Owens Takes Friday Night’s Lucas Dirt Preliminary Event at Batesville

Owens Takes Friday Night’s Lucas Dirt Preliminary Event at Batesville

BATESVILLE, AR (August 21, 2020) – Jimmy Owens survived a 4-lap shootout with Brandon Overton to win Friday Night’s Lucas Oil Late Model Dirt Series 30-lap feature at Batesville Motor Speedway. Overton crossed the finish line in second ahead of Jonathan Davenport, Shanon Buckingham and Kyle Bronson. 

Owens had pressure from Overton for the last half of the race as the two battled in lap traffic. A caution with four laps to go for Timothy Culp allowed Owens to pull away from Overton to take his ninth LOLMDS win of 2020. 

The caution with 26 laps complete allowed Owens to have a clean track in front of him as he sped away from Overton to record his 73rd career win in LOLMDS competition. 

“I was afraid to step out in traffic, I didn’t want to give up my track position. I wanted to see that last yellow because it gave us a clean track ahead. We hope to keep it rolling tomorrow night. The track will be a different animal tomorrow night with a 100-lap race. They usually prep the track a little different and there won’t be as many laps on it before the feature. Hopefully it will hold up and be a good race.” 

Overton ran second to Owens the entire distance and looks to improve one spot higher on Saturday Night than he did one year ago in the $40,000 to win finale. “We’ll take it, last night we had a little bad luck. Jimmy’s had a good year and we have been there with him all year. We’ve got to get a little better, so we’ll go onto tomorrow and see what happens.” 

Davenport rounded out the podium with his third-place run. “We are trying some new things on the car. It seemed like it was pretty good, we just need to tweak on it some more for tomorrow. We kind of got lost there at mid-season, but everybody has worked hard on the team and we have made a lot of strides the last two nights. It’s good to run here in front my car owner, Lance Landers and Steve Martin and everybody at Nutrien Ag Solutions. We have a bunch of farmers here this weekend, so hopefully we can get them a big win here tomorrow night.” 

The winner’s Ramirez Motorsports Rocket Chassis is powered by a Vic Hill Racing Engine and sponsored by Reece Monument Company, Tommy Pope Construction, Boomtest Well Service, Red Line Oil, General Tire, Ohlins Shocks, Champion Spark Plugs, and Midwest Sheet Metal. 

Completing the top ten were Earl Pearson Jr., Dale McDowell, Tim McCreadie, Shane Clanton, and Spencer Hughes.

Lucas Oil Late Model Dirt Series 
Race Summary 
28th Annual COMP Cams Topless 100 Prelim – Presented by Nutrien Ag
Friday, August 21st, 2020
Batesville Motor Speedway – Batesville, AR

Lucas Oil Time Trials
Fast Time Group A: Jimmy Owens / 14.193 seconds (overall)
Fast Time Group B: Brandon Overton / 14.419 seconds 

Penske Race Shocks Heat Race #1 Finish (10 Laps, Top 3 Transfer): 1. 20-Jimmy Owens[1]; 2. 17M-Dale McDowell[2]; 3. 81E-Tanner English[3]; 4. 9-Devin Moran[6]; 5. 1BJ-BJ Robinson[4]; 6. 90-Brian Rickman[7]; 7. 86-Kyle Beard[5]; 8. 13-Joey Smith[8]

FK Rod Ends Heat Race #2 Finish (10 Laps, Top 3 Transfer): 1. 50-Shanon Buckingham[1]; 2. 39-Tim McCreadie[3]; 3. C8-Timothy Culp[2]; 4. 1T-Tyler Erb[4]; 5. 36-Logan Martin[5]; 6. 12C-Scott Crigler[6]; 7. 86R-Rick Rickman[7]; 8. 26R-Ross Farmer[8]

Simpson Race Products Heat Race #3 Finish (10 Laps, Top 3 Transfer): 1. 49-Jonathan Davenport[1]; 2. 25-Shane Clanton[4]; 3. 93-Mason Oberkramer[2]; 4. 14G-Joe Godsey[7]; 5. 44M-Chris Madden[3]; 6. 22H-Daniel Hilsabeck[6]; 7. 92M-Chad Mallett[5]; 8. (DNS) 48-Mike Myers

Ohlins Shocks Heat Race #4 Finish (10 Laps, Top 3 Transfer): 1. 76-Brandon Overton[1]; 2. 11H-Spencer Hughes[3]; 3. 14-Josh Richards[2]; 4. 14M-Morgan Bagley[5]; 5. 18-Shannon Babb[4]; 6. 11J-Drew Armstrong[6]; 7. 12-Jamie Elam[7]; 8. 13N-Derrick Nichols[8]

MyRacePass Heat Race #5 Finish (10 Laps, Top 3 Transfer): 1. 40B-Kyle Bronson[3]; 2. 2S-Stormy Scott[1]; 3. 20RT-Ricky Thornton Jr[5]; 4. 16-Tyler Bruening[8]; 5. 21XXX-Neil Baggett[2]; 6. 56C-Colton Horner[6]; 7. 7D-David Payne[7]; 8. 71-Robert Baker[4]

NutrienAg Heat Race #6 Finish (10 Laps, Top 3 Transfer): 1. 1-Earl Pearson Jr[2]; 2. 21-Billy Moyer Jr[1]; 3. 21M-Billy Moyer Sr[4]; 4. 12M-Wendell Wallace[3]; 5. 5A-Austin Vincent[5]; 6. 78S-Steve Stultz[7]; 7. 997-Travis Ashley[6]

Tiger Rear Ends B-Main #1 Finish (12 Laps, Top 3 Transfer): 1. 44M-Chris Madden[6]; 2. 1T-Tyler Erb[2]; 3. 9-Devin Moran[1]; 4. 36-Logan Martin[5]; 5. 1BJ-BJ Robinson[4]; 6. 92M-Chad Mallett[12]; 7. 90-Brian Rickman[7]; 8. 12C-Scott Crigler[8]; 9. 86-Kyle Beard[10]; 10. 22H-Daniel Hilsabeck[9]; 11. 86R-Rick Rickman[11]; 12. 13-Joey Smith[13]; 13. 14G-Joe Godsey[3]; 14. (DNS) 26R-Ross Farmer; 15. (DNS) 48-Mike Myers

FAST Shafts B-Main #2 Finish (12 Laps, Top 3 Transfer): 1. 18-Shannon Babb[4]; 2. 16-Tyler Bruening[2]; 3. 14M-Morgan Bagley[1]; 4. 21XXX-Neil Baggett[5]; 5. 11J-Drew Armstrong[7]; 6. 12-Jamie Elam[10]; 7. 71-Robert Baker[14]; 8. 56C-Colton Horner[8]; 9. 12M-Wendell Wallace[3]; 10. 78S-Steve Stultz[9]; 11. 5A-Austin Vincent[6]; 12. 13N-Derrick Nichols[13]; 13. 7D-David Payne[11]; 14. (DNS) 997-Travis Ashley

Lucas Oil Feature Finish (30 Laps): 

Race Statistics
Entrants: 47
Lap Leaders: Jimmy Owens (Laps 1 – 30)
Wrisco Feature Winner: Jimmy Owens
Margin of Victory: 1.186 seconds
Cautions: Timothy Culp (Lap 26)
LOLMDS Series Provisionals: n/a
CCSDS Series Provisionals: n/a
Fast Time Provisional: n/a
Series Emergency Provisionals: n/a
Big River Steel Podium Top 3: Jimmy Owens, Brandon Overton, Jonathan Davenport
Optima Batteries Hard Charger of the Race: Billy Moyer (Advanced 3 Positions) 
Midwest Sheet Metal Spoiler Challenge Point Leader: Jimmy Owens
Allstar Performance Most Laps Led: Jimmy Owens (30 Laps)
Sunoco Race for Gas Highest Finisher: Jimmy Owens
Eibach Springs Rookie of the Race: Tanner English
ARP Engine Builder of the Race: Cornett Racing Engines
Miller Welders Chassis Builder of the Race: Rocket Chassis
Outerwears Crew Chief of the Race: Jeff Strope (Jimmy Owens)
Dirty Girl Racewear Fastest Lap of the Race: Jimmy Owens (Lap #2 – 15.126 seconds)
STEEL-IT Tough Break of the Race: Timothy Culp
PFC Brakes Pole Award: Jimmy Owens
Time of Race: 11 minutes 48 seconds

SATURDAY Tiger Rear Ends B-Main #1 Line Up (15 Laps, Top 3 Transfer):  

SATURDAY FAST Shafts B-Main #2 Line Up (15 Laps, Top 3 Transfer):