Martinsville, VA – Donnie Lia and Ted Christopher have pretty much been 1, 2 all night they are back that way again with 40 laps to go. Lia is first with Christopher running second. Still sitting in third is James Civali.

 

Caution flew on lap 265. SCR

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Martinsville, VA – Donny Lia is still out front with 75 laps to go. James Civali runs second followed by Tim Brown in third, Ted Christopher in fourth and Jay Foley rounding out the top five. SCR

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Martinsville, VA – Donny Lia takes the lead again on lap 184. Lia led the first 118 laps of the race. Ted Christopher runs second followed by Ronnie Silk in third.

 

Caution flies on lap 189 for a multi car spin in turn 1. Lia still leads. SCR

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Martinsville, VA – Lap 156 the 9^th caution flew of the night. They went back to green on lap 153 after the halfway intermission. Ted Christopher leads followed by Jake Marosz and Todd Szegedy in third. Donny Lia pitted to loose second position. Green again lap 160 and Ronnie Silk takes lead on lap 161 and Christopher takes it back on 162. SCR

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Martinsville, VA – Ted Christopher led as the competition caution flew at lap 150. Christopher picks up the $1500.00 halfway leader award. Following Christopher in second is Donny Lia followed by Todd Szegedy in third. Bobby Santos has had a quiet night but is running fourth and Doug Coby rounds out the top five at lap 150. SCR

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Martinsville, VA – Ted Christopher took the lead on lap 118 it was the first lead change of the night. The caution flew for the 6^th time on lap 121. Donnie Lia now runs second followed by Todd Szegedy in third. SCR

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Martinsville, VA - The red flag has flown for the second time tonight on lap 81 as a 15 car pile up happened in turn one. Most cars came out with no major damage but lot of clean-up going on. Donnie Lia still leads. SCR

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The field took the green on lap 71. Donnie Lia still leads. SCR

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Bobby Gill won the first race of the Pro Cup Championship Series Saturday night at Mansfield Motorsports Park. Gill was followed by Gary St. Amant in second and Lonnie Rush third. Finishing fourth was Shane Wallace and Benny Gordon rounded out the top five. SCR

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Charlie Campbell Memorial Sears Auto Center 250 Results

 

1. Bobby Gill
2. Gary St. Amant
3. Lonnie Rush Jr.
4. Shane Wallace
5. Benny Gordon
6. Mark McFarland
7. Brandon Ward
8. Derek Kale
9. A.J. Frank
10. James Buescher
11. Matt Carter
12. Clay Jones
13. Dange Hanniford
14. Caleb Holman
15. Brian Scott
16. Jody Lavender
17. Jay Fogleman
18. Frank Deiny Jr.
19. Mike Garvey
20. Gary Helton
21. Kirk Leone
22. Jeff Agnew
23. Richard Boswell
24. Matt Hawkins
25. Chase Pistone
26. Ray Love Jr.
27. Johnny Rumley
28. Shelby Howard
29. Joey Coulter
30. Michael Ritch
31. Sam Fullone
32. Derrick Kelley
33. Ben Stancill
34. Trevor Bayne
35. Dusty Williams
36. Woody Howard

 

 

 

 

Martinsville, VA – The No. 18 of Zach Brewer and the No. 8 of Glenn Tyler hit the wall hard in turns 3 and 4 on lap 65. This brought out the caution all cars have been stopped on the backstretch on lap 66 and the red flag was flown. It looks as if the safety crew is fixing the safer barrier. Donnie Lia still leads. SCR

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Martinsville, VA – As of lap 25 Donnie Lia still leads, there has been three cautions in the first 25 laps. Sitting second is Ted Christopher followed by Eddie Flemke in third. SCR

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Martinsville, VA – The green flag just flew at 8:43 and Donny Lia led lap No. 1. SCR

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Martinsville, VA – We are about 20 minutes away from the green flag here in Martinsville. The track is currently doing driver introductions and the National Anthem will be sand soon. SCR

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Johnny Benson won the Missouri-Illinois Dodge Dealers Ram Tough 200 Saturday at Gateway Int. Raceway. Benson passed Ron Hornaday with 13 laps to go to take the win. Hornaday finished second and overtook the points lead with the second place finish. Coming home third was Ted Musgrave and he was followed by Todd Bodine in fourth and Regan Smith in fifth. SCR

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Martinsville, VA – Donny Lia turned a lap of 18.85 seconds to take the pole for the Whelen 300 at the Martinsville Speedway. Starting second will be Todd Szegedy and he will be followed by Bobby Santos in third. Rounding out the top five are Ted Christopher and Kevin Goodale. SCR

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Denny Hamlin posted a speed of 180.316 mph which was fast enough to take the pole for tonight’s Camping World 300 at the California Speedway. Rolling off second will be Kasey Kahne. Kyle Busch, Ryan Newman and Jeff Burton rounded out the top five. SCR

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Mike Skinner earned his ninth pole of the 2007 NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series at Gateway Saturday. Skinner turned a lap speed of 132.708 mph to take pole for the race. Starting on the outside of Skinner will be the No. 33 Chevrolet piloted by Ron Hornaday. Terry Cook will roll off third and he will be followed by Johnny Benson and Brendan Gaughan. SCR

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Martinsville, VA – SCR will have live updates from the Made in America Whelen 300 modified race today at the Martinsville Speedway. The race is scheduled to start at 8:00 p.m. It is currently overcast and cool a nice day for racing. SCR

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MADISON IL – Bryan Clauson, in Chip Ganassi’s Memorex Dodge, drove away from Eddie Sharp Racing teammates’ Josh Wise and Michael McDowell to earn his career first ARCA RE/MAX Series victory Friday night at Gateway Int’l Raceway.

 

“This is awesome,” said Clauson. “We’ve ran five or six of these things and we’ve been so close so many times and we’ve fallen short, mostly due to driver error. It feels good to finally get these guys into victory lane. They’ve come in each week and given me great cars and good pit stops. It feels good to finally close the deal. I can’t be prouder of the Memorex Dodge team. We weren’t really sure how we were going to be there. We thought we had a good car but we made a few changes. The car drove great all night and we went far enough this week, last week we didn’t really go.”

 

Wise, who won the SIM Factory Pole Award, finished second in the ESR Development-NAPA Toyota, about 10 lengths behind the winner.

 

“It got rough there for awhile,” said Wise. “We were fortunate to qualify on the pole there and we were smooth sailing for awhile and then we came in for a pit stop and it put us right in the mix of everything for awhile and it kind of got us caught up in an accident. It was tough but it was fun to try and hang it out and run with everyone. I had fun racing with Michael McDowell, my teammate, and my new crew chief, Wayne Carroll.”

 

McDowell, who led the most laps (38), finished third in the Z Line-Make a Wish-Beck Dodge.

 

“We got a little bit off sequence with the strategy and that was a move for us just to stay out of trouble and to stay out front,” said McDowell. “We had a really good car there at the end we just didn’t have the track position and then we broke fourth gear there with about seven laps to go. The No. 2 guys did a great job again and this gives us the momentum we need for the last couple of races to try and catch Frank (Kimmel).”

 

Justin Allgaier finished fourth in the Schluckebier Farms-AG Tech Chevrolet ahead of Dominick Casola, who finished a career-best fifth in the A. Casola Farms Ford.

 

Polesitter Wise led the first 35 laps before Casola took the lead on lap 36. Casola led the next 11 laps before McDowell, after pitting early out of sequence with the leaders, took control of the top-spot on lap 47. McDowell showed the way up through lap 84 before giving up the lead to Clauson after McDowell made his final pit stop for fuel and tires. Clauson led the next six laps before Allgaier raced his way into the lead on lap 91. Allgaier held onto the lead for 12 laps before Clauson regained the top-spot on lap 103 of the 120-lap, 150-mile race. Wise and McDowell eventually cleared Allgaier and got within five lengths of the eventual winner before falling back in the closing laps.

 

Michael Annett came from a lap down to finish sixth in the TMC Trucking Dodge. Andy Lally finished a career-best seventh in the TRG-Johnson Realty Chevrolet. Justin Marks was eighth in the Crocs Dodge. Colin Braun, in his debut for Roush Fenway Racing, finished ninth. Carl Long, making his series return, finished 10th in the FreeFeds.org Dodge.

 

Six cautions slowed the race for 41 laps. The race was also red flagged on lap 62 for a frightening incident on the backstretch when Surrey, British Columbia driver Ryan Fischer tumbled several times. Fischer was not injured.

 

Clauson posted the fastest lap of the race on lap 113 and also earned Hoosier Tire Hard Charger honors for advancing the most positions. McDowell was the highest finishing rookie. SCR

Photo: James S. Langley

 

Results, ARCA RE/MAX Series Gateway 150

Gateway Int'l Raceway (8-31-07)