Ronny Adams claims 30th career O'Reilly SUPR victory!

Ronny Adams claims 30th career O'Reilly SUPR victory!

Haughton, Louisiana (June 11, 2005) - Ronny Adams worked his way past Jon Mitchell on lap 19 to become the third and final race leader at Champion Park Speedway and went on to win his second O'Reilly SUPR Late Model victory of the season and the 30th SUPR win of his career. Adams felt the key to the victory was sticking with the bottom groove and forcing his challengers to look to the outside for passing opportunities.

“Everything was going our way. I think I could have run with Jonathan (Mitchell) later in the race. My car even got better later on.” As it turned out, Adams was able to catch Mitchell, who had built a solid lead before running up into lapped traffic. Adams took advantage of the traffic to work under Mitchell in turn two and he shot into the lead down the backstretch and once out front, he applied a lesson learned from watching Doug Ingalls claim a pair of victories at Champion Park last year. Adams stubbornly ran the bottom groove, resisting the temptation to throttle up too quickly off of turns two and four.

At no point did that lesson become more important than when Jon Mitchell came up on lapped traffic. After following the lapped cars for a few laps, Mitchell tried to make his way around the outside of the lapped cars only to see his momentum get disrupted. Adams was able to move by to take the lead. “I learned something from him (Mitchell) doing that. When I come up on lapped traffic I wasn’t getting off the bottom, I just followed the lapped cars.”

With Kenny Merchant and others making the top side work, it would have been interesting to see if anyone would have been able to challenge Ronny on the outside but a series of cautions kept Ronny with clear track in front of him for much of the remainder of the race and his closest challenger, Jeff Chanler was looking to the underside of Adams, a spot Ronny wasn’t going to give up.

Chanler was the B&K Underground Top Qualifier and he was joined on the outside front row by Ricky Ingalls. After several aborted starts, the field was lined up single file with Chanler at the front but it was Ingalls in the lead at the end of lap one. Ingalls would lead the first five laps before Mitchell took over with Adams, who started seventh, joining Mitchell in moving by Ingalls up front. Mitchell led until lap 19.

Adams led to the checkers but the battle for second continued right to the checkers and in this case beyond as Mitchell was passed by Jeff Chanler on lap 40 and Mitchell retiring one lap later with a broken steering. Chanler held off Waylon Morris, wheeling Bobby Hutto's #B89 and in fact closed in on Adams in the final laps. Unfortunately for Jeff, he headed off the track after the checkers and failed to report to the scales and was scored as the last car on the lead lap. With Jeff Chanler’s disqualification, Waylon Morris ended up finishing second ahead of Kenny Merchant, who earned the Creel Brothers Hard Charger award after starting 15^th and finishing third. Merchant’s charge was even more impressive as he involved in one of the early cautions and restarted the race at the back of the pack. Ricky Ingalls fought a tight race car but recovered in the late stages to finish fourth with Mark Andrews slipping to fifth at the checkers, running the last nine laps without power steering.

21 O’Reilly SUPR Late Models were on hand. Jon Mitchell, Jeff Chanler and Ricky Ingalls claimed the heat race victories.

Official Results:

1. Ronny Adams

2. Waylon Morris

3. Kenny Merchant

4. Ricky Ingalls

5. Mark Andrews

6. Bert Chanler

7. Robbie Stuart

8. Patrik Daniel

9. Butch Patton

10. Ray Moore

11. Jeff Chanler

12. Jason Ingalls

13. Jody Prince

14. Jon Mitchell

15. David Ashley

16. Lee Davis

17. Brad Couch

18. Allen Tippen

19. Bubba Mullins

20. Trey Beene

21. Rob Litton – dns

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