Josh Richards Rolls To Twin Lucas Oil Weekend Victories

Josh Richards salutes the fans after winning Friday night’s Lucas Oil Late Model Dirt Series race at Tri-City Speedway. He would follow it up with a win on Saturday night at Lucas Oil Speedway. Photo: LODLMS Media/Twitter

Josh Richards put together a commanding performance over the weekend, as he swept both Lucas Oil Late Model Dirt Series events.

Friday night, he drove to the win at Tri-County Speedway in Granite City, Illinois. He then broke out the broom on Saturday night, as he recorded the victory at Lucas Oil Speedway in Wheatland, Missouri.

On Friday night, Richards fought off a late-race challenge by Tim McCreadie to score the win at Tri-County, marking his first career win at the speedway.

McCreadie came home in second place after starting in seventh. Don O’Neal charged to a third-place finish, with Brian Shirley edging out Jimmy Owens on the final lap for to finish fourth.

“This is only about the third or fourth time I have ever run here,” said Richards. “There is no doubt that it’s a fun track to race on. There is plenty of room out there. I must thank my crew, Randall and Tyler, for the set-up on this Rocket Chassis. Our team gelled pretty quick and it’s only gotten better, especially in the last few weeks we have been running extremely well and a lot of that success goes to Andy Durham of Durham Race Engines.”

“It got a bit slick out there for a while,” Richards continued. “I kept searching for a line that would work best for me. With not a lot of experience here, you just don’t know where to run at certain times during the race. In this points deal, if you are going to win it, you should be consistent. You can’t run fifth every time out and expect to win a championship, you need to win races.”

Richards took the lead at the start of the main event and was never seriously challenged for that spot until with less than ten laps to go when McCreadie started to close the gap. McCreadie pulled to within a car length before a caution with five laps to go hurt his momentum. On the restart Richards pulled away from McCreadie and took the win.

On Saturday, Richards extended his points lead with a win in the CMH Diamond Nationals on Saturday night at Lucas Oil Speedway. It marked his seventh series win of the year and his first ever at the Missouri facility.

Jimmy Owens looked to be on his way to another victory at the track, but Richards tracked him down and took the lead with eight laps to go. Owens then got too high in turn four while trying to get back around Richards and his car stalled with three laps remaining in the race. Richards then went unchallenged for the win.

“We weren’t very fast in hot laps or qualifying,” said Richards. “We basically went with the same set-up as last night, and then we made some adjustments. We weren’t that great at the beginning, but the longer the race went, the tires on the car felt good. I hate it for Jimmy though. I saw that he tried to get back by me on the outside and he got up close to the wall and the car must have stalled or something.”

The race went the first 57 laps caution-free until Owens brought out the only caution of the race. The long green-flag conditions helped Richards out he said.

“Jimmy was pretty good early, and he was so far out there, but he eventually came back to us,” he said. “We just have to focus on being fast, the last two nights helped a lot. It can turn around in a heartbeat.”

Don O’Neal finished in second, with Darrell Lanigan in third, Hudson O’Neal in fourth and Jesse Stovall in fifth.

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

Lucas Oil Late Model Dirt Series
Tri-City Speedway – Granite City, IL
NAPA Know How 50 – July 14, 2017

FINISH	START	CAR #	DRIVER NAME	HOMETOWN	EARNINGS
1	2	1R	Josh Richards	Shinnston, WV	$10,900
2	7	39	Tim McCreadie	Watertown, NY	$6,200
3	9	5	Don O’Neal	Martinsville, IN	$4,300
4	1	3s	Brian Shirley	Chatham, IL	$2,750
5	3	20	Jimmy Owens	Newport, TN	$3,050
6	4	18	Shannon Babb	Mowequa, IL	$1,800
7	10	71	Hudson O’Neal	Martinsville, IN	$2,300
8	16	22	Gregg Satterlee	Rochester Mills, PA	$2,000
9	8	1	Earl Pearson, Jr.	Jacksonville, FL	$2,000
10	6	21	Billy Moyer	Batesville, AR	$1,100
11	21	28E	Dennis Erb, Jr.	Carpentersville, IL	$1,775
12	15	C8	Timothy Culp	Prattsville, AR	$1,050
13	22	32C	Chris Simpson	Oxford, IA	$1,025
14	12	15	Steve Francis	Bowling Green, KY	$1,700
15	25	82	Billy Laycock	Marine, IL	$950
16	13	75	Billy Drake	Bloomington, IL	$925
17	14	99B	Boom Briggs	Bear Lake, PA	$1,600
18	19	94	Austin Rettig	Sikeston, MO	$875
19	23	32B	Clay Daly	Salinas, CA	$850
20	20	0	Scott Bloomquist	Mooresburg, TN	$1,825
21	5	14	Darrell Lanigan	Union, KY	$1,500
22	11	36	Logan Martin	West Plains, MO	$800
23	17	1S	Rick Salter	Highland, IL	$800
24	24	11H	Jeff Herzog	Herculaneum, MO	$800
25	18	56	Tony Jackson, Jr.	Lebanon, MO	$800

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Lucas Oil Late Model Dirt Series
Lucas Oil Speedway – Wheatland, MO
CMH Diamond Nationals – July 15, 2017

FINISH	START	CAR #	DRIVER NAME	HOMETOWN	EARNINGS
1	8	1R	Josh Richards	Shinnston, WV	$12,800
2	6	5	Don O’Neal	Martinsville, IN	$6,400
3	4	14	Darrell Lanigan	Union, KY	$4,200
4	2	71	Hudson O’Neal	Martinsville, IN	$3,550
5	10	0	Jesse Stovall	Billings, MO	$2,250
6	15	39	Tim McCreadie	Watertown, NY	$2,500
7	12	28E	Dennis Erb, Jr.	Carpentersville, IL	$2,200
8	18	2T	Jake O’Neil	Tucson, AZ	$1,300
9	9	1	Earl Pearson, Jr.	Jacksonville, FL	$2,000
10	3	15	Steve Francis	Bowling Green, KY	$1,800
11	5	1V	Will Vaught	Crane, MO	$1,075
12	13	0	Scott Bloomquist	Mooresburg, TN	$2,050
13	26	20x	Rodney Sanders	Happy, TX	$1,025
14	7	15P	Payton Looney	Republic, MO	$1,000
15	1	20	Jimmy Owens	Newport, TN	$1,900
16	14	3s	Brian Shirley	Chatham, IL	$1,000
17	21	32B	Clay Daly	Salinas, CA	$1,000
18	20	36	Logan Martin	West Plains, MO	$1,000
19	17	5T	Randy Timms	Wheatland, OK	$1,000
20	19	22	Gregg Satterlee	Rochester Mills, PA	$1,700
21	23	99B	Boom Briggs	Bear Lake, PA	$1,700
22	11	91P	Jason Papich	Nipomo, CA	$1,000
23	16	10m	Jacob Magee	Caney, KS	$1,000
24	24	43	Jeremy Grady	Story City, IA	$1,000
25	22	75P	Terry Phillips	Springfield, MO	$1,000
26	25	56	Tony Jackson, Jr.	Lebanon, MO	$1,000