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“Lathroum “Jet’s” to Convincing MACS Win at Potomac” |
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posted by Admin on 08/09/09 |
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Budds Creek, MD- Mechanicsville Maryland’s Jamie Lathroum scored his second late model feature win of the season in last Friday nights 55-lap Bobby Allen memorial at the Potomac speedway.
Lathroum’s $5000 win was his second career MACS triumph and his second consecutive Allen Memorial win at the speedway.
Colby Frye and Jeremy Miller lead the field down to the initial waving of the green flag. Miller blasted into the race lead and would control the events first six circuits. Meanwhile, Jamie Lathroum reached second by the sixth lap and would make what would be the winning pass on lap seven. Even though Lathroum would lead the final 49-laps of the event, the win was by far from easy. Tenth starting Jason Covert who had reached second by the ninth lap, then took up the chase on leader Lathroum. The duo would put on quite a crowd pleasing battle, but Lathroum would prevail to post the win.
“The car was really good tonight.” Lathroum stated in victory lane. “I saw Covert get along side of me a couple times, but I knew if I kept the car straight and could dodge the holes and not mess up we’d be all right.” After his disappointment in the Three State Flyers event two weeks ago Lathroum was asked what finally changed his luck at Potomac. “I stopped wearing that black driving suit.” Lathroum said with a laugh. “Ever since we got that we haven’t done anything so we switched back to red.”
Covert collected a hard fought second, Austin Hubbard had a nice run taking third, Doug Horton was fourth and Booper Bare completed the top-five. Setting fast-time in time trials over the 26-car field was Jamie Lathroum with a one-lap time of 15.063. Heats went to Colby Frye, Jeremy Miller and Lathroum.
Late Model Feature finish 55-laps (Lap Leaders Jeremy Miller 1-6, Jamie Lathroum 7-55)
1. Jamie Lathroum 2. Jason Covert 3. Austin Hubbard 4.=2 0Doug Horton 5. Booper Bare 6. DJ Myers 7. Rod Conley 8. Ross Robinson 9. Harold Dorsey Jr. 10. Colby Frye 11. Ronnie DeHaven Jr. 12. David Williams 13. Dale Hollidge 14. Kyle Lear 15. Roland Mann 16. Larry Ramsey 17. Rick Eckert 18. Chris Cromer 19. Nick Dickson 20. Daryl Hills 21. Ray Kable Jr. 22. Deane Guy 23. Jeremy Miller 24. Scott Cross 25. Matt Quade 26. Jeff Pilkerton
By Doug Watson (Potomac Speedway) |
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