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Scott Bloomquist Wins the DART Winternationals Week Long Points Standings and the $5,000 First Place Prize

Waycross, GA (February 15, 2011) -Scott Bloomquist claimed his first ever DART Winternationals Points Championship last week at East Bay Raceway competing in all six feature events for the week. Bloomquist would start the week out fast with a win on opening night, a 2nd place on the second feature and a 3rd place finish on the third night. He would end up with one win, three top 5 finishes and four top 10 finishes out of the six feature events and a last lap past on the final night would be just enough points for the week to win the week long points standings and the $5,000 top prize from DART.

The 35th DART Winternationals presented by Magnaflow Exhaust averaged 60 plus cars each night with six different winners and six different fast time winners. Bloomquist, Tyler Reddick, Billy Moyer, Brad Neat, Jimmy Owens and Tim McCreadie all claimed wins during the week. Brad Neat, Dan Schlieper, Billy Moyer, Mike Marlar, Austin Hubbard and Jason Feger all earned Red Buck fast time awards for the week.

Drivers earned points all week towards the DART Winternationals points fund and the top ten in the week long point's standings received numerous product awards with the winner receiving $5,000 cash from DART Machinery. With a tight points battle between Scott Bloomquist and Don O'Neal heading into the final feature for the week, the week long points battle would come down to the final lap of the 75-lap feature. With O'Neal running a solid 3rd place, Bloomquist was battling with drivers mid pack for most of the race. Unknowing to where O'Neal was running Bloomquist continued to advance positions late in the race and passed Eddie Carrier Jr. on the final lap to finish in the 11th place. That last lap pass would be the difference in winning the DART Points as Bloomquist would beat O'Neal by a mere 5 points for the week with 1225 points to O'Neal's 1220.

The top ten final DART point's standings for the week were Scott Bloomquist, Don O'Neal, Jimmy Owens, Mike Marlar, Eddie Carrier Jr., Austin Hubbard, Ray Cook, David Breazeale, Dennis Erb and Eric Jacobsen.

Jimmy Owens also claimed the special week long Outerwears Challenge and won a $500 cash award from Outerwears. The unique contest was awarded to the driver that completed the most laps and was using all three specific Outerwears products including the air filter pre filter, radiator pre filter and the shock covers. Outerwears will continue this special contest for the entire year with the winner of the Outerwears Challenge winning a $1500 cash award at the end of the year. To be eligible for this special award drivers must be using all three Outerwear Products as mentioned above.

"Were very thankful to have DART sponsor the Winternationals for the fourth year in a row. Both DART and Magnaflow also stepped up and added two additional starting positions to each nights feature event that gave more racers an opportunity to earn more money and a chance to compete for a coveted winternationals feature win", stated Ritchie Lewis.

To learn more about the Lucas Oil Late Model Dirt Series contact the series office at (951) 532-2503 or visit the official website of the series at www.lucasdirt.com.

Final 2011 Lucas Oil Late Model Dirt Series DART Winternationals Presented by Magnaflow Points Standings:

1 0 Scott Bloomquist 1225
2 71 Don O'Neal 1220
3 20 Jimmy Owens 1135
4 36 Mike Marlar 1110
5 28 Eddie Carrier, Jr. 1075
6 19 Austin Hubbard 1070
7 53 Ray Cook 1020
8 54 David Breazeale 980
8 28e Dennis Erb, Jr. 980
10 57J Bub McCool 960
10 5 Eric Jacobsen 960
12 25 Josh Richards 955
13 39 Tim McCreadie 925
14 25f Jason Feger 915
15 15 Steve Francis 880
15 s9 Dan Schlieper 880
15 6T Tim Dohm  880
18 777 Jared Landers 875
19 99 Donnie Moran 860
20 41n Brad Neat 850
20 17m Dale McDowell 850
22 21JR Billy Moyer, Jr. 820
23 44 Earl Pearson, Jr. 790
24 11t Tyler Reddick 750
25 88 Wendell Wallace 740
26 37 Jared Hawkins 690
27 71w Chris Wall 675
27 18e Eric Wells 675
29 99jr Frank Heckenast, Jr. 670
30 21 Billy Moyer 660
31 9t Tim Isenberg 650
32 23 John Blankenship 625
33 16 Justin Rattliff 610
34 54W Dillan White 600
35 2v Chad Valone 575
36 21d Daniel Stone 545
37 97 Michael Chilton 535
38 77m Jason McBride 505
39 85 Mark Andersen 480
39 4Ds Chad Hollenbeck 480
41 1CJ Travis Varnadore 465
41 1 Doug Blashe 465
43 74 Russ Adams 460
43 11w D.J. Wells 460
45 32 Bobby Pierce 455
46 15c Wayne Chinn 450
47 3r Brent Robinson 445
48 44j James O'Hara 435
49 18d Danny Mitchell 425
49 24 Rick Eckert 425
51 38 Robert Geiger 415
52 m14 Brandon Thirlby 405
53 7w Ricky Weiss 390
54 c9 Steve Casebolt  385
55 10 Leon Henderson 380
56 87 Duane Harbaugh 360
57 27j Joe Denby 355
58 32c Vic Coffey 335
59 23x Brian Birkhofer 305
60 1J Davey Johnson 300
61 257 Skylar Marlar 270
62 1 Jackie Nosbisch 255
63 35 Christian Augspurger 235
64 4G Bob Gardner 200
64 38c John Gardner 200
64 32s Chad Stapleton 200
67 77 Greg Fore 185
68 1 Keith Nosbisch 180
69 16c Terry Casey 175
70 56J Chuck Julien 135
71 22x Perry Brown 80
72 2s David Scott 75
73 19t Tim Fuller 50
73 32s Scott James  50