Shane Clanton celebrates in victory lane after winning Friday night’s World of Outlaws Late Model Series feature at Ponderosa Speedway. Photo: WoO Media
Shane Clanton claimed his third World of Outlaws Craftsman Late Model Series victory of the season Friday night at Junction City, Kentucky’s Ponderosa Speedway, winning the 24th-annual “Kentucky Klassic.”
“Well, just catching those lapped cars, I was able to get in better position in the corners,” the Zebulon, Georgia racer said. “I knew if I got up against that berm, I could go down the straight-away and it would be difficult for someone to pass me.”
On the first lap, Clanton used the outside groove to wheel his machine into the lead. He then led the remainder of the race. It marked the defending points champion’s first win since Feb. 20 at Barbersville, Florida.
“I think our car had a good balance as choppy as the track was,” said Clanton, who first dealt with lapped cars on lap 9. “If you got a good balance, you don’t upset your car when you go over the holes. Our car is so balanced right now it could go wherever you want it to go.”
Although Clanton led the field for the majority of the race, second-place finisher Chris Madden made a late push with 15 laps to go – revisiting two out-of-series barn-burners the drivers had on April 23 at Georgia’s Senoia Raceway and Rome Speedway on April 24.
Madden, a regional favorite, challenged the Outlaws – specifically Clanton. But, it may have been the luck of the draw that diminished Madden’s chances of catching Clanton in the end.
“We just drew a bad number tonight,” said Madden, who drew a number six for the feature event. “We had a great racecar, but we just needed to start toward the front.
“Right toward the end we got into lap traffic when we went to make that late-charge. I won two in a row that night in Senoia and went to Rome Speedway and beat him again. I’m still up on him.”
Madden beat Clanton at Senoia by a .013 margin, but he was only able to close the gap to four-one-hundredths of a second at Ponderosa. With five laps to go, Clanton doubled the margin, slamming the door on both Madden’s late-pursuit and the possibility of a non-Outlaw winning a feature for a third-straight weekend.
In an uncanny resemblance, Clanton was doomed by lapped traffic in both prior battles with Madden. This time however, Clanton was able to weave through the field where Madden could not. It took slicing through a three-wide group of lapped cars to widen the gap.
“Madden was closing in on me, but in the middle of lapped cars I did all that I can do,” Clanton said. “I just knew I had to meet my marks and get passed those lapped cars as best as I could and let him play havoc trying to get by them. To outrun him and the field feels pretty good.
“Lapped cars cost me my race two weeks ago at Senoia with Madden, and I didn’t want to do it tonight. Luckily, we prevailed.”
Rounding out the podium was Gregg Satterlee. He started the race in the lead position. Satterlee kept to the bottom groove of the track, but said it was the harder tires that caused him to fade quicker than Clanton and Madden.
“I guess we were a little harder on our tires than they were,” Satterlee said. “I think they had a softer right-rear tire, and I think that allowed them to get going a little quicker. We went 30 laps and I knew we were right with these guys, and in those last nine laps, it kind of got away.”
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Ponderosa Speedway – Junction City, KY
Kentucky Klassic – May 6, 2016
1. 25- Shane Clanton
2. 44- Chris Madden
3. 22- Gregg Satterlee
4. 18- Eric Wells
5. 5- Don O’Neal
6. 1- Josh Richards
7. 12- Jason Jameson
8. 97- Michael Chilton
9. 88. Greg Johnson
10. 7- Rick Eckert
11. 15- Steve Francis
12. 21JR- Billy Moyer, Jr.
13. 157- Mike Marlar
14. 15L- Darrell Lanigan
15. 76- Brandon Overton
16. C9- Steve Casebolt
17. 18c- Chase Junghans
18. 3s- Brian Shirley
19. 1*- Chub Frank
20. 99jr- Frank Heckenast, Jr.
21. 1R- B.J. Robinson
22. 91- Tyler Erb
23. 14M- Morgan Bagley
24. D8- Dustin Linville
25. 16- Justin Rattliff
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