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Wednesday, August 9, 2017

Recap of racing at EAMS on Saturday, 8/5/2017 (Videos included.)


Submitted by Lamar McClellan





USCS Sprint Cars - 27 Laps:
1 - #14 Jordon Mallett
2 - #10m Morgan Turpen
3 - #29 Kyle Amerson
4 - #07 Brandon Taylor
5 - #43 Terry Witherspoon



UCRA 602 LM Sportsman - 20 Laps:
1 - #111 Jackson Thomason started 2nd, took the lead on lap 1, dropped to 2nd on lap 2, retook the lead on lap 13 when the leader blew a tire and held off subsequent challenges to pick up his 2nd win of the season.
2 - #00 Richie Stephens started 3rd, took the lead on lap 2, was pulling away when he had a flat on the 14th lap, restarted in the rear and came back through the pack to finish a close 2nd.
3 - #22 Keith McGuire started 7th, moved to the top 5 after 12 laps, 3rd on lap 13, 2nd on lap 14 and actually challenged Thomason for the lead until passed by Stephens with 2 to go.
4 - #17 Jason Price started 8th and ran a solid race moving into the top 5 on lap 13.
5 - #7 Roger Arnett started 10th and moved steadily up through the pack taking 5th on lap 13.




Hobby - 12 Laps:
1 - #294 John Michael started on the pole and lead flag to flag for his 6th win of the year.
2 - #5 Justin Sapp started 3rd and took 2nd on the last lap in a torrid battle with #29 Will Gordon.
3 - #29 Will Gordon started 2nd and ran 2nd all race until being passed on the last lap.
4 - #23 Joey Thomas started 5th, spun and went to the rear early, moved into the top 5 on lap 7, and took 4th on the final lap after battling with #30 Tim Bosley.
5 - #30 Tim Bosley started 7th, moved into 5th after lap 1, 4th on lap 7, and then back to 5th on the last lap.




NeSmith Street Stock - 12 Laps:
1 - #24 Allen McConnell started 4th, took the lead on lap 1 and never looked back FINALLY picking up his 1st win of the year.
2 - #24J Jason Price started 3rd and took 2nd on the first lap - never quite able to mount a challenge on McConnell.
3 - #10 Don Don Cook started on pole in a car he's never driven before, fell to the rear on lap one and steadily moved back up after getting familiar with the car.
4 - #06 Ricky McDonald started 5th, ran in the back all race until passing #71 Grady Holmes for 4th on the last lap.
5  #71 Grady Holmes started 6th, moved up to 3rd early before spinning on lap 7 and never seemed to run as well afterwards.



Road Warrior - 12 Laps:
1 - #101 Brooks Shelley started 3rd and spun on lap 3, retook 3rd on lap 5, moved up to 2nd on lap 7, and took the lead on lap 8 for his 5th win of the season.
2 - #17 Brian Robinson started 2nd, dropped to 3rd and then retook 2nd on the last lap.
3 - #16 Robert Price started 1st and lead the first 7 laps before losing the lead to Shelley and then lost 2nd to Robinson on the last lap.
4 - #2 Jarrod Harrison started last in the two seater and ran there until moving up on lap 8.
5 - #1 Rickey Harrelson started 4th until falling back on lap 8 and dropping out on the last lap.



Hot Shots - 12 Laps:
1 - #32 TJ Sanders lead every lap from pole though he was challenged almost every lap throughout the race.  After struggling all year with one DNF after another and never finishing better than 10th, CONGRATULATIONS to TJ on his amazing breakthrough!!
2 - #93 Jason Newsome started 7th and showed early on he had a fast ride by moving up to 2nd by lap 4 and then battled with Sanders and #5 Terry Merritt all race long in some of the best racing of the night.
3 - #5 Terry Merritt started 2nd and was passed by Newsome on lap 4 and from there on the race was on!!
4 - #05 Fred Woodrum started 9th and took 4th on lap 5 where he ran to the end.
5 - #21 Christopher Bosley started 13th, was 10th on lap 2, 8th on lap 3, 7th on lap 6, and took 5th on lap 7 - looked like he was having fun, for sure!

Next race at EAMS is this coming Saturday, 8/12/2017.  Hope to see you there!