Post by LMR on 09/06/13 at 10:26pm
Eldora Speedway
September 6, 2013
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McCreadie & Lanigan Bag $5,000 Victories On Second World 100 Preliminary Night At Eldora Speedway
by Kevin Kovac
ROSSBURG, OH (September 6) – Tim McCreadie of Watertown, N.Y., and Darrell Lanigan of Union, Ky., scored $5,000 triumphs in the Twin 25-lap features that highlighted Friday night’s second preliminary program of the 43rd annual DIRTcar UMP-sanctioned World 100 at Eldora Speedway.
Both World of Outlaws Late Model Series regulars took advantage of front-row starting spots to lead their respective headliners from flag-to-flag, but their roads to Victory Lane were far from easy.
September 6 Event Photos
McCreadie, 39, recorded his long-awaited first career dirt Late Model win at the high-banked, half-mile oval in the event reserved for the evening’s odd-number qualifiers. He grabbed the lead from the pole position at the initial green flag and was never headed in a caution-free race, but he barely outlasted the late-charging Gregg Satterlee of Rochester Mills, Pa., who swiped the runner-up spot from Jeep VanWormer of Pinconning, Mich., on the final lap.
Lanigan, 43, raced off the outside pole to capture the feature for the even-number qualifiers after surviving mid-race challenges from John Blankenship of Williamson, W.Va., and Jared Landers of Batesville, Ark., and outrunning fellow WoO LMS traveler Shane Clanton of Zebulon, Ga., in the final circuits.
McCreadie credited his successful performance to an 11th-hour tire-compound decision he made with his Sweeteners Plus team. Going with soft rubber proved to be his ticket onto Eldora’s famed winner’s stage.
“We got lucky,” said McCreadie, who finished third in a preliminary A-Feature on Thursday night. “We were one of the last guys through tech (prior to lining up for the A-Main) and we waited and we waited – and (then) we saw that tiller get out there (to work on the track surface).
“After watching all those heat races 20s (Hoosier LM-20-compound tires) were way faster than 30s, so we just put a couple on and we held on. We were dying at the end, but with no yellows it was just nice to get out there in clean air and be by myself.”
McCreadie maintained a small advantage over Steve Francis of Ashland, Ky., throughout the race’s middle stages, but over the last five tours his edge shrank. The battle for second between Francis, VanWormer and Satterlee was fierce, however, and might have prevented one driver from running down the leader.
Satterlee, 29, slid by VanWormer for second off turn two on the last lap and noticeably closed the gap on McCreadie’s Warrior car rounding turns three and four, but McCreadie was able to hang on to win by 0.776 of a second over the rising Keystone State driver.
“I know we got work to do for a hundred laps because we faded,” said McCreadie, whose career-best finish in six World 100 A-Main starts is a seventh, in 2005. “But we’re gonna be darn happy tonight.”
Satterlee’s second-place run was his best ever at Eldora. He has started the World 100 twice, finishing 17th in 2010 and 25th in ’11.
“We went with three hard tires and right before we went out they watered the racetrack,” said Satterlee, who started fourth but struggled for most of the distance. “We weren’t really where we expected to be for the first 20 laps or so, and then that middle came in and the track kind of got back to where it was. Then the car got to doing what we planned it to do.”
VanWormer, who won a preliminary A-Feature on Thursday night, settled for a third-place finish after starting second. His car’s right-rear corner was damaged when he clipped the outside wall off turn two on lap eight while battling for second with Francis.
Francis slipped to fourth at the finish and six-time World 100 champion Billy Moyer of Batesville, Ark., started and finished fifth.
Lanigan, meanwhile, was able to find the prime line around the famed track to keep his Rocket mount at the front of the pack in the nightcap. He secured his first victory at Eldora since the 2006 DIRTcar UMP Nationals.
“We had to move around a little bit and find a couple different grooves,” said Lanigan, who was threatened early by Blankenship and Landers but never let Clanton get close enough to make a serious bid for the lead during the race’s second half. “The car was really good on the bottom, but then we kind of started losing grip down there so I moved to the middle and actually the car got better there.
“Unbelievable car,” he added. “We’ve been working on this car – this is the same car we had at the Dream (where he was involved in a hard heat-race crash), so we had to fix it some. It’s unbelievable now.”
A winner of Eldora’s $100,000 Dream in 2003, Lanigan has never captured the World 100 in 19 career A-Main starts since 1990. His best finish is second, in 1999.
Clanton, who won Thursday night’s second A-Feature, slid past Blankenship and Landers in successive laps to reach second place following a lap-11 restart but ran about one second behind Lanigan for the remaining distance. The former World 100 and Dream winner’s bridesmaid run gave him the best combined finishes of all drivers who competed in the preliminary events.
Blankenship finished third after starting from the pole position. Three-time World 100 winner Scott Bloomquist of Mooresburg, Tenn., advanced from the 14 th starting spot to finish fourth and 2006 World 100 champ Earl Pearson Jr. of Jacksonville, Fla., completed the top five.
Two caution flags slowed the second A-Feature. The first came on lap 11 when Duane Chamberlain of Richmond, Ind., blew a tire and was hit by Dustin Linville of Bryantsville, Ky. Later, on lap 16, Brad Neat of Dunnville, Ky., slowed entering turn one.
Jason Feger of Bloomington, Ill., was the fastest qualifier in Friday night’s multi-car time trials with a lap of 15.770 seconds. His circuit ended up being the fastest of the two nights of time trials.
With Saturday night’s six 15-lap Dream heat races aligned by each driver’s best lap time from the two rounds of qualifying, Feger’s overall fast time earned him a visit to the Eldora stage during Friday’s program to spin the inversion wheel. It stopped on ‘6,’ setting up a 36-car invert and leaving Feger with the sixth starting spot in a heat race that will transfer the top-three finishers to the World 100.
Among odd-number qualifiers, heat-race winners were Feger, Moyer, Satterlee, Francis, VanWormer and McCreadie. The B-Mains were captured by Chris Simpson of Oxford, Iowa, Jon Henry of Ada, Ohio, and Greg Johnson of Bedford, Ind.
Even-number qualifier heat wins went to Matt Miller of Whitehouse, Ohio, Clanton, Jacob Hawkins of Fairmont, W.Va., Mike Marlar of Winfield, Tenn., Lanigan and Blankenship, while the B-Mains were topped by Brian Shirley of Chatham, Ill., Ricky Weiss of Winnipeg, Manitoba, and Devin Moran of Dresden, Ohio.
Eldora Speedway
September 6, 2013
Race Results
A-Main #1
1 1 39 Tim McCreadie
2 4 22S Gregg Satterlee
3 2 55 Jeep VanWormer
4 3 15 Steve Francis
5 5 21 Billy Moyer
6 6 25F Jason Feger
7 9 15B Brian Birkhofer
8 10 17M Dale McDowell
9 7 99JR Frank Heckenast Jr
10 15 20 Jimmy Owens
11 17 71C R J Conley
12 16 11 Tyler Reddick
13 8 28C Eddie Carrier Jr
14 13 28 Dennis Erb Jr
15 11 49D Jonathan Davenport
16 12 44M Chris Madden
17 24 32P Bobby Pierce
18 22 B5 Brandon Sheppard
19 23 7R Kent Robinson
20 19 32 Chris Simpson
21 21 15J Greg Johnson
22 18 1* Chub Frank
23 14 58 Ray Guss Jr
24 20 15H Jon Henry
A-Main #2
1 2 29 Darrell Lanigan
2 5 25C Shane Clanton
3 1 23 John Blankenship
4 14 0 Scott Bloomquist
5 13 44 Earl Pearson, Jr
6 4 20H Jacob Hawkins
7 8 5 Jared Landers
8 3 5B Mike Marlar
9 6 3 Matt Miller
10 15 75P Terry Phillips
11 7 1 Josh Richards
12 19 3S Brian Shirley
13 20 7W Ricky Weiss
14 24 89 Mike Spatola
15 9 14M Morgan Bagley
16 10 1V Vic Hill
17 23 48L Tim Lance
18 21 99M Devin Moran
19 11 71 Don O’Neal
20 16 11N Brad Neat
21 22 20C Duane Chamberlain
22 12 D8 Dustin Linville
23 18 101 Casey Roberts
24 17 18 Shannon Babb
B-Main #1
1 32 Chris Simpson
2 B5 Brandon Sheppard
3 46 Tim Rivers
4 6 Dustin Neat
5 9T Tim Isenberg
6 1WC Wayne Chinn
7 15A Phil Ausra
8 23B Jay Brunson
9 33 Don Gordon
10 48X Steve Lance Jr
11 13 Jr Hotovy
12 45H Don Hammer
13 9I Steve Isenberg
14 2R Joe Ramey
B-Main #2
1 3S Brian Shirley
2 20C Duane Chamberlain
3 25Z Mason Zeigler
4 97 Michael Chilton
5 17W Brett Wyatt
6 25S Jason Smith
7 4GH Jeff Sloan
8 1N Casey Noonan
9 11W Jeff Watson
10 3 Jim Gingery
11 14C Henry Cooper
12 19 Chad Smith
13 81 Randy Korte
14 88 Andrew Reaume
B-Main #3
1 15H Jon Henry
2 7R Kent Robinson
3 23V Ryan Vanderveen
4 18K Brandon Kinzer
5 49 Brian Ruhlman
6 81JR Jason Riggs
7 B12 Kevin Weaver
8 91N Jeremy Nichols
9 0D Brad Dyer
10 79U Shane Unger
11 360 Michael Asberry
12 1J Jeff Babcock
13 31 Nick Latham
B-Main #4
1 7W Ricky Weiss
2 48L Tim Lance
3 77K Steve Kester
4 72 John Mason
5 116 Randy Weaver
6 48 Chad Ruhlman
7 21H Robby Hensley
8 36 Matt Irey
9 17 Shannon Thornsberry
10 69M John Mayes Jr
11 98 Mason Combs
12 1DJ Doug Drown
B-Main #5
1 15J Greg Johnson
2 32P Bobby Pierce
3 28M Jimmy Mars
4 99 Donnie Moran
5 57J Bub McCool
6 34 Ky Harper
7 93 Jay Johnson
8 21M Jason Montgomery
9 66 Jody Knowles
10 28W Jeff Wolfenbarger
11 86C Scott Clifford
12 83 Scott James
B-Main #6
1 99M Devin Moran
2 89 Mike Spatola
3 33M Tim Manville
4 11D Brian Diveley
5 3G Brian Gray
6 11S Ryan Sutter
7 58X Gary Christian
8 16R Justin Ratliff
9 2 Justin Chance
10 95J Jerry Bowersock
11 1Z Doug Zartler
12 25 Chad Simpson
Odd-Number Qualifiers Heat 1
1. Jason Feger,
2. Frankie Heckenast Jr.,
3. Dennis Erb Jr.,
4. Dustin Neat,
5. J.R. Hotovy,
6. Joe Ramey,
7. Don Gordon,
8. Chris Simpson
(DNS) Steve Isenberg
Even-Number Qualifiers Heat 1
1. Matt Miller,
2. Josh Richards,
3. Earl Pearson Jr.,
4. Brian Shirley,
5. Duane Chamberlain,
6. Jason Smith,
7. Jeff Watson,
8. Chad Smith
(DNS) Randy Korte, Henry Cooper
Odd-Number Qualifiers Heat 2
1. Billy Moyer,
2. Eddie Carrier Jr.,
3. Ray Guss Jr.,
4. Wayne Chinn,
5. Brandon Sheppard,
6. Tim Isenberg,
7. Steve Lance Jr.,
8. Phil Ausra,
9. Jay Brunson
(DNS) Don Hammer
Even-Number Qualifiers Heat 2
1. Shane Clanton,
2. Jared Landers,
3. Scott Bloomquist,
4. Mason Zeigler,
5. Michael Chilton,
6. Brett Wyatt,
7. Casey Noonan,
8. Jeff Sloan,
9. Jim Gingery
(DNS) Andrew Reaume
Odd-Number Qualifiers Heat 3
1. Gregg Satterlee,
2. Brian Birkhofer,
3. Jimmy Owens,
4. Jeff Babcock,
5. Ryan VanderVeen,
6. Jon Henry,
7. Jason Riggs,
8. Michael Asberry,
9. Brad Dyer
(DNS) Nick Latham
Even-Number Qualifiers Heat 3
1. Jacob Hawkins,
2. Morgan Bagley,
3. Terry Phillips,
4. Ricky Weiss,
5. Tim Lance,
6. Steve Kester,
7. Robby Hensley,
8. Chad Ruhlman,
9. Matt Irey
Odd-Number Qualifiers Heat 4
1. Steve Francis,
2. Dale McDowell,
3. Tyler Reddick,
4. Kent Robinson,
5. Brandon Kinzer,
6. Brian Ruhlman,
7. Kevin Weaver,
8. Jeremy Nichols,
9. Shane Unger
Even-Number Qualifiers Heat 4
1. Mike Marlar,
2. Vic Hill,
3. Brad Neat,
4. Doug Drown,
5. Randy Weaver,
6. John Mason,
7. Shannon Thornsberry,
8. John Mayes Jr.,
9. Mason Combs
Odd-Number Qualifiers Heat 5
1. Jeep VanWormer,
2. Jonathan Davenport,
3. R.J. Conley,
4. Greg Johnson,
5. Bub McCool,
6. Jason Montgomery,
7. Ky Harper,
8. Jody Knowles,
9. Scott Clifford
Even-Number Qualifiers Heat 5
1. Darrell Lanigan,
2. Don O'Neal,
3. Shannon Babb,
4. Brian Diveley,
5. Devin Moran,
6. Mike Spatola,
7. Brian Gray,
8. Justin Rattliff
(DNS) Chad Simpson
Odd-Number Qualifiers Heat 6
1. Tim McCreadie,
2. Chris Madden,
3. Chub Frank,
4. Bobby Pierce,
5. Jimmy Mars,
6. Donnie Moran,
7. Jay Johnson,
8. Jeff Wolfenbarger
(DNS) Scott James
Even-Number Qualifiers Heat 6
1. John Blankenship,
2. Dustin Linville,
3. Casey Roberts,
4. Justin Chance,
5. Jerry Bowersock,
6. Gary Christian,
7. Tim Manville,
8. Ryan Sutter
(DNS) Doug Zartler
Qualifying Results
1 25F Jason Feger 15.770
2 1 Josh Richards 15.872
3 58 Ray Guss Jr 15.971
4 25C Shane Clanton 16.062
5 22S Gregg Satterlee 16.129
6 20H Jacob Hawkins 16.141
7 15 Steve Francis 16.154
8 11N Brad Neat 16.155
9 55 Jeep VanWormer 16.157
10 71 Don ONeal 16.159
11 39 Tim McCreadie 16.186
12 23 John Blankenship 16.187
13 99JR Frank Heckenast Jr 16.207
14 3S Brian Shirley 16.221
15 1V Vic Hill 16.224
16 21 Billy Moyer 16.237
17 5 Jared Landers 16.242
18 15H Jon Henry 16.253
19 7W Ricky Weiss 16.258
20 11 Tyler Reddick 16.258
21 5B Mike Marlar 16.273
22 49D Jonathan Davenport 16.295
23 29 Darrell Lanigan 16.300
24 32P Bobby Pierce 16.301
25 95J Jerry Bowersock 16.305
26 13 JR Hotovy 16.331
27 3 Matt Miller 16.367
28 28C Eddie Carrier Jr 16.375
29 25Z Mason Zeigler 16.389
30 1J Jeff Babcock 16.397
31 14M Morgan Bagley 16.400
32 17M Dale McDowell 16.402
33 57J Bub McCool 16.448
34 99M Devin Moran 16.449
35 28M Jimmy Mars 16.468
36 101 Casey Roberts 16.469
37 28 Dennis Erb Jr 16.479
38 19 Chad Smith 16.489
39 B5 Brandon Sheppard 16.501
40 0 Scott Bloomquist 16.505
41 20 Jimmy Owens 16.529
42 48L Tim Lance 16.537
43 14C Henry Cooper 16.554
44 B12 Kevin Weaver 16.567
45 17 Shannon Thornsberry 16.573
46 71C R J Conley 16.586
47 18 Shannon Babb 16.586
48 99 Donnie Moran 16.593
49 33M Tim Manville 16.599
50 6 Dustin Neat 16.601
51 44 Earl Pearson Jr 16.601
52 1WC Wayne Chinn 16.636
53 97 Michael Chilton 16.639
54 23V Ryan VanderVeen 16.669
55 75P Terry Phillips 16.671
56 49 Brian Ruhlman 16.680
57 116 Randy Weaver 16.709
58 21M Jason Montgomery 16.718
59 16R Justin Ratliff 16.719
60 1* Chub Frank 16.730
61 D8 Dustin Linville 16.748
62 32 Chris Simpson 16.766
63 20C Duane Chamberlain 16.769
64 9T Tim Isenberg 16.793
65 17W Brett Wyatt 16.801
66 15B Brian Birkhofer 16.846
67 21H Robby Hensley 16.857
68 91N Jeremy Nichols 16.870
69 72 John Mason 16.871
70 15J Greg Johnson 16.916
71 11D Brian Diveley 17.043
72 44M Chris Madden 17.094
73 11S Ryan Sutter 17.151
74 46 Tim Rivers 17.162
75 81 Randy Korte 17.172
76 48X Steve Lance Jr 17.175
77 4GH Jeff Sloan 17.211
78 0D Brad Dyer 17.222
79 48 Chad Ruhlman 17.235
80 18K Brandon Kinzer 17.237
81 1DJ Doug Drown 17.324
82 34 Ky Harper 17.380
83 89 Mike Spatola 17.446
84 93 Jay Johnson 17.463
85 2 Justin Chance 17.475
86 2R Joe Ramey 17.503
87 11W Jeff Watson 17.548
88 15A Phil Ausra 17.632
89 1N Casey Noonan 17.635
90 360 Michael Asberry 17.647
91 77K Steve Kester 17.705
92 7R Kent Robinson 17.762
93 69M John Mayes Jr 17.779
94 66 Jody Knowles 17.804
95 3G Brian Gray 17.841
96 28W Jeff Wolfenbarger 17.854
97 58X Gary Christian 17.873
98 33 Don Gordon 17.907
99 25S Jason Smith 18.088
100 23B Jay Brunson 18.089
101 88 Andrew Reaume 18.097
102 81JR Jason Riggs 18.187
103 36 Matt Irey 18.188
104 79U Shane Unger 18.670
105 98 Mason Combs 18.876
106 86C Scott Clifford 19.011
The World 100 weekend will conclude on Saturday night (Sept. 7). The first heat is scheduled to get the green flag at 7 p.m.
Fans can obtain tickets information for the World 100 by going online to www.EldoraSpeedway.com or contacting the Eldora offices at 937-338-3815.
Fans who can’t make it to Eldora in person this weekend can still watch all the action live by purchasing the live Pay-Per-View video broadcast of all three nights of action that is available at www.EldoraSpeedway.com.
For more information on DIRTcar Racing, visit www.dirtcar.com.
