10/8/2019
Hendrix, Taylor earn front-row starting spots for Big Buck 50 finale at Lucas Oil Speedway
WHEATLAND, Missouri - The stage is set for Saturday night's big finale of the 6th annual Big Buck 50 Presented by Whitetail Trophy Hunt at Lucas Oil Speedway.
David Hendrix and Peyton Taylor will start on the front row of the 50-lap main event, which will pay $10,000 to the winner plus a free entry, valued at $3,000, into this fall's prestigious Whitetail Trophy Hunt in central Missouri.
Hendrix and Taylor won their qualifying heat races and then finished 1-2 in the "dash" involving the eight heat-race winners on Friday night. Hendrix started on the pole and wound up .358 seconds ahead of Taylor, of Batesville, Arkansas, who started fifth.
Earlier in the evening, Hendrix received the $500 Fast Time Bonus courtesy of Tony Jackson Racecars.
Kris Lloyd of Peach Orchard, Arkansas, wound up third and Derek Brown of Stoutland was fourth.
The second dash, involving second-place finishers in the heats, saw Richie Tosh of Salado, Arkansas, advance from a fourth-starting spot to win by 3.37 seconds over Dale Richardson. Those two will start ninth and 10th in the Big Buck 50 feature.
Tony Anglin, winner of the last Big Buck 50 in 2017, will start 12th in the feature after his fourth-place finish in Dash 2.
Big Buck 50 Feature lineup (top 16 locked in)
Row 1 - David Hendrix, Peyton Taylor
Row 2 - Kris Lloyd, Derek Brown
Row 3 - Tim Brown, Kevin Salter
Row 4 - Mark Simon, Chuck Knight
Row 5 - Richie Tosh, Dale Richardson
Row 6 - Dylan Davlin, Tony Anglin
Row 7 - Johnny Coats, Ted Welschmeyer
Row 8 - Heath Philpot, Marc Carter
Ferris captures ULMA Late Model win: Larry Ferris took over the lead with eight laps to go and went on to victory in the Warsaw Auto Marine & RV ULMA feature on Friday, taking home $1,000. The ULMA Late Models will have another full program on Saturday night with $2,000 going to the winner.
Ferris rallied from a 10th-starting position and finished 1.09 seconds in front of fellow Nevada, Missouri, driver Johnny Fennewald who roared from 17th to second. Todd McCoin of Barnett was third.
"I knew I had a good car at the start of the race," Ferris said. "We just kept picking them off one by one and got kind of bogged up in the middle of the race and we had that yellow. It was just what I needed."
The race opened up when the front three - Dylan Hoover, Todd Shute and Kaeden Cornell - were waging a battle for the lead after a lap 16 restart when, after Cornell went from third to first, they got together in turn four. That brought out a caution and ended the night for each of them.
"It's been a while, especially over here. Those guys are pretty good," Ferris said when asked if he'd seen a situation like what happened ahead of him. "It usually doesn't happen like that."
Lucas Cattle Company ULMA points leader Aaron Marrant started 21st, but rallied to finish sixth. He began the night 54 points in front of Henson who wound up 18th.
Gates open at 4 p.m. with hot laps at 6:30 and racing at 7:05 Saturday. The Street Stocks will have "alphabet" mains to round out the field for the main event, giving drivers an opportunity for drivers having trouble the first two nights to work their way into the B-main for a shot at earning a spot in the main event.
Article Credit: Lyndal Scranton
