9/24/2022
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Jimmy Owens takes Night one at Boyd's Speedway
By Mike Warren, WOO Late Model Series (Ringgold, GA) -- Jimmy Owens has hit a stride with the World of Outlaws CASE Construction Equipment Late Model Series in September.
Three weeks after earning his first Series triumph of 2022, the Newport, TN driver backed it up with a wire-to-wire victory Friday night at the Stateline Showdown at Boyd’s Speedway.
PHOTO CREDIT: Jacy Norgaard
Owens picked up where he left off earlier this month, sprinting away from Dale McDowell in Turn 2 of the Feature’s opening lap. However, while “The O-Show” pulled away, a new challenger emerged behind him—Max Blair.
The Centerville, PA driver slowly reeled Owens in as he caught lap traffic, finally bringing himself within a car length before Lap 20.
Blair chased Owens through traffic for more than 15 laps, but a caution for Tyler Millwood on Lap 35 allowed Owens to have a clean track ahead of him.
From there, Owens drove away to score the $10,000 prize and becoming the third driver to grab back-to-back wins this season.
He praised his team for their performance over the past few months and stated how happy he was to put the winning formula together.
“We had a lot of good cars behind us chasing us all night long, and we were able to hold them off,” Owens said.
“We’ve been good the last few months; we just haven’t had the chance to let it show,” Owens said. “It just so happens we get to let it show in front of our home crowd and stuff here in Tennessee,” Owens said.
Blair, the Rookie of the race, crossed the line second—his eighth podium finish of 2022.
He said he thought he might’ve had another shot at Owens if not for the caution with six laps left.
“If that yellow don’t come out, I think we could’ve at least made it interesting,” Blair said. “I think I could maneuver pretty good in lap traffic. But I was afraid once he got in clean air, it was kind of game over, and that was about what it was.
“To run second to Jimmy Owens and to beat Dale McDowell at Boyd’s, I’ll take that all day long.”
McDowell finished third after battling with Blair for second on the final restart. Like Blair, the “Mac Daddy” said he would’ve preferred the race to stay green.
“It was pretty decent early, but I wasn’t as good as I needed to be,” McDowell said. “I had to search around there. We made a little bit of a change that kind of went maybe the wrong way.
“Late, I actually found me a line there where I could gain some speed, so I was kind of wanting to stay in lap traffic because I could move around. It’s a lot easier to run second and third than it is to lead.”
Tanner English crossed the line fourth, gaining points on Dennis Erb Jr. in the race for the championship.
The Benton, KY driver kept his recent string of consistent runs alive with his 13th straight top-10 finish in points-paying events.
“The car was pretty good, and I just hung in there,” English said. “I thought I was going to finish about fifth or sixth, but I kind of capitalized on that restart a little bit and thought we might’ve had third, but the cards didn’t play out like they needed to.”
English trails Series points leader Dennis Erb Jr. by 92 points with nine races remaining in the 2022 season.
Chris Madden from Gray Court, SC, rounded out the top five.
UP NEXT: The Most Powerful Late Models on The Planet return to Boyd’s Speedway on Saturday, Sept. 24, for night two of the Stateline Showdown. Drivers will battle in a 50-lap finale paying $20,000-to-win. For Tickets: CLICK HERE.
If you can’t make it to the track, watch all the action live on DIRTVision – either online on with the DIRTVision App.
RESULTS
Case Construction Feature (40 Laps): 1. 20-Jimmy Owens[1]; 2. 111V-Max Blair[5]; 3. 17M-Dale McDowell[2]; 4. 81E-Tanner English[4]; 5. 44-Chris Madden[9]; 6. 83-Jensen Ford[7]; 7. 40B-Kyle Bronson[11]; 8. 18X-Michael Page[13]; 9. 1-Josh Richards[3]; 10. 28-Dennis Erb Jr[17]; 11. F1-Payton Freeman[8]; 12. 23-Cory Hedgecock[16]; 13. 99B-Boom Briggs[12]; 14. 25-Shane Clanton[23]; 15. 11-Gordy Gundaker[15]; 16. 16-Sam Seawright[19]; 17. 19R-Ryan Gustin[6]; 18. B1-Brent Larson[24]; 19. 22-Will Roland[20]; 20. 31-Tyler Millwood[10]; 21. 93-Carson Ferguson[21]; 22. 116-Cameron Weaver[22]; 23. 42-Cla Knight[14]; 24. 109-Eli Beets[18]
Last Chance Showdown 1 (10 Laps): 1. 28-Dennis Erb Jr[2]; 2. 16-Sam Seawright[1]; 3. 93-Carson Ferguson[4]; 4. 27M-Donald McIntosh[3]; 5. 6JR-Parker Martin[5]; 6. 1V-Vic Hill[7]; 7. 44K-Chase King[6]; 8. 1*-Jesse Lowe[9]; 9. 15-Noah Phillips[8]; 10. 25-Shane Clanton[13]; 11. 10-Joseph Joiner[10]; 12. J8-Jadon Frame[11]; 13. (DNS) 5-Josh Walker
Last Chance Showdown 2 (10 Laps): 1. 109-Eli Beets[1]; 2. 22-Will Roland[2]; 3. 116-Cameron Weaver[6]; 4. 88-Trent Ivey[4]; 5. 44D-Dalton Cook[3]; 6. 91-Heath Hindman[7]; 7. 8-David Payne[9]; 8. 11H-Hayden Ownbey[5]; 9. 9-Jason Croft[8]; 10. 17J-Justin Cameron[12]; 11. 27-Joe Denby[10]; 12. (DNS) B1-Brent Larson
Heat 1 (8 Laps): 1. 81E-Tanner English[2]; 2. 19R-Ryan Gustin[1]; 3. 44-Chris Madden[4]; 4. 18X-Michael Page[3]; 5. 16-Sam Seawright[6]; 6. 27M-Donald McIntosh[7]; 7. 6JR-Parker Martin[8]; 8. 1V-Vic Hill[9]; 9. 1*-Jesse Lowe[11]; 10. J8-Jadon Frame[10]; 11. 25-Shane Clanton[5]
Heat 2 (8 Laps): 1. 17M-Dale McDowell[2]; 2. 83-Jensen Ford[3]; 3. 40B-Kyle Bronson[1]; 4. 11-Gordy Gundaker[4]; 5. 28-Dennis Erb Jr[6]; 6. 93-Carson Ferguson[5]; 7. 44K-Chase King[10]; 8. 15-Noah Phillips[8]; 9. 10-Joseph Joiner[7]; 10. 5-Josh Walker[9]
Heat 3 (8 Laps): 1. 20-Jimmy Owens[3]; 2. 111V-Max Blair[1]; 3. 31-Tyler Millwood[2]; 4. 42-Cla Knight[4]; 5. 109-Eli Beets[6]; 6. 44D-Dalton Cook[7]; 7. 11H-Hayden Ownbey[9]; 8. 91-Heath Hindman[10]; 9. 8-David Payne[8]; 10. B1-Brent Larson[5]
Heat 4 (8 Laps): 1. 1-Josh Richards[1]; 2. F1-Payton Freeman[4]; 3. 99B-Boom Briggs[2]; 4. 23-Cory Hedgecock[6]; 5. 22-Will Roland[5]; 6. 88-Trent Ivey[3]; 7. 116-Cameron Weaver[7]; 8. 9-Jason Croft[9]; 9. 27-Joe Denby[8]; 10. 17J-Justin Cameron[10]
Group A Qualifying (2 Laps): 1. 19R-Ryan Gustin, 00:13.885[19]; 2. 40B-Kyle Bronson, 00:13.890[1]; 3. 81E-Tanner English, 00:13.899[2]; 4. 17M-Dale McDowell, 00:14.011[6]; 5. 18X-Michael Page, 00:14.064[14]; 6. 83-Jensen Ford, 00:14.086[20]; 7. 44-Chris Madden, 00:14.157[15]; 8. 11-Gordy Gundaker, 00:14.187[10]; 9. 25-Shane Clanton, 00:14.200[11]; 10. 93-Carson Ferguson, 00:14.205[3]; 11. 16-Sam Seawright, 00:14.236[17]; 12. 28-Dennis Erb Jr, 00:14.254[5]; 13. 27M-Donald McIntosh, 00:14.269[4]; 14. 10-Joseph Joiner, 00:14.382[7]; 15. 6JR-Parker Martin, 00:14.482[8]; 16. 15-Noah Phillips, 00:14.540[12]; 17. 1V-Vic Hill, 00:14.626[9]; 18. 5-Josh Walker, 00:14.696[16]; 19. J8-Jadon Frame, 00:14.704[13]; 20. 44K-Chase King, 00:14.751[21]; 21. 1*-Jesse Lowe, 00:14.894[18]
Group B Qualifying (2 Laps): 1. 111V-Max Blair, 00:14.165[18]; 2. 1-Josh Richards, 00:14.219[12]; 3. 31-Tyler Millwood, 00:14.255[3]; 4. 99B-Boom Briggs, 00:14.310[2]; 5. 20-Jimmy Owens, 00:14.332[15]; 6. 88-Trent Ivey, 00:14.346[7]; 7. 42-Cla Knight, 00:14.366[5]; 8. F1-Payton Freeman, 00:14.420[4]; 9. B1-Brent Larson, 00:14.444[19]; 10. 22-Will Roland, 00:14.459[16]; 11. 109-Eli Beets, 00:14.492[17]; 12. 23-Cory Hedgecock, 00:14.550[10]; 13. 44D-Dalton Cook, 00:14.552[13]; 14. 116-Cameron Weaver, 00:14.569[9]; 15. 8-David Payne, 00:14.618[20]; 16. 27-Joe Denby, 00:14.694[1]; 17. 11H-Hayden Ownbey, 00:14.718[11]; 18. 9-Jason Croft, 00:14.724[6]; 19. 91-Heath Hindman, 00:14.725[14]; 20. 17J-Justin Cameron, 00:14.825[8]
Hot Laps: 1. 1-Josh Richards, 00:14.070[33]; 2. 99B-Boom Briggs, 00:14.129[23]; 3. 17M-Dale McDowell, 00:14.156[6]; 4. 28-Dennis Erb Jr, 00:14.211[5]; 5. 20-Jimmy Owens, 00:14.251[36]; 6. 81E-Tanner English, 00:14.263[2]; 7. 44-Chris Madden, 00:14.354[15]; 8. 23-Cory Hedgecock, 00:14.401[31]; 9. 11-Gordy Gundaker, 00:14.422[10]; 10. 93-Carson Ferguson, 00:14.461[3]; 11. 1V-Vic Hill, 00:14.484[9]; 12. 10-Joseph Joiner, 00:14.505[7]; 13. 40B-Kyle Bronson, 00:14.536[1]; 14. 17J-Justin Cameron, 00:14.563[29]; 15. F1-Payton Freeman, 00:14.592[25]; 16. 109-Eli Beets, 00:14.596[38]; 17. 42-Cla Knight, 00:14.662[26]; 18. 83-Jensen Ford, 00:14.667[20]; 19. 11H-Hayden Ownbey, 00:14.669[32]; 20. 31-Tyler Millwood, 00:14.693[24]; 21. 27M-Donald McIntosh, 00:14.694[4]; 22. 25-Shane Clanton, 00:14.701[11]; 23. 16-Sam Seawright, 00:14.719[17]; 24. 111V-Max Blair, 00:14.721[39]; 25. 22-Will Roland, 00:14.734[37]; 26. 88-Trent Ivey, 00:14.736[28]; 27. 44D-Dalton Cook, 00:14.756[34]; 28. 116-Cameron Weaver, 00:14.775[30]; 29. 6JR-Parker Martin, 00:14.893[8]; 30. 91-Heath Hindman, 00:14.901[35]; 31. 18X-Michael Page, 00:14.910[14]; 32. 1*-Jesse Lowe, 00:14.975[18]; 33. 27-Joe Denby, 00:15.013[22]; 34. 5-Josh Walker, 00:15.019[16]; 35. 8-David Payne, 00:15.033[41]; 36. 44K-Chase King, 00:15.049[21]; 37. J8-Jadon Frame, 00:15.070[13]; 38. 9-Jason Croft, 00:15.149[27]; 39. 15-Noah Phillips, 00:15.747[12]; 40. B1-Brent Larson, 00:15.911[40]; 41. 19R-Ryan Gustin, 00:15.911[19]
Submitted By: Kirk Elliott