Sides wins O'Reilly USCS Mid-South Thunder "Fast Friday" event at Malden Speedway
O'Reilly USCS sprint car results
Malden Speedway, Friday June 23, 2006.
Malden, MO - Jason Sides from Bartlett, Tennessee won the 25-lap O'Reilly United Sprint Car Series www.uscsracing.com Mid-South Thunder Tour "Fast Friday" regional and track championship event on Friday night at Malden Speedway in Malden, Missouri. Sides did it the hard way by starting ninth in the field and led the final four laps in a race that saw four different leaders. This was Sides' second O'Reilly USCS feature win of the 2006 season. He won the O'Reilly USCS season opener at Volusia Speedway Park on February 6th. It is his fifth career O'Reilly USCS victory lane trip.
Pole starting Jason Evans from Sikeston, Missouri lead laps one through five before O'Reilly USCS Speedweek 2006 Champion Mike Ward from Memphis, Tennessee took over to lead for the next ten laps. On lap sixteen, rim-riding Jerrod Hull from Sikeston, Missouri raced by to try for a season three-peat. Hull had already won the season opener at the 3/8 mile clay oval on April 1st then repeated by winning O'Reilly USCS Speedweek Round One on May 26th. Hull controlled the point until Sides found the bottom of the race track to be the fast way around and passed Hull on the low side in turn three of lap twenty-two and raced home to victory lane in the 25 lap event.
Hull raced Sides hard to the finish line but finished in the runner-up spot. Ward who lead laps six through fifteen finished in third place followed by current O'Reilly USCS National championship points leader, Terry Gray from Bartlett, Tennessee in fourth place. 1999 O'Reilly USCS Champion, Marshall Skinner from West Memphis, Arkansas rounded out the top five.
Standout O'Reilly USCS Rookie of the Year candidate, Derek Hagar from Marion, Arkansas was sixth. Followed by another Hoosier Tire Young Gun, Jason Evans who was seventh. Kenny Coke from Olive Branch, Mississippi finished in the eighth position and another rookie standout Dustin Barks from Farmington, Missouri finished ninth. Veteran O"Reilly USCS racer DeWayne Prince from Atoka, Tennessee rounded out the top ten.
Of note: Nineteen year-old Lee Sowell from Nesbitt, Mississippi was running in sixth place when he was collected by another cars spin action. After rallying from the rear Sowell finished twelvth. The race had three caution periods, but seventeen of the nineteen starters finished the race with sixteen of them on the lead lap.
Crowd favorite Jerrod Hull started off the evening's action by winning the six lap Lucas Oil Power Dash. Sides won the Engler Tool and Machine First Heat. Marshall Skinner captured the Butlerbuilt Second Heat. Terry Gray raced home first in the FSR Racing Products Third Heat.
Jason Sides also garnered the events Huggins Cams Hard Charger award for his charge from ninth to first place.
Sides also received the evenings JE Pistons Top Guns Award. Derek Hagar was the Robison Racing Products Rookie of the Race. Jason Evans was awarded the K&N Filters Pole Award. The K&N Filters 3rd place feature finisher award went to Mike Ward. Hagar was also 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 Sowell.
The next O'Reilly USCS National points event is an Asphalt Thunder Tour event at Greenville-Pickens Speedway in Greenville, SC next Friday night June 30th. The following night, the O'Reilly USCS Mid-South Thunder tour will contest a points event on Saturday night July 1st at Moulton Speedway in Moulton, Alabama. Then on Monday July 3rd, Garnertown Speedway will host the O'Reilly USCS drivers in a National and Mid-South Thunder combined points event. The event will be the biggest single day event in Garnertown Speedway's history. That event will feature a full sprint car racing program with the Lucas Oil Power Dash, qualifying heat races, B Main(s) and A-Main each evening. Also on the racing card will be the star-studded USCS open Wheel Modified, Street Stock and Hummer Cup divisions and a huge Holiday Fireworks display.
OFFICIAL RESULTS - O'REILLY USCS MID SOUTH THUNDER TOUR
EVENT AT MALDEN SPEEDWAY IN MALDEN, MO ON 6/23/06:
PS ST CR# DRIVER HOMETOWN LAPS
1 9 7s Jason Sides Bartlett, TN 25
2 3 94 Jerrod Hull Sikeston, MO 25
3 4 88 Mike Ward Memphis, TN 25
4 8 10 Terry Gray Bartlett, TN 25
5 7 26 Marshall Skinner W. Memphis, AR 25
6 13 9jr. Derek Hagar-R Marion, AR 25
7 1 88x Jason Evans Sikeston, MO 25
8 2 24w Kenny Coke Olive Branch, MS 25
9 12 22 Dustin Barks-R Farmington, MO 25
10 11 16 DeWayne Prince Atoka, TN 25
11 10 15 Brad Bowden-R Hernando, MS 25
12 51 51 Lee Sowell Nesbit, MS 25
13 5 44 Ronny Howard Southaven, MS 25
14 15 14x Eric White Horn Lake, MS 25
15 18 18c Scott Bolden W. Memphis, AR 25
16 16 14 Paul Hart Troy, TN 25
17 14 7d Dylan De Journett-R Essex, MO 24
18 19 4 Anthony Nicholson-R Memphis, TN 10
19 17 7x Kenny Pope Dexter, MO 6
R - indicates Rookie of the Year Candidate
LUCAS OIL POWER DASH WINNER: Jerrod Hull
K & N FILTERS POLE AWARD: Jason Evans
HUGGINS CAMS HARD CHARGER: Jason Sides
(started 9th and passed 8 cars)
HOOSIER TIRE YOUNG GUN OF THE RACE: Derek Hagar
ROBISON RACING PRODUCTS ROOKIE OF THE RACE:
Derek Hagar
JE PISTONS TOP GUNS AWARD: Jason Sides
(1st place)
K&N FILTERS 3RD-PLACE AWARD: Mike Ward
BUTLERBUILT 4TH-PLACE AWARD: Terry Gray
OUTLAW DISC BRAKES TOP FIVE AWARD:
Marshall Skinner
SIMPSON SAFETY PRODUCTS 6TH-PLACE AWARD:
Derek Hagar
FSR RACING PRODUCTS-7 TH-PLACE AWARD:
Jason Evans
AIR FLOW RESEARCH 9TH-PLACE AWARD:
Dustin Barks
FSR TOP 10 AWARD:
DeWayne Prince
WELD RACING HARD LUCK AWARD:
Lee Sowell
ENTRIES: 19
PROVISIONAL: None
LEAD CHANGES: three
LAP LEADERS: Evans 1-5, Ward 6-15, Hull 16-21, Sides 22-25
CAUTIONS: 3 - On Laps 2, 6 and 14
LUCAS OIL POWER DASH - 6 Laps: 1. Jerrod Hull.; 2. Terry Gray; 3. Mike Ward; 4. Skinner; 5. Hagar; 6. Eric White.
HEAT RACES:
ENGLER TOOL AND MACHINE 1ST HEAT: 1. J. Sides; 2. Sowell 3. Hull; 4. Bowden; 5. Hagar; 6. Hart.
BUTLERBUILT 2ND HEAT: 1. Skinner; 2. R. Howard; 3. Coke; 4. Prince; 5. DeJournett; 6. Pope.
FSR RACING PRODUCTS 3RD HEAT: 1. Gray; 2. Ward; 3. Evans 4. Barks; 5. White; 6. Bolden; 7. Nicholson.
