June 7, 2008

Lee Does It Again in O’Reilly Battle of the Bluegrass DirtCar Series at 201 Speedway        

Junction City, KY-June 14, 2008- The O’Reilly Battle of the Bluegrass DirtCar Series presented by Graphic Impressions made its first of three visits in 2008 to the Chuckie May promoted 201 Speedway in Sitka, KY and Victor Lee of Stanford, KY would do it again and win his fourth straight O’Reilly Battle of the Bluegrass DirtCar Series Super Late Model event and picking up $3,000 in the process as the driver also known as the “Lincoln Leadfoot”, now having won four of the seven series events so far in 2008.

Lee would start eighth in the O’Reilly A-Main and the win by Lee would be his fifth career series victory and fourth in a row on the series and would again come behind the wheel of the Frank Revel Motorsports owned, Kentucky’s Best/Budda Bert Transmission Sales and Service/Junction City Quick Stop/Tim Logan Racing/Xtreme Style Signs and Graphics/Five Star Food Mart/ADO’s Auto Body sponsored #4 C.J. Rayburn Race Cars, Jay Dickens Race Engines powered machine.  Lee’s winning entry receives product support from Bilstein Shocks, PPM Racing Products, Custom Cams, Dyer’s Top Rods, Real Racing Wheels, and American Racer Tires. 

Tim Tungate of Campbellsville, KY would turn in his best performance of the season in series action with a second place run in the Darrell Morrison Mechnical/Guardian Mortgage sponsored C.J. Rayburn Race Cars mount, while David Webb of Nicholasville, KY would also turn in a series season best run with a third place effort in the ORS Auto Body/JDB Contracting sponsored C.J. Rayburn Race Cars machine.  Shon Flanery of Mount Carmel, TN would earn the PPM Racing Products Hard Charger Award after starting 17th and finishing fourth in his FAST Trucking/Xtreme Suspension Technology sponsored GRT Race Cars unit, while Dustin Linville of Lancaster, KY would score his best career series finish with a fifth place run in the Barnes Family Dentistry/Linville Finish Carpentry sponsored C.J. Rayburn entry.

The remainder of the top ten would be Chris Combs, Mike Jewell, Eric Wells, Tyrel Todd, and Greg Oliver.  The event would be 40 laps in length and would be slowed by ten caution flags, taking 49 minutes and 52 seconds to complete.

The start of the O’Reilly A-Main would see David Webb jump to the race lead, with Jason Montgomery, Greg Oliver, Chris Combs, and Josh McGuire in pursuit.  Oliver would take second on lap 2, with McGuire grabbing fourth from Combs on the same circuit.  Combs would continue to pressure McGuire and would retake fourth on lap 5.  The first caution flag flew on lap 7 for a three car pileup in turn two involving Audie Swartz, Jamie Ferguson, and Michael Paul Howard.  The Delaware double-file restart would see Victor Lee go from sixth to fourth on the restart, with Montgomery rim-riding to second past Oliver, only to have Oliver retake the runner-up slot on lap 8.  Ferguson and Howard would involved in the event’s second caution with an incident in turn four, with both drivers reporting pitside for the evening. 

Webb would again be out front on the restart, with Montgomery and Oliver again battling for second, with Lee slipping past Montgomery for third on lap 12.  Tim Tungate would start to go at this point and would make his way into the top five, going to fourth after a three-wide pass off of turn four on lap 13, with Aaron Hatton following suit to fifth one trip later.  Caution flew again on lap 15 for a spin on the front main by Royce McGowan, tightening up the field once again.  The restart would see Lee take second and be set to grab the lead, but a caution for a slowed Chris Wilson in turn three would negate the pass.  This restart would see Lee grab the race lead from Webb exiting turn two, with Tyrel Todd flying into the top five on this start.  Trouble would strike ninth place running Josh McGuire on lap 17, as his mount pulled up slow in turn two with a flat tire, with series winner at Richmond able to get new rubber and return to action.

This restart would see Tungate and Hatton go to third and fourth behind Lee and Webb, with Oliver now fifth.  Tungate and Hatton would battle behind the front two, with Hatton taking third as the field saw the halfway lap 20 signal.  Steve Stollings would draw the next caution on lap 22 when his disabled mount rolled to a stop on the backchute.  The restart would see Tungate take second from Webb, with Combs back in the picture and pressuring Hatton for the four slot.  A five car pile-up in turn four on lap 23 would involve Mike Jewell, Tyrel Todd, Royce McGowan, Anthony Adams, and Arnie Fields, with all able to continue.  Back underway, Tungate would begin to mount a charge on Lee and caution flew again on lap 27 when Rod Evans would slow his machine on the backchute and be done for the evening.  Hatton would take third from Webb on the restart, with Dustin Linville making his way into the top five past Combs.  Only one full circuit would be completed before Anthony Adams would roll his heavily damaged mount to a stop on the frontchute on lap 28. 

On the restart, business would pick up at the front, with Tungate dogging Lee for the Lee, with the pair going side-by-side for the top spot on lap 32, with Lee jumping the cushion in turn two on lap 33, handing the lead to Tungate, but that would be short lived as Lee would work past Tungate and reclaim the lead at the start-finish line on lap 34.  With Webb having worked back around Hatton, it would be Hatton suffering mechanical issues on lap 38, setting up a short dash to the finish.  Shon Flanery would take fourth on the restart and pressure Webb for third, but Lee and Tungate would pull away from the pack, with Lee taking the checkered flag first, followed by Tungate, Webb, 17th starting Flanery, and 18th starting Linville.

In preliminary action, Aaron Hatton of Mount Sterling, KY would be the Racing Optics Top Qualifier among 31 entries with a lap of 13.633 seconds.  Heat race checkered flags went to David Webb in Wayne Bowen Racing Supply heat one, Greg Oliver in K&N Performance Engineering heat two, Chris Combs in Graphic Impressions heat three, and Jason Montgomery in Real Racing Wheels heat four.  The B-mains would be scored by Shon Flanery and Dustin Linville.  Larry Gray and Jamie Ferguson would take series provisional starts, while track provisional starting spots were garnered by Anthony Adams and Michael Paul Howard

The next event for the Super Late Model division of the O’Reilly Battle of the Bluegrass DirtCar Series is Saturday June 14 at Bluegrass Speedway in Bardstown, KY.  The event will be a 30 lap, $3,000 to win event at the David and Anita Ferrell promoted ½ mile clay oval just outside of Bardstown, KY.

The O’Reilly Battle of the Bluegrass DirtCar Series sanctions regional Super Late Model events at tracks in Kentucky, Indiana, Ohio, and Tennessee.  For more information about America’s most competitive regional racing series, visit the series webpage on the world wide web at www.battleofthebluegrass.com or call the series office at (859) 762-1606 or (502) 931-5068.

O’Reilly Battle of the Bluegrass DirtCar Series Super Late Model Division

SUMMARY-201 Speedway-Sitka, Kentucky-June 7, 2008

Racing Optics Top Qualifier- Aaron Hatton 13.633

Wayne Bowen Racing Supply Heat #1(Top 4 Advance)- David Webb, Aaron Hatton, Tyrel Todd, Rod Evans, Mike Jewell, Larry Gray, Brandon Fouts, Richie Edwards     

K&N Performance Engineering Heat #2 (Top 4 Advance)- Greg Oliver, Josh McGuire, Chris Wilson, Royce McGowan, Shon Flanery, Michael Paul Howard, Richard Witt (DNS- Anthony Adams)

Graphic Impressions Heat #3 (Top 4 Advance)- Chris Combs, Tim Tungate, Eric Wells, Zach Carney, Jamie Ferguson, Audie Swartz, Daniel Williams  

Real Racing Wheels Heat #4 (Top 4 Advance)- Jason Montgomery, Victor Lee, Steve Stollings, Arnie Fields, Jimmy Crabtree, Dustin Linville, Paul Davis, James Butcher

B-Main #1 (Top 2 Advance)- Shon Flanery, Mike Jewell, Larry Gray, Anthony Adams, Michael Paul Howard, Brandon Fouts (DNS- Richie Edwards)

B-Main #2 (Top 2 Advance)- Dustin Linville, Audie Swartz, Jamie Ferguson, Daniel Williams, Jimmy Crabtree, James Butcher (DNS- Paul Davis)

Series Provisionals- Larry Gray, Jamie Ferguson

Track Provisionals- Anthony Adams, Michael Paul Howard

O’Reilly A-Main- Victor Lee, Tim Tungate, David Webb, Shon Flanery, Dustin Linville, Chris Combs, Mike Jewell, Eric Wells, Tyrel Todd, Greg Oliver, Josh McGuire, Zach Carney, Larry Gray, Jason Montgomery, Arnie Fields, Royce McGowan, Audie Swartz, Aaron Hatton, Anthony Adams, Rod Evans, Steve Stollings, Chris Wilson, Jamie Ferguson, Michael Paul Howard

Total Entries- 31

Lap Leaders- 3 (Webb 1-15, Lee 16-32, Tungate 33, Lee 34-40)

Cautions- 10 (Laps 7, 10, 15, 16, 17, 22, 23, 27, 28, 38)

Red Flags- None

PPM Racing Products Hard Charger- Shon Flanery (Started 17th-Finished 4th-Advanced 13 Positions)

DriveSmart Kentucky Move of the Race- Victor Lee (Pass of the lead off of turn two on lap 16)     

Time of Race- 49 minutes, 52 seconds

O’Reilly Battle of the Bluegrass DirtCar Series Super Late Model Point Standings (after May 30, 2008)

1. Victor Lee (Stanford, KY)- 1,713            

2. Tyrel Todd (Science Hill, KY)- 1,432

3. David Webb (Nicholasville, KY)- 1,282

4. Tim Tungate (Campbellsville, KY)- 1,266

5. Zach Carney (Mooresville, IN)- 1,233 ®

6. Eric Wells (Hazard, KY)- 1,118 ®   

7. Larry Gray (Lexington, KY)- 1,116 ®

8. Mike Jewell (Scottsburg, IN)- 1,112

9. Arnie Fields (Flemingsburg, KY)- 993

10. Chris Combs (Isom, KY)- 971            

O’Reilly Battle of the Bluegrass DirtCar Series Upcoming Schedule of Events:

June 14- Bluegrass Speedway (Bardstown, KY)- 7th Annual June Jam- $3,000 to win

June 21- Clinton County Speedway (Albany, KY)- $3,000 to win

June 28- Brownstown Speedway (Brownstown, IN)- 10th Annual Lee Fleetwood Memorial-$3,000 to win

July 4- Mountain Motor Speedway (Isom, KY)- $3,000 to win

July 5- 201 Speedway (Sitka, KY)- $5,000 to win

2008 O’Reilly Battle of the Bluegrass DirtCar Series Sponsors:

O'Reilly Auto Parts - Title Sponsor and "Official Auto Parts Retailer” of the O'Reilly Battle of the Bluegrass DirtCar Series

Max Brake- “Official Trailer Brakes” of the O’Reilly Battle of the Bluegrass DirtCar Series

CarbonX- “Official Flame Shielding Fabric” of the O’Reilly Battle of the Bluegrass DirtCar Series

Health PMO- “Official Health Care Company” of the O’Reilly Battle of the Bluegrass DirtCar Series

Graphic Impressions- Presenting Sponsor and “Official Souvenir and Merchandise Vendor” of the O’Reilly Battle of the Bluegrass DirtCar Series

Bob Hook Chevrolet of Louisville- “Official Auto Dealership” of the O’Reilly Battle of the Bluegrass DirtCar Series

Other O’Reilly Battle of the Bluegrass DirtCar Series 2008 Series Supporters Include: American Race Tires, C.J. Rayburn Race Cars, Curtis Signs, Cruise With The Champions, Double H Race Fabrication, Drive Smart Kentucky, DT52 Photos, Honda of Prestonsburg, Hoosier Race Tires, Kentucky’s Best Racing, K&N Performance Engineering, PPM Racing Products, Racing Optics, Real Racing Wheels, Trailer Parts and Service, Wayne Bowen Racing Supply