BARBERVILLE, Fla. — Billy Moyer put a cherry on top of his spectacular Alltel DIRTcar Nationals performance, winning Saturday night’s 50-lap World of Outlaws Late Model Series A-Main at Volusia Speedway Park.
The $10,150 triumph gave Moyer three wins in five events during the busy week of racing — and, of course, the championship of the 37th annual Alltel DIRTcar Nationals. He earned more than $30,000 over the five nights of competition.
“I don’t know if we can ever top this,” said Moyer, who also won UMP DIRTcar-sanctioned super-late-model features on Feb. 11 and Feb. 13. “In this day and age, with the competition that’s here, it’s a big accomplishment to have a week like this. I don’t know if I’ll ever repeat this again.”
Moyer, 50, worked harder than he had all week to secure his victory in the second of two WoO LMS events contested during the Alltel DIRTcar Nationals. Though he started from the outside pole, the legendary driver known as “Mr. Smooth” had to outduel Thursday-night WoO LMS winner Josh Richards for the lead and outrun Chub Frank, following a late-race restart to put one more flourish on his 2008 trip to Florida.
“What a race tonight,” said Moyer, who swapped the lead four times with Richards between laps 8-15. “That was fun.
“I can’t see what’s going on behind me, but Josh was on his game and we had a heckuva race. We ran each other clean and didn’t put tire marks all down the side of each other’s cars.”
Driving the Banner Valley Hauling-sponsored Victory Circle M1 chassis that he helped design, Moyer grabbed the lead from Richards for good on lap 15. His Clements-powered No. 21 flashed across the finish line 0.399 of a second in front of Frank, whose advance from the 11th starting spot in his Lester Buildings Rocket fell one position short.
Richards, who started from the outside pole, settled for third. Jimmy Owens and Clint Smith rounded out the top five.
Dan Schlieper was fast qualifier for the 57-car field.
The finish:
Billy Moyer, Chub Frank, Josh Richards, Jimmy Owens, Clint Smith, Darrell Lanigan, Darren Miller, Brian Shirley, Steve Francis, Dan Schlieper, Eddie Carrier, Jr., Tim McCreadie, Rick Eckert, John Blankenship, Tim Fuller, Ivedent Lloyd, Billy Decker, Jackie Boggs, Austin Dillon, Vic Coffey, Dan Stone, Shannon Babb, Steve Shaver, Shane Clanton, Dennis Erb, Jr., Ricky Elliott, Justin Rattliff, Mike Hammerle.