MAGNOLIA, Miss. — Billy Moyer added a stop in Mississippi to his spectacular 2008 victory tour, hitting paydirt in Saturday night’s inaugural World of Outlaws Late Model Series March Through Dixie 100 at Pike County Speedway.
The sizzling dirt-late-model legend pocketed $20,150 for his convincing triumph in the first WoO LMS event at promoter J.F. Gasquet’s three-eighths-mile oval.
It was Moyer’s eighth victory of the season —all behind the wheel of the same Banner Valley Hauling-sponsored Victory Circle M1 Chassis he helped develop — and his second straight in WoO LMS competition. He won the last tour event run six weeks ago on Feb. 16 at Volusia Speedway Park in Barberville, Fla.
Moyer, 50, is simply on an incredible roll.
“I’m just enjoying this as long as it lasts,” said Moyer, who leads the WoO LMS standings on the strength of two wins and a third-place finish in three events. “You just never know what tomorrow is gonna bring in this sport. The competition level is second to none with so many great cars out here.
“Believe me, I’ve been on both ends of the wave. I’ve been on the top, like we are right now, and I’ve been on the bottom, kicking and trying to figure out how I got to the bottom as hard as I was working.”
The driver known as ‘Mr. Smooth’ led all but one lap of the extra-distance affair. He surged forward from the fourth starting spot to grab the lead from polesitter James Ward on lap two and never looked back, racing virtually unchallenged for the remainder of a race slowed by only three caution flags.
Moyer crossed the finish line with a 1.045-second edge on 2004 tour titlist Scott Bloomquist, who started sixth. Shannon Babb finished third, with Ward and Shane Clanton rounding out the top five.
The finish:
Billy Moyer, Scott Bloomquist, Shannon Babb, James Ward, Shane Clanton, Darrell Lanigan, Rick Eckert, Chub Frank, Eddie Carrier, Jr., Chris Wall, Tim Fuller, Ray Moore, Steve Francis, Josh Richards, Jimmy Mars, Rick Briggs, Clint Smith, John Blankenship, Mike Boland, Rob Litton, Bub McCool, David Breazeale, Kenny Merchant, Brian Shirley.