WARRENSBURG, Mo. – A total of 83 cars signed in for Seeburg Muffler Race Night at Central Missouri Speedway on Saturday evening in five classes.
The Malvern Bank super late models made their second-ever appearance at CMS and joined the NASCAR Weekly Racing Series A-Mods, Super Stocks, B-Mods, and Pure Stocks.
Charlie McKenna and fellow Iowa driver Todd Cooney earned front-row starting spots for the 30-lap SLMR main event.
McKenna was quick from the start and grabbed the lead over Cooney and Chad Holladay in the early laps. Last year’s winner of this event, Aaron Marrant moved to fourth by lap five.
By lap seven, Holladay began to reel in the leader and at lap nine took command of the race. A series of cautions flew just shy of the halfway point, while all the time Holladay maintained his lead on each ensuing restart.
With 10 laps remaining, multiple-time series champion Kyle Berck moved to the second spot, overtaking McKenna for the position while Marrant and Cooney maintained fourth and fifth.
With five laps remaining, Marrant gained one more position to move to third, while Holladay ran strong to the finish to claim his first-ever SLMR victory.
Behind the leader at the line were Berck, McKenna, Marrant, McKenna and Cooney.
Other feature winners during the night included Gunner Martin (A-Mods), Jay Prevete (POWRi Super Stock), Terry Schultz (B-Mod), and Jason Ryun (Pure Stock).
The finish:
1. 32C-Chad Holladay [3]; 2. 14-Kyle Berck [4]; 3. 1X-Aaron Marrant [5]; 4. 22C-Charlie McKenna [1]; 5. 30-Todd Cooney [2]; 6. 85-Josh Leonard [13]; 7. 04-Tad Pospisil [6]; 8. 1J-Jesse Sobbing [14]; 9. 24-Bill Leighton [11]; 10. 98-Ben Schaller [10]; 11. 1-Jake Neal [19]; 12. 53-Andrew Kosiski [9]; 13. 52-Brian Kosiski [7]; 14. 26JR-Corey Zeitner [8]; 15. 56W-Gary Webb [17]; 16. 65-Jon Binning [15]; 17. 76-Zach Zeitner [18]; 18. 15C-Curt Schroeder [12]; 19. 44-Troy Daly [21]; 20. 4-J.C. Wyman [16]; 21. 45-Dan Battaglia [20].