Fergy
and RTJ Win Twin Mountain Moonshine Classic Prelims
(June
16, 2023) Ferguson started alongside his cousin, Carson
Ferguson, in the first feature. Ferguson sent his car deep into
turn 1 on the first lap to take the lead. Ferguson looked to be
in control of the 30-lap race until sustaining some nose damage
halfway through the race. Carson Ferguson began to knock on the
door for the lead until a caution on lap 17. Chris Ferguson pulled
away on the restart and held on for the win. (MRM
Racing Photo)
Feature 2 saw Kyle Strickler take the lead over Ricky Thorton
Jr. Those two were the class of the field as they pulled away
from third place runner Spencer Hughes. All things pointed in
Strickler favor until he got stuck behind a slower car on lap
18. Thorton Jr. seized the opportunity to take the lead and the
win.
Saturday
will see a six-car, six-lap dash for the top 3 finishers in both
features to see the first 3 rows for the main event. The remainder
of the cars will compete in heat races and b-mains to set the
rest of the field.
Robbie Comer had no trouble in winning Friday’s street
stock feature. Teammates Tyler James and Austin Atkins battled
for second late in the race. John Stevens would take third from
Atkins in the final laps.
Eric Partin held off late challenges from Travis Weeks to win
the front wheel drive feature. Mikey Jones finished in third.
Lucas Oil Late Model Dirt Series GROUP A Feature (30
Laps): 1. 22F-Chris Ferguson[1]; 2. 93-Carson Ferguson[2];
3. 49-Jonathan Davenport[3]; 4. 1H-Hudson O'Neal[10]; 5. 20-Jimmy
Owens[11]; 6. 99-Devin Moran[9]; 7. 17M-Dale McDowell[5]; 8. 157-Mike
Marlar[7]; 9. 23-Cory Hedgecock[20]; 10. 111B-Max Blair[13]; 11.
3-Austin Neely[15]; 12. 10-Garrett Smith[17]; 13. 58-Garrett Alberson[12];
14. 12D-Doug Drown[14]; 15. AUS1-Brent Vosbergen[18]; 16. M2-Caden
Mullinax[22]; 17. 18-Trevor Landrum[6]; 18. 22-Will Roland[4];
19. 11H-Hayden Ownbey[21]; 20. 7W-Ricky Weiss[19]; 21. 34-Ellery
Leake[16]; 22. (DNS) 2S-Stormy Scott
Lucas Oil Late Model Dirt Series GROUP B Feature (30
Laps): 1. 20RT-Ricky Thornton Jr[2]; 2. 8K-Kyle Strickler[1];
3. 11-Spencer Hughes[3]; 4. 18D-Daulton Wilson[4]; 5. 39-Tim McCreadie[5];
6. 1T-Tyler Erb[14]; 7. 16-Tyler Bruening[8]; 8. 7-Ross Robinson[7];
9. 76-Brandon Overton[11]; 10. 46-Earl Pearson Jr[13]; 11. 99B-Boom
Briggs[12]; 12. J27-Jay Scott[17]; 13. 46J-Jason Papich[20]; 14.
54-David Breazeale[16]; 15. 1G-Rusty Ballenger[9]; 16. 1R-Richie
Stephens[18]; 17. B00-Josh Henry[15]; 18. 5-Chase Oliver[22];
19. 83-Jensen Ford[6]; 20. 7M-Donald McIntosh[10]; 21. 116-Cameron
Weaver[19]; 22. 5T-John Tweed[21]
Street Stock Feature 1 (15 Laps): 1. 42-Robbie
Comer[1]; 2. 14J-Tyler James[3]; 3. 751-John Stevens[9]; 4. 14-Austin
Atkins[8]; 5. 21XP-Bobbie Petty[4]; 6. 31-Brady Lee[5]; 7. 88-Sam
Burgess[10]; 8. 20-Lamar Hughes[11]; 9. 11-Ryan Watson[12]; 10.
10L-Colby Long[14]; 11. 01-Jerry Hux[13]; 12. 13-David Clark[7];
13. 10-Eric Hughes[2]; 14. A13-Austin Byrd[6]
Front Wheel Drive Feature 1 (12 Laps): 1. 75-Eric
Partin[1]; 2. 85-Travis Weeks[2]; 3. 731-Mikey Jones[4]; 4. 23-Austin
Maples[5]; 5. 506-Josh Davis[3]; 6. 21T-Travis Taylor[10]; 7.
3C-Jacob Hooks[16]; 8. 6-Jack Gresham[12]; 9. 14-Kaven Greene[13];
10. 45-Anthony Singleton[9]; 11. 5H-Dakota Morgan[15]; 12. 08-Jacob
Sharp[11]; 13. 61-Nick Ginn[14]; 14. (DQ) 38-Bryan Williams[6]
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