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David Smith, Jr.
NCRA Press and Contingencies
(405) 740-4769
[email protected]
Davis Survives Battle to Win NCRA Mod Feature at
Elk City
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE - June 11, 2010 - Elk City, Oklahoma - Chad Davis
of Tulsa, Oklahoma became the fourth different feature winners in as
many events as he retook the lead just past the
halfway point to win his first ever O'Reilly/NCRA modified south feature
finale Friday night at Elk City's I-40 Speedway in Elk City, Oklahoma.
Davis, who came into the night fourth in the series point standings,
started on the pole for the thirty lap feature and quickly took the lead
as the green flag fell. Dusty Robbins, who had won the last series
feature held at the track back in March, quickly moved into the runner
up position followed by Amarillo, Texas driver Alan Sharpensteen, Dee
Gossett and John Webb.
Sharpensteen wasted little time getting to the front as he passed
Robbins on lap two and quickly reeled in Davis. It was Davis down low
and Sharpensteen up high as both drivers battled for the top spot before
Sharpensteen began making his move aboard the SRP Racing Products
sponsored SRP chassis, driving underneath Davis coming out of turn four
to take the lead on lap five.
Sharpensteen quickly opened a ten car length advantage before the first
caution of the race fell on lap seven when a Neal Debord and Nick Henson
got together in turns three and four. The attempted restart wasn't much
better as Jeremy Gossett and Colt Goodman tangled in turns one and two.
Things went much better on the restart with Sharpensteen jumping out
from the rest of the field but behind him the battle for the runner up
position waged with Davis continuing to work the low side of the track
while Robbins used the cushion around the three-eighths mile oval.
Sharpensteen would continue out front but his once ten car length lead
would evaporate near the races midway point as Davis began to make his
move. On lap seventeen, Davis started working the bottom to perfection
as his J&J Racing/Maxwell Oil/M&M Graphics sponsored BMS Racing
Engines powered Race Craft Chassis retook the lead coming out of turn
four.
Davis had begun to open a comfortable ten car length lead before the
caution would fall once again on lap eighteen when Thomas Tillison, Jr.
and Mark Brill got together in turn two. The attempted restart saw
problems as well as Casey McClaskey came to a stop at the top of turn
four.
On the final restart Sharpensteen pressured Davis but couldn't make the
move stick and after another attempt with ten laps to go to take the
lead failed, Davis would power away to become the eighth different
feature winner in the nine events held in the series young history by a
half straightaway over Sharpensteen.
"I had the car setup to get faster towards the end of the race,"
explained Davis. "I knew those guys were going to try me on the outside
so I just made the race track wide and it all worked out."
Current series points leader Mickey Lassiter of Piedmont, Oklahoma
earning hard charger of the race, coming from his twelfth starting
position to finish third. Robbins held on for fourth while defending
series champion Gene Weaver of Amarillo rounded out the top five.
Gossett, Davis, Robbins, Sharpensteen and Webb won the five, eight lap
heat races while McClaskey and Lassiter won the two, twelve lap "B"
features.
1st Heat: 1) Dee Gossett 2) Jon Herring 3) Thomas Tillison, Jr. 4) Greg
Burt 5) Jay Sale 6) Calvin Bonner 7) Brandon Woods
2nd Heat: 1) Chad Davis 2) Kenneth Bonner, Jr. 3) Alan Oliva 4) Casey
McClaskey 5) Chris Roach 6) Jim Pearcy 7) Eric Brill
3rd Heat: 1) Dusty Robbins 2) Colt Goodman 3) Matt French 4) Jeremy
Gossett 5) Brian Miller 6) Chris Cole 7) Thomas Nunley
4th Heat: 1) Alan Sharpensteen 2) Gene Weaver 3) Mickey Lassiter 4)
Loggan Cabbell 5) Cam Case 6) Joel Hill 7) Jeff Rowland
5th Heat: 1) John Webb 2) Nick Henson 3) Mark Brill 4) Neal Debord 5)
Lonnie Nunley 6) Dwane Ford 7) Jason Hilliard
1st B Feature: 1) McClaskey 2) Sale 3) Tillison, Jr. 4) French 5)
Bonner, Jr. 6) J. Gossett 7) Pearcy 8) Woods 9) T. Nunley 10) L. Nunley
11) Ford 12) Roach DNS: Hilliard
2nd B Feature: 1) Lassiter 2) Burt 3) Henson 4) Miller 5) Debord 6)
Rowland 7) Cole 8) E. Brill 9) C.Bonner 10) Cabbell
Unofficial A Feature: 1) Davis 2) Sharpesteen 3) Lassiter 4) Robbins 5)
Weaver 6) D. Gossett 7) M. Brill 8) Tillison, Jr. 9) Burt 10) J. Gossett
The Joie of Seating 2nd Place - Sharpensteen
Saldana Racing Products 2nd Place - Sharpensteen
Rod End Supply 3rd Place - Lassiter
Hooker Harness 8th Place - Tillison
C&E Performance 12th Place -
David Smith Jr.
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