Lernerville Speedway
May 22, 2015
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Russ King runs down and passes Outlaws for third win of 2015

SARVER, PA (May 22) - World of Outlaw tour regulars Darrell Lanigan, Chub Frank and Boom Briggs stopped in to pay a visit on Friday night at The Action Track, perhaps to gain a little more seat time in preparation for next month's Firecracker 100 presented by GottaRace.com.  However if any of them had the notion of coming out of the night with an easy victory, they were wrong on this particular evening.

Frank drew the pole for the 25 lap main event and bolted out to the early lead with Lanigan close behind him in the early going as well as a pack of local drivers including Michael Norris, Alex Ferree and Brian Swartzlander.  Frank started approaching lapped traffic on lap five which allowed Lanigan to close in while behind them, Russ King starting mounting a forward charge.

An early pair of caution flags around the halfway mark would stall the forward momentum for the front runners, and shortly after a lap 11 restart, King and Ferree would find their way around Norris to take over the third and fourth positions.   Norris had battled hard for much of the race, and had actually overtaken Lanigan for a brief period before succumbing to King and Ferree.

Meanwhile, Frank and Lanigan were setting a torrid pace with the latter gaining ground on the leader until another caution on lap 19 slowed the action. On the ensuing restart, Ferree and King were engaged in a hard fought battle for third with the laps counting down as Lanigan would attempt to dive underneath Frank on lap 22 in an effort to take the lead, but Frank would hang on for the meantime.

King then let it all hang out in an effort to go for the win, first picking off Lanigan on lap 22 then on lap 23, King threw a breathtaking slide job on Frank in turn two and made it stick, keeping enough momentum to stay ahead of Frank going down the backstretch.  King never looked back the rest of the way, and found himself in victory lane for the third time in 2015.

"It was hard to get it going with all the cautions tonight," King remarked.  "I knew our stuff was really good tonight, our car is just really awesome and we get so much traction here at Lernerville, to get by and pass Chub was really special, he's taught me a lot through the years."

A-Main
1 56 Russ King
2 1* Chub Frank
3 29L Darrell Lanigan
4 10 Alex Ferree
5 1c Mike Pegher Jr
6 H1 Jared Miley
7 29 Kenny Schaltenbrand
8 99B Boom Briggs
9 4J John Mollick
10 72 Michael Norris
11 14 Dan Angelicchio
12 66 Todd Bachman
13 03 Doug Eck
14 88 Chuck Sarver
15 10L Gary Lyle
16 44G Derek Stefanick
17 9 Clayton Kennedy
18 111 Brian Swartzlander  
19 J4 John Garvin Jr
20 91 Tommy Beck