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Lonnie Wheatley, WHEATLAND, Mo. (August 11, 2008) – Robert Ballou opened up the 2008 edition of the O'Reilly Sprint Bandits Tour 'N Topless Midwest Swing in the same way that he finished out the 2007 version; by standing in victory lane.
Ballou took the lead away from Dave Darland on the 21st lap and went on to capture his fifth career TNT feature win in Monday night's 30-lap main event at Lucas Oil Speedway. Darland chased Ballou to the stripe, with Casey Shuman, Levi Jones and Gary Taylor rounding out the top five.
More to follow…..
O’Reilly Sprint Bandits Tour ‘N Topless Lucas Oil Speedway Results:
Heat Races:
First Heat (8 Laps): 1. 75-Jesse Hockett, 2. 5*-Gary Taylor, 3 61a-Andrew Felker, 4. 99-Brady Bacon, 5. 14-Coleman Gulick, 6. 8-Jeff Wingate, 7. 9x-Larry Carter, 8. 76-Mike Leslie, 9. 21s-Charles Davis, Jr.
Second Heat (8 Laps): 1. 2b-Dave Darland, 2. 32-Casey Shuman, 3. 15-R.J. Johnson, 4. 71-Damion Gardner, 5. 10-Darren Hagen, 6. 97-Bret Mellenberndt, 7. 55-Tony Everhart, 8. 19s-Steven Cross. DNS: 5c-Cody Cordell.
Third Heat (8 Laps): 1. 81-Robert Ballou, 2. 10T-Thomas Meseraull, 3. 83-Tim Kaeding, 4. 21k-Cory Kruseman, 5. 1-Levi Jones, 6. 41k-Henry Clarke, 7. 5k-Alex Schutte, 8. 3-Dustin Adams, 9. 43-Frank Brown.
Qualifying Races – Top 16 in Combined Passing Points from Heats & Qualifiers to "A" Feature; Balance to "B" Main
First Qualifier (8 Laps): 1. 71-Damion Gardner, 2. 15-R.J. Johnson, 3. 75-Jesse Hockett, 4. 81-Robert Ballou, 5. 99-Brady Bacon, 6. 21s-Charles Davis, Jr., 7. 8-Jeff Wingate, 8.76-Mike Leslie, 9. 55-Tony Everhart.
Second Qualifier (8 Laps): 1. 1-Levi Jones, 2. 32-Casey Shuman, 3. 5*-Gary Taylor, 4. 61a-Andrew Felker, 5. 43-Frank Brown, 6. 97-Bret Mellenberndt, 7. 14-Coleman Gulick, 8. 19s-Steven Cross, 9. 9x-Larry Carter.
Third Qualifier (8 Laps): 1. 2b-Dave Darland, 2. 83-Tim Kaeding, 3. 21k-Cory Kruseman, 4. 10T-Thomas Meseraull, 5. 10-Darren Hagen, 6. 41k-Henry Clarke, 7. 5k-Alex Schutte, 8. 3-Dustin Adams. DNS: 5c-Cody Cordell.
"B" Main – Top 6 Advance to "A" Main
"B" Feature (10 Laps): 1. 43-Frank Brown, 2. 8-Jeff Wingate, 3. 5c-Cody Cordell, 4. 5k-Alex Schutte, 5. 41k-Henry Clarke, 6. 55-Tony Everhart, 7. 3-Dustin Adams, 8. 76-Mike Leslie, 9. 19s-Steven Cross, 10. 9x-Larry Carter, 11. 21s-Charles Davis, Jr.
O'Reilly Sprint Bandits TNT Lucas Oil Speedway "A" Main
“A” Main (30 Laps): 1. 81-Robert Ballou, 2. 2b-Dave Darland, 3. 32-Casey Shuman, 4. 1-Levi Jones, 5. 5*-Gary Taylor, 6. 10-Darren Hagen, 7. 61a-Andrew Felker, 8. 10T-Thomas Meseraull, 9. 5c-Cody Cordell, 10. 75-Jesse Hockett, 11. 14-Coleman Gulick, 12. 83-Tim Kaeding, 13. 15-R.J. Johnson, 14. 21k-Cory Kruseman, 15. 71-Damion Gardner, 16. 43-Frank Brown, 17. 41k-Henry Clarke, 18. 8-Jeff Wingate, 19. 97-Bret Mellenberndt, 20. 55-Tony Everhart, 21. 99-Brady Bacon, 22. 5k-Alex Schutte.
Lap Leaders: Dave Darland 1-20, Robert Ballou 21-30.
O'Reilly Sprint Bandits TNT Midwest Swing Points (Top 10): 1. Robert Ballou 150, 2. Dave Darland 146, 3. Casey Shuman 144, 4. Levi Jones 142, 5. Gary Taylor 140, 6. Darren Hagen 138, 7. Andrew Felker 136, 8. Thomas Meseraull 134, 9. Cody Cordell 132, 10. Jesse Hockett 130.
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