WEAVER TAKES SECOND STORMPAY.COM DLMS WIN AT 411

                KNOXVILLE, TN – Randy Weaver of Crossville, TN picked up his second StormPay.com Dirt Late Model Series win of the season on Tuesday night at 411 Motor Speedway in the “Stars and Stripes” 40 driving the Hicks & Ingles Mechanical Contractors Warrior.  Weaver held off a late-race charge by Jay Blair of Angie, LA in the B&K Motorsports/Wild Bill’s Rescue Service Mastersbilt.

Randy Weaver of Crossville, TN in the #119 Hicks and Ingles Mechanical Contractors Warrior holds off the late-race charge of Jay Blair of Angie, LA in the #2x B&K Motorsports/Wild Bill’s Rescue Service Mastersbilt on Tuesday night during the Stars and Stripes 40 for the StormPay.com Dirt Late Model Series at 411 Motor Speedway in Knoxville, TN.  Weaver went on the post his second series win of the season, with Blair finishing second.  (Mike Blevins Photo)

                For Weaver, it was his second StormPay.com DLMS win in the last three events, and also his second StormPay.com DLMS “Clean Sweep.”

               On Tuesday night at 411 Motor Speedway , and on May 25 at Cookeville Speedway in Cookeville , TN , Weaver was the fast qualifier, and led every lap to win both races.  Weaver out-timed the 26-car field on Tuesday night at 411 Motor Speedway with a lap around the 3/8-mile clay oval in 14.639 seconds.

                Blair finished second after starting 12^th, and moved up to the third spot in the StormPay.com Dirt Late Model Series National point standings.  Blair caught Weaver with ten laps to go, but couldn’t find the lane he needed to pass in heavy lapped traffic.

                The defending StormPay.com DLMS National Champion David Gentry of Lewisburg, TN took the third spot in the Dixon Plumbing Mastersbilt to remain second in points, and Frank Ingram of Woodstock, GA finished fourth in the Universal Concrete Rocket to keep the series point lead.  Ingram now holds a 42-point advantage over Gentry, and 64 points over Blair.

 Jim Till of Greenville, AL posted his best finish of the season with a fifth-place effort after starting 15^th in the Dafor Heavy Timber Fabricators Trak Star to earn Rookie of the Race honors.  Till grabbed the top five spot after the apparent fifth-place finisher Shane Roberts of Bristol, TN failed to pass the post-race technical inspection in the RMI GRT.

 Curtis Cline of Douglasville, GA was sixth in the Pearson Construction Warrior, and Chris Tays of Corinth, MS finished seventh in the Bud Coley Trucking Rocket.  Chip Brindle of Chatsworth , GA drove his Brindle Brothers Auto Parts GRT to an eighth-place finish.

 Shan Smith of Dade City, FL took the ninth spot in the Seckman Fire Sprinklers TNT, and Rusty Hoge of Ooltewah, TN rounded out the top ten in the H&H Powersports GRT.  Jimmy Kay of Taylorsville, GA was the NeSmith Chevrolet Hard Charger of the Race.  Kay started his Ice Bowl 2008 GRT from the 26^th position and finished 13^th.

 After two aborted starts for spins, the third try was a good one, as Weaver took the lead from the pole position followed by Roberts, Luke Laney of Sevierville, TN in the L. Laney & Sons Construction Rocket, Ingram and Gentry.  On lap five, Gentry got by Ingram for the fourth spot.

 The most serious incident of the evening occurred on lap 10 when Bill Flowers of Bremen , GA hit the front straightaway wall and flipped the Dixon Hauling and Grading Rocket.  The car came to rest on its roof, but Flowers crawled from the car with a little assistance from the track safety workers.  Flowers then walked away from the wreck uninjured, and under his own power.

 
Bill Flowers of Bremen , GA walked away uninjured from what is left of his #06 Dixon Hauling and Grading Rocket on Tuesday night at 411 Motor Speedway in Knoxville , TN.   Flowers hit the front straightaway wall and flipped on lap 10 for the Stars and Stripes 40 for the StormPay.com Dirt Late Model Series.  (Mike Blevins Photo)

Weaver led Roberts, Laney, Gentry, Ingram, Jeff Hamby of Lansing, TN in the PPM Racing Products Rocket, Cline, Blair, Tays, and Jeff Fields of Aragon, GA in the Summerville Junkyard Rayburn down for the restart.  Laney pulled up to the outside of Roberts to battle side-by-side for the second spot.

Blair passed Ingram for the fifth spot on lap 12, and he chased Gentry down to challenge for fourth three laps later.  On lap 20, Blair passed Gentry to move up to the fourth spot.  By lap 23, Blair’s charge from 12^th to the front of the pack had him challenging Laney for the third spot.  Blair and Laney raced side-by-side into the first turn on lap 24, and Laney spun to bring out the caution flag.

When the field went back to green flag action, Blair was all over Roberts for the second spot.  Blair made the pass on Roberts with an inside move off turn four on lap 25.  During the next five laps, Blair would erase a half-straightaway lead that Weaver enjoyed to make the last ten laps of the race very interesting.

Blair moved up to challenge Weaver for the lead by lap 30, as the lead duo was negotiating heavy lapped traffic.  Weaver protected the bottom groove of the race track, which was where Blair wanted to make a move.

Blair couldn’t go to the outside groove to make a pass because that was occupied by lapped cars.  Weaver played the lapped cars to his advantage all the way to the checkered flag with Blair right in his back bumper.

 In preliminary events during the evening, the two ten-lap Qualifying Races were won by Fields and Blair.  The next two events for the StormPay.com Dirt Late Model Series National Tour will be a 40-lap $2,500-to-win race at Penton Raceway in Penton, AL on July 20, and a 50-lap $3,000-to-win race at East Alabama Motor Speedway in Phenix City, AL on July 21.

OFFICIAL RESULTS OF ROUND 12 AT 411 MOTOR SPEEDWAY IN KNOXVILLE , TN ON 7/3/07 :

POS       STRT     CAR #   DRIVER                             HOMETOWN                   LAPS     $ WON 

1.            1             119        Randy Weaver                   Crossville, TN                  40           $2,500
2.            12           2x           Jay Blair                            Angie , LA                            40           $1,250
3.            6             56           David Gentry                    Lewisburg, TN                  40           $950
4.            5             F9          Frank Ingram                   Woodstock , GA                40           $700
5.            15           44t         Jim Till (R)                       Greenville , AL                  40           $650
6.            4             44c         Curtis Cline                      Douglasville, GA             40           $550
7.            8             8             Chris Tays                         Corinth , MS                      40           $500
8.            10           38c         Chip Brindle (R)              Chatsworth , GA                               40           $450
9.            19           17ss       Shan Smith                        Dade City , FL                    40           $400
10.          16           21           Rusty Hoge                        Ooltewah, TN                    40           $375
11.          22           302        Robert Stutts (R)             Murfreesboro , TN            40           $350
12.          7             5             Jeff Hamby                        Lansing, TN                       40           $300
13.          26           90           Jimmy Kay                        Taylorsville , GA                             40           $380
14.          17           87           Derrick Rainey                 Powder Springs, GA       39           $260
15.          9             20           Todd Morrow                   Cleveland, TN                   39           $250
16.          13           11           Rodney Hamby                 Rockwood, TN                  39           $240
17.          21           91           Chuck Laney                     Sevierville, TN                 39           $220
18.          24           00           Josh Henry                        Newport , TN                     38           $200
19.          11           16           Jeff Fields                          Aragon, GA                       29           $200
20.          3             9             Luke Laney                        Sevierville, TN                 23           $200
21.          25           73           Blake Stewart                   Centre, AL                          14           $200
22.          14           06           Bill Flowers                     Bremen , GA                      9             $200
23.          18           10           Matthew Turner                              Dawsonville, GA                             4               $200
24.          23           37           Michael Barnett                              Hayesville, NC                  2             $200
25.          20           34           Chad Wallace                    LaGrange , GA                   0             $200
26.          2             17s         Shane Roberts                   Bristol , TN                        0             $0 - DQ

ENTRIES:  26
LEAD CHANGES:  None
LAP LEADER:  Weaver, 1-40
NeSMITH CHEVROLET HARD CHARGER:  Kay (Started 26^th and Finished 13^th)
ROOKIE OF THE RACE:  Till
CAUTIONS:  4 (1 Red)

QUALIFYING (Top 10 Locked Into Feature Race):