Comp Cams Topless 100
Batesville Speedway
August 21, 2011
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Bloomquist Scorches Competition at the 19th Annual COMP Cams Topless 100

by James Essex
BATESVILLE, Ark. (August 21)- Not even a one day delay could slow down Scott Bloomquist as he claimed the win in the Lucas Oil Late Model Dirt Series-sanctioned, 19th Annual COMP Cams Topless 100 at Batesville Motor Speedway on Sunday afternoon. It was his fourth event title.

Mother Nature abruptly halted the 100-lap event, after 12 laps of the feature on Saturday night. The race resumed on a steamy Sunday afternoon at the 3/8-mile oval. Before the green ever waved, bad luck struck fifth place runner, Dale McDowell. His left front tire rolled away from his #17 Clint Bowyer Motorsports Rocket. He ducked into the hot pit to get the tire reattached, but had to join the tail of the field.

As the action finally resumed Scott Bloomquist led the field back to the green flag with Jimmy Owens, Shannon Babb, Jared Landers, and Bub McCool in tow. Bloomquist quickly extended his advantage to five car lengths as Owens tried to keep pace. The caution flag was displayed on lap 15 as fourth place runner, Babb, spun out in turn three. The top five after the restart consisted of Bloomquist, Owens, Landers, McCool, and Steve Francis.

By lap 36 Landers had made his way around Owens and was alongside Bloomquist for the lead, but Bloomquist soon motored away from Landers and the remainder of the field. Over the next several laps Bloomquist built a straightaway lead over the pack, as the top five running order remained the same.

A series of cautions had little effect on the running order amongst the leaders until Bub McCool relinquished the fifth position on lap 74 as his right rear tire went down in turn one to bring out the final caution of the event. Bloomquist continued to maintain a sizeable lead, the battle for the second spot began again to intensify, and Jimmy Owens used lapped traffic to his advantage to move past Landers for the second spot in turn two on lap 89. Over the course of the next six laps, drama began to build as Owens erased Bloomquist' straightaway lead as he trailed the leader by only one car length at the flag stand with five laps to go.

Despite his best efforts, Owens was unable to overtake Bloomquist. The Mooresburg, Tennessee driver piloted his #0 Hawkeye Trucking/Bloomquist/Roush Yates Racing Engine Super Late Model to his fourth COMP Cams Topless 100 triumph. LOLMDS point's leader, Jimmy Owens crossed the finish line in second in his #20 Reece Monuments/Bloomquist/Cornett entry. Defending champion, Jared Landers, rounded out the podium in his #777 Rocket/ECR Racing Engine Super Late Model. Rounding out the top five were Steve Francis and Tyler Reddick. Positions six through ten consisted of John Blankenship, Earl Pearson Jr., Jonathan Davenport, Steve Casebolt, and Wendell Wallace.

With Bloomquist's tenth tour triumph of the 2011 season, Jimmy Owens saw his lead in the LOLMDS standings trimmed to 140 points heading into the next weekend's events at Volunteer Speedway (Bulls Gap, Tennessee) on Thursday, August 25th; Lawrenceburg Speedway in Indiana on Friday, August 26th; and Bluegrass Speedway in Bardstown, KY on Saturday, August 27th.


Topless 100
1 4 0 Scott Bloomquist Mooresburg, TN $40,000
2 6 20 Jimmy Owens Newport, TN
3 10 777 Jared Landers Batesville, AR
4 14 15 Steve Francis Ashland, KY
5 13 11t Tyler Reddick Corning, CA
6 9 23 John Blankenship Williamson, WV
7 23 44 Earl Pearson, Jr. Jacksonville, FL
8 20 49 Jonathan Davenport Blairsville, GA
9 15 c9 Steve Casebolt  Richmond, IN
10 5 88 Wendell Wallace Batesville, AR
11 11 1s Jack Sullivan Greenbrier, AR
12 3 18e Eric Wells Hazard, KY
13 8 17m Dale McDowell Chickamauga, GA
14 12 57J Bub McCool Vicksburg, MS
15 24 41n Brad Neat Dunnville, KY
16 22 6r Robbie Stuart DeRidder, LA
17 25 99jr Frank Heckenast, Jr. Frankfort, IL
18 16 21JR Billy Moyer, Jr. Batesville, AR
19 21 00S Jesse Stovall Galena, MO
20 7 74 Jeremy Payne Springfield, MO
21 2 18 Shannon Babb Mowequa, IL
22 17 21 Billy Moyer Batesville, AR
23 18 75 Terry Phillips Springfield, MO
24 19 53 Ray Cook Brasstown, NC
25 1 71 Don O'Neal Martinsville, IN

Entrants: 55
Lap Leaders: Shannon Babb (Laps 1 - 3); Scott Bloomquist (Laps 4 - 100)
Caution Flags: Don O'Neal (Lap 2); Don O'Neal (Lap 7); Ray Cook (Lap 12); Shannon Babb (Lap 15); Terry Phillips (Lap 17); Billy Moyer (Lap 21); Jeremy Payne (Lap 57); Billy Moyer Jr., (Lap 73); Bub McCool (Lap 74)
Lucas Oil Late Model Dirt Series Provisionals: Earl Pearson Jr., Brad Neat
Lucas Oil Late Model Dirt Series Emergency Provisionals: Frank Heckenast Jr.
Time of Race: 46 minutes 17 seconds


JRi Shocks First B-Main (15 Laps- Top 2 Advance): Ray Cook, Jesse Stovall, BJ Robinson, Morgan Bagley, Jon Mitchell, Austin Rettig, Jon Kirby, Chad Dupont, Kelly Hanvey, Dewaine Hottinger, Curtiss Cook, Kent Robinson, Eric Turner, Shane Harris, Earl Pearson Jr., Stacy Taylor, Neil Baggett-DNS, Leon Henderson-DNS, Chris Brown-DNS

Wrisco Aluminum Second B-Main (15 Laps- Top 2 Advance): Jonathan Davenport, Robbie Stuart, RC Whitwell, Dane Dacus, Brandon Smith, Jay Brunson, Jeff Floyd, Frank Heckenast Jr., Henry Cooper, Dan Schlieper, Andrew McKay, Kyle Beard, Brad Neat, Chase Washington, Chris Wall-DNS, Will Vaught-DNS, Brian Shirley-DNS, David Breazeale-DNS