Reutzel Off to Ocala for All Star Opener

Lonnie Wheatley, CLUTE, Texas (February 4, 2016) – Two weekends away from a racetrack was enough.

Rather than sit idle for another pair of weekends, Aaron Reutzel and the Shark-powered Dissolvealloy Frac Ball Revolution /BC Fundz No. 87 Sprint Car team are making the 900-plus mile journey from Clute, TX, to Ocala, FL, for this weekend’s opening pair of All Star Circuit of Champions events at Bubba Raceway Park.

“I’m looking forward to getting some laps in before King of 360’s and then the ASCS title defense,” Reutzel says.  “And maybe we can come away with a win or two to top it off.”

Reutzel made his first visit to Bubba Raceway Park last February and immediately found the uniquely-shaped 3/8-mile clay oval to his liking.

The reigning ASCS National champion nearly captured victory honors in his All Star debut aboard the Wren Motorsports/Momentum Racing Suspensions machine, leading 28 of 30 laps before mechanical issues slowed his pace and forced him to settle for second.

Reutzel returned to Bubba Raceway Park several weeks later for ASCS action and paced the field all 25 laps for one of his 12 overall wins in 2015 aboard the Danny Sander Construction/ButlerBuilt entry.

“We were fast there right out of the box last year, hopefully we can do that again,” Reutzel said.

Reutzel opened the 2016 campaign with five nights of Winter Heat Sprint Car Showdown action at Yuma, Arizona’s Cocopah Speedway before taking part in his first Chili Bowl Midget Nationals in Tulsa, OK.

This weekend’s All Star double at Bubba Raceway Park will mark the first of two Florida weekends for Reutzel and the Wright Way Logistics team with East Bay Raceway Park’s $10,000-to-win “King of 360’s” Winter Nationals to follow on February 18-20.

Up Next: All Star Circuit of Champions season opener at Ocala, Florida’s Bubba Raceway Park on Friday and Saturday.

Keep Track:  Keep track of Aaron Reutzel’s on-track action including schedule and results at http://www.aaronreutzelracing.com/, on Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/pages/Aaron-Reutzel-Racing/117666254913127 or on Twitter at @AaronReutzel.  You can also e-mail Aaron at aaronreutzel@yahoo.com.

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Penning the recurring series of “The Wheatley Chronicles” articles on www.sprintcarmania.com, Lonnie Wheatley provides media, public relations and more for select tracks, drivers and events.  For more information, Wheatley may be contacted at lonniewheatley@gmail.com.

Dunn Benson Motorsports Signs Multi-Year Agreement with Lucas Oil Racing TV and Lucas Oil, Team Announces 2016 Sponsors and Schedule

DUNN, NC (February 2nd, 2016) - Dunn Benson Motorsports, a National Touring Super Dirt Late Model Race Team owned by Carlton and Kemp Lamm are pleased to announce they have partnered with Lucas Oil Racing TV, a division of Lucas Oil Products for the next three years. Dunn Benson Motorsports and driver Earl Pearson Jr have been sponsored by the Lucas Oil Company since 2000 and branded the Team around the parent company Lucas Oil Products Inc. Under this new Three-Year agreement the Team will now be branded with the new logo and promote the new website www.LucasOilRacing.TV.

"We are thrilled to be associated with the new company Lucas Oil Racing TV and continuing our relationship with Forrest Lucas and the Lucas Oil Company for the next three years. We are very humbled and honored that Forrest Lucas would use our Race Team to help promote the new Lucas Oil Racing TV Company. We're very excited about the new colors and design of both the Racecars and the Team Transporter that will now carry the Lucas Oil Racing TV logos in 2016. To have Earl Pearson Jr as our driver and the support form Lucas Oil for the next three years gives us a great deal of confidence that we feel we can contend for a National Championship on the Lucas Oil Late Model Dirt Series and put Lucas Oil Racing TV in victory lane on a regular basis," stated Kemp Lamm, Co-Owner of Dunn Benson Motorsports along with his father Carlton Lamm.

LucasOilRacing.TV is the first streaming TV network dedicated solely to the world of motorsports - 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. Programming will include LIVE racing, expanded pre-and post-race action, behind-the-scenes content, unseen interviews, automobile build shows, and an extensive library of motorsports content and racing! LucasOilRacing.TV will be available worldwide across multiple digital media players and mobile devices including products by Android, Amazon, Apple, Roku, and Smart TVs and through LucasOilRacing.TV on computers. LucasOilRacing.TV is dedicated to continued development of its platform for additional devices including popular gaming consoles. As the driving force behind LucasOilRacing.TV, Lucas Oil Products, Inc. continues its commitment to excellence and an unwavering support of the motorsports community.

"Lucas Oil Products is proud to return in 2016 with Earl Pearson Jr. and Dunn Benson Motorsports Team, both great Champions to be partner with and help brand our new company Lucas Oil Racing TV. Our partnership started back in 2000, so you can say Earl Pearson Jr is part of the family. We are all looking forward to many more wins with Earl and the Dunn Benson Motorsports Team on the Lucas Oil Dirt Late Model Series and various other special events around the country. Super Dirt Late Model Racing offers a great test platform for our Racing Oils as these are very serious and competitive drivers and cars, racing with great exposure at multiple tracks. I look forward to the seeing Earl Pearson Jr. race this season myself as this is in my opinion some of the most exciting racing on dirt tracks in the country", stated Tom Bogner, Director Motorsports, Lucas Oil Products, Inc.

Dunn Benson Motorsports is also pleased to announce all our marketing partners for 2016. Our partners include; Lucas Oil Racing TV, Lucas Oil Products, MAVTV, Protect The Harvest, Dunn Benson Ford, Carlton Cattle Company, Freeport Recycling Center, Miller Welders, Sunoco Race Fuels, Hoosier Tire, Midwest Sheetmetal, Tiger Rear Ends, Penske Shocks, Eibach Springs, Braille Batteries, Performance Bodies, BERT Transmissions, Bell Helmets, Weld Racing, TWM Race Products, Outerwears, AFCO, FK Rod Ends, Fast Shafts, Butlerbuilt, Beyea Hedders, Hooker Harness, Peterson Fluid Systems, Five Star Shop Service, Wilwood, Sweet Mfg, Allstar Performance, X-Treme Graphics, UniFirst, Campbell Oil Company, Delph Communications, Davis Cabinet Company, Black Diamond Chassis, and Durham Race Engines using RY45 Series Engines.

Dunn Benson Motorsports would like to Thank everyone on the Team for their dedication and hard work for 2016 including; Driver-Earl Pearson Jr (Jacksonville, FL), Crew Chief- John Pfeffer (Hilton, NY), Crew- Mack Hyatt (Dunn, NC), Crew- Chad Capps (Jacksonville, FL) Crew- Jackie Morris (Dunn, NC), Truck Driver/Crew- Brian Lucas (Jacksonville, FL), Crew-Ralph Peiffer (Dunn, NC), Marketing/PR- Wayne Castleberry (Linden, NC).

We would also like to Thank Ryan Delph and Delph Communications for hosting and managing the Dunn Benson Motorsports website again in 2016. For all the latest news, schedule, pictures, sponsors, crew or anything related to Dunn Benson Motorsports and driver Earl Pearson Jr. visit our Team website at www.DunnBensonMotorsports.com or www.earlpearsonjr1.com. Our full 2016 schedule is now online on the Team website also at.www.DunnBensonMotorsports.com or www.Earlpearsonjr1.com.

Dunn Benson Motorsports will compete on the Lucas Oil Late Model Dirt Series along with several other Non-Lucas Oil events in 2016. EPJ and the Team will start the 2016 season at Golden Isles Speedway in Brunswick, GA on Thursday February 4th, Friday February 5th and Saturday February 6th. All three events will be sanctioned by the Lucas Oil Late Model Dirt Series and will air "LIVE" on www.LucasOilRacing.TV.

For the latest breaking news about the Lucas Oil Late Model Dirt Series, including the 2016 tour schedule, TV schedule, drivers, sponsors and all the information about the series visit the official website at www.lucasdirt.com.

Follow Dunn Benson Motorsports on the social media outlets at www.facebook.com/dunnbensonmotorsports and https://twitter.com/DBMEPJ1

Media Contact: Trenton Berry
trenton@racindirt.com
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By Lyndal Scranton

Wheatland, MO (February 4, 2016) -  Jesse Stovall knows stock-car racing is a what-have-you-done-lately sport, where past accomplishment does not always predict future performance.

So after the best season of his Late Model career, when Stovall won 19 features and earned a top-25 ranking in the prestigious DirtonDirt.com final 2015 poll, he knew the question was coming.

Now what?

"To me, if you can have half the season that I had a year ago, it's a very, very good year," Stovall said this week from his race shop in Billings, Missouri.

That's not to say Stovall, who narrowly finished behind Terry Phillips in the Lucas Oil MLRA Series standings last fall - despite missing a couple of races - is conceding anything.

Stovall laughed about the year - he guessed about a decade ago - when he won 23 races in his Modified. Stovall said his car owner at the time declared, "That's a fluke year. You'll never do that again."

"Well, the next year I went out and won 31. The next year I went out and won 28. So after about the third year of that, I said to him, 'now what?'

"I'm not cocky and I hate cocky people," Stovall continued. "If it happens again, great. If it doesn't? We'll see how it goes."

Stovall and crew chief Tony Rogers have spent the winter putting the finishing touches on a new Black Diamond Race Car. He is itching to get the season started.

There was temptation to hit the road and make the Georgia-Florida Speed Weeks. But instead, he's pointing to a March debut at either the Toilet Bowl Classic in Clarksville, Tennessee, or the Pelican 100 at Vivian, Louisiana.

The MLRA schedule fires up April 1-2 with the Spring Meltdown at I-80 Speedway in Greenwood, Nebraska with $2,000 and $5,000-to-win shows. The 3rd annual Spring Nationals follows, April 8-9, at Lucas Oil Speedway in Wheatland, Missouri.

It was at I-80 a year ago when Stovall's season had an ominous start. Motor problems after a handful of laps on opening night had him fearing the worst.

"It was heartbreaking," Stovall said. "It was like, 'Here we go again, another year of hell.'

"I didn't know how much longer I could do it, financially or just period. But after the year got rolling, we got our motor problem figured out. Then the wheels kept on turning and turning."

The addition of Rogers, who parted as chief mechanic for Billy Moyer Jr., last spring when Moyer took a sabbatical, proved key.

Rogers gave Stovall a full-time crew chief for the first time in his career. The two hit it off and proved to be a winning combination. Wins began to pile up and Stovall dominated the regional Late Model scene.

Stovall was a bonafide contender as well with the big boys, earning a front-row starting position for the Lucas Oil Series Show-Me 100 - though had to wait seven weeks to race after a rainout. He briefly passed eventual winner Jonathan Davenport for the lead during the July make-up and wound up fifth.

"I put Tony in charge of the car, from washing it to maintenance," Stovall said. "He tightened every nut and bolt. I just had to worry about the shocks and things like that. When I pull onto the track, I don't worry if I tightened this bolt or that wheel or whatever."

Stovall is eager to pull onto a track and start the journey for 2016. His sponsor list includes: Malvern Trust & Savings Bank, Swafford's Service, Rushin Towing, Scott Bailey Racing Engines, JSR Suspensions, Black Diamond Race Cars, Midwest Sheet Metal, Bobcat of Springfield, Chix Gear, Dynamic Drivelines, M&M Painting and Construction, Performance Bodies, APAC and Smokin' Wheels BBQ.

As the season begins, Stovall said he carries an appreciation for what happened a year ago along with the confidence that it still provides.

Phillips, the three-time MLRA champ and a friendly rival, said Stovall has the right mind-set.

"You can have a stellar year like that and not win a damn race the next year," Phillips said. "You have to keep an even-keel about yourself. He's learned that through the years. He's pretty good about keeping a level head."

For all of the latest news and information fans are encouraged to visit the series website at www.MLRARacing.com.

Fans may also "like" the Lucas Oil MLRA Facebook page by clicking www.Facebook.com/lucasoilmlra or follow us on Twitter at www.Twitter.com/MLRA.

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Lucas Oil Speedway General Manager
Lucas Oil MLRA Series Director
Office: (417) 282-5984 

Dan@lucasoil.com