Earl Pearson, Jr., seen here from an earlier victory, picked up the Friday night Lucas Oil Late Model Dirt Series victory at Golden Isles Speedway. Photo by Mike Ruefer
Earl Pearson, Jr.’s 29th career Lucas Oil Late Model Dirt Series victory may have been one of his most memorable. The popular 4-time LOLMDS National Champion raced to the win on Friday Night at the Georgia Boot Super Bowl of Racing at Golden Isles Speedway in Brunswick, GA.
Pearson reunited with the Dunn-Benson Motorsports team this year. He led the final nine laps of the race to score his first win of 2015 in the Lucas Oil Products Dunn-Benson Ford entry for car-owners Carlton and Kemp Lamm.
Pearson took over top spot from race-leader Ross Bailes, who suffered a flat tire coming off of turn number four with nine laps remaining. Pearson then held off Jared Landers and Scott Bloomquist to take the win. Dawsonville, GA’s Donald McIntosh had his best career LOLMDS finish with fourth place, followed by Stormy Scott.
“It is great to come back to Golden Isles, which is one of my favorite tracks,” Pearson said. “To run here in front of all of these people, and then to win it, all I can say is, they saw a heck of a race. Once the five car (Bailes) had that flat, I knew I had a good chance to win.”
Blairsville, GA’s Jonathan Davenport bolted to the lead early on, but Bailes quickly made it a two-car battle. Bailes pressured Davenport several times, as they ran side-by-side on a few occasions. Davenport officially led the first 36 laps of the race until he ended up on the hook with a broken right front suspension. The mishap marked the second straight night that Davenport would leave the race while leading.
Bailes led until lap 42 when he suffered a flat left rear tire. Pearson inherited the lead with Brandon Sheppard and Jared Landers in hot pursuit. On the restart Pearson held off the hard-charging Landers for the win with Bloomquist coming in third.
Landers was extremely happy with the performance of his Crop Production Services-sponsored Sweet-Bloomquist car.
“I couldn’t be happier with the way we ran tonight,” he said. “The car was good all night. I kind of messed up on the last restart and lost a few spots. We will try to get the car better for tomorrow night. It is a very good way to start the points off.”
Bloomquist started 13th, and moved into third place near the end of the race and was really happy for Landers.
“He did a good job tonight, I wasn’t sure if I was ever going to get into the top five from where we started,” Bloomquist said. “After not running the first race last year, we had to play catch-up the rest of the season.”
Completing the top ten were Chris Madden, Don O’Neal, Kenny Pettyjohn, Jason Papich, and Gregg Satterlee.
In preliminary action, Davenport set the overall Miller Welders Fast Time (Group B) amongst the 33 entrants, with a lap of 15.388 seconds. Bailes set the fastest time in Group A with a time of 15.431 seconds. Bailes, Stormy Scott, Davenport and Papich won their respective heat races. Chris Madden won the B-Main.
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Race Results – February 6, 2015
1. 6 1 Earl Pearson, Jr. – Jacksonville, FL
2. 8 777 Jared Landers – Batesville, AR
3. 13 0 Scott Bloomquist – Mooresburg, TN
4. 7 7 Donald McIntosh – Dawsonville, GA
5. 3 2s Stormy Scott – Las Cruces, NM
6. 17 44 Chris Madden – Gray Court, SC
7. 18 5 Don O’Neal – Martinsville, IN
8. 5 38 Kenny PettyJohn – Millsboro, DE
9. 4 91p Jason Papich – Arroyo Grande, CA
10. 16 22 Gregg Satterlee – Rochester Mills, PA
11. 19 28 Dennis Erb, Jr. – Carpentersville, IL
12. 23 15 Steve Francis – Ashland, KY
13. 11 99m Devin Moran – Dresden, OH
14. 14 40 Kyle Bronson – Branden, FL
15. 15 20 Jimmy Owens – Newport, TN
16. 22 25x Mike Benedum – Salem, WV
17. 10 21jr Billy Moyer, Jr. – Batesville, AR
18. 24 28 Eddie Carrier, Jr. – Salt Rock, WV
19. 12 b5 Brandon Sheppard – New Berlin, IL
20. 1 5e Ross Bailes – Clover, SC
21. 2 6 Jonathan Davenport – Blairsville, GA
22. 21 11 Austin Kirkpatrick – Ocala, FL
23. 9 2 Dennis Franklin – Gaffney, SC
24. 20 111 Steven Roberts – Jesup, GA
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