MUSKOGEE, Okla. — It has been five months since Terry Easum last won an AmeriFlex/OCRS IMCA Sprint Car feature, but the drought finally came to an end Friday night at Thunderbird Speedway.
Easum took the initial lead in his Premier Self Storage sprinter and pulled away from the field on the Thunderbird half-mile to record his second victory of the season.
The finish was a complete turnaround from his 19th place finish when the OCRS last visited Thunderbird on March 25.
“It has been half a season, but we have been racing the ASCS car a lot more and it has helping in this,” Easum said of his dominating run. “It definitely feels good to get one here. This place has been tough for us.”
Easum was chased for most of the race by Sheldon Barksdale and Blake Edwards. But with two laps remaining, the race for second shifted with Johnny Kent driving into second. Kent came from seventh starting, making him the D&G Contracting Hard Charger.
Edwards held on to third and Barksdale dropped to fourth. Zach Chappell rounded out the top five.
While the field battled for second, Easum was running his own race. His only concern was lapped traffic.
“The car was really good,” he said. “It would drive through the slick or the rubber. Dodging some of the lap cars was tough.”
Feature (20 Laps)
1. 88-Terry Easum[1]; 2. 55-Johnny Kent[7]; 3. 17E-Blake Edwards[2]; 4. 20S-Sheldon Barksdale[3]; 5. 50Z-Zach Chappell[8]; 6. 5-Joe Bob Lee[9]; 7. 10-Jordan Knight[4]; 8. 26M-Fred Mattox[6]; 9. 4X-Heath Nestrick[10]; 10. 08E-Elizabeth Phillips[11]; 11. P78-Perry Pickard[13]; 12. 82-Keith Bolton[12]; 13. 11K-Tyler Knight[14]; 14. 12M-Mitchell Barros[18]; 15. 22M-Rees Moran[5]; 16. 9-Emilio Hoover[15]; 17. 24-Cody Hays[17]; 18. 2-Whit Gastineau[16]; 19. 38-James Fabian[19]