Madden,
Owens Pick Up Wins on Preliminary Night
(June
17, 2022) The annual Mountain Moonshine Classic kicked
off Friday with a pair of feature winners.
Chris Madden won the first 30-lap feature. Madden used the outside
line to his advantage to grab the early lead from pole sitter
Mike Marlar. Madden never looked back and Marlar stayed firmly
in control of second place.
There was intense action from third on back through most of the
race. Dale McDowell came from sixth starting spot to take third.
Brandon Overton overcame a poor qualifying effort to finish fourth
and Earl Pearson came from 10th to finish fifth. (MRM
Racing Photo)
The
second 30-lap feature saw Jimmy Owens hold off charges from Jonathan
Davenport and Carson Ferguson to win the second A-main. Both Davenport
and Ferguson took turns challenging Owens for the lead. As Owens
held off those challenges, Davenport and Ferguson kept swapping
second place. Davenport finally fought back Ferguson to finish
in second. Ferguson was third with Vic Hill coming from 9th to
finish fourth and Zack Mitchell finishing fifth.
Tonight’s heat race lineups will be determined from Friday’s
A-main results.
In the classic car feature, Jack Kress came from West Virginia
to win the feature race. Kress ran second most of the race. Kress
passed race leader Christian Runyon on the last lap to get the
win.
Cody Rector led flag-to-flag to win the front wheel drive feature.
Dustin Duncan and Larry Patterson round out the top 3.
Racing resumes Saturday night highlighted by the $50,000 to win
Mountain Moonshine Classic. Sportsman late models and mini stocks
will also be racing. All gates open at noon with the race program
starting at 7:00.
Lucas Oil Late Model Dirt Series
Race Summary
Mountain Moonshine Classic presented by Lazydays RV
Friday, June 17th, 2022
Smoky Mountain Speedway – Maryville, TN
Allstar Performance Time Trials
Fast Time Group A: Mike Marlar/ 15.404 seconds (overall)
Fast Time Group B: Ross Bailes / 15.601 seconds
Heat 1 Penske Shocks (8 Laps): 1. 44M-Chris Madden[2]; 2. 157-Mike
Marlar[1]; 3. 71-Hudson O'Neal[3]; 4. 76-Brandon Overton[5]; 5.
3-Austin Neely[4]; 6. 17SS-Brenden Smith[6]; 7. 51-Mack McCarter[8];
8. 11-Spencer Hughes[7]; 9. 89-Ashton Winger[11]; 10. 17-Cameron
Weaver[10]; 11. 20H-Bryson Harper[12]; 12. 99-Camaron Marlar[9]
Heat 2 Summit Racing Equipment (8 Laps): 1. 20RT-Ricky Thornton
Jr[2]; 2. 40B-Kyle Bronson[4]; 3. 17M-Dale McDowell[6]; 4. 1-Brandon
Sheppard[3]; 5. 46-Earl Pearson Jr[8]; 6. 109-Eli Beets[1]; 7.
24 D-Michael Brown[5]; 8. 2S-Stormy Scott[10]; 9. 7W-Ricky Weiss[11];
10. 23B-John Blankenship[7]; 11. 21M-Robby Moses[9]
Heat 3 Simpson Race Products (8 Laps): 1. 20-Jimmy Owens[2];
2. 39-Tim McCreadie[4]; 3. 93-Carson Ferguson[5]; 4. 79-Ross Bailes[1];
5. 1V-Vic Hill[3]; 6. 1T-Tyler Erb[8]; 7. 88-Trent Ivey[6]; 8.
7-Ross Robinson[9]; 9. 16-Ben Watkins[7]; 10. 22-Lynn Leach[11];
11. 118-Matt Henderson[10]
Heat 4 Ohlins Shocks (8 Laps): 1. 49-Jonathan Davenport[1]; 2.
57-Zack Mitchell[2]; 3. 8-Kyle Strickler[5]; 4. 16S-Sam Seawright[9];
5. 58-Garrett Alberson[3]; 6. 0-Scott Bloomquist[11]; 7. 18D-Daulton
Wilson[7]; 8. 83-Jensen Ford[4]; 9. 10-Garrett Smith[6]; 10. 9C-Dusty
Carver[10]; 11. 23-Cory Hedgecock[8]
Group A Feature (30 Laps): 1. 44M-Chris Madden[1]; 2. 157-Mike
Marlar[3]; 3. 17M-Dale McDowell[6]; 4. 76-Brandon Overton[7];
5. 46-Earl Pearson Jr[10]; 6. 1-Brandon Sheppard[8]; 7. 20RT-Ricky
Thornton Jr[2]; 8. 40B-Kyle Bronson[4]; 9. 109-Eli Beets[12];
10. 71-Hudson O'Neal[5]; 11. 51-Mack McCarter[13]; 12. 17-Cameron
Weaver[19]; 13. 2S-Stormy Scott[16]; 14. 7W-Ricky Weiss[18]; 15.
23B-John Blankenship[20]; 16. 21M-Robby Moses[22]; 17. 17SS-Brenden
Smith[11]; 18. 20H-Bryson Harper[21]; 19. 89-Ashton Winger[17];
20. 11-Spencer Hughes[15]; 21. 3-Austin Neely[9]; 22. 99-Camaron
Marlar[23]; 23. 24 D-Michael Brown[14]
Group B Feature (30 Laps): 1. 20-Jimmy Owens[1]; 2. 49-Jonathan
Davenport[2]; 3. 93-Carson Ferguson[5]; 4. 1V-Vic Hill[9]; 5.
57-Zack Mitchell[4]; 6. 79-Ross Bailes[7]; 7. 39-Tim McCreadie[3];
8. 0-Scott Bloomquist[12]; 9. 58-Garrett Alberson[10]; 10. 8-Kyle
Strickler[6]; 11. 16-Ben Watkins[17]; 12. 1T-Tyler Erb[11]; 13.
18D-Daulton Wilson[14]; 14. 88-Trent Ivey[13]; 15. 83-Jensen Ford[16];
16. 10-Garrett Smith[18]; 17. 9C-Dusty Carver[20]; 18. 118-Matt
Henderson[21]; 19. 16S-Sam Seawright[8]; 20. 23-Cory Hedgecock[22];
21. 7-Ross Robinson[15]; 22. 22-Lynn Leach[19]
Classic Cars
A Feature 1 (20 Laps): 1. 5-Jack Kress[2]; 2. XXX-Josh Chesney[3];
3. 71-Christian Runyon[1]; 4. 14-Chad Manning[7]; 5. 21-Danny
Hutchens[4]; 6. 08W-Hayley White[6]; 7. 59-Phil Blackford[5]
Qualifying 1: 1. 71-Christian Runyon, 00:21.022[6]; 2. 5-Jack
Kress, 00:21.350[5]; 3. XXX-Josh Chesney, 00:21.449[2]; 4. 21-Danny
Hutchens, 00:22.534[1]; 5. 59-Phil Blackford, 00:22.980[7]; 6.
08W-Hayley White, 00:23.636[4]; 7. (DNS) 14-Chad Manning, 00:23.636
Hot Laps 1: 1. 71-Christian Runyon, 00:20.888[6]; 2. 5-Jack Kress,
00:21.397[5]; 3. XXX-Josh Chesney, 00:21.467[2]; 4. 21-Danny Hutchens,
00:22.885[1]; 5. (DNS) 14-Chad Manning, 00:22.885; 6. (DNS) 08W-Hayley
White, 00:22.885
Front Wheel Drive
A Feature 1 (15 Laps): 1. 46-Cody Rector[1]; 2. 21-Dustin Duncan[3];
3. P15-Larry Patterson[2]; 4. 5P-Jacob Presley[9]; 5. 75-Eric
Partin[7]; 6. 717-Amelia McClain[18]; 7. 526-Josh Davis[6]; 8.
79-Brad Webb[14]; 9. 44-Lee Underwood[15]; 10. 33H-Steven Morgan[17];
11. (DNF) 6-Jack Gresham[5]; 12. (DNF) 21T-Travis Taylor[11];
13. (DNF) 45-Anthony Singleton[8]; 14. (DNF) 85-Travis Weeks[4];
15. (DNF) 24-Dylan Johnson[13]; 16. (DNF) 84-Daniel Hunt[16];
17. (DNF) K3-James Klaucke[10]; 18. (DNF) 43-Fisher Swanson[12]
Qualifying 1: 1. 46-Cody Rector, 00:21.485[1]; 2. P15-Larry Patterson,
00:21.892[10]; 3. 21-Dustin Duncan, 00:22.245[13]; 4. 85-Travis
Weeks, 00:22.576[8]; 5. 6-Jack Gresham, 00:22.613[7]; 6. 526-Josh
Davis, 00:22.648[15]; 7. 75-Eric Partin, 00:22.761[12]; 8. 45-Anthony
Singleton, 00:22.827[9]; 9. 5P-Jacob Presley, 00:22.829[16]; 10.
K3-James Klaucke, 00:22.994[6]; 11. 21T-Travis Taylor, 00:23.093[3];
12. 43-Fisher Swanson, 00:23.265[4]; 13. 24-Dylan Johnson, 00:23.763[17];
14. 79-Brad Webb, 00:23.885[5]; 15. 44-Lee Underwood, 00:24.000[18];
16. 84-Daniel Hunt, 00:24.148[2]; 17. 33H-Steven Morgan, 00:25.538[11];
18. (DNF) 717-Amelia McClain, 00:25.538[14]
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