Eight feature winners at Mt Lawn Saturday

Kevin Claborn of Cambridge City, Neil Marcum of Morristown, Joyce Dyer of Greenfield, Ryan Claborn of Cambridge City, Terry Goff of Fortville, Josh McQueary of Middletown and Jeremy Rainwater of Cicero all picked up feature wins at Mt Lawn Speedway Saturday night.

The evening started off with a make up feature in the Thompson Builders Thunder Cars with Neil Marcum taking the win. Rushville’s Chris Bolyard led lap one until passed by Jeff Marcum of Morristown. Neil then passed brother Jeff on lap six and led the rest of the way followed by Jim Walker of Cambridge City, Bolyard, Jeff Marcum, Andrew Walker of Sulphur Springs and Paul Starks of Fortville. Starks blew and engine on lap 16 causing Andrew Walker to smack the first turn wall very hard as he got into Starks’ oil. Walker was not hurt but the car was severally damaged.

The second race was the MC Auto Repair Hornet make up feature which saw Joyce Dyer pick up the win. Josh Owens of New Castle led lap 1. Doug Sorrell of New Castle paced the field for lap 2 and 3 when Dyer took over on lap 4 and led the rest of the way. Brian Lewis of Indianapolis finished second followed by Sorrell, Brian Slavey of New Castle, Josh Neal of New Castle, Jeff Sorrell of Mooreland, Emily Henderson of New Castle, Owens, John Massengale of New Castle, Joseph Jennings of Richmond and Keith Morris of New Castle.

In Mt Lawn Late Model action Ralph Lane of Greensburg led lap one of the 30 lap feature giving way to Kevin Claborn on lap two. Claborn got heavy pressure from Jeff Marcum through out the final 25 laps of the race. Marcum got up on the outside of Claborn on lap 18 and the two raced side by side for the next ten laps. Marcum did gain the upper hand on Claborn on laps 24 and 25 but could not get far enough ahead to clear Claborn. Claborn got the led for good on lap twenty-six and Marcum settled for second followed by Eric Evans of Greenfield, Scott Knepley of Greensboro, Lane, Joe Woodring of Muncie and Bill Pierce of New Castle. Marcum set fast time at 16.547 with Claborn winning the Razzles Dash for Cash and the heat race.

The Thompson Builders Thunder Car feature was a wild affair with Neil Marcum grasping victory from the jaws of defeat. Kevin Claborn took the lead of the race from his row two starting position and led the first 18 laps. Then on lap 19 Claborn and Marcum tangled entering the short turn sending both cars the to the pit area. Claborn’s car with a flat and suspension damage and Marcum’s car had two right side flats. That left only Chris Bolyard and Jim Walker in the race. As the green flag flew to restart the race Bolyard took the lead on lap 19 and just as the two cars exited the short turn Marcum, after quick pit work, reappeared on the race track but was more than a half a lap down to the leaders. Jim Walker got the lead on lap 20 and the whole Walker family thought Jim was going to get a feature win. Marcum had other ideas as he races down the two leaders and with 4 laps to go regained the lead for good. Jim Walker finished second followed by Bolyard, Jameson Owens of Greenfield, Claborn, Andrew Walker and Jeff Marcum. Neil Marcum set fast time at 17.857 with Kevin Claborn winning the Thompson Builders Dash for Cash and the heat race.

In the final stock car event of the evening Ryan Claborn of Cambridge City led all 20 laps of the feature for the win. Joyce Dyer finished second followed by Jared Keller of Anderson, Doug Sorrell, Keith Morris of New Castle, Jeff Sorrell, Emily Henderson, Jacob Wyman of Noblesville, Josh Neal and John Massengale. Keller set fast time at 19.780 with Brian Lewis winning the MC Auto Dash for Cash and Doug Sorrell and Claborn winning the heats.

Terry Goff of Fortville won the UMRA midget feature. Complete details of the UMRA portion of the racing program on the web at umra.com.

Josh McQueary continued his winning ways in the Indy FasKarts winning both the heat and feature and UMRA midget driver Jeremy Rainwater won the Mini Cup feature with the heat going to Carl Colbert of Noblesville.