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May 23
Tyler County Speedway,
Middlebourne, WV
Sanction: World of Outlaws Morton Buildings Late Model Series (Jackpot 100) - $8,000
Information provided by: Series reports (last updated May 24, 11:52 am)
Home-state run a home run for Richards at Tyler
Jackpot 100
  1. Josh Richards
  2. Shane Clanton
  3. Brandon Overton
  4. Chris Ferguson
  5. Tim Dohm
  6. Darrell Lanigan
  7. Steve Casebolt
  8. Morgan Bagley
  9. Rick Eckert
  10. Eric Wells
  11. Chris Garnes
  12. Derek Doll
  13. Frank Heckenast Jr.
  14. Chase Junghans
  15. Chub Frank
  16. Boom Briggs
  17. Jordan Yaggy
  18. Kyle Thomas
  19. Anthony Kinkade
  20. Shane Hitt
  21. Jared Hawkins
  22. Tim McCreadie
  23. Butch McGill
  24. Mason Zeigler
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Barry Lenhart/pbase.com/cyberslash
Josh Richards (1) works on leader Brandon Overton (76) at Tyler County.
What won the race: Overtaking Brandon Overton on the 37th lap, Josh Richards of Shinnston, W.Va., grabbed a home-state victory Saturday at Tyler County Speedway, his second of the season on the World of Outlaws Late Model Series and 51st of his career.
Key notes: Along with Richards, series points leader Shane Clanton of Zebulon, Ga., made a bid for the victory in the closing laps but fell .733 seconds short. ... Overton led the opening 36 laps after starting on the pole. ... Five cautions slowed the action on laps 4, 12, 15, 16 and 27. ... The national tour spends Memorial Day weekend at Tyler County for the fourth consecutive season. ... The weekend schedule concludes with a $10,000-to-win event Sunday.
On the move: Former Tyler County winner Darrell Lanigan of Union, Ky., stormed forward from 20th to finish sixth.
Winner's sponsors: Richards's Rocket Chassis house car has an Andy Durham Racing Engine is sponsored by Ace Metal Works, Hoosier, Joy Global, Seubert Calf Ranches and Valvoline.
Points chase: Entering Tyler County, Clanton had 1,972 points to lead Lanigan (1,882) and Richards (1,878).
Car count: 39
Fast qualifier: Chris Ferguson
Time: 12.503 seconds
Polesitter: Brandon Overton
Heat race winners: Chris Ferguson, Josh Richards, Shane Clanton, Jared Hawkins
Consolation race winners: Chub Frank, Boom Briggs
Provisional starters: Chase Junghans, Mason Zeigler
Next series race: May 24, Tyler County Speedway (Middlebourne, WV) $10,000
Editor's note: Results and race details are unofficial.
By Joshua Joiner
World of Outlaws Late Model Series

Josh Richards gave his home-state fans a performance to remember Saturday night at Tyler County Speedway.

Mastering the quarter-mile oval's high groove, the three-time World of Outlaws Late Model Series champion from nearby Shinnston, W.Va., used a strong charge off of turn four to overtake race-long leader Brandon Overton on lap 37 of Saturday's 40-lap WoO main event and held off Shane Clanton's final-lap challenge to score his second series victory of the season.

Richards topped Clanton by 0.733 seconds at the finish in in claiming his 51st career WoO victory. The 27-year-old driver of the Valvoline-sponsored Rocket Chassis house car earned $8,675 for his second-career triumph at Tyler County Speedway.

"Those guys did a great job," Richards said of Clanton and Overton's efforts. "We were all racing hard. I knew Shane was right there on us. We just had to get what we could and luckily it worked out."

Richards' victory came on the opening night of Tyler County's fourth annual Jackpot 100 Weekend. The WoO doubleheader concludes on Sunday with another complete program.

Clanton of Zebulon, Ga., settled for second in Saturday's feature, keeping his lead in the WoO championship chase at 90 points over Richards, who leaped sixth-finishing Darrell Lanigan of Union, Ky., for second in the standings.

A fading Overton held on to third at the finish, just ahead of seventh-starting Chris Ferguson of Mount Holley, N.C., who earlier in the evening earned fast time honors for the third time in three WoO appearances this season but couldn't score his third straight series victory. Ninth-starting Tim Dohm of Cross Lanes, W.Va., rounded out the top five in a race slowed by five cautions.

After pressuring Overton for much of the race, Richards appeared to be headed for a runner-up finish when the track's high line began to fade shortly after the halfway mark. But after Clanton muscled his way by Richards for second on lap 34, Richards gave the top groove another shot and began to make up ground.

Richards retook second from Clanton just two laps later and began closing quickly on the fading Overton. He pulled to the outside of Overton in turns one and two on lap 36 and drove hard into turns three and four.

Overton let his machine drift high exiting turn four in an attempt to block Richards' momentum off the corner, but Richards used a crossover move to pull to the bottom of Overton down the front straightaway and completed the winning pass with another hard drive into turn one on lap 37.

"It seemed like (Overton) was fading a little bit at the end," Richards said. "I just tried to go for the top. I knew I'd kick myself for not trying it, so if we would've got passed it would've been alright. But it worked out."

Clanton, 39, cleared Overton for second one lap after Richards took the lead and closed on the leader in the final two laps. He took a look under Richards entering turn one on the final circuit, but his Weldbank Energy-sponsored Capital Race Cars house car drifted high exiting turn two, allowing Richards to edge away to the victory.

"I got to showing the nose to Overton there and he kept getting lower and lower," Clanton said of his brief challenge on Overton for the lead. "Finally, Josh came back around us on that outside.

"We raced back by Overton there. I think we were a little bit better than Josh in the bottom, but he had a good car."

Overton, 24, once again fell just short of earning his first-career WoO victory, but the national tour's Rookie of the Year leader added to his impressive season with his fourth top-three finish.

"I've lost three or four of these races now in the last three or four laps," said Overton, who was making his first-ever appearance at Tyler County in his Doug and Cathy Varnadore-owned MasterSbilt by Huey machine. "I just don't think we tightened up enough. We'll try it again tomorrow and maybe we'll hit it right."

Lanigan, the three-time and defending WoO champion, charged from his 20th starting spot to finish sixth, salvaging a night that began on a poor note when his primary car suffered mechanical problems just before hot laps. Steve Casebolt of Richmond, Ind., was seventh at the finish with Morgan Bagley of Longview, Texas, eighth. Former WoO champion Rick Eckert of York, Pa., and Eric Wells of Hazard, Ky., rounded out the top 10.

Feature lineup

Row 1: Overton, Richards
Row 2: Garnes, Casebolt
Row 3: Heckenast, Clanton
Row 4: Ferguson, Jar. Hawkins
Row 5: T. Dohm, Bagley
Row 6: McCreadie, Eckert
Row 7: Hitt, McGill
Row 8: Wells, Doll
Row 9: Frank, Briggs
Row 10: Yaggy, Lanigan
Row 11: Thomas, Kinkade
Row 12: Junghans, Zeigler
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