DeCamp Emerges With First OCRS Victory Outruns Passmore To Become Fourth Consecutive New Winner
By John Rittenoure OCRS Web Editor
Pocola, Ok (June 15, 2013) - For the second straight night and the
fourth consecutive race, a new winner has emerged within the ranks of
the Oil Capital Racing Series. Friday night Kacee Frazier won her first
career OCRS sprint car main event at Monett Speedway. Saturday, young
Alex DeCamp stepped up at Tri-State Speedway to win his first OCRS
feature.
DeCamp became the seventh winner in nine OCRS races
held so far this season. And he could not have been any happier. The
victory snapped a string of bad luck for the DeCamp team.
“I
have been waiting on this for awhile,” DeCamp said afterwards while
waiting for his car to pass tech inspection. “We had some bad luck at
the beginning of the season getting caught up with everybody’s stuff and
making some trouble of my own. May be we got the monkey off our back
tonight.
“I want to thank my sponsors for making this
happen, Tri-State Speedway and OCRS for letting us run these sprint cars
weekly.” Some of that bad luck reared its ugly head again this weekend,
but DeCamp and his team worked through it just in time for Saturday’s
25-lap main event. “We barely made the heat race,” DeCamp said. “We were
fighting brake issues all night and did not have brakes last night
(Friday at Monett), tonight in the hot laps and barely had them in the
heat race. We had them for the A feature. We changed front brake and
rotator then the master cylinder and had to bleed the brakes.”
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Alex DeCamp enjoys the spoils of victory lane / Mike Spivey Photo
DeCamp earned the pole thanks to his heat race passing points and
feature point average and used it to his advantage driving out to an
early lead. “When we were making a lot of laps at the beginning without a
caution I knew we had a large lead then we had cautions and that got
everyone closer,” recalled DeCamp. “That makes it real nerve racking.
Then when you have a caution with four left then three left you don’t
know who is back there or if a tire is going down. I was ready to get
that race over as soon as possible.”
Johnny Kent chased
Morton for the first nine or ten laps before rookie Chance Morton took
over the runner-up position. For the next ten laps it was DeCamp and
Morton. But with five laps to go defending champion Jamie Passmore
slipped by Morton and made a run at DeCamp.
DeCamp did not
know it was Passmore lurking behind him. “I thought it was Chance Morton
as he kept showing me a nose during those cautions,” DeCamp said. “But
come to find out it was Jamie (Passmore). Glad I was able to hold him
off.”
The game plan for DeCamp was to maintain a low line from the start and it paid off.
“We started on the pole and I was just going to cover the bottom and
protect my line, said DeCamp. “But the track got abrasive and took a
little bit of rubber and became one lane. It paid off starting on the
front row.” Passmore was not able to catch DeCamp and settled for a
season best second place. Morton held on to third while Kent fell to
fourth. Alex Sewell picked up fifth and points leader Harli White worked
her way to sixth from 15th starting position.
Late yellow flags helped Passmore close on DeCamp but also hurt him with three laps remaining.
“It did,” said Passmore who started 11th to earn the AmeriFlex Hose and
Accessories Hard Charger award. “It makes the car get tight. You get
use to it then you don’t run into the corners as hard.”
Passmore
knew he had his work cut out for him with the pace DeCamp was setting.
“He was just as fast as I was,” Passmore said. “If we had got to those
lapped cars I think I would have had a chance. “It was a lot of fun. I
hope it was a good race for everyone to watch. “He (DeCamp) is a good
kid. He is a good racer.”
It was a good weekend for Morton who finished third to go with a
second place finish on Friday at Monett. The points earned move Morton
to fifth in points right behind his brother Kade. “Our car ended up
being good both nights,” said Morton. If he could have one key lap back
from Saturday night it might have been two second place finishes or even
another win. “I ran into the corner too hot and was not able to grab
the brakes soon enough and he just went underneath me,” said Morton
speaking of the move Passmore made to take over second.
One
red flag and four yellows occurred during the 25-lapper. On lap 12 the
red waved for Joshua Tyre and Kyle Clark. Tyre blew an engine putting
two holes in the engine block and igniting an engine fire. Tyre was not
hurt but did go home with the Dyno Services of Oklahoma Hard Luck award.
Clark had an exhaust fire, which was quickly put out. On lap 14, Casey
Wills and Perry Pickard tangled coming off turn four bringing out the
first yellow. During that time, points runner-up Brian McClelland
suffered a left front flat and exited to the pits. Four laps later Wills
spun to bring out another yellow then the final yellow waved on lap 22
for Kacee Frazier.
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Tri-State Speedway fans came to see OCRS sprint cars! / Mike Spivey Photo
Round number 10 of the 2013 OCRS tour
will find the winged warriors making their first visit of 2013 to the
newly named: Outlaw Motorsports Park in Wainwright Oklahoma. Visit the
tracks website at: www.outlawmotorsportspark.com for additional information.
For additional information on the OCRS sprint car series, log onto www.ocrsracing.com
Tri-State Speedway / Pocola Oklahoma June 15, 2013 Event #9 Car count: 21
(Pos-Car-Driver-Start)
AmeriFlex Hose and Accessories Heat
1, 4J-Jamie Passmore[3]. 2, 5$-Danny Smith[5]. 3, 8-Alex Sewell[2]. 4,
2-Mickey Walker[4]. 5, 00-Kacee Frazier[6]. 6, 7F-Joshua Tyre[1]. 7,
3G-Jeff Garnett[7].
Bob Hurley Auto Family Heat 1,
31-Casey Wills[1]. 2, 26-Rafe Essary[2]. 3, 84-Alex DeCamp[6]. 4,
7m-Chance Morton[5]. 5, 87F-Brian McClelland[7]. 6, 11-Michael Tyre[3].
7, 78-Perry Pickard[4].
Drive Shafts Inc. Heat 1,
88-Terry Easum[7]. 2, 9$-Kyle Clark[1]. 3, 8M-Kade Morton[4]. 4,
55-Johnny Kent[5]. 5, 17W-Harli White[6]. 6, 007-Michael Bookout[2]. 7,
94-Dan Schnackenberg[3].
OCRS A Feature 1, 84-Alex
DeCamp[1]. 2, 4J-Jamie Passmore[11]. 3, 7m-Chance Morton[3]. 4,
55-Johnny Kent[2]. 5, 8-Alex Sewell[10]. 6, 17W-Harli White[15]. 7,
8M-Kade Morton[7]. 8, 5$-Danny Smith[8]. 9, 11-Michael Tyre[17]. 10,
00-Kacee Frazier[14]. 11, 007-Michael Bookout[18]. 12, 88-Terry
Easum[5]. 13,78-Perry Pickard[20]. 14, 3G-Jeff Garnett[19]. 15, 94-Dan
Schnackenberg[21]. 16, 31-Casey Wills[6]. 17, 87F-Brian McClelland[12].
18, 2-Mickey Walker[13]. 19, 9$-Kyle Clark[4]. 20, 7F-Joshua Tyre[16].
21, 26-Rafe Essary[9]
AmeriFlex Hose and Accessories Hard Charger: Jamie Passmore +9. Dyno Services of Oklahoma Hard Luck: Joshua Tyre.
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Joshua Tyre in hot lap action at Tri-State Speedway / Mike Spivey Photo
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