Skinner captures O'Reilly USCS Speedweek Round Three at Clarksville Speedway
May 28, 2006 Clarksville, TN - Marshall Skinner from West Memphis, AR became the third different O'Reilly USCS Speedweek 2006 feature winner in as many nights by winning the 30-lap O'Reilly United Sprint Car Series www.uscsracing.com Round Three A-main event on Sunday night at Clarksville Speedway in Clarksville, Tennessee. Skinner charged from a fourth place starting position into second place on lap one and then chased four-time O'Reilly USCS National Champion, Terry Gray from Bartlett, Tennessee until lap sixteen when Skinner raced by into the lead. The 1999 O'Reilly USCS Dirt Cup Champion then held off challenges from Gray and later 2004-2005 National Sprint Car Hall of Fame 360 sprint car Driver of the Year, Gary Wright from Hooks, Texas over the last fourteen laps for the victory.
Skinner had to endure the charges of Wright, Gray and Jerrod Hull after a lap twenty-four re-start for a red flag brought out by a backstretch flip involving Rookie of the Year candidate, Derek Hagar. The fifteen year-old Hagar had started on the outside of the front row and was in sixth place at the time. Hagar was determined to be okay by emergency officials. On the restart, Skinner had only one lapped car between he and the hard-charging seventh place starter, Wright with just six laps to go. Skinner proved up to the task in possibly his biggest career O'Reilly USCS win.
#26 - Marshall Skinner from West Memphis, AR won his second O'Reilly USCS feature by collecting the win and $2000 in the O'Reilly USCS Speedweek 2006 Round #3 event at Clarksville Speedway in Clarksville, TN on Sunday night over a star studded field of drivers from seven states.
Gray challenged Wright several times to re-gain the runner-up spot but had to settle for third place. The Speedweek 2006 Round One winner, Jerrod Hull from Sikeston, Missouri followed in fourth after being as high as second on lap eleven. Another Hoosier Tire Young Gun, eighteen year-old Sam Hafertepe, Jr. from Sunnyvale, Texas rounded out the top five.
Lee Sowell from Nesbit, Mississippi rallied from fifteenth to finish sixth followed by Mid-South legend Mike Ward from Memphis, Tennessee in seventh. Seventeen year-old Matt tiffany from Daytona Beach, Florida was eighth. Travis Rilat from Forney, Texas finished ninth after starting fourteenth. The previous night's winner Ricky Stenhouse, Jr. from Olive Branch, Mississippi rounded out the top ten.
The race had only two early caution periods on laps four and seven and the red flag situation on lap twenty-four that sent all the crews scrambling with fuel and the final adjustments for the dash to the finish.
Skinner also won the Lucas Oil Power Dash. Gray won the Engler Tool and Machine First Heat Race. Hagar won the Butlerbuilt Second Heat Race. Hull captured the FSR Racing Products Third Heat.
Nineteen year-old Lee Sowell from Nesbitt, Mississippi garnered the Huggins Cams Hard Charger award for his charge from fifteenth place to sixth in the A-MAin. Brad Bowden from Hernando, Mississippi was the Robison Racing Products Rookie of the Race. Terry Gray drew the zero inversion and collected the K&N Filters Pole Award. Sam Hafetepe, Jr. was recognized as the Hoosier Tire Young Gun of the Race, which is awarded to the top-finishing driver under twenty-five years old. The Weld Racing Hard Luck award went to Scott Bolden from West Memphis, AR.
The next O'Reilly USCS National points event and O'Reilly USCS Mid-South Thunder points event is the Speedweek 2006 Round #4 on Monday night , May 29th at Clayhill Motorsports www.clayhillmotorsports.com in Atwood, TN. Then after two days off the schedule picks back up at East Alabama Motor Speedway in Phenix City, AL on Thursday night, June 1. Then the tour visits North Alabama Speedway in Tuscumbia, AL on Friday night June 2nd before the grand finale in the "Columbus Clash" at Columbus Speedway in Columbus, MS on Saturday night June 3rd.
OFFICIAL RESULTS - ROUND THREE - O'REILLY USCS
SPEEDWEEK 2006 AT CLARKSVILLE SPEEDWAY IN CLARKSVILLE, TN.
PS ST CR# DRIVER HOMETOWN LAPS
1 4 26 Marshall Skinner,Jr West Memphis, AR 30
2 7 9 Gary Wright Hooks, Texas 30
3 3 94 Jerrod Hull Siketon, MO 30
4 1 10 Terry Gray Bartlett, TN 30
5 6 15h Sam Hafertepe Sunnyvale, TX 30
6 15 51 Lee Sowell Nesbit, MS 30
7 10 88 Mike Ward Memphis, TN 30
8 5 19T Matt Tiffany Daytona Beach,FL 30
9 14 29 Travis Rilat Forney, TX 30
10 17 40R Ricky Stenhouse,Jr Olive Branch, MS 30
11 9 4A Kenny Adams Malabar, FL 30
12 11 22 Dustin Barks Farmington, MO 30
13 12 44 Ronny Howard Southaven, MS 29
14 18 15B Brad Bowden (R) Hernando, MS 29
15 22 32 Gary Bell Memphis, TN 29
16 13 88Z Shane Nelson Chattanooga,TN 29
17 19 11T Tom Winegardner,Jr Pierson, FL 29
18 20 00 Danny Martin, Jr Sarasota, FL 28
19 8 14X Eric White Horn Lake, MS 24
20 2 9jr Derek Hagar - R Marion, AR 24
21 16 11 Tom Winegardner,Sr Pierson, FL 4
22 21 4B Bryn Gohn Malabar, FL 4
23 23 91 Darren Stewart Bixby, OK 1
DID NOT START:
24 - 3d - Marion Jacobs, Tuscumbia, AL
25 - 18c Scott Bolden, West Memphis, AR
LUCAS OIL POWER DASH WINNER: Skinner
K & N FILTERS POLE AWARD: Gray
HUGGINS CAMS HARD CHARGER:
Sowell (started 15th and passed 9 cars)
HOOSIER TIRE YOUNG GUN OF THE RACE: Hafertepe
ROBISON RACING PRODUCTS ROOKIE OF THE RACE: Bowden
JE PISTONS TOP GUNS AWARD: Jerrod Hull (3rd place)
K&N FILTERS 3RD-PLACE AWARD: Gray
BUTLERBUILT 4TH-PLACE AWARD: Hull
OUTLAW DISC BRAKES TOP FIVE AWARD: Hafertepe
SIMPSON SAFETY PRODUCTS 6TH-PLACE AWARD: Sowell
FSR RACING PRODUCTS-7 TH-PLACE AWARD: Ward
AIR FLOW RESEARCH 9TH-PLACE AWARD: Rilat
FSR TOP 10 AWARD : Stenhouse
WELD RACING HARD LUCK AWARD: Bolden
ENTRIES: 25
PROVISIONAL: none
LEAD CHANGES: Two
LAP LEADERS: Martin, Jr. 1-4, Stull 5-12, Skinner 13-30
CAUTIONS: 2
LUCAS OIL POWER DASH - 6 Laps: 1. Skinner; 2. Adams; 3. Stenhouse; 4. Martin; 5. Ward; 6. Winegardner, Jr..
HEAT RACES:
ENGLER TOOL AND MACHINE 1ST HEAT: 1. Gray; 2. Skinner; 3. Wright; 4. Ward; 5. Nelson; 6. Winegardner; 7. Winegardner, Jr.; 8. Hagar.
BUTLERBUILT 2ND HEAT: 1.Hagar; 2. Tiffany; 3. White; 4. Barks; 5. Rilat; 6. Stenhouse; 7. Skinner; 8. Stewart.
FSR RACING PRODUCTS 3rd HEAT: 1. Hull; 2. Hafertepe; 3. Adams; 4. Howard; 5. Sowell; 6. Bowden; 7. Gohn 8. Bell. 9. Jacobs.
#26 - Marshall Skinner from West Memphis, AR won his second O'Reilly USCS feature by collecting the win and $2000 in the O'Reilly USCS Speedweek 2006 Round #3 event at Clarksville Speedway in Clarksville, TN on Sunday night over a star studded field of drivers from seven states.
