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WoOLMS at 311 Motor Speedway - 5/4 Results
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World of Outlaws Late Model Series
311 Motor Speedway
May 4, 2012
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McCreadie Returns To Winning Ways In First-Ever World of Outlaws Late Model Series Event At 311 Motor Speedway 



Kevin Kovac
PINE HALL, NC – May 4, 2012 – Tim McCreadie of Watertown, N.Y., returned to his winning ways on Friday night, rolling to victory in the 50-lap World of Outlaws Late Model Series A-Main at 311 Motor Speedway.

Snapping a nearly 10-month winless slump on the national tour, McCreadie surged into the lead at the initial green flag and never looked back in the first-ever WoO LMS event at the half-mile Tar Heel State oval. The circuit’s 2006 champion beat defending titlist Rick Eckert of York, Pa., to the finish line by 0.669 of a second.

WoO LMS points leader Darrell Lanigan of Union, Ky., finished third, Steve Shaver of Vienna, W.Va., was fourth and Clint Smith of Senoia, Ga., placed fifth for his first top-five run of the 2012 tour.

McCreadie, 38, righted a ship that had been listing this season. He began the campaign with renewed vigor thanks to a switch to Warrior Chassis, but he struggled to find his rhythm and entered Friday evening’s action mired in eighth in the points standings, without a top-five finish through nine WoO LMS events.

After poor performance prompted him to retire early from back-to-back WoO LMS A-Mains last week at North Alabama Speedway and Tazewell (Tenn.) Speedway, McCreadie and his Sweeteners Plus team went back to the drawing board. Several days spent at Warrior’s headquarters in Knoxville, Tenn., and a Tuesday-night practice session at 411 Motor Speedway in Seymour, Tenn., led to an uplifting checkered flag.

“It feels good. It’s also a big relief,” McCreadie said of his first win on the WoO LMS since July 15, 2011, at River Cities Speedway in Grand Forks, N.D. “You make changes during the winter and you hope they pay off. Sooner or later we were hopefully gonna hit on something.

“We got better a lot by sitting down as a team with Warrior and figuring stuff out. It was a total team effort. This win is as much for our whole team as it is just for me.”

McCreadie caught a much-needed break when he drew the pole position for the A-Main, but he used sheer speed to keep his No. 39 in front for the race’s entire distance. He was never seriously challenged, pulling away to a short-but-steady edge after each of the four caution flags and one red that dotted the affair.

There was one anxious moment for McCreadie, however. It came after a red flag flew on a lap-38 restart for a multi-car tangle in turn two that left McCreadie’s teammate, Vic Coffey of Caledonia, N.Y., and WoO LMS Rookie of the Year leader Bub McCool of Vicksburg, Miss., stuck together at the bottom of the track.

“Earlier this year in a (Big-Block) Modified I led so many laps and got beat at the end when the track changed,” said McCreadie, who earned $10,650 for the 18th WoO LMS victory of his career. “We had that long red and everybody’s packing the cushion, and I’m like, ‘Oh my God, here we go. We’re gonna crab around the bottom and somebody’s gonna get up on that cushion and make it work.’

“It just didn’t work out that way.”

Indeed, McCreadie had little trouble outdistancing the second-starting Eckert, who slipped to third early but wrestled second back from Shaver on a lap-26 restart and kept his Team Zero by Bloomquist car in the spot to the finish. It was Eckert’s second runner-up finish in the last three races.

“He was better than firing off on restarts,” Eckert said of McCreadie. “I could run back up on him after a few laps, but passing him would’ve been another thing.”

Lanigan, meanwhile, survived an opening-lap incident that could have quickly ended his hopes for a second straight third-place finish on the WoO LMS. The race’s third starter, he tangled with Chris Ferguson of Mt. Holly, N.C., entering turn three and both drivers spun. Lanigan restarted in his original spot by rule because he was involved in a multi-car tangle at the initial green flag; Ferguson, who started fourth, could have rejoined Lanigan in the second row but nose damage forced him to pit and then retire after completing one lap.

Dale McDowell of Chickamauga, Ga., finished sixth, quietly working his way forward from the 13th starting spot. Dennis ‘Rambo’ Franklin of Gaffney, S.C., placed seventh to earn the $500 WoO LMS ‘Bonus Bucks’ cash for being the highest-finishing driver who hasn’t won a tour A-Main and isn’t ranked among the top 12 in series points; Chub Frank of Bear Lake, Pa., was eighth after using a provisional to start the event; 18th -starter Pat Doar of New Richmond, Wis., was ninth; and Greg Johnson of Bedford, Ind., who started 25th after using a WoO LMS emergency provisional to gain entry to the field, finished 10th and earned the $250 top-rookie bonus.

Among the contenders struck down by mechanical trouble was Mike Marlar of Winfield, Tenn., who ran as high as sixth before exiting on lap 26 due to an overheating engine; Shane Clanton of Fayetteville, Ga., who relinquished seventh place on lap 38; and Chris Madden of Gray Court, S.C., who joined Clanton in retiring to the pits on lap 38.

Ferguson earned his first career WoO LMS fast-time honor, topping the 33-car Ohlins Shocks Time Trials session with a lap of 15.653 seconds.

Heat winners were Ferguson, Shaver and Donald Bradsher of Burlington, N.C. The B-Main was captured by Trinity, N.C.’s Justin Labonte, the son of former NASCAR Sprint Cup Series champion Terry Labonte.

The evening’s hard-luck driver was Bradsher, whose joy of winning a career-first WoO LMS heat race turned to despair when his crew found that the front seal blew out of his car’s motor. He was forced to relinquish the sixth starting spot and merely take the green flag for start money.

The WoO LMS heads farther south to complete its weekend doubleheader on Saturday night (May 5), visiting Swainsboro (Ga.) Raceway for a 50-lap, $10,000-to-win A-Main that is part of the track’s ‘Pine Tree 100.’

Results of WoO Late Model Series at 311 Motor Speedway (Finishing Position/Start/Driver/Laps Completed/Money Won):
1. (1) Tim McCreadie/50 $10,650
2. (2) Rick Eckert/50 $5,650
3. (3) Darrell Lanigan/50 $3,650
4. (5) Steve Shaver/50 $2,550
5. (8) Clint Smith/50 $2,550
6. (13) Dale McDowell/50 $1,700
7. (9) Dennis Franklin/50 $2,000
8. (23) Chub Frank/50 $1,850
9. (18) Pat Doar/50 $1,750
10. (25) Greg Johnson/50 $450
11. (19) Justin Labonte/50 $1,050
12. (24) Kent Robinson/50 $1,050
13. (17) John Lobb/50 $1,000
14. (22) Mike Gault/48 $900
15. (15) Tim Fuller/43 $1,400
16. (7) Shane Clanton/39 $1,350
17. (16) Vic Coffey/38 $1,370
18. (12) Bub McCool/38 $1,300
19. (11) Chris Madden/38 $730
20. (10) Mike Marlar/25 $1,250
21. (21) Daniel Baggerly/25 $700
22. (17) Dustin Mitchell/13 $700
23. (14) Jay Sessoms/10 $700
24. (6) Donald Bradsher/1 $725
25. (4) Chris Ferguson/1 $700
* Earnings include Winners Circle program and cash contingency award bonuses
Time of Race: 33 Mins., 25.071 Secs.
Margin of Victory: 0.669 Secs.
Yellow Flags: 4 (Laps 0, 15, 26, 38); 1 Red Flag (Lap 38)
Lap Leaders: McCreadie (1-50)
Provisional Starters: Frank, Robinson (WoO points); Johnson (WoO emergency)
Rookie of the Race: Johnson ($250)
WoO LMS ‘Bonus Bucks’ Winner: Franklin ($500)

Heat No. 1 (10 laps – Top 6 Transfer): Ferguson, McCreadie, Clanton, Marlar, McDowell, Coffey, Lobb, Baggerly, Frank, Wilson, Sullivan
Heat No. 2 (10 laps – Top 6 Transfer): Shaver, Eckert, C. Smith, Madden, Sessoms, Mitchell, Labonte, Gault, Johnson, Hicks
Heat No. 3 (10 laps – Top 6 Transfer): Bradsher, Lanigan, Franklin, McCool, Fuller, Doar, Robinson, Kirkpatrick, Watts, George
B-Main (12 laps – Top 4 Transfer): Labonte, Lobb, Baggerly, Gault, Robinson, Frank, Watts, Johnson, Sullivan, George, Hicks, Wilson, Kirkpatrick

Ohlins Shocks Time Trial Results (Position/No./Driver/Hometown/Best Lap):
1. 22-Chris Ferguson/Mt. Holly, NC 15.653
2. 6-Steve Shaver/Vienna, WV 15.910
3. 29-Darrell Lanigan/Union, KY 16.174
4. 25-Shane Clanton/Fayetteville, GA 16.207
5. 24-Rick Eckert/York, Pa 16.212
6. 93-Donald Bradsher/Burlington, NC 16.219
7. 39-Tim McCreadie/Watertown, NY 16.290
8. 44M-Chris Madden/Gray Court, SC 16.302
9. 11K-Austin Kirkpatrick/Ocala, FL 16.302
10. 17M-Dale McDowell/Chickamauga, GA 16.326
11. 44-Clint Smith/Senoia, GA 16.327
12. 57J-Bub McCool/Vicksburg, MS 16.340
13. 5b-Mike Marlar/Winfield, TN 16.346
14. d8-Dustin Mitchell/Pine Level, NC 16.411
15. 19-Tim Fuller/Watertown, NY 16.419
16. 32c-Vic Coffey/Caledonia, NY 16.421
17. 84-Jay Sessoms/Stanley, NC 16.431
18. 37c-Dennis Franklin/Gaffney, SC 16.459
19. 28-John Lobb/Frewsburg, NY 16.517
20. 44L-Justin Labonte/Trinity, NC 16.523
21. 7R-Kent Robinson/Bloomington, IN 16.543
22. 1*-Chub Frank/Bear Lake, PA 16.580
23. 17-Mike Gault/Gaffney, SC 16.639
24. 11-Pat Doar/New Richmond, WI 16.748
25. 1s-Jack Sullivan/Greenbrier, AR 16.784
26. 79-Billy Hicks/Mt. Airy, NC 16.815
27. 04-David Watts/Buchanan, VA 16.854
28. 16-Daniel Baggerly/Rural Retreat, VA 16.964
29. 49-Greg Johnson/Bedford, IN 17.331
30. 22-Jill George/Cedar Falls, IA 17.562
31. 618-Kevin Wilson/Shoreville, NC 17.781
32. 9-Gary East/Danbury, NC N/T
33. 42-Doug Sanders/Belmont, NC N/T


2012 World of Outlaws Late Model Series Point Standings as of – A-Mains completed (rank/driver/points/deficit to leader):
1. Darrell Lanigan 1420
2. Rick Eckert 1384 (-36)
3. Shane Clanton 1294 (-126)
4. Chub Frank 1286 (-134)
5. Bub McCool 1236 (-184)
6. Vic Coffey 1236 (-184)
7. Clint Smith 1232 (-188)
8. Tim McCreadie 1224 (-196)
9. Pat Doar 1142 (-278)
10. Mike Marlar 1126 (-294)
11. (tie) Tim Fuller 1096 (-324)
11. (tie) Kent Robinson 1096 (-324)
13. John Lobb 1068 (-352)
14. Greg Johnson 1036 (-384)
15. Jack Sullivan 1014 (-406)
16. Josh Richards 974 (-446)
17. Billy Moyer 870 (-550)
18. Jill George 832 (-588)
19. (tie) Brandon Sheppard 782 (-638)
19. (tie) Billy Moyer Jr. 782 (-638)

For more information on the WoO LMS, visit www.worldofoutlaws.com.

Fans can also follow the WoO LMS on Twitter at Twitter.com/WoOLateModels and Facebook at Facebook.com/WorldofOutlaws .
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