Billy Moyer won Saturday night’s 50-lap, $10,000 to win Lucas Oil Late Model Dirt Series feature at East Bay Raceway Park. It marked Moyer’s third Winternationals 2015 win in five days. Photo by Mike Horne
Billy Moyer picked up his third victory of the week in the 39th Annual East Bay Winternationals on Saturday night. Moyer pulled away late to win for the 26th time in his Hall-of-Fame career at East Bay Raceway Park in Tampa, FL. Moyer survived a side-by-side tussle with Jimmy Owens to take the win in the Lucas Oil Late Model Dirt Series sanctioned event.
Defending LOLMDS National champion Don O’Neal finished second, followed by Blairsville, GA’s Jonathan Davenport, Owens, and Jared Landers.
Owens led the first 28 laps of the 50 lap main event with Moyer following closely the entire time. The two had a fierce battle for the lead for several laps until Moyer was able to forge ahead. O’Neal, Davenport, and Owens had a closely contested battle for second as Moyer pulled away.
“First off, I have to thank my crew,” Moyer said. “We broke a rear end on the car on our second lap of qualifying. As quickly as they move the show along here, if we were in the first heat, I don’t think we would have been able to make it out.
“We are always prepared. We had a spare rear end ready to go. We had my crew and Billy, Jr.’s crew there all helping. The track was the best it’s been all week. All of us drivers could run anywhere on it. They watered the top more today, and I think that helped me. I could get up there and get some traction.”
“Jimmy and I had a heck of a race,” Moyer added. “I mean we were running hard and didn’t touch. It just shows you that you can race hard and clean and not tear up everybody’s equipment. The way the track was tonight, you could bounce through a hole and hit somebody, but that didn’t happen. The track had a lot of character in it, and we’re happy to come home with the win.”
O’Neal was happy with his finish.
“We haven’t been that good this week, but the crew worked hard on this car, Lance, Barry, Jeremy, and Tony did a great job,” he said. “Billy was just better than all of us tonight.”
Davenport, who won the LOLMDS event last Saturday night at Golden Isles, had his best East Bay finish of the week with a third place.
“We kind of got shuffled back on that one restart, but I was able to get the car to work up top better,” Davenport said. “I ran down Jimmy and Don. I thought I could get Don on the last lap, but we couldn’t quite make the pass. The track was real racy tonight.”
Completing the top ten were Mike Benedum, Tim Dohm, Devin Moran, Steve Francis and Eddie Carrier, Jr.
In preliminary action, Dohm set the overall Miller Welders Fast Time (Group A) amongst the 35 entrants, with a lap of 15.103 seconds. Bloomquist set the fastest time in Group B with a time of 15.368 seconds. Dohm, Moyer, Jimmy Owens and Earl Pearson, Jr. won their respective heat races. Stormy Scott and Dan Stone won their respective B-Mains.
For the latest breaking news on the Lucas Oil Late Model Dirt Series, visit LucasDirt.com.
Winternationals 2015 action continues on Feb. 19 with the ASCS Sprint Car Series and the Florida Mini-Sprints in action. For more info, visit EastBayRacewayPark.com.
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Winternationals 2015 – Feb. 14, 2015
1. 3 21 Billy Moyer – Batesville, AR
2. 6 5 Don O’Neal – Martinsville, IN
3. 7 6 Jonathan Davenport – Blairsville, GA
4. 2 20 Jimmy Owens – Newport, TN
5. 5 777 Jared Landers – Batesville, AR
6. 16 25 Mike Benedum – Salem, WV
7. 1 6T Tim Dohm – Charleston, WV
8. 10 99m Devin Moran – Dresden, OH
9. 13 15 Steve Francis – Ashland, KY
10. 9 28 Eddie Carrier, Jr. – Salt Rock, WV
11. 4 1 Earl Pearson, Jr. – Jacksonville, FL
12. 14 B5 Brandon Sheppard – New Berlin, IL
13. 17 2s Stormy Scott – Las Cruses, NM
14. 25 21jr Billy Moyer, Jr. – Batesville, AR
15. 18 21d Dan Stone – Thompson, PA
16. 8 28e Dennis Erb, Jr. – Carpentersville, IL
17. 19 32 Bobby Pierce – Oakwood, IL
18. 24 21b Chris Brown – Spring, TX
19. 15 91p Jason Papich – Nipomo, CA
20. 21 22 Gregg Satterlee – Rochester Mills, PA
21. 22 0 Scott Bloomquist – Mooresburg, TN
22. 26 4-Ds Chad Hollenbeck – Montrose, PA
23. 11 7w Ricky Weiss – Headingley, MB
24. 20 96 Terry English – Benton, KY
25. 12 1J Davey Johnson – Greensburg, PA
26. 23 94 Austin Rettig – Sikeston, MO
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