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Kenny Merchant takes 30th career victory at Baton Rouge
Baton
Rouge, Louisiana (March 20, 2004) – Baton Rouge Raceway presented a new
challenge for the O’Reilly SUPR Late Models as the newly enlarged race
track proved to be plenty fast with multiple grooves of racing but at the
end of the night, one thing remained constant, Kenny Merchant in victory
lane. Merchant, the defending
O’Reilly SUPR Late Model Champion from The race got off to a rough start as Ronny Adams made contact with the outside wall coming off of turn four and was then collected by Jimmy Noland, Keith Mancil and newcomer James Whatley and ended up on his roof. The red flag waved but fortunately no one was injured. Adams crawled from the wreckage but he was faced with a heavily damaged Larry Shaw race car but one that held up where it counted, at the roll cage around Ronny. Noland’s car will also need some major repair work to be ready to race again. The wreck cost Garrett Durrett, the B&K Underground Top Qualifier a strong start and when the field got a complete restart, it was outside pole sitter Kenny Merchant charging to the front. Litton who started in third also got by Durrett on the start and the battle was on between Merchant and Litton. Litton could draw close to Merchant but was never able to get by Merchant for the lead as the race was only slowed by one other caution, that being on lap 25 when Bobby Russell spun in front of third place runner Ryan Plaisance. Also collected were the fifth place car of Jay Blair and the sixth running Durrett. Russell and Durrett continued on but Plaisance and Blair were out of the race. Merchant held off Litton over the final 15 laps but the battle for position was focused on third as Kevin Watts finally topped a multi-lap duel with David Ashley for the position. Ashley held on to fourth with leading B&K Underground/Late Model America Rookie of the Year contender Ray Moore recording another solid finish in fifth. 24 O’Reilly SUPR Late Models were on hand. Jay Blair, Ray Moore and Garrett Durrett topped the heat races with Doug Ingalls winning the last chance race. Ingalls’ victory proved to be costly as he bent a valve and he was the first car out in the feature. Jason Polite started 23rd and finished 10th to earn the Creel Brothers Hard Charger Award. Official Results: 1. Kenny Merchant 2. Rob Litton 3. Kevin Watts 4. David Ashley 5. Ray Moore 6. Marlon Wild 7. Tommy Surrett 8. Garrett Durrett 9. Donald Watson 10. Jason Polite 11. Ray Grow III 12. Danny Mahan 13. Curt Lipsey 14. James Whatley 15. Randy Cook 16. Jay Blair 17. Ryan Plaisance 18. Bobby Russell 19.
20. Rusty Cummings 21.
Ronny 22. Keith Mancil 23. Jimmy Noland 24. Doug Ingalls
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