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IT’S COBB AGAIN IN OCRS/LAWTON SHOWDOWN!

John Lemon

OCRS Public Relations

Lawton Oklahoma (June 25, 2011)- For the second time this season, Choctaw Oklahoma's Kyle Cobb reigned supreme over a field of 35 sprints by taking the final Oil Capital Racing Series A feature at Lawton Speedway for 2011. Cobb, who won the season opener on April 16^th, started second row inside in his Four Generations Roofing / Goodyear mounted / Schnee Chassis #4C.At the drop of the green flag to start the feature, Tulsa's Sean McClelland shot into the lead in his Maxwell Oil / Finish LIne Machining / XXX chassis sprinter with Broken Arrow’s Brady Bacon making his initial 2011 OCRS start driving the John James / GBM Motorsports and Reliable Service XXX racer tucking in behind McClelland with Cobb in tow as the field bolted for turns one and two. Before the field could clear the corners, OCRS points leader Whit Gastineau and TJ Herrell of Wichita Falls Texas tangled in turn two bringing out the first caution flag.Gastineau had to be towed off the racing surface with front end suspension damage and would be credited with the 21^st and final position. Herrell would rejoin the field at the rear for the restart.

On the second start of the feature, once again it was McClelland, Bacon and Cobb leading the way and at the completion of the opening lap, Moore's Frank Dittman tangled with another car which collapsed his front end as he spun off the racing surface into the infield and the track would stay green. Following the trio at the completion of lap one would be another first time OCRS starter, Darien Roberts of Broken Arrow along with Bristow's Tim Kent and Stillwell's Rafe Essary. The field would go yellow yet another time when Aaron Alley of Wichita Falls Texas would spin to stop in turn two. Once under the way again, the frontrunners would settle into a track that was very dry due to the night’s high temperatures and southern winds that blew relentlessly throughout the night.At the lap 8 mark, McClelland and Cobb were no more than a few feet apart and they had distanced themselves from the third running Bacon and the pack of wolves that followed. On the 12^th lap, the leaders started to enter lapped traffic. One lap later, McClelland came together with a lapped car causing a momentary loss of momentum to which Cobb took full advantage of and went by McClelland as he gathered himself up.On the same lap, ninth starter Gary Owens, who had been making his way forward, worked his way past Bacon for third position.

Three laps later, Bacon returned the favor to Owens and past him on the front straight. As the laps wound down, Cobb, McClelland, Bacon and Owens had formed a small freight train between them. Lap traffic would again come into play as the four leaders had to thread their way amongst the slower cars.Cobb was the most fortunate recipient by working his way through the traffic cleaner than those who gave chase.Cobb went on to take the checkers with McClelland, Bacon, Owens and Roberts rounding out the top five.The balance of the top ten saw Andrew DealJeremy Allen, Joe Bob Lee, Danny Jennings and 21^st starter Barry McCord put a finish in what was by far the hottest night of the year for the OCRS warriors.

Cobb explained his run tonight by saying: “I knew we had a pretty good car at the bottom of that deal. It (the track) started taking rubber down in turns 3 and 4 and I caught up to Sean and I had a pretty good car and he had a good car too. We ran up on lapped traffic pretty quick there, he went to dive in the low side of a lapped car and I knew my only chance to get around either one of them was to go around the top.He went up top and he got tangled up in a lapped car and I moved back down to the bottom and after that I knew if he was going to beat me back he was going to have to move me off the bottom.I knew he was back there knocking on the door but I was not getting off the bottom.”

McClelland recalls the details of relinquishing his once mighty lead, “I got under a lap car, I don't know who it is, the 17(A) car maybe. I tried to show him my nose to let him know I was there and he decided he did not want to move so we got together and I thought I was going to turn over and I got back going and that's when Kyle Cobb got by me and then I chased him back down but by then, lapped cars kind of got us in a bad situation and I lost all my momentum and we will just take second.”

For third place finisher Bacon, this was his first OCRS start in a few years and he found the car quite different than the sprint cars he is used to running lately.“Its been a while since I ran a car with these smaller wings and we just didn't get the set up on the car as we would have liked. The horsepower was fine, we just needed to have changed a few things. My car was pretty tight. I was just out there kind of hanging on. I was concerned that some of those lapped cars were going to take us out (of the race). We needed to catch lapped traffic to have a chance to put us back up.” Bacon was called upon to drive the car by the team as he had sold them the car during the Chili Bowl event last January.Bacon explained what the team wanted him to do “They wanted me to drive itto get a baseline setup to help get them going in the right direction to get the car to going a little bit faster.”

Gastineau won the 12 lap B Feature over Josh Toho, Herrell, Dittman and McCord to earn transfer spots into the 25 lap A Feature.The four heat races were won by Bacon, McClelland, Roberts and Tim Kent.The next OCRS 2011 tour stop will be on July 2, 2011 at the Mid-America Speedway in South Coffeyville Oklahoma during the Independence Day Holiday Weekend.

OCRS Results from Lawton Speedway

35 Cars

Heat 1.

1. Brady Bacon 2. Kyle Cobb 3. Rafe Essary 4. Josh Toho 5. Kerry McAlister 6. Beau Gastineau 7. Shayla Waddell 8. Nick Bates

Heat 2

1. Sean McClelland 2. Gary Owens 3. Jeremy Allen 4. Koby Barksdale 5. Joe Bob Lee 6. Whit Gastineau 7. TJ Herrell 8. Matt Sherrell 9. Terry Holland

Heat 3

1. Darien Roberts 2. Andrew Deal 3. Kyle Clark 4. Danny Jennings 5. Brandon Jennings 6. Barry McCord 7. Terry Easum 8. Micheal Gossman 9. Jamie Passmore (DQ)

Heat 4

1. Tim Kent 2. Johnny “Hotrod” Kent 3. Fred Mattox 4. Frank Dittman 5. Aaron Alley 6. Kyle Ezell 7.Sheldon Barksdale 8. Gil White

Pole Dash

1. Sean McClelland 2, Brady Bacon 3. Kyle Cobb 4. Darien Roberts 5. Tim Kent 6. Rafe Essary

B Feature

1. Whit Gastineau 2. Josh Toho 3. TJ Herrell 4. Frank Dittman 5. Barry McCord 6. Koby Barksdale 7. Shayla Waddell 8. Kerry McAlister 9. Kyle Ezell 10. Terry Easum 11.Gil White 12. Sheldon Barksdale 13. Michael Gossman 14. Beau Gastineau 15. Nick Bates 16. Matt Sherrell 17. Jamie Passmore (DNS) 18. Terry Holland (DNS)

A Feature

1. Kyle Cobb 2. Sean McClelland 3. Brady Bacon 4. Gary Owens 5. Darien Roberts 6. Andrew Deal 7. Jeremy Allen 8. Joe Bob Lee 9. Danny Jennings 10. Barry McCord 11. Tim Kent 12. Fred Mattox 13. Johnny “Hotrod” Kent 14. TJ Herrell 15. Rafe Essary 16. Josh Toho 17. Brandon Jennings 18. Kyle Clark 19. Aaron Alley 20. Frank Dittman 21. Whit Gastineau

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