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Chris Wall proves the best man for a Cajun Classic is a Gator - an Intimagator!

 

 

Baton Rouge, Louisiana (February 27, 2005) –Who ever said you can’t race on dirt in the day time hadn’t been to Baton Rouge Raceway, at least not on February 27th as the 1st Annual Cajun Classic for the O’Reilly SUPR Late Models proved to be just that, a Classic.  Chris Wall started third and battle by David Ashley to claim the first of the twin 30 lap features and then he started 18th in the second 30-lap feature and charged up to fifth at the checkers to claim the $1,000 bonus for highest average finish in the two features.

 

 

Chris Wall felt it was a balanced race car that helped put him in victory lane.  “We’re just excited to come here this weekend on test night and had a fast race car and I felt like we had a car that could move around the race track, I didn’t have to get committed to one groove or another and I thought that it was were I could win the race and it turns out that you needed a car that run the bottom or the top was the key to having a fast car this weekend.  We were really blessed with a good run.”

 

Ray Moore, the 2004 B&K Underground/Late Model America Rookie of the Year, used a provisional to make the first race but rebounded in the second feature as he jumped from the third starting position to battle with Larry Lambeth for the lead for much of the race before surviving the last few caution plagued laps to take the win.

 

“We had the flat and had to start in the back in the first feature and we worked our way past a few cars and then we got to start up front and we were able to hold everybody off at the end.”  But while Moore was able to hold off the late race challenges, it was the mid-race duel for position he had with Larry Lambeth that had the crowd going.  “I was working the bottom for a while and he got around top on me and I tried the top and didn’t do very good and so I went back to the bottom and I finally got by him and I never saw him again.”

 

 

Lambeth reported that he felt the rear end lock up briefly on a lap 25 restart and he was only able to recover when resorted to running front brakes only for the remainder of the feature.  Despite the brake troubles, Lambeth was able to hold on to fourth.  What made Lambeth’s performance that much more impress was the fact that he only made the race as an alternate when first Phillip Cooper nearly ran out of time changing a radiator before the feature and then Donald Watson suffered a fuel line fire in the staging lanes and had to pull out of line.  Lambeth then took Watson’s position while the delay in action allowed Cooper to finish his repairs and join the field at the rear.

 

The field was inverted for the second 30-lap feature based on the original starting lineup minus the cars not running at the end of the first feature and this provided some exciting racing as the drivers up front took full advantage of the new opportunity to run up front while the front runners from the first feature had to try to charge forward to gain as many positions as possible with an eye on the bonus for highest average finish.  And just as the first feature came down to a battle between Chris Wall and David Ashley, so did the battle for the highest fish as Ashley wound up one position shy of catching Wall in this instance as well.

 

Chris Wall utilized his Wall 2 Wall Performance Engines powered C&M Gator Farms/Xtreme Graphics/Stuckey Enterprises/GVS Racing-backed MasterSbilt to take the first feature and the bonus while Ray Moore rode to victory in a Jay Dickens powered TIC Tools International/Moore Wireline-backed Rocket.

 

Official Results – 1st Feature:

1.       Chris Wall

2.       David Ashley

3.       Kenny Merchant

4.       Marlon Wild

5.       Bubba Mullins

6.       Odie Green

7.       Jon Mitchell

8.       Patrick Daniel

9.       Mike Boland

10.   Rusty Cummings

11.   Jody Prince

12.   Rob Litton

13.   Phillip Cooper

14.   Ray Moore

15.   Jay Blair

16.   Jason Ingalls

17.   Larry Lambeth

18.   Robbie Stuart

19.   Jimmy Noland

20.   Doug Ingalls

21.   Chad Guy

22.   Ronny Hollingsworth

 

Official Results – 2nd Feature:

1.       Ray Moore

2.       Odie Green

3.       Jimmy Noland

4.       Larry Lambeth

5.       Chris Wall

6.       David Ashley

7.       Doug Ingalls

8.       Jason Ingalls

9.       Rob Litton

10.   Robbie Stuart

11.   Mike Boland

12.   Patrick Daniel

13.   Donald Watson

14.   Jody Prince

15.   Marlon Wild

16.   Bubba Mullins

17.   Rusty Cummings

18.   Chad Guy

19.   Jay Blair

20.   Ronny Hollingsworth

21.   Kenny Merchant

22.   Jon Mitchell

23.   Phillip Cooper

 

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