Bandits vs. Mafia Shootout June 6th

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The Cline Construction Steel Block Bandits travel to Elkins Speedway this week for a shoot-out with the Steel Block Mafia to find out who will be in Ernie D’s Enterprises Victory Lane. This $2000 to win 40 lapper will pull in race teams from the Mid Atlantic Region along with the locals from Elkins Speedway. This high banked 3/8s clay oval will keep the drivers on the wheel and the fans on the edge of their seats all night.

Currently Walker Auther holds the Bandits point lead with Jared Powell only 12 points back. Kris Looney, Bo Feathers and Jeff Sweeney round out the top five. The Bandits are looking forward to this shoot-out with the Mafia and we will see who is the King of the Steel Blocks in the Mid Atlantic Region.

Also in action will be the O’ Reilly All Star Circuit of Champion Sprints.
Gates Open at 4pm, Bandit/Mafia Meeting at 6pm, Warm-ups at 6:15 and racing at 7pm.
Steel Block Bandit Rules apply. Please see our web site for all limited late model rules.

http://www.steelblockbandits.com

Special Thanks to the following:
Cline Construction, Ernie D’s Enterprises, Driveway Wizard, Muddslinger Web Services, Dehaven Well Drilling, Hot Custom Signs, Revolution Band, Affordable DJ Services, Hoosier Mid-Atlantic, American Racer, Anderson Racing and all our race teams & fans.

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Results via the Elkins Speedway website. Official Steel Block Bandits results will follow shortly.

Kris Looney, Bridgewater , VA driving his Lazer chassied Steel block LM won the 40 lap Steel Block Bandits vs Steel Block Mafia shootout at the Elkins Speedway and collected $2000 for his efforts.



Looney’s persistence paid off all night as he started on the pole, led the first 6 laps until 3rd starting Dusty Campbell, McConnellsville , OH got by. Looney immediately passed Campbell back the next lap and proceeded to lead for the next 10 laps until Billy Beachler, Franklin , WV passed him. Beachler then looked to be the class of the field as he opened up a good sized lead. But he ran into problems on lap 26 and Looney again assumed the lead. Beachler’s night ended on lap 27 as he went pitside with mechanical problems. Looney then fended off several charges from John Tallman, Tracy Sampson and Kris Patterson but he put the hammer down and won going away. At the checkered he had almost a half track lead over Tallman, with Sampson 3rd, Ron Key 4th and Dusty Hamrick 5th. Heats to Looney, Brian Buckler and Campbell .



Notes: Dusty Hamrick was the only Fastrack LM participating and finished 5th. Nineteen cars in the pits with 18 starting the feature. 7 ran the entire 40 laps. Hard charger was John Tallman who started 11th and finished 2nd, a gain of 9 spots.



Notes: 5 of the first 7 finishers were local cars that run at Elkins on a weekly basis.