9.22.23 Lucas Oil Late Models Results

MIKE MARLAR CAPTURES C.J. RAYBURN MEMORIAL FRIDAY NIGHT AT BROWNSTOWN
BROWNSTOWN, IN (September 22, 2023) – Mike Marlar and the late C.J. Rayburn were long time friends and on Friday Night he paid the best tribute he could to one of his racing mentors – winning the 40-lap 2nd Annual C.J. Rayburn Memorial at Brownstown Speedway. The Lucas Oil Late Model Dirt Series-sanctioned event drew 45 cars to the historic Southern Indiana venue.

Marlar grabbed the lead from Nick Hoffman on lap nine when Hoffman slipped off the frontstretch. Marlar then went on to take the $10,000 victory ahead of Ricky Thornton Jr., Devin Moran, Jonathan Davenport, and Hoffman. The race went green to checkers without any caution flags.

Hoffman jumped to the lead at the start of the race and held the top spot for the first eight circuits until he got off the track on the frontstretch allowing Marlar to take over. Hoffman held the second spot behind Marlar for several laps with Brandon Overton, Thornton, and Moran all in the hunt. Thornton outdueled Overton moving to third and then passed Hoffman for second.

Thornton then caught Marlar bringing Moran and later Davenport into the fray. At one point the top four were separated by mere seconds as Marlar would fight off challenges for the win – the 21st Lucas Oil Late Model Dirt Series victory of his career.

Marlar’s third win this season with the Lucas Oil Late Model Dirt Series was arguably the most emotional of his racing career. “I will try to keep it together, C.J.’s special to us and when he passed away, I took it as hard as when my granddad or anybody. I fought hard there, I didn’t have the best car, but he [C.J.] was up there helping me out. I was just making it happen. I am just glad that C.J.’s family and all of these supporters of Brownstown Speedway were here. He [C.J.] means so much to all of us and we hated to lose him, but nobody ever lived as good as he did. So, I just really miss him, and miss him everyday honestly and I was glad to get this race won. It’s definitely one of the biggest ones for sure.”

Thornton looking for his series-leading 21st win of the season pulled alongside Marlar on several occasions but settled for second. “He [Marlar] was good we had a couple of shots and just got ran off the racetrack. But we’ll try again tomorrow congrats to him [Marlar] he had a really good car. I was watching him at the beginning, and he could just fire off better than any of us. But I felt like in the longer race our race will be pretty good tomorrow, overall, the track was pretty good I am glad they did something to it.”

Moran, who was in the thick of things in the waning laps rounded out the Big River Steel Podium in third. “They finally widened the track out enough and you could get on the bottom. The track was really good. We could race all over it. Congrats to Mikey I know him and C.J. were pretty tight, so it was cool to see him win.”

The winner’s Ronnie Delk-owned Longhorn Chassis is powered by a Clements Racing Engine and sponsored by Can-Am Auto Salvage, Delk Equipment, Petroff Towing, Bilstein Shocks, Paulson-Stussy Construction, Mesilla Valley Transportation, Midwest Sheet Metal, Capital Race Decals, Delk-Marlar Racing Development.

Completing the top ten were Brandon Overton, Tim McCreadie, Jason Jameson, Josh Rice, and Daulton Wilson.

Lucas Oil Late Model Dirt Series
Race Summary
2nd Annual CJ Rayburn Memorial
Friday, September 22, 2023
Brownstown Speedway | Brownstown, IN

Allstar Performance Time Trials
Fast Time Group A: Brandon Overton | 13.465 seconds (overall)
Fast Time Group B: Nick Hoffman | 13.990 seconds

CJ Rayburn Memorial A-Main (40 Laps): 1. 157-Mike Marlar[4]; 2. 20RT-Ricky Thornton Jr[3]; 3. 99-Devin Moran[6]; 4. 49-Jonathan Davenport[8]; 5. 9H-Nick Hoffman[2]; 6. 76-Brandon Overton[1]; 7. 39-Tim McCreadie[7]; 8. 12-Jason Jameson[11]; 9. 11R-Josh Rice[5]; 10. 18D-Daulton Wilson[12]; 11. 1H-Hudson O’Neal[18]; 12. 46-Earl Pearson Jr[9]; 13. 58-Garrett Alberson[10]; 14. 97-Michael Chilton[13]; 15. 111B-Max Blair[14]; 16. 7-Ross Robinson[16]; 17. 96V-Tanner English[21]; 18. 15-James Rice[17]; 19. 28-Dennis Erb Jr[20]; 20. 11-Spencer Hughes[19]; 21. 20TC-Tristan Chamberlain[15]; 22. 1T-Tyler Erb[23]; 23. 22-Skyller Lewis[25]; 24. 32-Chad Stapleton[22]; 25. 1G-Devin Gilpin[26]; 26. 99B-Boom Briggs[24]

Fast Shafts B-Main 1 (10 Laps): 1. 15-James Rice[2]; 2. 11-Spencer Hughes[4]; 3. 96V-Tanner English[1]; 4. 1T-Tyler Erb[6]; 5. 29J-Jordan Wever[5]; 6. 10-Garrett Smith[3]; 7. 68-Adam Stricker[10]; 8. 76M-Shelby Miles[9]; 9. 22-Skyller Lewis[12]; 10. 93-Zak Blackwood[14]; 11. 18B-Chase Burda[11]; 12. 33M-Dallas Miller[13]; 13. 14-Quentin White[15]; 14. 23-Cory Hedgecock[7]; 15. 42-Terry Casey[8]

UNOH B-Main 2 (10 Laps): 1. 1H-Hudson O’Neal[2]; 2. 28-Dennis Erb Jr[1]; 3. 32-Chad Stapleton[4]; 4. 1CJ-Justin Shaw[8]; 5. 88-Greg Johnson[3]; 6. 24-Jared Bailey[5]; 7. 18-Trevor Landrum[6]; 8. 71R-Rod Conley[9]; 9. 23K-Keegan Cox[11]; 10. 99B-Boom Briggs[12]; 11. 11J-Jarod Fleetwood[13]; 12. 28S-Jeffrey Shackelford[14]; 13. (DNS) 13W-David Webb; 14. (DNS) 1G-Devin Gilpin

Penske Shocks Heat 1 (8 Laps): 1. 76-Brandon Overton[1]; 2. 11R-Josh Rice[3]; 3. 46-Earl Pearson Jr[5]; 4. 97-Michael Chilton[6]; 5. 96V-Tanner English[4]; 6. 10-Garrett Smith[2]; 7. 29J-Jordan Wever[8]; 8. 23-Cory Hedgecock[7]; 9. 76M-Shelby Miles[9]; 10. 18B-Chase Burda[10]; 11. 33M-Dallas Miller[12]; 12. 14-Quentin White[11]

Summit Racing Equipment Heat 2 (8 Laps): 1. 20RT-Ricky Thornton Jr[1]; 2. 39-Tim McCreadie[2]; 3. 12-Jason Jameson[3]; 4. 20TC-Tristan Chamberlain[4]; 5. 15-James Rice[5]; 6. 11-Spencer Hughes[7]; 7. 1T-Tyler Erb[6]; 8. 42-Terry Casey[8]; 9. 68-Adam Stricker[9]; 10. 22-Skyller Lewis[11]; 11. 93-Zak Blackwood[10]

Simpson Race Products Heat 3 (8 Laps): 1. 9H-Nick Hoffman[1]; 2. 99-Devin Moran[3]; 3. 58-Garrett Alberson[2]; 4. 111B-Max Blair[4]; 5. 28-Dennis Erb Jr[5]; 6. 88-Greg Johnson[6]; 7. 24-Jared Bailey[8]; 8. 13W-David Webb[7]; 9. 71R-Rod Conley[9]; 10. 23K-Keegan Cox[10]; 11. 11J-Jarod Fleetwood[11]

AP1 Insurance Heat 4 (8 Laps): 1. 157-Mike Marlar[1]; 2. 49-Jonathan Davenport[3]; 3. 18D-Daulton Wilson[2]; 4. 7-Ross Robinson[4]; 5. 1H-Hudson O’Neal[6]; 6. 32-Chad Stapleton[5]; 7. 18-Trevor Landrum[7]; 8. 1CJ-Justin Shaw[11]; 9. 1G-Devin Gilpin[9]; 10. 99B-Boom Briggs[8]; 11. 28S-Jeffrey Shackelford[10]

Qualifying – GROUP A (2 Laps): 1. 76-Brandon Overton, 00:13.465[11]; 2. 20RT-Ricky Thornton Jr, 00:13.466[15]; 3. 10-Garrett Smith, 00:13.467[4]; 4. 39-Tim McCreadie, 00:13.618[8]; 5. 11R-Josh Rice, 00:13.652[10]; 6. 12-Jason Jameson, 00:13.796[16]; 7. 96V-Tanner English, 00:13.874[5]; 8. 20TC-Tristan Chamberlain, 00:13.888[6]; 9. 46-Earl Pearson Jr, 00:13.891[7]; 10. 15-James Rice, 00:13.899[3]; 11. 97-Michael Chilton, 00:13.949[20]; 12. 1T-Tyler Erb, 00:13.985[14]; 13. 23-Cory Hedgecock, 00:14.077[1]; 14. 11-Spencer Hughes, 00:14.129[22]; 15. 29J-Jordan Wever, 00:14.168[12]; 16. 42-Terry Casey, 00:14.169[17]; 17. 76M-Shelby Miles, 00:14.233[19]; 18. 68-Adam Stricker, 00:14.240[21]; 19. 18B-Chase Burda, 00:14.561[23]; 20. 93-Zak Blackwood, 00:14.566[18]; 21. 14-Quentin White, 00:14.727[2]; 22. 22-Skyller Lewis, 00:14.735[9]; 23. 33M-Dallas Miller, 00:14.848[13]

Qualifying – GROUP B (2 Laps): 1. 9H-Nick Hoffman, 00:13.990[1]; 2. 157-Mike Marlar, 00:14.086[11]; 3. 58-Garrett Alberson, 00:14.103[10]; 4. 18D-Daulton Wilson, 00:14.113[14]; 5. 99-Devin Moran, 00:14.249[12]; 6. 49-Jonathan Davenport, 00:14.261[21]; 7. 111B-Max Blair, 00:14.352[7]; 8. 7-Ross Robinson, 00:14.377[2]; 9. 28-Dennis Erb Jr, 00:14.384[13]; 10. 32-Chad Stapleton, 00:14.519[9]; 11. 88-Greg Johnson, 00:14.694[16]; 12. 1H-Hudson O’Neal, 00:14.738[19]; 13. 13W-David Webb, 00:14.820[6]; 14. 18-Trevor Landrum, 00:14.872[17]; 15. 24-Jared Bailey, 00:14.975[22]; 16. 99B-Boom Briggs, 00:15.093[15]; 17. 71R-Rod Conley, 00:15.115[8]; 18. 1G-Devin Gilpin, 00:15.116[20]; 19. 23K-Keegan Cox, 00:15.135[4]; 20. 28S-Jeffrey Shackelford, 00:15.626[18]; 21. 11J-Jarod Fleetwood, 00:15.629[5]; 22. (DNS) 1CJ-Justin Shaw

Hot Laps – GROUP 1: 1. 39-Tim McCreadie, 00:13.336[8]; 2. 96V-Tanner English, 00:13.429[5]; 3. 46-Earl Pearson Jr, 00:13.468[7]; 4. 20TC-Tristan Chamberlain, 00:13.587[6]; 5. 10-Garrett Smith, 00:13.631[4]; 6. 23-Cory Hedgecock, 00:13.765[1]; 7. 15-James Rice, 00:13.783[3]; 8. 14-Quentin White, 00:14.346[2]; 9. (DNS) 22-Skyller Lewis

Hot Laps – GROUP 2: 1. 20RT-Ricky Thornton Jr, 00:13.295[6]; 2. 76-Brandon Overton, 00:13.334[2]; 3. 93-Zak Blackwood, 00:13.495[9]; 4. 1T-Tyler Erb, 00:13.559[5]; 5. 11R-Josh Rice, 00:13.635[1]; 6. 12-Jason Jameson, 00:13.885[7]; 7. 42-Terry Casey, 00:13.956[8]; 8. 29J-Jordan Wever, 00:14.185[3]; 9. 33M-Dallas Miller, 00:14.448[4]

Hot Laps – GROUP 3: 1. 9H-Nick Hoffman, 00:13.318[6]; 2. 97-Michael Chilton, 00:13.703[2]; 3. 68-Adam Stricker, 00:13.711[3]; 4. 11-Spencer Hughes, 00:13.792[4]; 5. 76M-Shelby Miles, 00:14.072[1]; 6. 1CJ-Justin Shaw, 00:14.189[8]; 7. 18B-Chase Burda, 00:14.485[5]; 8. 23K-Keegan Cox, 00:14.563[9]; 9. (DNS) 7-Ross Robinson

Hot Laps – GROUP 4: 1. 99-Devin Moran, 00:13.366[8]; 2. 111B-Max Blair, 00:13.556[3]; 3. 58-Garrett Alberson, 00:13.576[6]; 4. 157-Mike Marlar, 00:13.653[7]; 5. 28-Dennis Erb Jr, 00:13.955[9]; 6. 32-Chad Stapleton, 00:13.964[5]; 7. 71R-Rod Conley, 00:14.161[4]; 8. 11J-Jarod Fleetwood, 00:14.204[1]; 9. 13W-David Webb, 00:14.339[2]

Hot Laps – GROUP 5: 1. 1H-Hudson O’Neal, 00:13.244[6]; 2. 18D-Daulton Wilson, 00:13.533[1]; 3. 49-Jonathan Davenport, 00:13.555[8]; 4. 1G-Devin Gilpin, 00:13.673[7]; 5. 88-Greg Johnson, 00:13.802[3]; 6. 24-Jared Bailey, 00:14.132[9]; 7. 18-Trevor Landrum, 00:14.152[4]; 8. 99B-Boom Briggs, 00:14.290[2]; 9. 28S-Jeffrey Shackelford, 00:14.378[5]