Late Model Recap

Owens Wins Lowes Foods World Finals Finale For Third Straight Year As Eckert Claims First-Ever World of Outlaws Late Model Series Title

Richards’s Flat On Final Lap Propels Eckert To $100,000 Championship Celebration At The Dirt Track At Charlotte

By Kevin Kovac, WoO LMS P.R. Director

CONCORD, NC – Nov. 5, 2011 – Jimmy Owens enjoyed another up-close look at a World of Outlaws Late Model Series championship celebration following Saturday night’s fifth annual Lowes Foods World Finals presented by Tom Snack’s, Coca-Cola and Nature’s Own at The Dirt Track at Charlotte.

After capturing the 50-lap World Finals finale for the third consecutive year, the standout driver from Newport, Tenn., witnessed a raucous Victory Lane scene involving Rick Eckert of York, Pa., who clinched his first-ever WoO LMS title in dramatic fashion.

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Red-Hot Davenport Dominates Friday Night’s Lowes Foods World Finals Action At The Dirt Track at Charlotte

Richards Closes Within Two Points Of Eckert In World of Outlaws Late Model Series Championship Standings

By Kevin Kovac, WoO LMS P.R. Director

CONCORD, NC – Nov. 4, 2011 – Jonathan Davenport of Blairsville, Ga., extended his sizzling autumn surge to The Dirt Track at Charlotte with a runaway victory in Friday night’s 50-lap World of Outlaws Late Model Series A-Main during the fifth annual Lowes Foods World Finals presented by Tom’s Snack, Coca-Cola and Nature’s Own.

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Richards & Davenport Earn Fast Time Honors On Wet Kellogg’s Qualifying Night At The Lowes Foods World of Outlaws World Finals

By Kevin Kovac, WoO LMS P.R. Director

CONCORD, NC – Nov. 3, 2011 – Josh Richards of Shinnston, W.Va., and Jonathan Davenport of Blairsville, Ga., shared fast-time honors during Thursday night’s wet Kellogg’s Qualifying Night at the Lowes Foods World of Outlaws World Finals presented by Tom’s Snacks, Coca-Cola and Nature’s Own.

A star-studded field of 66 dirt Late Models signed in for action in the World of Outlaws Late Model Series event, which is part of a blockbuster season-ending tripleheader at The Dirt Track at Charlotte. The rain-plagued program also drew 55 machines for the companion World of Outlaws Sprint Car Series meet and 30 entries for the Super DIRTcar Series Big-Block Modified action.

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Screven Motor Speedway Management Cancels World of Outlaws Late Model Series Event Set For Wed., Nov. 2

By Kevin Kovac, WoO LMS P.R. Director

SYLVANIA, GA – Oct. 24, 2011 – The World of Outlaws Late Model Series event scheduled for Wed., Nov. 2, at Screven Motor Speedway has been canceled, track owner Redd Griffin announced on Monday.

The national tour was set to compete at the three-eighths-mile oval as part of the track’s rescheduled ‘Winter Freeze’ program, a doubleheader featuring dirt Late Models and the All-Star Circuit of Champions Sprint Car Series that was rained out on its original date in February. Griffin added a World of Outlaws sanction to the full-fender portion of the twinbill after the WoO LMS’s lone 2011 visit to Screven on March 26 was washed out by thunderstorms.

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Record-Tying Victory At The Dirt Track At Charlotte Pulls Richards Closer To World of Outlaws Late Model Series Points Lead

By Kevin Kovac, WoO LMS P.R. Director

CONCORD, NC – Oct. 12, 2011 – Josh Richards of Shinnston, W.Va., ran away with an important victory in Wednesday night’s 50-lap World of Outlaws Late Model Showdown at The Dirt Track at Charlotte.

The $10,875 triumph was Richards’s ninth of the 2011 World of Outlaws Late Model Series campaign, matching the national tour’s single-season win record established by Scott Bloomquist in 2004. It also was his 37th overall A-Main checkered flag, moving him into a tie with Billy Moyer atop the circuit’s alltime win list (1988-89, 2004-present).

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Convincing Victory At Rolling Wheels Pads Eckert’s World of Outlaws Late Model Series Points Lead

By Kevin Kovac, WoO LMS P.R. Director

ELBRIDGE, NY – Oct. 6, 2011 – Rick Eckert knows that the best way to maintain his lead in the World of Outlaws Late Model Series points standings is to win races.

So that’s what the veteran driver from York, Pa., did on Thursday night, snapping a nearly five-month checkered flag drought with a powerful triumph in the national tour’s 50-lap A-Main at Rolling Wheels Raceway Park.

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Richards Rolls To Eighth World of Outlaws Late Model Series Victory Of Season In Pepsi Nationals At I-55 Raceway

Two-Time Defending Tour Champion Inches Closer To Eckert In Points Standings With Flawless Effort

By Kevin Kovac, WoO LMS P.R. Director

PEVELY, MO – Sept. 17, 2011 – Josh Richards continued his assault on the World of Outlaws Late Model Series record book – and the top spot in the points standings – with a convincing victory in Saturday night’s 29th annual Pepsi Nationals at I-55 Raceway.

The national tour’s two-time defending champion was flawless in the 55-lap A-Main. He roared off the outside pole to grab the lead at the start and never looked back, controlling the entire distance without facing a single serious challenge.

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Pesky Showers Wash Out Friday Night’s World of Outlaws Late Model Series Stop At Tri-City Speedway

By Kevin Kovac, WoO LMS P.R. Director

PONTOON BEACH, IL – Sept. 16, 2011 – Light showers began falling during time trials and would not cease to allow the completion of Friday night’s World of Outlaws Late Model Series ‘Kehrer Brothers Roofing 50’ at Tri-City Speedway.

Track promoter Kevin Gundaker was finally forced to cancel the evening’s action after waiting in vain for the precipitation to clear the area at a reasonable time.

Gundaker will talk with WoO LMS officials to determine if a new date for the event can be arranged. Any news will be released on www.worldofoutlaws.com.

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Rain Washes Out Sunday Night’s ‘Joy Mining Machinery 50’ At Roaring Knob Motorsports Park

By Kevin Kovac, WoO LMS P.R. Director

MARKLEYSBURG, PA – Sept. 4, 2011 – Heavy rain struck Roaring Knob Motorsports Complex late Sunday afternoon, forcing the cancelation of the evening’s ‘Joy Mining Machinery 50.’

The downpour hit shortly before the drivers’ meeting was scheduled to begin in advance of the first-ever World of Outlaws Late Model Series event at the three-eighths-mile oval. With the pit area and racetrack quickly swamped by the deluge and forecasts calling for more rain in the coming hours, officials made the decision to call off the night’s action.

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