Chase Junghans celebrates his first World of Outlaws Late Model Series victory Friday night at Lernerville Speedway. Photo courtesy WoO LMS Media
With two of the sport’s top drivers behind him and a steady line of lapped traffic ahead of him, Chase Junghans expected his lead in Friday’s Firecracker 100 preliminary feature at Lernerville Speedway in Sarver, PA to be shrinking.
Instead, signals from a crew member during the second half of the 30-lap race told the second-year World of Outlaws Late Model Series driver that he was pulling away from former WoO LMS champion Scott Bloomquist and current series points leader Shane Clanton.
“I was just riding around out there trying to be patient and my crew guy was giving me signals saying I was pulling away,” said Junghans, the 22-year-old racer from Manhattan, KS. “I was like ‘Are you kidding me?’ But I guess I was, and now, I just don’t know what to say. This is surreal.”
Junghans was indeed nearly speechless after dominating Friday’s A-Main to score his first-career WoO LMS victory during the second night of Lernerville’s ninth annual Firecracker 100 presented by GottaRace.com. In notching his fourth top-five finish in the past six WoO LMS events, Junghans earned $6,175 at the 4/10-mile oval.
Junghans’ Shop Quik Racing Capital Race Car finished the caution-free race with an advantage of 2.932 seconds. Bloomquist of Mooresburg, TN, was second with Clanton, the Zebulon, GA, driver who won Thursday’s Firecracker 100 opener, advancing from his seventh starting spot to finish third. Chub Frank of Bear Lake, PA, finished fourth with Davey Johnson of Latrobe, PA, rounding out the race’s top five finishers.
Junghans was fast all night, setting quick time in qualifying and finishing second to Clanton in his heat race to earn a spot in the Top 8 Redraw. Luck fell his way in drawing the pole for the A-Main, but he didn’t waste the opportunity. He pulled away from an early back-and-forth battle between Bloomquist and Frank and never looked back.
“This feels great, especially having all these good guys here behind us,” said Junghans, whose previous best WoO LMS finish was a third-place effort at Fonda Speedway in New York on June 18. “It definitely helped starting up front, but we made the most of it. Hopefully we can build off of this and maybe win tomorrow or if not at least have a good finish.”
A frequent contender at Lernerville, Bloomquist took second from Frank on lap 10 and appeared to initially close slightly on Junghans. But his pace slowed around halfway and the two-time Firecracker 100 winner was forced to settle for the runner-up finish in his self-designed Sweet-Bloomquist Race Car.
“We weren’t quite where we want to be, but we’re happy with this,” said Bloomquist, who made his first laps of the weekend on Friday after a late arrival led him to sit out Thursday’s opener. “We’ve been playing with some different stuff on the car and tonight was the first night we tried it. It wasn’t bad, but it wasn’t exactly what I was hunting.”
With his seventh consecutive top-three WoO LMS finish, Clanton kept his recent hot streak rolling. The co-founder of Capital Race Cars was happy to see a Capital car in victory lane, but he would’ve liked to have made it a one-two sweep for the chassis brand.
“Any time a Capital car can win, we’re happy,” said Clanton, whose Capital machine is sponsored by Weldbank Energy. “I told Chase to just go on and run his race and hopefully I’d make it to second. We came close, but I was just a little too tight.”
Tim McCreadie of Watertown, NY, was sixth at the finish after climbing as high as third midway through the race. Former Lernerville track champion Jared Miley of Pittsburgh, PA, advanced from 11th to score his second top 10 of the weekend in finishing seventh. Gregg Satterlee of Indiana, PA, was eighth with Austin Hubbard of Seaford, DE and Rick Eckert of York, PA, rounding out the top 10.
The race weekend was to wrap up on Saturday night, but bands of evening showers and severe weather forced the postponement of the ninth annual Firecracker 100 at Lernerville Speedway. The event has been rescheduled for Saturday, September 5, setting up a Labor Day Weekend doubleheader with Lernerville’s Working Man 50 on Friday, September 4.
With the postponement, the Late Model National Open weekend originally scheduled as a two-race event September 5-6 at Selinsgrove Speedway in Pennsylvania will now be a single event only on Sunday, September 6.
“We really appreciate all of the fans and drivers that stuck around in hopes of completing this event,” expressed Lernerville Speedway General Manager Gary Risch, Jr. “We did everything in our power to get all three days in, but could not overcome all of the rain this evening, and tomorrow’s forecast doesn’t look much more promising. As such, we decided to move the third night of the Firecracker to create a two-day show along with the Working Man 50 on Labor Day Weekend.”
“We are as frustrated as anyone that we couldn’t complete the Firecracker 100 weekend as planned,” said WoO LMS Director Tim Christman. “We would like to thank Charlie Paige at Selinsgrove Speedway for accommodating the postponement. We look forward to a great Labor Day Weekend between the two tracks.”
For more information on the WoO LMS, visit WorldofOutlaws.com.
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Lernerville Speedway – Sarver, PA
Race Results – June 26, 2015
1. (1) Chase Junghans/30 $6,175
2. (3) Scott Bloomquist/30 $3,100
3. (7) Shane Clanton/30 $2,050
4. (2) Chub Frank/30 $1,800
5. (5) Davey Johnson/30 $1,500
6. (6) Tim McCreadie/30 $1,650
7. (11) Jared Miley/30 $1,800
8. (10) Gregg Satterlee/30 $1,250
9. (8) Austin Hubbard/30 $1,100
10. (16) Rick Eckert/30 $1,250
11. (15) Eric Wells/30 $950
12. (18) Morgan Bagley/30 $900
13. (4) Brandon Overton/30 $1,050
14. (9) Russ King/30 $775
15. (13) Josh Richards/30 $900
16. (12) Mason Zeigler/30 $750
17. (19) Ross Robinson/30 $660
18. (20) Darrell Lanigan/29 $790
19. (23) Boom Briggs/29 $670
20. (17) Frank Heckenast Jr./29 $650
21. (21) Kenny Pettyjohn/29 $600
22. (14) Paul Wilmoth/29 $600
23. (24) Jordan Yaggy/27 $600
24. (22) Mike Norris/7 $600
Time of Race: 9 Mins., 17 Secs.
Margin of Victory: 2.932 Secs.
Yellow Flags: None
Lap Leaders: Junghans (1-30)
Provisional Starters: Briggs, Yaggy
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