Schlup, Beckham, Flood, and Frazon visit Lucas Oil Speedway Victory Lane-August 18th, 2007
By Dan Robinson

WHEATLAND, MO (Aug 18)-With overcast conditions and a brief shower providing a very fast and tacky racetrack, clean sweeps were the order of the night as all four feature winners also won their heat races. Jeff Schlup capped a wild night of weekly racing series action at The Lucas Oil Speedway by winning The Miller Lite ULMA Late Model feature, while a visiting Terry Beckham II took the win in the Pitt's Homes A-Modifieds. James Flood beat a strong field of TCI Transmission Factory Stocks to take home the win while LaMonte, Missouri's Cody Frazon took the win in the Chester Fried Chicken Hobby Stocks.

California, Missouri's Jeff Schlup started on the pole in the Miller Lite ULMA Late Models and outlasted a hard charging Ken Dickinson to take the win. Dickinson would finish a season best second while Rylan Long rebounded from a lap 1 mishap to rally and finish 3rd. The Kennedy Brothers, Andy and Harlen finished nose to tail as they took the fourth and fifth spots respectively. Schlup made it a clean sweep on the night as he also collected the win in Heat Race #1 with Andy Kennedy capturing the win in Heat Race #2. Long has expanded his season long points lead to 48 over Kevin Kaiser as Kaiser struggled in the feature managing only a 15th place finish after contact on the opening lap. The race was briefly red flagged for a hard crash by Jeff Shere as he rolled his late model up against the catch fence just under the flag stand. He walked away uninjured but the car suffered heavy damage.

The Pitt's Homes A-Modifieds took an unusual twist early on as Eric Turner broke a differential on the opening lap of his heat race and had to qualify for the feature through the last chance race. His night would come to an end early in the feature however as contact with another car would end his night and relegate him to a 21st place finish. The man of the night however was Webb City, Missouri's Terry Beckham II as he rode the heavy cushion to the win over a very consistent Rex Merritt. Merritt would end up second with Scotty Allen, Todd Kallweit, and Jeff Cutshaw rounding out the top 5. Merritt, Beckham, and Brian Brown captured heat race wins with Jimmy Willis capturing the win in the B-feature to advance to the main event. Merritt has opened his point lead back up to 55 over Turner with only two races remaining to determine the track champion.

James Flood was the dominant car again this week in the TCI Transmission Factory Stocks as he took the win ahead of Keith Webster who would hold on for second. Troy Reasoner Jr., Derrick Brown, and Big Al Thompson had strong runs finishing in the Top 5 in that order. Flood also won the only heat race of the evening as the threatening skies kept car counts to an unusual low. Reasoner Jr. now leads the season point's standings by just 12 points over Webster and 42 over Flood.

Cody Frazon withstood a race long side by side battle with Daniel Sleeper to take the win in the Chester Fried Chicken Hobby Stocks with Sleeper following Frazon across the stripe to finish in second spot. Adam Belt was third, Mike Schrader was fourth, and Tanner Young was fifth. Frazon also captured the win in the Hobby Stock Heat Race. Adam Belt is now up by just 18 points over Schrader in the season point's battle.

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Upcoming Events: August 25th will feature a full night of late season weekly racing series action. The season point's championships wrap up on September 1st as the class champions in all classes will be crowned. September 8th is a newly added event to the speedway calendar as the O'Reilly MLRA once again rolls into town as well as the $2000 to win Coca-Cola Modified Bash.

FOR THE FIRST TIME EVER, THE LUCAS OIL WSORR THUNDERS INTO THE OZARKS as The Lucas Oil World Series of Off-Road Racing Tour is coming Saturday and Sunday September 22nd and 23rd.It's the final race of the season for all nine (9) classes of the WSORR including the Formula 4x4, 1600 Light Buggy, Stock Truck, 1600 Buggy, Super Stock Truck, Super Buggy, Pro 2WD, Pro Light Pickup and Pro 4X4. ESPN2 will be on hand and so should you! Gates open at 10 a.m. and racing starts at HIGH NOON on both days.

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