Mike Marlar, Tyler Erb Race To LOLMDS Feature Victories

Mike Marlar (left) and Tyler Erb (right) scored Lucas Oil Late Model Dirt Series victories last week. Marlar won at Portsmouth Raceway Park on Thursday night, while Erb won at Tyler County Speedway on Friday night. Photos: LOLMDS Media/Twitter

Mike Marlar and Tyler Erb scored Lucas Oil Late Model Dirt Series victories last week.

Marlar went to victory lane at Ohio’s Portsmouth Raceway Park on Thursday night, while Erb took the win on Friday night at Tyler County Speedway in Middlebourne, West Virginia.

After Wednesday night’s series event at Muskingum County Speedway in Dresden, Ohio was washed out, the series moved on to Portsmouth Raceway Park on Thursday night, where Mike Marlar ran away with the Independence 50.

It marked Marlar’s third series win of the season, and the 12th of his career.

At the drop of the green flag, Marlar sprinted to a comfortable lead and held the point for the entire race. Marlar had to withstand a five lap shootout to the finish with second place running Josh Richards and Jimmy Owens after a lap 45 caution.

Richards moved into the second spot on lap four and tried to stay within striking distance of Marlar, but at stages during the race Marlar held a more than a straightaway advantage over Richards. Owens, who started sixth moved into third past Hudson O’Neal on lap 33 as he tried to track down Richards inside the last ten laps of the race before settling for the third spot. O’Neal and Blairsville, Georgia’s Jonathan Davenport completed the top five.

Marlar commented that his third heat race win over his good friend Owens is what set the stage to get the victory.

“I want to thank Jimmy for running me clean in that heat race. We went back-and-forth for most of the race. It was probably one of the best heat races you will ever see. Jimmy could be standing here right now if he would’ve won that race. He had a really good race car tonight as well.”

On Friday night, Tyler Erb scored his first series victory since February as he wired the field en route to the win at Tyler County Speedway.

Erb became the tenth different winner in as many visits by the series at Tyler County Speedway. The victory didn’t come easy, as podium finishers Josh Richards and Devin Moran charged after Erb the entire 50-lap distance.

Moran and Erb led the field to green with Erb taking the lead on the initial lap. There was a tight battle the entire distance for second as three different drivers held that position during the race. Chris Ferguson, Moran, and Richards all had a turn in the runner-up position behind Erb.

Richards cleared Moran on lap 42, then set his sights on Erb, who was battling lapped traffic. Richards closed on Erb, but the 22-year-old made his move around a lapped car with two to go, and that allowed him to open up enough distance to cross the finish line as the winner for his first ever victory at Tyler County.

Richards took second just ahead of Moran, with Chris Ferguson and Tim McCreadie rounding out the top five.

“I am super-pumped!” exclaimed Erb in victory lane. “We have a super-fast racecar right now. This is the best car I have ever driven. It feels like a year since we won a race. This is one of my favorite tracks. We haven’t been here a lot, because it’s a long way from Texas.”

The series was slated to race on Saturday at Ohio’s Mansfield Motor Speedway, only to see the event rained out.

For more information on the Lucas Oil Late Model Dirt Series, visit LucasDirt.com.

Lucas Oil Late Model Dirt Series
Portsmouth Raceway Park – Portsmouth, Ohio
Independence 50 – July 4, 2019

FINISH	START	CAR #	DRIVER NAME	HOMETOWN	EARNINGS
1	2	157	Mike Marlar	Winfield, TN	$12,000
2	3	14	Josh Richards	Shinnston, WV	$6,300
3	6	20	Jimmy Owens	Newport, TN	$4,300
4	10	71	Hudson O’Neal	Martinsville, IN	$3,450
5	7	49	Jonathan Davenport	Blairsville, GA	$3,350
6	9	17d	Zack Dohm	Cross Lanes, WV	$1,800
7	5	1T	Tyler Erb	New Waverly, TX	$2,300
8	8	39	Tim McCreadie	Watertown, NY	$2,000
9	4	50	Shanon Buckingham	Morristown, TN	$1,900
10	22	5	Michael Norris	Sarver, PA	$1,100
11	13	12d	Doug Drown	Wooster, OH	$1,075
12	18	8	Jacob Hawkins	Fairmont, WV	$1,050
13	12	71R	Rod Conley	Wheelersburg, OH	$1,025
14	16	21	Billy Moyer, Jr.	Batesville, AR	$1,700
15	1	1M	Devin Moran	Dresden, OH	$1,700
16	23	1	Earl Pearson, Jr.	Jacksonville, FL	$1,900
17	24	40B	Kyle Bronson	Brandon, FL	$1,700
18	14	17T	Shannon Thornsberry	Martin, KY	$1,000
19	25	2s	Stormy Scott	Las Cruses, NM	$800
20	11	22F	Chris Ferguson	Mount Holly, NC	$1,000
21	21	C9	Steve Casebolt	Richmond, IN	$1,000
22	19	71C	RJ Conley	Wheelersburg, OH	$1,000
23	15	22	Gregg Satterlee	Indiana, PA	$1,000
24	17	12J	Jason Jameson	Lawrenceburg, IN	$1,000
25	20	4B	Jackie Boggs	Grayson, KY	$1,000

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Lucas Oil Late Model Dirt Series
Tyler County Speedway – Middlebourne, WV
Race Results – July 5, 2019

FINISH	START	CAR #	DRIVER NAME	HOMETOWN	EARNINGS
1	2	1T	Tyler Erb	New Waverly, TX	$12,800
2	3	14	Josh Richards	Shinnston, WV	$6,300
3	1	1M	Devin Moran	Dresden, OH	$4,200
4	4	22F	Chris Ferguson	Mount Holly, NC	$2,750
5	5	39	Tim McCreadie	Watertown, NY	$2,950
6	9	157	Mike Marlar	Winfield, TN	$1,800
7	13	44B	Colten Burdette	Parkersburg, WV	$1,500
8	10	87	Derek Doll	Greenwood, WV	$1,300
9	7	49	Jonathan Davenport	Blairsville, GA	$2,300
10	11	22	Gregg Satterlee	Indiana, PA	$1,100
11	6	20	Jimmy Owens	Newport, TN	$1,875
12	18	8	Jacob Hawkins	Fairmont, WV	$1,050
13	8	40B	Kyle Bronson	Brandon, FL	$1,725
14	12	25Z	Mason Zeigler	Chalk Hill, PA	$1,000
15	24	71	Hudson O’Neal	Martinsville, IN	$1,700
16	19	21	Billy Moyer, Jr.	Batesville, AR	$1,700
17	15	50	Shanon Buckingham	Morristown, TN	$1,700
18	25	2s	Stormy Scott	Las Cruses, NM	$800
19	20	32	Travis Stickley	Keyser, WV	$1,000
20	14	5	Michael Norris	Sarver, PA	$1,000
21	23	1	Earl Pearson, Jr.	Jacksonville, FL	$1,900
22	16	57	Kyle Thomas	Pennsboro, WV	$1,000
23	17	5*	Shane Hitt	Buckhannon, WV	$1,000
24	21	66c	Matt Cosner	Ridgeley, WV	$1,000
25	22	17d	Zack Dohm	Cross Lanes, WV	$1,000