#Atomic speedway results series
The series veteran holds a 162-point lead over Richards as he chases his first series championship. I was probably holding him up, but I’ll take second.”Ĭlanton drove his Weldbank Energy Capital Race Cars house car to another solid finish in recording his 21st finish of the third or better on this year’s WoO LMS campaign. “I think he kind of hit a hole and pushed a little bit and I got him. “I think we had a third place car, and then got a good run on Shane that last restart,” Carrier said. He settled for the runner-up finish in just missing what would’ve been his first career WoO LMS victory. But the Lucas Oil Late Model Dirt Series regular wasn’t able to keep pace with Richards through the closing laps. He faded in the following laps, dropping back to fourth before slowing on lap 32 and retiring from the race.Īdvancing from the seventh starting spot in his Optima Batteries Rocket, Carrier used a lap-35 restart to take second from Clanton. Lanigan wasn’t able to make a serious bid to retake the lead after losing it to Richards.
“He slipped up, and I knew I had to take it while I could because he doesn’t mess up very often.” “He was good out in clean air by himself, but after we’d run some laps I could gain on him,” Richards said of his battle with Lanigan. He took advantage, using a slidejob to complete the winning pass in turns three and four. Lanigan’s bobble exiting turn two on lap 26 gave Richards the opening he needed. Richards chased Lanigan through the first half of the race before turning up the pressure just after the midway point. The polesitting Lanigan led the way through the race’s caution-plagued opening laps, as the third-starting Richards made an early move to take second from Jackie Boggs of Grayson, Ky. The first half of the race featured a battle between a pair of three-time WoO LMS champions in Richards and Lanigan. of Frankfort, Ill., advanced from 19th to fifth. WoO LMS points leader Shane Clanton of Zebulon, Ga., finished third, while Tim McCreadie of Watertown, N.Y., charged from the 23rd starting spot to finish fourth and Frank Heckenast Jr. It feels good to finally win one here.”Īfter pulling away on the race’s final restart with six laps remaining, Richards crossed the finish line 1.791 seconds ahead of Eddie Carrier Jr.
I actually won my first big check here 10 years ago, but it was just a dash. “I love coming here, but this is one that’s always alluded me. “This is an awesome racetrack,” Richards said of the historic Buckeye State race facility formerly known as K-C Raceway. Even more significantly, the victory was Richards’ first at Atomic Speedway. The $8,650 triumph marked Richards’ seventh WoO LMS win of the season and the 56th of his career.
Richards, the three-time WoO LMS champion from Shinnston, W.Va., overtook race-long leader Darrell Lanigan of Union, Ky., on lap 26 of Friday’s 40-lap race at the 3/8-mile oval and drove his Valvoline-sponsored Rocket Chassis house car to his third victory in the past four WoO LMS events. 21, 2015 – Josh Richards kept his recent World of Outlaws Late Model Series hot streak rolling Friday night with a convincing victory during the first of the national tour’s back-to-back nights of racing at Atomic Speedway. Three-Time Series Champion Scores Seventh WoO LMS Victory of 2015 and His Third Triumph in Past Four Series EventsĬHILLICOTHE, Ohio – Aug. Richards Opens Three-Race World of Outlaws Late Model Series Weekend With First-Career Atomic Speedway Victory
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