Conley Captures 543 'Keeps on Ticking'

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Conley Captures 543 'Keeps on Ticking'
Bond Badgers AMRA Mods; Adams Again! Claims Win #26

By Scott Wolfe

CHILLICOTHE, OHIO- The exclamation "Wow!" sums up the drama at Jeff and Vicki Schrader's K-C Raceway Saturday night where 87 cars in three divisions dazzled the crowd on what proved to be one of the fastest racing surfaces of the year. Hall of Fame Late Model chauffer Delmas Conley, the ageless 8th wonder of the world now with 543 career wins, claimed the AMRA Late Model main; while Coolville, Ohio's Andy Bond made a last lap pass of Jeremy Rayburn for the AMRA Advanced Services Modified win. Jamey Adams, reportedly with 26 feature wins in 2011, continued his banner season with a big win in the Hobby Stocks.
"It was do or die," said Bond in victory lane. "We had a great little race going there. The car was great and I think I used every part of the track. A few times I think I even used the wall. Thanks to Ernie (Hoschar) and the guys for getting this car right. All I have to do is get in it and drive. What a race!"
The former AMRA National Champion and one-time winningest modified driver in the nation used a portion of the turn four wall as part of a run off the high side on the final lap. Bond had the momentum over low rider Jeremy Rayburn and won by a nose at the finish.
Once again 47 of the nation's best modifieds filed into K-C Raceway in the tune-up for the Dirt Track World Championship, held there Oct. 13-14-15. Early in the event Beckley, WV invader Joe Cox set the pace for the first six laps.
Hot shoes Rayburn and AMRA stalwart Mike McPherson both zoomed past Cox on the next circuit and battled viciously, side-by-side, nose-to-tail for the next 15 laps. Both were running the races of their lives, while thrilling the fans in what looked to be a great finish between the duo.
The battle for third was a battle-royal between Bond, Fireball Pinkerton, Cox, Jason Brooks, Doug Henry, and Bob Crace, Jr. That hungry pack raced two-wide, nose-to-tail for six circuits, before Bond broke free in a crack-the-whip type move. Pinkerton had moved into the fray from 12th to fourth, and Brooks up from 11th.
Rayburn and McPherson continued their charge. Rayburn was in command, smoothly on the bottom while McPherson skip-jacked high and low up to Rayburn's door handles without enough zap for the pass. That duo two had moved quickly up the ladder--Rayburn from 8th and McPherson from seventh during the first six encounters.
Bond was nearly 12 car lengths behind when he started his charge to the front. Slowly gaining ground, sparks flying from encounters with the wall, he kept gaining turf lap after lap. Bond now was within 3 car lengths of the leaders and had a head of steam. Pinkerton broke away from his group for fourth, then AMRA leader Kenny Johnson blasted by for the one-up. Johnson himself had charged from 9th on a track that saw multiple pass exchanges from 1st to 20th.
As the race approached the 13th marker, Brooks, Rick Venham, Jr., Greggie Oliver, Robin Duston, and Matt Holcomb made charges toward the top ten. Venham rode a 14th to 6th trot toward another solid AMRA run.
As lap 16 came to completion, the complexion of the race changed dramatically. McPherson made a bid for the lead as Rayburn shut the door with McPherson spinning and collecting KC point’s leader Pinkerton, sending both to the tail and putting Bond on Rayburn's hind quarters.
Bond dogged Rayburn the last four laps; Rayburn smooth and fast on the bottom and Bond high against the wall. Bond drove it in scary-hard into three on the final circuit and rode the momentum to the win.
Rounding out the top ten were Bond, Rayburn, Johnson, Cox, Brooks, Venham, Greggie Oliver, Matt E. Holcomb, Rob Stambaugh, and Robin Duston. Holcomb was hard-charger in an 18th to 8th place run.
After the lap 16 accident, Pinkerton dropped out making it a close battle for the 2011 points' championship going into next week's finale. Pinkerton leads 436 to 421 over Rayburn, two of many loyal drivers vying for a championship.
Twenty-seven late models, including many AMRA drivers chasing points rallied in the K-C pit area for another powerful night of racing. The Late Model main was also a dog-fight--at least in the early going. A pair of cross-over moves captured the fans attention as Delmas Conley, Wheelersburg, OH and Mike Wilson, Circleville, OH engaged in a torrid assault. Wilson defied gravity with a Kinser-like slide job of an alert Conley, who responded in victory lane, "Mike (Wilson) scared me there a little bit. I had to buckle back down and catch my breath. He drove a great race though and we had nice little battle going out there."
Fast-Freddie Carpenter, in a rare K-C appearance had a good run holding down third early in the race. Chris Garnes, the AMRA leader, Ralph Withem, Rod Conley, Rod Evans, and Andy Bond soon ran down Carpenter in what was an exciting six-car battle. Garnes took over third with Withem in tow, while Conley worked hard to get a top five. Conley started coming on late in the race, taking fourth from Withem with five laps to go, then passing Garnes with two laps left.
Withem also zoomed by Garnes for hard-charger honors in a 9th to 4th place run. K-C Burdette had a good run into the top ten as well. The elder Conley in quest of win 543 pulled comfortably ahead of Wilson and into victory lane for the third time this season.
Said Conley, "I just thank everyone for coming out and making this win possible and supporting racing here at K-C. This track is always my favorite, it has been racy, and was really racy tonight. You could really throttle up and hang it out tonight."
Conley and Wilson are the two top K-C point men. Conley leads 459 to 431 with Rod Conley within striking distance at 386.
Coming off a $2,500 win last week, Jamey Adams was hard to stop, especially from the pole. Brandon Thompson, however, was unscathed and pressured Adams most of the race. After getting bumped back early, Tommy Mossbarger had a great run back into the top five and set his sights on hard-charging Brandon Mather. Evan Seitz was fast early, but saw his night end after a turn four skirmish. Close racing continued throughout the pack with no one really gaining an advantage over the other.
Thompson tried everything, zooming high, slicing low and finally boring it hard into turn three, nearly pulling off a last lap pass.
Said Jamey Adams, "I saw Brandon (Thompson) coming. He kept getting closer and closer. That made it a nice little race for the fans. Thanks again to everyone who has made this season a success. It has been a great year! Maybe next year we will do this again or go with something with a little wider tire."
Jack Martin was the hard charger in a 13th to 8th place run. Rounding out the top ten were Adams, Brandon Thompson, Brandon Mather, Tommy Mossbarger, David Akers, Jim Hildebrand, Mike Brust, Jack Martin, Jason Holstein, and Tim Cutler.
Next week, October 1, K-C Raceway will feature another action packed line up of AMRA Late Models, AMRA Advanced Services Modifieds, and Hobby Stocks. The Modified Portion of the program will be an American Motor Racing Association (AMRA) Road Warrior Challenge race paying $1,200 to win. Racing will start a half hour early because of colder weather and the upcoming time change.

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The Dirt Track World Championships will be October 13-14-15 paying $50,000 to win for Late Models and $3,000 to win for Modifieds.


The Summary : K-C Raceway Sept. 24, 2011
AMRA Late Models (27)
Fast Time: Chris Garnes 14:012
Heat One: Chris Garnes, Freddie Carpenter, Kevin Wagner, Rod Evans, Ralph Withem, K-C Burdette, Mick Sanson, Dwight Henry, Kenny Spencer, Rodney Gibson, Brandon Smith, Josh Lawrence, Billy Gullion
Heat Two: Rod Conley, Mike Wilson, Delmas Conley, Andy Bond, Steve Prince, Shannon Roese, Brian Casey, Tony Roush, Josh Bivens, Randy Arms, Boyd Adkins, Ricky Nease

B-Main: Rod Gibson, Boyd Adkins, Kenny Spencer, Randy Arms, Brandon Smith, Ricky Neace, Josh Bivens,Josh Lawrence, Billy Guillon, Jarod Circle
Feature: Delmas Conley, Mike Wilson, Rod Conley, Ralph Withem, Chris Garnes, Freddie Carpenter, Andy Bond, Steve Prince, K-C Burdette, Rod Evans, Mick Sanson, Brian Casey, Dwight Henry, Rod Gibson, Boyd Adkins, Randy Arms, Shannon Roese, Kevin Wagner, Kenny Spencer, Tony Roush

MALTA AMRA MODIFIEDS (47)
Advanced Services Modifieds
Grooms Trucking Fast Time: Kenny Johnson 15:582
Heat One: Mike McPherson, Andy Bond, Kenny Johnson, Rob Stambaugh, Robin Duston, J.P. Roberts, Kevin Delany, John Arthurs, Dusty Boley, Bob Hurst, Jr., Miles Cook, C.J. Ferguson
Heat Two: Bud Frazier, Jeremy Rayburn, Greggie Oliver, Rick Venham, Jr., Cliff Crank, Jarrad Willis, Lonnnie Kidd, Danny Ferguson, Mike Matney, Matt Edmisten, Robbie Evans , Eric Arledge
Heat Three: Joe Hammon, Joe Cox, Jason Brooks, Steven Duty, Brandon Barnhart, Mark Bailey, Eric Hatfield, Justin Murray, Dale Lyons, Mark Cooper, Derrick Smith
Heat Fouroug Henry, Bob Crace Jr., Dave Pinkerton, Scott Chew, Matt E. Holcomb, Darin Roush, Randy Boggs, Steve Clemmons, Mike Arthurs, Robert Garnes
B-Main One: Robin Duston, Lonnie Kidd, J.P. Roberts, Cliff Crank, Kevin Delany, Danny Ferguson, Jarrad Willis, Dusty Boley, Eric Arledge, Matt Edmisten, Bob Hurst, Jr, John Arthurs, Mike Mattney, Miles Cook, Robbie Evans, C.J. Ferguson
B-Main Two: Matt E. Holcomb, Randy Boggs, Robert Garnes, Eric Hatfield, Mark Bailey, Steve Clemmons, Darin Roush, Dale Lyons, Justin Murray. Brandon Barnhart, Mike Arthurs, Mike Cooper, Derrick Smith, Scott LeMaster
Feature: Andy Bond, Jeremy Rayburn, Kenny Johnson, Joe Cox, Jason Brooks, Rick Venham, Greggie Oliver, Matt E. Holcomb, Rob Stambaugh, Robin Duston, Lonnie Kidd, Randy Boggs, Scott Chew, Dave Fireball Pinkerton, Mike McPherson, Bob Crace, Jr., Dough Henry,Steven Duty, Bud Frazier, Joe Hamon
*(Greg Oliver had another great advance in the modified main, his second straight charge. Inadvertently, last time out Greg shared hard-charger honors in a 19th to 5th run. The computer only spits out one hard-charger.)

Hobby Stocks (13)
Heat One: Jamey Adams, Brandon Mather, Tim Cutler, Tommy Mossbarger, Butch Eblin, Mike Brust
Heat Two: Brandon Thompson, Evan Seitz, Jason Holstein, David Akers, Jim Hildebrand, Jack Martin, Roger Mossbarger
Feature: Jamey Adams, Brandon Thompson, Brandon Mather, Tommy Mossbarger, David Akers, Jim Hildebrand, Mike Brust, Jack Martin, Jason Holstein, Tim Cutler, Butch Eblin, Evan Seitz, Roger Mossbarger

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I thought I heard years ago that Delmas had more than 700 Wins in his career??