O’Reilly ASLMS ‘Yankee Doodle’ Win

Clearfield, PA –  Jason Shank  All Star Championship Racing Inc.
Another night at Central PA Speedway, another win for defending O’Reilly All Star Late Model Series Champion and current point leader Rob Blair of Titusville, PA in the $7,000 to-win ‘Yankee Doodle 50’.  Blair has competed at the Clearfield, PA oval four times in 2010 and has taken home four of the traditional, wood carved bear trophies provided by track owner Tim Bainey.  Blair worked his way masterfully through lapped traffic during a long 38 lap green flag run to get by Ripley, NY’s Mike Knight and check out for the win, his fourth of the season with the ASLMS.

Knight and Seaford, DE’s Ricky Elliott led the field to the green flag with Knight setting a torrid pace around the half-mile.  While Knight was catching lapped traffic, a mere eight laps into the event, the battle for the fourth position was intense as Greg Oakes, Jeremy Miller, and Jared Miley all battled lap after lap behind Knight, Elliott and Blair. 

The leaders continued the fast pace through lapped traffic as Blair began closing in on the second place car of Elliott.  Everyone in attendance could see that Blair’s Rocket Chassis was getting better as the long green flag run got longer and by lap 17, Blair made his way around the Delaware driver.  Meanwhile, Miller and Miley were still racing hard for the fourth spot.  Miley was on the rear deck-lid of Elliott for third on lap 25 but was unable to make a move as Miller found an opening to get by Miley to regain the fourth spot. 

 
Knight was still holding a commanding lead but Blair was reeling in the leader as the laps wound down while Miley again made his way around Miller for the fourth spot again and set his sights on Elliott.  The trio made their way out of lapped traffic for a few laps and Miley again found himself on the back bumper of Elliott’s Barry Wright Chassis.  As Knight made his way through the field, it took him longer to get around some cars, opening the door for Blair to catch the leader.  Eventually Blair was able to catch the leader on lap 33 and put the pressure on.  Knight was working on Boom Briggs when Blair made his move for the lead.  Blair’s mount stuck perfectly on the outside of the beautifully manicured Central PA Speedway to capture the lead as they rounded turn four on lap 37.

Getting through lapped traffic was the name of the game on this night and Knight, up to this point, was doing a fine job working his way through.  Knight went into turn three hard trying to get back under Blair for the lead and Boom Briggs in turns three and four but made contact with the inside berm sending him into the 99B of Briggs and spinning as they exited turn four to bring out the first caution of the event and ending a stellar run for the New York youngster.

After the caution it was all Blair as he pulled away from Elliott, Miley, and Miller.  Another quick caution on lap 46 only delayed the post-race celebration for Blair as he went on to win his fourth ASLMS race of the season and extend his point lead over Boom Briggs to 64 points.  Miley finished second with Miller third while Elliott faded to fourth followed by Dave Hess Jr. in fifth.  Matt Lux was sixth followed by Gregg Satterlee, Boom Briggs, DJ Myers, and John Garvin Jr. who rounded out the top-ten. 

Event Recap:
O’Reilly All Star Late Models at Central PA Speedway – July 3, 2010
Event title: ‘Yankee Doodle 50’
Finish / Start / Car # / Driver Name
1. (3) W11 Rob Blair
2. (6) H1 Jared Miley
3. (5) 1M Jeremy Miller
4. (4) 88 Rick Elliott
5. (12) 44H Dave Hess Jr.
6. (7) 21 Matt Lux
7. (16) 22S Gregg Satterlee
8. (8) 99B Boom Briggs
9. (10) 70J DJ Myers
10. (9) J4 John Garvin
11. (4) 22 Greg Oakes
12. (14) Tim Smith Jr.
13. (22) 55 Denny Fenton
14. (11) 4 Alex Ferree
15. (13) 8 Tim Fedder
16. (15) 1P Darren Peters
17. (19) 53 Chris Farrell
18. (17) 23H Todd Snook
19. (18) 100 Chris Clark
20. (25) 10C Ryan Christoff
21. (21) 15X John Oaks
22. (26) 11K Greg Kent
23. (24) 25M Mark Booth
24. (1) 9K Mike Knight
25. (23) 15M Shane McMeans
 

Photo by Cory Stivason

Clearfield, PA – July 2, 2010 – Jason Shank – All Star Championship Racing Inc.

Titusville, PA’s Rob Blair has been unbeatable at Tim Bainey’s Central PA Speedway in 2010 and he continued his winning ways at the Clearfield, PA oval with a late race pass on Jared Miley for the lead to capture the $3,000, ‘Let Freedom Ring 25’ payday.

Miley and Mike Knight led the field to the green flag with Miley taking control while Knight, John Britsky, and Matt Lux would all battle for the runner-up spot.  Miley started to pull away as the three would continue to battle for second until lap 9 when ASLMS regular Gregg Satterlee came up lame in turn two to bring out the events first caution.  The race was slowed again for another lap 9 caution as Darren Peters’ lost the handle of his Rocket Chassis in turn one. 

Miley lead the Delaware Double File restart to the green before getting bombarded with pressure from Britsky and Knight.  Miley regained control of the event while Lux became part of the battle again for second.  Sixth starting Boom Briggs began to show his muscle as he made his way into the top-five with the ninth starting Blair in tow.  Miley looked to be well in control of the event while the rest of the top five could be covered with a blanket.  The third caution of the event slowed the pace on lap 15 and front-runner’s John Britsky shot to the pits with a flat left-rear tire and Knight slowed to a stop in turn two under pace laps.  Britsky was able to rejoin the field as was Knight, who had a loose distributor cap, as Miley took the green to restart the event.

Blair was on the move as he battled with defending ‘Yankee Doodle 50’ champion D.J. Myers for third.  Blair made his way past Myers on lap 16 for third while Briggs put pressure on Myers for fourth before the yellow was thrown again on lap 17.  Miley again set the pace when racing resumed but Blair was picking his way up to the leader while getting by Matt Lux for second before two more cautions slowed the field on laps 19 and 22 setting up a three lap dash to the finish. 

Blair and Miley made contact as the two entered turn one during the restart causing Miley to shoot up the race track and fall to 11th position as Blair continued on to the victory.  ‘It just didn’t seem like Jared would fire on restarts,’ Rob explained.  ‘It looked like he was hitting a slick spot in turn four where we were starting and whoever was behind him had a bit more traction.  My car took off on restarts and on that last one, I was able to get underneath him going into one.’  D.J. Myers finished second followed by Lux, 11th starting Tim Fedder, and Briggs who rounded out the top-five.  Greg Oakes was scored with a sixth place finish with John Garvin Jr. seventh, Tim Smith Jr. eighth, Todd Snook in ninth, and Mike Knight tenth.

Event Recap:
O’Reilly All Star Late Models at Central PA Speedway – July 2, 2010
Event title: ‘Let Freedom Ring 25’
Finish / Start / Car # / Driver Name
1. (9) W11 Robbie Blair
2. (7) 70J DJ Myers
3. (4) 21 Matt Lux
4. (11) 8 Tim Fedder
5. (6) 99B Boom Briggs
6. (10) Greg Oakes
7. (12) J4 John Garvin
8. (14) 39S Tim Smith Jr.
9. (15) 23H Todd Snook
10. (2) 9K Mike Knight
11. (1) H1 Jared Miley
12. (16) 51 Chuck Kennedy
13. (5) 88 Rick Elliott
14. (19) 53 Chris Farrell
15. (21) 15X John Oaks
16. (18) 10C Ryan Christoff
17. (13) 1P Darren Peters
18. (3) 18 John Britsky
19. (22) 11K Greg Kent
20. (17) 100 Chris Clark
21. (20) 15M Shane McMeans
22. (8) 22S Gregg Satterlee
19 Gary Beward DNS

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