By Steve Molnar

KILGORE, TX (May 15, 1999) - Ronnie Adams averted disaster and collected an extra $1000 bonus from local businessman Larry Stiles as he claimed his third O’Reilly’s Southern United Professional Racing (SUPR) victory of the year at Lone Star Speedway. Stiles posted the bonus to the driver who wins the most O’Reilly’s SUPR races at Lone Star this year and Adams 3rd victory in as many tries wrapped up the bonus with 2 races to go.

Adams started the feature in the 10th position and quickly worked his way forward before grabbing the lead from his A-1 Auto Salvage teammate Duke Whiseant on lap 16. Once out front Adams appeared to have a comfortable lead until he tangled with the lapped car of Casey Jordan on lap 33. Adams survived the altercation with moderate front-end damage but had to stave off Whiseant and Larry Ritter to hold onto to the win.

“(The contact with Jordan) bent that nose down and started digging in the dirt. That’s why I had so much trouble there at the end. The car was digging down in the ground and caused a push on me. So I had to start easing up getting into the corners.”

When the race restarted with 8 laps to go, it was a 3-car battle as Whiseant and Ritter were right behind Adams. Whiseant took several looks under Adams while Ritter grabbed 2nd with 3 to go only to see Whiseant grab it back with 2 to go. Dave Siegert, who claimed the Lloyd Wild Jr. Logging Hard Charger award moving up from his 19th starting spot was fourth, followed by Kenny Merchant in his new J.D.Caver-owned Warrior.

33 Late Models were on hand and Casey Jordan claimed the GRT Top Qualifier award. He drew a 6 for the feature while Randy Cook drew an ace and started on the pole in just his first visit to the track. Heat winners were Jordan, Marlon Wild, Kenny Merchant, Bubba Mullins and Whiseant while Rob Litton and Dennis Duncan claimed the last chance wins.

Official Results:
1. Ronnie Adams - 1A
2. Duke Whiseant - A1
3. Larry Ritter - 9R
4. Dave Siegert - 125
5. Kenny Merchant - c28
6. David Ashley - 14
7. Bubba Mullins - 10
8. Jay Blair - 2x
9. Junior Taylor - t21
10. Jason Ingalls - 12
11. Michael Coleman - 5A
12. Wayman McMillian - 14M
13. Casey Jordan - 11
14. Marlon Wild - 48
15. Randy Cook - 7c
16. Jon Mitchell - 5M
17. Donald Watson - 91
18. Eric Conner - 1C
19. Doug Ingalls - 28
20. Steve Latson - 9
21. Rob Litton - 6x
22. Dennis Duncan - 8