Southern Nationals Series
Duck River Raceway Park
July 31, 2014
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Mike Marlar Fantastic in Southern Nationals Series Stop at Duck River Raceway Park

by SNS/Chris Tilley
WHEEL, TENNESSEE (July 31) - Mike Marlar rolled around the topside, grabbed the lead away from Dane Dacus on lap 12 and never looked back en route to his third career Schaeffer's Oil Southern Nationals Series victory Thursday Night at Duck River Raceway Park, which was worth $3,500.

The Winfield, Tenn. driver drove around the high-side of the track and held on to become the sixth different winner this season while driving the Ronnie Delk-owned, Delk Equipment Company, R&S Trading and VP Racing Fuels-sponsored Cornett Racing Engines powered Rocket Chassis.
 
By the seventh lap, Marlar worked his way up from sixth to third spot and was the show on the topside of the track. By the eleventh lap, Marlar had worked his way to second, again on the high-side and by the next lap, sailed by Dacus to take the point. Tanner English also went around Dacus for the runner-up spot and held on shuffling Dacus back two spots. Dacus would rebound and come home to finish third behind eventual winner Marlar and runner-up English.

Four cautions slowed the event. On lap ten, Jim Manka stopped at the top of turn four and on lap 14 Anthony Burroughs went around in turn two to bring out the second caution. On the next lap, front-straightaway contact between Eric Jacobsen and Bub McCool sent McCool into the wall with extensive damage sending him off the track via the wrecker. The final caution on lap 17 came as Austin Smith got crossways behind Josh Putnam, who also got crossed up coming off the fourth turn and it sent Billy Ogle into Smith with minor damage but Smith had brutal right-front damage that sent him off the track.

Marlar talked about his high-side hustling in the early stages of the event. "It was a heck of a race right there, there was a lot of passing and sliding going on," said Marlar.

"Everybody was racing really hard, I just kinda caught them guys guarding each other and got around them on the outside, but heck of a race, man they've just turned this race track into an awesome race track, you can start wherever and win the race and it's just a good race track and a lot of local guys are really competitive here so it's fun to see that and they got a good crowd every time we come and it's fun coming here," said Marlar about the top-to-bottom racing conditions at Duck River.

Marlar's Rocket Chassis has been very quick in his last two outings at Duck River, as he also claimed the Southern Nationals Bonus Race on May 25th. "Been a good track to us this year, like to thank Ronnie Delk, and Rocket Chassis, Cornett Engines and all my guys here, Bill and Lynn, Josh, Grant, everybody here that comes along especially Ronnie Delk, he really puts us in good equipment, just having a good time this year racing," Marlar went on to say.

A-Main
1 6 157 Mike Marlar Winfield, TN
2 2 96 Tanner English Benton, KY
3 1 54D Dane Dacus Lakeland, TN
4 4 5 Eric Jacobsen Rio Del, CA
5 11 96T Terry English Benton, KY
6 7 212 Josh Putnam Florence, AL
7 21 44M Chris Madden Gaffney, SC
8 8 7 Donald McIntosh Dawsonville, GA
9 17 41 Ryan Gifford Winchester, TN
10 5 11B Stacy Boles Clinton, TN
11 15 8 Craig Vosbergen Perth, NS
12 16 1H Vic Hill Mosheim, TN
13 14 97 Michael Chilton Salnsa, KY
14 13 18K Brandon Kinzer Allen, KY
15 12 201 Billy Ogle Jr Knoxville, TN
16 19 26F Mark Fields Lawreceburg, TN
17 20 98 Eric Hickerson Linden, TN
18 23 18S David Seibers Petersburg, TN
19 22 60 Jim Manka Rincon, GA
20 18 55 Ronny Lee Hollingsworth North Port, AL
21 3 11S Austin Smith Cedartown, GA
22 9 57J Bub McCool Vicksburg, MS
23 10 1 Anthony Burroughs Minden, LA

Dash
1 54D Dane Dacus
2 96 Tanner English
3 11S Austin Smith
4 5 Eric Jacobsen

B-Main #1
1 11B Stacy Boles
2 57J Bub McCool
3 18K Brandon Kinzer
4 41 Ryan Gifford
5 P4 Jamie Perry
6 10 Jay Brinkley
7 1T Todd Morrow
8 17 Mark Haddon
9 17D Ronald Dunn

B-Main #2
1 157 Mike Marlar
2 1 Anthony Burroughs
3 97 Michael Chilton
4 55 Ronny Lee Hollingsworth
5 77A Dylan Ames
6 72 Blake Shapiro
7 7N Clint Nichols
8 60 Jim Manka

B-Main #3
1 212 Josh Putnam
2 96T Terry English
3 8 Craig Vosbergen
4 26F Mark Fields
5 56 David Gentry
6 4S Seth McCormack
7 33 Cody Ballard
8 44M Chris Madden

B-Main #4
1 7 Donald McIntosh
2 201 Billy Ogle Jr
3 1H Vic Hill
4 98 Eric Hickerson
5 18S David Seibers
6 J1 Josh Johnson
7 20 Ray Mcelhiney
8 7S Richard Smith