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Merrill takes the Pro-Cuts Texas World Dirt Track Championship
Fort Worth, Texas (March 6, 2004) – Raymond Merrill of Sallisaw, OK and Kenny Gaddis of Hallsville etched their names in the record books Saturday night as the inaugural champions of the Pro-Cuts Texas World Dirt Track Championship at the Texas Motor Speedway Dirt Track. Merrill broke away from a close early-race battle with Ronny Adams, Greenwood, LA to score his first O'Reilly SUPR late model career victory in the 40-lap feature. Gaddis enjoyed a perfect evening in the modified program, winning his heat, the B feature then charging from 13th starting spot to claim the 25-lap feature. Both drivers won $2,500 for their World Championships. The largest crowd in the 15-year history of the O'Reilly SUPR late model series watched Merrill and Adams swap the top spot four times in the feature's opening seven laps around the four-tenths mile clay oval. Merrill mastered the low groove and pulled away from the field.
Series point leader Kenny Merchant, Ruston, LA, made a late charge to the front and nipped Adams
for second by inches at the checkered flag. "It is too good to be true," shouted Merrill in victory lane. "I was going to stay in the bottom groove until somebody got around me. If Ronny Adams would have got by me in the upper groove,
I might have gone up there to try it." "We did not plan on running the high side but it worked out that way," said runner-up Merchant. "We didn't expect the race to go green for so long," commented Adams following the race. "There are some good drivers but on a big track like this it is so unusual."
Feature (40 laps): 1. Raymond Merrill, Sallisaw, OK, $2,500 2. Kenny Merchant, Ruston, LA, $1,500 3. Ronny Adams, Greenwood, LA, $1,200 4. Rusty Cummings, Minden, LA, $1,000 5. Ray Moore, Shreveport, LA, $900 6. Kevin Weaver, Gibson City, IL, $800 7. Tom Lorenz, Balch Springs, $700 8. Doug Ingalls, Longview, $600 9. Ryan Plaisance, Marrero, LA, $550 10. Garrett Durrett, Simsboro, LA, $500 11. Jay Blair, Angie, LA, $475 12. Randy Timms, Oklahoma City, OK, $450 13. Rob Litton, Alexandria, LA, $425 14. Jim Burford, Kechthie, LA, $400 15. Dennis McMillan, Gladewater, $400 16. Jeff Chandler, Minden, LA, $400 17. Michael Coleman, Tyler, $400 18. John Sliney, Colleyville, $400 19. Darren Ellis, Plano, $400 20. Donald Watson, Baton Rouge, LA, $400 21. Dan Leatherman, Muskogee, OK, $400 22.
Eddie Tidwell, Ada, OK, $400.
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