From John Lemon
Monett MO — (June 14, 2013) — On the second ever visit to the Monett Speedway by the Tulsa Oklahoma based Oil Capital Racing Series sprint car group, the fans of the Monett Speedway got all they came for and walked away in amazement over what they had just seen. What they saw was one of the ‘ladies’ of the sprint car world chalk up a feature win in the OCRS series and thus becomes the third woman to do so since Shayla Waddell scored a win last year along with Harli White this season.
This time is was Tulsa Oklahoma’s Miss Kacee Frazier who fired off from the pole starting berth in her Shelton Redi-Mix / Finish Line Coatings / DSO Engines / GF1 chassis to start the 25-lap run. Frazier was chased into the first corner by fellow outside front row starter Michael Bookout and second row squatters, Terry Easum and Chance Morton. Alex DeCamp, who started on the outside of row three , flexed his muscles right away and was pressuring the top three for their positions. On lap two, DeCamp, who was fighting brake issues, made contact with Easum in turns three and four and proceeded to stall his mount while Easum and Kyle Clark, who was an innocent victim, also parked on the high side of the corner. All but DeCamp were able to re-fire and rejoin the fight.
One lap in after going back to green, Kade Morton looped his car in turn 2 and was hit by Mickey Walker. Both drivers were OK in the mishap. Morton would start tailback while Walker was done for the night. Frazier was encountering lapped traffic on the tenth lap and while pre-occupied with the lapped cars, it allowed previous 2013 OCRS feature winner Chance Morton to squeak by for the lead in the fourth corner and left Frazier with no doubt she would have to earn this one. And did she.
Six laps latter, Chance Morton, driving the Morton Excavating / Shock Doc / STK racing Engines / XXX chassis, caught up to traffic as well, and Frazier would repay the deed that had been done to her by executing a payback pass in turn two of the fifthteenth lap. It would be a lead that Frazier would not relinquish. With four laps remaining, Kyle Clark went off the high side of turns 3 and 4 where he did a very slow roll bringing out the night’s last caution. On the restart, Danny Smith was in the fifth hole and he went to task in slamming the cushion in his Same Day Auto Repair / DSO Engines / XXX chassis. He finished third after passing Alex Sewell, last weeks feature runner-up and by sliding by last weeks winner, Brian McClelland. “I didn’t come here to run fifth, fourth, third or second,” explained Smith. “I should have went to the top earlier but I didn’t. It was there for the taking all night.”
Frazier went on to take the checkers at the stripe by C. Morton, Smith, Easum and McClelland.
Sewell, Casey Wills, Harli White, K. Morton and Johnny Kent made up the balance of the top ten. Frazier commented on her night by saying, “I knew he (C. Morton) was there when I saw his nose then he got by me. I was too cautious with the lapped cars. I was fortuneate to catch him and pass him back. Next time I wont be so easy on the lapped traffic. That almost cost me. The bottom was really good and I stayed there as much as I could.”
Chance Morton explained his tussle with Frazier: “We were able to get by the first one (lapped car) pretty fast, but unfortunaeatly, we weren’t able to get by the other one and she passed me. I was trying to stay on the bottom where most the moisture was that I could see. During the last yellow I was just trying to keep the tires warmed up and kept thinking to myself, just keep on doing what I was doing.”
Casey Wills earned the AmeriFlex Hose and Accessories “Hard Charger award moving up six places.
Rob Hooper was the Dyno Services of Oklahoma Hard Luck receipient after loosing a motor in his heat race.
The next event for the OCRS sprint cars is Saturday night at the Tri-State Speedway in Pocola Oklahoma where action at TSS has been nothing short of spectacular the last few visits. Racing action will start at 7:30pm. Be there!
Monett Speedway / Monett Missouri
May 14, 2013
Event #8
Car Count: 20
(Pos-Car-Driver-Start)
AmeriFlex Hose and Accessories Heat
1, 17W-Harli White[3]. 2, 23A-Travis Ashwood[1]. 3, 8-Alex Sewell[5]. 4, 9$-Kyle Clark[2]. 5, 31-Casey Wills[4]. 6, 55-Johnny Kent[7]. 7, 7F-Joshua Tyre
Bob Hurley Auto Family Heat
1, 7m-Chance Morton[1]. 2, 88-Terry Easum[7]. 3, 007-Michael Bookout[2]. 4, 00-Kacee Frazier[3]. 5, 11-Michael Tyre[4]. 6, 94-Dan Schnackenberg[5]. 7, 3G-Jeff Garnett[6].
Drive Shafts Inc. Heat
1, 5$-Danny Smith[1]. 2, 87F-Brian McClelland[3]. 3, 84-Alex DeCamp[6]. 4, 8M-Kade Morton[4]. 5, 18-Rob Hooper[5]. 6, 2-Mickey Walker[2].
OCRS A Feature
1, 00-Kacee Frazier[1]. 2, 7m-Chance Morton[4]. 3, 5$-Danny Smith[8]. 4, 88-Terry Easum[3]. 5, 87F-Brian McClelland[10]. 6, 8-Alex Sewell[9]. 7, 31-Casey Wills[13]. 8, 17W-Harli White[12]. 9, 8M-Kade Morton[7]. 10, 55-Johnny Kent[16]. 11, 11-Michael Tyre[14]. 12, 007-Michael Bookout[2]. 13, 7F-Joshua Tyre[19]. 14, 9$-Kyle Clark[5]. 15, 3G-Jeff Garnett[20]. 16, 94-Dan Schnackenberg[17]. 17, 23A-Travis Ashwood[11]. 18, 2-Mickey Walker[18]. 19, 84-Alex DeCamp[6]. 20, 18-Rob Hooper[15]. (DNS).
AmeriFlex Hose and Accessories Hard Charger: Casey Wills +6
Dyno Services of Oklahoma Hard Luck Award: Rob Hooper