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LMR/Ryan Neuharth
CASA GRANDE, Ariz. (January 12) - Hopping into a racecar in which he had won the last three times he's driven it, Jimmy Mars of Elk Mound, WI once again slipped behind the wheel of the Jess Anderson owned ESSI Inc/Dagwood Graphics/Pro Power Racing Engines, Mastersbilt by Mars and took home the $3,000 win in race one of the 2008 Wild West Shootout as Central Arizona Raceway.
High point man on the afternoon Trevor Glaser of Tangent, OR lead the field to green flanked by California runner Ron Bartels. The front row would race side by side on lap one with Glaser holding the advantage after one. Bartels tucked into second, Pat Doar slotted third, John Mitchell was fourth and Mars was fifth.
Doar would move past Bartels into second on lap 2 as John Anderson spun in turn two from sixth to bring out the races first yellow. On the double file restart, Bartels would get crossed up in turn two, causing the field to check-up and the races second yellow for the spinning Darryn Waldo.
On the Restart Glaser would maintain the lead as Doar stood second. Mars shot to third from fifith with Bartels fourth and Mitchell fifth. Mitchell would lose three more spot by lap five as Jeremy Payne jumped two spots to fifth, Jack Sullivan moved to sixth and Brad Looney up seventh from 13th.
Glaser, Doar and Mars were setting an ultra quick pace around the 3/8th mile oval as the top three began to break away from the rest of the field with 10 laps complete. Payne would get to the inside of Bartels on lap 11 as Doar began to peak inside the race leader Glaser on lap 12.
Payne would complete the pass of Bartels on lap 15 while both Doar and Mars moved in on the deck on Glaser. As the top three approached the back of the field and lappers filling the leaders rock guard, Andrew McKay would cost to a stop on the frontstretch for caution number three on lap 16.
On the restart, Mars would make the winning move as he shot from his outside row two starting spot past Doar and underneath Glaser in turn one. Doar also made it past Glaser down the backstreatch as Mars set sail for the checked flag.
Payne, Bartels, Sullivan and Looney began to mix-it-up for fourth through seventh as positions changes at a furious pace between laps 16 & 20. As Mars completed lap 20 with Doar & Glaser in tow, Bartels, Looney, Payne and Sullivan shook-out in 4th -7th as Terry Phillips resided in eighth.
Looney would challenge Bartels for fourth on lap 27 as Doar began to reel in Mars as the leaders neared the back of the field once again. Mars would hold off the challenge of his fellow Badge State resident and claim his first Wild West Shootout A-Main Win.
Late Models:
Heat 1
1) Jack Sullivan 2) Jimmy Mars 3) Billy Peden 4) Jimmy Whistler 5) Keith Noyes 6) Ronnie Harvie 7) Jess Anderson 8) Marty Harvie 9) David Murray Jr.
Heat 2
1) Ron Bartels 2) Darryn Waldo 3) Sonny Findling 4) Butch Reid 5) Mike Tahtinen 6) Rob Mayea 7) Billy Griffin 8) Steve Ricehouse
Heat 3
1) John Anderson 2) Brad Looney 3) Terry Phillips 4) John Lowrey 5) Lonnie Parker, Jr 6) Don Shaw 7) John Dowson 8) Wes Hall
Heat 4
1) Stacy Taylor 2) Jeremy Payne 3) Ricky Weiss 4) Andrew McKay 5) Mark Voigt 6) Eddie Kirchoff 7) Eric Mass 8) Jeremy Patrell
Heat 5
1) John Mitchell 2) Trevor Glaser 3) Tommy Hussek III 4) Mike McCord 5) Mike Balcaen 6) Will Vaught 7) Nick Bartells 8) Joey Moriarty
Heat 6
1) Pat Doar 2) Bill Bartels 3) Art Lacy 4) Ryan Corbett 5) Mike Stadel 6) Paul Gugleimoni 7) Brad Williams 8) Robbie Ireland
B-Main 1
1) Looney 2) Peden 3) Voigt 4) Noyes 5) Weiss 6) McKay 7) Vaught 8) Mayea 9) Balcaen 10) Griffin 11) Shaw 12) McCord 13) Reid 14) Murray Jr. 15) Moriarty 16) Jess Anderson 17) Wes Hall
B-Main 2
1) Lacy 2) Whistler 3) B. Bartels 4) Stadel 5) Parker Jr. 6) Kirchoff 7) Williams 8) Gugleimoni 9) Patrell 10) Ricehouse 11) Ireland 12) R. Harvey 13) Dowson 14) N. Bartels 15) Lowrey 16) Tahtinen 17) Corbett 18) Hussek III
A-Main
Jimmy Mars, Pat Doar, Trevor Glaser, Ron Bartels, Brad Looney, Jeremy Payne, Jack Sullivan, Terry Phillips, Jon Mitchell, Billy Peden, Stacey Taylor, Sonny Findling, Jimmy Whistler, John Anderson, Mike Stadel, Ricky Weiss, Keith Noyes, Eddie Kirchoff, Art Lacy, Billy Bartels, Andrew McKay (NF), Darryn Waldo (NF), Lonnie Parker Jr., (NF), Mark Voigt (NF)
Modifieds
Heat 1
1) Chad Ayres 2) Jason Noll 3) Lance Mari 4) Kenny Hawkins 5) Dave Craft 6) Chase Junghans 7) Don Earven 8) Dan Radcliffe
Heat 2
1) Art Lacy 2) Monty Bischoff 3) Daniel Hutto 4) Jimmy Mars 5) Aaron Mari 6) Cory Hempill 7) James Pautot
Heat 3
1) Marlyn Seidler 2) Stormy Scott 3) Jeremy Frenier 4) Anthony Madrid 5) Nick O'Neal 6) Alex Majacla 7) Tim Kennedy 8) Tony Hill
Heat 4
1) Jason Freisen 2) RC Whitwell 3) Kevin Nichols 4) Bo Hatfield 5) Troy Cook 6) Dylan Kelfer 7) Bo Partain
Heat 5
1) Johnny Scott 2) Bryan Clark 3) Darryn Waldo 4) Ryan Henesey 5) Jeremy Newberry 6) Terry Haven 7) Bryan Ledbetter 8) Kellen Chadwick 9) Terry Earp 10) Scott Walker
Heat 6
1) Chris Olexiewicz 2) Wade Simmons 3) Robbie Haynes 4) Dustin Jenks 5) Lyle Shepard 6) Brad Campbell 7) Dennis Haven 8) Grant Junghans 9) Terry Belcher, Jr 10) Larry Tyree
B-Main 1
1) Hawkins 2) Madrid 3) L. Mari 4) Chadwick 5) Waldo 6) Newberry 7) Henesey 8) Craft 9) Hill 10) Belcher Jr. 11) Majacla 12) T. Haven 13) Earven 14) Ledbetter 15) O'Neal 16) Jenks 17) Radcliffe 18) Walker 19) Earp
B-Main 2
1) Hutto 2) Haynes 3) Mars 4) Shepard 5) Belcher Jr. 6) Kelfer 7) Cook 8) G. Junghans 9) A. Mari 10) Campbell 11) Pautot 12) Kennedy 13) Jenks 14) D. Haven 15) Nichols 16) Hatfield 17) Hemphill 18) Partain 19) Tyree
A-Main
Johnny Scott, Jason Friesen, Marlyn Seidler, RC Whitwell, Chad Ayers, Brian Clark, Anthony Madrid, Art Lacy, Lyle Sheperd, Daniel Hutton, Kellen Chadwick, Terry Belcher Jr., Robbie Haines, Lance Mari, Jeremy Newberry, Darryn Waldo, Monte Bischoff, Wayne Simmons, Kenny Hawkins (NF), Chris Olexowicz (NF), Stormy Scott (NF), Jimmy Mars (NF), Aaron Mari (NF, Jason Noll (NF)
Crates
Heat 1
1) Randy Carder 2) Greg Walters 3) Ted Robinson 4) John Ireland 5) Rob Ireland 6) Steve Suckow 7) Larry Damitz 8) Ernie Mincy 9) Kevin Rogers
Main - Walters, Carder, Robinson, Damitz, Rogers, Suckow, Mincy, J. Ireland, R. Ireland
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