ for more than a decade. While winning four series titles with the Southern All-Stars (1992, 1993, 2000, 2003) he made several visits per season to Columbus, winning multiple times. He also was victorious at the three-tenths-mile oval in each of the past two years, taking the 2004 Possum Town Grand Prix – after which he held a live possum as part of the post-race ceremonies – and the 2005 Rebel Challenge.

The repeated visits to Columbus have given Smith an appreciation for the high-banked track’s racy nature, but uncovering setup secrets has been another matter.

“That’s one of the better racetracks we’ll go to,” he said of Columbus Speedway. “It’ll be a gas-on, two- and three-wide racing, come-from-the-rear-and-win type track. It won’t be settled when qualifying is over.

“It’s the kind of place we all like going to because you can race on it.

“But,” he added, “I don’t think I have any advantage because I’ve raced there before.”

In an attempt to illustrate that a driver’s perceived knowledge of a track doesn’t count for much on the nation’s premier dirt Late Model tour, Smith points to the series’s July 1 event at Stateline Speedway in Busti, N.Y. Everyone considered the pre-race favorite to be tour regular Chub Frank of Bear Lake, Pa., who grew up racing at the track, but he wasn’t even a factor.

“That’s Chub’s house,” Smith said of Stateline. “He knows that racetrack, but he was no good. So you can’t judge off that.”

Smith doesn’t see any reason why WoO LMS regulars like Frank, points leader Tim McCreadie of Watertown, N.Y., eight-time ’06 winner Rick Eckert of York, Pa., and 2005 Rookie of the Year Josh Richards of Shinnston, W.Va. – all of whom will be racing at Columbus for the first time on Saturday – can’t end up holding the $10,000 first-place check in Victory Lane.

“This whole crowd here with the World of Outlaws can learn so fast and adapt so quick to any condition,” said Smith. “Everybody is always just wide-open trying to find that little bit of a trick that will win the race for them on any given night. Then everybody will load up all their stuff, head out, drag it back out at the next event, and try to get that little bit of an advantage again that somebody who’s been going to a particular track forever maybe ain’t found.”

The supreme talent that travels the WoO LMS makes winning races a tough chore, but, as Smith points out, it also makes great drivers even better.

“You’re only as good as who you race with,” said Smith, who co-owns his J.P. Drilling-baked GRT cars with Jerry Passmore. “And we’re racing with the best. I think that’s why when we go into other (non-WoO LMS) shows throughout the year, a World of Outlaws car is usually winning or in the top five in every race. Go to any big show, and you’ll usually have six to 12 of the WoO drivers in the race.”

Smith, a second-generation racer who makes his living driving a dirt Late Model, will go into Saturday’s action focused entirely on padding his 2006 win total on the WoO LMS. Thanks at least in part to not qualifying for an early-season show due to mechanical trouble, he is not in the mix for the $120,000 tour points championship check, sitting ninth in the standings, 177 points behind McCreadie.

“We’re just going out and trying to win races,” said Smith, who has four victories and $69,610 in earnings through 25 series events this season.

*****

The first-ever WoO LMS program at Columbus Speedway on Saturday night will include time trials, heat races, B-Mains, a pole dash and a 50-lap feature.

Pit gates are scheduled to open at 3 p.m. and the grandstands will be unlocked at 4 p.m. on Saturday. A drivers’ meeting is set for 6:30 p.m., with practice and time trials following and then racing beginning at 8 p.m.

Adult grandstand admission for the event is $25. Active Military and students (ages 11-18) are $15, and children 10 and under will be admitted free of charge. Pit passes cost $35, with children ages 6-10 $15 and kids under 5 admitted free.

Local Divisions will also be in action competing in “Battle at the Bullring” Championships. The open-wheel Modifieds and Late Model Stocks/Stormpay Late Models will race for $700 to win, and the Street Stocks will chase a $350 top prize.

Columbus Speedway is located in north-central Mississippi, seven miles east of Columbus off U.S. Highway 82. Exit at Stokes Rd., turn left, go 1.5 miles north on Pleasant Hill Rd., then turn right on Lacy Rd. The track will be .75 of a mile on the left.

For more information visit www.columbusspeedway.net or call 662-572-2572.

World of Outlaws Late Model Series At A Glance: Columbus Speedway Aug. 26

NORMAN, OK - Aug. 21, 2006 -
WHAT:
* The World of Outlaws Late Model Series heads to the deep south this
weekend for the critical 'Battle of the Bullring 50' at Columbus (Miss.)
Speedway. Following the event just four races will remain on the 2006 tour,
which is wrapped up in a red-hot battle for the $120,000 prize that goes to
the points champion.

WHEN:
* On Sat., Aug., 26, the WoO LMS will make its first-ever stop at the
high-banked Columbus Speedway, which is known as the 'Baddest Bullring in
the South.' One of the Mississippi track's most highly-anticipated events of
the season will include time trials, heat races, B-Mains, a pole dash and a
50-lap feature that pays $10,000 to win from a purse of over $50,000.

Pit gates are scheduled to open at 3 p.m. and the grandstands will be
unlocked at 4 p.m. on Saturday. A drivers' meeting is set for 6:30 p.m.,
with practice and time trials following and then racing beginning at 8 p.m.

WHERE:
* Columbus Speedway is located in north-central Mississippi, seven miles
east of Columbus off U.S. Highway 82. Exit at Stokes Rd., turn left, go 1.5
miles north on Pleasant Hill Rd., then turn right on Lacy Rd. The track will
be .75 of a mile on the left.

TICKETS:
* Adult grandstand admission for the event is $25. Active Military and
students (ages 11-18) are $15, and children 10 and under will be admitted
free of charge. Pit passes cost $35, with children ages 6-10 $15 and kids
under 5 admitted free.

Lawn chairs and coolers (no glass containers allowed) are allowed at
Columbus Speedway. Fans should also note there is an FM broadcast of the
announcer's call over the p.a. system on FM 88.5 for their listening
pleasure.

Local Divisions will also be in action competing in "Battle at the Bullring"
Championships. The open-wheel Modifieds and Late Model Stocks/Stormpay Late
Models will race for $700 to win, and the Street Stocks will chase a $350
top prize.

PREVIOUS WINNERS:
* This is the first WoO LMS event at Columbus Speedway since the tour was
launched by DIRT MotorSports in 2004.

INFORMATION:
* To find out more about the 'Battle of the Bullring 50,' visit
www.columbusspeedway.net and click on the event flyer or call the speedway's
Johnny Stokes at 662-572-2572.

WHO'S COMING:
* The WoO LMS will bring 14 touring drivers to Columbus Speedway,
representing a mix of dirt Late Model superstars and budding talents.

Leading the WoO LMS charge to Columbus will be Tim McCreadie of Watertown,
N.Y., who leads the tour points standings by a mere 16 markers over
defending champion Billy Moyer of Batesville, Ark. McCreadie, 32, will be
making his first-ever appearance at Columbus, while the 48-year-old Moyer
has visited the track several times during his spectacular career and won
multiple features.

Other WoO LMS drivers who will be competing at Columbus for the first time
include Rick Eckert of York, Pa., who leads the tour with eight victories in
2006 but has slipped to seventh in the points standings thanks to a recent
slump he'll be trying to shake out of on Saturday night; Chub Frank of Bear
Lake, Pa., a two-time WoO LMS winner this season and one of the most
hard-nosed dirt Late Model racers in the country; and Josh Richards of
Shinnston, W.Va., a teenage sensation who joined Frank as a featured driver
in last month's 'Dirt Track Warriors' Late Model racing documentary
broadcast nationally on CNN.

WoO LMS regulars hoping to draw on past success at Columbus include Shane
Clanton of Locust Grove, Ga., a former winner of the track's Winter Classic
and James King Memorial events; 2005 Rebel Challenge and Possum Town Grand
Prix winner Clint Smith of Senoia, Ga.; and former James King Memorial
winner Dale McDowell of Chickamauga, Ga.

READY FOR BATTLE:
* The WoO LMS standouts will face some stiff competition from Columbus
Speedway's locals, including current track points leader Shawn Edwards, Mike
Boland (who recently won a $10,000 event), Ronny Lee Hollingsworth, Mark
Stokes, Anthony Rushing, the racing Rickmans, Jim McDuffie, John L. Cliett
Tribute winner David Breazeale, 2005 track champion Tombo Callahan, Scott
Dedwylder, Roger Shirley, Clint Logan and Jerry Inmon.

And there's several other top-notch drivers from the region who are expected
to tow in for the show, led by Chris Wall of Holden, La. Wall, who makes his
living operating an alligator farm and is known in racing circles as the
'Intimigator,' is one of the area's hottest racers in 2006. He has 15
victories, four of which have come at Columbus - including a huge triumph in
the last national touring series event held at Columbus Speedway, on July
15.

EXTRA CASH:
* The Bullring locals and other racers will have some extra incentive in the
event. DIRT MotorSports has posted a $1,000 non-touring/local driver bonus,
with the money divided up by three competitors who are not currently ranked
in the top 20 of a national touring series and have never won a WoO LMS
event in the past. The first driver across the finish line who fits the
criteria will receive a $500 bonus, the second $300 and the third $200.

SUPER LATE MODEL RULES:
* The weight rule for this event will be 2,300 pounds with 1-pound per lap
burn off for all cars (regardless of motor combination). In addition, the
12" SUPR or MSCCS Spec Spoiler will be permitted for cars using spec engines
only; gas or alcohol will be allowed; and there will be an open tire rule.

WHAT THE WoO DRIVERS THINK:
* Billy Moyer on beginning the stretch run to the WoO LMS championship at a
track which he's more familiar with than some of his rivals in the points
race: "We're running on some tracks where those guys are gonna be strong at,
so it will be nice to get to Columbus first. We've been there several times
over the years and had some success. I know Columbus is a racy place, but I
don't know what chassis combination I'm gonna run there yet."

* Garrett Durrett of Simsboro, La., a WoO LMS Rookie of the Year contender
who is looking forward to the Columbus event because of its proximity to his
home and prior experience there: "Columbus should be a good track for us.
Most of the tracks we've gone to this year (on the WoO LMS) we've never seen
before, but Columbus is about five hours away from our shop so I've run
there about 12, maybe 15 times. That doesn't mean we'll have an advantage,
because the guys we race with are good enough and it won't take them long to
figure the track out, but it should help us."

* Clint Smith on what fans can expect from a race at Columbus: "They work on
the racetrack down there. That's one of the better racetracks we'll go to.
It'll be a gas-on, two- and three-wide racing, come-from-the-rear-and-win
type track. It won't be settled when qualifying is over. It's the kind of
place we all like going to because you can race on it."

STORYLINES:
* The WoO LMS points battle. With a prize of $120,000 going to the champion
- the largest single check any dirt Late Model driver in the country will
collect this year - the standings are razor-close. The top-five drivers are
separated by just 42 points, and seventh-place Rick Eckert is 88 points
behind.

* Will the WoO LMS drivers who have raced at Columbus Speedway in the past
have an advantage on those who will compete their for the first time on
Saturday?

* Can Eckert end his eight-race losing streak on the WoO LMS and challenge
Scott Bloomquist's DIRT MotorSports-era single-season win record of 10?

* Can Louisiana's Chris Wall beat the WoO LMS invaders, repeating his
victory in the last national touring series event held at Columbus Speedway
one month ago? In 25 events this season, only three non-series regulars have
won races - Earl Pearson Jr. of Jacksonville, Fla., Dick Barton of Ashville,
N.Y., and Brian Birkhofer of Muscatine, Iowa.

ON THE INTERNET: If fans can't get to a track to see the tour, they can
experience the excitement of the World of Outlaws Late Model Series live on
Dirtvision.com through the DIRT Radio Network.

To listen to the audio broadcasts, log on to www.dirtvision.com and click on
the DIRT Radio Network logo.

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2006 World of Outlaws Late Model Series Points Standings & Statistics -
after Aug. 15 (Pos.-Driver-Residence-Races Entered-Starts-Wins-Top 5's-Top
10's-Fast Times-Heat Wins-Dash Wins-B-Main Wins-Earnings-Points-Trail By):
1. Tim McCreadie/Watertown,NY 25-25-2-11-19-4-7-0-1-$82,600-3,430-0
2. Billy Moyer/Batesville,AR 25-25-2-12-21-2-9-2-2-$70,200-3,414-16
3. Darrell Lanigan/Union,KY 25-25-2-14-20-0-11-5-1-$71,900-3,410-20
4. Steve Francis/Ashland,KY 25-25-2-12-20-1-12-1-1-$85,600 -3,404-26
5. Shane Clanton/Locust Grove,GA 25-25-0-10-20-2-8-2-1-$53,800-3,388-42
6. Chub Frank/Bear Lake,PA 25-25-2-7-18-2-4-1-1-$65,700-3,358-72
7. Rick Eckert/York,PA 25-25-8-11-15-1-7-2-1-$103,800-3,342-88
8. Dale McDowell/Chickamauga,GA 25-25-0-7-16-1-4-1-0-$45,000-3,260-170
9. Clint Smith/Senoia,GA 25-24-4-8-15-0-4-4-3-$69,610-3,253-177
10. Josh Richards/Shinnston,WV 25-25-0-4-15-2-3-1-2-$38,600-3,196-234
11. Eddie Carrier Jr.R/Salt Rock,WV 24-23-0-1-2-0-1-0-2-$19,610-2,833-597
12. John Blankenship/Williamson,WV 25-21-0-1-6-0-1-0-3-$24,440-2,808-622
13. Eric JacobsenR/Santa Cruz,CA 25-21-0-0-2-0-0-0-1-$17,640-2,736-694
14. Garrett DurrettR/Simsboro,LA 25-21-0-0-1-0-0-0-4-$16,310-2,704-72
15. Mike Balzano/Parkersburg,WV 9-7-0-0-1-0-0-0-0-$6,220-998-2,432

World of Outlaws Late Model Series News & Notes: Wrapping Up The Farmer City
Raceway/Lake Ozark Speedway Doubleheader

NORMAN, OK - Aug. 18, 2006 -
HAPPY IN THE HEARTLAND: Count Billy Moyer as one driver who would like to
see more World of Outlaws Late Model Series events in the Midwest.

That's not merely because he got his groove back during the tour's
doubleheader at Farmer City (Ill.) Raceway (Aug. 14) and Lake Ozark Speedway
in Eldon, Mo., winning both 50-lap features to vault from fifth to second in
the points standings.

Racing in the Midwest obviously cuts down on the highway miles logged by
Moyer, who must haul his equipment 18 hours or more from his Batesville,
Ark., home to compete in events in such states as Maryland, Pennsylvania and
New York. His years chasing the grueling UMP Summernationals also give him
more laps at tracks in the area, including Farmer City, than he has at some
East Coast ovals on the WoO LMS.

And being a bit closer to home gives his family members a rare opportunity
to see him race. In attendance at Lake Ozark was Moyer's mother, who lives
in Nebraska, and his brother Greg.

"I didn't realize it had been so long until she told me, but I hadn't seen
my mother in 11 months," said Moyer, noting that some back problems have
prevented his mother from traveling. "And this was the first time my brother
Greg's seen us race all year."

Moyer paused, and then said of his brother with a chuckle, "He came over
because he has a house down here on the lake (nearby Lake of the Ozarks). He
lives like you're supposed to live."

But while Greg Moyer might not have the hectic racing lifestyle of his
brother, he's not one of the country's best dirt Late Model drivers. Billy
Moyer is - and after back-to-back wins he's right back in the battle for the
$120,000 WoO LMS points championship, which he knows would be a nice reward
for all the time he devotes to racing.

CREDIT WHERE IT'S DUE: WoO LMS points leader Tim McCreadie hailed the
Hammers, who promote Farmer City Raceway, for whipping up a great track
surface for the tour's visit.

"I give the Hammmers a lot of credit," McCreadie said after his second-place
finish in the feature. "I know them from a couple years ago at the Chili
Bowl (in Tulsa, Okla.) when they helped me out with my Midget. We talked a
little, and they believe what I do - if you do a lot of track prep, the
track will be racy.

"We were all worried that the track would rubber up tonight, but the last
two times we were here (before rain postponed the shows) Don (Hammer) told
me, 'Don't worry, we'll dig it up and have a good track for you guys.'

"He was right. You couldn't ask for a better racetrack then we had tonight."

DISAPPOINTING NIGHT: Perhaps the biggest cheer during the Farmer City
program went up for two-time UMP Summernationals champion Shannon Babb of
Moweaqua, Ill., who grew up racing at the quarter-mile oval.

It appeared the 32-year-old would really give the fans something to get
excited about when he took the lead from Steve Francis with an outside
charge in turn one on lap 14, but he never officially led a lap. A flat
right-rear tire moments later dive-bombed his effort.

"We had a good race car at the beginning, but then we ran over something and
got a flat," said Babb. "As soon as I got the lead, it just blowed out."

Babb returned after a quick pit stop, but "we didn't put our wheel-cover
back on," he said. "A few laps later I went into turn three and hit the
cushion, and that packed the wheel full of mud. Then it got to shaking, and
I couldn't run hard (he finished 11th)."

READY FOR A FINAL CHARGE: Steve Francis and Darrell Lanigan, who finished
third and fourth, respectively, in Lake Ozark's main, left the Midwest
prepared to make a push for the $120,000 WoO LMS title.

"We're just gonna keep doing exactly what we we've been doing," said
Francis, who sits fourth in the standings, 26 points behind McCreadie. "We
had a pretty good points week (with a pair of third-place finishes). We
haven't won one in awhile -- although we could've won a couple - but the
breaks haven't fallen our way.

"Hopefully we're due to catch some breaks. When everybody is so close, luck
plays a big part in it."

Lanigan, who fell from second to third in the points standings but is only
20 points behind McCreadie, is eyeing the championship.

"It's definitely getting tight," said Lanigan, who broke a four-link rod 10
laps into the Lake Ozark main but held on to finish fourth with some help
from the rubbered-up, one-lane track surface. "You got to think points if
you're going for the big picture. You go to every race wanting to win it,
but now you don't take any stupid chances - you don't gamble on tires, just
go with what everybody else does.

"The tracks coming up should be decent for us. They're bigger tracks, and I
usually run better on bigger tracks - although lately I've been getting top
fives on the bullrings too."

ETCETERA:

* Fourth-year dirt Late Model driver Brian Shirley of Chatham, Ill., had an
eventful swing with the WoO LMS.

Debuting a new Rayburn car at Farmer City, Shirley was swept up in Eddie
Carrier Jr.'s spin (he somehow avoided making contact with Carrier's car) in
his heat but rallied to run third before a broken oil line forced him to the
pits. Later, in the second B-Main, he was bidding for the final transfer
spot when a scrape with Kevin Weaver caused both drivers to spin in turn two
and miss the feature.

Shirley fared better at Lake Ozark, timing third-fastest, winning a heat and
finishing sixth in the 50-lap main.

* After finishing a season-high second in Lake Ozark's feature, Josh
Richards and his Rocket House Car team gave Shirley's car owner, Ed Petroff,
a ride back to his St. Louis-area home in their hauler. Kid Rocket and Co.
spent some time at Petroff's shop cleaning up and working on their car
before heading for the weekend's Jackson 100 at Brownstown (Ind.) Speedway.

* The only casualty of the Lake Ozark 50 was Dale McDowell, whose bad luck
on the '06 WoO LMS continued when a broken axle knocked him out of seventh
place on lap 46.

* WoO LMS regular Eric Jacobsen of Santa Cruz, Calif., enjoyed his best
outing of the 2006 tour at Farmer City, finishing a strong sixth. He missed
a top five by inches, getting edged out at the finish line by Dennis Erb Jr.
of Carpentersville, Ill.

"I was out there thinking, This is just like racing back home,'" said
Jacobsen. "I raced on a lot of small quarter-miles in California."

* Jacobsen wasn't the only Californian in the field at Lake Ozark. He was
joined by two other drivers from the Golden State: Zack Forster and Robert
Sanders, both of Bakersfield, Calif.

Partners in a company called West Coast Boring, Forster and Sanders race
regularly at California tracks such as Bakersfield and Santa Maria. Both are
new to the sport - Forster has about 20 career starts in a dirt Late Model,
and Sanders has eight - but they decided to take a "racing vacation" to the
Midwest. On their itinerary was Lake Ozark and the weekend's Topless 100 at
Batesville (Ark.) Speedway.

"We wanted to come race with the big boys," said Forster, who finished 16th
in the main.

* With a short field at Lake Ozark, three teams unloaded backup cars and
entered them with crewmen behind the wheel.

Clint Smith's second car was driven by his chief mechanic Johnny Cloer Jr.,
who races a dirt Late Model in the Southeast; Shane Clanton's backup was
steered by mechanic Shane Thompson, who competes in a Late Model Sportsman
in Alabama; and Shirley's second No. 3s was run by his crewman Craig Smith,
who races locally in Illinois.

Cloer had the best night, finishing ninth - two spots ahead of Smith.

* Centerview, Mo.'s Jason Bodenhamer was all smiles after finishing fifth in
the Lake Ozark 50.

"This is just our second time running with the Outlaws, so I'm tickled to
death," said Bodenhamer, a 31-year-old who has been racing dirt Late Models
for 15 years. "This is the best I've ever run in a big show like this, and
what makes it even better is our car owner, Warsaw Building Center, is from
the area."

* Another WoO LMS newcomer making a good showing during the swing was Wes
Steidinger, 23, of Fairbury, Ill., who recorded the second-fastest lap in
time trials and won a heat race at Farmer City.

"This is my first World of Outlaws race ever," said Steidinger, who drove
his father's Rayburn car to an 18th-place finish in the main after being
involved in a lap-31 tangle. "This is my fifth year in a Late Model and
we've been staying close to home. We're pretty pumped about how things have
gone tonight."

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Land Dispute Issue Forces Cancellation of Aug. 25 World of Outlaws Late
Model Series Event at Western Kentucky Speedway

NORMAN, OK - Aug. 17, 2006 - The World of Outlaws Late Model Series event
scheduled for Fri., Aug. 25, at Western Kentucky Speedway in Madisonville,
Ky., has been canceled by the track promoter, DIRT MotorSports officials
announced.

The cancellation came after Western Kentucky Speedway officials could not
resolve a land dispute issue.

The event will not be rescheduled this season.

"Everyone with DIRT MotorSports and the World of Outlaws Late Model Series
was excited to make a second visit to Western Kentucky Speedway this year,"
said Ben Geisler, DIRT MotorSports Executive VP of Operations. "But the
speedway unfortunately was forced to cancel the event because they
encountered a land dispute issue with respect to the area used for spectator
parking at high-profile events.

"Without the expanded parking area it would be impossible for Western
Kentucky Speedway officials to accommodate the large crowd expected for a
World of Outlaws Late Model Series event."

The WoO LMS visited Western Kentucky Speedway earlier this year, on June 16,
for a 50-lap event won by Rick Eckert of York, Pa.

Just five events remain in the red-hot 2006 WoO LMS points battle, beginning
on Sat., Aug. 26, with the 'Battle at the Bullring 50' at Columbus (Miss.)
Speedway.

Tim McCreadie of Watertown, N.Y., enters the Columbus event holding a slim
16-point lead over defending WoO LMS champion Billy Moyer of Batesville,
Ark. Darrell Lanigan of Union, Ky., is only 20 points behind McCreadie in
the tightly-contested standings, followed by Steve Francis of Ashland, Ky.
(26 points behind) and Shane Clanton of Locust Grove, Ga. (38 points back).

Back On Track: Moyer Sweeps World of Outlaws Late Model Series Midwest Swing
With Victory At Lake Ozark Speedway

ELDON, MO - Aug. 15, 2006 - Billy Moyer's summer slump is officially over.

And suddenly the defending World of Outlaws Late Model Series champion is
the hottest driver on the tour.

Moyer cemented his status with a victory in Tuesday night's Lake Ozark 50 at
Lake Ozark Speedway, giving him back-to-back triumphs after he had gone
winless in the first 23 events of the 2006 WoO LMS.

"We're not really doing a whole lot different," Moyer said of his hot
streak, which started with his first win of the season 24 hours earlier at
Farmer City (Ill.) Raceway. "It's just funny how things go in cycles. Back a
little bit Rick (Eckert) could do no wrong, and now it's our turn I guess."

Moyer, 48, of Batesville, Ark., started from the pole position and led from
flag-to-flag in the first-ever WoO LMS show at the three-year-old Lake Ozark
Speedway, where passing was at a premium all night. The three-eighths-mile
oval's surface developed a rubber-laden inside groove, forcing the field to
race in single-file formation.

Outside-polesitter Josh Richards of Shinnston, W.Va., chased Moyer for the
entire distance and finished second in his father's Rocket house car. Also
starting and finishing in the same positions were Steve Francis of Ashland,
Ky., in third, Darrell Lanigan of Union, Ky., in fourth and Jason Bodenhamer
of Centerview, Mo., in fifth (a career-best WoO LMS run for the 31-year-old
driver).

Moyer and his J&J Steel-sponsored team noticed that the track was "rubbering
up" while watching the preliminary UMP-type Modified feature.

"We were still up in the air about what tires to run at that point," said
Moyer, who drove a Pro Power Engines-equipped Rayburn car. "But we saw it
getting blacker during the Modified race, so we knew it was taking rubber.
We put on hard tires and just tried to stay in front."

The conditions also made Moyer realize the importance of his dash victory,
which earned him the pole for the main.

"For the first time this year I picked a front-row (starting) spot for the
dash," said Moyer, who made his first career start at Lake Ozark. "That draw
definitely helped me win the race. I was able to get around Josh (Richards)
on the outside to take the lead at the start and stayed there, and then we
were in the best spot for the feature."

Richards, 18, was able to close up on Moyer's rear bumper several times
during the race, which was run without interruption after a single caution
flag on lap four. But Moyer played the lapped traffic like the 30-year
veteran he is, keeping Richards at bay.

Following the race Richards, who flashed under the checkered flag 1.063
seconds behind Moyer, commented that his only chance of overtaking Moyer was
if the 30-year racing veteran slipped up the track - and he obviously didn't
think that would happen. Kid Rocket had to be satisfied with his best finish
of the season on the WoO LMS.

Moyer, meanwhile, gave the young Richards credit for not forcing the issue
when they reached lapped traffic.

"Josh did an excellent job," said Moyer, who earned $10,000 for his eighth
career DIRT MotorSports-era WoO LMS win. "He ran me as clean as I'd run him.
He didn't touch me the whole time.

"Some of these other guys from other series that we run against, when they
get up to your back bumper, you better be hanging on because they're gonna
boot you out of the way. But everybody here runs clean, like Josh did. You
can have some trust in them when you get into the lapped cars."

Moyer's triumph helped him creep back into the battle for the $120,000 WoO
LMS points title. He moved by Lanigan to sit second in the standings, 16
points behind Tim McCreadie of Watertown, N.Y., who finished seventh.

With five races remaining on the '06 WoO LMS schedule, Moyer thinks he's
regained his touch for the stretch run. The next tour event is Sat., Aug.
26, at Columbus (Miss.) Speedway.

"It's a shame we had to have some bad races to kick ourselves in the butt
and get going again," said Moyer, who entered the Farmer City/Lake Ozark
doubleheader reeling after four straight subpar outings. "My guys never give
up.it was all me. I wasn't doing something right on the car.

"I've been dirtier myself the last couple weeks -- dirtier than I've been
for awhile. I guess I'm the problem. My guys do whatever I ask them to do,
but I have to get under there and be more involved helping out I guess."

Chub Frank of Bear Lake, Pa., set fast time during the 24-car qualifying
session, turning a lap of 15.226 seconds.

Heat winners were Francis, Moyer and Brian Shirley of Chatham, Ill.

Results of WoO Late Model Series(Finishing Position/Start/Driver/Laps
Completed/Money Won): 1. (1) Billy Moyer/50 $10,000; 2. (2) Josh Richards/50
$6,000; 3. (3) Steve Francis/50 $3,500; 4. (4) Darrell Lanigan/50 $2,500; 5.
(5) Jason Bodenhamer/50 $2,200; 6. (6) Brian Shirley/50 $2,000; 7. (8) Tim
McCreadie/50 $1,800; 8. (9) Shane Clanton/50 $1,600; 9. (11) Johnny Cloer
Jr./50 $1,400; 10. (10) Chub Frank/50 $1,200; 11. (12) Clint Smith/50
$1,000; 12. (13) Eddie Carrier Jr./50 $900; 13. (14) Rick Eckert/50 $800;
14. (15) Garrett Durrett/50 $700; 15. (16) Eric Jacobsen/49 $700; 16. (23)
Zach Forster/49 $700; 17. (17) John Blankenship/49 $700; 18. (7) Dale
McDowell/45 $700; 19. (18) Reed Millard/45 $700; 20. (24) Robert Sanders/25
$700; 21. (19) Billy Moyer Jr./15 $700; 22. (20) Ed Dixon/12 $700; 23. (22)
Shane Thompson/3 $700; 24. (21) Craig Smith/3 $700.

Time of Race: 15 Mins., 38 Secs.
Margin of Victory: 1.063 Secs.
Yellow Flags: 1 (Lap 4)
Lap Leaders: Moyer (1-50)

Time Trial Results (Position/No./Driver/Hometown/Best Lap):
1. 1*-Chub Frank/Bear Lake, PA 15.226
2. 21-Billy Moyer/Batesville, AR 15.256
3. 3s-Brian Shirley/Chatham, IL 15.469
4. 15-Steve Francis/Ashland, KY 15.690
5. 41-Johnny Cloer Jr./Chatsworth, GA 15.725
6. 8K-Jason Bodenhamer/Centerview, MO 15.740
7. 29-Darrell Lanigan/Union, KY 15.749
8. 1-Josh Richards/Shinnston, WV 15.840
9. 44-Clint Smith/Senoia, GA 15.862
10. 28-Eddie Carrier Jr./Salt Rock, WV 15.906
11. 24-Rick Eckert/York, PA 15.967
12. 25-Shane Clanton/Locust Grove, GA 15.985
13. 17M-Dale McDowell/Chickamauga, GA 16.033
14. 39-Tim McCreadie/Watertown, NY 16.044
15. 3x-Craig Smith/Springfield, IL 16.113
16. 5-Eric Jacobsen/Santa Cruz, CA 16.131
17. 23-John Blankenship/Williamson, WV 16.151
18. 58c-Garrett Durrett/Simsboro, LA 16.225
19. 21jr-Billy Moyer Jr./Batesville, AR 16.516
20. 60-Ed Dixon/Washington, MO 16.540
21. 14-Reed Millard/Jefferson City, MO 16.585
22. 25x-Shane Thompson/Opalaka, AL 16.948
23. 1F-Zack Foster/Bakersfield, CA 17.037
24. Robert Sanders/Bakersfield, CA 18.194

Heat No. 1 (10 laps): Francis, Lanigan, McDowell, Frank, Carrier, Jacobsen,
Moyer Jr., Thompson.
Heat No. 2 (10 laps): Moyer, Richards, McCreadie, Cloer, Eckert,
Blankenship, Dixon, Forster.
Heat No. 3 (10 laps): Shirley, Bodenhamer, Clint Smith, Durrett, Millard,
Craig Smith, Sanders.
Dash (6 laps): Moyer, Richards, Francis, Lanigan, Bodenhamer, Shirley.

WoO Late Model Series Points Standings (after Aug. 15): 1. Tim McCreadie
3,430; 2. Billy Moyer 3,414; 3. Darrell Lanigan 3,410; 4. Steve Francis
3,404; 5. Shane Clanton 3,388; 6. Chub Frank 3,358; 7. Rick Eckert 3,342; 8.
Dale McDowell 3,260; 9. Clint Smith 3,253; 10. Josh Richards 3,196; 11.
Eddie Carrier Jr. 2,833; 12. John Blankenship 2,808; 13. Eric Jacobsen
2,736; 14. Garrett Durrett 2,704; 15. Mike Balzano 998.

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Moyer Ends World of Outlaws Late Model Series Victory Drought Monday At Farmer City

FARMER CITY, IL - Aug. 14, 2006 - The drought is over.

Billy Moyer's frustratingly long pursuit of a victory on the 2006 World of
Outlaws Late Model Series ended Monday night at Farmer City Raceway, where
the defending tour champion captured the Farmer City 50 to get in the win
column.

"We were tired of not winning," a relieved Moyer said after celebrating in
COESfx Victory Lane. "It feels good to finally get one of these shows."

Moyer, 48, of Batesville, Ark., came from the seventh starting spot and
outdueled Tim McCreadie of Watertown, N.Y., and Steve Francis of Ashland,
Ky., en route to the $10,000 triumph.

An inside pass of McCreadie for the lead on lap 33 was the deciding move for
Moyer, who raced away over the remaining distance to defeat McCreadie by a
full straightaway margin on the high-banked, quarter-mile oval.

The polesitting Francis, who led laps 1-2 and 9-30, settled for third place,
followed by ninth-starter Darrell Lanigan of Union, Ky., and UMP Late Model
standout Dennis Erb Jr. of Carpentersville, Ill., who paced laps 3-8 after
starting from the outside pole.

Moyer's seventh career WoO LMS victory turned around his mid-summer slump,
which reached its low point on Aug. 5 at Hagerstown (Md.) Speedway. Shock
problems that night left Moyer with a 16th-place finish and completed a
four-race free-fall that saw him tumble from first to fifth in the tour
points standings.

What got Moyer back on track?

"These guys who work for me never give up," said Moyer, who drove a Rayburn
car from his Billy Moyer Racing stable that he had raced earlier this year.
"They do whatever I ask them to do. They changed motors this morning, and
then we rescaled the car and put in a different chassis setup.

"You just keep working, keep digging, and eventually things start going your
way."

Indeed, at long last Moyer not only had a fast car, but caught the little
breaks necessary to put him over the top.

Moyer first benefited from the misfortune of Moweaqua, Ill.'s Shannon Babb,
the 2006 UMP Summernationals champion who drives a Rayburn car owned by
Moyer's father Billy Sr. Babb bolted around the outside of Francis in turn
one to take command of the field on lap 14, but seconds later he pulled up
lame in turn four with a cut right-rear tire, bringing out a caution flag
before he officially led a lap.

"I think Shannon would've been a factor tonight," conceded Moyer, who scored
his first WoO LMS win since Sept. 17, 2005, at I-55 Raceway in Pevely, Mo.

Moyer overtook Erb for second on the ensuing restart and quickly began to
pressure Francis for the lead. By lap 28 he was in a titanic three-way
battle for race supremacy, with McCreadie, who started 12th, joining in.

There was some intense racing for the lead before a caution flag flew for
Ryan Dauber's steaming car on lap 31, just after McCreadie nosed into the
top spot.

"We were running three-wide and I was just trying to hold my groove in the
middle," said Moyer. "That was some hard racing."

Moyer brought an end to the neck-and-neck competition following the the
race's third and final restart. He lurched ahead of McCreadie off turn two
on the 32nd lap and officially gained command for good when the 33rd circuit
was scored.

Seventeen laps later Moyer flashed under the checkered flag first, proving
that falling behind in the WoO LMS points race might not have been a bad
thing.

"You go back on offense rather than playing defense," said Moyer, who picked
up only four points on McCreadie but moved to third in the tour standings.
"Setup wise, now you just go for it and try to win races, like you're
supposed to race."

As the points leader entering Farmer City's show, McCreadie actually played
a little defense in hopes of staying in front - not against Moyer, but
rather Lanigan, the second-place man in points.

With the event run under UMP's two-compound 20/40 Hoosier tire rule,
McCreadie decided to mirror Lanigan's tire choice so his closest pursuer
wouldn't have a rubber advantage. His Sweeteners Plus crew made the switch
to Lanigan's tire literally minutes before the start of the feature,
changing it as McCreadie's car sat on the homestretch starting grid.

"Since Moyer fell out of the top three (in points), we were concentrating
tonight on who was going real good lately, and that's been Lanigan," said
McCreadie. "We knew he had 20s on, and we knew Moyer had a 40 and Babb had a
40. During the (pre-race) introductions we said, 'If we don't fire on this
40 and finish 12th, and Lanigan finishes fifth, it won't be good.'

"So we put the 20 on and tried to race Lanigan."

McCreadie, 32, was able to nose ahead of Moyer for the lead on lap 31, but
he didn't have enough to stay there.

"We had a softer right-rear on than Billy," said McCreadie. "I just think it
kinda gave out. We were hanging on at the end, but that's what I thought we
had to do to get to the front because we put ourselves behind in the heat.

"I really didn't think we'd get up that far. All of a sudden I was fighting
for the lead, and then I was wishing I had a 40 on.

"But we have no complaints" he added. "It was a great run for being off
early, and Moyer did a great job. He's too good not to win these races. He's
been due for a while, and unfortunately for us, he's probably gonna be going
good again."

Francis, meanwhile, might have lost his shot at winning for the first time
since May 5 at Bruschcreek Motorsports Complex in Peebles, Ohio, by making
one wrong move in lapped traffic on lap 30.

"I misjudged Little Billy (Moyer Jr.) when I went into the corner," said
Francis. "It wasn't anything Little Billy did wrong. I just made a mistake,
lost my momentum, and hung myself in that little slick spot off four. Then I
heard Timmy and Billy on the outside of me, and they got ahead of me at the
line.

"I was hoping to try getting them back in traffic the next lap, but then the
caution flag came out."

Forty-one cars entered the event, which was completed after the tour's two
earlier visits to the track this year were wiped out by bad weather.

Babb set fast time with a lap of 12.667 seconds.

Heat winners were Babb, Wes Steidinger of Fairbury, Ill., Francis and Erb.
John Blankenship of Williamson, W.Va., and Clint Smith of Senoia, Ga.,
captured the B-Mains, and Francis topped the pole dash.

The WoO LMS continues a two-night Midwest swing tonight (Tues., Aug. 15) at
Lake Ozark Speedway in Eldon, Mo.

Results of WoO Late Model Series(Finishing Position/Start/Driver/Laps
Completed/Money Won): 1. (7) Billy Moyer/50 $10,000; 2. (12) Tim
McCreadie/50 $6,000; 3. (1) Steve Francis/50 $3,500; 4. (9) Darrell
Lanigan/50 $2,500; 5. (2) Dennis Erb Jr./50 $2,200; 6. (8) Eric Jacobsen/50
$2,000; 7. (5) Josh Richards/50 $1,800; 8. (17) Shane Clanton/50 $1,600; 9.
(18) Clint Smith/50 $1,400; 10. (11) Rick Eckert/50 $1,200; 11. (3) Shannon
Babb/50 $1,000; 12. (14) Chub Frank/50 $900; 13. (21) Eric Smith/50 $1,800;
14. (13) Dale McDowell/50 $700; 15. (23) Garrett Durrett/50 $700; 16. (22)
Jason Feger/50 $700; 17. (20) Eddie Carrier Jr./50 $700; 18. (4) Wes
Steidinger/50 $700; 19. (17) John Blankenship/49 $700; 20. (19) Matt
Taylor/49 $700; 21. (26) Joe Harlan/48 $700; 22. (6) Steve Hillard/48 $700;
23. (24) Billy Moyer Jr./31 $700; 24. (10) Ryan Dauber/31 $700; 25. (16)
Junior Shickel/17 $700; 26. (25) Joe Ross Jr./13 $700.

Yellow Flags: 3 (Laps 15, 17, 31)
Lap Leaders: Francis (1-2); Erb (3-8); Francis (9-30); McCreadie (31-32);
Moyer (33-50).
Provisional Starters: Durrett, Moyer Jr., Ross, Harlan.
Time Trial Results (Position/No./Driver/Hometown/Best Lap):
1. 18-Shannon Babb/Moweaqua, IL 12.667
2. 1s-Wes Steidinger/Fairbury, IL 12.776
3. 15-Steve Francis/Ashland, KY 12.826
4. Z-Joe Harlan/El Paso, IL 12.868
5. 1-Josh Richards/Shinnston, WV 12.874
6. 34-Steve Hillard/Sadorus, IL 12.897
7. B12-Kevin Weaver/Gibson City, IL 12.948
8. 28E-Dennis Erb Jr./Carpentersville, IL 12.948
9. 9s-Eric Smith/Bloomington, IL 13.023
10. 1*-Chub Frank/Bear Lake, PA 13.036
11. 21-Billy Moyer/Batesville, AR 13.037
12. 39-Tim McCreadie/Watertown, NY 13.073
13. 29-Darrell Lanigan/Union, KY 13.117
14. 9-Billy Drake/Bloomington, IL 13.117
15. 44-Clint Smith/Senoia, GA 13.157
16. 5-Eric Jacobsen/Santa Cruz, CA 13.169
17. 17M-Dale McDowell/Chickamauga, GA 13.171
18. 64-Ryan Dauber/Tonica, IL 13.200
19. 24-Rick Eckert/York, PA 13.206
20. S10-Junior Shickel/Bloomington, IL 13.221
21. 117-Joe Ross Jr./Springfield, IL 13.243
22. 23-John Blankenship/Williamson, WV 13.248
23. 25-Shane Clanton/Locust Grove, GA 13.266
24. 3s-Brian Shirley/Chatham, IL 13.278
25. 58c-Garrett Durrett/Simsboro, LA 13.283
26. 1w-Donny Walden/Towanda, IL 13.287
27. 25F-Jason Feger/Bloomington, IL 13.287
28. 28-Eddie Carrier Jr./Salt Rock, WV 13.322
29. 3L-Matt Taylor/Springfield, IL 13.338
30. 88-Terry Babb/Decatur, IL 13.348
31. 89-Darren Friedman/Forrest, IL 13.374
32. F15-Jeremy Conaway/Springfield, IL 13.571
33. 21jr-Billy Moyer Jr./Batesville, AR 13.650
34. 99jr-Frank Heckenast Jr./Orland Park, IL 13.658
35. 35-Derek Chandler/Pontiac, IL 13.677
36. 22-Chris Dick/Deland, IL 13.859
37. 59-Chad Evans/Mattoon, IL 13.994
38. 27B-Tim Lance/Brimfield, IL 13.994
39. 13-Mike Fannin/LeRoy, IL 14.101
40. 5s-Steve Sheppard Jr./New Berlin, IL N/T
41. 1G-Rocky Griffin/Bloomington, IL N/T

Heat No. 1 (10 laps - Top 4 Transfer): S. Babb, Richards, Lanigan, McDowell,
Ross, Taylor, E. Smith, Moyer Jr., Durrett, Griffin, Evans.
Heat No. 2 (10 laps - Top 4 Transfer): Steidinger, Hillard, Dauber, Frank,
T. Babb, Blankenship, Walden, Heckenast, Lance, Drake.
Heat No. 3 (10 laps - Top 4 Transfer): Francis, Moyer, Eckert, Clanton, C.
Smith, Weaver, Feger, Friedman, Chandler, Fannin.
Heat No. 4 (10 laps - Top 4 Transfer): Erb, Jacobsen, McCreadie, Shickel,
Carrier, Harlan, Conaway, Dick, Shirley.
B-Main No. 1 (12 laps - Top 3 Transfer): Blankenship, Taylor, E. Smith,
Walden, Durrett, Heckenast, Moyer Jr., T. Babb, Evans, Griffin, Lance, Ross
(DNS) Drake.
B-Main No. 2 (12 laps - Top 3 Transfer): C. Smith, Carrier, Feger, Friedman,
Dick, Chandler, Weaver, Conaway, Fannin, Harlan, Shirley (DNS) Sheppard.
Dash (4 laps): Francis, Erb, S. Babb, Steidinger.
WoO Late Model Series Points Standings (after Aug. 14): 1. Tim McCreadie
3,294; 2. Darrell Lanigan 3,268; 3. Billy Moyer 3,264; 4. Steve Francis
3,260; 5. Shane Clanton 3,254; 6. Chub Frank 3,228; 7. Rick Eckert 3,218; 8.
Dale McDowell 3,146; 9. Clint Smith 3,125; 10. Josh Richards 3,050; 11.
Eddie Carrier Jr. 2,707; 12. John Blankenship 2,692; 13. Eric Jacobsen
2,616; 14. Garrett Durrett 2,582; 15. Mike Balzano 998.

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Defending His Turf: Steve Sheppard Jr. Overtakes Frye To Win MARS 40 On Tri-City Speedway Quarter-Mile

PONTOON BEACH, IL – Aug. 13, 2006 – The hometrack advantage paid off for Steve Sheppard Jr.
Proving he knows the fast way around Tri-City Speedway’s inner quarter-mile oval, the defending track champion made a stirring late-race charge to capture Sunday night’s 40-lap Mid-America Racing Series (MARS) feature.
Sheppard, 31, of New Berlin, Ill., reached Victory Lane in dramatic fashion, passing three-time MARS titlist Bill Frye for the lead on the 38th lap and then beating Frye to the finish line by barely a car’s length.
Defending MARS champ Terry Phillips of Springfield, Mo., finished third, followed by UMP national points leader Randy Korte of Highland, Ill., and Jeff Taylor of Cave City, Ark., who started fourth but restarted at the rear of the field after two early spins.
“I feel like I’ve got how to drive this place really figured out,” summed up Sheppard, smiling broadly after registering his first career triumph on DIRT MotorSports’ MARS tour. “I’ve learned how to get around the bottom (groove).
“Everybody else kind of slides in there (the corners), but I keep it straight and drive it like it’s asphalt.”
Sheppard, who started 10th in his father’s Pro Power-equipped Rayburn No. 5s, took off after the event’s halfway point. He made his presence known on lap 26, when he glided by Korte and Phillips in one powerful inside sweep to reach second place.
The track surface had finally come to Sheppard.
“You have to have patience here, wait for the bottom to come in,” said Sheppard. “I was good in the middle at first, but you can always feel the middle at this place starting to go away because it gets crumbly. Then you know it’s time to get to the (infield) tires.”
And according to Sheppard, to make that inside groove work, “you gotta graze those tires with the front clip.”
Which is what Sheppard did to pass Frye, who had led the entire distance from the pole position.
After Billy James of Sikeston, Mo., slowed on lap 36 to bring out the race’s seventh and final caution flag, Sheppard was deposited directly on Frye’s rear bumper for the restart. He chased Frye for two circuits before ducking underneath the veteran racer between turns one and two on the 38th lap and emerging as the leader on the backstretch.
“Billy Frye was there (running the bottom),” said Sheppard, who was several car lengths behind Frye in lapped traffic when the final caution flag came out. “But he let ‘er slip up just a little bit and I got a run on him.”
Sheppard was thrilled inside his cockpit when he passed Frye, but he was also a bit surprised.
“Honestly, I didn’t think I’d pull it off after the yellow (flag),” said Sheppard, who has been driving dirt Late Models for just over a decade. “I knew we were pretty good, but Frye’s one of the best in the business.”
The 45-year-old Frye made a rare slip, however, and it left him a runner-up in MARS competition for the second consecutive night. He finished second to Brian Shirley of Chatham, Ill., on Saturday night at I-55 Raceway in Pevely, Mo.
“I was too loose and just kinda hanging on at the end,” said Frye, who made his first career start on Tri-City’s quarter-mile oval after many appearances over the years on its trademark half-mile. “Then I got in the corner just a touch hot, slid off the bottom and gave (Sheppard) a good line.
“I think I was still good enough to get back around him on the top, but I waited a lap (to try it) and then it was over. He won, and he did a good job.”
Sheppard’s win was worth $3,000, making it the richest triumph of his racing career.
“I’ve won $2,000 shows, but I’ve never won a $3,000 race until tonight,” said Sheppard, who has competed in all but a handful of Tri-City’s Sunday-night events on the quarter-mile this season. “I won $4,000 one time at Highland (Ill.), but that was for finishing second to (Shannon) Babb.”
Phillips came from the eighth starting spot to finish a solid third in his GRT mount, but he couldn’t keep pace with Sheppard and Frye after the lap-36 restart.
“I tried a different setup I ain’t run in 10 years, and it wasn’t bad,” said Phillips. “But I needed to get the car just a little freer.
“(Sheppard’s) car was free and could turn. Everybody else was pushing.”
Korte also was a bit off the leaders’ pace at the end of the race, thanks largely to a tire problem.
“Our right-rear tire got all chewed up on the right-side edge and we can’t quite figure out why it did that,” said Korte, who advanced from the sixth starting spot to challenge Frye for the lead early in the distance before losing a couple positions. “It’s almost like something cut it.
“When I started running the outside of Bill (Frye) I was good, then all of a sudden I was hanging on and trying to get a good finish.”
Taylor, meanwhile, authored a memorable drive through the field in his No. 5T. An unusual steering problem caused him to slide off the track in turn three on lap two and spin in the second turn one lap later.
“We put a piece of lead on the front end of the car (to add weight),” explained Taylor. “But we haven’t been anywhere where we back-steer as much as you do at this place. When I steered hard to the right (to slide), the steering locked solid against that lead, and off (the track) I went. It was just, Hang on.
“I took a chill pill after the second time it happened. I got back close to the front, but I was a fourth- or fifth-place car because I couldn’t drive it the way I needed to.”
Thirty-eight cars entered the event, which used the passing-points system to line up the top-16 positions in the feature.
Heat winners were Justin Wells, Michael Kloos, Taylor and Bryan Collins, and Rodney Melvin and Jason Bodenhammer captured the B-Mains.
Frye ended the two-race MARS weekend holding a 42-point lead over Phillips.
MARS returns to action with a tripleheader weekend Aug. 25-27 – Friday night at Boliver (Mo.) Motor Speedway, Saturday at Missouri’s Lebanon I-44 Speedway and Sunday back at Tri-City Speedway (half-mile oval) for a MARS/UMP Clash event.

MARS Feature Finish (40 laps): 1. Steve Sheppard Jr., 2. Bill Frye, 3. Terry Phillips, 4. Randy Korte, 5. Jeff Taylor, 6. Steve Rushin, 7. Jeff Floyd, 8. Dane Dacus, 9. Michael Kloos, 10. Rodney Melvin, 11. Joey Mack, 12. Al Purkey, 13. Mark Voight, 14. Will Vaught, 15. Billy James, 16. Bryan Collins, 17. Jayme Zidar, 18. Justin Wells, 19. Craig Smith, 20. Frank Heckenast Jr., 21. Brandon McCormick, 22. Jason Bodenhammer.
DNQ: Jordan Jones, Billy Laycock, Billy Moyer, Billy Moyer Jr., Scott Bell, Mike Hammerly, Rylan Dagg, Tim Manville, Vince Grondzki, Rusty Griffaw, Chris Smyser, Dustin Korte, Len Garson, Joe Desch, Mike Bryant, Brad White.

Unofficial MARS Points Standings (after Aug. 13): 1. Bill Frye 1,161; 2. Terry Phillips 1,119; 3. Jeff Taylor 1,045; 4. Steve Rushin 943; 5. Billy James 911; 6. Will Vaught 878; 7. Jeff Floyd 874; 8. Justin Wells 846; 9. Joey Mack 811; 10. Dane Dacus 744; 11. Jordan Jones 666; 12. Brandon McCormick 641; 13. Wendell Wallace 623; 14. Leslie Essary 532; 15. Chris Smyser 486.

Brian Shirley’s I-55 Raceway Hot Streak Continues In MARS/UMP Clash

PEVELY, MO – Aug. 12, 2006 – Brian Shirley continued his summer hot-streak at I-55 Raceway on Saturday night, scoring a flag-to-flag victory in the 40-lap Mid-America Racing Series/United Midwestern Promoters Clash.
Winless in 2006 until July 15, the Chatham, Ill., driver captured his fourth straight Saturday-night show at the high-banked, three-eighths-mile oval.
And this was undoubtedly Shirley’s most important triumph. It brought the 25-year-old a cool $5,000 check, and he registered his first career win on DIRT MotorSports’ MARS tour.
“Unfortunately for half the season I didn’t have any luck,” said Shirley, who is in his fourth year as a dirt Late Model driver. “We were struggling real bad, but we regrouped and now we’re back to some winning ways.”
Shirley mastered the special event, leading the entire distance after starting from the outside pole. He passed polesitter Randy Korte of Highland, Ill., for the top spot at the initial green flag and never looked back.
Three-time MARS champion Bill Frye of Greenbriar, Ark., challenged Shirley throughout the race’s second half, but he settled for second place, about three car lengths behind at the finish.
Billy Faust of Lebanon, Ill., held off 2005 World of Outlaws Late Model Series champion Billy Moyer of Batesville, Ark., to finish third, and Dane Dacus of Arlington, Tenn., came from the 19th starting spot to complete the top five.
A fast start was the key for Shirley, who drove a one-month-old Rocket car co-owned by Ed Petroff and Jayco Construction.
“For the first part of the race my car just stuck like glue in the middle of the racetrack,” said Shirley, whose machine was equipped with a Pro Power engine. “It was awesome. It was like driving on a rollercoaster around the corners – it just stuck.
“That put me in the lead, and then I did what I had to do.”
That meant staying snug to the concrete wall that lines the inside of I-55 Raceway’s turns.
“One of my guys was signaling me to stay on the bottom,” said Shirley. “Honestly, I didn’t feel that good on the bottom. I felt better rolling through the middle, but I stayed on the bottom.
“I figured, If Frye was gonna pass me, he was gonna have to do it on the top.”
Frye, who entered the event leading the MARS points standings by eight markers over fellow three-time tour champ Terry Phillips of Springfield, Mo., moved from the ninth starting spot to second in just nine laps, but he couldn’t climb any higher.
”We freed the car up just a little,” said the 45-year-old Frye, who drove a GRT car. “We also had a wheel seal out on the right side (of the car’s) rearend, and it was throwing oil all over the tires. That might’ve hurt me.
“But I really can’t complain. Brian drove a good race, and we had a good run.”
Shirley, who survived some anxious moments in lapped traffic during the final circuits, felt that winning in his first MARS start of the season cemented the fact that’s he’s back on track.
”Last year we won the (UMP) Summer Nationals finale at Oakshade (Ohio in July) and ran good at the end of year,” said Shirley. “It’s taken us awhile this year, but we showed people we’re still a force to be reckoned with. We just had to get all our ducks in a row.”
About a half-straightaway behind the lead pair at the finish was Faust, who enjoyed his best MARS finish of the season.
“I think I was a little bit too tight through the holes (to keep pace with the leaders),” said Faust, who started 12th. “Whenever I’d hit a rut, I’d push real bad. It seemed like those guys (Shirley and Frye) could roll through ‘em better without upsetting their cars a whole lot.”
Holding off the late-race bids of a dirt Late Model legend like Moyer, who started seventh, made the 25-year-old Faust’s outing even sweeter.
“It’s definitely a good feeling anytime you can run with guys like him,” said Faust. “He probably considers fourth an off night, but when you can beat him on his off night, it’s still a good night for us.”
Moyer, who entered the event to get a feel for his new Rayburn car in advance of upcoming WoO LMS shows at Farmer City (Ill.) Raceway (Aug. 14) and Lake Ozark Speedway in Eldon, Mo. (Aug. 15), felt fortunate to record a top-five finish on a very difficult oval.
“This track is a nightmare to drive,” said Mmoyer. “I don’t think you can make the car feel comfortable. There’s tacky spots and slick spots and rough spots. You feel like a pig on ice.”
Three caution flags slowed the race – on lap four for Bryan Collins’s turn-four spin; lap eight for the slowing Justin Wells; and lap 15 for Steve Rushin’s off-the-pace car.
A 36-car field participated in the event, which used the passing-points system to set the feature’s top-16 starters.
Heat winners were Michael Kloos, Shirley, Korte and Jeff Taylor, and Matt Taylor and Jeff Johns topped the B-Mains.
Frye, seeking his first MARS title since 2003, extended his points lead to 36 markers over Phillips.
Phillips used a provisional to get into the feature after crushing the nose of his car in a heat-race tangle on the homestretch. After his crew put a new nosepiece on his No. 75 and fixed a bent tie-rod, Phillips salvaged his night with a 10th-place finish in the main.
The MARS tour heads to Tri-City Speedway in Pontoon Beach, Ill., on Sunday night (Aug. 13) for a $3,000-to-win event on the facility’s inner quarter-mile oval.

MARS/UMP Clash Feature Finish (40 laps): 1. Brian Shirley, 2. Bill Frye, 3. Billy Faust, 4. Billy Moyer, 5. Dane Dacus, 6. Jeff Taylor, 7. Will Vaught, 8. Tim Ratajczyk, 9. Matt Taylor, 10. Terry Phillips, 11. Michael Kloos, 12. Randy Korte, 13. Bryan Collins, 14. Jeff Floyd, 15. Billy James, 16. Jeff Johns, 17. Justin Wells, 18. Kyle Steffens, 19. Joey Mack, 20. Frank Heckenast Jr., 21. Danny Haynes, 22. Steve Sheppard, 23. Steve Rushin, 24. Don Klein.
DNQ: Brandon McCormick, Steve Shive, Mark Oller, Rick Whaley, Jordan Jones, Paul Belken, Richard Lawson, Ron McQuerry, Tim Manville, Mark Hunter, Jeremy Conaway, Billy Moyer Jr.

Defending Champ Billy Moyer Now Faces Uphill Battle In World of Outlaws Late
Model Series Points Race

NORMAN, OK - Aug. 10, 2006 - In the wake of a weekend he could only label
"pretty bad," Billy Moyer finds himself in unusual territory on the World of
Outlaws Late Model Series.

No longer is Moyer the hunted on the tour. Now he's the hunter.

The defending WoO LMS champion tumbled from first to fifth in the points
standings following subpar outings last weekend at Lernerville Speedway in
Sarver, Pa., and Hagerstown (Md.) Speedway, ending his month-long run atop
the rankings.

But despite the precipitous drop, Moyer hasn't hit the panic button.

"I think it might be better to have to come back," said Moyer, who trails
leader Tim McCreadie of Watertown, N.Y., by 34 points with eight events
remaining on the 2006 schedule. "We've been trying to protect, protect,
protect (the points lead), just play defense for the last month or whatever.
But when you're behind, all you can do is go for it.

"Now we'll go for it, and probably the results will be better I bet."

Moyer, 48, of Batesville, Ark., assumed the WoO LMS points lead after the
July 1 event at Stateline Speedway in Busti, N.Y. He remained there for six
races before relinquishing the position to McCreadie after the Aug. 4 show
at Lernerville, where he finished one lap behind in 15th place largely
because a mid-race scrape poked a hole in his car's nosepiece and caused
torturous handling problems.

The following night's Conococheague 50 at Hagerstown was even more
frustrating for Moyer, who was hampered by suspension woes throughout the
feature and finished a dismal 16th. His car's left-front shock disengaged
once and right-rear-rear shock came off twice.

"I thought (Lernerville and Hagerstown) would've been good for us," Moyer
dejectedly said after Hagerstown's action. "We've run good at Lernerville
just about every time we've been there, and we've had success at Hagerstown.

"But we had a lot of problems. We're just in a bad slump right now."

Indeed, since finishing fifth on July 25 at Missouri's Lebanon I-44
Speedway, Moyer has just one top-10 finish in his last four starts on the
WoO LMS - a dramatic departure from his sparkling performance record over
the season's first 19 events. Entering the Heartland Nationals on July 28-29
at Deer Creek Speedway in Spring Valley, Minn., Moyer was winless but had 10
top-five and 18 top-10 finishes, and he was the only driver who had
completed all 950 laps of competition to that point.

Moyer's momentum was dulled at Deer Creek. He finished 16th (losing a lap
for the first time in 2006) in the opening-night event and managed just a
quiet seventh-place run in the second 50-lapper.

Then came the forgettable Lernerville/Hagerstown trip that has left Moyer
and his BMR team searching for answers to right their listless ship.

"I think we were a little conservative on setups (while leading the
points)," said Moyer, analyzing his slump. "We've also made some mistakes on
tires (compound selections) that we shouldn't of.

"Actually, tires have been a lot of our problem all year. With how long
we've been doing this, we shouldn't make the mistakes we make on tires all
the time."

Moyer's struggles led him to debut a brand-new Rayburn car at Hagerstown. It
sports a decidedly different rear suspension than the Rayburn mount he's
been running all season, however, so that adds a learning curve for even one
of dirt Late Model racing's alltime greats.

"This year I've just been staying with one car I'm accustomed to - a
swing-arm car," said Moyer. "I know it's not the best car to have at a lot
of places, but it's what I've felt more comfortable running.

"We have to find something to get better, though, so we dragged this (new
car) out (at Hagerstown) and it's a whole different deal. It's more similar
to these four-link suspensions that a lot of guys are running. I've run 'em
before, but everything's changed so much (with the combination) in the last
few years and I just haven't stayed on top of it.

"I just have to learn it all," he added, "and to learn (while racing) with
this bunch is a pretty tough feat."

In that vein, Moyer left Hagerstown with plans to "get home, get regrouped,
and see if we can get where we need to be." His focus: gear up for the
mid-week WoO LMS events at Farmer City (Ill.) Speedway (Aug. 14) and Lake
Ozark Speedway in Eldon, Mo. (Aug. 15) in hopes of launching a late-season
push to repeat as the tour's champion.

Moyer's desire to get back on track is evidenced by his racing schedule this
weekend. He scrapped plans to compete in the North/South 100 at Florence
Speedway in Union, Ky. - a $50,000-to-win event that will draw most of the
WoO LMS regulars - in favor of racing closer to home.

Moyer will stay under the DIRT MotorSports banner and enter the company's
MARS/UMP Clash events on Friday (Aug. 11) at Paducah (Ky.) International
Raceway and Saturday (Aug. 12) at I-55 Raceway in Pevely, Mo.

"We've been traveling so much, I don't feel like going all the way back out
for the North/South," said Moyer, who had a 1,000-mile haul back to Arkansas
following the Hagerstown program. "And we're trying to get used to this new
car, so we can use the two (MARS/UMP) shows as a test session to learn some
things."

Moyer, a legendary short-track racer with over 700 career wins, knows that
buckling down and finding the root of his struggles is the way to get back
to the top of the WoO LMS points standings.

"The guy who works the hardest usually gets the job done," said Moyer. "I've
always been a believer in that. You can get on these rolls where
everything's going right and you run good for awhile, but if you're gonna
consistently be good, it's just a lot of work."

World of Outlaws Late Model Series At A Glance: Farmer City & Lake Ozark
NORMAN, OK - Aug. 9, 2006 -

WHAT:
The World of Outlaws Late Model Series begins its stretch run to the
championship with a mid-week Midwestern doubleheader at Farmer City (Ill.)
Raceway and Lake Ozark Speedway in Eldon, Mo. Just six feature event will
remain on the 2006 schedule after this critical swing - the last scheduled
shows at different tracks on successive nights.

WHEN:
* On Mon., Aug. 14, the WoO LMS makes a third attempt to run the
$10,000-to-win 'Farmer City 50' at the fast fairgrounds quarter-mile oval.
The tour's previous visits to Farmer City Raceway this year were stopped by
wet weather - shortly before hot laps were set to begin on May 12, and after
practice sessions were completed on July 26.

Pit gates will open at 3 p.m. and spectator gates at 5 p.m. Warmups are
scheduled to begin at 6:30 p.m. and time trials at 7 p.m.

* The WoO LMS makes its first-ever appearance at Lake Ozark Speedway on
Tues., Aug. 15, to compete in the 'Lake Ozark 50' paying $10,000 to win. The
pit gates are scheduled to open at 4 p.m. CT and spectator gates will open
at 5 p.m., with hot laps starting at 6:30 p.m. and time trials set for 7
p.m. The track's box office window will open at 11 a.m. so fans can purchase
tickets before the gates open.

WHERE:
* Farmer City Raceway is located midway between Bloomington/Normal and
Champaign/Urbana. To get to the track, take I-74 to exit 159, then go 0.6
miles south on State Route 54, then 0.7 miles west on U.S. Route 150. The
speedway is located at the DeWitt County Fairgrounds.

* Lake Ozark Speedway is a three-year-old, one-third-mile track located near
the popular Lake of the Ozarks resort area. Take U.S. 54 to SR 52, then go
0.1 mile east, then 0.5 mile north on Twiggy Lane (frontage road).

TICKETS:
* At Farmer City, fans and racers holding rainchecks from May 12 or July 26
can present them for admission on Aug. 14. General admission ticket prices
on race day will be $25 for adults and $10 for students (ages 7-15), with
children ages 6 and under free of charge. Pit admission will be $35.

Fans and competitors holding rainchecks from the postponed events at Farmer
City who are unable to return on Aug. 14 can receive a full refund by
sending their tickets or pit wristbands to DIRT MotorSports, 3600 W. Main
St., Suite 150, Norman, OK, 73072.

* Reserved seats (top 10 rows of the grandstand) are available for the Lake
Ozark 50 at a cost of $30. General admission is $28, and children under 12
will receive free general admission. Pit passes will be $35.

PREVIOUS WINNERS:
* Neither Farmer City Raceway nor Lake Ozark Speedway has hosted a WoO LMS
event in the past.

INFORMATION:
* For more info on the Farmer City 50, visit www.farmercityraceway.net.

* Additional information on the Lake Ozark 50 can be obtained by visiting
www.lakeozarkspeedway.com or calling 573-302-4499.

WHAT THE WoO DRIVERS THINK:
* Tim McCreadie of Watertown, N.Y., who leads the WoO LMS points standings,
on his impressions of Farmer City Raceway after hot-lapping there on July
26: "I think if they can keep it that wet, then it's probably gonna be a
good little racetrack. Usually the smaller the track is, the better the
racing is, but the size of the track doesn't matter to me -- I just like
good, racy tracks, and if the tracks are prepared right, they're all fun."

* McCreadie on making three trips to Farmer City this year due to the
weather: "It's a little frustrating to drive all the way out there for a
third time, but that's what we do. If the promoters want to have us, we have
to come. If we get the fan turnout like there was gonna be the last time we
were there, then everybody will happy."

* Josh Richards of Shinnston, W.Va., the 2005 WoO LMS Rookie of the Year and
a featured driver on last month's "Dirt Track Warriors" dirt Late Model
documentary that was broadcast nationally on CNN, on racing at Farmer City:
"It's a lot different than what we're used to. We learned some things in the
hot laps we ran there (on July 26), so we're gonna be back there with a
different suspension package than we had for warm-ups before it rained. I
worked on another car for four days last week getting it ready."

* Richards on the challenge of visiting Lake Ozark Speedway for the first
time: "I just like going out to different tracks; it's just more of a
learning curve. I enjoy going to a new track, because usually I run better
at a racetrack when I go to it for the first time than I do at some I've
already been to."

STORYLINES:
* Can defending WoO LMS champion Billy Moyer of Batesville, Ark., get back
on track after falling from first in the standings to fifth after last
weekend's events at Lernerville Speedway in Sarver, Pa., and Hagerstown
(Md.) Speedway?

* Will Rick Eckert of York, Pa., draw closer to Scott Bloomquist's WoO LMS
single-season win record set in 2004? Eckert has eight victories in '06, but
he's winless since July 8 at Sharon Speedway in Hartford, Ohio (a span of
six races).

* Can Clint Smith of Senoia, Ga., remain the hottest driver on the WoO LMS?
He's captured two of the last four events and has four victories overall
this season.

EXTRA CASH:
DIRT MotorSports has posted a $1,000 non-touring/local driver bonus for
Monday's Farmer City event. The cash will be divided up by three competitors
who are not currently ranked in the top 20 of a national touring series and
have never won a WoO LMS event in the past. The first driver across the
finish line who fits the criteria will receive a $500 bonus, the second $300
and the third $200.

NOTABLE:
* Farmer City Raceway's WoO LMS event will will be co-sanctioned by the
United Midwestern Promoters (UMP) Late Model Series, which is also owned by
DIRT MotorSports. As a result, UMP's tire rule -- Hoosier LM M20 or M40
compound 11" x 88", 90" or 92" tires -- will be utilized, and UMP points
will be awarded. UMP Modifieds will also be on the program, racing for
$1,000 to win.

Several dirt Late Model standouts who competed in last month's UMP
Summernationals were among the 40 drivers on hand for the doomed July 26
event and are expected to return on Monday, including UMP Summernationals
champion Shannon Babb of Moweaqua, Ill., Dennis Erb Jr. of Carpentersville,
Ill., Darren Miller of Milledgeville, Ill., Brian Shirley of Springfield,
Ill., and Billy Drake of Bloomington, Ill.

ON THE INTERNET: If fans can't get to a track to see the tour, they can
experience the excitement of the World of Outlaws Late Model Series live on
Dirtvision.com through the DIRT Radio Network.

To listen to the audio broadcasts, log on to www.dirtvision.com and click on
the DIRT Radio Network logo.

Listeners will need Windows Media Player 9 or higher to listen to the DIRT
Radio Network. For technical support or questions, e-mail
webmaster@dirtvision.com.

2006 World of Outlaws Late Model Series Points Standings (after 8-5-06) and
Statistical Update (Pos.-Driver-Residence-Races Entered-Feature
Starts-Wins-Top 5's-Top 10's-Fast Times-Heat Wins-Dash Wins-B'
Wins-Earnings-Points-Trail By):
1. Tim McCreadie/Watertown,NY 23-23-2-10-17-4-7-0-1-$74,800-3,148-0
2. Darrell Lanigan/Union,KY 23-23-2-12-18-0-11-5-1-$66,900-3,126-22
3. Shane Clanton/Locust Grove,GA 23-23-0-10-18-2-8-2-1-$50,600-3,120-28
4. Steve Francis/Ashland,KY 23-23-2-10-18-1-10-0-1-$78,600-3,116-32
5. Billy Moyer/Batesville,AR 23-23-0-10-19-2-8-1-2-$50,200-3,114-34
6. Chub Frank/Bear Lake,PA 23-23-2-7-17-1-4-1-1-$63,600-3,102-46
7. Rick Eckert/York,PA 23-23-8-11-14-1-7-2-1-$101,800-3,088-60
8. Dale McDowell/Chickamauga,GA 23-23-0-7-16-1-4-1-0-$43,600-3,024-124
9. Clint Smith/Senoia,GA 23-22-4-8-14-0-4-4-2-$67,210-2,993-155
10. Josh Richards/Shinnston,WV 23-23-0-3-13-2-3-1-2-$30,800-2,914-234
11. Eddie Carrier Jr.R/Salt Rock,WV 22-21-0-1-2-0-1-0-2-$18,010-2,591-557
12. John Blankenship/Williamson,WV 23-19-0-1-6-0-1-0-2-$23,040-2,580-568
13. Eric JacobsenR/Santa Cruz,CA 23-19-0-0-1-0-0-0-1-$14,940-2,478-670
14. Garrett DurrettR-Simsboro,LA 23-19-0-0-1-0-0-0-4-$14,910-2,462-688
15. Mike Balzano/Parkersburg,WV 9-7-0-0-1-0-0-0-0-$6,220-998-2,150

World of Outlaws Late Model Series Makes First-Ever Visit To Lake Ozark
Speedway On Tues., Aug. 15

ELDON, MO - Aug. 6, 2006 - Ask Lake Ozark Speedway general manager Ed Franko
about the major dirt Late Model event his track will host on Tues., Aug. 15,
and you'll get an emotional response.

"The World of Outlaws!" Franko practically shouted when he began talking
about the Lake Ozark 50 a few days ago. "The big boys are coming to Lake
Ozark Speedway, and everyone's excited."

The outgoing Franko is looking forward to the midweek special, which will
feature the first-ever visit to the three-year-old track by the World of
Outlaws Late Model Series.

"This is the biggest dirt Late Model show we've ever had here," said Franko,
pointing to the night's $10,000 top prize and $50,000-plus total purse. "We
had the World of Outlaws Sprints in for a race last year, but we haven't had
a really big show for the dirt Late Models until now."

All of the WoO LMS travelers will be in the same boat after they sign in on
Aug. 15: it will be their first appearances at the three-year-old track
located in central Missouri.

Franko is confident that the tour's regulars will be impressed when they
arrive at Lake Ozark Speedway, a modern facility owned by former racer
Howard Schrock. Schrock previously owned and operated Capital Speedway, near
Jefferson City, Mo., but encroaching civilization led to its closing and
prompted Schrock to build Lake Ozark Speedway from the ground up.

What Schrock produced is a Midwest dirt-track showplace. Lake Ozark Speedway
boasts a wide, semi-banked racing surface; Musco lights; a 5,000-seat
grandstand; a lighted pit area; a 20-position scoreboard; a complete bar in
the spectator area; and clean restrooms.

The track is also nestled near the Lake of the Ozarks, one of the Midwest's
most popular resort destinations.

"We definitely have a good clay surface," Franko said of the Lake Ozark
layout, "and we want to keep a little moisture in it so there will be a fast
racetrack for (the Outlaws). If we do that, there should be plenty of
three-wide racing - hopefully even some four-wide."

While the track does not run Super Late Models weekly as part of its
Saturday-night shows, the speedway has hosted two events this season for
DIRT MotorSports' Mid-America Racing Series (MARS) and both were successful.
Arkansas driver Jeff Taylor bested a 28-car field on hand for a July 8 meet,
and Wendell Wallace of Batesville, Ark., who toured with the WoO LMS for
part of the 2004 season, topped the 33-car gathering on Aug. 5.

The WoO LMS will tow to Lake Ozark after competing on Mon., Aug. 14, at
Farmer City (Ill.) Raceway. With just six WoO LMS events remaining in the
2006 season after the Lake Ozark 50, the race is sure to play a key role in
the titanic battle for the $120,000 tour points title.

Tim McCreadie of Watertown, N.Y., leads the WoO LMS points standings by 22
points over Darrell Lanigan of Union, Ky., entering the Farmer City/Lake
Ozark doubleheader. Also within 60 points of McCreadie are Shane Clanton of
Locust Grove, Ga., Steve Francis of Ashland, Ky., defending champion Billy
Moyer of Batesville, Ark., Chub Frank of Bear Lake, Pa., and Rick Eckert of
York, Pa.

Reserved seats (top 10 rows of the grandstand) are available for the Lake
Ozark 50 at a cost of $30. General admission is $28, and children under 12
will receive free general admission. Pit passes will be $35.

The pit gates to Lake Ozark Speedway are scheduled to open at 4 p.m. CT on
Tues., Aug. 15. Spectator gates will open at 5 p.m., with hot laps starting
at 6:30 p.m. and time trials set for 7 p.m.

Franko said fans will be able to purchase tickets on Tuesday beginning at 11
a.m., when the box office window opens for business.

For more information visit www.lakeozarkspeedway.com or call 573-302-4499.

Lernerville Speedway & Hagerstown Speedway: World of Outlaws Late Model
Series News & Notes

NORMAN, OK - Aug. 6, 2006 -
A REAL THRILLER: Friday night's 'Summer Showdown in Sarver Town 50' at
Lernerville Speedway in Sarver, Pa., earned rave reviews from all corners.

And deservingly so. After all, any race with multiple lead changes
(officially there were six among five drivers, but there were countless
others around the track), intense side-by-side racing, interesting subplots
and a dramatic finish isn't easily forgotten.

"That was one of the top five best races I've ever seen," declared SPEED
television pit reporter Mark Kenyon, a former Northeast big-block Modified
driver who chronicled the event for broadcast on Sun., Sept. 24, at 6 p.m.
ET. "It had everything you could ask for."

"There was so much three-wide racing out there," said Barry Lenhart, a
photographer for several media outlets including Area Auto Racing News,
"sometimes I didn't know what to shoot."

The show's very strong crowd - the biggest turnout of the season at
Lernerville, according to track co-manager Gary Risch Jr. - also showed its
appreciation for the action. There was a buzz in the air as fans departed
the stands after giving winner Tim McCreadie a huge ovation.

TOUGH LOSS: Almost 24 hours after his crushing final-turn spin at
Lernerville, Rick Eckert stood in his trailer at Hagerstown Speedway and
calmly discussed how he went from challenging McCreadie for the win to a
19th-place finish in the blink of an eye.

"That last lap, I beat him through (turns) one and two and then he came back
across the track and we made a little contact," recalled Eckert, who packed
up and left Lernerville without commenting. "That really hurt him because I
was able to get a little farther up on him, but I knew I needed just a
little more (distance) than I had if I was gonna beat him back to the
flagstand.

"Then I just ran in there (turns three and four), caught that hump on the
inside, and turned myself around. I tried to stand on the throttle, but it
spun to the infield and stuck on that bank, and I was done."

What was going through Eckert's mind as he helplessly watched car after car
flash by him?

"A lot of steam," he quipped. "You just sit there thinking, 'You're an
idiot.'"

The spin didn't merely cost Eckert at least $5,300 - the difference between
a $6,000 runner-up finish and the $700 he received for 19th. He also took a
major hit in the WoO LMS points standings; a second-place run would have put
him second in the standings (24 points behind McCreadie), but instead he
left Lernerville sitting sixth (58 points in arrears).

"Either way, it's a big loss," said Eckert - but he wouldn't have been more
conservative if he had the lap to race over again. "I could've easily sat
there and run second, but I had a good enough car to win. And if I would've
run second, then I would've wondered if I could've won. So I tried to win."

Eckert didn't get his pursuit of the WoO LMS championship back on track at
Hagerstown. He was never a factor en route to a 12th-place finish in the
Conococheague 50, dropping him to seventh in the points standings, 60
markers behind McCreadie.

THANKFUL: Steve Francis, who ended up with a second-place finish at
Lernerville as a result of Eckert's spin, gave Eckert credit for not trying
a saving maneuver that could have caused a multi-car wreck.

"You hate to see the kind of deal that happened to Rick on the last lap. He
was just trying to win the race," said Francis. "It's just so slick out
there, and he missed his mark maybe a foot that lap. That's all it takes.

"After he went into that slide for life, rather than risk wrecking somebody
else, he just turned himself around and took his beating. You gotta respect
a guy for that. He could've gassed up and drove right into my door, but he
didn't."

R-E-S-P-E-C-T: During a post-race press conference in Lernerville's tower
following his victory, McCreadie talked glowingly about racing for the win
with Eckert.

"There's not many guys anywhere in the country that will be courteous enough
to race you like that," said McCreadie. "We travel down the road and race
together probably 70 times a year, and there's nobody I respect more than
him.

"That's all that was - respect. He probably could have tailed down in there
and done some of the things some of these other guys would've done, and it
might've wrecked both of us, but he didn't."

The type of battle he had with Eckert is a big reason McCreadie tours with
the WoO LMS.

"I think sometimes we race each other harder than guys we don't race with a
lot," said McCreadie. "Rick and I touched more than once the last three,
four laps; the last lap in one and two, we touched pretty good. But respect
is why he didn't knock me into the fence off of four.

"There's a lot of guys who weren't here tonight who would've had no problem
knocking you through the fence. But we respect each other, and I think it
makes for better racing. That's why our organization is first-class."

SHORT BID: If good deeds are rewarded by the racing Gods, then Darrell
Lanigan should've been in line for a great finish in Lernerville's
50-lapper.

Before the start of the night's action, Lanigan played the role of WoO LMS
good guy. He boarded the track's "Kids' Club" bus during its tour of the pit
area and gave all the children inside it a Matchbox-type replica of his dirt
Late Model.

But come feature time, Lanigan was a contender for only two laps. After he
led the first couple of circuits, contact with Francis between turns three
and four flattened his car's left-rear tire and broke its left-front
A-frame. He continued racing after a pit stop but could no longer get up to
speed.

Francis analyzed the incident during the post-race media session: "We
bounced off each other -- we both kinda went for the same piece of property
at the same time. Darrell didn't know I was there, and I actually thought he
had committed to the top. When he come back down it was too late for me to
avoid him.

"We talked about it under red (flag conditions on lap 24)," added Francis.
"Darrell's a professional. We all race each other hard, there's gonna be
tire marks, but we're not gonna take each other out."

FIRST TIME: The lap-24 stoppage at Lernerville was caused by 18-year-old
Josh Richards, whose Rocket Chassis House Car hopped the turn-three cushion
and then barrel-rolled twice off the track surface.

"We were racing hard," said Richards, who was in a battle for fifth with
McCreadie at the time. "I didn't realize the cushion was that far out there,
and my right rear just got over it. Once it got over it, it just started
flipping.

"It got up in the air, and I was like, Holy cow, I can't believe I'm
flipping!"

Richards, who experienced the first roll-over of his young racing career,
wasn't injured. He said his car, which he debuted on July 8 at Sharon
Speedway in Hartford, Ohio, didn't appear to be seriously damaged, but it
was stripped down on Saturday so its frame could be checked Monday morning
on a Rocket jig.

ANOTHER HIGH-FLYER: WoO LMS Rookie of the Year contender Eric Jacobsen was
the first driver who earned air-time at Lernerville. The Californian
executed a series of flips during the second heat that was virtually
identical to Richards's.

"I got in (to turn three) too hot and got my right rear over the cushion,"
said Jacobsen, who failed to qualify after rolling out his backup car. "The
frame rail dug in, and I was flipping."

Jacobsen, who also flipped earlier this season during a WoO LMS event at
Volusia Speedway Park in Barberville, Fla., wasn't injured. But he reported
that his Rocket car, which had only a handful of races on it, was "KO'd"
with significant rear frame damage.

PLENTY OF POWER: There's a reason Clint Smith has arguably become the WoO
LMS's hottest driver over the past two weeks.

"We got our motor program straightened out," Smith declared after his
Saturday-night triumph at Hagerstown. "We've been struggling with motors.
We've been experimenting, experimenting, and finally we figured out what the
problem was. We made a couple camshaft changes - went wrong way one time -
and now everything's good.

"We've had a good enough car to win four races in a row."

The engine Smith used last weekend was a newly-designed piece built by
RaceTek of Dalton, Ga. It provided so much power at Hagerstown, "I could
slow way down in the corners, catch that little bit of traction, and leave
hard," said Smith. "Other guys had to try to carry corner speed, and I
didn't have to do that.

"This is actually a motor Dale McDowell had been running this year and
having trouble with, so the motor man's been working on it," he added. "The
motor belongs to RaceTek, and Dale's gonna get it back next week. Then I'll
start the learning process with the next one because Dale's up there more in
the points chase."

Smith is bullish on the engine combo RaceTek has developed.

"I got five more motors," he said, "and all five are at the motor shop
getting changed over right now so they'll be like this one."

ETCETERA.
* A miserable weekend dropped defending WoO LMS champion Billy Moyer from
the points lead to fifth in the standings, 34 points behind McCreadie.

At Lernerville, Moyer was already struggling at mid-pack when a lap-27
scrape cost him several positions. It also punched a hole in his car's
nosepiece, causing aerodynamic problems on the straightaways that hampered
his handling and left him with a 15th-place finish.

On Saturday, Moyer timed well behind the wheel of a new Rayburn car and
started fifth in the feature. But shock problems shortly before the halfway
mark caused his machine's suspension to drop down as he ran inside the top
10. A lap-29 pit stop didn't help Moyer, who finished 16th.

* WoO LMS Rookie of the Year points leader Eddie Carrier Jr. had to park his
primary car at Hagerstown due to mechanical trouble that developed during
heat action. He used a provisional to start the main and finished 21st.

* Garrett Durrett debuted a new Rocket car last weekend in hopes of making a
push to overtake Carrier for WoO LMS RoY honors. He didn't make the cut at
Lernerville and finished 17th at Hagerstown.

* Gary Risch Jr., who co-manages Lernerville Speedway for DIRT MotorSports
with his father Gary Sr., hit the road following Friday night's program with
his family's DIRT big-block Modified team. He had Saturday night's Advance
Auto Parts Super DIRT Series event at Eldora Speedway in Rossburg, Ohio, on
his schedule.

Risch has largely put his DIRT Modified driving career on hold this year to
operate Lernerville, but he couldn't pass up a trip to Eldora. It was his
sixth competitive start of the season.

* WoO LMS standout Chub Frank and western Pennsy dirt Late Model racers Dave
Hess Jr. and Matt Lux pulled double-duty on Friday night at Lernerville,
racing UMP Modifieds on the program's undercard.

Frank, who drove as a teammate to Russ Dunn, was running in the top five of
the UMP Modified feature when a flat tire forced him to the pits. Hess and
Lux had better outings, finishing second and third, respectively, to top off
their superb evenings.

Hess, a 22-year-old from Waterford, Pa., who has given a good account of
himself in limited WoO LMS appearances this season, registered his first
career fast-time award with the tour, won a heat race and led 15 laps of the
feature. He raised plenty of eyebrows with his early battle for the lead
with Francis, but a slip high on a lap-32 restart cost him several spots and
he settled for a ninth-place finish.

Lux, of Franklin, Pa., recorded a career-best finish with the WoO LMS,
advancing from the 10th starting spot to place fifth.

* Clint Smith is the only WoO LMS regular who campaigns a GRT chassis, so
his circle of friends for technical feedback at most events is usually
small.

But at Hagerstown Smith had the assistance of Winchester, Va.'s Ronnie
DeHaven Jr., a track regular who runs a GRT car.

"Me and DeHaven talk at least twice a week," said Smith, "so I knew what I
needed when I got here."

* Former DIRT Modified driver G.R. Smith, a native of Folsom, N.J., who has
relocated to Mooresville, N.C., with his Premier Motorsports dirt Late Model
team, entered Saturday's program at Hagerstown. He was in the area to attend
a wedding Friday night in Rehobeth Beach, Del.

Smith, 25, has been learning the dirt Late Model trade this season by
competing at tracks in the Carolinas. His first year in the division has
been highlighted by four feature wins.

An assault on the 2007 WoO LMS Rookie of the Year award is possible for
Smith, who will soon decide his plans for next season.

Smith had a short night on Saturday. A heat-race tangle with Marvin Winters
heavily damaged the rearend of his car, sidelining him for the remainder of
the show.

* Could Unadilla, N.Y.'s Billy Decker be another DIRT Modified driver who
becomes a WoO LMS regular in 2007?

Decker didn't rule out the possibility during his visit to Lernerville on
Friday night with John Wight's Gypsum Wholesalers team. He said he'd like to
run a dirt Late Model more so he can improve his performance - and he
acknowledged the tour's weekend-heavy sked would fit his work schedule at
the family lumber mill - but he hasn't yet settled on his plans for next
season.

* Western Pennsy veteran Todd Andrews entered both events with a brand-new
Rocket machine. A 13th-place finish at Hagerstown was his highlight.

* Solid Pennsy racer Jeremy Miller and car owner Charles Buckler raced with
the WoO LMS for the weekend. They had little success, finishing 21st at
Lernerville and 24th at Hagerstown.

Miller thought he'd have to watch Hagerstown's feature after a faulty fuel
regulator knocked him out of the second B-Main, but he got a chance to
compete thanks to a WoO LMS points provisional.

* Western Pennsy veteran Lynn Geisler, whose son Ben is the DIRT MotorSports
EVP of Operations, needed a provisional to get in Lernerville's feature. The
track's current points leader - he's chasing his first title since 1994 -
had his hopes of transferring through a B-Main dashed when he was nearly
shoved off the racetrack early in the event.

* There was a unique sponsor gracing the bodywork of Imperial, Pa., driver
Mike Johnson's dirt Late Model at Lernerville: Angry Fish Wrestling Club.

Johnson, a 33-year-old who coaches the wrestling team at West Allegheny
(Pa.) High School, explained that AFWC is a free-style Greco-Roman wrestling
club. "I send a lot of my kids to it for experience during the summer," said
Johnson, who missed qualifying for Friday's feature by two spots in the
first B-Main.

* Hagerstown legend Nathan Durboraw appeared headed to a B-Main victory on
Saturday night when an apparent blown head-gasket forced him to park his No. 41.

Clint Smith Finds The Fast Groove, Rolls To Victory In World of Outlaws Late
Model Series Conococheague 50 At Hagerstown Speedway

HAGERSTOWN, MD - Aug. 5, 2006 - Clint Smith's drive to a blow-out,
flag-to-flag victory in Saturday night's World of Outlaws Late Model event
at Hagerstown Speedway was ruined by Darrell Lanigan.

But that doesn't mean Lanigan was able to stop Smith from capturing the
half-mile oval's 25th Anniversary Conococheague 50.

Smith, 41, of Senoia, Ga., lost the lead on lap 35 when Union, Ky.'s Lanigan
discovered the fast middle groove, but he quickly recovered. The driver
known as 'Cat Daddy' used that same lane to reclaim the top spot from
Lanigan on lap 39 and marched away over the remaining distance to continue
his mid-summer surge on the WoO LMS.

The $10,000 triumph was Smith's second in the last four tour events. He has
four overall wins this year - only Rick Eckert of York, Pa., with eight, has
more - but his other victories came in the season's first four events.

"I was panicking for a minute there after Lanigan passed me," said Smith,
who had dominated the action from the race's initial green flag after
starting on the pole position. "I thought he was better and was gonna check
out on me."

Smith was actually just unaware that the prime line around the track had
changed. He quickly realized that and made the proper adjustment to regain
command from Lanigan, who couldn't match Smith's speed and ultimately
settled for second place, 2.271 seconds behind.

Lanigan snared the runner-up spot just yards from the finish line after Chub
Frank of Bear Lake, Pa., who had passed Lanigan for second on lap 45, slowed
with mechanical trouble exiting turn four. The powerless Frank coasted under
the checkered flag in third place, with 12th-starter Shane Clanton of Locust
Grove, Ga., taking fourth and fast-timer Dale McDowell of Chickamauga, Ga.,
finishing fifth.

Smith felt fortunate that Lanigan made a move early enough for him to come
back in a race that was slowed by just a single caution flag, on lap 29 when
Seaford, Del.'s Ricky Elliott slowed with a broken driveshaft while running
sixth.

"I was running right down on the bottom in the traction, but toward the end
it quit and that's why Lanigan drove by on the outside," said Smith. "I
thought I was in trouble if I had to get off of the bottom where I'd been
all night, but when I went up there it got back to pulling and I had enough
to get back by him.

"I just didn't know to move out there because we were out front so long."

While Smith roared away to a quarter-straightaway edge with alacrity after
overtaking Lanigan's Rocket No. 29, the final laps were still difficult. He
had to deal with plenty of slower cars, causing his GRT No. 44 to lose its
handling characteristics.

"The lapped cars were messing up the air real bad," said Smith, who co-owns
his J.P. Drilling-baked team with Jerry Passmore. "This place has a lot of
straightaway speed, so there's a lot of air moving around and that makes it
terrible.

"You lose all your front tire grip because you don't get air on the nose (of
the car). When there were three (lapped cars) racing three-wide, you come
off the corner behind them and your front end just floats away from them.
It's hard to pass like that."

Nevertheless, Smith handled the situation better than Frank, who had hoped
to mount a last-ditch challenge after sliding by Lanigan.

"(Smith) was definitely better in the open, so (lapped) traffic was my only
chance of winning the race," said Frank, who started eighth and came on
during the race's second half. "But he got through it better than I did."

Frank's inability to catch Smith became a moot point when his car slowed off
turn four on the final lap.

"The main wire that juices up all the switches in the ignition came out of
the harness and the car shut off," said Frank, who drove his Lester Builders
Rocket No. 1*. "I just kicked it out of gear and coasted, hoping it would
make it (to the finish line)."

Smith was blissfully ignorant of Frank's problems as he secured his sixth
career victory on the WoO LMS.

After making another appearance in COESfx Victory Lane, Smith made no bones
about the reason for his recent performance upswing, including a win on July
29 at Deer Creek Speedway in Spring Valley, Minn.

"New motors," asserted Smith. "We got some new design RaceTek motors and
they are on the money. They're better than anything we've ever had."

What's different about the powerplants?

"I know what it is," he said with a smile, "but I ain't gonna say."

Smith is enjoying his success, which has his finances looking better.

"It helps the bank account," he said of winning twice in a week. "You can
finish top 10 and pay the bills, but if you're gonna make any for a rainy
day you better win some. This gets you a little bit ahead."

Smith won at Hagerstown for the first time in his career, adding even more
luster to his evening.

"This local crowd here is so strong, like (Gary) Stuhler and (Nathan)
Durboraw and those guys, so to come up here and really just have our way
tonight -- it was really a good win," said Smith, whose best previous finish
at the track was third. "Really, the racetrack was more suitable for what I
do - ride around the bottom in the traction.

"And we were ready to come this time. We had more motor than we ever had for
a show here."

PRELIMINARIES: McDowell bagged his first fast-time honor of the season after
turning a quick lap of 19.630 seconds during qualifying for the 47 cars on
hand.

Heat winners were McDowell, Lanigan, Steve Francis of Ashland, Ky., and
Smith. Tim McCreadie of Watertown, N.Y., and Josh Richards of Shinnston,
W.Va., captured the B-Mains, and Smith topped the pole dash.

POINTS BATTLE: McCreadie finished a quiet 11th after making the wrong tire
selection, but he maintained his WoO LMS points lead. He left Hagerstown
with a 22-point edge on Lanigan, who improved one position to second.

Billy Moyer of Batesville, Ark., started the night ranked second in the
points standings, but suspension problems forced him to pit during the
lap-29 caution period and cost him a lap in the late stages. He finished
16th and tumbled to fifth in the standings, 34 markers behind McCreadie.

Clanton (28 points behind McCreadie) moved to third in the standings and
sixth-place finisher Francis ended the night fifth (32 points back).

Results of WoO Late Model Series(Finishing Position/Start/Driver/Laps
Completed/Money Won): 1. (1) Clint Smith/50 $10,000; 2. (2) Darrell
Lanigan/50 $6,000; 3. (8) Chub Frank/50 $3,500; 4. (12) Shane Clanton/50
$2,500; 5. (3) Dale McDowell/50 $2,200; 6. (4) Steve Francis/50 $2,000; 7.
(18) Josh Richards/50 $1,800; 8. (10) Bo Feathers/50 $1,600; 9. (11) Gary
Stuhler/50 $1,400; 10. (15) J.T.Spence/50 $1,200; 11. (17) Tim McCreadie/50
$1,000; 12. (7) Rick Eckert $900; 13. (14) Todd Andrews/50 $800; 14. (19)
Alan Sagi/50 $700; 15. (9) Dan Stone/50 $700; 16. (5) Billy Moyer/49 $700;
17. (16) Garrett Durrett/49 $700; 18. (20) John Blankenship/49 $700; 19.
(13) Eric Jacobsen/49 $700; 20. (21) Booper Bare/48 $700; 21. (23) Eddie
Carrier Jr./48 $700; 22. (25) Ronnie DeHaven Jr./48 $700; 23. (6) Ricky
Elliott/29 $700; 24. (24) Jeremy Miller/28 $700; 25. (22) Roy Deese Jr./14
$700.

Time of Race: 24 Mins., 36.882 Secs.
Margin of Victory: 2.271 Secs.
Yellow Flags: 1 (Lap 29)
Lap Leaders: Smith (1-34); Lanigan (35-38); Smith (39-50).
Provisional Starters: Carrier, J. Miller, DeHaven.

Time Trial Results (Position/No./Driver/Hometown/Best Lap):
1. 17m-Dale McDowell/Chickamauga, GA 19.630
2. 00-Bo Feathers/Winchester, VA 19.993
3. 15-Steve Francis/Ashland,KY 20.003
4. 44-Clint Smith/Senoia, GA 20.042
5. 5-Eric Jacobsen/Santa Cruz, CA 20.069
6. 29-Darrell Lanigan/Union, KY 10.084
7. 24-Rick Eckert/York, PA 20.221
8. 1*-Chub Frank/Bear Lake, PA 20.249
9. 21-Billy Moyer/Batesville, AR 20.263
10. 41-Nathan Durboraw/Hagerstown, MD 20.265
11. 90-Gary Stuhler/Greencastle, PA 20.299
12. RG3-Bob Salathe/Bedford, PA 20.301
13. 39-Tim McCreadie/Watertown, NY 20.333
14. 42-Todd Andrews/Eldred, PA 20.350
15. 23-John Blankenship/Williamson, WV 20.370
16. 24m-Jeremy Miller/Littlestown, PA 20.402
17. 7NY-Alan Sagi/Hagerstown, MD 20.406
18. 1D-Ronnie DeHaven Jr./Winchester, VA 20.422
19. 05-Roy Deese Jr./Laurel, MD 20.443
20. 1-Josh Richards/Shinnston, WV 20.481
21. 00-Booper Bare/Rockbridge Baths, VA 20.514
22. 91-Ricky Elliott/Seaford, DE 20.517
23. 28-Eddie Carrier Jr./Salt Rock, WV 20.531
24. 6-Petey Ivey/Union, SC 20.537
25. 21d-Dan Stone/Thompson, PA 20.543
26. 6s-Donnie Schick/Middleburg, PA 20.592
27. 1w-Billy Wampler/York Haven, PA 20.605
28. 22-G.R. Smith/Folsom, NJ 20.608
29. 7h-Daryl Hills/Great Mills, MD 20.612
30. B2-Brian Booze/Marion, PA 20.625
31. 25a-Andy Anderson/Martinsburg, WV 20.633
32. 25-Shane Clanton/Locust Grove, GA 20.738
33. 71-Brent Smith/Mercersburg, PA 20.840
34. 47-Richard Jarvis Jr./Ocean Pines, MD 20.885
35. 11-Anthony Rushing/Kosciusko, MS 20.910
36. 151-Marvin Winters/McConnellsburg, PA 20.935
37. 7-Paul Crowl/Upperco, MD 20.961
38. 215-Al Shawver Jr./Hampstead, MD 20.989
39. 91s-J.T. Spence/Winchester, VA 21.018
40. 58c-Garrett Durrett/Simsboro, LA 21.089
41. NO7-Jason Dupont/Lewis Run, PA 21.236
42. 18-Rick Hulson/Glen Burnie, MD 21.451
43. 17-Wayne Johnson/Hancock, MD 21.676
44. 7-Dustin Hoffman/McAlisterville, PA 21.928
45. F1-Coleby Frye/Dover, PA 22.215
46. 23p-Bud Phillips/Susquehanna, PA 22.772
47. 9-Frankie Plessinger/Hagerstown, MD N/T

Heat No. 1 (10 laps - Top 4 Transfer): McDowell, Moyer, Stone, Jacobsen,
Sagi, McCreadie, Bare, B. Smith, Crowl, Frye, Hills, Dupont.

Heat No. 2 (10 laps - Top 4 Transfer): Lanigan, Elliott, Feathers, Andrews,
Durboraw, DeHaven, Shawver, Jarvis, Hulson, Booze, Phillips, Schick.

Heat No. 3 (10 laps - Top 4 Transfer): Francis, Eckert, Stuhler, Spence,
Blankenship, Deese, Rushing, Johnson, Wampler, Carrier, Anderson.

Heat No. 4 (10 laps - Top 4 Transfer): C. Smith, Frank, Clanton, Durrett,
Richards, Miller, Ivey, Salathe, Hoffman, G.R. Smith, Winters.

B-Main No. 1 (12 laps - Top 3 Transfer): McCreadie, Sagi, Bare, DeHaven,
Jarvis, Crowl, Schick, Booze, Hills, Dupont, Shawver, Phillips, Hulson,
Durboraw, B. Smith, Frye.

B-Main No. 2 (12 laps - Top 3 Transfer): Richards, Blankenship, Deese,
Salathe, Wampler, Carrier, Rushing, Anderson, Ivey, Johnson, Hoffman, Miller
(DNS) G.R. Smith, Winters.

Dash (4 laps): C. Smith, Lanigan, McDowell, Francis.

WoO Late Model Series Points Standings (after Aug. 5): 1. Tim McCreadie
3,148; 2. Darrell Lanigan 3,126; 3. Shane Clanton 3,120; 4. Steve Francis
3,116; 5. Billy Moyer 3,114; 6. Chub Frank 3,102; 7. Rick Eckert 3,088; 8.
Dale McDowell 3,024; 9. Clint Smith 2,993; 10. Josh Richards 2,914; 11.
Eddie Carrier Jr. 2,591; 12. John Blankenship 2,580; 13. Eric Jacobsen
2,478; 14. Garrett Durrett 2,462; 15. Mike Balzano 998; 16. (tie) Ricky
Elliott 953; 16. (tie) Brady Smith 953; 18. Jimmy Mars 932; 19. Billy Decker
901; 20. Brian Birkhofer 877.

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McCreadie Drives Backup Car To Stirring Victory In World of Outlaws Late
Model Series 50 At Lernerville Speedway

SARVER, PA - Aug. 4, 2006 - Tim McCreadie of Watertown, N.Y., earned every
cent of his $10,000 victory in Friday night's World of Outlaws Late Model
Series 'Summer Showdown in Sarver Town 50' at Lernerville Speedway.

From his smooth transition to a backup car early in the program to his
frenetic battle with Rick Eckert of York, Pa., in the closing stages,
McCreadie cleared all obstacles to triumph in an event that featured enough
twists and turns to keep the banner crowd buzzing long after the checkered
flag.

"Nothing came easy tonight," McCreadie said after his second WoO LMS win of
the season. "But nothing ever does on this series."

McCreadie, 32, wasn't headed after taking the lead when Chub Frank of Beak
Lake, Pa., slowed on lap 32 with a flat right-front tire, but his 10th
career win on the nation's premier dirt Late Model tour wasn't secure until
Eckert's last-ditch bid on the final lap was short-circuited by a crushing
spin in turn four.

Steve Francis of Ashland, Ky., avoided Eckert's spun car to finish second,
1.554 seconds behind McCreadie. Dale McDowell of Chickamauga, Ga., placed
third after starting 23rd, and locals Alex Ferree of Saxonburg, Pa., and
Matt Lux of Franklin, Pa., completed the top five with career-best WoO LMS
finishes.

McCreadie's memorable performance came behind the wheel of a Carl
Myers-owned Sweeteners Plus Rocket car that was rolled out of the team's
hauler just before the night's qualifying heats began. He started the
evening racing the No. 39 he campaigned in a majority of his July
appearances, but engine problems with the machine during time trials
prompted him to press his backup into duty.

"We put a fresh motor in it (for Friday's show) but it was just terrible,"
McCreadie said of his primary mount. "So we parked it after time trials. If
you don't have your program in order, there's no use struggling."

Though McCreadie jumped into a car that had barely been touched by his crew
since he ran it on July 29 at Deer Creek Speedway in Spring Valley, Minn.,
he made a strong advance from the rear of his heat race to grab the fourth
transfer spot.

Then he turned up the wick in the main.

McCreadie cracked the top five on lap 24, when he had a close call that he
didn't even know about. Just as he slid ahead of Shinnston, W.Va.'s Josh
Richards for fifth place in turn three, a red flag came out - for Richards,
who escaped injury after his car jumped the cushion and barrel-rolled twice
off the racing surface.

"I didn't slide him," said McCreadie, disputing suggestions that he might
have forced Richards over the bank. "I stayed in the middle. We didn't even
touch. I looked at my car, and there's no marks on it.

"I didn't even know what red flag was for. Lo and behold, it was (Richards).
I was shocked he was the guy who was upside down."

McCreadie surged into the lead on lap 32, after passing Francis for second
on the backstretch and blasting by Frank's slowing Lester Builders No. 1*
off turn four moments later.

Frank, a two-time WoO LMS winner at Lernerville, had come from the seventh
starting spot to snare the lead from Francis on lap 25, but the untimely
flat dive-bombed his effort.

"I must have run over something on the racetrack," mourned Frank, who
rallied to salvage a sixth-place finish. "It had been going down for awhile;
I was waiting for people to pass me four laps before it went flat. I could
smell the right-front smoking when I'd go in the turn.

"It was good," he added when asked about his car's setup, which was accented
by his use of the discontinued Hoosier 35-compound tires that he has
stockpiled to use on slick tracks like Lernerville. "It was a perfect track
for (the 35s)."

McCreadie appeared to be home-free following the restart for Frank's
misfortune. He built a solid advantage until a final caution flag flew on
lap 40 for Bart Hartman of Zanesville, Ohio, who ran in the top five early
before slipping backward and finally sliding off the track in turn two.

Eckert, who started 12th, restarted in second place and immediately put
pressure on McCreadie.

"I got real nervous," said McCreadie. "I didn't see anybody beside me for 10
laps, then we go restart and all of a sudden Rick comes from third to almost
by me in one and two.

"I don't where he was before the yellow came out. I didn't slow down (after
the restart); I charged like I was. It was just amazing how well his car
fired."

On lap 41 Eckert actually got his Rave Vest-owned Rocket ahead of McCreadie
with an inside move in turn two, but McCreadie made a quick recovery.

"Fortunately he didn't stick that one time on the bottom to get all the way
clear," said McCreadie. "I was able to cut back left (on the backstretch)
and get back in front of him before getting to three."

Eckert kept the heat on McCreadie over the remaining circuits, diving to the
inside through the corners and repeatedly pulling even. But McCreadie used
the extreme outside lane to stay ahead each lap, sometimes by mere inches.

"If Rick came off two and had me by half a car on the backstretch, it was
gonna be him going to the top into three," said McCreadie. "So I had to stay
on the cushion to keep my momentum up and get a run off of two every lap."

Eckert lost control of his car and spun to a stop backward on the inside of
turn four with the checkered flag flying, dropping him to a disappointing
19th in the final rundown.

But the stunning ending did not diminish the intense racing between
McCreadie and Eckert.

"He raced me like a professional - clean, just like he always has," said
McCreadie, who moved into the WoO LMS points lead with his victory. "I feel
like I did the same to him. We raced real hard and both had cars good enough
to finish first.

"I didn't even know anything happened to him. I thought he ran second."

Francis, who spent the race's first half battling for the lead with Darrell
Lanigan of Union, Ky., and Dave Hess Jr. of Waterford, Pa., had the best
seat in the house for the McCreadie/Eckert struggle. He was closing on them
in the race's final moments.

"After that red flag I didn't go out there and really work my tires and I
kinda got 'em sealed up," said Francis, who ran a slightly harder tire
compound on his Mopar Performance No. 15 than the leaders. "I got behind
because of that, but they finally started coming back to me the last four,
five laps.

"I got about two car lengths behind Timmy and Rick. On the last lap I kinda
lifted going into three because I wasn't sure what the outcome was gonna be
with them.

"I thought we might get lucky, but we needed the race to go green to
checkered (to be a winner)," added Francis, who scored his second straight
runner-up finish in WoO LMS action.

McDowell quietly turned in one of the comeback stories of the night. He
dropped out of his heat race because his car shut off due to ignition
problems and didn't qualify through a B-Main, so he used a provisional to
get in the feature.

Despite struggling with vision problems after running out of tear-offs early
in the race, McDowell admitted that was watching the McCreadie/Eckert battle
even while challenging Francis for third in the final laps. He wasn't
surprised that Eckert went all-out on the last circuit.

"He was just trying hard, trying to win the race," said McDowell. "We've all
done it. We don't like it, but we've done it."

Early contenders Lanigan and Hess weren't in the mix at the finish.

Lanigan, who led laps 1-2, saw his hopes dashed by a lap-two scrape with
Francis in turns three and four that flattened his left-rear tire and forced
him to pit. The 22-year-old Hess, meanwhile, led laps 3-16 and 18 while
dueling with Francis, but he faded to a ninth-place finish.

Hess earned his first-ever WoO LMS fast-time award during the 50-car
qualifying session. His lap of 15.970 seconds made him the only driver to
crack the 15-second bracket.

Heat winners were Hess, Richards, Francis and Lanigan. Billy Moyer and Steve
Shaver captured the B-Mains, and Lanigan topped the pole dash.

Results of WoO Late Model Series(Finishing Position/Start/Driver/Laps
Completed/Money Won): 1. (13) Tim McCreadie/50 $10,000; 2. (3) Steve
Francis/50 $6,000; 3. (23) Dale McDowell/50 $3,500; 4. (9) Alex Ferree/50
$2,500; 5. (10) Matt Lux/50 $2,200; 6. (7) Chub Frank/50 $2,000; 7. (8)
Clint Smith/50 $1,800; 8. (11) Shane Clanton/50 $1,600; 9. (2) Dave Hess
Jr./50 $1,400; 10. (19) Robbie Blair/50 $1,200; 11. (21) Mike Blose/50
$1,000; 12. (18) Steve Shaver/50 $900; 13. (1) Darrell Lanigan/50 $800; 14.
(14) David Scott/50 $700; 15. (17) Billy Moyer/50 $700; 16. (22) Billy
Decker/50 $700; 17. (24) John Blankenship/50 $700; 18. (16) Eddie Carrier
Jr./50 $700; 19. (12) Rick Eckert/50 $700; 20. (5) Bart Hartman/40 $700; 21.
(6) Jeremy Miller/40 $700; 22. (25) Lynn Geisler/37 $700; 23. (20) Sam
Stile/35 $700; 24. (26) Gary Lyle/31 $700; 25. (4) Josh Richards/23 $700;
26. (15) Dutch Davies/23 $700.

Time of Race: 43 Mins., 10.843 Secs.
Margin of Victory: 1.554 Secs.
Yellow Flags: 3 - Laps 4, 32, 40 (1 Red Flag - Lap 24)
Lap Leaders: Lanigan (1-2); Hess (3-16); Francis (17); Hess (18); Francis
(19-24); Frank (25-31); McCreadie (32-50).
Provisional Starters: McDowell, Blankenship, Geisler, Lyle.

Time Trial Results (Position/No./Driver/Hometown/Best Lap):
1. 44H-Dave Hess Jr./Waterford, PA 15.970
2. 1-Josh Richards/Shinnston, WV 16.092
3. 15-Steve Francis/Ashland, KY 16.116
4. 29-Darrell Lanigan/Union, KY 16.187
5. 17M-Dale McDowell/Chickamauga, GA 16.208
6. 24M-Jeremy Miller/Littlestown, PA 16.271
7. 1*-Chub Frank/Bear Lake, PA 16.277
8. 24-Rick Eckert/York, PA 16.282
9. 75-Bart Hartman/Zanesville, OH 16.310
10. 5b-Mike Blose/New Bethlehem, PA 16.332
11. 30-Steve Shaver/Vienna, WV 16.347
12. 28-Eddie Carrier Jr./Salt Rock, WV 16.352
13. 18-John Britsky/Indiana, PA 16.377
14. 21L-Matt Lux/Franklin, PA 16.416
15. 25-Shane Clanton/Locust Grove, GA 16.466
16. 44-Clint Smith/Senoia, GA 16.468
17. 4-Alex Ferree/Saxonburg, PA 16.473
18. 21-Billy Moyer/Batesville, AR 16.488
19. 48-John Flinner/Zelionople, PA 16.490
20. 1c-Lynn Geisler/Cranberry Twp., PA 16.491
21. H1-Jared Miley/South Park, PA 16.509
22. 3-David Scott/Garland, PA 16.516
23. 2s-Sam Stile/Charleroi, PA 16.519
24. 07R-Brent Rhebergen/Clymer, NY 16.538
25. 39-Tim McCreadie/Watertown, NY 16.548
26. 5-Eric Jacobsen/Santa Cruz, CA 16.556
27. 58c-Garrett Durrett/Simsboro, LA 16.581
28. 10-Gary Lyle/Hyde Park, PA 16.594
29. W11-Robbie Blair/Titusville, PA 16.615
30. 22-Bump Hedman/Sugar Grove, PA 16.631
31. 40-Dutch Davies/Warren, PA 16.682
32. 91-Billy Decker/Unadilla, NY 16.703
33. 28B-Dick Barton/Ashville, NY 16.727
34. 42-Todd Andrews/Eldred, PA 16.730
35. 29s-Ken Schaltenbrand/Sarver, PA 16.756
36. 03-Doug Eck/Corrie, PA 16.779
37. 23-John Blankenship/Williamson, WV 16.784
38. 2j-Mike Johnson/Imperial, PA 16.786
39. 21d-Dan Stone/Thompson, PA 16.863
40. 46-Doug Horton/Bruceton Mills, WV 16.901
41. 2V-Chad Valone/Warren, PA 16.907
42. CO2-Paul Davis/Fowler, OH 16.927
43. 1L-Dane Laraway/Irwin, PA 16.933
44. 22s-Greg Satterlee/Rochester Mills, PA 17.014
45. 9k-Mike Knight/Ripley, NY 17.069
46. 22b-Darrell Bossard/Centerville, PA 17.086
47. 66-Todd Buchman/Natrona Heights, PA 17.122
48. 32-Jeff Hoffman/Clarendon, PA 17.375
49. 23T-Tony Burke/Sarver, PA 17.517
50. 11L-Jeff Ferguson/Uniontown, PA N/T

Heat No. 1 (10 laps - Top 4 Transfer): Hess, Hartman, Ferree, McCreadie,
Blair, Britsky, Barton, Burke, Valone, Knight, Miley, Blankenship, McDowell.

Heat No. 2 (10 laps - Top 4 Transfer): Richards, Miller, Lux, Scott, Moyer,
Blose, Andrews, Johnson, Bossard, Davis, Hedman, Jacobsen.

Heat No. 3 (10 laps - Top 4 Transfer): Francis, Frank, Clanton, Davies,
Stile, Durrett, Shaver, Schaltenbrand, Flinner, Stone, Laraway, Bachman.

Heat No. 4 (10 laps - Top 4 Transfer): Lanigan, Smith, Eckert, Carrier,
Decker, Geisler, Eck, Rhebergen, Satterlee, Hoffman, Lyle.

B-Main No. 1 (12 laps - Top 3 Transfer): Moyer, Blair, Blose, Barton,
Johnson, J. Miley, McDowell, Andrews, Burke, Valone, Bossard, Davis, Knight,
Blankenship, Jacobsen, Britsky (DNS) Hedman.

B-Main No. 2 (12 laps - Top 3 Transfer): Shaver, Stile, Decker, Flinner,
Stone, Durrett, Rhebergen, Schaltenbrand, Hoffman, Eck, Laraway, Satterlee,
Geisler, Lyle (DNS) Bachman, Horton.

Dash (6 laps): Lanigan, Hess, Francis, Richards.

WoO Late Model Series Points Standings (after Aug. 4): 1. Tim McCreadie
3,020; 2. Billy Moyer 2,996; 3. Darrell Lanigan 2,980; 4. (tie) Shane
Clanton 2,978; 4. (tie) Steve Francis 2,978; 6. Rick Eckert 2,962; 7. Chub
Frank 2,958; 8. Dale McDowell 2,884; 9. Clint Smith 2,843; 10. Josh Richards
2,778; 11. Eddie Carrier Jr. 2,483; 12. John Blankenship 2,466; 13. Eric
Jacobsen 2,366; 14. Garrett Durrett 2,346; 15. Mike Balzano 998; 16. Brady
Smith 953; 17. Jimmy Mars 932; 18. Billy Deckere 901; 19. Brian Birkhofer
877; 20. Ricky Elliott 849.

LISTEN ONLINE: If fans can't get to a track to see the series, they can
experience the excitement of the World of Outlaws Late Model Series live on
Dirtvision.com through the DIRT Radio Network.

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the DIRT Radio Network logo.

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Radio Network. For technical support or questions, e-mail
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Fifteen Months After Suffering Injury That Short-Circuited His 2005 Season,
Shane Clanton Returns To Lernerville Speedway As World of Outlaws Late Model
Series Title Contender

NORMAN, OK - Aug. 3, 2006 - Shane Clanton isn't especially fond of
Lernerville Speedway.

It's not because he has a problem with the DIRT MotorSports-owned track.
Actually, like most drivers, Clanton considers the half-mile oval among the
top venues on the World of Outlaws Late Model Series.

The mere mention of the western Pennsylvania facility, which hosts the WoO
LMS on Friday night (Aug. 4), just happens to make Clanton recall the moment
that short-circuited his 2005 season.

Clanton, 30, of Locust Grove, Ga., saw his first campaign as a WoO LMS
regular come to a sudden halt on April 29, 2005, when he suffered a
dislocated left shoulder during a tour event at Lernerville. He's still not
sure if the injury resulted from contact with another car or a jump over the
cushion that awkwardly twisted his body, but he definitely knew immediately
that it was serious.

A few weeks earlier Clanton's left shoulder had popped out of its socket
during a race in Georgia, but the gritty southerner was able to shove it
back in place and continue racing. He couldn't do that at Lernerville, so
one week later he underwent surgery to repair a torn rotator cuff.

Clanton was told by doctors that he faced a two-month recovery period,
sidelining him from racing as the season was beginning to heat up.

"It was real disappointing," recalled Clanton. "Here we were ready to run
with the Outlaws for the first time, and after a few shows we can't race."

Finally healed and cleared to compete, Clanton returned to WoO LMS action on
June 27, 2005, at Ransomville (N.Y.) Speedway and promptly recorded a
fourth-place finish. He salvaged the season by running respectably over the
final 26 events, rolling up four top-five and 12 top-10 finishes, including
a victory on Oct. 26, 2005, at Golden Isles Speedway in Waycross, Ga.

With help from the 'hardship' points he received by WoO LMS rules during his
recovery, Clanton finished 10th in the '05 standings. That wasn't bad
considering the circumstances, but he couldn't help thinking what might have
been.

"If I hadn't hurt my shoulder, where could we have finished in the points?"
Clanton wistfully said. "We did O.K. when we came back, but we were playing
catch-up."

This season Clanton is showing what he's capable of doing on the nation's
premier dirt Late Model tour. He's in the thick of the championship battle
entering this weekend's doubleheader at Lernerville and Hagerstown (Md.)
Speedway, sitting fifth in the standings, just 32 points behind leader Billy
Moyer of Batesville, Ark.

When the season began, the prospect of winning the WoO LMS title was a
pie-in-sky thought for Clanton, who acknowledged that he was hoping to
"finish top-five in points with a couple wins." But with 10 events left on
the 2006 schedule and first place in the standings so close, Clanton can
dream of capturing the $120,000 points crown - the biggest single check any
dirt Late Model driver in the country will receive this year.

"It would mean a lot to us to win it," said Clanton, who has been racing
dirt Late Models fulltime since only 2002. "We're racing against the
toughest guys out there. The championship would be a big deal."

Clanton realizes, however, that his pursuit of the title is an uphill
battle. He's still trailing some drivers who are more accomplished and
experienced in the division than he is.

"Every race is a new experience for us," said Clanton, who is in his fourth
year driving Atlanta car owner Ronnie Dobbins's RSD Enterprises
Custom/Rocket No. 25. "I haven't run at half the tracks (on the schedule),
so it's tough. It seems like the second time I go to a racetrack the better
off I am, but you have to be good the first time if you're gonna win the
championship."

Clanton also continues to chase his first win of the 2006 season. While his
impressive '06 resume includes nine top-five finishes (only three drivers
have more), 16 top-10s (just two drivers have more), two fast-time awards
(one driver has more), eight heat wins (one driver has more), two dash
victories (two drivers have more) and 1,047 of 1,050 possible laps
completed, he doesn't want to go through the entire campaign without an
appearance in COESfx Victory Lane.

"We have to win a couple," asserted Clanton, who has two career WoO LMS
triumphs (his first came on May 8, 2004, at North Georgia Speedway in
Chatsworth, Ga.). "We've had a good year so far and we've had our chances to
win - like at North Central (Speedway in Brainerd, Minn., on May 31) when we
had a tire go down (while) leading - but we haven't gotten the breaks we
need."

Maybe Clanton, who has six wins this season in other series and independent
competition, can bag his first WoO LMS triumph this weekend. He hasn't
enjoyed much success at either track - he owns finishes of 23rd, 14th and
17th in his last three Lernerville starts, and 20th and eighth in his two
Hagerstown runs - but he's not going to uncharted territory.

And he has some demons to exorcise at Lernerville.

For more information on this weekend's WoO LMS events visit
www.dirtmotorsport.com; www.lernerville.com; www.hagerstownspeedway.com; or
call 724-353-1511 (Lernerville Speedway) or 301-582-0640 (Hagerstown Speedway).

WoO Late Model Series At A Glance: Lernerville Speedway & Hagerstown Speedway

WHAT:
* The World of Outlaws Late Model Series heads to the Northeast this weekend
for events at Lernerville Speedway in Sarver, Pa., and Hagerstown (Md.)
Speedway.

"For us, this is one of the best doubleheaders we have," said series regular
Chub Frank, whose shop in Bear Lake, Pa., is about a two-hour drive from
Lernerville. "It's close to home, and they're both good racetracks. When
everybody comes up (for the weekend), we can brag about our racetracks a
little bit, show 'em how good they are in the Pennsylvania and Maryland
area."

WHEN:
* On Fri., Aug. 4, the WoO LMS visits the DIRT MotorSports-owned Lernerville
Speedway for the 'Summer Showdown in Sarver Town 50.' Pit gates will open at
4 p.m. and spectator gates at 5 p.m. Hot-laps are scheduled to begin at 6:45
p.m., with time trials at 7:15 p.m. and racing at 8 p.m.

* The WoO LMS will headline the '25th Silver Anniversary Conococheague 50'
on Sat., Aug. 5, at Hagerstown Speedway. Pit gates will open at 4 p.m. and
spectator gates at 5 p.m. Hot laps are set to commence at 7 p.m., followed
by time trials at 7:30 p.m. and racing afterward.

WHERE:
* Lernerville Speedway is a half-mile, high-banked oval located north of
Pittsburgh. To get to the track, take Exit 48 off the PA Turnpike (I-76),
travel north on SR 28 to Exit 17, then 4.6 miles north on SR 356.

* Hagerstown Speedway is a half-mile, semi-banked oval located just below
the Mason-Dixon Line. Take I-81 to Exit 6B, then travel 5.3 miles west on SR
40.

TICKETS:
* At Lernerville, general admission for adults (ages 17 and up) is $27,
senior citizens is $24, students (ages 11-16) is $13 and under 10 is free.
Reserved seats are available for $29 (adults), $26 (senior citizens) and $14
(youths ages 16 and under). Pit admission is $25 for DIRT members and $34
for non-members.

* Hagerstown's program offers adult general admission for $30 and adult
reserved seats for $35, and children 12 years of age receive free general
admission. Pit passes are $35.

PREVIOUS WINNERS:
* There have been five WoO LMS events contested at Lernerville Speedway.
Chub Frank has two wins (April 23, 2004, and Aug. 12, 2005), and single
victories have been claimed by Dale McDowell (Aug. 13, 2004), Billy Moyer
(April 29, 2005) and Rick Eckert (April 18, 2005).

* Hagerstown Speedway has hosted four WoO LMS programs. Rick Eckert won the
two events in 2004 (April 24 and July 24), and Tim McCreadie captured the
two races run in 2005 (July 8 and July 9).

INFO:
* For more information on Lernerville's event, visit www.lernerville.com or
call 724-353-1511.

* To find out more about Hagerstown's show, visit www.hagerstownspeedway.com
or call 301-582-0640.

WHAT THEY THINK:
* Chub Frank on Lernerville Speedway: "It's one of the best prepared tracks
in the country. You go there and you know you're gonna have a track to race
on. They (the track crew) do a great job, and the place has good clay. The
only time it gets close to being a one-lane racetrack is if it gets way too
big a cushion - and even then you can still pass, but it's a little more
difficult."

* Frank on the discontinued Hoosier tires that he has stashed away and still
uses with great success at Lernerville: "That 35 (compound) tire definitely
works good there. I still got a few left.

"Everybody can get them tires; they just act like they can't get 'em."

* Rick Eckert on competing at Lernerville: "The racetrack is awesome. You
get there and it's wide-open fast, and by the last lap of the feature it's
so slow you can almost walk around it faster. That means it's just a real
racy place. Anytime you can go to a racetrack like that, it's a lot of fun.

"I've never seen a bad track there. There's never any chance of it rubbering
up (becoming one-lane)."

* Eckert on his victory at Lernerville earlier this year: "It was
icy-slippery and I was the only one to 'get in the infield' - I mean, get
low enough to get in the traction. The racetrack was a little different than
it's been in the past. There was just a little more moisture, and that's why
Chub's tires didn't work like they usually do. Chub usually dominates that
place; he's tough there."

* Eckert on racing in front of family and friends at Hagerstown, which hosts
the WoO LMS event that is closest to his home in York, Pa.: "I like to get a
chance to race close to home. The old man (Rick's father Junior) will bring
a bus load of people (24 or more) to the race. I think they have as good a
time on the way down and back as they do at the track."

WEEKEND STORYLINES:
* Will WoO LMS points leader Billy Moyer finally break through for his first
tour victory of the season?

* Will Rick Eckert sweep the weekend to tie Scott Bloomquist's WoO LMS
single-season win record of 10 (established in 2004)?

* Can the very competitive regulars at Lernerville and Hagerstown shoot down
the WoO LMS invaders?

ON THE INTERNET: If fans can't get to a track to see the tour, they can
experience the excitement of the World of Outlaws Late Model Series live on
Dirtvision.com through the DIRT Radio Network.

To listen to the audio broadcasts, log on to www.dirtvision.com and click on
the DIRT Radio Network logo.

Listeners will need Windows Media Player 9 or higher to listen to the DIRT
Radio Network. For technical support or questions, e-mail
webmaster@dirtvision.com.

ON TELEVISION: The Friday-night action at Lernerville Speedway will be
captured by the SPEED cameras for broadcast on the network on Sun., Sept.
24, at 6 p.m. EST.

The SPEED coverage of World of Outlaws Late Model Series action -- hosted by
lead commentator Rick Benjamin along with color man Shane Andrews and pit
reporter Mark Kenyon - has seven Sunday-night airdates left in 2006.

2006 World of Outlaws Late Model Series Points Standings & Statistical
Update - after 7-29-06 (Pos.-Driver-Residence-Races Entered-Starts-Wins-Top
5s-Top 10s-Fast Times-Heat Wins-Dash Wins-B-Main Wins-Earnings-Points-Trail
By)

1. Billy Moyer-Batesville,AR-21-21-0-10-19-2-8-1-1-$48,800-2,876-0
2. Tim McCreadie-Watertown,NY-21-21-1-9-16-4-7-0-0-$63,800-2,870-6
3. Darrell Lanigan-Union,KY-21-21-2-11-17-0-9-4-1-$60,100-2,856-20
4. Rick Eckert-York,PA-21-21-8-11-14-1-7-2-1-$100,200-2,850-26
5. Shane Clanton-Locust Grove,GA-21-21-0-9-16-2-8-2-1-$46,500-2,844-32
6. Steve Francis-Ashland,KY-21-21-2-9-16-1-8-0-1-$70,600-2,832-44
7. Chub Frank-Bear Lake,PA-21-21-2-6-15-1-4-1-1-$58,100-2,820-56
8. Dale McDowell-Chickamauga,GA-21-21-0-5-14-0-3-1-0-$37,900-2,736-140
9. Clint Smith-Senoia,GA-21-21-3-7-12-0-3-3-2-$55,410-2,707-169
10. Josh Richards-Shinnston,WV-21-21-0-3-12-2-2-1-1-$28,300-2,678-198
11. Eddie Carrier Jr.R-Salt Rock,WV-20-19-0-1-2-0-1-0-2-$16,610-2,369-507
12. John Blankenship-Williamson,WV-21-17-0-1-6-0-1-0-2-$21,640-2,350-526
13. Eric JacobsenR-Santa Cruz,CA-21-18-0-0-1-0-0-0-1-$14,130-2,291-585
14. Garrett DurrettR-Simsboro,LA-21-18-0-0-1-0-0-0-4-$14,100-2,271-605
15. Mike Balzano-Parkersburg,WV-9-7-0-0-1-0-0-0-0-$6,220-998-1,878

Deer Creek Speedway Heartland Nationals: World of Outlaws Late Model Series
News & Notes

STILL ON TOP: Defending WoO LMS champion Billy Moyer uncharacteristically
remained winless on this year's tour after last week's three-event Midwest
swing.

But even after experiencing his worst outing of the season on Friday night
(July 28) at Deer Creek Speedway and momentarily falling into a tie for the
points lead with Tim McCreadie, Moyer left Minnesota on Saturday night with
sole possession of the top spot in the standings.

On Friday night Moyer was lapped by eventual winner Darrell Lanigan on lap
43 of the 50-lap main - the first time this season that Moyer failed to
complete the entire distance of a WoO LMS event. After the subpar run, his
performance record showed he had completed 999 of 1,000 possible laps in 20
features.

Moyer pulled out his newer Rayburn car for Saturday's action at Deer Creek
and registered a seventh-place finish.

FRUSTRATING NIGHT: McCreadie relished having an opportunity to assume the
points lead on Saturday night at Deer Creek, but he couldn't take advantage
of it.

In the final analysis, however, he felt fortunate to end the evening
trailing Moyer by only six points.

McCreadie's night went bad right from the start. After deciding to run his
more freshly-skinned Sweeteners Plus No. 39 - the car he raced on Friday
night sported many battle scars, including a flapping number decal on its
left-side door - the machine developed fuel pickup problems during time
trials. The mechanical trouble led him to drive directly to his trailer
following his qualifying laps - a move that earned him a DQ from time trials
for not going to the scales.

McCreadie tried to run the problematic car in a heat after his crew worked
on it, but the fuel-pickup issue returned on the opening lap and knocked him
out. He then qualified the car he used on Friday through the B-Main, but
terminal engine trouble (an apparent broken lifter) with that mount cropped
up in the final laps and forced his team to hastily ready the car they had
just parked.

No further problems hampered McCreadie in the feature, which he finished a
respectable 10th.

"We salvaged the night," said McCreadie, who was scheduled to fly home early
Sunday morning to compete in a televised DIRT Modified event that evening at
Cayuga County Fair Speedway in Weedsport, N.Y. "We could've taken a big hit
in the points, but we stayed close to Moyer."

MORE CAR SWAPPING: Rick Eckert, who entered Saturday's program at Deer Creek
trailing Moyer by just 10 points, slapped the outside concrete barrier
between turns three and four during his second time-trial lap.

He wasn't a factor for the remainder of the show.

"I just drove 'er in the wall," mourned Eckert. "It broke the A-frame and
some other stuff."

Eckert ran the repaired No. 24 in a heat, but he failed to qualify. He
switched to his backup car and transferred through the B-Main, but was
involved in a lap-10 tangle in the feature and struggled to a 15th-place
finish.

ROUGH START, GREAT FINISH: Clint Smith began his weekend at Deer Creek
Speedway with a thud - while playing some football with fellow tour
travelers upon arriving at the track on Thursday, he hit his head on the
ground and knocked himself silly.

After shaking out the cobwebs, Smith returned to his early-season form with
two spectacular performances. He drove from the 18th starting spot to a
third-place finish in Friday's main, then dominated Saturday's feature to
win for the first time since he captured two of the first four WoO LMS
events in 2006.

Plenty of hard work was behind Smith's success.

On Friday, Smith's crew discovered that a head-gasket had started seeping
and fouled a spark-plug during the B-Main. As a result, his chief mechanic,
Johnny Cloer, "changed the (engine's) rocker arms and swapped the plugs,"
said Smith, "and then we poured a can of stop-leak in it right before the
feature."

The motor powered Smith to a third-place finish from deep in the field, but
it still didn't feel right to him. So Smith and Cloer spent Saturday
afternoon changing engines in the blazing sun - with the payoff being a
$10,000 first-place check.

The sweat-filled day and evening had Smith ready for some rest.

"It's been a long day," he said while signing autographs at his hauler, "and
it's gonna be a short night because we're not going far."

BACK ON TRACK: Steve Francis snapped out of a slump with a second-place
finish on Saturday after spending the afternoon analyzing his recent
problems.

"Tommy Grecco (McCreadie's chief mechanic) was down here a little bit with
us today," said Francis. "He kinda went through some things with us, and we
talked about some things. It was a real helpful discussion. Sometimes you
just have to get a little different perspective on what you're missing."

After Grecco departed, "We pulled out last year's notebook and made sure
we're doing everything we've been doing in the past," said Francis.

GREAT WEEKEND: Rising Upper Midwest dirt Late Model racer Brady Smith got
the attention of the WoO LMS big boys at Deer Creek.

Smith, 29, of Salon Springs, Wis., kicked off his weekend by setting a new
track record on Friday to record his first career fast-time award on the
tour. A penalty for jumping the initial start of the first heat definitely
hampered him the rest of the night - he placed fourth in the heat and thus
started 13th in the feature - but he still finished a respectable eighth.

Things went better for Smith on Saturday. He won a heat and drove to a
head-turning third-place finish in the main, which improved his best-ever
WoO LMS run he had authored just the previous night.

"We're not accustomed to running on an open tire rule," said Smith, who
began racing dirt Late Models in 2001 and is in his second season as a
fulltime competitor in the division. "But we're learning. I think we're
getting better at choosing the right tires."

Smith, whose homebase in northern Wisconsin makes for long hauls to most
events, plans to enter a few more WoO LMS and/or DIRT MotorSports-affiliated
shows this season. One race he wants to enter is the Sept. 8-9 World 100 at
Ohio's Eldora Speedway, which is sanctioned by DIRT's UMP division, but he
can't commit to it because his wife Jenni is due to give birth to the
couple's third child the week before the race.

IN THE NEIGHBORHOOD: The WoO LMS's visit to Deer Creek gave teenage
sensation Josh Richards a chance to race reasonably close to the
headquarters of his team's major sponsor, Seubert Calf Ranches in
Dorchester, Wis.

But the company's owner, Mike Seubert, didn't make the three-and-a-half-hour
trip to Deer Lake for the weekend. Richards's father, Rocket Chassis
co-owner Mark Richards, said Seubert prefers to attend only races close to
his home.

Seubert, who has sponsored Josh's efforts since the youngster launched his
dirt Late Model career in 2004, is a big supporter of the sport. He fields a
dirt Late Model team for Kerry Hansen of Spencer, Wis., who entered last
weekend's action at Deer Creek, and sponsors numerous racers.

ETCETERA.
* Friday's feature was the first caution-free WoO LMS headliner since May 30
at River Cities Speedway in Grand Forks, N.Dak. - a race that was also won
by Darrell Lanigan.

* Chub Frank made some of the most exciting moves of Saturday night's
feature, tossing his car around the extreme outside of the track following a
lap-10 caution period. His attempts to reprise the daredevil antics he
displayed in his earlier visit this season to Deer Creek - in that event, he
climbed the wall one lap but continued racing - got him as high as fifth
place, but the top went away after a few green-flag circuits and he settled
for a finish of sixth.

* WoO LMS regular John Blankenship was eliminated from Saturday's feature
after he slammed into Eric Jacobsen's spinning car between turns one and two
on lap 10. Moisture from Blankenship's busted radiator dripped down the
banking during the cleanup.

* WoO LMS rookie of the year contender Garrett Durrett was scheduled to fly
home to Simsboro, La., on Sunday so he could help put together a new Rocket
car for this weekend's tour doubleheader at Pennsy's Lernerville Speedway
and Hagerstown (Md.) Speedway.

Durrett, whose chief mechanic was headed to Darrell Lanigan's shop in Union,
Ky., with the team's hauler after Deer Creek, is planning to tow the new car
north after it's completed.

* Wisconsin's Jimmy Mars was happy to finish fourth in Saturday's main after
experiencing a frustrating Friday night at Deer Creek. He dropped out of a
heat and the B-Main due to problems with his car's electrical system, then
managed just a 13th-place finish after getting into the feature thanks to a
provisional starting spot.

* Aspiring dirt Late Model driver Billy Moyer Jr., the teenage son of the
reigning WoO LMS champ, spent last week's Midwest Tour assisting his
father's effort.

The younger Moyer reported that he's set to begin his first year of college
at Arkansas State University. He told WoO LMS officials on Saturday that he
expects to have a good year at school because his semester "starts on August
21" - which happens to be his father's trademark number.

* Visitors to Deer Creek Speedway can't help but notice the spic-and-span
facility's unique watering system.

Rather than use a typical water truck to moisten the surface, Deer Creek's
track-prep team employs a giant 'Terra-Gator' agricultural tractor that is
equipped with a retractable crop-sprayer. The crop-sprayer apparatus unfolds
behind the tractor to cover the track's entire width with a steady stream of
water.

* DIRT MotorSports posted $1,000 in non-touring driver bonus bucks each
night. The cash was split up both nights among 10 drivers who haven't won
WoO LMS feature events or weren't ranked in the top 20 of a national series.

The World of Outlaws Late Model Series is brought to fans across the country
by several sponsors and partners, including Series sponsor Hoosier Tire;
Promotional sponsors AMB i.t., Choice Hotels International, COESfx, The
University of Northwest Ohio and Snap-on. Contingency sponsors include DART
Machinery, Holley Performance Products Inc., MSD Ignition, Quarter Master,
Ohlins and Wrisco Industries.

Pole Position Start Propels Clint Smith To Convincing Victory In World of Outlaws Late Model Series Heartland Nationals Finale At Deer Creek Speedway

SPRING VALLEY, MN – July 29, 2006 - A problem-free qualifying effort helped put Clint Smith on the pole position for Saturday night’s World of Outlaws Late Model Series ‘Heartland Nationals’ finale at Deer Creek Speedway.

And that spelled a convincing victory for the driver known as ‘Cat Daddy,’ who dominated the 50-lap feature 24 hours after making a sterling charge from 18th to third in the weekend’s opening event.

“We didn’t get behind early in the night,” said Smith, who had to play catch-up on Friday after breaking a left-rear brake rotor during time trials. “That was the difference tonight. We qualified good (sixth-fastest), and that put us up front.”

Smith, 41, of Senoia, Ga., was outgunned for the lead at the initial green flag by outside-polesitter Steve Francis of Ashland, Ky., but that was his only hiccup in the race. He nipped Francis for the top spot on lap 10 – seconds before a caution flag flew – and held firm control for the remainder of the distance.

Francis finished a half-straightaway behind Smith in second place. Brady Smith of Salon Springs, Wis., was third, followed by Jimmy Mars of Menominee, Wis., and Friday-night winner Darrell Lanigan of Union, Ky.

With the main running without interruption after three caution flags were needed on lap 10, Clint pulled away from Francis and cruised alone in front. He was never seriously challenged en route to his third WoO LMS triumph of the 2006 season and first-ever at Deer Creek.

It was Smith’s first series win since March 17 at Baton Rouge (La.) Raceway. He also won the season opener, on Feb. 4 at Golden Isles Speedway in Waycross, Ga.

”This whole (Midwest) trip we picked it up every night,” said Smith, who earned $10,000 for his fifth career win on the country’s premier dirt Late Model tour. “Last night was a big turnaround, and now I think we got a good car and motor combination for next weekend (WoO LMS events at Pennsy’s Lernerville Speedway and Maryland’s Hagerstown Speedway).”

Despite his strong performance on Friday, Smith changed the motor in his GRT No. 44 for the finale. He craved more power, and he got it.

“This one has about 120 more horsepower,” said Smith, who made the engine change with his crewman Johnny Cloer in sweltering Saturday-afternoon heat that approached 100 degrees. “It’s a powerhouse.”

Smith’s stout RaceTek motor – and his tire choice – gave him the confidence to easily overcome his slow start.

“When I felt like I was hanging with (Francis) for the first five laps, I thought I’d be alright,” analyzed Smith, who co-owns his J.P. Drilling-backed team with Jerry Passmore. “I knew my car was coming in, so I just had to be patient.

“Once I got out front I could use the whole racetrack and that helped me get away. My guy (Cloer) gave me signals (from the infield) and told me where to go.”

Francis, 38, had no answer for Smith’s speed.

“Actually, I was just a tad harder on the right-rear (tire compound) than he was,” said Francis, who drove his familiar Mopar Performance Rocket No. 15. “But we didn’t have anything for Clint. He just had a really, really good car.

“We knew after seeing how good (Smith) was last night that we were gonna have our hands full.”

A $6,000 runner-up finish was satisfying to Francis, whose recent struggles have dropped him to sixth in the WoO LMS points standings.

“We just needed a good finish,” said Francis, who noted that his car’s tight condition allowed Smith to get inside of him for the lead. “We were probably a little conservative on everything because we have been struggling so much -- we could’ve probably put a little more gear in to run that bottom – but we’re just happy to turn things around.”

Quietly authoring a noteworthy run behind Smith and Francis was Brady Smith, a 29-year-old making his eighth appearance of the season with the WoO LMS.

Smith, who set fast time on Friday with a new-track-record circuit around the three-eighths-mile oval, inherited third place on lap 10 when Brian Birkhofer of Muscatine, Iowa, slowed with brake problems as he was closely tailing Francis and Clint Smith. Brady stayed there to the finish, solidly holding the position about a half-straightaway behind Francis.

It was easily Smith’s best career finish in WoO LMS competition. His previous best was the eighth place he scored on Friday night.

“We’re real happy,” said Smith, who drove his Amsoil/Big Red Motorsports No. 2. “These guys are some of the best, so to run third against them is a big accomplishment for us.”

PRELIMINARIES: Birkhofer’s lap of 14.54 seconds was best in time trials for the show, which attracted a field of 30 cars.

Heat winners were Brady Smith, Lanigan and Clint Smith. Lance Matthees won the B-Main and Clint Smith topped the pole dash.

POINTS BATTLE CHANGES: Billy Moyer of Batesville, Ark., broke out of a tie for the points lead with Tim McCreadie of Watertown, N.Y., using a seventh-place finish to build a six-point edge over McCreadie.

McCreadie was fortunate to remain second in the standings after a frustrating night in which he was disqualified from his time-trial lap for failing to report to the scales and changed cars twice. He salvaged a 10th-place finish after starting 22nd.

Title contender Rick Eckert of York, Pa., also struggled. He hit the outside wall between turns three and four during his time-trial bid, then went to a backup car before the feature and finished a dismal 15th.

Eckert’s subpar outing dropped him to fourth in the points standings, behind the surging Lanigan.

Results of WoO Late Model Series(Finishing Position/Start/Driver/Laps Completed/Money Won): 1. (1) Clint Smith/50 $10,000; 2. (2) Steve Francis/50 $6,000; 3. (4) Brady Smith/50 $3,500; 4. (10) Jimmy Mars/50 $2,500; 5. (5) Darrell Lanigan/50 $2,200; 6. (9) Chub Frank/50 $2,000; 7. (6) Billy Moyer/50 $1,800; 8. (15) Dale McDowell/50 $1,600; 9. (7) Josh Richards/50 $1,400; 10. (22) Tim McCreadie/50 $1,200; 11. (8) Shane Clanton/50 $1,000; 12. (12) Eddie Carrier Jr./50 $900; 13. (18) Garrett Durrett/50 $800; 14. (3) Brian Birkhofer/50 $700; 15. (21) Rick Eckert/50 $700; 16. (14) Justin Fegers/49 $700; 17. (16) Eric Jacobsen/49 $700; 18. (11) Kerry Hansen/49 $700; 19. (20) Gary Webb/48 $700; 20. (24) Barry Underdahl/43 $700; 21. (19) Lance Matthees/25 $700; 22. (25) Jerry Bloom/14 $700; 23. (17) Chad Simpson/10 $700; 24. (13) John Blankenship/10 $700; 25. (23) Andrew McKay/8 $700.

Yellow Flags: 3 (all on Lap 10)
Lap Leaders: Francis (1-9); C. Smith (10-50)
Provisional Starters: McKay, Underdahl, Bloom
Time Trial Results (Position/No./Driver/Hometown/Best Lap):
1. 15b-Brian Birkhofer/Muscatine, IA 14.54
2. 15-Steve Francis/Ashhland, KY 14.66
3. 21-Billy Moyer/Batesville, AR 14.77
4. 2-Brady Smith/Salon Springs, WI 14.80
5. 29-Darrell Lanigan/Union, KY 14.83
6. 44-Clint Smith/Senoia, GA 14.84
7. 1-Josh Richards/Shinnston, WV 14.85
8. 25H-Kerry Hansen/Spencer, WI 14.85
9. 28-Eddie Carrier Jr./Salt Rock, WV 14.87
10. 28m-Jimmy Mars/Menominee, WI 14.87
11. 25-Shane Clanton/Locust Grove, GA 14.89
12. 1*-Chub Frank/Bear Lake, PA 14.94
13. 23-John Blankenship/Williamson, WV 14.95
14. F15-Justin Fegers/Mound, MN 14.96
15. 17M-Dale McDowell/Chickamauga, GA 15.01
16. 5-Eric Jacobsen/Santa Cruz, CA 15.09
17. 25s-Chad Simpson/Mt. Vernon, IA 15.09
18. 58c-Garrett Durrett/Simsboro, LA 15.15
19. 71-Andrew McKay/Edina, MN 15.16
20. 24-Rick Eckert/York, PA 15.19
21. 90-Lance Matthees/Winona, MN 15.30
22. 95-Keith Foss/Winona, MN 15.44
23. 3-Barry Underdahl/Cannon Falls, MN 15.47
24. 56-Gary Webb/Bluegrass, IA 15.50
25. 55-Kevin Kuehn/Winona, MN 15.83
26. 79k-Nick Kramer/Pine Island, MN 16.61
27. 35-Jerry Bloom/Grand Meadow, MN 16.89
28. 33-Joe Ludemann/Grand Meadow, MN 17.21
29. 39-Tim McCreadie/Watertown, NY N/T-DQ
30. 177-Troy Brand/Winona, MN N/T

Heat No. 1 (10 laps - Top 6 Transfer): B. Smith, Birkhofer, Richards, Mars, Blankenship, Jacobsen, Foss, Kuehn, Ludemann (DNS) McKay.
Heat No. 2 (10 laps - Top 6 Transfer): Lanigan, Francis, Clanton, Hansen, Fegers, Simpson, Eckert, Underdahl, Kramer, McCreadie.
Heat No. 3 (10 laps - Top 6 Transfer): C. Smith, Moyer, Frank, Carrier, McDowell, Durrett, Matthees, Webb, Bloom (DNS) Brand.
B-Main (12 laps – Top 4 Transfer): Matthees, Webb, Eckert, McCreadie, McKay, Underdahl, Kramer, Kuehn, Bloom, Ludemann (DNS) Foss, Brand.
Dash (6 laps): C. Smith, Francis, Birkhofer, B. Smith, Lanigan, Moyer.
WoO Late Model Series Points Standings (after July 29): 1. Billy Moyer 2,876; 2. Tim McCreadie 2,870; 3. Darrell Lanigan 2,856; 4. Rick Eckert 2,850; 5. Shane Clanton 2,844; 6. Steve Francis 2,832; 7. Chub Frank 2,820; 8. Dale McDowell 2,740; 9. Clint Smith 2,707; 10. Josh Richards 2,678; 11. Eddie Carrier Jr. 2,369; 12. John Blankenship 2,350; 13. Eric Jacobsen 2,291; 14. Garrett Durrett 2,271; 15. Mike Balzano 998; 16. Brady Smith 953; 17. Jimmy Mars 932; 18. Brian Birkhofer 877; 19. Ricky Elliott 849; 20. Billy Decker 783.
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Lanigan’s Latest Deer Creek Speedway Win Comes In Caution-Free World of Outlaws Late Model Series Heartland Nationals Opener

SPRING VALLEY, MN – July 28, 2006 - There’s something about Deer Creek Speedway that agrees with Darrell Lanigan.

The Union, Ky., star emerged victorious at the track for the second time in three World of Outlaws Late Model Series visits over the past two seasons, capturing Friday night’s 50-lap opener of the ‘Heartland Nationals.’

“We just run good here,” a smiling Lanigan said after coming out on top of a hard-fought, caution-free feature. “It’s the type of racetrack I like. I hate the one-lane tracks, and at this place if you’re fast, you can pass on the top or bottom.”

Lanigan’s Cornett Ford-powered Rocket car had plenty of speed in it on Saturday -- as evidenced by his victory margin of nearly a full straightaway over Shane Clanton of Locust Grove, Ga., who finished ahead of hard-charging 18th-starter Clint Smith of Senoia, Ga., Brian Birkhofer of Muscatine, Iowa, and Josh Richards of Shinnston, W.Va.

But getting to the finish line first for the second time this season on the WoO LMS was a real battle for Lanigan.

Lanigan, 36, raced off the outside pole to grab the lead from Clanton at the initial green flag and paced the main’s first 26 laps. His hopes appeared to be fading, however, after Rick Eckert of York, Pa., who had relentlessly pressured Lanigan for the top spot since lap five, overtook him to assume command on the 27th circuit.

Dale McDowell of Chickamauga, Ga., followed Eckert past Lanigan, and on lap 28 the surging McDowell snared the lead from Eckert.

“We went a little harder on tires (compounds) than most guys, so I thought I’d still have enough to come back and win if my tire would ever come in,” analyzed Lanigan, whose previous WoO LMS triumph at Deer Creek came on June 6, 2005, in the three-eighths-mile oval’s annual ‘Gopher 50’ event. “I thought I could maybe run them back down.”

Two twists of fate made that a moot point for Lanigan.

First, on lap 28, Lanigan and Eckert came together in turn one. Eckert somehow kept his Raye Vest-owned car from spinning, but after getting out of shape and bounding over the infield berm he found himself in fifth place.

Eckert, who started fourth, never recovered. Hampered by a left-rear tire that got “tore up pretty good” from rubbing bodywork, he faded to a ninth-place finish.

“We were changing lanes awful fast, we really were,” said Eckert, whose WoO LMS-best eight wins in ’06 have him two away from Scott Bloomquist’s single-season record of 10. “I was wide on the straightaway and wanted to go to the bottom of the corner, and Darrell apparently already stuck his nose in there and we got together.

“I don’t think it was anything he tried. It just wasn’t our day.”

Lanigan felt bad about the contact that knocked Eckert from contention.

“He was turning and I was coming in on the bottom,” said Lanigan. “I got him in the door and almost spun myself out.

“I apologize to Eckert. It was nothing intentional.”

Lanigan sent the ensuing laps trying in vain to keep pace with McDowell, who was gunning for his first WoO LMS win of the season. Lanigan finally regained the point when McDowell’s frustrating campaign continued thanks to a leaking oil line that forced him to retire on lap 37.

“A fitting cracked or something,” mourned McDowell, whose Rocket No. 17M began showing smoke on lap 30. “After the (warning) light came on and the oil pressure started to fluctuate, I shut it down. I looked up at the board and saw there was still 15 laps left, and I knew it wasn’t gonna make it.”

The strong run did raise McDowell’s spirits, however.

“You hate to break when you’re up there,” he said, “but it’s better than breaking (while) in the back.”

Lanigan gladly accepted the free pass back to the front.

“It took a little luck to get the lead,” said Lanigan, who registered his sixth career win on the WoO LMS. “But we’ve had bad luck the last month, so maybe it’s time it turned around a little bit.”

With Lanigan cruising alone at the head of the pack, Clanton spent the final laps fighting hard to maintain second place. He managed to match his season-high finish of second, achieved on May 5 at Brushcreek Motorsports Complex in Peebles, Ohio.

“We had a good car tonight, but just went a little too soft on the right-rear (tire),” said Clanton, who drove the RSD Enterprises Rocket No. 25. “And the lap Dale (McDowell) dropped out, we broke a right-side header. I had just gotten up to Lanigan when it happened.

“You probably lose 50 or 60 horsepower when a header breaks, so we’re tickled to death with a second-place finish. We need that (first) win (of 2006), but we’re not that far from it.”

Smith, 41, was the race’s biggest mover. He started deep in the field after qualifying through the B-Main because a broken left-rear brake rotor dive-bombed his time-trial effort, but smoothly made his way forward.

The driver know as ‘Cat Daddy’ cracked the top five with just over 10 laps remaining. He reached third on the final lap, passing Birkhofer with some help from an unlikely lapped car.

“We were passing them the whole race, but we just didn’t get noticed,” said Smith. “We got up to fifth, and it was like, Where did this guy come from?

“I caught Birkhofer real fast, but he kinda had the sweet part of the racetrack. Then we caught (Blly) Moyer on the last lap, and that held up Birkhofer enough for me to clear him at the flagstand.”

PRELIMINARIES: Brady Smith of Salon Springs, Wis., recorded fast-time honors in WoO LMS competition for the first time in his career after turning a lap of 14.27 seconds. He broke the track record set by Moyer on June 1, 2006.

Heat winners were Clanton, Eckert, Lanigan and McDowell. Eric Jacobsen of Santa Cruz, Calif., and Clint Smith captured the B-Mains, and Clanton topped the pole dash.

STANDINGS GET TIGHTER: Moyer’s worst outing of the ’06 season – he was 16th and failed to complete the entire feature distance for the first time in 20 events – erased his entire 20-point lead over Tim McCreadie.

Moyer and McCreadie ended the night tied atop the WoO LMS points standings. Eckert found himself 10 points back in third, and Lanigan and Clanton moved into a tie for fourth place (24 points out of first).

Results of WoO Late Model Series(Finishing Position/Start/Driver/Laps Completed/Money Won): 1. (2) Darrell Lanigan/50 $10,000; 2. (1) Shane Clanton/50 $6,000; 3. (18) Clint Smith/50 $3,500; 4. (8) Brian Birkhofer/50 $2,500; 5. (9) Josh Richards/50 $2,200; 6. (7) Tim McCreadie/50 $2,000; 7. (11) Chub Frank/50 $1,800; 8. (13) Brady Smith/50 $1,600; 9. (4) Rick Eckert/50 $1,400; 10. (12) Steve Francis/50 $1,200; 11. (5) Eddie Carrier Jr./50 $1,000; 12. (6) Justin Fegers/50 $900; 13. (23) Jimmy Mars/50 $800; 14. (20) Garrett Durrett/50 $700; 15. (16) John Blankenship/50 $700; 16. (15) Billy Moyer/49 $700; 17. (17) Eric Jacobsen/49 $700; 18. (22) Mike Prochnow/49 $700; 19. (21) Lance Mathees/43 $700; 20. (3) Dale McDowell/37 $700; 21. (25) Barry Underdahl/27 $700; 22. (24) Gary Webb/16 $700; 23. (10) Keith Foss/9 $700; 24. (19) Kerry Hansen/7 $700; 25. (14) Andrew McKay/3 $700.
Yellow Flags: NoneLap Leaders: Lanigan (1-26); Eckert (27); McDowell (28-37); Lanigan (38-50).
Provisional Starters: Mars, Webb, Underdahl

Time Trial Results (Position/No./Driver/Hometown/Best Lap):
1. 2-Brady Smith/Salon Springs, WI 14.27
2. 24-Rick Eckert/York, PA 14.42
3. 39-Tim McCreadie/Watertown, NY 14.48
4. 15b-Brian Birkhofer/Muscatine, IA 14.49
5. 25-Shane Clanton/Locust Grove, GA 14.56
6. 28M-Jimmy Mars/Menomonie, WI 14.57
7. 29-Darrel Lanigan/Union, KY 14.65
8. 17M-Dale McDowell/Chickamauga, GA 14.67
9. 28-Eddie Carrier Jr./Salt Rock, WV 14.67
10. F15-Justin Fegers/Mound, MN 14.69
11. 21-Billy Moyer/Batesville, AK 14.72
12. 15-Steve Francis/Ashland, KY 14.77
13. 1-Josh Richards/Shinnston, WV 14.78
14. 95-Keith Foss/Winona, MN 14.78
15. 1*-Chub Frank/Bear Lake, PA 14.83
16. 23-John Blankenship/Williamson, WV 14.90
17. 25H-Kerry Hansen/Spencer, WI 14.91
18. 90-Lance Mathees/Winona, MN 14.96
19. 58c-Garrett Durrett/Simsboro, LA 14.96
20. 25s-Chad Simpson/Mt. Vernon, IA 14.97
21. 5-Eric Jacobsen/Santa Cruz, CA 15.08
22. 71-Andrew McKay/Edina, MN 15.21
23. 44-Clint Smith/Senoia, GA 15.23
24. 68-Mike Prochnow/Menominee, WI 15.26
25. 177-Troy Brand/Winona, MN 15.37
26. 56-Gary Webb/Bluegrass, IA 15.52
27. 51-Joel Cryderman/Thunder Bay, ONT 15.68
28. 55-Kevin Kuehn/Winona, MN 15.84
29. 35-Jerry Bloom/Grand Meadow/MN 16.17
30. 79K-Nick Kramer/Pine Island, MN 16.88
31. 33-Joe Ludemann/Grand Meadow, MN 16.890
32. 22-Jill George/Cedar Falls, IA (DQ-Light)
33. 3-Barry Underdahl/Cannon Falls, MN (N/T)

Heat No. 1 (10 laps - Top 4 Transfer): Clanton, Carrier, Richards, B. Smith, Jacobsen, Hansen, Bloom, Underdahl, Brand.
Heat No. 2 (10 laps - Top 4 Transfer): Eckert, Fegers, Foss, McKay, Mathees, Webb, Mars, Kramer.
Heat No. 3 (10 laps - Top 4 Transfer): Lanigan, McCreadie, Frank, Moyer, C. Smith, Durrett, Cryderman, Ludemann.
Heat No. 4 (10 laps – Top 4 Transfer): McDowell, Birkhofer, Francis, Blankenship, Simpson, Prochnow, Kuehn, George.
B-Main No. 1 (12 laps – Top 3 Transfer): Jacobsen, Hansen, Mathees, Webb, Underdahl, Brand, Kramer, Bloom (DNS) Mars.
B-Main No. 2 (12 laps – Top 3 Transfer): C. Smith, Durrett, Prochnow, Cryderman, Simpson, Kuehn, Ludemann, George.
Dash (6 laps): Clanton, Lanigan, McDowell, Eckert.
WoO Late Model Series Points Standings (after July 28): 1. (tie) Tim McCreadie 2,740; 1. (tie) Billy Moyer 2,740; 3. Rick Eckert 2,730; 4. (tie) Shane Clanton 2,716; 4. (tie) Darrell Lanigan 2,716; 6. Steve Francis 2,686; 7. Chub Frank 2,682; 8. Dale McDowell 2,606; 9. Clint Smith 2,557; 10. Josh Richards 2,546; 11. John Blankenship 2,248; 12. Eddie Carrier Jr. 2,243; 13. Eric Jacobsen 2,175; 14. Garrett Durrett 2,147; 15. Mike Balzano 998; 16. Ricky Elliott 849; 17. Brady Smith 809; 18. Jimmy Mars 790; 19. Billy Decker 783; 20. Brian Birkhofer 755.

LISTEN ONLINE: If fans can’t get to a track to see the series, they can experience the excitement of the World of Outlaws Late Model Series live on Dirtvision.com through the DIRT Radio Network.

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Final 2006 DIRT MotorSports UMP Summernationals Points Standings (26 events)

NORMAN, OK – July 17, 2006
1. Shannon Babb 2,070 ($30,000)
2. Jeep VanWormer 1,907 ($12,000)
3. Wendell Wallace 1,816 ($7,000)
4. Randy Korte 1,797 ($5,000)
5. Dennis Erb Jr. 1,795 ($3,000)
6. Kevin Weaver 1,499 ($2,000)
7. Steve Sheppard Jr. 1,434 ($1,000)
8. Brian Shirley 1,296 ($800)
9. Rodney Melvin 1,289 ($700)
10. Jack Sullivan 951 ($600)
11. Patrick Sheltra 773 ($500)
12. Steve Hillard 749 ($400)
13. Darren Miller 720 ($350)
14. Don O’Neal 592 ($300)
15. Wes Steidinger 589 ($250)
16. Jimmy Mars 582 ($200)
17. Justin Feger 575 ($200)
18. Frank Heckenast Jr. 569 ($200)
19. Billy Drake 551 ($200)
20. Ryan Dauber 465 ($200)
A total of 398 different drivers entered 2006 UMP Summernationals events

News & Notes From DIRT MotorSports’ 2006 UMP Summernationals

NORMAN, OK – July 16, 2006 — By Kevin Kovac
MAN ON THE SCENE: No one loves the UMP Summernationals more than its organizer Sam Driggers, who heads DIRT MotorSports’ UMP division.

An employee of UMP for 14 years, Driggers, 48, has seen it all while attending every Summernationals event for more than a decade. He intimately understands the aura of the so-called “Hell Month,’ which was launched on a smaller scale in 1988 by late UMP founder Bob Memmer, and wants to see it flourish well into the future.

Following a successful 2006 Summernationals that saw just one of 27 scheduled shows rained out (June 18 at Tri-State Speedway in Haubstadt, Ind.), Driggers is already laying the groundwork for the ’07 tour. He said interest from speedways is so intense, there’s not enough dates to go around.

“I’d like to get the series down to 23 or 24 races,” Driggers said last week. “I tried to do that with this year’s Summernationals, but I couldn’t. Too many tracks wanted a race because they make money for the promoters.”

Driggers said several new tracks have already talked with him about joining the Summernationals next year. He’s also contemplating some slight changes in the event purse structures to get more money to middle-of-the-pack feature finishers in hopes of keeping drivers on the road.

SAM’S MEMORABLE MOMENTS: Driggers singled out the July 8 event at Fairbury (Ill.) American Legion Speedway won by Wisconsin’s Jimmy Mars as his top race of this year’s UMP Summernationals.

When asked for other moments from the tour that stuck out in his mind, Driggers pointed to Steve Hillard’s controversial last-lap victory over Darren Miller in the June 23 show at Farmer City (Ill.) Raceway, which led to Miller exchanging angry words with Hillard at the scales following the checkered flag.

And Driggers couldn’t forget his craziest episode of the month. After stopping at a convenience store following the June 24 event at Clarksville (Tenn.) Speedway, Driggers climbed into someone else’s black truck in the parking lot! He realized he had opened the door to the wrong truck when he saw a very large, unfamiliar woman sitting in the passenger’s seat.

BLOCKBUSTER: The biggest field of the ’06 Summernationals – and one of the most impressive crowds – turned out for Saturday night’s series finale at Oakshade Raceway in Wauseon, Ohio.

A down-home track located in rural Northwestern Ohio that runs UMP-sanctioned dirt Late Models and Sportsman weekly, Oakshade drew 67 dirt Late Models and a standing-room-only gathering in the stands for the 60-lap ‘Birthday Race,’ which is annually the three-eighths-mile oval’s biggest show of the season. Helping the speedway attract such big front- and back-gate numbers was its low $10 general-admission price and $20 pit pass.

Oakshade management orchestrated a unique wave lap prior to the evening’s feature. As the cars circled four-wide, drivers waved glow-sticks out their windows (officials handed them out before the race) and fans waved back with their own glow-sticks and lighters. With the frontstretch lights momentarily turned off for the field’s pass in front of the stands, it made for an interesting scene.

PERFECT ATTENDANCE: The top-five finishers in the final UMP Summernationals points standings were the only drivers who entered all 26 events – Shannon Babb of Moweaqua, Ill. (2,070 points), Jeep VanWormer of Piconning, Mich. (1,907), Wendell Wallace of Batesville, Ark. (1,816), Randy Korte of Highland, Ill. (1,797) and Dennis Erb Jr. of Carpentersville, Ill. (1,795).

GOOD FOR HIM: Korte, who won three features on this year’s tour, helped his pursuit of the UMP national dirt Late Model championship by chasing the entire Summernationals.

With the events counting toward the national standings as well, Korte, 41, ended the Summernationals leading the national points by a healthy margin. He already has 50 UMP starts in 2006 – this season the national points structure has been changed to reflect drivers’ best 50 finishes – so he’ll now have the opportunity to drop his worst finishes for the remainder of the campaign.

The UMP national points race ends the last weekend in September.

DODGING THE RAIN: Korte’s final win of the series came on Thurs., July 13, at Quincy (Ill.) Raceway – in a program that was barely able to beat the weather.

Around 4:30 p.m. the skies blackened around the quarter-mile oval. But while a severe thunderstorm struck downtown Quincy just a few miles away, only a few drops fell at the track.

Many of the race teams parked their haulers outside a Lowe’s store one mile down the road to wait out the storm. When word came around 5:30 p.m. that the speedway had escaped the deluge, the teams pulled out of the parking lot in unison and headed for the track.

Lightning was visible brightening the sky throughout the evening’s feature as another storm approached, but the rain held off until about 15 minutes after the checkered flag flew.

TOP-NOTCH JOINT: One of the prettiest facilities on this year’s UMP Summernationals had to be 34 Raceway in West Burlington, Iowa, which hosted a $10,000-to-win show on Wed., July 12.

Owned for the last decade by veteran dirt Late Model driver and supporter Johnny Johnson, the three-eighths-mile oval sports a sparkling 4,000-capacity grandstand with chair-back seats; 22 VIP suites above the bleachers and a separate ‘Suite 34’ for larger parties outside turn four; bright Musco lights; a spongy track surface; and spic-and-span grounds.

Johnson, whose J&J Steel logo was visible as a sponsor on the flanks of seven cars running in 34 Raceway’s Summernationals event (his own, plus the Late Models driven by his son Jay Johnson, Babb, Wallace, Brian Birkhofer, Billy Moyer Jr. and Brian Shirley), reported that he is looking to sell 34 Raceway. He said he’s talked with several interested parties but no deal is imminent.

JEEP’S EXCELLENT ADVENTURE: Jeep VanWormer’s third season running the complete UMP Summernationals could be rated a success. He won twice (June 25 at Indiana’s Lawrenceburg Speedway and July 6 at Illinois’s Jacksonville Raceway) and finished second in the points standings (worth $12,000).

VanWormer’s best memory of the ’06 series? “When I lapped Babb at Jacksonville,” smiled VanWormer, who ran the last week of the tour with a duct-taped No. 55 on a new left-side door after his car was beat up in a crash.

Of course, being on the road for one month straight – “I don’t even know where home is,” joked VanWormer as the series wound down – can try a man’s patience, as evidenced by VanWormer’s angry outburst in the tour’s next-to-last show at Quincy. During heat action he tangled with Steve Sheppard Jr. of New Berlin, Ill., while battling for the lead and fell off the pace; he stayed on the track, however, waiting for Sheppard to catch him. When Sheppard finally attempted to lap VanWormer, VanWormer gunned his car at Sheppard’s exiting turn four.

Sheppard escaped the encounter with only bent right-rear bodywork and won the heat, but VanWormer’s car sustained suspension damage and had to be towed off the track. VanWormer also climbed out of his cockpit and tossed his helmet at Sheppard’s passing car while the field was under caution.

DRIVER EDUCATION: The 31-year-old Sheppard missed only one Summernationals event – the finale at Oakshade, which he skipped because the track is nine hours from his home and he was not in danger of losing a seventh-place finish in the points standings (worth $1,000).

It was the second time in the last three years that Sheppard chased the entire Summernationals schedule. He did it on the recommendation of his father.

“He came up with the idea for me to do this,” Sheppard said of his father, who owns a car-crushing business and fields Sheppard’s dirt Late Models. “I’m an (equipment) operator at his business, and he gave me the time off to run the whole deal. This is my so-called vacation.”

Sheppard, whose series-best run was a second at Quincy, felt his Summernationals experience was positive.

“I can’t believe how much I’ve learned,” he said. “Shannon (Babb, a fellow Rayburn driver) helped me out a lot. We went from barely making shows to running in the top five the last few nights.”

FIRST-TIMER: Wendell Wallace is a nationally-recognized dirt Late Model star who has wins in some of the division’s biggest events on his resume, but 2006 marked the first time he entered every Summernationals show.

He made a last-minute decision to leave Arkansas for a month and follow the tour.

“I didn’t plan to do this until three days before it started,” said Wallace. “I started with two cars and one motor, so we really weren’t prepared the way we needed to be.”

Wallace, who took delivery of additional powerplants from engine builder Joe Gaerte during the Summernationals, had “two or three shots to win” but wasn’t able to break through. He scored three runner-up finishes and learned some valuable lessons that he’ll apply if he takes on the challenge of the Summernationals in the future.

“It’s a lot more demanding than I thought it would be,” he said. “I had only one other (crew) guy with me, and I learned that’s not enough. You need three of four people to do this whole deal right.”

TWO-PERSON EFFORT: Dennis Erb Jr. ran the entire tour with just one crewman traveling with him the majority of the time – his friend Heather Lyne, who has been helping Erb for four years.

“We had two cars and a couple motors,” the 33-year-old Erb said of his self-owned assault, “and we loaded up everything we could get in the trailer.”

Erb, who was able to stop at his northern Illinois shop just twice during the series, won the Summernationals opener on June 15 at Twin Cities Raceway in North Vernon, Ind.

ALMOST PERFECT: Gibson City, Ill.’s Kevin Weaver, who won the 2000 UMP Summernationals title, entered every event on this year’s tour except the July 9 show at Tri-City Speedway in Pontoon Beach, Ill., and the finale at Oakshade.

The veteran driver, who finished a series-best second on June 16 at Kankakee (Ill.) Motor Speedway, can hit the road because he’s self-employed. He sells race car parts and does some shock work for various teams.

MIND-BLOWING: New traveler Jack Sullivan of Greenbrier, Ark., called his UMP Summernationals experience “just a blur” – and he didn’t even run all 26 events. He picked up the tour with the fourth race, on June 19 at Hartford (Mich.) Speedway Park, and missed a couple other events, including the finale.

Despite the late start, Anderson, 30, still spent four weeks on the road. He lived primarily in his DSI Motorsports team’s hauler, which made him appreciate an off-night on July 11 that was spent in an actual residence.

“I finally got to take a shower without having to turn the hot water off for the first time in three-and-a-half weeks,” Anderson quipped on July 12 at 34 Raceway.

Anderson, who skipped the Summernationals finale in favor of entering DIRT MotorSports’ Mid-America Racing Series (MARS) events on July 14-15 at Bolivar (Mo.) Speedway and Lebanon (Mo.) I-44 Speedway, recorded a Summernationals-best finish of fourth on July 3 at Western Kentucky Speedway in Nebo, Ky.

SOMEDAY: Dirt Late Model superstar Brian Birkhofer entered only a handful of UMP Summernationals events, but he showed how tough he’d be as a regular by winning $10,000 shows on July 7 at Bureau County Speedway in Princeton, Ill., and July 9 at Tri-City Speedway.

“I’ve thought about doing the whole thing for the last couple years,” said the Muscatine, Iowa, driver. “This year I couldn’t because I’m down on (crew) help, but if I get all the right pieces together I might do it one of these years.”

Birky would have to slightly alter his racing philosophy in order to spend so many consecutive days on the road.

“The appearance of my car is big to me,” smiled Birkhofer. “But when you’re away from the shop racing every day, it’s hard to keep your car looking good. I guess if I ran the whole deal I’d have to change my attitude on keeping doors and decals on my car.”

Shannon Babb Turns DIRT MotorSports’ UMP Summernationals Into His Personal Playground For Second Straight Year

WAUSEON, OH – July 15, 2006 – Shannon Babb has turned DIRT MotorSports’ grueling UMP Summernationals into his own personal playground.
Not surprisingly, that’s fine with him.
“For years it was Billy Moyer and Don O’Neal who dominated this thing,” Babb said after capping his second consecutive UMP Summernationals points crown with a victory in Saturday night’s 60-lap series finale at Oakshade Raceway. “I was one of the guys getting mud thrown on me trying to keep up with them, so now maybe our time has come.”
Babb, 32, of Moweaqua, Ill., has been so good on the Summernationals over the last two years, observers have taken to calling the month-long tour the ‘Babb Nationals.’ His numbers are staggering. In 2005 he established a UMP Summernationals single-season win record with 15 victories, and this year he captured 13 of the 26 races run over a 31-day period, including six in-a-row to tie Scott Bloomquist’s consecutive-win record established in 1990.
Since Babb scored his first career UMP Summernationals triumph on June 20, 1999, at Tri-State Speedway in Haubstadt, Ind., he’s just become better and better on the tour. He now has 51 career series wins, ranking him second on the alltime win list behind Batesville, Ark.’s Moyer (58 wins), a six-time Summernationals champion whose father, Billy Sr., owns the dirt Late Models that Babb drives.
“The key (to his success) is experience,” said Babb, who began entering multiple Summernationals events in 1996 and chased the entire tour for the first time in 2000. “When I started running all these shows, guys like Moyer and O’Neal taught me how to keep up on the wheel and be ready to race every night.
“I learned so much from them, and now we’re winning races like they used to.”
Babb’s early forays on the Summernationals road also made him realize how important it is to be geared up for the rigors of running so many events, at so many different tracks throughout the Midwest, in the span of a month.
“It takes a lot of people to do this,” said Babb. “Doing this with just one (crew) guy and yourself just pounds you into the ground. I tried it that way a few times, and it just didn’t work.”
With those lessons in mind, Babb rolled through this year’s tour thanks to the assistance of a solid group of four crewmen. His team included Jay Hunt, who’s Babb’s fulltime crew chief; Mike Mudd, a local dirt Late Model racer; Andrew Barnes, a young UMP-type Modified driver; and Dave Hoff. Hunt, Mudd and Barnes attended every event; Mudd used vacation time from his job, while Barnes is a mechanical engineering student who has the summer off from college.
Babb acknowledged that having a homebase in central Illinois provided him a built-in advantage, but it certainly didn’t make things easy.
“With so many races in Illinois (15), we were able to get back to our shop a few times and sleep in our own beds,” said Babb, who had a buddy stay at his house to feed his three dogs and cut his grass during the long stretches that he was on the road. “Guys like (Arkansas’s) Wendell (Wallace) and (Michigan’s) Jeep (VanWormer) haven’t been home since this thing started.”
Nevertheless, it still takes impeccable preparation for a driver to perform consistently at a high level in the Summernationals. Babb and Co. got it right, keeping their equipment in tip-top shape from the start of the series to its finish.
Babb experienced three DNFs – at Hartford (Mich.) Speedway Park on June 19, Spoon River Speedway in Canton, Ill., on July 5 and Quincy (Ill.) Raceway on July 13 – but none were caused by engine problems. He ran two Rayburn cars (one saw action in the majority of the events) and changed motors just once.
“We had real good luck this year,” said Babb, who registered 22 top-five and 23 top-10 finishes. “We had no major engine or car problems.”
Babb ended the Summernationals with a flourish, capturing three of the final four races after experiencing a six-race losing streak between July 3 and 10. He would have won the last four shows if not for a left-rear suspension failure that knocked him out of the lead late in the July 13 event at Quincy.
The points title was decided in Babb’s favor before he even towed to Oakshade for the finale. He clinched it after the Quincy program.
Babb’s Oakshade triumph – his sixth $10,000 win of the series – and the $30,000 in points-fund cash he’ll receive for the championship unofficially pushed his total Summernationals earnings to a cool $152,050. That kind of take for one month of racing is why Babb will likely focus on winning a third straight Summernationals title in 2007 rather than test his immense talent on a national touring series.
The UMP Summernationals just seems to suit Babb.
“It’s hard to pass up these races,” said Babb, who makes his living as a dirt Late Model driver. “In the spring you’re looking all over for races that pay $6,000 and $10,000 to win, but for this one month there’s a race almost every night not too far from my shop that pays that kind of money.”
Babb also thinks the heavy schedule helps make him a better race car driver.
“I tell all these guys just starting out: if you race every night, practice makes perfect,” said Babb, who plans to take this weekend off to regroup his team before entering World of Outlaws Late Model Series events next week at Missouri’s Lebanon I-44 Speedway (July 25) and Farmer City (Ill.) Raceway (July 26). “If you’re able to do it, you can’t beat all the track time you get running the Summernationals. You gotta get better.
“I know that we’re still learning something new every night.”
For the drivers hoping to unseat Babb as UMP Summernationals champ, that’s a scary thought.

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2006 UMP Summernationals Event Winners:
June 15: Twin Cities Raceway Park, North Vernon, Ind. (Dennis Erb Jr.)
June 16: Kankakee (Ill.) Speedway (Randy Korte)
June 17: Kamp Motor Speedway, Boswell, Ind. (Shannon Babb)
June 18: Tri-State Speedway, Haubstadt, Ind. (Rain)
June 19: Hartford (Mich.) Speedway Park (Don O’Neal)
June 20: Travel day
June 21: Peoria (Ill.) Speedway (Shannon Babb)
June 22: Macon (Ill.) Speedway (Shannon Babb)
June 23: Farmer City (Ill.) Raceway (Steve Hillard)
June 24: Clarksville (Tenn.) Speedway (Shannon Babb)
June 25: Lawrenceburg (Ind.) Speedway (Jeep VanWormer)
June 26: Travel day
June 27: Fayette County Speedway, Brownstown, Ill. (Dennis Erb)
June 28: Mt. Vernon (Ill.) Speedway (Shannon Babb)
June 29: Paducah (Ky.) International Raceway (Shannon Babb)
June 30: Poplar Bluff (Mo.) Speedway (Shannon Babb)
July 1: I-55 Raceway, Pevely, Mo. (Shannon Babb)
July 2: Vermillion County Speedway, Danville, Ill. (Shannon Babb)
July 3: Western Kentucky Speedway, Madisonville, Ky. (Shannon Babb)
July 4: Highland (Ill.) Speedway (Rodney Melvin)
July 5: Spoon River Speedway, Canton, Ill. (Randy Korte)
July 6: Jacksonville (Ill.) Raceway (Jeep VanWormer)
July 7: Bureau County Speedway, Princeton, Ill. (Brian Birkhofer)
July 8: Fairbury (Ill.) A/L Speedway (Jimmy Mars)
July 9: Tri-City Speedway, Pontoon Beach, Ill. (Brian Birkhofer)
July 10: La Salle (Ill.) Speedway (Shannon Babb)
July 11: Travel day
July 12: 34 Raceway, West Burlington, Iowa (Shannon Babb)
July 13: Quincy (Ill.) Raceway (Randy Korte)
July 14: Travel day
July 15: Oakshade Raceway, Wauseon, Ohio (Shannon Babb)

Alltime UMP Summernationals Series Champions:
2006: Shannon Babb
2005: Shannon Babb
2004: Don O’Neal
2003: Billy Moyer
2002: Scott Bloomquist
2001: Billy Moyer
2000: Kevin Weaver
1999: Billy Moyer
1998: Rick Aukland
1997: Rick Aukland
1996: Billy Moyer
1995: Bob Pierce
1994: Billy Moyer
1993: Billy Moyer
1992: Unknown
1991: Scott Bloomquist
1990: Scott Bloomquist
1989: Rick Standridge
1988: Pete Parker

Babb Caps UMP Summernationals Championship With $10,000 Victory In Series Finale At Oakshade Raceway

WAUSEON, OH – July 15, 2006 – Shannon Babb put a cherry on top of his second straight UMP Summernationals points title, capturing Saturday night’s 60-lap series finale at Oakshade Raceway.
The 32-year-old dirt Late Model driving star from Mowequa, Ill., dominated the event, blasting off from the outside pole to lead the entire distance. He was never seriously challenged en route to earning $10,000 for his 13th triumph in 26 races on this year’s tour.
Rusty Schlenk, an Oakshade regular hailing from Jackson, Mich., finished a distant second, a full straightaway behind Babb at the checkered flag.
“It’s awesome to be able to win the 2006 Summernationals championship like this,” said Babb, whose final victory margin in the series standings was 163 points over Jeep VanWormer of Piconning, Mich. “Last year we won the championship, but we didn’t win the finale (which was also at Oakshade).”
Babb, whose Summernationals title was worth an extra $30,000 for his bank account, had the crown locked up before even starting Oakshade’s ninth annual ‘Birthday Race’ special. There was no need for him to race conservatively – though that’s not part of his racing philosophy anyway.
“We try to win every race,” Babb said after spraying champagne with his crew in Victory Lane. “There’s damn good money on the line every night of this series, and we try to get as much of it as we can.”
Babb had no trouble collecting the top cash at the three-eighths-mile Oakshade Raceway, where he was previously victorious in the 2004 edition of the ‘Birthday Race.’ He simply perched his Billy Moyer Sr.-owned Rayburn No. 18 on the top lip of the track and tore around the oval, leaving the lane only when he needed to pass lapped cars.
“I’ve been here before and I knew the top’s pretty good,” analyzed Babb. “It’s a momentum deal (through the corners) here, and if I run around the bottom, it seems like I get my car bound up. So I thought it was best for the tires and the car to put it up there on the top and ride.”
With lapped cars giving him little trouble, Babb cruised to a UMP Summernationals championship celebration on Oakshade’s homestretch in front of a standing-room-only crowd.
“We had a super good race car for this whole series,” said Babb, who recorded his 51st career win in UMP Summernationals competition. “And we had great people behind us – J&J Steel, Car City, Petroff Towing, Rayburn.”
Schlenk couldn’t stop Babb from blowing into his hometrack and stealing the top prize, but his second-place finish was still noteworthy. He fell back to third early in the race after starting from the pole position, but he used the inside groove to take second from Wendell Wallace of Batesville, Ark., on lap 43 and actually gained some ground on Babb before being hampered by slower cars.
“I can’t complain about second, especially with the kind of competition that was here tonight,” said Schlenk. “But I started getting a real big grin on my face after I got to second. My tires were starting to come and I saw (Babb) getting bigger and bigger in front of me, but then lapped traffic got in my way.”
Wallace, who started fourth, settled for third place in a race that was slowed by five caution flags in the first 16 laps but none thereafter. He also clinched a third-place points finish in the UMP Summernationals, which he followed from start-to-finish for the first time in his career.
VanWormer came from eighth to place fourth, a couple car lengths behind Wallace at the finish. Randy Korte of Highland, Ill., completed the top five after starting third and unofficially claimed fourth in the UMP Summernationals points standings, two points ahead of Carpentersville, Ill.’s Dennis Erb Jr., who finished sixth and was the final driver on the lead lap at the checkered flag.
Babb, VanWormer, Wallace, Korte and Erb were the five drivers who had perfect attendance on DIRT MotorSports’ 2006 UMP Summernationals.
Brian Ruhlman of Clark Lake, Mich., set fast time for the event, which drew an ’06 UMP Summernationals high of 67 cars.
Heat winners were Curtis Roberts, Schlenk, Duane Chamberlain, Korte, Wallace and Babb. B-Main victors were Don Wallace, Dustin Moore and Zack Olger, and Schlenk captured the pole dash.

UMP Summernationals Feature Finish (60 laps): 1. Shannon Babb, 2. Rusty Schlenk, 3. Wendell Wallace, 4. Jeep VanWormer, 5. Randy Korte, 6. Dennis Erb Jr., 7. Rick Delong, 8. Curtis Roberts, 9. Brian Ruhlman, 10. Frank Heckenast Jr., 11. Aaron Scott, 12. Casey Noonan, 13. Kris Patterson, 14. Dustin Moore, 15. Hillard Miller, 16. Ron Miller, 17. Duane Chamberlain, 18. Justin Paxton, 19. Jerry Bowersock, 20. Don Wallace, 21. Zack Olger.
DNQ: Tim Sabo, Greg Martin, Dean Anderson, Herb Reich, Kevin Reeve, Brad Miller, Brandon Perkins, Darrell Scott, Rody Schroyer, Brian Koebbe, Bob Miller, Ky Harper, Tim Wright, Dan Wilkins, Joe Wildermuth, Curtis Diesenroth, Terry Sroufe, Skeet Richner, Tom Stafford, Tim Stemler, Joe Overmyer, Ernie Haynes, Zac Davis, Devin Shiels, John Gamber, Jeremy Grover, Mark Thrasher, Mike Stiltner, Jake Rendel, Mike Miller, Mike Harger, Mike McKnight, Jeff Kohn, Ryan Garey, Ken Hahn, Brian McQueen, Bill Hahn, Troy Cattarene, Jeff Clapp, Ronnie Perrine, Brad Eitnear, George Lindsey, Shawn Reed, Chris Keller, Jon Horner.

After Babb’s Luck Runs Out, Korte Pulls Off Late-Race Pass For UMP Summernationals Victory At Quincy Raceway

QUINCY, IL – July 13, 2006 – On a night that saw Shannon Babb’s good fortune go bad, Randy Korte pulled off a late-race pass to win Thursday’s 40-lap UMP Summernationals feature at Quincy Raceway.
Mowequa, Ill.’s Babb, who started from the pole position, appeared headed to his third straight and 13th overall victory of the Summernationals until a broken left-rear suspension knocked him out of the lead on lap 33.
That shocking turn of events thrust Steve Sheppard Jr. of New Berlin, Ill., into the top spot, but he couldn’t hang on for his first career Summernationals triumph. He bobbled in turn two on lap 36, allowing Highland, Ill.’s Korte to slide in front and drive to his third triumph of the 2006 series.
“We had a hard tire on the right-rear and were coming on late in the race,” said Korte, who earned $6,000 for his seventh career win on DIRT MotorSports’ UMP Summernationals tour. “I don’t know if we could’ve won without Babb breaking, but we’ll take it.”
Korte, who had finished second to Babb in the previous two Summernationals events, beat Sheppard to the checkered flag by roughly a half-straightaway margin.
Completing the top five was Joe Ross Jr., Tim Lance and Mark Burgtorf – all local drivers.
Despite finishing 17th, Babb, 32, unofficially clinched the $30,000 UMP Summernationals championship for the second year in a row. But following the checkered flag, he was thinking only of a race that got away.
Babb was the event’s dominant force, pulling away to a straightaway advantage after fending off an early challenge from Dennis Erb Jr. of Carpentersville, Ill., who brought out a caution flag on lap 13 when a broken suspension mount cut down his car’s left-rear tire.
But on lap 33 Babb spun in turn four amid heavy lapped traffic, triggering the race’s fourth and final caution flag. He limped into the pit area and didn’t return.
“The left-rear just fell down when I got into the turn,” said Babb, who had led the entire distance. “It’s disappointing, but sometimes you’ll have bad luck.”
Sheppard, a 31-year-old who has entered every event to date on this year’s UMP Summernationals, found himself in position to claim one of the biggest wins of his career following Babb’s departure.
“That was on mind during the caution,” said Sheppard, who started fourth. “I was just thinking, Don’t screw it up – and I did!
“I pushed up (on lap 36) and gave (Korte) the line. It was my fault. It was a stupid mistake.”
Korte, 41, gladly accepted the gift-wrapped win.
“I just rolled through the middle of the racetrack,” Korte said of the main’s deciding moment, “and when Stevie had trouble running the cushion I went under him.”
Patience paid off for Korte, who kept his Rocket No. 00 off the choppy outside line while waiting for his right-rear tire to heat up.
“The Rayburn cars (Babb and Sheppard) could run on the cushion, but I couldn’t,” said Korte, who started third. “I knew it would be late in the race when we got going, and that’s what happened.”
Korte, who entered the event ranked fifth in the UMP Summernationals points standings, gave himself a shot to finish as high as third with a strong run in Saturday night’s series finale at Oakshade Speedway in Wauseon, Ohio. He also padded his points lead in the UMP Late Model national points standings.
Thirty-three cars entered the event, which beat the thunderstorms that threatened all night. A heavy shower just missed hitting the facility around 5 p.m., and an approaching storm – lightning lit up the sky throughout the feature – held off until shortly after the program was completed.
Babb set fast time with a lap of 13.876 seconds around the quarter-mile oval.
Heat winners were Babb, Korte, Sheppard and Erb. Ryan Dauber and Jack Sullivan captured the B-Mains, and Babb topped the pole dash.

UMP Summernationals Feature Finish (40 laps): 1. Randy Korte, 2. Steve Sheppard Jr., 3. Joe Ross Jr., 4. Tim Lance, 5. Mark Burgtorf, 6. Jack Sullivan, 7. Kevin Weaver, 8. Jeep VanWormer, 9. Dennis Erb Jr., 10. Jay Johnson, 11. Jason Feger, 12. Ryan Dauber, 13. Bill Genenbacher, 14. Keith Pratt, 15. Wendell Wallace, 16. Brian Kenning, 17. Shannon Babb, 18. Steve Gratz, 19. Denny Woodworth, 20. Rodney Melvin, 21. Johnny Johnson.
DNQ: Brian Shirley, Adam Mefford, Kerry Matthew, Billy Moyer Jr., Don Cisco III, Justin Reed, Steve Zakrajsek, Ricky Frankel, Terry Gallaher, Dustin Neese, Kevin Tomlinson, Andy Davis.

Eckert Will Bid For Bloomquist’s World of Outlaws Late Model Series Win Record July 21-22 At K-C Raceway – And Bloomquist Will Try To Stop Him

CHILLICOTHE, OH – July 12, 2006 – The red-hot Rick Eckert will bid to tie Scott Bloomquist’s World of Outlaws Late Model Series single-season win record during the ‘Veterans Appreciation Weekend’ July 21-22 at Jim Nier’s K-C Raceway.
And Bloomquist will be there to try stopping him.
Eckert, 40, of York, Pa., leads the charge of Outlaws to K-C Raceway, where complete programs topped by $10,000-to-win 50-lap features will be run on Fri., July 21, and Sat., July 22. He enters the weekend with eight victories in 17 WoO LMS events this season, putting him just two checkered flags behind Bloomquist’s record of 10 wins established in 2004.
“We’re gonna go for it at K-C,” Eckert said of Bloomquist’s win standard. “I’ve never won a race there, but hopefully I can change that this trip.
“K-C is usually a pretty racy track, so I’m looking forward to running there.”
Providing Eckert an added test will be Bloomquist, the 42-year-old dirt Late Model driving star from Mooresburg, Tenn. Bloomquist, who won the championship of the WoO LMS’s inaugural season in 2004, isn’t a tour regular this season, but he has the doubleheader weekend on his special-event schedule.
Eckert, who is the alltime winningest driver in WoO LMS action with 16 career victories, relishes the challenge that Bloomquist will surely provide.
“Tying his record while he’s there,” Eckert said of Bloomquist, “would make it even better.”
But while Eckert is confident after capturing five of the last seven WoO LMS events – including a recent tour-record win streak of four races – he has no illusions about the task ahead of him.
“The (10-win record) might not seem far off because I only have two to go, but it is,” said Eckert, who drives an orange Rocket-chassied car fielded by veteran car owner Raye Vest. “That’s a lot of wins against the type of competition on this series.
“There’s a few real good guys (WoO LMS regulars) who haven’t even won a race yet this year,” he added. “I’m afraid that when they start winning, they’re gonna be real hard to beat.”
Eckert joked that beating Bloomquist’s win record would be satisfying because it might push Bloomquist’s name out of the prominent place it still occupies in WoO LMS discussions and history books even though “he doesn’t race with us anymore.”
But humor aside, Eckert would feel honored to set a new single-season win record on the country’s premier dirt Late Model tour.
“Generally records have never meant much to me,” said Eckert, a veteran racer who has also competed in ARCA stock car events on superspeedways and the winged Sprint Car division during his 25 years behind the wheel. “But I’d like to get this one. I know how hard it is (to win repeatedly) on a series like this whether (Bloomquist) is here or not.”
Fans still have the opportunity to purchase advance two-day tickets to the blockbuster ‘Veterans Appreciation Weekend.’ Pre-sale two-day reserved seat tickets are $60, adult general admission is $45 and student (ages 7-15) general admission is $20.
On the race days, single-day ticket prices at the track’s box office will $30 for reserved seats, $25 for adult general admission and $10 for student (ages 7-15) general admission. Children 6 and under will be admitted free.
All military veterans presenting a valid veterans’ I.D. will be granted free general admission to the Sat., July 22, racing program at the popular three-eighths-mile clay oval. A 50-lap WoO LMS feature paying $10,000 to win will top the Saturday-night card, which also includes action for K-C’s regular open-wheel Modified and Hobby Stock divisions.
The two-day weekend will kick off on Fri., July 21, with a complete WoO LMS show of time trials, heat races, B-Mains, pole dash and a $10,000-to-win 50-lap feature. Also part of the action that evening will be the 410 Sprint Cars that compete at K-C on a regular basis.
To order tickets, call Jim Nier’s K-C Raceway Monday through Friday from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. EDT at 740-289-4114.

Current World of Outlaws Late Model Series Points Standings:
1. Billy Moyer/Batesville, AK 2,338
2. Rick Eckert/York, PA 2,334
3. Tim McCreadie/Watertown, NY 2,330
4. Steve Francis/Ashland, KY 2,308
5. Darrell Lanigan/Union, KY 2,304
6. Shane Clanton/Locust Grove, GA 2,302
7. Chub Frank/Bear Lake, PA 2,288
8. Dale McDowell/Chickamauga, GA 2,246
9. Clint Smith/Senoia, GA 2,151
10. Josh Richards/Shinnston, WV 2,126
11. John Blankenship/Williamson, WV 1,912
12. Eddie Carrier Jr./Salt Rock, WV 1,877
13. Garrett Durrett/Simsboro, LA 1,844
14. Eric Jacobsen/Santa Cruz, CA 1,837
15. Mike Balzano/Parkersburg, WV 923

World of Outlaws Late Model Series Return Visit To Farmer City Raceway On Wed., July 26, Fast Approaching

FARMER CITY, IL – July 13 – The World of Outlaws Late Model Series will return to Farmer City Raceway on Wed., July 26, to run a racing program that Mother Nature wouldn’t allow to start two months ago.
After DIRT MotorSports officials were forced to call off the ‘Battle of the Borders 50’ at the track due to cold, soggy weather on May 12, they established July 26 as the date to try again.
Fans and racers holding rainchecks from May 12 can present them at Farmer City on July 26 for admission. General admission ticket prices on race day will be $25 for adults and $10 for students (ages 7-15), with children ages 6 and under free of charge. Pit admission will be $35.
A 50-lap feature paying $10,000 to win will headline the first-ever WoO LMS event at Farmer City, which will also include time trials, heat races, B-Mains and a pole dash.
The WoO LMS event will will be co-sanctioned by the United Midwestern Promoters (UMP) Late Model Series, which is also owned by DIRT MotorSports. As a result, UMP’s tire rule -- Hoosier LM M20 or M40 compound 11” x 88”, 90” or 92” tires -- will be utilized, and UMP points will be awarded.
UMP Modifieds will also be on the program, racing for $1,000 to win.
The UMP co-sanction will help lure a host of UMP’s top drivers from the Midwest – many of whom competed in the month-long UMP Summernationals series – to battle the WoO LMS standouts. Included in that group is Summernationals dominator Shannon Babb of Moweaqua, Ill., and Randy Korte of Highland, Ill.
In addition, DIRT MotorSports has posted a $1,000 non-touring/local driver bonus for the event. The cash will be divided up at Farmer City by three competitors who are not currently ranked in the top 20 of a national touring series and have never won a WoO LMS event in the past. The first driver across the finish line who fits the criteria will receive a $500 bonus, the second $300 and the third $200.
All of the WoO LMS regulars will be on hand for the mid-week show, continuing the battle for the championship that currently sees Billy Moyer of Batesville, Ark., Rick Eckert of York, Pa., Tim McCreadie of Watertown, N.Y., Steve Francis of Ashland, Ky., Darrell Lanigan of Union, Ky., Shane Clanton of Locust Grove, Ga., and Chub Frank of Bear Lake, Pa., separated by just 50 points.
Pit gates will open at 3 p.m. and spectator gates at 5 p.m. Warmups are scheduled to begin at 6:30 p.m. and time trials at 7 p.m.
To get to Farmer City Raceway, take I-74 to exit 159, then 0.6 miles south on State Route 54, then 0.7 miles west on U.S. Route 150. The quarter-mile speedway is located at the DeWitt County Fairgrounds.
For more information visit www.farmercityraceway.net.
The WoO LMS event at Farmer City was originally slated to be part of a spring doubleheader trip, paired with a race at Kamp Motor Speedway in Boswell, Ind., on May 13. But after weather also wiped out the action at Kamp Motor Speedway, officials could not find a suitable new date and the event was not rescheduled.
Anyone holding advance tickets for the Kamp Motor Speedway event should contact Kamp Motor Speedway at 765-869-5212 or DIRT MotorSports at 877-572-2464 for refund information.

Babb Makes It An Even Dozen Wins On UMP Summernationals Tour Wednesday At 34 Raceway

WEST BURLINGTON, IA – July 12, 2006 – Shannon Babb put himself on the brink of a second consecutive UMP Summernationals title, winning Wednesday night’s 40-lap tour event at 34 Raceway.
The $10,000 triumph was Babb’s second in a row and 12th overall on DIRT MotorSports’ grueling, month-long dirt Late Model series.
But more importantly, the Moweaqua, Ill., standout extended his already commanding points lead with two races remaining in the 26-event UMP Summernationals. He can mathematically clinch the $30,000 crown in Thursday night’s stop at Quincy (Ill.) Raceway.
“We’re getting close,” said Babb, who won a series-record 15 features en route to capturing last year’s Summernationals. “But we’ve run every night like it’s a new one and we’ll continue to do that.
“We look at the Summernationals as a chance to make some good money every night for a month – and if everything works out, there’s real good money for winning the points.”
Babb, 32, started the main from the pole position and led from flag-to-flag, but the checkered flag didn’t come easily. He was threatened early by Randy Korte of Highland, Ill., who finished in the runner-up spot for the second consecutive race, and he thought he was vulnerable late in the distance.
The three-eighths-mile oval’s moist, racy track surface proved to be a challenge. Babb made myriad suspension changes to his RaceTek-powered Rocket No. 18 during the program in hopes of uncovering an optimum setup for the conditions, and he drove up-and-down the speedway to find the fast groove.
“I was searching everywhere,” said Babb. “I ran around the top at the start, but I saw Randy down there inside me a few times so I moved to the middle to try it. That’s the lane my car liked best.”
Babb was flawless racing through lapped traffic at mid-race and pulled away from Korte following the race’s second and final caution flag, on lap 29. He beat Korte to the finish line by roughly 10 car lengths – a margin that Babb wasn’t quite sure about.
“I felt like I was taking forever to get off turn four late in the race,” said Babb. “I thought for sure that Randy would be there to challenge me.”
Korte, who recorded the night’s fastest lap in time trials, never got close after his early challenge, but he held firmly to second place.
Jimmy Mars of Menomonie, Wis., was the mover-and-shaker of the closing circuits, passing Brady Smith of Salon Springs, Wis., exiting turn two on the final lap to finish third. Smith settled for fourth place and outside-polesitter Darren Miller of Milledgeville, Ill., took fifth.
Babb’s Victory Lane appearance had some special significance. It was his first-ever win at 34 Raceway, a top-notch facility that is owned by veteran dirt Late Model racer/supporter Johnny Johnson, whose J&J Steel company’s logo happens to grace the flanks of Babb’s car.
“Johnny has done a lot of stuff for us,” said Babb, who has another Iowa-based business, Car City, as a sponsor. “It means a lot to come to his track and win.”
Brian Birkhofer of Muscatine, Iowa, who entered Wednesday night’s action after winning UMP Summernationals events on July 7 at Bureau County Speedway in Princeton, Ill., and July 9 at Tri-City Speedway in Pontoon Beach, Ill., moved from the eighth starting spot to fourth by lap 11. But sheet metal that was bent in an early scrape ultimately cut down his car’s left-rear tire, forcing him out of action on lap 29.
Twenty-seven cars entered the event.
Heat winners were Korte, Babb and Miller. Wendell Wallace of Batesville, Ark., captured the B-Main and Babb topped the pole dash.

UMP Summernationals Feature Finish (40 laps): 1. Shannon Babb, 2. Randy Korte, 3. Jimmy Mars, 4. Brady Smith, 5. Darren Miller, 6. Steve Shepard, 7. Dennis Erb Jr., 8. Jeep VanWormer, 9. Wendell Wallace, 10. Mark Burgtorf, 11. Jay Johnson, 12. Todd Shute, 13. Jack Sullivan, 14. Billy Moyer Jr., 15. Brian Birkhofer, 16. Johnny Johnson, 17. Denny Woodward, 18. Jason Feger, 19. Jeff Laue, 20. Brian Harris, 21. Kevin Weaver, 22. Brian Kenning, 23. Brian Shirley, 24. Kerry Matthew.
DNQ: Steve Zakrajsek, Kevin Tomlinson, Denny Eckrich.

Two-day ‘Veterans Appreciation Weekend’ Set For July 21-22 At Ohio’s K-C Raceway

CHILLICOTHE, OH – July 10, 2006 – The fighting men and women of America’s military will be honored during the World of Outlaws Late Model Series ‘Veterans Appreciation Weekend’ set for Fri., July 21, and Sat., July 22, at Jim Nier’s K-C Raceway.
All military veterans presenting a valid veterans’ I.D. will be granted free general admission to the Sat., July 22, racing program at the popular three-eighths-mile clay oval. A 50-lap WoO LMS feature paying $10,000 to win will top the Saturday-night card, which also includes action for K-C’s regular open-wheel Modified and Hobby Stock divisions.
The two-day weekend will kick off on Fri., July 21, with a complete WoO LMS show of time trials, heat races, B-Mains, pole dash and a $10,000-to-win 50-lap feature. Also part of the action that evening will be the 410 Sprint Cars that compete at K-C on a regular basis.
Fans still have the opportunity to purchase advance two-day tickets to the blockbuster weekend. Pre-sale two-day reserved seat tickets are $60, adult general admission is $45 and student (ages 7-15) general admission is $20.
On the race days, single-day ticket prices at the track’s box office will $30 for reserved seats, $25 for adult general admission and $10 for student (ages 7-15) general admission. Children 6 and under will be admitted free.
To order tickets, call Jim Nier’s K-C Raceway Monday through Friday from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. EDT at 740-289-4114.
Last year’s inaugural Veterans Appreciation 100, which featured a single 100-lap feature won by Kentucky’s Jackie Boggs, drew more than 40 cars to K-C Raceway. Track and DIRT officials anticipate a similarly large field on July 21-22.
All of the WoO LMS regulars will be on hand for the Veterans Apprecation Weekend, continuing the battle for the championship that currently sees Billy Moyer of Batesville, Ark., Rick Eckert of York, Pa., Tim McCreadie of Watertown, N.Y., Steve Francis of Ashland, Ky., Darrell Lanigan of Union, Ky., Shane Clanton of Locust Grove, Ga., and Chub Frank of Bear Lake, Pa., separated by just 50 points.
A strong contingent of regional dirt Late Model racers is expected to challenge the WoO LMS standouts, including Ohio stars Bart Hartman and brothers Rod and R.J. Conley.
Many racers will be enticed to participate by an opportunity to share in a $1,000 non-touring/local driver bonus offered by DIRT MotorSports.
The $1,000 non-touring/local driver bonus will be divided up at K-C Raceway by three competitors who are not currently ranked in the top 20 of a national touring series and have never won a WoO LMS event in the past. The first driver across the finish line who fits the criteria will receive a $500 bonus, the second $300 and the third $200.
Also planning to enter the weekend’s action is 2004 WoO LMS champion Scott Bloomquist of Mooresburg, Tenn., who will try to dull Eckert’s charge toward the tour’s single-season win record currently held by Bloomquist. Eckert already has eight WoO LMS victories in 2006, putting him just two scores away from Bloomquist’s 10-win standard established in 2004.
Qualifying each night is scheduled to begin at 6 o’clock, with racing at 6:45.
K-C Raceway is located six miles south of Chillicothe, Ohio, off SR 23.
For more information on Jim Nier’s K-C Raceway visit the track website located at www.kc-raceway.com.

World of Outlaws Late Model Series Regular Eric Jacobsen Makes Some Laps On DIRT’s UMP Summernationals Tour

LA SALLE, IL – July 11, 2006 – After the World of Outlaws Late Model Series stop on July 8 at Sharon Speedway in Hartford, Ohio, tour regular Eric Jacobsen was itching to find some new places to race.
The laid-back Californian hit uncharted territory by jumping onto DIRT MotorSports’ prestigious UMP Summernationals, a grueling month-long series that offers over $800,000 in purses and a lucrative points fund.
Jacobsen, 37, of Santa Cruz, Calif., entered UMP Summernationals events on July 9 at Tri-City Speedway in Pontoon Beach, Ill., and July 10 at La Salle (Ill.) Speedway. He ended his two-day Summernationals drop-in without a feature finish to write home about, but he relished the experience he gained from running foreign ovals.
Considering Jacobsen is only in his fourth season of dirt Late Model competition, any extra laps he’s able to turn are useful.
“It’s more seat time,” Jacobsen said while preparing to qualify on Monday night at La Salle Speedway, a high-banked, quarter-mile track about 100 miles southwest of Chicago. “The guys we race against on the World of Outlaws Series have a lot of experience, so we’re trying to learn as much as we can.”
And make no mistake – Jacobsen, who is a WoO LMS Rookie of the Year contender, was in a full learning mode. He raced without the vast setup assistance he receives at WoO LMS events from fellow members of the Rocket Chassis family, and he had to get acclimated to UMP’s Hoosier 20/40 compound tire mandate (the WoO LMS has an open-tire rule).
“This is great for us,” he bottom-lined.
Jacobsen’s UMP excursion began positively at Tri-City, where he turned the fourth-fastest lap in time trials. But a bobble in his heat race cost him a transfer spot, and he failed to qualify because his car’s transmission broke during the B-Main.
The good-night-gone-bad prompted Jacobsen to race in La Salle’s program, which wasn’t on his original itinerary.
“Frustration got us here tonight,” he said on Monday, referring to his disappointing outing at Tri-City.
Jacobsen had some troubles during time trials at La Salle, nearly spinning on the backstretch on his first lap. But he recovered to qualify for the 40-lap feature through the B-Main, finishing second to Jimmy Mars of Menomonie, Wis.
Before heading onto the track for the main event, Jacobsen contemplated his race philosophy.
“Do we try to compete,” he said, “or do we try some stuff we’ve never tried before and see if it works?”
Jacobsen didn’t have a chance to do either. On the main’s third lap he clipped the homestretch wall and limped into the pit area with his damaged Soilfume-sponsored No. 5.
Despite the disappointing runs, Jacobsen enjoyed his fleeting taste of the UMP Summernationals, a test of man and machine that was scheduled to visit 27 tracks throughout the Midwest in a 31-day span.
“If I wasn’t running with the Outlaws, I’d love to do the whole Summernationals,” said Jacobsen, who planned to return home at mid-week before flying back to east for WoO LMS events at K-C Raceway in Chillicothe, Ohio, on July 21-22. “Running all those races in one month seems like it would be a real adventure.”

Babb Bags 11th Win of 2006 UMP Summernationals Monday At La Salle Speedway

LA SALLE, IL – July 10, 2006 – Six races without a win on the UMP Summernationals trail?
That’s a veritable slump for Shannon Babb.
It ended on Monday night, however, when Babb snapped back into form with a victory in the 40-lap UMP Summernationals feature at La Salle Speedway.
The Moweaqua, Ill., standout recorded his 11th triumph of the month-long 2006 dirt Late Model series, but it was his first since July 3 at Western Kentucky Speedway in Madisonville, Ky. He had won 10 of the first 16 Summernationals events, putting him in position to challenge his series record of 15 wins established in 2005.
With only three races left, Babb won’t set a new win mark. But he’s closing in on a second straight UMP Summernationals points title, worth $30,000.
Babb, 32, was pleased to get back on track with the Summernationals, but even happier to finally master the high-banked, quarter-mile La Salle oval.
“This is only my second win here,” said Babb, who earned $6,000 driving Billy Moyer Sr.’s RaceTek-powered Rayburn car. “This place has always been tough for me. We’ve had good runs, but just couldn’t get wins.”
Monday’s feature started off like it might be another one of those frustrating nights at La Salle for Babb. He took the initial green flag from the pole position after winning the dash, but second-starter Randy Korte of Highland, Ill., outgunned him to become the first leader.
Babb didn’t panic, however, and gradually turned up the pressure on Korte. He finally slipped underneath Korte to assume command for good on lap 11.
“His car was a little bit better on the start,” Babb said of Korte. “But I got rolling, and he was giving me some room on the bottom.
“There was moisture on the inside), but you almost had to park (the car) down there in the corners. He could keep his momentum up more in the middle, but we were able to finally get by him.”
Korte, 41, couldn’t repel Babb’s assault.
“I thought we were gonna be good after getting by Shannon at the start,” said Korte. “But he got a nose on me and I let him go. Me and Shannon have been good friends a long time and we race clean.”
Korte’s hopes of making a last-ditch run on Babb were dashed when, after the race’s second and final caution flag on lap 24, it took him five circuits to overtake a lapped car. Babb had a straightaway edge at that point and cruised to the checkered flag unchallenged.
Korte settled for second, followed by Wendell Wallace of Batesville, Ark., and Jeep VanWormer of Piconning, Mich. The top-four finishers started the race in the same positions.
Wes Steidinger, 23, of Fairbury, Ill., finished fifth, advancing one position from the sixth starting spot.
Thirty-three cars entered event, which was run under a threat of rain.
VanWormer set fast time with a lap of 12.712 seconds.
Heat winners were VanWormer, Korte, Babb and Wallace, and Jimmy Mars of Menomonie, Wis.
The UMP Summernationals ends this week with events at 34 Raceway in West Burlington, Iowa (Wed., July 12); Quincy (Ill.) Raceway (Thurs., July 13); and Oakshade Raceway in Wauseon, Ohio (Sat., July 15).

UMP Summernationals Feature Finish (40 laps): 1. Shannon Babb, 2. Randy Korte, 3. Wendell Wallace, 4. Jeep VanWormer, 5. Wes Steidinger, 6. Steve Sheppard Jr., 7. Tony Izzo Jr., 8. Darren Miller, 9. Jimmy Mars, 10. Kevin Weaver, 11. Brian Shirley, 12. Jason Fegers, 13. Eric Smith, 14. Russ Scheffler, 15. Jack Sullivan, 16. Billy Drake, 17. Dennis Erb Jr., 18. Mike Glynn, 19. Tim Hamburg, 20. Ryan Dauber, 21. Eric Jacobsen.
DNQ: Kerry Mathew, Rich Bell, Scott Schmitt, Steve Zakrajsek, Brian Claudnic, Turk Letizia, Bret Sievert, George Scheffler, Jim Mineo, Mike Provazzano, Jim Letizia, Brady Smith.

Sharon Speedway: World of Outlaws Late Model Series News & Notes

HARTFORD, OH – July 8, 2006 –
ANOTHER FULL HOUSE: Sprint Car driving star Dale Blaney, who helps operate his family’s Sharon Speedway, smiled when he looked up into the track’s grandstands during Saturday night’s World of Outlaws Late Model Series event.
With a brilliant, sun-splashed summer day prevailing, fans turned out in droves for a rare dirt Late Model show at the three-eighths-mile oval. There was little open space visible in the spacious bleachers.
“We’re real happy (with attendance),” Blaney said while munching on nachos in the speedway tower as the WoO LMS feature readied to take the green flag. “I’d have to say this is our biggest crowd of the season.”
ROLE REVERSAL: Blaney, who plans to enter the WoO Sprint Series Kings Royal Weekend this Friday and Saturday (July 14-15) at Eldora Speedway in Rossburg, Ohio, felt a sense of irony when he watched Dresden, Ohio’s Donnie Moran set a new track record during time trials for Saturday’s WoO LMS Buckeye 50.
“Last week when I pulled into Zanesville (Ohio’s Muskingum County Speedway, which is owned by Moran’s father) for the Ohio (Sprint) Speedweek show I saw Donnie out there watering the track – and then I set a new track record and won the feature,” said Blaney. “Tonight when Donnie got here I was out working on the track, and then he set a new track record.”
Moran couldn’t duplicate Blaney’s feature win, however. He was scheduled to start third in the 50-lap A-Main, but terminal engine problems forced him to drop to the rear of the field and take only one lap to earn last-place money.
TWO-CAR TEAM: Rocket Chassis co-owner Mark Richards called it “Double Trouble.”
He was referring to his House Car team’s two-car effort at Sharon. WoO LMS regular Dale McDowell entered the event in a second Rocket No. 1 as a teammate to 2005 WoO LMS rookie of the year Josh Richards, Mark’s 18-year-old son.
McDowell, who is uncharacteristically winless on this year’s WoO LMS, arranged a one-race deal with Richards to take some pressure off his own team. After making the long tow home to Chickamauga, Ga., following the July 2 WoO LMS stop at Cayuga County Fair Speedway in Weedsport, N.Y., in order to tend to his dirt Late Model driving experience/school, he felt that traveling 700 miles back to Sharon for one race would put undue strain on his operation.
“We’ve gotten so busy with the driving-school,” said McDowell, who holds his racing “courses” at North Georgia Speedway. “We have to get five Late Models and one (UMP-type) Modified ready by August 1 for a new program we’re starting up, so I had Shane (his brother/crew chief) and the guys stay home to get some work done.”
McDowell, who drove to a sixth-place finish in the feature in a Rocket car number 1x, reported that his racing school has been attracting some well-known visitors. NASCAR Nextel Cup drivers Kevin Harvick and Clint Bowyer recently came down to take some laps in McDowell’s school cars in preparation for Tony Stewart’s Nextel Prelude to the Dream event at Eldora Speedway.
HANGING AROUND: Several southern-based WoO LMS drivers opted to spend the days between the Cayuga County and Sharon events in the north rather than make long hauls home.
Louisiana’s Garrett Durrett, a WoO LMS rookie of the year contender, stayed in upstate New York with Tim McCreadie. The drivers and their girlfriends went out in the big city of Rochester, N.Y., several times during the week.
Meanwhile, Georgia residents Shane Clanton and Clint Smith and Kentucky’s Steve Francis caravanned to enjoy a couple days of R&R at the popular Cedar Point amusement park in Sandusky, Ohio.
STRUGGLING: McCreadie couldn’t repeat his ’05 WoO LMS victory at Sharon.
This time, in fact, he was never even a factor.
McCreadie’s night took a turn for the worst when he tangled in turn two with Mike Balzano while battling for the final transfer position in the third heat. He switched to his backup Sweeteners Plus car in an attempt to find some speed and used a provisional spot to get into the feature, but he could only manage a quiet 12th-place finish.
“We’ve been terrible for a month,” bottom-lined the dejected McCreadie. “We were only good at Weedsport (Cayuga County), but that’s only because we knew the track more than anyone else.
“We have to pick it up or we’re gonna fall to seventh or eighth in the points real fast.”
MOONLIGHTING: Snap-on Crew Chief of the Year contender Tommy Grecco, who serves as McCreadie’s right-hand man, got another taste of racing from a driver’s-eye view on the eve of Sharon’s show.
On Friday Grecco drove a 358-Modified at Black Rock Speedway in Dundee, N.Y. He dropped out of the feature after the left-front suspension of his car was damaged, but his buddy Ron Cartwright, who gives Grecco an opportunity to race when his schedule allows, won the event.
DREAMING BIG: Up-and-coming racer Dave Hess Jr. of Waterford, Pa., continued to impress the big boys of the traveling tour, finishing a steady ninth in the Buckeye 50. It was his third top-10 finish in five WoO LMS starts this season.
“Running with the Outlaws is what I’d like to do,” said Hess, who turns 22 this month. “We’re looking to get some sponsors that will help take me on the road.”
Hess, who has been making a name for himself running family-owned equipment in dirt Late Model and UMP-type Modified events in the western Pennsylvania area, is eager to earn the respect of the WoO LMS regulars. His performances with the tour over the past couple weeks certainly helped in that regard.
“I think we’ve turned some heads,” said Hess. “I’ve been talking to a few (WoO) drivers tonight that I didn’t know before.”
He paused, and then added, “I’d love to be traveling with them in a few years.”
ON THE AIR: Saturday’s action at Sharon was taped by the SPEED cameras. It will be broadcast over the television network on Sun., Aug. 27, at 6 p.m. EDT.
LISTEN ONLINE: If fans can’t get to a track to see the series, they can experience the excitement of the World of Outlaws Late Model Series live on Dirtvision.com through the DIRT Radio Network.
To listen to the audio broadcasts, log on to www.dirtvision.com and click on the DIRT Radio Network logo.
Listeners will need Windows Media Player 9 or higher to listen to the DIRT Radio Network. For technical support or questions, e-mail webmaster@dirtvision.com.

Eckert Continues Assault On World of Outlaws Late Model Series Record Book With Triumph At Sharon Speedway

Hartford, Ohio – July 8, 2006 – By Kevin Kovac, WoO Late Model Series PR Director

A good night’s sleep obviously means little to Rick Eckert.

After making a long overnight drive in his hauler following a race in North Carolina, Eckert seemed well rested as he roared to a flag-to-flag victory in Saturday night’s World of Outlaws Late Model Series Buckeye 50 at Sharon Speedway.

“Once you get your adrenalin rolling, you’re O.K.,” said Eckert, who caught only three hours of sleep at a truck stop during his trip from Clary’s Speedway in Brinkleyville, N.C., where he finished second in a special event on Friday night, to northeastern Ohio. “I’m sure I’ll be real tired, though, after I take a shower tonight.”

The $10,000 triumph was Eckert’s eighth in 17 events this season, moving him closer to Scott Bloomquist’s WoO LMS record of 10 wins established in 2004. He’s captured five of the past seven tour events, including a record four in a row last month.

Eckert, 40, of York, Pa., showed his strength again at the Blaney family’s showplace oval, coming off the outside pole to lead the entire distance. He repelled a mid-race challenge from Josh Richards of Shinnston, W.Va., and a late bid by Chub Frank of Bear Lake, Pa., to push his all-time-best WoO LMS win total to 16.

Frank finished second after making an outside charge past Richards following a lap-47 restart. Richards settled for third, followed by Darrell Lanigan of Union, Ky., and Robbie Blair of Titusville, Pa., who was the highest-finishing non-WoO LMS regular.

While signing autographs in the pit area after the race, the always talkative Eckert was almost at a loss for words when asked if he could have ever imagined that he’d be closing in on double-figures in the win column so early in July.

“This tour’s too tough for anyone to ever think that,” said Eckert.

So why has Eckert been able to roll up so many victories behind the wheel of Raye Vest’s Rocket No. 24?

“We’ve been doing different stuff, trying different things, and we’ve been making the right changes to the car before the feature,” he analyzed. “And I’ve just been holding onto the steering wheel.”

Modesty aside, Eckert flawlessly guided his car around the three-eighths-mile oval, responding whenever the going got tough.

Richards, the 18-year-old recent high-school graduate who has struggled in his sophomore season on the WoO LMS, provided Eckert’s first test. The driver known as ‘Kid Rocket’ wrestled second place from Lanigan on lap 18 and was able to stick the nose of his father’s Rocket House Car under Eckert rounding turns one and two on lap 25.

“I saw him at one point,” Eckert said of Richards. “I knew he was behind me, and when I bounced through the holes in one and two and I saw that blue car for a second.”

Eckert kept his cool and gradually put some distance on Richards.

“I was a little tight through the middle of the corners,” said Eckert. “I had to run the track like a big circle so I didn’t push and get loose off (the corners).”

Richards ultimately lost second to Frank, who found the outside lane to his liking following restarts on laps 23 and 47. But a third-place finish was still the teenager’s best outing of 2006, helping him get his season back on track.

Richard’s run also came in his backup car. His primary mount was sidelined by a dropped engine valve as he raced to a heat-race victory.

“I think we had a second-place car,” said Richards, who drove a one-year-old machine that had never been raced prior to Saturday night. “But on the last restart my Dad (Rocket co-owner Mark Richards) told me to move down (by hand signals) because that’s where I was better, and Chub had a little softer tire and was able to get me on the outside.

“We’re happy with third. I needed a good run to get my confidence back, because when you’re running bad, it can break you down.”

Frank, meanwhile, ran the top by Dale McDowell of Chickamauga, Ga., who drove a Rocket House Car as a teammate to Richards, and Lanigan to nab third after the lap-23 restart, and did the same to snare second from Richards after the later restart.

“After the track sets for a little (under caution), the outside gets cleaned up and you can run it,” said Frank, who started seventh in his self-owned Rocket car. “But after three or four laps, it gets to where it’s loose. I noticed that after the first restart when I was outside Lanigan, so I knew I had to get down.”

That happened to Frank again after the race’s third and final caution flag. He soared by Richards and drew close to Eckert as the white was displayed, but he had to duck low on the final lap or risk losing second.

“I had to get back to the bottom,” said Frank, who trailed Eckert by 0.511 of a second at the checkered flag. “You just couldn’t run up there too long.”

Frank, 44, conceded that beating Eckert these days isn’t an easy task.

“He’s just in the right place at the right time,” said Frank. “And that’s where you always want to be.

“He’s been so consistent, and we’re hot-and-cold.”

Eckert hasn’t been quite consistent enough, however, to hold the WoO LMS points lead. Two poor runs in New York on July 1 and 2 cost him the top spot in the standings – and while he moved from fourth to second with his latest victory, he still trails Billy Moyer of Batesville, Ark., who had a quiet 11th-place finish on Saturday, by four markers heading to a doubleheader weekend July 21-22 at K-C Raceway in Chillicothe, Ohio.

PRELIMINARIES: Donnie Moran of Dresden, Ohio, set a new track record in the 40-car time-trial session, turning a lap of 15.842 seconds. He beat Scott Bloomquist’s previous standard of 15.961 seconds, established on July 12, 2005.

Moran went on to win a heat race, but he discovered terminal engine problems after finishing third in the dash. As a result, he took the green flag from the rear of the field and completed just one lap before retiring.

Other heat winners were Eckert, Richards and David Scott of Garland, Pa., who also captured the dash to earn the pole position for the main. B-Main victors were John Blankenship and Chad Ruhlman.

Results of WoO Late Model Series (Finishing Position/Start/Driver/Laps Completed/Money Won): 1. (2) Rick Eckert/50 $10,000; 2. (7) Chub Frank/50 $6,000; 3. (4) Josh Richards/50 $3,500; 4. (5) Darrell Lanigan/50 $2,500; 5. (12) Robbie Blair/50 $2,200; 6. (6) Dale McDowell/50 $2,000; 7. (11) Davey Johnson/50 $1,800; 8. (14) Todd Andrews/50 $1,600; 9. (9) Dave Hess Jr./50 $1,400; 10. (18) Chad Ruhlman/50 $1,200; 11. (13) Billy Moyer/50 $1,000; 12. (23) Tim McCreadie/50 $900; 13. (19) Clint Smith/50 $800; 14. (15) Eric Jacobsen/50 $700; 15. (10) Shane Clanton/49 $700; 16. (17) John Blankenship/49 $700; 17. (16) Eddie Carrier Jr./48 $700; 18. (24) Garrett Durrett/48 $700; 19. (20) Mike Balzano/44 $700; 20. (1) David Scott/29 $700; 21. (8) Steve Francis/22 $700; 22. (21) Dutch Davies/22 $700; 23. (22) Chris Hackett/22 $700; 24. (3) Donnie Moran/1 $700.
Time of Race: 22 Mins., 42.376 Secs.
Margin of Victory: 0.511 Secs.
Yellow Flags: Three (Laps 1, 23, 47)
Lap Leaders: Eckert (1-50)
Provisional Starters: McCreadie, Durrett

Time Trial Results (Position/No./Driver/Hometown/Best Lap):
1. 99-Donnie Moran/Dresden, OH 15.842
2. 24-Rick Eckert/York, PA 15.847
3. 1*-Chub Frank/Bear Lake, PA 15.89
4. W11-Robbie Blair/Titusville, PA 15.91
5. 29-Darrell Lanigan/Union, KY 15.988
6. 25-Shane Clanton/Locust Grove, GA 16.046
7. 1-Josh Richards/Shinnston, WV 16.097
8. 3-David Scott/Garland, PA 16.118
9. 44H-Dave Hess Jr./Waterford, PA 16.146
10. 17M-Dale McDowell/Chickamauga, GA 16.153
11. 39-Tim McCreadie/Watertown, NY 16.156
12. 15-Steve Francis/Ashland, KY 16.174
13. 40-Dutch Davies/Warren, PA 16.191
14. 42-Todd Andrews/Eldred, PA 16.201
15. 19J-Davey Johnson/Latrobe, PA 16.21
16. 1U-Matt Urban/North East, PA 16.234
17. 23-John Blankenship/Williamson, WV 16.238
18. 14-Jack Pencil/Bedford, PA 16.284
19. 5-Eric Jacobsen/Santa Cruz, CA 16.306
20. 28-Eddie Carrier Jr./Salt Rock, WV 16.327
21. 21-Billy Moyer/Batesville, AR 16.356
22. 07R-Brent Rhebergen/Clymer, NY 16.379
23. E1-Mike Balzano/Parkersburg, WV 16.383
24. 33-Chris Hackett/Erie, PA 16.389
25. 68-Dave Tackett/Ripley, NY 16.402
26. 44-Clint Smith/Senoia, GA 16.484
27. 20m-Eric Myers/Holmesville, OH 16.491
28. 58c-Garrett Durrett/Simsboro, LA 16.492
29. 71d-Ron Davies/Warren, PA 16.536
30. 21L-Matt Lux/Franklin, PA 16.575
31. 21*-Billy Henry/Conneautville, PA 16.582
32. 4-Mark Osburn/Kingsville, OH 16.589
33. C02-Paul Davis/Fowler, OH 16.642
34. 48-John Flinner/Zelionople, PA 16.689
35. 99B-Rick Briggs/Bear Lake, PA 16.706
36. 20-Chad Ruhlman/Beemus Point, NY 16.707
37. 71-Al Brewer/Belfast, NY 17.026
38. 90-Wally Fox/Cooperstown, PA 17.069
39. 78-Mike Amell/Deer Lake, OH 17.269
40. 911-Jeff Buccella/Mineral Ridge, OH 17.925

Heat No. 1 (10 laps - Top 4 Transfer): Moran, Lanigan, Hess, Moyer, Blankenship, D. Davies, R. Davies, Brewer, Tackett, Davis.
Heat No. 2 (10 laps - Top 4 Transfer): Eckert, McDowell, Clanton, Andrews, Rhebergen, Pencil, Smith, Flinner, Lux, Fox.
Heat No. 3 (10 laps – Top 4 Transfer): Richards, Frank, Johnson, Jacobsen, Balzano, Briggs, Henry, McCreadie, Myers.
Heat No. 4 (10 laps – Top 4 Transfer): Scott, Francis, Blair, Carrier, Durrett, Urban, Hackett, Osburn, Ruhlman, Buccella.
B-Main No. 1 (12 laps – Top 3 Transfer): Blankenship, Smith, D. Davies, Rhebergen, Pencil, Flinner, Lux, Tackett, Brewer, Fox, Davis, R. Davies.
B-Main No. 2 (12 laps – Top 3 Transfer): Ruhlman, Balzano, Hackett, Briggs, Durrett, Henry, Osburn, McCreadie, Amell, Buccella, Urban.
Dash (4 laps): Scott, Eckert, Moran, Richards.

World of Outlaws Late Model Series Points Standings (after July 8): 1. Billy Moyer 2,338; 2. Rick Eckert 2,334; 3. Tim McCreadie 2,330; 4. Steve Francis 2,308; 5. Darrell Lanigan 2,304; 6. Shane Clanton 2,302; 7. Chub Frank 2,288; 8. Dale McDowell 2,246; 9. Clint Smith 2,151; 10. Josh Richards 2,126; 11. John Blankenship 1,912; 12. Eddie Carrier Jr. 1,877; 13. Garrett Durrett 1,844; 14. Eric Jacobsen 1,837; 15. Mike Balzano 923; 16. Billy Decker 783; 17. Ricky Elliott 723; 18. Brady Smith 675; 19. Donnie Moran 661; 20. Robbie Blair 645.

LISTEN ONLINE: If fans can’t get to a track to see the series, they can experience the excitement of the World of Outlaws Late Model Series live on Dirtvision.com through the DIRT Radio Network. To listen to the audio broadcasts, log on to www.dirtvision.com and click on the DIRT Radio Network logo. Listeners will need Windows Media Player 9 or higher to listen to the DIRT Radio Network. For technical support or questions, e-mail webmaster@dirtvision.com.

Advance Tickets For World of Outlaws Late Model Series ‘Heartland Nationals’ At Deer Creek Speedway On Sale Now

SPRING VALLEY, MN – July 7, 2006 – Advance tickets are currently on sale for the World of Outlaws Late Model Series ‘Heartland Nationals,’ scheduled for Fri., July 28, and Sat., July 29, at Deer Creek Speedway.
The three-eighths-mile clay oval in southeast Minnesota hosted the traveling WoO LMS stars on June 1 for the highly-successful running of the 27th Featherlite Trailers Gopher 50, and both Deer Creek and DIRT MotorSports officials expect fans to flock back to the track for two blockbuster evenings of competition on July 28 and 29.
Both nights will feature complete WoO LMS programs, including time trials, heat races, B-Mains, a pole dash and a 50-lap A-Main paying $10,000 to win. Joining the WoO LMS each evening will be the WISSOTA Super Stock division.
Action is scheduled to begin at 6:30 p.m. on Friday and 6 p.m. on Saturday.
With huge crowds expected for the Heartland Nationals, pre-sale reserved tickets are in demand. Advance two-day tickets are priced at $45 and may be purchased on-line by visiting the Deer Creek Speedway website at www.deercreekspeedway.com. 
The deadline for pre-sale reserved ticket purchases is Wed., July 26, at 5 p.m. CDT. After the deadline, single-day general admission ticket prices will be $30 at the track ticket office.
All of the WoO LMS regulars will be on hand for the Heartland Nationals, continuing the battle for the championship that currently sees Billy Moyer of Batesville, Ark., Tim McCreadie of Watertown, N.Y., Steve Francis of Ashland, Ky., Rick Eckert of York, Pa., and Shane Clanton of Locust Grove, Ga., separated by a slim points margin.
A strong contingent of regional dirt Late Model racers is expected to challenge the WoO LMS standouts. Many will be enticed by an opportunity to share in a $1,000 non-touring/local driver bonus offered by DIRT MotorSports.
The $1,000 non-touring/local driver bonus will be divided up at Deer Creek by 10 competitors who are not currently ranked in the top 20 of a national touring series and have never won a WoO LMS event in the past.
The Sat., July 29, event at Deer Creek Speedway will be captured by the cameras of SPEED for broadcast Sun., Sept. 24, at 6 p.m. EDT. The SPEED coverage, hosted by lead commentator Rick Benjamin along with color man Shane Andrews and pit reporter Mark Kenyon, is part of 15 World of Outlaws Late Model Series events slated for broadcast on Sunday nights in 2006.
Deer Creek’s Featherlite Trailers Gopher 50 on June, which was won by red-hot WoO LMS stalwart Rick Eckert, was also taped for broadcast on SPEED. The race will be aired on SPEED on Sun., July 30, at 6 p.m. EDT.
For more information on Deer Creek Speedway visit www.deercreekspeedway.com or call 1-877-DCS-RACE.

McCreadie Hopes Saturday-Night Visit To Sharon Speedway Rekindles His ’05 Checkered Flag Magic On World of Outlaws Late Model Series

HARTFORD, OH – July 7, 2006 – This Saturday night’s (July 8) World of Outlaws Late Model Series stop at Sharon Speedway will certainly bring fond memories back to Tim McCreadie.
The Watertown, N.Y., dirt-track sensation just hopes it will also rekindle some of the checkered-flag magic he enjoyed in 2005.
While McCreadie enters Saturday’s Tom’s Sewer and Drain Service 50 at the Blaney family’s showplace ranked second in the WoO LMS points standings, he’s winless through 16 events. That’s a stark contrast to his spectacular eight-victory 2005 season, which reached a high point during the July 12 show at Sharon.
McCreadie, 32, won last year’s WoO LMS 50-lapper at the three-eighths-mile oval – and in the process became the first driver in series history to capture three consecutive races.
“We had everything going for us last year,” said McCreadie, the 2004 WoO LMS rookie of the year. “That’s not happening this year.”
So far this season McCreadie has rolled up eight top-five finishes, 13 top-10s, four fast-time awards and nearly $50,000 in earnings on the country’s premier dirt Late Model trail, and he’s primed to better his third-place finish in the ’05 points standings. But he’s just not quite hitting on all cylinders and catching the little breaks that are often necessary to win against high-caliber drivers.
“Our car’s been as good as anybody’s,” he said of his Sweeteners Plus Rocket No. 39, “but maybe just not when you need it to be. We’ve been firing a little slow on restarts this year, and those five or six laps it takes until I’m good might be costing me in traffic.
“You know, you can’t give up anything to these guys.”
There are other possible reasons for his goose-egg in the ‘W’ column.
“We haven’t gotten the breaks in traffic to get to the front first,” offered McCreadie, who has four runner-up finishes this season. “We haven’t been able to snooker anybody on tires (compound choice) like we did last year. We’ve had some problems when we’ve been in position to win.
“We just haven’t had the luck we had last year.”
Perhaps nothing illustrates McCreadie’s change in fortune better than his ’05 victory at Sharon. Other drivers’ quirks of fate helped propel him to his fifth win of the season.
“We were running second to (Donnie) Moran,” recalled McCreadie, “and Moran and Shane Clanton, who was in third, ran over something when the yellow (flag) came out and had to pit with flat tires.”
McCreadie inherited the lead and never looked back, holding off 2004 WoO LMS champion Scott Bloomquist for the remainder of the distance.
“That’s the way things were going for us,” bottom-lined McCreadie. “Moran had the car to beat that night, but we got the breaks.
“I think Rick (Eckert, this year’s top WoO LMS winner with seven victories) would be the first to tell ‘ya – he might not have had the fastest car in the place for all his wins this year, but he’s gotten the breaks.”
McCreadie is confident that his Tommy Grecco-led team will break through soon.
Of course, he doesn’t want to consider the alternative.
“I really hope we don’t go all year long without a win but win the point title,” said the hyper-competitive McCreadie, who trails defending WoO LMS champion Billy Moyer of Batesville, Ark. – another winless driver on this year’s tour – by six points. “The championship would be a big accomplishment, but it wouldn’t feel the same.
“I get a lot more satisfaction from getting out of the car and celebrating after winning a bunch of races during the year than I would celebrating once at the end of the year.”
According to McCreadie, “If we can just get one win, I think we could put ‘em up in a bunch.”
And Saturday’s visit to Sharon Speedway might be that night he’s waiting for. He has a good feeling about racing there.
“It’s an awesome facility and there’s great racing,” said McCreadie. “You can maneuver all around it.
“Any track that’s tacky when you get there and slowly dries off during the night – like Sharon does – that’s the kind of track you want to go to.”
SHARON SPEEDWAY INFO: General Admission for Saturday’s racing program is $25 for adults and $12 for children 6-13. Kids under five receive free general admission.
Gates are scheduled to open at 4 p.m., with hot laps at 6:30 p.m. and qualifying at 7 p.m.
To get to Sharon, take I-80 exit 234. Then head 7.6 miles north on SR 7, then 1 mile east on Drake-Stateline Road, then 1.3 miles north.
WoO LATE MODELS ON TELEVISION: SPEED’s WoO LMS coverage, hosted by lead commentator Rick Benjamin along with color man Shane Andrews and pit reporter Mark Kenyon, continues its 15-week run this Sunday night.
A WoO LMS event will be broadcast on SPEED every Sunday night through Dec. 3 at the 6 o’clock air time.
WoO LATE MODELS ON THE INTERNET: Fans can experience the excitement of all World of Outlaws Late Model Series events live on Dirtvision.com through the DIRT Radio Network broadcasts.
There will also be selected video cybercast coverage of WoO LMS events throughout the season.
To find the DIRTvision.com video broadcast schedule or listen to the audio broadcast, log on to www.dirtvision.com and click on the DIRT Radio Network logo. Listeners will need Windows Media Player 9 or higher to listen and view the DIRT Radio Network.

World of Outlaws Late Model Series New & Notes

NORMAN, OK – July 5, 2006 –
WHAT A TURNOUT: Central New York is DIRT Modified country, right?

Well, for one night over the holiday weekend, dirt Late Models shined brighter than a fireworks-show finale in the hot-bed of big-block Modified competition.

A near standing-room-only crowd jammed Cayuga County Fair Speedway in Weedsport, N.Y., on Sunday night (July 2) for the DIRT MotorSports NorthEast flagship track’s inaugural World of Outlaws Late Model Series event.

Credit the four-day holiday weekend for helping draw vacationing race fans. Credit the appeal of DIRT Modified-turned-WoO LMS regular Tim McCreadie. Credit the appearances of moonlighting DIRT Mod stars Billy Decker, Tim Fuller and Vic Coffey.

Whatever the case, the WoO Late Models were a big hit at the three-eighths-mile oval.

“This has to be the biggest crowd we’ve had here in years,” said smiling DIRT MotorSports NorthEast marketing director Cory Reed. “We’re thrilled.”

Attendance was so overwhelming that Reed and DIRT MotorSports NorthEast general manager Tonya Moschell spent time parking cars to make sure the influx of fans could get on the fairgrounds.

ON THE MEND: Cayuga County’s spectacular show was marred by a B-Main crash that left local dirt Late Model racer Bill Updike with a back injury.
Updike, a 50-year-old veteran driver from nearby Port Byron, N.Y., complained of back pain after his car climbed the inside barrier in turn one and bounced onto the racetrack on the opening lap of the WoO LMS last-chance race. Safety crews fitted him in a neck collar and transported him to a local hospital, where doctors determined that he had suffered a cracked vertebra and exploded disk in his lower back. He underwent back surgery on Wednesday.
Doctors are hopeful that Updike, who was driving a car that was a 50th birthday present from his son Jesse, will make a complete recovery.
Cards of cheer can reach Updike at P.O. Box 320, Port Byron, N.Y., 13140.
WINLESS, BUT ON TOP: Defending WoO LMS champion Billy Moyer of Batesville, Ark., left New York State following last weekend’s Stateline Speedway/CCFS doubleheader with the points lead, but he remained without a tour victory in 2006.
The 48-year-old superstar is slightly frustrated with his goose-egg in the win column after 15 events, but he knows he’s due to break out.
“The car’s been good and we’ve beaten these (WoO) guys racing with other series this year,” said Moyer, who sits atop the standings by six points over Tim McCreadie of Watertown, N.Y. “We’ve just been snake-bit. It’ll come around.”

UP-AND-DOWN: Chub Frank’s highly-anticipated return with the WoO LMS to Stateline Speedway in Busti, N.Y. –- a track his father helped build 50 years ago – was a dud for the second consecutive year.
With countless relatives, friends and fans hoping to celebrate a Frank victory, he time-trialed poorly for last Saturday night’s Robert Trucking 50 and was never a factor the remainder of the night. He finished a quiet 15th in the feature.
But that disappointing outing was scratched from Frank’s memory thanks to a blow-out triumph in the following evening’s tour stop at Cayuga County. Eschewing the opportunity to revel with the locals until the wee hours, Frank and his crew returned to their nearby Bear Lake, Pa., shop and worked late to prepare another Rocket-chassied car for duty at CCFS. They finished the job after an early wakeup call, then towed north and made their second COESfx Victory Lane appearance of the season.
Frank’s dominant performance came after he experienced an anxious moment during Cayuga County’s qualifying. He clipped the wall hard enough during his time-trial lap to knock out his car’s panhard bar.

JUST VISITING: Despite having just nine career dirt Late Model starts under his belt – all at Florence (Ky.) Speedway – Mike Amell made the long tow from Deer Park, Ohio, just outside Cincinnati, to take on the WoO LMS stars at Stateline and Cayuga County.
There’s a good reason the inexperienced Amell made the trip to the Empire State – he’s a native New Yorker.
Formerly a resident of Watertown, N.Y., Amell, 35, is a longtime friend and crewman of Tim McCreadie. The former DIRT Sportsman driver moved to the Cincinnati area six years ago and in recent seasons has been racing Legends Cars fielded by his boss Rick Jones of Mason, Ohio, who owns Sunesis Construction.
Earlier this year Jones decided to go dirt Late Model racing with Amell as his driver and purchased a Rocket machine from WoO LMS regular Darrell Lanigan of Union, Ky. Jones has since added another Rocket car to his stable and also has put two Cornet Ford engines at Amell’s disposal.
Amell, who towed north a couple days early to spend some time with his family in Watertown, shocked himself by timing fifth-fastest for Stateline’s show. But while he failed to qualify on Saturday and again at Cayuga County, he deemed the trip a “great learning experience.”
Amell’s father, meanwhile, had a slightly more profitable weekend. He won Sunday’s 50/50 raffle at Cayuga County, which was worth over $1,800.

TOUGH GUY: Longtime Stateline Speedway owner Francis Seamens was on the prowl last Saturday night, surveying his track’s action just eight weeks after undergoing open-heart surgery.
“I’m not gonna let this slow me down,” Seamens, 59, of his triple-bypass. “I went to a car auction (he also owns a junkyard) the first Thursday I was back (from the hospital), and I was back here working on the track a week after that.”
Seamans, who was forced to make a follow-up visit to the hospital for treatment of a left-leg infection, is happy that his racing schedule isn’t quite as filled this year. During the off-season he sold Eriez Speedway in North East, Pa.

ABSENT FOR THE BIG ONE: While local legend Dick Barton of Ashville, N.Y., celebrated his huge victory in Stateline’s Robert Trucking 50, his wife, Joan, and longtime car owner, Ron Nielson, were no where to be found.
Both Mrs. Barton and Mr. Nielson weren’t on hand to witness Dick’s $10,000 triumph. Joan had to work on Saturday night, while Nielson was away purchasing restaurant equipment.
Joan, Dick’s high-school sweetheart and wife for 29 years, arrived at the couple’s home after finishing up at work and tuned into the race’s internet broadcast on the DIRT Radio Network. She was excited to hear that Dick was leading with the race winding down when a friend called her.
“They said, ‘He just won the race!’” Joan said. “I said, ‘No, don’t say that yet. There’s still 15 laps to go.’ But there was a (broadcast) delay, and it was true that he had won.”
Since the Bartons live just 10 minutes from Stateline, Joan jumped in her car and greeted her happy hubby in the pit area during the raucous post-race party, which wasn’t dampened a bit by the heavy downpour that deluged Stateline minutes after the feature ended.

SOME R&R: Several WoO LMS regulars had plans to enjoy some vacation time between Sunday’s CCFS show and this Saturday night’s (July 8) visit to Sharon Speedway in Hartford, Ohio.
Among them: Steve Francis, Shane Clanton and Clint Smith, who had a visit to the Cedar Point amusement park in Sandusky, Ohio, on their schedule.

UP NEXT: The WoO LMS heads to the Blaney family’s Sharon Speedway this Saturday for the Tom’s Sewer and Drain Service 50.
General Admission is $25 for adults and $12 for children 6-13. Kids under five receive free general admission.
Gates are scheduled to open at 4 p.m., with hot laps at 6:30 p.m. and qualifying at 7 p.m.
To get to Sharon, take I-80 exit 234. Then head 7.6 miles north on SR 7, then 1 mile east on Drake-Stateline Road, then 1.3 miles north.

WoO LATE MODELS ON TELEVISION: SPEED’s WoO LMS coverage, hosted by lead commentator Rick Benjamin along with color man Shane Andrews and pit reporter Mark Kenyon, continues its 15-week run this Sunday night.
A WoO LMS event will be broadcast on SPEED every Sunday night through Dec. 3 at the 6 o’clock air time.

WoO LATE MODELS ON THE INTERNET: Fans can experience the excitement of all World of Outlaws Late Model Series events live on Dirtvision.com through the DIRT Radio Network broadcasts.
There will also be selected video cybercast coverage of WoO LMS throughout the season.
To find the DIRTvision.com video broadcast schedule or listen to the audio broadcast, log on to www.dirtvision.com and click on the DIRT Radio Network logo. Listeners will need Windows Media Player 9 or higher to listen and view the DIRT Radio Network.
2006 World of Outlaws Late Model Series Points Standings & Statistics after 7-2-06 (Pos./Driver/Residence/Races Entered/Starts/Wins/Top 5s/Top 10s/Fast Times/Heat Wins/Dash Wins/B Wins/Earnings/Points/Trail By):

1. Billy Moyer/Batesville, AR 16/16/0/8/16/2/7/1/1/$39,600/2,210 (0)
2. Tim McCreadie/Watertown, NY 16/16/0/8/13/4/6/0/0/$49,000/2,204 (-6)
3. Steve Francis/Ashland, KY 16/16/2/8/13/1/8/0/0/$60,600/2,200 (-10)
4. Rick Eckert/York, PA 16/16/7/9/11/1/5/2/1/$85,100/2,184 (-26)
5. Shane Clanton/Locust Grove, GA 16/16/0/8/13/2/6/0/1/$35,600/2,182 (-28)
6. Darrell Lanigan/Union, KY 16/16/1/8/13/0/7/4/1/$42,700/2,162 (-48)
7. Chub Frank/Bear Lake, PA 16/16/2/5/11/1/4/1/1/$46,100/2,142 (-68)
8. Dale McDowell/Chickamauga, GA 16/16/0/4/11/0/1/1/0/$26,900/2,108 (-102)
9. Clint Smith/Senoia, GA 16/15/2/5/9/0/2/2/1/$38,510/2,027 (-183)
10. Josh Richards/Shinnston, WV 16/16/0/0/6/1/1/1/1/$16,700/1,982 (-228)
11. John Blankenship/Williamson, WV 16/12/0/1/6/0/1/0/1/$18,140/1,794 (-416)
12. Eddie Carrier Jr.®/Salt Rock, WV 15/14/0/1/2/0/1/0/2/$12,610/1,761 (-449)
13. Garrett Durrett®/Simsboro, LA 16/14/0/0/1/0/0/0/4/$11,120/1,730 (-480)
14. Eric Jacobsen®/Santa Cruz, CA 16/13/0/0/1/0/0/0/0/$10,630/1,715 (-495)
15. Mike Balzano/Parkersburg, WV 7/6/0/0/1/0/0/0/0/$5,410/811 (-1,399)
16. Billy Decker/Unadilla, NY 7/6/0/1/2/0/0/0/1/$6,810/783 (-1,427)
17. Ricky Elliott/Seaford, DE 6/5/0/2/3/0/3/0/0/$8,000/723 (-1,487)
18. Brady Smith/Solon Springs, WI 6/5/0/0/1/0/2/0/0/$4,110/675 (-1,535)
19. Earl Pearson Jr./Jacksonville, FL 5/4/1/1/3/0/3/0/0/$13,900/595 (-1,615)
20. Donnie Moran/Dresden, OH 5/4/0/1/1/1/1/0/0/$4,510/559 (-1,387)

Chub Frank Blasts Away To World of Outlaws Late Model Series Victory at Cayuga County
By Kevin Kovac/WoO Late Model Series P.R.

WEEDSPORT, NY – July 2, 2006 – Chub Frank loves central New York.
The Bear Lake, Pa., star scored a convincing victory in Sunday night’s World of Outlaws Late Model Series Star Spangled 50 at Cayuga County Fair Speedway, giving him blow-out wins in consecutive visits to an area that’s a hot-bed of DIRT Modified racing.
“I’m starting to like coming up here,” said Frank, who dominated a WoO LMS event last August at Rolling Wheels Raceway Park in Elbridge, N.Y.
Racing in front of a near standing-room-only crowd at DIRT MotorSports NorthEast’s flagship track, Frank, who started third, disposed of fellow tour regulars Steve Francis and Billy Moyer in a single circuit to assume command for good on lap 15. He glided away from the pack over the remaining distance, beating Ashland, Ky.’s Francis to the finish line by a healthy margin of 6.593 seconds.
Francis settled for second place, followed by Tim McCreadie of Watertown, N.Y., Batesville, Ark.’s Moyer, who led laps 1-14, and 18th-starter Shane Clanton of Locust Grove, Ga.
Frank, 44, basically followed the same script he used in his Rolling Wheels triumph nearly one year ago. He mastered a smooth, slick racing surface, hooking up his self-owned Rocket car like no one else.
The key was Frank’s tire choice. He bolted on three Hoosier 35-compound tires – tires that are no longer made by Hoosier.
Frank shrewdly kept a supply of the 35-compound tires in his shop after they were discontinued a year-and-a-half ago so he’d be ready for slick track conditions wherever they occurred.
“These 35s are an intermediate tire,” said Frank. “They don’t like any heat, but run like a hard tire when it’s slick.”
Frank’s rivals knew he’d be tough to beat as soon as they noticed the three-eighths-mile oval had turned into a perfect platform for the use of the 35-compound tires.
“Chub just excels in these conditions,” said Francis, who slipped his Mopar-powered Rocket No. 15 ahead of Frank from his fourth starting spot early in the feature but couldn’t hold off the fleet Pennsylvanian. “Before the start of the race, I knew Chub was the car we’d have to race.”
McCreadie, a DIRT Modified regular at CCFS before heading out on the WoO LMS in 2004, also wasn’t surprised to see Frank dominate.
“Here tonight, last year at Rolling Wheels and Lernerville (Pa.) – you can’t beat those (35-compound) tires,” McCreadie said of slick-track events won by Frank. “Chub still has a stash of those 35s, but we didn’t have any to run.
“I had on (Hoosier) 1400s because that’s what we had. They say they’re equivalent to the 35s, but they’re not quite the same.
“They worked good early and I was pressing (Frank), but I overheated the tires,” added McCreadie, who started fifth in the Sweeteners Plus Rocket No. 39. “If we could’ve gotten some yellows, maybe we would’ve been better.”
Moyer, who started second, had no answer for Frank’s combination. The defending WoO LMS champion could only shake his head after falling to a fourth-place finish, which kept him atop the points standings but still winless on the 2006 tour.
“They don’t even make the 35s anymore, so we didn’t have any,” said Moyer. “We bring so many tires to the track that you can’t even shut the door of the trailer, but we still didn’t have the right one tonight. Our tires sealed up.”
The question everyone wanted to know following the race was how many 35-compound tires Frank still has stashed away for future slick-track use.
“I’ve got 50 or a hundred. Just tell ‘em that,” Frank laughed. “But actually, we’re just about out of ‘em.”
Frank paused, and then added with a smile, “They (his fellow WoO LMS regulars) tell me they’re gonna poke holes in ‘em when we unload ‘em next time.”
That would have been the only strategy to stop Frank on Sunday night. After a slow start, he was thoroughly unbeatable.
With only a single caution flag, on lap six, slowing the race, Frank lapped all the way up to seventh-place John Blankenship of Williamson, W.Va.
“When you start lapping the good guys, it’s a pretty good sign that you’re (running good),” said Frank, who earned $10,000 for his second WoO LMS victory of the season and the sixth of his career. “You never know with these guys, but I knew I had a good car and didn’t think anybody could pass me without making a mistake.”

PRELIMINARIES: Francis was the fastest qualifier in the 35-car time-trial session, turning a lap of 16.033 seconds.
Heat winners were McCreadie, Frank and CCFS DIRT Modified regular Tim Fuller of Watertown, N.Y., who drove a second Gypsum Express dirt Late Model. Garrett Durrett of Simsboro, La., won the B-Main and Dale McDowell of Chickamauga, Ga., topped the dash.

Results of WoO Late Model Series Star Spangled 50 (Finishing Position/Start/Driver/Laps Completed/Money Won): 1. (3) Chub Frank/50 $10,000; 2. (4) Steve Francis/50 $6,000; 3. (5) Tim McCreadie/50 $3,500; 4. (2) Billy Moyer/50 $2,500; 5. (18) Shane Clanton/50 $2,200; 6. (1) Dale McDowell/50 $2,000; 7. (9) John Blankenship/49 $1,800; 8. (8) Billy Decker/49 $1,600; 9. (13) Josh Richards/49 $1,400; 10. (14) Dan Stone/49 $1,200; 11. (12) Dave Hess Jr./49 $1,000; 12. (15) Rick Eckert/49 $900; 13. (10) Clint Smith/49 $800; 14. (11) Vic Coffey/49 $700; 15. (6) Tim Fuller/49 $700; 16. (21) Kirk Ryan Jr./49 $700; 17. (20) Brent Rhebergen/49 $700; 18. (16) Todd Andrews/49 $700; 19. (23) Eric Jacobsen/49 $700; 20. (58c) Garrett Durrett/48 $700; 21. (20) Jason Dupont/48 $700; 22. (17) Eddie Carrier Jr./48 $700; 23. (22) Billy Marvin/26 $700; 24. (7) Darrell Lanigan/6 $700.

Time of Race: 18 Mins., 34.074 Secs.
Margin of Victory: 6.593 Secs.
Yellow Flags: One – Lap 6
Lap Leaders: Moyer (1-14); Frank (15-50)
Provisional Starters: Jacobsen, Rhebergen

Time Trial Results (Position/No./Driver/Hometown/Best Lap):
1. 15-Steve Francis/Ashland, KY 16.033
2. 1*-Chub Frank/Bear Lake, PA 16.096
3. 19f-Tim Fuller/Watertown, NY 16.136
4. 39-Tim McCreadie/Watertown, NY 16.170
5. 32C-Vic Coffey/Leicester, NY 16.186
6. 44H-Dave Hess Jr./Waterford, PA 16.447
7. 44-Clint Smith/Senoia, GA 16.456
8. 21d-Dan Stone/Thompson, PA 16.505
9. 23-John Blankenship/Williamson, WV 16.523
10. 42-Todd Andrews/Eldred, PA 16.548
11. 21-Billy Moyer/Batesville, AR 16.586
12. 24-Rick Eckert/York, PA 16.593
13. 29-Darrell Lanigan/Union, KY 16.594
14. 28-Eddie Carrier Jr./Salt Rock, WV 16.636
15. 17M-Dale McDowell/Chickamauga, GA 16.759
16. 40-Dutch Davies/Warren, PA 16.857
17. 91-Billy Decker/Unadilla, NY 16.873
18. 25-Shane Clanton/Locust Grove, GA 16.899
19. 07R-Brent Rhebergen/Clymer, NY 16.937
20. 58c-Garrett Durrett/Simsboro, LA 16.999
21. 7X-Billy Marvin/Hallstead, PA 17.008
22. 5-Eric Jacobsen/Santa Cruz, CA 17.095
23. 5K-Kirk Ryan Jr./Lewisberry, PA 17.102
24. 99z-Dave Zona/Montrose, PA 17.153
25. 1-Josh Richards/Shinnston, WV 17.162
26. M31-Tony Morris/Murfreesboro, TN 17.505
27. 92-Randall Paxton/Hop Bottom, PA 17.638
28. 4-Brent Dyer/Endicott, NY 18.166
29. 22-Greg Oakes/Arcade, NY 18.251
30. 86-Mike Amell/Deer Park, OH 18.261
31. 98-Shane Tennace/Buchanan, MI 18.285
32. 13-Jim Mazur/Batavia, NY 18.406
33. 37-Bill Updike/Port Byron, NY 18.557
DQ (light) N07-Jason Dupont/Lewis Run, PA 16.854
DQ (light) 1H-Terry Hough/Painted Post, NY 17.218

Heat No. 1 (10 laps - Top 6 Transfer): McCreadie, Francis, Lanigan, Smith, Richards, Andrews, Davies, Jacobsen, Rhebergen, Dupont, Tennace, Dyer.
Heat No. 2 (10 laps - Top 6 Transfer): Frank, Moyer, Decker, Coffey, Stone, Carrier, Ryan, Durrett, Morris, Hough, Oakes, Mazur.
Heat No. 3 (10 laps - Top 6 Transfer): Fuller, McDowell, Blankenship, Hess, Eckert, Clanton, Zona, Marvin, Amell, Paxton, Updike.
B-Main (12 laps – Top 4 Transfer): Durrett, Dupont, Ryan, Marvin, Rhebergen, Zona, Jacobsen, Paxton, Amell, Morris, Oakes, Tennace, Hough, Mazur, Dyer, Davies, Updike.
Dash (6 laps): McDowell, Moyer, Frank, Francis, McCreadie, Fuller.

World of Outlaws Late Model Series Points Standings (after July 2): 1. Billy Moyer 2,210; 2. Tim McCreadie 2,204; 3. Steve Francis 2,200; 4. Rick Eckert 2,184; 5. Shane Clanton 2,182; 6. Darrell Lanigan 2,162; 7. Chub Frank 2,142; 8. Dale McDowell 2,108; 9. Clint Smith 2,027; 10. Josh Richards 1,982; 11. John Blankenship 1,794; 12. Eddie Carrier Jr. 1,761; 13. Garrett Durrett 1,730; 14. Eric Jacobsen 1,715; 15. Mike Balzano 811; 16. Billy Decker 783; 17. Ricky Elliott 723; 18. Brady Smith 675; 19. Earl Pearson Jr. 595; 20. Donnie Moran 559.

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The World of Outlaws Late Model Series is brought to fans across the country by several sponsors and partners, including Series sponsor Hoosier Tire; Promotional sponsors AMB i.t., Choice Hotels International, COESfx, The University of Northwest Ohio and Snap-on. Contingency sponsors include DART Machinery, Holley Performance Products Inc., MSD Ignition, Quarter Master, Ohlins and Wrisco Industries.

Local Hero Dick Barton Turns Back The World of Outlaws Stars At Stateline
By Kevin Kovac/WoO Late Model Series P.R.

BUSTI, NY - July 1, 2006 – Dick Barton couldn’t contain his joy after winning Saturday night’s World of Outlaws Late Model Series Roberts Trucking 50 at Stateline Speedway.
But who could blame him for letting his emotions run wild?
After all, Barton made history with his flag-to-flag victory, becoming the first true local hero to capture a WoO LMS event since the tour’s inception in 2004.
“This is an accomplishment,” said Barton, a 51-year-old racing veteran whose home in Ashville, N.Y., is just a 10-minute drive from Stateline Speedway. “These guys who run this series are some of the best in the nation. I couldn’t be happier to win against them.”
Barton, whose 200-plus career dirt Late Model wins have come primarily on the Stateline/Eriez/Raceway 7 circuit, swept the evening to bag arguably his biggest triumph ever. He recorded the fastest lap in the 51-car time-trial session, then won his heat, the pole-dash and the feature in convincing fashion.
The only driver who made Barton sweat was John Blankenship of Williamson, W.Va., whose mid-race bid to assume command fell short. Blankenship, who scored his only career win on the WoO LMS in last year’s stop at Stateline, settled for second place, 0.576 of a second behind Barton.
Darrell Lanigan of Union, Ky., advanced from the eighth starting spot to finish third, followed by third-starter Steve Francis of Ashland, Ky., and seventh-starter Billy Moyer of Batesville, Ark.
The four drivers who followed Barton under the checkered are all WoO LMS regulars, adding even more luster to his already memorable victory.
“It’s a special feeling,” Barton said while excitedly accepting congratulatory handshakes and hugs at his team’s trailer following the race. “I’ve won big races before, but the prestige of winning this one is because of the competition.”
And because he did it in front of the hometown fans.
“Everybody comes here hoping that a local car can at least compete with the outsiders,” said Barton, who earned $10,000. “When a local can pull off a win, it’s a big deal.”
Barton never doubted he could reach the COESfx Victory Lane on the World of Outlaws Late Model Series, which in its three years of existence had previously seen only established traveling stars defeat the tour regulars.
While Barton’s usually lofty win totals have slipped slightly in recent seasons, he felt confident that his team, which is owned by Ron Nielson, had turned a corner and was ready to challenge for a major score in 2006.
“The way we were setting the car up three years ago isn’t the way cars are being set up now,” analyzed Barton. “We were always good so we didn’t feel the need to make changes, and that came back to hurt us.
“Five years ago guys were already starting to change to the way cars are set up now, so they got a two-year head start on us. We had to catch up, and it wasn’t easy. On my team there’s a 60-year-old, two 57-year-olds, a 56-year-old, and I’m 51 – we’re no spring chickens, so to teach old dogs new tricks is difficult.”
But they’ve adapted. The proof came in Saturday’s WoO LMS spectacular.
“I’m not suggesting for a minute that we’ve figured it all out,” added Barton. “What I’m saying is we’ve gotten more of a handle on things – not just the chassis setups, but the way you have to drive the car now too.”
Barton’s Malcuit Ford-powered GRT car performed flawlessly, and he made the right moves behind the wheel.
There was just one anxious moment for Barton. On lap 29 he slid high between turns one and two while trying to lap Eddie Carrier Jr. of Salt Rock, W.Va., leaving the door open for Blankenship.
Barton made the mistake of trying to pass a lapped machine.
“The car was so fast, but I was just running half-throttle,” said Barton, who registered his 69th career win at Stateline. “I thought I was going so slow that somebody would try to pass me, so I was like, I wonder if there’s an outside? When I went up there, I was like, ‘Oh, my Lord!’”
Blankenship, who turns 25 on July 3, got his Rocket No. 23 underneath Barton’s Bolt Place-sponsored No. 28b in turn two, but he couldn’t pull complete a pass.
“I got alongside (Barton),” said Blankenship, “but a lapped car cut down on me and sort of shut me off.”
With the three-eighths-mile oval’s inside groove taking rubber, both Barton and Blankenship realized that venturing to the top side would cost them dearly. So they stayed in line for the remainder of the distance, which was slowed by only the race’s second – and final – caution flag, on lap 30.
Barton just cooled his jets to stay in front.
“After I got back to the bottom I said, ‘If anybody’s gonna pass me, they’re gonna have to do it on the outside,” remarked Barton.
Blankenship didn’t risk doing that. He opted to accept a $6,000 runner-up finish – his first top-five run of the season on the WoO LMS.
“I’m a little disappointed that I didn’t win here again, but we needed a good run,” said Blankenship, who started second. “(Barton) ran a good race. He was smooth.”

PRELIMINARIES: Fifty-one cars entered the event, which saw Barton earn fast-time honors with a lap of 17.137 seconds.
The run against the clock surprised Barton.
“I am the world’s worst qualifier,” admitted Barton. “I keep the car too straight (during time trials).
“People always tell me that I should close my finger in a car door and then get in the car to qualify. I’d do better that way.”
Heat winners were Barton, Blankenship, Francis and Shane Clanton. Local Andy Boozel and Rick Eckert, who entered the event riding a WoO LMS-record four-race win streak, topped the B-Mains.

Results of WoO Late Model Series Roberts Trucking 50 (Finishing Position/Start/Driver/Laps Completed/Money Won): 1. (1) Dick Barton/50 $10,000; 2. (2) John Blankenship/50 $6,000; 3. (8) Darrell Lanigan $3,500; 4. (3) Steve Francis $2,500; 5. (7) Billy Moyer/50 $2,200; 6. (10) Dave Hess Jr./50 $2,000; 7. (4) Shane Clanton/50 $1,800; 8. (12) Eric Jacobsen/50 $1,600; 9. (14) Dale McDowell/50 $1,400; 10. (15) Clint Smith/50 $1,200; 11. (5) David Scott/50 $1,000; 12. (13) Tim McCreadie/50 $900; 13. (18) Rick Eckert/50 $800; 14. (22) Josh Richards/50 $700; 15. (20) Chub Frank/50 $700; 16. (24) Scott Gurdak/50 $700; 17. (26) Garrett Durrett/50 $700; 18. (23) Eddie Carrier Jr./50 $700; 19. (17) Andy Boozel/50 $700; 20. 19. (19) Billy Decker/50 $700; 21. (9) Chad Valone/49 $700; 22. (11) Doug Eck/30 $700; 23. (21) Steve Halpainy/29 $700; 24. (25) Rich Gardner/22 $700; 25. (16) Matt Urban/10 $700; 26. (6) Paul Briggs/7 $700

Time of Race: 20 Mins. 47.334 Secs.
Margin of Victory: 0.576 Secs.
Yellow Flags: Two – Laps 7, 30
Lap Leaders: Barton (1-50)
Provisional Starters: Carrier, Gurdak, Gardner, Durrett

Time Trial Results (Position/Car Number/Name/Hometown/Best Time):
1. 28b-Dick Barton Ashville, NY 17.137
2. 23-John Blankenship Williamson, NY 17.150
3. 21-Billy Moyer Batesville, AR 17.155
4. 25-Shane Clanton Locust Grove, GA 17.185
5. 86-Mike Amell Deer Park, OH 17.225
6. 9b-Paul Briggs Ashville, NY 17.272
7. 15-Steve Francis Ashland, KY 17.274
8. 5-Eric Jacobsen Santa Cruz, CA 17.300
9. 2V-Chad Valone Warren, PA 17.307
10. 12b-Andy Boozel Clymer, NY 17.319
11. 44-Clint Smith Senoia, GA 17.320
12. 29-Darrell Lanigan Union, KY 17.335
13. 3-David Scott Garland, PA 17.388
14. 44H-Dave Hess Jr. Waterford, PA 17.398
15. CO2-Paul Davis Fowler, OH 17.399
16. 1U-Matt Urban North East, PA 17.407
17. 91-Billy Decker Unadilla, NY 17.422
18. 17M-Dale McDowell Chickamauga, GA 17.430
19. 28L-John Lobb Frewsburg, NY 17.433
20. 2J-Scott Johnson Wattsburg, PA 17.445
21. 4L-Dave Lyon Corry, PA 17.453
22. 15h-Steve Halpainy Ashville, NY 17.536
23. 3-Doug Eck Corry, PA 17.540
24. 24-Rick Eckert York, PA 17.549
25. 39-Tim McCreadie Watertown, NY 17.569
26. 61s-Ward Schell Warren, PA 17.575
27. 17B-Keith Barbara South Park, PA 17.589
28. 22h-Bump Hedman Sugar Grove, PA 17.599
29. 5G-Scott Gurdak Corry, PA 17.611
30. 28-Eddie Carrier Jr. Salt Rock, WV 17.628
31. 1-Josh Richards Shinnston, WV 17.650
32. 1*-Chub Frannk Bear Lake, PA 17.657
33. 32-Jeff Hoffman Clarendon, PA 17.704
34. 1g-Rich Gardner Waterford, PA 17.707
35. 21A-Pete Alspaugh Russell, PA 17.714
36. 71d-Ron Davies Warren, PA 17.740
37. 58c-Garrett Durrett Simsboro, LA 17.771
38. 40-Dutch Davies Warren, PA 17.808
39. 22b-Darrell Bossard Centerville, PA 17.815
40. 9k-Mike Knight Ripley, NY 17.820
41. 42-Todd Andrews Eldred, PA 17.872
42. 33-Chris Hackett Erie, PA 17.889
43. 88-Ted Kosinski Lakewood, NY 17949
44. 26g-George Labarbera Sugar Grove, PA 17.963
45. M31-Tony Morris Murfreesboro, TN 18.028
46. 68-Dave Tackett Ripley, NY 18.040
47. 5B-Kirk Bradley Great Valley, NY 18.136
48. 13-Jim Mazur Batavia, NY 18.879
49. h1-Kirk Ryan Jr. Lewisberry, PA 19.252
50. 43-Miles Stitzinger Warren, PA N/T
51. 98-Shane Tennace Buchanan, MI N/T

Heat No. 1 (10 laps – Top Four Advance): Barton, Scott, Valone, McCreadie, Decker, Hoffman, Amell, Gurdak, Ryan, Morris, Andrews, Durrett, Lyon.
Heat No. 2 (10 laps – Top Four Advance): Blankenship, Briggs, Hess, McDowell, Boozel, Halpainy, Gardner, Carrier, Schell, D. Davies, Hackett, Tackett.
Heat No. 3 (10 laps – Top Four Advance): Francis, Moyer, Eck, Smith, Davis, Richards, Barbara, Lobb, Bossard, Kosinski, Alspaugh, Bradley.
Heat No. 4 (10 laps – Top Four Advance): Clanton, Lanigan, Jacobsen, Urban, Eckert, Frank, Johnson, R. Davies, Hedman, Knight, Labarbera, Mazur.
Dash (6 laps): Barton, Blankenship, Francis, Clanton
B-Main No. 1 (12 laps – Top Three Advance): Boozel, Decker, Halpainy, Gurdak, Hoffman, Gardner, Amell, Hackett, Lyon, Carrier, D. Davies, Morris, Andrews, Schell (DNS) Tackett, Durrett.
B-Main No. 2 (12 laps – Top Three Advance): Eckert, Frank, Richards, Johnson, Davis, Lobb, Bossard, R. Davies, Hedman, Kosinski, Knight, Bradley, Mazur, Alspaugh, Tennance, Barbara, Labarbera.

LISTEN ONLINE: If fans can’t get to a track to see the series, they can experience the excitement of the World of Outlaws Late Model Series live on Dirtvision.com through the DIRT Radio Network.

To listen to the audio broadcasts, log on to www.dirtvision.com and click on the DIRT Radio Network logo.

Listeners will need Windows Media Player 9 or higher to listen to the DIRT Radio Network. For technical support or questions, e-mail webmaster@dirtvision.com.

The World of Outlaws Late Model Series is brought to fans across the country by several sponsors and partners, including Series sponsor Hoosier Tire; Promotional sponsors AMB i.t., Choice Hotels International, COESfx, The University of Northwest Ohio and Snap-on. Contingency sponsors include DART Machinery, Holley Performance Products Inc., MSD Ignition, Quarter Master, Ohlins and Wrisco Industries.

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