Ben Shelton
06-27-2023, 10:38 AM
Hudson O’Neal on the Podium in Lernerville’s Firecracker 100
LOLMDS Freedom 60 Up Next at Muskingum County Speedway
SHINNSTON, W.Va. (06/27/23) – For the second-straight week Hudson O’Neal finished in a runner-up position in a $50,000-to-win Lucas Oil Late Model Dirt Series (LOLMDS) event with his Rocket1 Racing / Valvoline / Seubert Calf Ranches No. 1 Ace Metal Works / XR1 Rocket Chassis / Durham Racing Engine Super Late Model.
His latest podium performance came on Saturday night in the finale for the 17th annual Firecracker 100 at Lernerville Speedway. O’Neal led multiple times for a total of eight laps before ultimately crossing the finish line in second behind Ricky Thornton Jr.
“I don’t know if I had anything left for him [Ricky Thornton]. I was just so married to that bottom it was just hard to deal with some of those lapped cars because I just couldn’t quite get a run on them like I needed. Then that bottom got so thin it made it even harder. Ricky had harder tires and was able to move out on the race track a little bit,” O’Neal shared. “Maybe I didn’t give it a fair enough shot. We have kind of been behind the eight-ball all week. We struggled to find our stride and I just felt like we just got better and better as the week along.”
Rocket1 Racing and Hudson O’Neal followed the Lucas Oil Late Model Dirt Series (LOLMDS) to Lernerville Speedway (Sarver, Pa.) on Thursday evening to compete in a pair of prelims for the Firecracker 100 weekend.
After racing his way into his $5,000-to-win preliminary feature with a heat race victory, a steady rain shower forced officials to postpone both prelims to Friday afternoon.
Starting third on Friday, O’Neal faded late in the 25-lapper to finish fourth.
Later that night for another round of prelims, Hudson’s third-place finish in his heat positioned him on the fourth row for the A-Main. Breaking into the top-five, O’Neal jumped up three spots to place fifth.
With results from prelims placing him on the front row of his heat race on Saturday, O’Neal locked his spot into the $50,000-to-win Firecracker 100 with a second-place finish.
Rolling off 12th, Hudson was up to fourth by lap 14 and overtook Jonathan Davenport for second on lap 50. Taking part in a heated battle over the final 50 circuits, O’Neal led laps 53-56 and 71-74 but wasn’t able to hold off the red-hot Ricky Thornton Jr. in the 100-lap affair.
He ultimately chased Thornton to the checkers with Davenport, Gregg Satterlee, and Devin Moran rounding out the top-five.
Hudson remains second in the latest LOLMDS point standings.
Full results from the events are available at www.LucasDirt.com.
LOLMDS action continues for Rocket1 Racing this week with a visit to the Moran family-promoted Muskingum County Speedway (Zanesville, Ohio). The Freedom 60 weekend includes the field being divided into triple 20-lap $3,000-to-win features on Friday night followed by a $30,000-to-win finale on Saturday.
Full event details are available at www.MuskingumCountySpeedway.com.
Rocket1 Racing would like to thank all of their marketing partners, which include Valvoline, Seubert Calf Ranches, Rocket Chassis, Ace Metal Works, Durham Racing Engines, Five Star RaceCar Bodies, Gunter’s Honey, Performance Grading, Hoosier Racing Tire, Integra Racing Shocks, Keyser Manufacturing, Petroff Towing, Slavic Custom Racing Shirts & Decals, WR1 Sim Chassis, O’Neal’s Salvage & Recycling, Sweet Manufacturing, Sunoco Race Fuels, Accu-Force Shock Service, ATL Fuel Cells, Aurora Rod Ends, Barnes Dry Sump Oil Systems, Bazell Race Fuels, Beyea Custom Headers, Brown & Miller Racing Solutions, Brinn Transmissions, Cometic Gasket, COMP Cams, CP Carrillo, Dohm Cycles, Edelbrock, Fibreworks Composites, Hardrock Powder Coating, Howe Racing Enterprises, Jones Racing Products, Kenny’s Components, Maxima Racing Oils, MSD, E3 Spark Plugs, Tel Tac, Performance Bodies, Peterson Fluid Systems, Powers Performance, Performance Rod & Custom, Quarter Master, QuickCar Racing Products, Rocket Pre-Owned Motors, Safecraft, Show Trucks Unlimited, Simpson, Stealth Carburetors, Strange Oval, Suave Talk, Total Power Valvoline Pro-V Racing, Walker Performance Filtration, Weld Racing, Wiles Driveshafts, Wilwood Brakes, Winters Performance Products, Wrisco Aluminum, Xceldyne Valvetrain, and MyRacePass Marketing Services.
For the latest information on Rocket1Racing please visit the team website at www.Rocket1Racing.com as well as their social media channels at www.facebook.com/Rocket1Racing, www.twitter.com/Rocket1_Racing, and www.instagram.com/rocket1racing .
PR Contact:
Ben Shelton (ben.shelton@myracepass.com)
LOLMDS Freedom 60 Up Next at Muskingum County Speedway
SHINNSTON, W.Va. (06/27/23) – For the second-straight week Hudson O’Neal finished in a runner-up position in a $50,000-to-win Lucas Oil Late Model Dirt Series (LOLMDS) event with his Rocket1 Racing / Valvoline / Seubert Calf Ranches No. 1 Ace Metal Works / XR1 Rocket Chassis / Durham Racing Engine Super Late Model.
His latest podium performance came on Saturday night in the finale for the 17th annual Firecracker 100 at Lernerville Speedway. O’Neal led multiple times for a total of eight laps before ultimately crossing the finish line in second behind Ricky Thornton Jr.
“I don’t know if I had anything left for him [Ricky Thornton]. I was just so married to that bottom it was just hard to deal with some of those lapped cars because I just couldn’t quite get a run on them like I needed. Then that bottom got so thin it made it even harder. Ricky had harder tires and was able to move out on the race track a little bit,” O’Neal shared. “Maybe I didn’t give it a fair enough shot. We have kind of been behind the eight-ball all week. We struggled to find our stride and I just felt like we just got better and better as the week along.”
Rocket1 Racing and Hudson O’Neal followed the Lucas Oil Late Model Dirt Series (LOLMDS) to Lernerville Speedway (Sarver, Pa.) on Thursday evening to compete in a pair of prelims for the Firecracker 100 weekend.
After racing his way into his $5,000-to-win preliminary feature with a heat race victory, a steady rain shower forced officials to postpone both prelims to Friday afternoon.
Starting third on Friday, O’Neal faded late in the 25-lapper to finish fourth.
Later that night for another round of prelims, Hudson’s third-place finish in his heat positioned him on the fourth row for the A-Main. Breaking into the top-five, O’Neal jumped up three spots to place fifth.
With results from prelims placing him on the front row of his heat race on Saturday, O’Neal locked his spot into the $50,000-to-win Firecracker 100 with a second-place finish.
Rolling off 12th, Hudson was up to fourth by lap 14 and overtook Jonathan Davenport for second on lap 50. Taking part in a heated battle over the final 50 circuits, O’Neal led laps 53-56 and 71-74 but wasn’t able to hold off the red-hot Ricky Thornton Jr. in the 100-lap affair.
He ultimately chased Thornton to the checkers with Davenport, Gregg Satterlee, and Devin Moran rounding out the top-five.
Hudson remains second in the latest LOLMDS point standings.
Full results from the events are available at www.LucasDirt.com.
LOLMDS action continues for Rocket1 Racing this week with a visit to the Moran family-promoted Muskingum County Speedway (Zanesville, Ohio). The Freedom 60 weekend includes the field being divided into triple 20-lap $3,000-to-win features on Friday night followed by a $30,000-to-win finale on Saturday.
Full event details are available at www.MuskingumCountySpeedway.com.
Rocket1 Racing would like to thank all of their marketing partners, which include Valvoline, Seubert Calf Ranches, Rocket Chassis, Ace Metal Works, Durham Racing Engines, Five Star RaceCar Bodies, Gunter’s Honey, Performance Grading, Hoosier Racing Tire, Integra Racing Shocks, Keyser Manufacturing, Petroff Towing, Slavic Custom Racing Shirts & Decals, WR1 Sim Chassis, O’Neal’s Salvage & Recycling, Sweet Manufacturing, Sunoco Race Fuels, Accu-Force Shock Service, ATL Fuel Cells, Aurora Rod Ends, Barnes Dry Sump Oil Systems, Bazell Race Fuels, Beyea Custom Headers, Brown & Miller Racing Solutions, Brinn Transmissions, Cometic Gasket, COMP Cams, CP Carrillo, Dohm Cycles, Edelbrock, Fibreworks Composites, Hardrock Powder Coating, Howe Racing Enterprises, Jones Racing Products, Kenny’s Components, Maxima Racing Oils, MSD, E3 Spark Plugs, Tel Tac, Performance Bodies, Peterson Fluid Systems, Powers Performance, Performance Rod & Custom, Quarter Master, QuickCar Racing Products, Rocket Pre-Owned Motors, Safecraft, Show Trucks Unlimited, Simpson, Stealth Carburetors, Strange Oval, Suave Talk, Total Power Valvoline Pro-V Racing, Walker Performance Filtration, Weld Racing, Wiles Driveshafts, Wilwood Brakes, Winters Performance Products, Wrisco Aluminum, Xceldyne Valvetrain, and MyRacePass Marketing Services.
For the latest information on Rocket1Racing please visit the team website at www.Rocket1Racing.com as well as their social media channels at www.facebook.com/Rocket1Racing, www.twitter.com/Rocket1_Racing, and www.instagram.com/rocket1racing .
PR Contact:
Ben Shelton (ben.shelton@myracepass.com)