Tim McCreadie celebrates in Lernerville Speedway’s victory lane after winning Saturday night’s Firecracker 100 for the WoO Morton Buildings Late Model Series. Photo: WoO Media
As much as Tim McCreadie likes Lernerville Speedway, he had come up empty in the track’s premier World of Outlaws Morton Buildings Late Model Series Firecracker 100.
Finally, a four-lap charge to the checkers at the Sarver, Pennsylvania raceway on Saturday night changed all that.
McCreadie, the 2006 Series Champion from Watertown, New York, started 11th and methodically worked his way forward, pacing himself perfectly over 100 laps to steal the lead in the high groove with four laps remaining to pick up the $30,000 victory over Darrell Lanigan and Brandon Sheppard.
“I had been making moves up top the whole night, so I thought, ‘What have I got to lose?’” an elated McCreadie exclaimed. “There’s no reason to do all this work and then just settle for second.”
There certainly weren’t any signs of settling, McCreadie displayed determination in the closing circuits, picking up four spots in the final 13 laps. But for the first 87 laps of the race, there was a different story unfolding with the leaders.
When the green flag dropped, it was Sheppard’s race to lose as he grabbed the lead from the pole on the first lap and was in command through the first 61 laps. But a slip-up getting around a thick patch of lapped traffic made room for Ricky Weiss to sneak by on the inside.
Weiss, in pursuit of his first career World of Outlaws win, opened up a sizable advantage over Sheppard and Lanigan over the next 20 laps as the race continued caution-free. Lanigan got by Sheppard with 17 circuits remaining and began his chase on Weiss, closing the gap rapidly by lap 94.
As the leaders crossed the stripe to complete lap 95, Weiss got a bit too high and tagged the wall at the flag stand. As the sparks flew, Lanigan shot to the bottom of the track and dove underneath Weiss to take the lead away in turn one. Weiss limped his car around the track for another lap-and-a-half, but his cut-down right-rear tire hindered his ability to drive too much to continue under green.
He took his car into the work area under the ensuing yellow flag for a tire change, but the damage to his track position had already been done. Weiss wound up 16th.
After 95 straight laps without a caution, Lanigan assumed the lead under the yellow and found McCreadie right on his bumper. He was only able to hold off McCreadie for two corners before McCreadie found grip on up high and beat Lanigan into turn three for the lead.
That was all it took for McCreadie to score his second win for K&L Rumley Racing, their first since another 100-lap victory in the Atomic 100 at Atomic Speedway back in April.
Lanigan came home second to score the fifth Firecracker 100 runner-up of his career. He ran inside the top three for all 100 laps, battling with Sheppard and Josh Richards in the early going. Picking up his ninth top-five finish of the season and maintaining control of second in Series points, Lanigan was also a bit disappointed in yet another Firecracker runner-up after a second caution flag flew one lap after he inherited the lead.
“I really didn’t want to see that caution there at the end, but that’s part of racing I guess,” he said.
The World of Outlaws Morton Buildings Late Model Series next head to Indiana’s Terre Haute Action Track for a duel with the stars of the DIRTcar Summer Nationals tour on Friday, June 28. Visit WorldofOutlaws.com for more information.
WoO Morton Buildings Late Model Series
Lernerville Speedway – Sarver, PA
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1. 6m-Tim McCreadie
2. 29-Darrell Lanigan
3. 1-Brandon Sheppard
4. 49-Jonathan Davenport
5. 14-Josh Richards
6. 25-Shane Clanton
7. O2-Mike Norris
8. 22-Chris Ferguson
9. 2-Brandon Overton
10. 22s-Gregg Satterlee
11. 17M-Dale McDowell
12. 18-Chase Junghans
13. 8-Jacob Hawkins
14. 9-Devin Moran
15. 25z-Mason Zeigler
16. 7-Ricky Weiss
17. 28-Dennis Erb
18. 10-Jared Miley
19. 1x-Chub Frank
20. 2s-Dan Stone
21. B1-Brent Larson
22. 97-Cade Dillard
23. 99B-Boom Briggs
24. 157-Mike Marlar
25. 1C-Mike Pegher
26. 6-Blake Spencer
27. 29s-Ken Schaltenbrand
28. 4s-David Scott
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