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Lanigan Continues World of Outlaws Late Model Series Onslaught With ‘Fulton Bank 50’ Victory At Delaware

Contact: World Racing Group
Kevin Kovac, World of Outlaws Late Model Series P.R. Director
704-254-7929 • kkovac@dirtcar.com

 

Points Leader Rolls To Third Win In Last Four Starts On National Tour

 

DELMAR, DE – May 31, 2012 – Darrell Lanigan of Union, Ky., continued his World of Outlaws Late Model Series onslaught on Thursday night at Delaware International Speedway, dominating the ‘Fulton Bank 50’ for his third win in the last four races.

 

Racing just three days before his 42^nd birthday, Lanigan blasted forward from the sixth starting spot to take the lead from Austin Hubbard of Seaford, Del., on lap 18 and never looked back. He easily handled two restarts over the remaining distance to pad his already substantial points lead with his series-leading fifth victory of the 2012 season.

 

With the $10,650 triumph, Lanigan pushed his earnings through 15 WoO LMS events this season to a resounding $115,700. No other driver has won even half that amount – and Lanigan remains the only driver with more than one win on the circuit.

 

“Everything is just clicking for us right now,� said Lanigan, who won for the third time in eight WoO LMS starts at Delaware International and the 31^st time overall in his career on the series. “The car, the engine, my crew – we’re just on a roll. We’re having fun.�

 

The 20-year-old Hubbard settled for second place after leading laps 1-17, crossing the finish line 1.940 seconds behind Lanigan at a half-mile oval located less than 20 minutes from his home. It was the best finish in five career WoO LMS starts at DIS for the national tour’s 2010 Rookie of the Year.

 

Defending WoO LMS champion Rick Eckert of York, Pa., started from the pole position but slipped to third at the checkered flag. Ricky Elliott of Seaford, Del., advanced from the 17^th starting spot to place fourth and ninth-starter Shane Clanton of Fayetteville, Ga., was fifth for his first top-five run on the WoO LMS since Feb. 25 at Volusia Speedway Park in Barberville, Fla.

 

Lanigan’s victory completed a very successful four-race stretch, which also included wins on May 25 at Wayne County Speedway in Orrville, Ohio, and May 26 at Tyler County Speedway in Middlebourne, W.Va. ($25,000-plus ‘Jackpot 100’). A sixth-place finish on May 27 at I-77 Raceway Park in Ripley, W.Va., was his only slight stumble.

 

The 2008 WoO LMS champion was on his game at Delaware International, a track where he is the only driver to win more than one World of Outlaws A-Main. He simply blasted the outside of the track to reach the front in his Cornett-powered Rocket machine.

 

“It was on a rail,� said Lanigan, who outdueled Eckert for second on a lap-15 restart and sailed by Hubbard just three circuits later. “We could go right around the top there. I passed ‘em all right around the top. You usually don’t get to do that here.

 

“It was unbelievable out there on that outside. It was a great track – I can’t believe the track came around like that.�

 

Hubbard’s attempt to make the inside lane work at one of the track opened the door for Lanigan to surge into the lead.

 

“I moved down (in turns three and four) after that (lap-15) restart and it felt good,� said Hubbard, who started from the outside pole in his father’s Rocket car. “I said, ‘I’ll just go to the top down here (one and two) and the bottom down there (three and four,’ and then Darrell just blew by me. Then I was like, ‘I guess I’ll move up.’�

 

The race ended just in time for Hubbard, whose engine began going sour late in the distance and finally broke on the final lap.

 

Eckert, 46, wished he could have a mulligan on his tire selection..

 

“I beat myself in the pit area,� said Eckert, who won last year’s WoO LMS A-Main at Delaware International. “We run the same tires we had last year, and they changed the racetrack up a good bit. It was a good bit faster around the top than it has been in the past, and I was a little too tight to be up there.

 

“That was the first time we started up front in a long time so you’re a little bitter about not winning, but we just got beat in the pits. It was a tire choice, and I made the wrong one.�

 

Tim McCreadie of Watertown, N.Y., started fourth and briefly climbed as high as second early in the A-Main but ultimately fell to sixth at the finish. Chub Frank of Bear Lake, Pa., battled his car to a seventh-place finish and David Williams of Chaptico, Md, placed eighth to earn the $500 WoO LMS ‘Bonus Bucks’ cash for being the highest-finshing driver who hasn’t won a tour A-Main and isn’t ranked among the top 12 in the points standings. Tim Fuller of Watertown, N.Y., was ninth and Clint Smith of Senoia, Ga., who used a provisional to start the A-Main, took 10^th.

 

Five caution flags slowed the event, including a multi-car tangle in turn four on a lap-15 restart that involved Bub McCool of Vicksburg, Miss., Gregg Satterlee of Rochester Mills, Pa., Darryl Hills of Great Mills, Md., Donnie Lingo Jr. of Millsboro, Del., and Richard Jarvis Jr. of Powellville, Md.

 

Thirty-four cars were signed in for the event, the tour’s eighth visit to DIS in the last nine years.

 

Jamie Lathroum of Mechanicsville, Md., was quickest in Ohlins Shocks Time Trials, turning a lap of 18.257 seconds to earn his first-ever WoO LMS fast-time honor. He went on to win a heat race as well, but his A-Main run came to an end on lap 33 due to a broken rearend as he ran seventh.

 

Joining Lathroum as heat winners were Lanigan, McCool and Eckert. The B-Mains were captured by Elliott Tim Fuller.

 

Heat action was marred by a wild crash during the third preliminary involving Brady Smith of Solon Springs, Wis., whose car hopped the berm between turns one and two and rolled several times. He said he had a slight headache but was otherwise uninjured.

 

Smith was done for the night, abruptly ending his hopes of improving upon the pair of runner-up finishes he registered in his two previous WoO LMS starts at Delaware International, in 2009 and ’10.

 

The WoO LMS will return to action in two weeks, contesting a weekend doubleheader on June 16 at Hagerstown (Md.) Speedway and June 17 at Eriez Speedway in Hammett, Pa.

 

For more information on the WoO LMS, visit www.worldofoutlaws.com.

 

Fans can also follow the WoO LMS on Twitter at Twitter.com/WoOLateModels and Facebook at Facebook.com/WorldofOutlaws.

 

Results of WoO Late Model Series ‘Fulton Bank 50’ at Delaware International Speedway (Finishing Position/Start/Driver/Laps Completed/Money Won):

1. (6) Darrell Lanigan/50 $10,650

2. (2) Austin Hubbard/50 $5,000

3. (1) Rick Eckert/50 $3,700

4. (17) Ricky Elliott/50 $2,500

5. (9) Shane Clanton/50 $2,550

6. (4) Tim McCreadie/50 $2,350

7. (5) Chub Frank/50 $2,000

8. (10) David Williams/50 $1,800

9. (18) Tim Fuller/50 $1,800

10. (23) Clint Smith/50 $1,650

11. (12) Vic Coffey/50 $1,600

12. (11) Pat Doar/50 $1,550

13. (22) Rob Schirmer/49 $1,000

14. (7) Bub McCool/43 $1,750

15. (14) Donnie Lingo Jr./37 $850

16. (3) Jamie Lathroum/33 $800

17. (19) Dale Lingo IV/33 $770

18. (24) Kent Robinson/22 $1,350

19. (8) Gregg Satterlee/14 $730

20. (15) Kenny Pettyjohn/14 $700

21. (16) Darryl Hills/14 $700

22. (13) Richard Jarvis Jr./14 $700

23. (21) Mark Byram/13 $700

24. (20) John Lobb/5 $700

 

• Earnings include Winners Circle program and cash contingency award bonuses

Time of Race: 35 Mins., 4.940 Secs.

Margin of Victory: 1.940 Secs.

Yellow Flags: 5 (Laps 5, 15, 15, 22, 33)

Lap Leaders: Hubbard (1-17); Lanigan (18-50)

Provisional Starters: C. Smith, K. Robinson

Rookie of the Race: McCool ($250)

WoO LMS ‘Bonus Bucks’ Winner: David Williams($500)

 

Ohlins Shocks Time Trial Results (Position/No./Driver/Hometown/Best Lap):

1. 6-Jamie Lathroum/Mechanicsville, MD 18.257

2. 29-Darrell Lanigan/Union, KY 18.492

3. 1*-Chub Frank/Bear Lake, PA 18.504

4. 24-Rick Eckert/York, PA 18.509

5. 88-Ricky Elliott/Seaford, DE 18.558

6. 39-Tim McCreadie/Watertown, NY 18.621

7. 38-Kenny Pettyjohn/Millsboro, DE 18.637

8. 7H-Darryl Hills/Great Mills, MD 18.714

9. 11H-Austin Hubbard/Seaford, DE 18.726

10. 72-David Williams/Chaptico, MD 18.730

11. 57J-Bub McCool/Vicksburg, MS 18.781

12. 22-Gregg Satterlee/Rochester Mills, PA 18.888

13. 680-Richard Jarvis Jr./Powellville, MD 18.912

14. 55L-Donnie Lingo Jr./Millsboro, DE 18.939

15. 2-Brady Smith/Solon Springs, WI 18.942

16. 7R-Kent Robinson/Bloomington, IN 18.945

17. 25-Shane Clanton/Fayetteville, GA 18.952

18. 44-Clint Smith/Senoia, GA 18.975

19. 20-Staci Warrington/Milton, DE 18.985

20. 19-Tim Fuller/Watertown, NY 19.022

21. 45-Mark Byram/Georgetown, DE 19.068

22. 1d-Bryan Driver/Pennington, NJ 19.069

23. 11-Pat Doar/New Richmond, WI 19.079

24. 32c-Vic Coffey/Caledonia, NY 19.129

25. 1s-Jack Sullivan/Greenbrier, AR 19.156

26. 1M-Jeremy Miller/Gettysburg, PA 19.322

27. 28-John Lobb/Frewsburg, NY 19.328

28. 7-Ross Robinson/Georgetown, DE 19.346

29. 11F-Coleby Frye/Dover, PA 19.358

30. KB-Kerry King Sr./Delmar, DE 19.430

31. KB1-Kerry King Jr./Delmar, DE 19.471

32. 118-Rob Schirmer/Ellendale, DE 19.472

33. Dale Lingo/Millsboro, DE 20.011

34. 8-Mark Pettyjohn/Milton, DE N/T

 

Heat No. 1 (10 laps – Top 4 Transfer): Lathroum, Hubbard, Clanton, Jarvis, Elliott, Dale Lingo, Byram, Frye, Sullivan

Heat No. 2 (10 laps – Top 4 Transfer): Lanigan, McCreadie, Williams, Donnie Lingo, C. Smith, Driver, M. Pettyjohn, King Sr., Miller

Heat No. 3 (10 laps – Top 4 Transfer): McCool, Frank, Doar, K. Pettyjohn, Lobb, Warrington, King Jr., B. Smith

Heat No. 4 (10 laps – Top 4 Transfer): Eckert, Satterlee, Coffey, Hills, R. Robinson, Fuller, Schirmer, K. Robinson

B-Main No. 1 (12 laps – Top 3 Transfer): Elliott, Dale Lingo, Byram, Sullivan, C. Smith, Frye, M. Pettyjohn, Miller, Driver (DNS) King Sr.

B-Main No. 2 (12 laps – Top 3 Transfer): Fuller, Lobb, Schirmer, King Jr., Warrington, R. Robinson, K. Robinson (DNS) B. Smith

World of Outlaws Late Model Series Contingency Award Winners:

Arizona Sport Shirts ($100 product certificate to 23^rd-place finisher I n A-Main or next highest w/decal): Pat Doar

Armor All (one case of product to highest-finishing non-WoO team in A-Main or next highest w/decal): Rob Schirmer

Cometic Gasket ($50 cash to 12^th-place finisher in A-Main or next highest w/decal): Bub McCool

Comp Cams ($50 cash to 10^th-place finisher in A-Main or next highest w/decal): Clint Smith

Comp Cams ($50 product certificate to A-Main winner or next highest w/decal): Austin Hubbard

Dominator ($50 cash to 6^th-place finisher in A-Main or next highest w/decal): Tim McCreadie

Eibach Springs (one free spring to each B-Main winner or next highest w/decal): Dale Lingo IV/Rob Schirmer

Gravely ($50 cash to 7^th-place finisher in A-Main or next highest w/decal): Chub Frank

JE Pistons ($50 cash to 16^th-place finisher in A-Main or next highest w/decal): Kent Robinson

JE Pistons (one compete set of JE Pro Seal rings to 11^th-place finisher or next highest w/decal - $285 value): Vic Coffey

JE Pistons (one complete set of JE Pro Seal rings to 21^st-place finisher or next highest w/decal - $285 value): Richard Jarvis Jr.

Klotz Synthetic Lubricants ($50 cash to 17^th-place finisher or next highest finisher): Kent Robinson

MSD Ignition ($50 cash to A-Main winner or next highest w/decal): Shane Clanton

MSD Ignition ($25 cash to 24^th-place finisher in A-Main or next highest w/decal): None

Ohlins Pole Award ($50 cash to fast qualifier or next highest w/decal): Rick Eckert

Quartermaster ($100 product certificate to A-Main winner or next highest w/decal): Austin Hubbard

Quartermaster ($50 product certificate to 5^th-place finisher in A-Main or next highest w/decal): Tim McCreadie

Quartermaster ($25 product certificate to 15^th-place finisher in A-Main or next highest w/decal): Kent Robinson

Roush-Yates Performance Products ($50 cash to 4^th-place finisher in A-Main or next highest w/decal): Chub Frank

Roush-Yates Performance Products (carburetor repair kit to 18^th-place finish in A-Main or next highest w/decal - $100 value): Kent Robinson

Roush-Yates Lap Leader Award (one pair of Wiley X Sunglasses to driver who leads most laps in A-Main):

STP ($50 cash to 2^nd-place finisher in A-Main or next highest w/decal): Rick Eckert

SuperFlow ($50 cash to 14^th-place finisher in A-Main or next highest w/decal): Bub McCool

VP Racing Fuels ($50 cash to 9^th-place finisher in A-Main or next highest w/decal): Tim Fuller

VP Racing Fuels ‘Nice Jugs Award’ (one VP 5-gallon container to fastest qualifier who misses A-Main or next highest with decal - $30 value): Brady Smith

WIX Filters ($50 cash to 13^th-place finisher in A-Main or next highest w/decal): Rob Schirmer

Wrisco Aluminum (three sheets of aluminum to A-Main winner if decal displayed - $200 value): Darrell Lanigan

XS Power ($50 cash to 3^rd-place finisher in A-Main or next highest w/decal): Tim Fuller

XS Power ($60 product certificate to 8^th-place finisher in A-Main or next highest w/decal): Tim Fuller

XS ‘Power Move of the Race’ ($60 product certificate): Darrell Lanigan

 

2012 World of Outlaws Late Model Series Point Standings as of May 31 – 15 A-Mains completed (rank/driver/points/deficit to leader):

1. Darrell Lanigan 2152

2. Rick Eckert 2044 (-108)

3. Chub Frank 1982 (-170)

4. Shane Clanton 1936 (-216)

5. Tim McCreadie 1926 (-226)

6. Vic Coffey 1892 (-260)

7. Clint Smith 1864 (-288)

8. Bub McCool 1820 (-332)

9. Pat Doar 1732 (-420)

10. Kent Robinson 1686 (-466)

11. Tim Fuller 1658 (-494)

12. Jack Sullivan 1586 (-566)

13. John Lobb 1568 (-584)

14. Mike Marlar 1498 (-654)

15. Greg Johnson 1390 (-762)

16. Jill George 1108 (-1044)

17. Brandon Sheppard 1046 (-1106)

18. Josh Richards 974 (-1178)

19. Jared Hawkins 968 (-1184)

20. Steve Shaver 934 (-1218)

 

The World of Outlaws Late Model Series is brought to fans across the country by many important sponsors and partners, including Arizona Sport Shirts (Official Apparel Company), Armor All (Official Car Care Products), Gravely Tractors (Official Lawn Equipment), Hoosier Racing Tires (Official Racing Tires), STP (Official Fuel Treatment), Vicci (Official Uniform), VP Racing Fuel (Official Racing Fuel), DirtonDirt.com (Hard Charger Award) and McCarthy's One Hour Heating & Air Conditioning (Raye Vest Memorial Pill Draw Award); in addition to contingency sponsors Butlerbuilt, Cometic Gaskets, Comp Cams, Dominator Race Products, Eibach Springs, JE Pistons, Klotz Synthetic Lubricants, MSD Ignition, Ohlins Shocks, QuarterMaster, Roush Yates Performance Parts, Superflow Dynos, Wix Filter, Wrisco Aluminum and XS Power Racing Batteries; along with manufacturer sponsors Integra Shocks, GRT Chassis, Jake’s Carts, Longacre, Racing Electronics, Rocket Chassis, TNT Rescue, and Warrior Chassis.

Speedway Note:

BILL BRITTINGHAM GETS SECOND WIN IN LITTLE LINCOLN FEATURE

Steven Baker led the first 10 laps of the companion Little Lincoln Vintage Car 15-lap feature. Bill Brittingham started in the seventh starting spot and was took second from Brian Nailor on lap four. Brittingham and Baker put on a great battle for the lead with Brittingham taking the advantage with just four laps to go. He then went on to post his second win of the season with Baker a strong second and Jamie Wagner, coming from 11^th to finish in third. Fourth went to Dylan Betts and Donald Robinson, Jr. rounded out the top five.

Little Lincoln Finish: 1. Bill Brittingham; 2. Steven Baker; 3. Jamie Wagner; 4 Dylan Betts; 5. Donald Robinson, Jr.; 6. John Stevenson; 7. Mark Cashdan; 8. Brian Nailor; 9. Kirk Lawson; 10. Ryan Walsen; 11. David Archer; 12. Tyler White; 13. George Banks; 14. Jeff Atkins; 15. Mel Joseph, Jr.; 16. Mike Warshaure.

 

 

 

 

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