CANEY, Kan. – After wrapping up the AmeriFlex/OCRS IMCA Sprint Car championship last weekend at Red Dirt Raceway Joe Bob Lee was looking forward to racing hard without the points chase hanging over his head.
He did just that Saturday in the season finale at Caney Valley Speedway. Lee drove from his inside second row starting position into the lead for his third victory of the season.
“It is definitely a big weight lifted off your shoulders,” Lee said the week before of racing without worrying about points. “We can go into the last night of racing (Caney) and enjoy it and have fun. We can go for the win instead of worrying about points.”
Behind Lee there was a lot of movement in the 20-car field as Casey Wills came from 13th starting position to finish second. Alison Slaton followed from 12th to finish third, her best finish of the season. Roy Larkin started 11th and finished fourth and Blake Edwards rounded out the top five.
The finish:
1. 5-Joe Bob Lee[3]; 2. 31-Casey Wills[13]; 3. 6-Alison Slaton[12]; 4. 3C-Roy Larkin[11]; 5. 5M-Blake Edwards[4]; 6. 77-Dean Drake Jr[16]; 7. 08E-Elizabeth Phillips[10]; 8. 20-Shawn Wicker[15]; 9. 6D-Doug Fry[17]; 10. 31K-Ross Moore[19]; 11. 7F-Noah Harris[9]; 12. 66-Edmund Bishop[7]; 13. 00-Daniel Shaffer[1]; 14. 51-Alan Cunningham[20]; 15. 22C-Charlie Crumpton[5]; 16. 30X-Larry Bratti[18]; 17. 15D-Andrew Deal[14]; 18. 22M-Ree s Moran[8]; 19. 88-Terry Easum[2]; 20. 11-Michael Tyre II[6]