Oklahoma Outlaw Motor SpeedwayLouisiana's Johnson Takes ASCS Win Posted:5/8/2010 Louisiana's Johnson Takes ASCS Win Teague, Goodnight, Richardson & Mathison Win MARS Late Models Here Next Week May 21, 2010 "Oklahoma's Only NASCAR Track!" FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Saturday May 8, 2010 MUSKOGEE, OK– The last thing Tahlequah’s Jason Teague – and his grand-mother – wanted to see was a caution flag with one lap to go. That setup a green-white-checkered finish in the hotly contested Modified feature at Outlaw Motor Speedway here Friday night. With Jeanie Teague cheering her grandson on, Teague withstood a serious challenge on the final lap from former track champion Greg Skaggs to win his first feature of the year. Scant inches separated Teague and Skaggs at the checkered flag The run to the checkered flag was one of two last-lap thrillers witnessed by the 3,300 fans bundled up to the unseasonable cool weather. In the Grand Nationals, Muskogee’s Dale Richardson just nudged Collinsville’s Brian Parker with a surge at the finish line to win his second feature of the night. Earlier, Richardson won the Factory Stock feature. Going into that last lap of the 20-lap Modified feature, it could have been a four-car sprint to the flag with Fort Smith’s George Martin and last year’s track champ Joe Duvall (Chelsea) in third and fourth behind Teague and Skaggs. But the two leaders guessed correctly on the flagman’s restart and jumped the field to turn the race into a two-car affair. Skaggs tried to nudge his nose in front of Teague’s car in turns one and two, but the race victor kept his high line and held off the challenge. In turns three and four, Skaggs went back to his favorite low groove in a bid for the win, but the high-line favored Teague and he rocketed out of turn four to the flag. Grand Nationals Richardson – in winning for the third time this season – led every lap, but it appeared he might surrender his lead in the white flag lap when Parker got in front coming out of turn two. The track’s top feature winner of all time (58 checkered flags in three different classes) got a good run on Parker in turns three and four, and with a sudden burst yards from the flag stand, he made the pass for the win by less than a foot. Muskogee’s Colton Dunlap, who set the early-season pace in the division with four feature victories, finished third with David Whittle, Muskogee, fourth, For practically the entire race, anyone of the six drivers had an opportunity to win. It took Richardson and Parker 15 laps to get separation from the field. Factory Stock It was another good night for the United Auto racing team. Led by Richardson, the United team finished one-two-three. Richardson owns outright the car driven by Muskogee’s Matt Burnett, who finished third, behind Tahlequah’s Kyle Stevens. According to Richardson, he owns the motor that is in Stevens’ car. Richardson took the lead on lap two, coming all the way from ninth place at the start. After two laps he was second, and then he went to the lead after a restart for a spin-out a lap later. Lee McLain, Chouteau, last week’s winner, chased Richardson for five laps – until a mishap sent him to the pits. That opened the door for Stevens and Burnett to chase the leader. It was a sweet win for Richardson. He finished second to McLain last week, but his car was disqualified after it failed to pass technical inspection – illegal rocker arms. Everything was fine this time around. 360 Modfieds Patrick Goodnight became only the second repeat winner when he collected the checkered flag in the feature. He joins Inola’s Justin Shoemaker as the only two-time winners in the first eight weeks of the season. The Braggs driver survived a restart with two laps remaining for the win. Goodnight inherited the lead from Bixby’s Matt Rhine on lap 11 when Rhine had mechanical problems in turn two. His rear-end locked up. To that point, Rhine had led the race from lap one, jumping to the front from the third position. Shoemaker finished second, with Martin Hemphill, Spiro, third. Muskogee’s Shannon Reheard and Chuck Bumgarner were fourth and fifth. Pure Stock Just when it looked bleak for Spinner Mathison, the Checotah driver got hooked up and came back to win his first feature of the year. Mathison had led from the start, but he lost control of his car in turn two on lap eight, dropping two spots to third, and surrendering the lead to Broken Arrow’s Richard Foster. Avoiding the wall, Mathison got back into the action and moved to second on lap nine. Then, on lap 11 he passed Foster out of turn two and led the rest of the way to record his first feature win of the year. Foster held on to finish second with Tyler Chambers, Welling, third. ASCS Sprint Consistently turning laps in the 15-second range, Jason Johnson ran away to win the 25-lap feature. The Eunice, LA., driver had an eight second lead over Tony Bruce, Wichita, Kan. Norman’s Danny Wood was third. “It was an extremely fast track.” Johnson said. “I just kept my foot in the gas and hit my marks. It was an easy drive. About the only thing that could have slowed him down was traffic, but he was able to negotiate around the slower cars with ease. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- $500 BONUS THIS WEEKEND! - Any driver that races at Outlaw Motor Speedway Friday and Tri-State Speedway Saturday and wins both A-Features races in their respective division will take home a $500 bonus! Drivers must compete in the same division in both tracks this weekend. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MARS LATE MODELS - The Mid America Racing Series Late Models (MARS) will make their first stop of the 2010 season Friday Night May 21, 2010 at Outlaw Motor Speedway. 5-time and defending MARS Champion Terry Phillips of Springfield, MO will lead the Martians into battle with the areas top late model teams expected to be in attendance. Other drivers expected for this weekend include current point leader for the MARS series Eric Turner of Springfield, MO; Last year's feature winner at the Outlaw Jeremy Payne of Springfield, MO; Brandon McCormick of Lebanon, MO; Rylan Long of Lockwood, MO; Gary Christian of Broken Bow, OK; Kelly Boen of Henderson, CO; Brad Looney of Republic, MO; Darrell Mooneyham of Verona,MO; Al Purkey of Coffeyville, KS and many more. Phillips is second in career wins for the Late Model division at Outlaw Motor Speedway with five and also has a pair of Modified wins at the monster 3/8th mile. Mike Brown of Fort Gibson is the career Late Model wins leader with 10, Purkey is third with three. Boen has one win as does Turner. For more information, visit www.outlawmotorspeedway.com or http://www.dlra.net/ for MARS information. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- VOTE FOR LOCAL CRAFTSMAN MECHANIC OF THE YEAR 2010 - The voting process to determine the 2010 Craftsman Mechanic of the Year Award has begun. Craftsman, the Official Tools of NASCAR, is offering rewards, recognition, bonus money and guaranteed-for-life Craftsman tools to top Mechanics in the NASCAR Whelen All-American Series as selected by their peers. Ballots will be available at Outlaw Motor Speedway. Your votes will determine the Craftsman Mechanic of the Year Award at each NASCAR Whelen All-American Series track as well as the Top Three Mechanics in the country in the running for the National Championship. CRAFTSMAN MECHANIC OF THE YEAR AWARDS: Outlaw Motor Speedway Track Award Winner: $300 Craftsman tool credit (gift card), $100 cash, trophy. Top Three National Winners: $2,000 Craftsman tool credit (gift card), $1,000 cash, plus travel and accommodations to receive awards at the NASCAR Whelen All-American Series Awards Banquet. National Champion: $2,000 cash bonus. The winner will be announced at the NASCAR Whelen All-American Series Awards Banquet. For more information, visit www.outlawmotorspeedway.com or call the track. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Scholarships Offers For NASCAR Members at Outlaw Motor Speedway - The University of Northwestern Ohio (UNOH) and NASCAR have teamed to offer scholarships to the university. The 2010 UNOH-NASCAR Scholarship Program will help three recent high school graduates enroll in the university’s College of Technologies or College of Business as freshmen for the start of classes in January 2011. The technologies and business areas of study are linked to UNOH’s High Performance Motorsports Degree program, which was established in 1991. The UNOH-NASCAR partnership offers scholarship awards of $5,000, $7,500 and $10,000 for a full academic year starting in January 2011. Criteria to apply for the scholarships includes, but is not limited to, being a recent high school graduate and maintaining a minimum 2.5 grade point average while enrolled at UNOH. The applicant must also be a NASCAR-licensed member in good standing who participates in the NASCAR Whelen All-American Series, and is deemed worthy of financial assistance as judged by appropriate college officials. Current UNOH students Stephen Schnapf and Schuyler Nahre along with former Limaland Motorsports Park track champions Todd Sherman, Jeff Babcock, Tony Anderson and Terry Hull and their 18 member student crew members also competed in those events. The quarter-mile clay oval near Lima, Ohio is owned and operated by UNOH. In addition, 34 UNOH students worked as “over-the-wall” crewmen for February’s ARCA 200 at Daytona International Speedway. UNOH-NASCAR scholarship applications to be submitted for consideration should include a cover letter, a resume or bio with current NASCAR Whelen All-American Series experience, a copy of the applicant’s most recent report card or high school transcript of grades, up to three letters of recommendation, all personal contact information and NASCAR license number. Applications can be sent to: NASCAR Director of Developmental Series, One Daytona Blvd., Daytona Beach, FL 32114. Applications will be accepted through Sept. 19, 2010, which is the last day of the NASCAR Whelen All-American Series points season. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Eric Shannon Raceway Enterprises Outlaw Motor Speedway (Muskogee, OK) Tri-State Speedway (Pocola, OK) PO Box 1903 Muskogee, OK 74402 918-687-9200 918-687-9203 Fax www.outlawmotorspeedway.com www.tri-statespeedway.com