Moyer Wins Second Night of Late Model Action at East Bay Raceway Park
by Terry Young
Tuesday, February 7, 2006 GIBSONTON, Fla. -- As Night #2 was to get underway for the 30th Annual WINTERNATIONALS at the beautiful and lightning fast EAST BAY RACEWAY PARK hosted by the LUCAS OIL Dirt Late Model Series, 90 cars passed their way through the tech line and drew for qualifying positions.
Just as hot laps sessions were about to get underway a light mist set in over the track. After the track was rolled back in, qualifying got underway. With the track not to some drivers liking who had early numbers, they chose to miss their original spot in the qulaifying order, go 1 l;ap at the end and see where the chips would fall.
This seemed to be a good plan as some of the last cars out turned the fastest qualifying times. Donnie Moran recorded the FAST TIME honors with a lap of 15.438 as one of the last cars to qualify.
Heat races were won by Clint Smith over Donnie Moran, Anthony Rushing over Davey Johnson, Billy Moyer over Scott James, Dale McDowell over Gerald Davis, Rick Eckert over Shannon Babb, Brady Smith over Dennis Erb, Earl Pearson over Chub Frank and Dave Scott over Terry Casey.
The consi events were topped by Doug Horton over Tim Fuller, Brian Birkhofer over Anthony White, Tim McCreadie over Matt Miller and Steve Hillard over Steve Casebolt.
The feature rolled onto the track with Rick Eckert and Dale McDowell leading the pack from the front row and McDowell rolled to the point in the opening laps. The first caution would fly on Lap 3 as Chub Frank stopped with a flat. After an aborted restart which eliminated several cars in turn 1 as the red was unfurled over the field with the track completely blocked, McDowell was back to the point on the next attempted restart only to have the caution displayed again as Eckert got sideways on the backstretch and contact was made with Billy Moyer which ended with Eckert having a flat.
After the restart McDowell lead with Earl Pearson and Moyer in hot persuit. McDowell would lead the pack until lap 26 when Moyer made the pass for the lead and never looked back.Following Moyer at the stripe were McDowell, Pearson, Rushing, Moran, Smith, Scott, Clint Smith, Horton and Erb.
Moyer was driving a C.J. Rayburn chassis owned by his father Bill Moyer with sponsorship from CAR CITY, Watters Autoland, Banner Valley Hauling, Petroff Towing, Sunoco Race Fuels, Hoosier by Pup, and powered by a PRO POWER Engine.
RESULTS
Heat 1
Marshall Green Clint Smith Corey Conley Donnie Moran Rodney Melvin Robbie Blair Butch McGill John VanDenBerg Wayne Johnson Joey Tanner Larry Smith Finish: 1. C. Smith 2. Moran 3. Green 4. Melvin 5. McGill 6. Blair 7. VanDenBerg 8. Johnson 9. Tanner 10. L. Smith 11. Conley
Heat 2
Anthony Rushing Davey Johnson Eddie Carrier, Jr. Doug Horton Jimmy Mars Bo Feathers Tim Senic Tim Fuller Jimmy Owens Richard Wheelihan Scott Riggs Finish: 1. Rushing 2. Johnson 3. Horton 4. Carrier 5. Fuller 6. Mars 7. Owens 8. Feathers 9. Senic 10. Wheelihan 11. Riggs
Heat 3
Scott Dedwylder Billy Moyer Jason Montgomery Scott James Bryan Collins Damon Eller Daniel Stone Kevin Cole Roger Lucas Brad Neat Bob Geiger Finiish: 1. Moyer 2. James 3. Montgomery 4. Dedwylder 5. Collins 6. Stone 7. Eller 8. Neat 9. Lucas 10. Geiger 11. Cole
Heat 4
Birkhofer McDowell Gerald Davis Anthony White Brain Shirley Don O'Neal Joe Morris Nick Baggett Charles Duncan Freddie Carpenter Lynn Chapman Finish: 1. McDowell 2. Davis 3. O'Neal 4. White 5. Birkhofer 6. Shirley 7. Baggett 8. Carpenter 9. Duncan 10. Chapman
Heat 5
Tim McCreadie Shannon Babb Ricky Arms Rick Eckert Garrett Durrett Patrick Sheltra Jordan Bland Mike Johnson Marshall Austin Rusty Dixon Don Hammer Finish: 1. Eckert 2. Babb 3. McCreadie 4. Arms 5. Sheltra 6. Durrett 7. Austin 8. Bland 9. Johnson 10. Dixon 11. Hammer
Heat 6
Matt Miller Dennis Erb, Jr. Brady Smith Randy Korte Clint Coffman Jeff Gress Michael England Steve Francis C.J. Rayburn Danny Mitchell Sonny Conley Finish: 1. B. Smith 2. Erb 3. Korte 4. Francis 5. Miller 6. English 7. Conley 8. Gress 9. Rayburn 10. Coffman
Heat 7
Chub Frank Earl Pearson, Jr. Terry English Steve Casebolt Wendell Wallace Dean carpenter John Mason Christian Rayburn Frank Schickel Kristin Flory Freddy Smith Finish: 1. Pearson 2. Frank 3. Casebolt 4. English 5. Mason 6. Carpenter 7. Wallace 8. Shickel 9. Rayburn 10. Flory
Heat 8
Terry Casey David Scott Steve Hillard Justin Ratliff Jason Flory Tim Dohm Ricky Elliott Dan Schlieper Dave Hess Wade Witherspoon Finish: 1. Scott 2. Casey 3. Hillard 4. Schlieper 5. Ratliff 6. Dohm 7. Elliiott 8. Flory 9. Hess 10. Witherspoon
1. (4) Billy Moyer 2. (2) Dale McDowell 3. (3) Earl Pearson 4. (5) Anthony Rushing 5. (9) Donnie Moran 6. (7) Brady Smith 7. (6) David Scott 8. (8) Clint Smith 9. (17) Doug Horton 10. (14) Dennis Erb 11. (11) Scott James 12. (12) Gerald Davis 13. (18) Brian Birkhofer 14. (22) Anthony White 15. (10) Tim Fuller 16. (13) Shannon Babb 17. (10) Davey Johnson 18. (19) Tim McCreadie 19. (1) Rick Eckert 20. (16) Terry Casey 21. (15) Chub Frank 22. (20) Steve Hillard 23. (23)Matt Miller 24. (24) Steve Casebolt
GROUP #1
Chub Frank Missed Spot In Qualifying-1 Lap- 16.532 Scott Riggs Tim Senic Richard Wheelihan Jimmy Mars Jared Landers Marshall Austin Rusty Dixon Rodney Melvin 16.568 Dale McDowell Missed Spot In Qualifying-1 Lap- 16.303 Dan Schlieper Lynn Chapman
GROUP #2
John VanDenBerg Missed Spot In Qualifying-1 Lap- 17.037 Brian Birkhofer Missed Spot In Qualifying-1 Lap- 16.432 Steve Hillard 16.242 Steve Francis Missed Spot In Qualifying-1 Lap- 17.130 Donnie Moran Missed Spot In Qualifying-1 Lap- 15.438 Clint Smith Missed Spot In Qualifying-1 Lap- 16.255 Freddie Carpenter Joe Morris Scott James Missed Spot In Qualifying-1 Lap- 15.756 Don O'Neal Missed Spot In Qualifying-1 Lap- 16.716 C.J. Rayburn
GROUP #3
Bob Geiger 18.973, 19.042 Damon Eller 17.436, 16.174 NIck Baggett 17.465, 17.111 Patrick Sheltra 16.745, 16.893 Tim Fuller 17.241, 17.083 Matt Miller Missed Spot In Qualifying-1 Lap- 16.445 Don Hammer 22.743 David Scott 16.344, 16.428 Roger Lucas 17.219 Brad Neat SPIN, 17.754 Dan Stone 18.564, 16.914 Butch McGill 16.807, 16.829
GROUP #4
Jason Flory 16.807, 16.666 Wade Witherspoon 18.022, 18.020 Terry English 16.236 Ricky Arms Sonny Conley SPIN Freddy Smith Shannon Babb Missed Spot In Qualifying-1 Lap- 16.313 Joey Tanner 17.706, 17.650 Tim Dohm Missed Spot In Qualifying-1 Lap- 16.792 Scott Dedwylder 16.502, 16.408 Mike Johnson 17.313, 17.121
GROUP 5
Anthony Rushing 16.464, 16.400 Ricky Elliott 17.004, 17.255 Dave Hess 17.580, 17.917 Tim McCreadie 16.657, 16.439 Jimmy Owens17.223, 17.194 Clint Coffman 16.958, 16.661 Michael England 17.268, 16.986 Larry Smith18.028, 18.335 Terry Casey 16.556, 16.563 Brady Smith 16.568, 16.174 Garrett Durrett 18.626, 16.639
GROUP #6
Gerald Davis 16.272, 16.126 Wayne Johnson 18.037, 17.188 Christian Rayburn 17.241, 17.151 Jason Montgomery 16.925, 16.122 Corey Conley 16.888, 16.045 Brian Shirley 16.628, 16.754 Dennis Erb, Jr. 16.339, 16.397 Wendall Wallace 16.717, 16.661 Bo Feathers Missed Spot In Qualifying-1 Lap- 16.685 John Mason 17.156, 16.990 Davey Johnson 16.258, 16.578
GROUP #7
Marshall Green 16.38416.537 Steve Casebolt 16.180, 15.811 Kristin Flory 17.995, 18.689 Robbie Blair 16.784, 16.678 Jackie Boggs Earl Pearson, Jr. 16.343, 16.512 Jeff Gress 16.762, 16.795 Billy Moyer, Jr. 16.339, 16.298 Justin Ratliff 15.956, 16.663 Rick Eckert 15.793, 15.850 Frank Shickel, Jr.17.882, 17.549
GROUP #8
Bryan Collins 16.721, 16.611 Kevin Cole 17.100 Dean Carpenter 16.777, 16.807 Charles Duncan Missed Spot In Qualifying-1 Lap- 17.327 Josh McGuire Doug Horton 15.824, 15.603 Anthony White 15.894, 15.782 Randy Korte 16.366, 15.800 Danny Mitchell 20.339, 17.933 Eddie Carrier, Jr. 16.375, 16.080 Jordan Bland 17.600, 16.980
