Passmore Collects Sixth Win of 2012 at
Southern Oklahoma Speedway
John
Lemon
OCRS
Public Relations
Tulsa Oklahoma (June 30
2012) –
Jamie Passmore took another step towards his fourth OCRS championship when he
led wire-wire in tonight’s A Feature besting 2012 OCRS “Rookie of the Year”
points leader Alex Sewell while not one, but two potential top five finishers
were waved off as their cars were found to be to light at the scales.
On a track that drivers knew
passing would be challenging at best, the front row starters consisting of Pole
Dash winner Tim Kent and Passmore were set for a dirt track drag race to the
first turn. At the drop of flag master JD Etter’s green cloth, Passmore
immediately set sail to be the early leader and he was able to accomplish his
first goal of the race with Kent tucking in right behind in his Kent
Construction / XXX Chassis mount.
Jammin Jamie Passmore and
crew in victory lane. / Mike Howard Photo
Sewell, driving the Action Auto
Collision / Dyno Services of Oklahoma / Sewell Mechanical machine, worked his
way past Kent for second from his outside second row spot and by the time the
leaders would complete a lap, Lindsay Oklahoma’s Harli White would spin to a
stop in turns 1-2 while Shayla Waddell went to take evasive action and in doing
so, clipped an infield tire which resulted in suspension damage to her left
front and thus the popular driver went to the pits for the night. White would
rejoin the field at the tail but would be heard from again.
Passmore caught lapped traffic at
the halfway mark. Sewell continued to hold second with Kent, Danny Jennings and
Danny Smith next in line. The latter three would be tightly bound together as
the laps unfolded. On the 15th lap, Joe Wood Jr. would slow to a
stop with issues on the front straight, he would be pushed off the track and would
not return. While under yellow, Fred Mattox would duck into the pits with a
problem and he also would not make it back out. The restart would see Passmore
up front, Sewell, Kent, Jennings, Smith, Kyle Clark, Colton Brewer, Casey Wills
and White who was now beginning to pick up the pace after her early spin.
On the restart, Smith began to
apply heavy pressure to Jennings for the fourth spot then Wills would execute a
full 360 degree spin in turn two and also add a 180 degree loop to that. He
would stall the car and bring out a yellow. On the restart, White began her
charge forward. First she passed Clark, then she swept by Smith in turn four of the 18th
lap and Jennings was her next target. White executed a pass on Jennings for the
fourth spot in turns three and four. However, post race inspection found the
17w sprinter was too light at the scales and her results were deleted from the
record books as a DQ. Officials radioed to the pits for the Brewer car to
report to the scales as White’s DQ would move Brewer to fifth in the final
results. Brewer’s car was also to light and he was also omitted from the
results.
Passmore’s victory was his 6th
of the season with all triumphs coming at different venues in his GAP Roofing /
Wesmar Racing Engines / Eagle chassis. “ Ya know, there are some really good
cars here and sometimes you just got to be lucky and we were tonight” said a
modest Passmore. In relation to Sewell being right behind him Passmore said “
You really have no idea (they are there) until you see them. When your out
front, you just have to work your line while the guy behind you can try
different lines to see what works better. I found some places where there was
some rubber on the track and that helped us a lot” explained the winner. As for
Sewell, he had this to say about his run: “The tire started to really shake
about lap 8 or 9 and I just wanted to conserve (the tire) and just not shred
it. I just wanted to keep him (Passmore) in front of me in case something
happened to him so we could take advantage. He is really fast and it’s a
pleasure to run second to him and maybe one day we will get to out run him.”
The next stop on the 2012 OCRS
tour will be at the historic Thunderbird Speedway where Stanley and Dennis
Slader will host OCRS for the second time this year. Passmore was victorious at
T-Bird on May 25th.
Beau Gastineau Takes Flight at SOS. He was uninjured, Mike Howard Photo
Southern Oklahoma Speedway
Ardmore, Oklahoma
Race date: June 30, 2012 - Event 10
21 Cars
M&W Aluminum Heat:
1- Jamie Passmore (6), 2- Whit Gastineau (2), 3-
Danny Smith (4), 4- Harli White (7), 5- Colton Brewer (3), 6- David Lambert
(1), 7- Beau Gastineau (5)
Bob Hurley Auto Family Heat:
1-
Tim Kent (1), 2- Rafe Essary (3), 3- Fred Mattox (5), 4- Joe Wood Jr (6), 5-
Kyle Clark (7), 6- Casey Wills (2), 7- Chuck Bellefeuille (4)
Drive Shafts Inc. Heat:
1-
Alex Sewell (4), 2- Danny Jennings (5), 3- Terry DeVeny (6), 4- Shayla Waddell
(1), 5- Michael Bookout (3), 6- Gary Owens (2), 7- Johnny Kent (7)
Pole Dash:
1-
Tim Kent (1), 2- Jamie Passmore (2), 3- Danny Jennings (4), 4- Alex Sewell (5),
5- Terry DeVeny (6), 6- Rafe Essary (3)
OCRS A Feature:
1-
Jamie Passmore (2), 2- Alex Sewell (4), 3- Tim Kent (1), 4- Danny Jennings (3),
5- Danny Smith (10), 6- Kyle Clark (12), 7- Gary Owens (18), 8- Johnny Kent
(20), 9- Casey Wills (17), 10- David Lambert (16), 11- Michael Bookout (15),
12- Chuck Bellefeuille (19), 13- Fred Mattox (9), 14- Joe Wood Jr, (11), 15-
Whit Gastineau (7), 16- Terry DeVeny (5), 17- Rafe Essary (6), 18- Shayla
Waddell (13), 19- Beau Gastineau (DNS), 20- Colton Brewer DQ, 21- Harli White
(DQ)
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