By: Pam Baker

Skip Moore has been waiting a long time to get to victorylane, a long 9 years if you can believe that as his last win was at Tri CitySpeedway on May 18, 2003.  “We had allthose problems on Saturday night at Sharonand didn’t run time trials, or the heat race as we were having MSD electricalfailure and also spark plug failure. Besides that we had to replace the transmission three times and werehaving some engine problems.  Then Sundaynight our troubles continued as we broke a transmission line before the heatrace and had to replace it, but we went out and won the heat and the feature.  So it turned out to be a really greatnight.  I want to thank my sponsorsMuscle Lubricants,R & R Construction, McCool’s Signs and Graphics; SlipperyRock Sportswear, Nichols-Hepp Racing Engines, GME Steering, #1 Speed Centerand Moore’s Auto Body,”said Moore. Moorewas not going to be denied on Sunday evening as he led from green to checker topick up his second win of his career and his first Modified Tour feature event.

The seventh leg of the Modified Tour racing series was heldat Eriez Speedway on Sunday night of Labor Day weekend and leading the field tothe drop of the green flag by virtue of the handicapped system used by theModified Tour, Skip Moore and Shawn Fleeger started on the pole for theevent.  At the drop of the green flag, Moore gained theadvantage over Fleeger and led the group of cars through the first turn.  Coming down the back stretch, Chris Hainesworked his way into second with Mike Turner running third.  The trio raced this way through lap four whenKevin Hoffman started getting into the mix and passed Turner for third.  Moorewas using the high side of the speedway to his advantage while Haines wasapplying the pressure from the bottom of the speedway.

A caution on lap 14 for Shawn Fleeger who spun in turn threegrouped the field back together.  On theensuing restart, Haines got the jump on Moorebut a caution for Brad Rapp who spun in the second turn brought the group backtogether with Moorestill the leader.  On the next restart, Moore was not to bedenied the lead and got the jump over Haines. Moorecontinued his charge at the front, but a caution with two laps to go for aslowing Ricky Richner who had a flat tire brought the field together for thefinal two laps.

On the restart, Moore and Haines were side by side comingoff the turn and made slight contact about the flag stand.  The contact was just enough for Haines toslide high in turn one allowing Jeremiah Shingledecker who started in theseventh position to get by for second.  Moore held on the finaltwo laps to pick up the feature win over Shingledecker, Haines, Rex King, Jrand Brian Weaver.  Rounding out the topten were Eric Gabany, Kevin Hoffman, Brad Rapp, Rex King, Sr and MikeTurner.  Heat races were won by BradRapp, Dave Murdick and Skip Moore.

The Contingency Connection award winners were Skip Moore,Eric Gabany and Shawn Fleeger while gift certificates from Bully Dog wereawarded to Skip Moore, Ricky Richner and Kevin Hoffman.