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LMR/Ryan Neuharth
CASA GRANDE, Ariz. (January 19) - Having found success in the past at Central Arizona Raceway's annual winter mini-series, John Anderson has struggled to find victory lane over the past three season. Saturday night, the 2007 MLRA National Champion found the winning combination as he wheeled his Shop Quik Convenience Stores/Quality Tire/Sunoco Race Fuels/Jim Leonardo Plumbing/Mastersbilt to the $3000, 30 lap A-Main event win.
Multi-time SWDRA Champion Lonnie Parker, Jr. debuted his new GRT Chassis from the pole next to Winnepeg youngster Ricky Weiss. At the drop of the green, Parker lead Weiss into turn one as Weiss pulled even and the two race side by side down the backstretch into turn three. Parker would secure the lead off of turn four at the end of one. Eight time WWS winner Terry Phillips was third, Trevor Glaser fourth with Anderson rounding out the top five.
Weiss would use the high side to his advantage to take the lead from Parker down the backstretch on lap two as Phillips and Glaser worked side by side for third. Phillips would quickly dispatch of Glaser in turn four and was on the back of Parker entering turn one.
As Parker bobbled over the cushion, Phillips shot low and rocketed off turn two into second and shot past Weiss for the lead entering turn three. Glaser would take advantage of Weiss one lap later to slot third relegating Parker to fourth with Murray sliding past Anderson as five were complete.
Anderson would begin his assault to the front on lap six when he would gain three spots to ride third as the yellow flew for California's Steve Drake who came to a stop entering turn three.
On the restart Phillips would lead followed by Glaser, Anderson, Murray, Jack Sullivan from ninth, Jimmy Mars from 14th, Weiss, Parker, Wednesday winner Eddie Kirchoff and Mark Voigt.
Anderson jumped to second, brining Sullivan to third relegating Glaser to fourth as Mars looked for a way past Murray for fifth. Sullivan would go side by side for second with Anderson on lap eight as Mars shot to fourth on lap nine.
The biggest mover of the races first 10 laps was Republic, MO driver Brad Looney. Looney. After starting starting 23rd he sat eighth in his Republic Glass/Diamond Pet Food/Willard Quaries/Team GRT.
Mars began to apply heavy pressure on Sullivan for third on lap 10, and as the duo entered turn one on lap 11 Mars snuck low underneath Sullivan who moved down from the middle grove and the two make contact on the exit of turn two. Sullivan would go for a spin as Mars continued and the yellow blinked on for the second time. Sullivan would be forced to retire from the event with a broken left rear suspension.
On the restart, Anderson began applying heavy pressure to the race leader Phillips on the high side. With Phillips down low, Anderson would use the cushion to pull even with the race leader on lap 12 and secured the top spot one lap later.
Half way home Anderson was beginning to pull away from Phillips as Mars continued in third, Glaser fourth, Murray fifth, Looney was up two more to sixth with Jeremy Payne now seventh from 13th.
Looney would crack the top five on lap 16 and began a three wide fight with Glaser and Murray that would wage on for the next 10 laps. Anderson would reach the back of the field on lap 21 and worked the traffic masterfully to open his lead even more on Phillips. Mars sat comfortably in third as the three wide battle for fourth raged on behind.
Looney jumped to the high side again to dispatch of Glaser on lap 22 and Murray on lap 23, quickly closing on Mars and taking third on lap 26. Back at the point, no one had anything for Anderson as the Omaha driver secured his first WWS win since 2004. Phillips would bring his Andy's Frozen Custard/Don Babb Motorsports/Hatfield Racing Engines/GRT home in second, with Looney third, the ESSI Inc/Jimmy's Pub/Dagwood Graphics/Mastersbilt by Mars entry of Mars in fourth and the Farmland Tractor Supply/Fisher Implement/TR Points Trucking/Trak-Star Chassis of Glaser rounding out the top five.
The Wild West Shootout wraps up Sunday, January 20th as the Super Dirt Late Models chase the $7500 winners check along with the BRA Dirt Modifieds and the Pure Stocks rounding out the card.
Late Model Summary
Heat 1: 1) Sonny Findling 2) David Murray, Jr 3) Jeremy Payne 4) Jimmy Mars 5) Ron Bartels 6) Jimmy Whistler 7) Billy Peden 8) Bill Bartels 9) Paul Gugleigmoni
Heat 2: 1) John Anderson 2) Ricky Weiss 3) Robbie Ireland 4) Wayne Noyes 5) Andrew McKay 6) Steve Ricehouse 7) John Dowson 8) John Davis 9) Jon Mitchell
Heat 3: 1) Art Lacy 2) Stacy Taylor 3) Eric Mass 4) Steve Drake 5) Butch Reid 6) Cody Skytland 7) Paul Mueller 8) Randy Carder 9) Brad Looney
Heat 4: 1) Trevor Glaser 2) Lonnie Parker, Jr 3) Mark Voigt 4) Jeremy Patrell 5) Marty Harvie 6) Will Vaught 7) Mike Balcaen 8) Mike Stadel 9) Nick Bartels
Heat 5: 1) Jack Sullivan 2) Terry Phillips 3) Ed Turnbull 4) Don Shaw 5) Rob Mayea 6) Ryan Corbett 7) Tommy Hussek 8) Mike Tathinan
Heat 6: 1) Eddie Kirchoff 2) Brad Seng 3) Joey Moriarity 4) Brad Williams 5) Mike McCord 6) Ronnie Harvey 7) John Lowrey 8) Terry Bushee
B-Main 1: 1) Payne 2) Seng 3) Mass 4) Shaw 5) R Bartels 6) Looney 7) Mayea 8) Reid 9) McKay 10) Whistler 11) Peden 12) Carder 13) Gugleigmoni 14) Patrell 15) Tahtinan 16) Corbett 17) Mueller 18) Ricehouse 19) Hussek 20) Davis
B-Main 2: 1) Mars 2) Drake 3) Balcaen 4) Moriarity 5) McCord 6) Ireland 7) Noyes 8) Lowrey 9) N. Bartels 10) M. Harvey 11) Skytland 12) Williams 13) B. Bartels 14) Dowson 15) R. Harvey 16) Bushee 17) Turnbull 18) Stadel 19) Mitchell 20) Vaught
A-Main: 1) Anderson 2) Phillips 3) Looney 4) Mars 5) Glaser 6) Murray 7) Payne 8) Seng 9) Balcaen 10) Parker Jr 11) Voigt 12) R. Bartels 13) Mass 14) Taylor 15) Lacy 16) Moriarity 17) Shaw 18) Ireland 19) McCord 20) Sullivan 21) Kirchoff 22) Wiess 23) Drake 24) Findling
Modified Summary
Heat 1: 1) RC Whitwell 2) Daniel Hutto 3) Bob Sykes 4) Dylan Kelfer 5) Wayne Simmons 6) Fito Gallardo 7) Jason Noll 8) Jeremy Huebner 9) Kenny Hawkings
Heat 2: 1) Marlyn Seidler 2) Grant Junghans 3) Chad Ayers 4) Shawn Nolan 5) Aaron Mari 6) Lance Mari 7) Dennis Haven 8) Bo Speicker
Heat 3: 1) Richard Pappenhausen 2) Brian Clark 3) Chris Olexiewicz 4) Art Lacy 5) Tim Kennedy 6) Jeremy Newberry 7) Cody Alvarez 8) Eddie Martin
Heat 4: 1) Kellen Chadwick 2) Brad Campbell 3) Royal Jones 4) Jeremy Frenier 5) Monty Bischoff 6) Jimmy Mars 7) Mike Brandon 8) Aaron Turnbull
Heat 5: 1) Stormy Scott 2) Terry Belcher 3) Nick O'Neal 4) Kevin Nicholls 5) Tony Hill 6) Dan Ratcliff, Jr. 7) Terry Haven 8) John Cornell
Heat 6: 1) Jason Friesen 2) Johnny Scott 3) Lyle Shepard 4) Robbie Haynes 5) Chase Junghans 6) Alex Majacla 7) Bo Hatfield 8) Butch McCleskey
B-Main 1: 1) Olexiewicz 2) Gallarido 3) Lacy 4) Sykes 5) Haynes 6) Hawkins 7) O'Neal 8) Alvarez 9) Ratcliff 10) T. Haven 11) Heubner 12) Hill 13) Simmons 14) Noll 15) Kennedy 16) Nichols 17) Newberry 18) Cornell 19) Martin
B-Main 2: 1) Ayres 2) Jones 3) Mars 4) L. Mari 5) Frenier 6) Turnbull 7) Haynes 8) Nolan 9) A. Mari 10) Speicker 11) Majacla 12) Hatfield 13) C. Junghans 14) McCloskey 15) Shepard 16) Brandon 17) Bischoff 18) D. Haven
A-Main: 1) Whitwell 2) S. Scott 3) Chadwick 4) Olexiewicz 5) Seidler 6) Gallarido 7) Hutto 8) Lacy 9) L. Mari 10) Pappenhausen 11) Jones 12) Clark 13) Campbell 14) G. Junghans 15) Ayres 16) Kelfer 17) Hawkins 18) J Scott 19) Sykes 20) Frenier 21) Turnbull 22) Belcher 23) Friesen 24) Mars
Crate Late Model Summary
Heat 1: 1) Steve Suckow 2) Rob Ireland 3) Greg Walters 4) Larry Damitz 5) Ted Robinson 6) Mike Brigner 7) John Ireland 8) Ernie Mincy 9) Paul Gugleigmoni 10) Randy Carder
Heat 2: 1) Walters 2) Carder 3) R. Ireland 4) Brigner 5) Robinson 6) J. Ireland 7) Gugleigmoni 8) Damitz 9) Suckow 10) Mincy
Main: 1) Walters 2) Carder 3) Robinson 4) R. Ireland 5) Brigner 6) Damitz 7) J. Ireland 8) Suckow 9) Mincy 10) Gugeligmoni
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