Triumph Moves Kentucky Star Within One Checkered Flag Of National Tour’s Single-Season Win Record

WINNIPEG, MB – July 12, 2012 – Darrell Lanigan put himself at the doorstep of World of Outlaws Late Model Series history with a convincing victory in Thursday night’s 50-lap A-Main at Red River Co-op Speedway.

Roaring back from his first DNF of 2012 two nights earlier, the 42-year-old star from Union, Ky., took advantage of an outside pole starting spot to lead the entire distance. His triumph in the tour’s first-ever visit to the Canadian province of Manitoba was his eighth of the season and moved him within one checkered flag of tying the circuit’s modern-era (2004-present) single-season win record held by Scott Bloomquist and Josh Richards.

“We had a good car (on Tuesday night at Black Hills Speedway in Rapid City, S.D.), but we just had some problems and got a DNF,” said Lanigan, whose 18 ^th-place run at the half-mile oval marked just his third finish outside the top 10 in 24 events. “We knocked a hole in the radiator and had to pull out, but we came back strong tonight. We had a brand-new (Cornett) motor – that thing was awesome.” (more…)

CONCORD, NC – July 12, 2012 – Tim Fuller is set to join the Kennedy Motorsports dirt Late Model operation as a teammate to Shane Clanton, team owner John Kennedy has announced.

Kennedy’s decision to hire Fuller will provide a huge boost to both the veteran Watertown, N.Y., driver and Kennedy’s fledgling racing effort. Fuller, 44, has struggled to keep his self-owned racing program afloat financially on the World of Outlaws Late Model Series for the past two years, but his ability remains unquestioned and points to a powerhouse pairing with Fayetteville, Ga.’s Clanton under the Kennedy Motorsports banner.

“We’re extremely excited to have Tim Fuller as part of our team,” said Kennedy, a native of the Jamestown, N.Y., area who now lives in Phoenix, Ariz. “His experience as a racer over the years – especially his last six as a World of Outlaws regular – will help take our whole program to a higher level and put us in position for success.

“With Tim and Shane Clanton, Kennedy Motorsports will have two very talented drivers who are proven winners working together. That’s a very exciting situation for any car owner.” (more…)

Quarter-Mile Oval Annually Produces Some Of The National Tour’s Most Heart-Stopping Racing

GRAND FORKS, ND – July 12, 2012 – Tim McCreadie pretty much summed up the essence of River Cities Speedway after winning the high-banked, quarter-mile oval’s World of Outlaws Late Model Series event last year.

“This place is a bad-ass, racy little joint,” McCreadie raved while standing – drenched in sweat and breathing heavily – in Victory Lane. “It’s a long ways away from home, but it’s fun to come here. If you sleep for a lap or take it easy for a lap, the next thing you know you’re getting passed.”

Indeed, there’s no track on the WoO LMS schedule that has consistently produced wilder, more exciting racing in recent years than River Cities, a whipsaw of a speedway that will host the renowned national full-fender tour for the seventh consecutive season this Friday night (July 13). The evening’s featured attraction, the Seven Clans Casinos 50, boasts a $10,000 top prize and is part of the World of Outlaws circuit’s ‘Wild West Tour’ that visits tracks in North Dakota, South Dakota, Minnesota and Manitoba.

McCreadie, 38, of Watertown, N.Y., became the latest winner of a WoO LMS thriller at River Cities last year with a drive that left his body physically drained, his Sweeteners Plus wheezing and the track’s fans buzzing. Pounding the blazing-fast track’s cushion for the second half of the race, he passed Jimmy Mars of Menomonie, Wis., for the lead on lap 31 and spent the remainder of the distance battling to stay out front in an event that saw four drivers in contention for the win on the final lap. (more…)