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McClelland
Masters Foes In
Callie Slader
Memorial
John Lemon
OCRS Public Relations
Muskogee Oklahoma
(May 27, 2011)- Sometimes a change of scenery can make one blossom more
than before and in tonight’s Callie Slader Memorial, one racer was in full bloom.
Tulsa’s Sean McClelland changed rides for the fifth stop on the 2011 Oil
Capital Racing Series sprint car tour event at the Thunderbird Speedway in
Muskogee Oklahoma. He dominated the field in his first time out in a familiar
machine. McClelland started the OCRS season in the Timco Automotive 15x but the
two parties parted ways after the last event at Oklahoma Sports Park and
McClelland dropped a power plant in his own XXX Chassis and promptly ran away
from the field in the Callie Slader Memorial run.
McClelland took the initial green flag from Starter J.D. Etter, and was
passed by Dewey’s Andrew Deal in turn two. However, a yellow flag for Johnny
‘Hot Rod’ Kent, (who was stalled in turn fourth after making contact with the
outside wall. Kent was OK but was done for the night.
Shortly after the new restart, McClelland retook his place at the point,
Deal would hold second in check, Kacee Frazier trailed behind Deal with Jeremy
Allen and Travis Jenkins in line. Just a couple of laps later, Whit Gastineau
began to show his muscle from his 13th starting position. McClelland
would get such a solid run out of his Maxell Oil / Finish LIne Machining
sprinter that he began to lap cars on the 7th lap.
On
the 13th lap, a torrid battled between Deal and Allen began as each
driver began to take turns in the runner up spot while defending champion Jamie
Passmore began to make his presence felt. A couple of laps later, a yellow
would fall for the stalled car of Tyler Johnson who came to a stop in turn four.
The restart would see McClelland in front followed by Deal, J. Allen, Passmore,
Gastineau, Danny Smith, Danny Jennings and Brady Demeree.
On
the restart, Gastineau would work around Passmore in turn one and Jennings
would dispose of Smith. Demeree would pull into the infield at the completion
of the lap (15). Two laps later, a red would fall for the flipping Josh Toho in
turns three and four. He would be OK. On its restart, Gastineau would get by
Jennings for fourth while Goodman would overtake Sherrill for eighth coming out
of turn two.
In the final laps, McClelland would stretch his lead to
wide margins and take the checkered flag with ease. Deal would be your second
place finisher in the A.R.T. Chassis / Burk Oil / Dyno Services special with
Allen crossing the line next. It was found in post race inspection that Allen
had a mechanical infraction and he was disqualified and scored 20th.
This placed Gastineau third in his Shell Rapid Lube & Larry Allen Engines
backed Eagle sprinter, with Jennings fourth in his Goodyear Tire sponsored
racer and then Passmore rounding out the top five in his G.A.P. roofing bullet.
All five were on the Goodyear Eagle racing tire.
“I
knew I had a pretty big lead there because my guys were up there telling me
what kind of lead I had so I just tried to maintain it (lead), hit my marks and
just take off” said the nights winner. “It’s my car and this is the first time
we have ran a carbureted motor in it and it drove like a dream. I have to thank
XXX (chassis) for that.” Andrew Deal was pleased with his run, albeit it was a
distant second this night. “Just like anything else, it takes a little bit of
time to start meshing together (with a new car owner) I feel like we are
starting to figure the car out. It’s a brand new chassis and nobody really runs
the A.R.T. around here so we will get it figured out, we are getting there.”
2011
OCRS rookie of the year contender Josh Toho was victorious in the 12 lap B
Feature while McClelland snared the 5 lap dash race for the right to start on
the pole in the main event. Heat winners were: Travis Jenkins, Kacee Frazier,
Johnny Kent and Jeremy Allen.
The next event for the OCRS warriors will be next
Friday night, June 3rd when the sprinters take to the ultra fast 3/8
mile track at the Outlaw Motor Speedway in Muskogee.
OCRS results 5/27/2011
30 Cars
Heat 1
1.Travis
Jenkins 2.Terry Easum 3.Sean McClelland 4.Danny Jennings 5.Shayla Waddell 6.
Keith Bolton 7.Casey Wills 8.Kenneth
Walker
Heat 2.
1.Kacee
Frazier 2.Jamie Passmore 3.Andrew Deal 4.Tyler Johnson 5.Beau Gastineau 6.Josh
Toho 7. Justin Allen 8. Chris Pillars
Heat 3
1.Johnny
Kent 2.Tim Kent 3.Brady Demeree 4.Matt Sherrell 5.Kevin Quinn 6.Fred Mattox 7.
Rob Hooper (DNS)
Heat 4
1.Jeremy
Allen 2.Danny Smith 3.Whit Gastineau 4.Rafe Essary 5.Mike Goodman 6.Kyle Clark
7.Burt Davis
Dash
1.Sean
McClelland 2.Andrew Deal 3.Kacee Frazier 4.Jeremy Allen 5.Johnny Kent 6.Travis
Jenkins
B Feature
1.Josh Toho
2.Matt Sherrell 3.Mike Goodman 4.Shayla Waddell 5.Kevin Guinn 6.Keith Bolton
7.Casey Wills 8.Chris Pillars 9.Justin Allen 10.Beau Gastineau 11.Burt Davis
12.Fred Mattox 13.Kenneth Walker (DNS) 14.Rob Hooper (DNS)
A Feature “The Callie Slader Memorial” ( ) = Starting Position
1.Sean
McClelland (1) 2.Andrew Deal (2) 3.Whit Gastineau (13) 4.Danny Jennings (12)
5.Jamie Passmore (7) 6.Mike Goodman (19) 7.Matt Sherrell (18) 8.Rafe Essary
(15) 9. Kyle Clark (16) 10. Shayla Waddell (20) 11. Terry Easum (10) 12. Travis
Jenkins (6) 13. Kacee Frazier (3) 14. Danny Smith (8) 15. Josh Toho (17) 16.
Brady Demeree (9) 17. Tim Kent (11) 18. Tyler Johnson (14) 19. Johnny Kent (5)
20. Jeremy Allen (DQ)
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