Brandon
Overton Cashes $50,000 in Mountain Moonshine Classic!
(June
15, 2024) Brandon Overton cashed in by winning the Mountain
Moonshine Classic before a packed house at Smoky Mountain Speedway.
Overton held off Ricky Thornton Jr. on the final lap and collect
$50,000. (MRM Racing
Photos)
Overton took the lead over Ryan Gustin on the first lap of the
race. Gustin would later close up to the rear of Overton’s
car. Gustin dove under Overton in a bid for the lead. But Overton
maintain the spot using the outside line for momentum down the
back stretch.
Following a caution on lap 25, the field got reshuffled when
the race went back to green. Devin Moran shot past Dale McDowell
to take over third. A few laps later, Jonathan Davenport moved
by McDowell for fifth.
On a lap 45 restart, Thornton Jr. would take second from Gustin.
As the laps clicked off in the 60-lap race, Overton encounted
slower traffic with a few laps to go. Thornton Jr. closed the
gap on Overton. With one to go, Thornton Jr. was looking to set
up Overton going into turn 3. Overton dove under the slower car
of Boom Briggs to keep Thornton Jr. at bay. Gustin took third,
Davenport was fourth, and Brandon Sheppard rallied to finish 5th.
The sportsman late model feature saw a last lap pass for the
win by Terry Poore. Adam Mitchell led 19 of the 20 laps. Poore
began to close in on Mitchell with a few laps remaining. Poore
got alongside Mitchell coming to the checkered flag to squeak
out the win. Jake Whitehead finished third.
Brady Lee took over the lead from Duke Lowe in the early laps
to win the street stock feature. Tim Kilby and David Clark battled
for second with Clark taking the spot in the closing laps. Kilby
held off Shannon Emery for third.
Mountain Moonshine Classic Night 2 (60 Laps): 1.
76-Brandon Overton[1]; 2. 20RT-Ricky Thornton Jr[3]; 3. 19R-Ryan
Gustin[2]; 4. 49-Jonathan Davenport[5]; 5. B5-Brandon Sheppard[9];
6. 99-Devin Moran[6]; 7. 1-Tim McCreadie[12]; 8. 9-Nick Hoffman[14];
9. 17M-Dale McDowell[4]; 10. 40B-Kyle Bronson[8]; 11. 7W-Ricky
Weiss[20]; 12. 36V-Cory Hedgecock[7]; 13. 20-Jimmy Owens[18];
14. 157-Mike Marlar[16]; 15. 58-Garrett Alberson[11]; 16. 93F-Carson
Ferguson[10]; 17. 71-Hudson O'Neal[17]; 18. 18D-Daulton Wilson[23];
19. 6-Clay Harris[21]; 20. 7-Ross Robinson[19]; 21. 99B-Boom Briggs[24];
22. 17SS-Brenden Smith[25]; 23. 93-Cory Lawler[26]; 24. 111-Max
Blair[13]; 25. 83-Jensen Ford[15]; 26. 7T-Drake Troutman[22]
Sportsman Late Models: 1. 2P-Terry Poore[3];
2. 50-Adam Mitchell[1]; 3. 116-Jake Whitehead[2]; 4. 15-Colby
Horner[4]; 5. 22-Dustin Ward[8]; 6. 33-Warren McMahan[7]; 7. 70-Davin
Cardwell[6]; 8. C4-Cameron Hawkins[9]; 9. 102-Reed Hatchett[13];
10. 92-Cory Cate[5]; 11. 32-Cody Gloyne[10]; 12. 20-Daniel Boles[15];
13. 44-David Beeler[18]; 14. 11-Tim Bounds[12]; 15. 21J-Jason
Jackson[11]; 16. 61-Kenny Ford[21]; 17. 5-Logan Amy[16]; 18. 115-Jason
Crowe[19]; 19. 19-Michael Courtney[14]; 20. 117-Tanner Wilson[22];
21. 15C-Bryan Cooper[17]; 22. D5-Coby Jones[20]
Street Stocks: 1. 31-Brady Lee[2]; 2. 51-David
Clark[3]; 3. T11-Tim Kilby[4]; 4. M2-Shannon Emery[5]; 5. 14-Austin
Atkins[7]; 6. 10-Eric Hughes[8]; 7. 1-Cody Satterfield[6]; 8.
11-Ryan Watson[11]; 9. 23-Sam Burgess[9]; 10. 98-Jacob Stewart[12];
11. 8-Brandon Francis[13]; 12. J3-Chad McLemore[15]; 13. 33-Chris
Hickman[14]; 14. 5-Duke Lowe[1]
(MRM Racing Photos)
(MRM Racing Photos)
(MRM Racing Photos)
###
