28th Annual Prairie Dirt Classic at Fairbury - Night 1

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Qualifying

Devin Moran of Dresden, Ohio, didn’t take long to find speed in his first appearance at Fairbury as he blazed to the overall fastest time at 12.627 seconds, nipping Shannon Babb of Moweaqua, Ill., by the narrowest of margins (0.002 of a second).

Chris Simpson of Oxford, Iowa, was quickest in the second group, turning a lap of 12.686 seconds.

Moran, Babb, Simpson and Chris Ferguson of Mount Holly, N.C., will start from the pole position in the four 25-lap qualifying features.

Several contenders recorded only one lap in qualifying, including Earl Pearson Jr. of Jacksonville, Fla., Tim McCreadie of Watertown, N.Y., Jimmy Owens of Newport, Tenn., and Scott Bloomquist of Mooresburg, Tenn. Pearson, McCreadie and Owens slipped high and slowed to fall back on a single lap, while Bloomquist missed his spot in the time-trial order and was thus given just one circuit.

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Thanks to all

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Qualifying feature lineups

(25 laps; top 4 transfer)
First feature
Row 1: Devin Moran, Kody Evans
Row 2: Jason Feger, McKay Wenger
Row 3: Michael Kloos, Mike Spatola
Row 4: Billy Moyer, Steve Thorsten
Row 5: Spencer Diercks, Dustin Nobbe
Row 6: Eric Wells, Earl Pearson Jr.
Row 7: Mike Glass(not a nice word)(not a nice word)(not a nice word)(not a nice word), Daniel Flessner
Row 8: Kyle Bronson, Brent Larson
Row 9: Derrick Ramey
Second feature
Row 1: Shannon Babb, Shane Clanton
Row 2: Brian Shirley, Justin Duty
Row 3: Tyler Erb, Kolby Vandenbergh
Row 4: Ryan Unzicker, Scott Bull
Row 5: Darrell Lanigan, Dennis Erb Jr.
Row 6: Chub Frank, Cody Mahoney
Row 7: Derek Doll, Jake O’Neil
Row 8: Don Hammer, Derek Chandler
Third feature
Row 1: Chris Simpson, Chris Madden
Row 2: Brandon Sheppard, Gordy Gundaker
Row 3: Bobby Pierce, Frank Heckenast Jr.
Row 4: Jason Jameson, Bob Gardner
Row 5: Scott Bloomquist, Joey Moriarty
Row 6: Gregg Satterlee, Mike Mataragas
Row 7: Scott Schmitt, Dustin Griffin
Row 8: Jeremy Conway, Matt Shannon
Fourth feature
Row 1: Chris Ferguson, Mike Marlar
Row 2: Billy Drake, Rick Eckert
Row 3: Tim McCreadie, Timothy Culp
Row 4: Jimmy Owens, Jay Sparks
Row 5: Kevin Weaver, Don O’Neal
Row 6: Chase Junghans, Morgan Bagley
Row 7: Glen Thompson, Blake Spencer
Row 8: Doug Hammer, Snooky Dehm

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Modified races are over and late models are on track.

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Feature 1. Lap 12, caution as Kyle Bronson and Kody Evans tangle in turn 3. Bronson heavily damaged and out. Top 5: Moran, Feger, Kloos, Moyer, Wenger. 13 to go. Top 4 transfer.

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Feature 1: Caution on lap 13 as Dan Flessner spins on the frontstretch. Moran, Feger, Kloos, Wenger, Moyer. 12 to go.

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Feature 1 finish: Moran, Feger, Wenger, Kloos are in the PDC.

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Scratching the track now before feature number 2.

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Finish: Devin Moran, Jason Feger, McKay Wenger, Michael Kloos, Billy Moyer, Mike Spatola, Mike Glass(not a nice word)(not a nice word)(not a nice word)(not a nice word), Kody Evans, Earl Pearson Jr., Eric Wells, Derrick Ramey, Brent Larson, Dustin Nobbe, Spencer Diercks, Daniel Flessner, Kyle Bronson, Steve Thorsten.

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Feature 2 on track.

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Feature 2: Caution lap 2. Race leader Shannon Babb jumps the turn 2 cushion and pounds the wall. Babb is out. Clanton, Shirley, T. Erb, Duty, Unzicker.

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Feature 2: Caution lap 5. Tyler Erb breaks in turn 2. Clanton, Shirley, Unzicker, Erb Jr., Duty.

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Feature 2: Caution on lap 5 again as Chub Frank breaks.

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Feature 2: Chub Frank returns to the track.