Post by LMR on 06/26/14 at 9:43pm
World of Outlaws Late Model Series
Lernerville Speedway
June 26, 2014
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Lanigan Opens Firecracker 100 Weekend With First-Ever Victory At Lernerville Speedway
Kentucky Driver Continues Torrid Pace On World of Outlaws Late Model Series
WoOLMS PR
SARVER, PA (June 26) - Darrell Lanigan of Union, Ky., kicked off the eighth annual Firecracker 100 presented by GottaRace.com weekend in fine fashion, powering past Scott Bloomquist of Mooresburg, Tenn., for the lead on lap 21 and marching on to victory in Thursday night’s 30-lap World of Outlaws Late Model Series preliminary A-Main at Lernerville Speedway.
Lanigan, 43, continued his mastery of the 2014 WoO LMS campaign, winning his second straight event and for the sixth time in 15 starts. His already comfortable lead in the national tour’s points standings ballooned to 152 points over Rick Eckert of York, Pa., who finished 10th.
The race also marked Lanigan’s long-awaited first-ever triumph at Lernerville, a four-tenths-mile oval where he’s come frustratingly close to a checkered flag on numerous occasions. He’s been the runner-up in the Firecracker 100 in four of the last six years, so he hopes reaching the finish line first in the weekend’s first preliminary feature is a good omen for Saturday night’s $30,000-to-win spectacular.
“It’s good to finally get a win here,” said Lanigan, who earned $6,150 for his 59th career WoO LMS triumph. “Now we’re really looking forward to tomorrow night (the second preliminary program) and Saturday night. We have a real good car so I think we have a good shot at it.”
Lanigan started from the pole position, but his route to the checkered flag was far from easy. He was outgunned for the lead at the initial green flag by outside polesitter Jonathan Davenport of Blairsville, Ga., and fell to third behind Bloomquist on a lap-nine restart, but he battled back to grab second from Davenport on lap 19 and slide underneath Bloomquist for the lead on lap 21.
“We fell to second there on the (original) start and then Bloomer got that outside on the (lap-nine) restart and got by us,” Lanigan said. “I just never got a good start, but I felt like we had a good enough car to get back by those guys and in the end we did.”
Bloomquist, 50, battled forward from the fourth starting spot to grab the lead from race-long pacesetter Davenport on lap 19, but he couldn’t hold off Lanigan. The two-time Firecracker 100 champion was able to repel a late challenge from Jimmy Owens of Newport, Tenn., to secure a second-place finish, 1.462 seconds behind Lanigan.
“The car was so tight that I was having to pitch the car sideways and kind of get it drifting going in the corner so it didn’t push,” said Bloomquist. “But now that we have one night under our belt we’ll kind of go back and reanalyze everything. We just were extremely tight out there, so we’ll free the car up a little bit so we won’t need that much slide to turn it tomorrow.”
Owens, making his first Firecracker 100 appearance in five years, placed third after slipping by Davenport on lap 27 and seeing his last-ditch bid to overtake Bloomquist fall short. Davenport, who started outside of Lanigan on the front row and outgunned the eventual winner for the lead at the initial green flag, slipped to fourth at the finish and seventh-starter Mike Marlar of Winfield, Tenn., completed the top five.
Just two caution flags slowed the race, both for stopped cars. Kent Robinson of Bloomington, Ind., broke a driveshaft on lap nine and Dan Stone of Thompson, Pa., came to a stop on the backstretch on lap 17.
Marlar topped the 55-car field in Ohlins Shocks Time Trials, turning a lap of 16.221 seconds in Group 1 that was the overall fastest of the night.
Heat winners were Owens, Bloomquist, Doug Drown of Wooster, Ohio, Davenport, Lanigan and Austin Hubbard of Seaford, Del. The B-Mains were captured by Jared Miley of South Park, Pa., Dave Hess Jr. of Waterford, Pa., and Dale McDowell of Chickamauga, Ga.
The Firecracker 100 weekend continues on Friday night (June 27) with another full program topped by a 30-lap, $6,000-to-win feature. Hot laps are at 6:50 p.m., time trials at 7:15 p.m. and racing at 8 p.m.
For more information on the WoO LMS, visit www.worldofoutlaws.com.
Results of WoO Late Model Series Firecracker 100 Preliminary A-Main No. 1 at Lernerville Speedway
(Finishing Position/Start/Driver/Laps Completed/Money Won):
1. (1) Darrell Lanigan/30 $6,150
2. (4) Scott Bloomquist/30 $3,200
3. (4) Jimmy Owens/30 $2,050
4. (2) Jonathan Davenport/30 $1,750
5. (7) Mike Marlar/30 $1,500
6. (8) Tim Fuller/30 $1,250
7. (19) Jared Miley/30 $1,300
8. (15) Alex Ferree/30 $1,150
9. (9) Morgan Bagley/30 $1,100
10. (12) Rick Eckert/30 $1,200
11. (22) Tim McCreadie/30 $1,050
12. (6) Doug Drown/30 $875
13. (21) Dale McDowell/30 $750
14. (5) Austin Hubbard/30 $725
15. (16) Max Blair/30 $700
16. (25) Eric Wells/30 $730
17. (10) John Blanenship/30 $670
18. (23) Chub Frank/30 $710
19. (18) Shane Clanton/30 $690
20. (20) Dave Hess Jr./30 $620
21. (26) Frankie Heckenast Jr./30 $900
22. (24) Boom Briggs/30 $650
23. (27) Clint Smith/30 $160
24. (11) Mason Zeigler/30 $600
25. (28) Chase Junghans/29 $160
26. (13) Mike Knight/21 $600
27. (17) Dan Stone/17 $600
28. (14) Kent Robinson/8 $600
* Earnings include Winners Circle program and cash contingency award bonuses
Time of Race: 12 Mins., 58.909 Secs.
Margin of Victory: 1.462 Secs.
Yellow Flags: 2 (laps 9, 17)
Lap Leaders: Davenport (1-18); Bloomquist (19-20); Lanigan (21-30)
Provisional Starters: Wells, Heckenast (WoO points); Junghans (WoO emergency)
Rookie of the Race: Heckenast ($250)
WoO LMS ‘Bonus Bucks’ Winner: Miley ($500)
B-Main #1
1 H1 Jared Miley
2 39 Tim McCreadie
3 18 Eric Wells
4 J4 John Garvin
5 56 Russ King
6 14 Dan Angellicchio
7 C33 Chris Casner
8 5 Eric Jacobsen
9 21 Tony Mussolino
10 37 Brian Tavenner
11 10L Gary Lyle
12 1J Davey Johnson
13 101 Casey Roberts
B-Main #2
1 44H Dave Hess
2 1* Chub Frank
3 22 Gregg Satterlee
4 25B Mike Benedum
5 99jr Frankie Heckenast Jr
6 44 Clint Smith
7 66 Todd Bachman
8 1C Mike Pegher
9 4T8 John Flinner Jr
10 88 Chuck Sarver
11 79 Mike Ahobelli
12 75 Colton Flinner
B-Main #3
1 17M Dale McDowell
2 99B Boom Briggs
3 28M Jimmy Mars
4 29K Garrett Krummert
5 72 Michael Norris
6 29s Ken Schaltenbrand
7 16 Matt Cochran
8 66K Justin Kann
9 18c Chase Junghans
10 7X Herman Bertolini
11 32c Vic Coffey
12 57 Bo Lockwood
Heat #1
1 20 Jimmy Owens
2 157 Mike Marlar
3 9K Mike Knight
4 J4 John Garvin
5 39 Tim McCreadie
6 C33 Chris Casner
7 10L Gary Lyle
8 21 Tony Mussolino
9 1J Davey Johnson
10 5 Eric Jacobsen
Heat #2
1 0 Scott Bloomquist
2 19 Tim Fuller
3 7R Kent Robinson
4 H1 Jared Miley
5 18 Eric Wells
6 14 Dan Angellicchio
7 56 Russ King
8 101 Casey Roberts
9 37 Brian Tavenner
Heat #3
1 20D Doug Drown
2 14M Morgan Bagley
3 10 Alex Ferree
4 44H Dave Hess
5 99jr Frankie Heckenast Jr
6 66 Todd Bachman
7 44 Clint Smith
8 4T8 John Flinner Jr
9 75 Colton Flinner
Heat #4
1 6 Jonathan Davenport
2 23 John Blankenship
3 111 Max Blair
4 22 Gregg Satterlee
5 1* Chub Frank
6 25B Mike Benedum
7 1C Mike Pegher
8 79 Mike Ahobelli
9 88 Chuck Sarver
Heat #5
1 29 Darrell Lanigan
2 25z Mason Zeigler
3 2 Dan Stone
4 17M Dale McDowell
5 28M Jimmy Mars
6 29K Garrett Krummert
7 29s Ken Schaltenbrand
8 16 Matt Cochran
9 18c Chase Junghans
Heat #6
1 11 Austin Hubbard
2 1 Rick Eckert
3 25 Shane Clanton
4 66K Justin Kann
5 99B Boom Briggs
6 32c Vic Coffey
7 72 Michael Norris
8 57 Bo Lockwood
9 7X Herman Bertolini
Time Trial Results (Position/No./Driver/Hometown/Best Lap):
Group ‘A’
1. 157-Mike Marlar/Winfield, TN 16.221
2. 0-Scott Bloomquist/Mooresburg, TN 16.425
3. 20d-Doug Drown/Wooster, OH 16.631
4. 20-Jimmy Owens/Newport, TN 16.75
5. 7R-Kent Robinson/Bloomington, IN 16.792
6. 14M-Morgan Bagley/Longview, TX 16.805
7. J4-John Garvin/Sarver, PA 16.858
8. 19-Tim Fuller/Watertown, NY 16.883
9. 10-Alex Ferree/Saxonburg, PA 16.961
10. 21-Tony Musolino II/Pittsburgh, PA 16.987
11. H1-Jared Miley/South Park, PA 16.994
12. 99Jr-Frank Heckenast Jr./Frankfurt, IL 17.04
13. 1J-Davey Johnson/Latrobe, PA 17.177
14. 18-Eric Wells/Hazard, KY 17.181
15. 44H-Dave Hess Jr./Waterford, PA 17.19
16. 39-Tim McCreadie/Watertown, NY 17.199
17. 56-Russ King/Bristolville, OH 17.251
18. 66-Todd Bachman/Natrona Heights, PA 17.338
19. 5-Eric Jacobsen/Sea Cliff Beach, CA 17.388
20. 101-Casey Roberts/Toccoa, GA 17.474
21. 44-Clint Smith/Senoia, GA 17.48
22. 9K-Mike Knight/Ripley, NY 17.512
23. 14-Dan Angelicchio/Mt. Pleasant, PA 17.53
24. 48-John Flinner Jr./Zelionople, PA 17.542
25. c33-Chris Casner/Mifflintown, PA 17.575
26. 37-Brian Tavenner/Winchester, VA 17.773
27. 75-Colton Flinner/Allison Park, PA 17.803
28. 10L-Gary Lyle/Leechburg, PA 17.935
Group ‘B’
1. 6-Jonathan Davenport/Blairsville, GA 16.543
2. 29-Darrell Lanigan/Union, KY 16.845
3. 11-Austin Hubbard/Seaford, DE 16.921
4. 25b-Mike Benedum/Salem, WV 17.014
5. 2-Dan Stone/Thompson, PA 17.02
6. 66-Justin Kann/Hesston, PA 17.027
7. 22-Gregg Satterlee/Indiana, PA 17.101
8. 25z-Mason Zeigler/Chalk Hill, PA 17.117
9. 25-Shane Clanton/Zebulon, GA 17.12
10. 23-John Blankenship/Williamson, WV 17.169
11. 29K-Garrett Krummert/Butler, PA 17.199
12. 32c-Vic Coffey/Caledonia, NY 17.22
13. 111-Max Blair/Titusville, PA 17.237
14. 17M-Dale McDowell/Chickamauga, GA 17.251
15. 1-Rick Eckert/York, PA 17.326
16. 1*-Chub Frank/Bear Lake, PA 17.495
17. 18c-Chase Junghans/Manhattan, KS 17.606
18. 72-Michael Norris/Sarver, PA 17.608
19. 88-Chuck Sarver/W. Sunbury, PA 17.649
20. 28M-Jimmy Mars/Menomonie, WI 17.656
21. 99B-Boom Briggs/Bear Lake, PA 17.683
22. 1c-Mike Pegher Jr./Wexford, PA 17.691
23. 16-Matt Cochran/Williamsport, PA 18.01
24. 7x-Herman Bertolini/Creighton, PA 18.04
25. 79-Mike Altobelli/Saxton, PA 18.132
26. 29s-Ken Schaltenbrand/Sarver, PA 18.157
27. 57-Bo Lockwood/Brookville, PA 18.391
Event photos courtesy of Tommy Hein
Event photos courtesy of Tommy Hein