After four straight wins in the Sunoco USRA Factory Stock class, Wesley Bourne had a front row seat as Jim Philpot took the win.
Weather looked like it might claim another race weekend early on Saturday, but the show went on at The Mighty Tri-State Speedway. With the weather not making up it’s mind track prep was pushed back and it was well worth the wait as 62 cars checked on the night. The headliner race of the night Was the USRA B-Mod class as they were running for $2000 to win in the B-Mod Madness presented by SDI (Sonny Davis Incorporated)
USRA B-Mod Madness
Lebanon, Missouri’s Kris Jackson would make the trek into Oklahoma to take on last weeks July 4th Weekend Sweep winner Dalton Ragsdale out of Muskogee, Oklahoma. Last weekend, Ragsdale put together quite the weekend by winning at Arrowhead Speedway in Colcord, OK, The Mighty Tri-State Speedway in Pocola, OK, and capping it off with a last minute decision to race and then win at Crawford County Speedway in Cedarville, AR.
Kris Jackson would jump out to the early lead while Ragsdale would make his way from 5th on the start. The 19K of multi-time Tri-State Speedway feature winner Kyle Slader would sit in 2nd. Six laps in the first caution would come out for a spin in turn 2 by the 00 of Cason Harris. Tightening the field back up found Jackson, Slader, and Ragsdale 1-2-3 repectfully. With J.R. Owen and Devin Baker rounding out the top 5. A few laps later would bring out another Caution with the top 3 unchanged but Greenwood’s Kyle Ledford and Hackett’s Jacob Campbell in 4th and 5th. Green flag laps would be short as another Caution would come out, the top 4 would be the same but Ty Evans in the 5E would now sit in 5th. The restart would be short lived as another caution brought the group back together. Ty Evans would get a great restart and push past Kyle Ledford for fourth. After taking the White Flag with one lap to go, an incident off of turn 4 completed the race.
Kris Jackson led flag to flag to take home the $2,000 purse with Muskogee racers Dalton Ragsdale and Kyle Slader coming in 2nd & 3rd. Big mover of the night was Ty Evans who jumped up 10 spots to snag 4th and Greenwood’s Kyle Ledford rounding out the Top 5
Hackett’s Jacob Campbell is the point leader going into the final July race weekend on the 15th. Kyle Ledford is in second 54 points back and Cody King out of Fanshawe is in third 61 points behind.
Medieval Chassis USRA Stock Car
it was a much calmer race with Coweta, OK’s Christopher Theodore starting on pole and Mt. Ida native Chad Abernathy starting alongside. It took two laps until H Wayne Palmer in the Palmer Brothers Racing legendary X-15 took the lead on lap 2. From there it was all Palmer as no cautions came out on the Speedway and he picked up his first win of the season at Tri-State Speedway
The points battle is close in Stock Car with Brandon Hunter up 13 points over Andy Morris in 2nd. Gentry, Arkansas’ Jeff Metcalf is in 3rd 20 points out of the lead. Greenwood’s Andy Milliken sits in 4th 82 points back.
USRA Modified
Stillwell, Oklahoma driver Drake Long would start on the pole alongside last weeks winner in a thriller Trevor Hughes. Hughes would jump out to a quick lead and go un-contested even after one caution for a slow car. Jake Davis from Hackett, AR had issues in the heat race but they were resolved by A Feature time as he would make up 4 spots and challenge Drake Long for second. On the only restart Roy Long would find himself in the 3rd position but would drop back to 7th after a few laps before pulling off. Van Buren’s Mike Hines would finish 4th and Greenwood’s Jason Payton would finish 5th.
Back to Back Modified Feature winner Trevor Hughes leads the points in Modified with 473. Jake Davis is second with 434, and Mike Hines in 3rd with 406.
Sunoco USRA Factory Stocks presented by PG Roofing
Wesley Bourne’s win streak has stopped at four, but certainly was not for a lack of effort as Bourne would finish 2nd on the night. Pole Sitter Rowdy Bonewell from Rudy, AR would lead the first lap. Starting lap 2 Greenwood’s Jim Philpot seized an opportunity to get past the leader as he bobbled out of turn 2, spinning cars behind them would negate the lap and the pass as the caution came out. Philpot would then take the lead on the restart and run away from the group with Bonewell in 2nd, Bourne in 3rd and Dallas Bourland in 4th. Another Caution would bring them back together but they could not catch the 25 of Philpot. Bourne and Bourland would get around Bonewell but the lead was to much to catch up. Jim Philpot would go on to win the Factory Stock A Feature with Bourne, Bourland, and Bonewell getting 2-3-4. Fifth place would go to Van Buren’s Justin Johnson.
With as many wins that Wesley Bourne had strung together between June and July he sits 2nd in points to Dallas Bourland, but it is a close as is the racing is on the track. 2 points is all that separates them. Justin Johnson is third in points just 48 points behind Bourland.
USRA Tuners
Chris Tuck would win his fourth feature on the year in his Honda Prelude. Ricky Foster did not bring the familiar Honda Del-Sol, but drove a Honda Accord to 2nd. Bobby Mulkey would bring his Acura Integra in 3rd. Making it a 1-2-3 finish for Honda Power.
Chris tuck is out to a commanding lead in the points, the closest competitor is 305 points back.
Tri-State will be back in action on July 15 for a weekly points night then off for two weekends and return August 5th with a USRA Factory Stock Special.
