Phillips Flies to Another Big Payday and TWDTC Win

A second Missouri driver took his second TWDTC title as Terry Phillips(Springfield) led all but the first couple laps. Phillips, coming off a huge payday at the Winter Meltdown in Las Cruces, got by early leader and USMTS Southern Series points leader, John Whittington. From there it was Phillips flying through the field lapping up to ninth place on his way to backing up his 2010 win and pocketing a cool $3000.

The front row of Whittington and Clyde Dunn jr. stayed side by side into turn 1, with Whittington coming off turn 2 with the lead. Dunn, Phillips, Cody Smith and Chase Allen fell in line behind the leader. Phillips went to the top on lap 1 to get around Dunn for second and close on Whittington. Phillips and Whittington had a brief wheel to wheel battle as Phillips grabbed the point on lap 3.

Allen followed Phillips tracks on the high side getting by Smith on lap 3 for fourth, then Dunn on lap 4 for third. Smith used the low grove to get fourth from Dunn on lap 6. Behind the top five, Jason Teague and Brad Doherty were running side by side for sixth. Phillips caught lapped traffic on lap 12 with a big lead and was easily making his way when Ryan Whitworth spun on lap 17 to bring out the races only caution.

Phillips got away clean or the restart, while Allen got by Whittington for second. At the halfway mark it was Phillips edging ahead, Allen, Whittington, Dunn and Chris Henigan getting by Smith for fifth. Whittington got second back from Allen as Phillips checked out. Dunn put a slide job on Allen to take over third on lap 22. Allen continued to fall back giving up spots to Henigan, Dunn and Rodney Sanders.

Phillips was back into traffic and lapping his way through the field. In the meantime, Dunn, Smith, Sanders and Allen continued to slug it out. With five to go Phillips had nearly a half track advantage on Whittington who had a gap back to Henigan. Phillips easily ran to the victory in the Andys Frozen Custard, Don Babb Motorsports, Port City Racing, Integra Shocks, Hatfield Racing Engines, GRT Chassis.

“We got the bugs worked out of this new car,” commented Phillips. “It turned out to be pretty fast. It was a good car with a good motor. We haven't made any big changes to our cars in several years. We just do little stuff. Once we found a good combination we haven't messed with it much.”

“We come down to race while it's cold up north, it just worked out that we've picked up two big wins on back to back weekends. I'm ready for it to warm up so we can stick around home a little bit. We've got big Late Model and Modified races coming up. Now we're ready to rock and roll.”

“I'm mainly going to run Late Model stuff. We'll be getting geared up for our MARS Series and run the Modified when we can. The ones that pay more we'll make time for. Our Modified program is real good, we'll get the Late Model program going and have a good year.”

Modifieds

75 Terry Phillips, Springfield, Mo

5w John Whittington, Vidor

16 Chris Henigan, Marshall

88xxx Clyde Dunn jr., Sunnyville

18s Cody Smith, Kaufman

20 Rodney Sanders, Happy

30 Chase Allen, Midlothian

117 Jason Teague, Tahlequah, Okla

410 Brad Doherty, Ennis

12x Corey Babbitt, Channelview

707 PJ Egbert, Copperas Cove

121x Bobby Ruffin, Crandall

88xx Bobby Malchus, Red Oak

89 Steve Whiteaker jr., Corpus Christi

32 Shane Clement, Bonham

98 John Allen, Chanute, Kan

25 Craig Moss, Kennedale

1 Dee Gossett, Amarillo

8 Dennie Gieber, Jacksonville

14T Tristan Dycus, Alvarado

15j Jared Webb, McKinney

2G Kenny Gaddis, Hallsville

63 Ryan Whitworth, Humbolt, Kan

9H Shane Hebert, Lafayette, La

Modified Pole Dash

5w John Whittington

88xxx Clyde Dunn jr

75 Terry Phillips

30 Chase Allen

18s Cody Smith

117 Jason Teague

8 Dennie Gieber

Modified LCQ's(Top 3 to A-main)

LCQ 1

2G Kenny Gaddis

2x Corey Babbitt

9H Shane Hebert

87M Justin McCoy

71 Robert Baker

86j Travis Johnson

151 Tommy Williams

781 Trevor Egbert

41 Jacob Pirkle

45t Eric Tomlinson

60 Jason Ilich

15b Tomas Blackwell

77x Shawn Greenlee

13x Brandon Byars

74 Jeremy Payne

75 Patrik Daniel

LCQ 2

121x Bobby Ruffin

410 Brad Doherty

89 Steve Whiteaker jr

23 Howard Willis

5T Randy Timms

10P Brian Parker

7 Rick Lovelady

18j Chase Junghans

12 Jim Armstrong

12p Jeff Herbers

33x Brad Pannell

22s Scott Hilburn

88H James Harper

78 Billy Jack Brutchin

15x Ryan Humphreys

12g Jeremy Green

LCQ 3

88xx Bobby Malchus

20 Rodney Sanders

98 John Allen

05 Rod Slack

14T Tristan Dycus

87K Jimmy Littlejohn

81b Cody Simpson

34N CH Nix

4R Derek Ramirez

25D Donnie Shipp

186 Jeremy Gossett

190 Shawn Stephenson

21 Jason Borlace

60B Mike Bowers

68 Brandon Watson

LCQ 4

32 Kevin Clement

63 Ryan Whotworth

1 Dee Gossett

955 Robert Metz

8j Dustin Hyde

77 GW Egbert IV

1S Ronnie Sigman

1A Allen Oliva

00x Chance Bishop

51 Micah Thompson

198 Zach Gossett

74j Jasen Hammond

36T Trent Dorman

160 William Gould

10 Kyle Schmidt

34 Mickey Lassiter

LCQ 5

16 Chris Henigan

15j Jared Webb

707 PJ Egbert

12T Tyler Townsend

66 Greg Burt

85 Thomas Tillison jr

82 Brandon Houk

18 Tim Clonch

121 David Winslett

56b Troy Taylor

25 Craig Moss

D11 David Hennan

79 Shane Campbell

311 Neal Debord

19T Tony Osborn