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LaSalle, IL - Pettisville, Ohio’s Tully Esterline gave the drivers of the ARCA Lincoln Welders Truck Series a lesson in dirt track racing. The former sprint car driver hadn’t forgotten a thing from his days of driving the winged warriors on ...
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LaSalle, IL - Pettisville, Ohio’s Tully Esterline gave the drivers of the ARCA Lincoln Welders Truck Series a lesson in dirt track racing. The former sprint car driver hadn’t forgotten a thing from his days of driving the winged warriors on dirt as the mechanical engineering senior from the University of Toledo raced his Spangler Candy Chevy S-10 underneath ARCA Pro-4 veteran Johnny Witham on the 17th lap of the 50 lap main event and never looked back to capture his career-first ARCA Truck victory becoming the fifth different winner after eight events in the new versatile touring series. Witham held on for second ahead of Robbin Slaughter and Chad Guinn, who finished fourth in his first-ever start on dirt, and John Kasmierski to complete the top five. "This is just great," said Esterline after the race. "We really needed this to get some momentum going. We’ve definitely struggled all year, especially on pavement. The asphalt set-ups are all new to us, and with most of the races on pavement, it’s been quite a learning curve, but we’re slowly but surely starting to catch on. We knew this new ARCA Lincoln Welders Truck Series was going to be tough, we just had no idea how tough. It jumped out of gear on us on that last restart, and I thought we were going to lose it all, but I just shoved back into gear and it took off. I want to thank Spangler Candy for sticking by us, and ARCA for a great series, and LaSalle Speedway for having us. This is a great little race track. I hope we get to come back." Witham led at the onset in his Appco-Fab Shop Ford from his second starting position but it wasn’t long before Esterline, who started fourth, maneuvered his way into second. Esterline gave chase for several laps with Robbin Slaughter’s Carmen’s Vacuum Sales-Ed & Company Ford in tow until Witham jumped the cushion in turns one and two allowing the eventual winner to take charge to the low side for the winning pass. Gregg Vasko finished sixth in front of Bill Withers, Dave Reeb, point leader Aaron Hulings and Bob Strait to complete the top ten. Strait, a 14-time ARCA Bondo/Mar-Hyde Series winner, was on his way to the front until a spin relegated the veteran to the tail-end of the pack. Heat race winners were Bob Stoner and Strait. Esterline also won the Cloyes Gear Halfway Leader award and Vasko picked up the Ed & Company Hard Charger honors for advancing the most positions, from 16th to sixth.
1999 ARCA LINCOLN WELDERS TRUCK SERIES EVENT #8 LaSalle Speedway, LaSalle IL, 8-14-99 Official Results
FIN STR CAR
POS POS NO DRIVER/RESIDENCE TEAM & CAR LAPS STATUS
1 4 10 Tully Esterline/Pettisville OH
Spangler Candy Chevrolet 50 Running
2 2 5 Johnny Witham/Hamilton OH
Appco-Fab Shop Ford 50 Running
3 11 6 Robbin Slaughter/Columbus OH
Carmen's Vacuum Sales-Ed & Co Ford 50 Running
4 9 4 Chad Guinn/Erie MI
Guinn Motorsports Ford 50 Running
5 1 21 John Kasmierski/Toledo OH
Mississippi BBQ-M&M Heating-Schorling Chevrolet 50 Running
6 16 14 Gregg Vasko/McKeesport PA
Slack Overhead Doors-Esslinger-Gold Star Ford 50 Running
7 7 57 Bill Withers/Columbus OH
Withers Foreign Auto-Mannings USA-Driveline 1 Ford 50 Running
8 10 98 Dave Reeb/Pataskala OH
Accurate Express-Accurate Logistics Ford 50 Running
9 3 51 Aaron Hulings/Rockford MI
HRP Motorsports Ford 50 Running
10 5 3 Bob Strait/Mokena IL
Target Expediting-Fleet Truck Ford 50 Running
11 15 17 Bob Stoner/Portage MI
Woodham's Equip-Bogart Racing Wheels Ford 50 Running
12 13 33 David Clay/Carlisle OH
HVAC Systems-M&M Precision Chevrolet 49 Running
13 17 9 Stan Maitlen/Greenville OH
Maitlen Motorsports Ford 48 Running
14 12 76 Bobby Marvin/Columbus OH
Ed & Co-Prestige Delivery Ford 24 Ball Joint
15 18 96 John Toth/Northfield OH
Perma Tech Spray On Bedliners Ford 8 Accident
16 8 55 Jack Weethee/Grove City OH
Weethee Builders Ford 8 Oil Cooler
17 6 8 Troy Marciniak/Muskegon MI
Marciniak Motorsports Chevrolet 1 Engine
18 14 1 Matt Rhyne/Crown Point IN
Target Expediting Ford 0 Accident
HOOSIER TIRE POLE AWARD: Jack Weethee 17.095 seconds *NTR
HEAT WINNERS: Bob Stoner, Bob Strait
LAP LEADERS: Witham 1-16 (16); Esterline 17-50 (34)
SPECIAL AWARDS
Revenge Racing Bodies Pole-Win Award: None
Cloyes Gears & Products Halfway Leader Award: Tully Esterline
Ed & Company Racing Supplies Hard Charger Award: Gregg Vasko
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