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LMR/Ryan Neuharth
CASA GRANDE, Ariz. (January 13) - For the fourth time in a row, Jimmy Mars of Elk Mound, WI slipped behind the wheel of Jess Anderson's ESSI, Inc, Dagwood Graphics, Jimmy's Pub, Mastersbilt by Mars and parked it in Victory Lane! Mars jumped to the lead early in Sunday evenings 35-lap $5000 to win main event and never looked back. Currently the only thing standing in the way of Mars and a clean sweep of the 2008 Wild West Shootout at Central Arizona Raceway is a trip back to his Wisconsin race shop. Mars plans to skip this coming Wednesday event to tend to the business of building more Mastersbilt by Mars racecars.
At the drop of the green Mars grabbed the lead in turn one as fellow front row starter Mike Stadel slipped high and allowed third starting Brad Looney to quickly grab second and pull even with Mars as the lead duo raced deep into turn three. Mars would lead at the flagstand at the end of one with Looney second, Stadel third, Jack Sullivan fourth and seventh starting Terry Phillips fifth.
Phillips would quickly go side by side with Sullivan down the backstretch on lap two, taking the position off the high side in turn four. Phillips continued his charge towards the front as he moved Stadel back a spot on lap three and slotted third after five circuits.
Another man on the move early was Trevor Glaser from 10th as he quickly jumped four spots to occupy sixth behind Sullivan. Phillips continued his assault on the top five by getting past Looney on lap six while his teammate Jeremy Payne took seventh from his 12th starting spot.
Mars, after changing the power plant after his heat race win was setting a blistering pace and began to encounter the back of the field on lap nine. With 10 in the books Mars continued to lead over Phillips as Looney and Sullivan waged a side by side war for third. Stadel slipped to fifth on lap nine, Glaser stood sixth, Payne seventh, Jason Noll eighth, Will Vaught ninth and John Anderson rounded out the top 10.
Sullivan would take third from Looney on lap 12 while Glaser cracked the top five two laps later passing Stadel. As Mars continued to show the way through traffic 15 laps in, Sullivan closed on Phillips and began challenging for the runner-up position. At the same time, Glaser moved in on the deck of Looney and jumped to fourth on lap 18.
Jeremy Payne found himself side by side with Stadel on lap 19 and secured sixth one lap later as Pat Doar moved up three spots to now sit eighth. Twenty laps in Mars lead Phillips, Sullivan, Glaser, Looney, Payne, Stadel, Doar, Noll, and Vaught.
Mars worked the lapped traffic beautifully to extend his lead over Phillips as the race continued to run caution free. Payne would gain another position as he took fifth from Looney on lap 25, only to give it back one lap later.
With just five to go, Mars put more ground between himself and the second running Phillips, who opened up some breathing room on Sullivan who was feeling the heat from Glaser. Looney was still engaged with Payne as Doar moved past Stadel for seventh.
Mars would run unchallenged over the final five laps to claim his second consecutive and second career Wild West Shootout main event win. Phillips came home second in his Andy's Frozen Custard, Don Babb Motorsports, GRT by Phillips while Sullivan finished third in his Bear Mountain, New Vision Graphics, Sunsets West Inc GRT, Glaser took fourth in his Farmland Implement Trak-Star chassis with Looney rounding out the top five in his Diamond Pet Food, Willard Quarries, Ron Mitchell Photography GRT.
The Wild West Shootout continues on Wednesday, January 16th with a $3000 to win, 30 laps feature for Super Dirt Late Models and $1000 to win main event for the dirt Modifieds.
Late Models
Main Event: 1) Jimmy Mars 2) Terry Phillips 3) Jack Sullivan 4) Trevor Glaser 5) Brad Looney 6) Jeremy Payne 7) Pat Doar 8) Mike Stadel 9) John Anderson 10) Will Vaught 11) Jason Noll 12) Ricky Weiss 13) Mike Balcaen 14) Lonnie Parker, Jr. 15) Ryan Corbett 16) Jon Mitchell 17) Ron Bartels 18) Billy Griffin 19) Art Lacy 20) Don Shaw 21) John Lowrey 22) Sonny Findling 23) Rob Mayea 24) Tommy Hussek III
Heat 1: 1) Billy Griffin 2) Pat Doar 3) Don Shaw 4) Ricky Weiss 5) Lonnie Parker, Jr 6) Brad Williams 7) Ronnie Harvey 8) Mike McCord DNS Eddie Kirchoff
Heat 2: 1) Jack Sullivan 2) John Anderson 3) Mike Balcaen 4) John Lowrey 5) David Murray Jr. 6) Joey Moriarity 7) Butch Reid 8) Mike Keeley 9) Wes Hall
Heat 3: 1) Jason Noll 2) Mike Stadel 3) Eric Mass 4) Greg Walters 5) Art Lacy 6) Jon Mitchell 7) Jess Anderson 8) Paul Gugleimoni
Heat 4: 1) Will Vaught 2) Brad Looney 3) Ryan Corbett 4) Ron Bartels 5) Andrew McKay 6) Robbie Ireland 7) Mike Tahtinen 8) Jimmy Whistler
Heat 5: 1) Terry Phillips 2) Trevor Glaser 3) Jeremy Payne 4) Rob Mayea 5) Stacey Taylor 6) John Dowson 7) Steve Ricehouse 8) Jeremy Patrell
Heat 6: 1) Jimmy Mars 2) Tommy Hussek III 3) Sonny Findling 4) Nick Bartels 5) Bill Bartels 6) Marty Harvey 7) Marc Voigt 8) Billy Peden
B-Main 1: 1) R. Bartels 2) Corbett 3) Parker Jr. 4) Mayea 5) Hussek III 6) Lacy 7) Murray Jr 8) Moriarity 9) Walters 10) Ricehouse 11) McCord 12) Williams 13) Patrell 14) Gugleimoni 15) Keeley 16) Dowson 17) Hall 18) Mass DNS Jess Anderson
B-Main 2: 1) Balcaen 2) Findling 3) Weiss 4) Shaw 5) Lowrey 6) Mitchell 7) Taylor 8) Kirchoff 9) McKay 10) Whistler 11) Voigt 12) Tahtinen 13) M. Harvey 14) Ireland 15) R. Harvey 16) N. Bartels 17) B. Bartells 18) Reid 19) Peden
Modifieds
Heat 1: 1) RC Whitwell 2) Terry Belcher Jr 3) Jason Friesen 4) Eddie Martin 5) Jimmy Mars 6) Cory Hill 7) Greg Mancebo 8) Bo Partain
Heat 2: 1) Chris Olexiewicz 2) Grant Junghans 3) Marlyn Seidler 4) Lance Mari 5) Nick O'Neal 6) Terry Haven 7) Darryn Waldo 8) Dennis Haven
Heat 3: 1) Alex Stanford 2) Jeremy Frenier 3) Troy Cooke 4) Chase Junghans 5) Lupe Gomez 6) Terry Mertzall 7) Alex Majalca 8) Tim Ward
Heat 4: 1) John Scott 2) Daniel Hutto 3) Anthony Madrid 4) Monty Bischoff 5) Robbie Haynes 6) Aaron Mari 7) Bryan Ledbetter 8) Kevin Nichols
Heat 5: 1) Kellen Chadwick 2) Bryan Clark 3) Lyle Shepard 4) James Pautot 5) Brad Campbell 6) Tim Kennedy 7) Kenny Hawkins 8) Jason Noll
Heat 6: 1) Art Lacy 2) Stormy Scott 3) Jeremy Newberry 4) Chad Ayres 5) Brian Barsness 6) Eric Kelley 7) Dustin Jenks 8) Ryan Henesey
B-Main 1: 1) Cooke 2) Shepard 3) Martin 4) Mars 5) Pautot 6) Campbell 7) Hawkins 8) Gomez 9) Majalca 10) Partain 11) Ward 12) Mancebo 13) C Junghans 14) Mertzall 15) Freisen 16) Hill 17) Kennedy 18) Noll
B-Main 2: 1) Madrid 2) Seidler 3) Ayres 4) Haynes 5) Bischoff 6) O'Neal 7) Newberry 8) Kelley 9) Henesey 10) A. Mari 11) Waldo 12) D. Haven 13) Ledbetter 14) Barsness 15) T. Haven 16) Jenks 17) L. Mari 18) Nichols
Mods Main: 1) J. Scott 2) S. Scott 3) Whitwell 4) Madrid 5) Olexiewicz 6) Mars 7) Stanford 8) Shepard 9) Hutto 10) Ayres 11) Haynes 12) Cooke 13) Campbell 14) O'Neal 15) Bischoff 16) Pautot 17) Lacy 18) G. Junghans 19) Clark 20) Belcher 21) Chadwick 22) Martin 23) Frenier 24) Seidler
Super Stocks
Heat 1: 1) Allen Kelley 2) Jody Henderson 3) Martin Hussek 4) Arron Hetrick 5) Jerry Bullis 6) Larry Brigner 7) Rob Colclasure 8) Marco Rohles
Heat 2: 1) Matt Tipton 2) Terry Belcher 3) Steve Ashcraft 4) Busi Lacy 5) Eric Marenta 6) Robert Husted 7) Richard Roper
Heat 3: 1) Tim Mead 2) Ron Funk 3) Mike Brigner 4) Dave Porter 5) Ted Robinson 6) Dan Radcliffe, Jr. 7) Dickey Barnes 8) John Hall
Main: 1) M Brigner 2) Mead 3) Funk 4) Colclasure 5) Bullis 6) Henderson 7) L. Brigner 8) Porter 9) Lacy 10) Hall 11) Armenta 12) Tipton 13) Husted 14) Belcher 15) Hetrick 16) Ashcraft 17) Radcliffe 18) Kelley 19) Roper 20) Robinson 21) Hussek 22) Rohles 23) Barnes
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