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Petty, TX (07/04/21) -- Skirting around several of the recent storms in the North Texas area, 82 Speedway in Petty Texas was not only able to get the event in but provide fans with another thrilling feature event that saw the 10th place Bandits Outlaw Sprint Series starter advance his way to emerge as the winner at the ‘Flags & Fireworks 25’ presented by Smiley's Racing Products, Griffith Truck & Equipment and The Peterson Agencies/Globe Life. As the night kicked off, a Texas-sized crowd would assemble at Shelley & Tracey Peters 82 Speedway for a night of fireworks, winged outlaw sprint car racing, a massive Toys For Tots drive and to celebrate 4th of July weekend. After three heat races, the field would be set with Casey Burkham amassing the most points to become high qualifier and the right to start on the pole position of the 25-lapper. Blake Mallory would earn the outside-pole after garnering the most points he ever has in ‘Bandits competition. 22 drivers would take the green flag at the start of the feature event.After the initial start was waved off resulting in the front row being sent back a row, the second start would go yellow in corner two after a wild wheel-banging scramble would result in a car stopping on the racing surface. On the third attempt at a start, the field would not make it much further after contact on the backstretch would result in Casey Burkham crashing hard into the concrete wall and ending his night. The next restart would be the one that stuck, as the next 4 laps would click off in a hurry with Dalton Stevens leading the field and through dense lapped traffic. Meanwhile, 6th place starter Claud Estes II, 7th place starter Channin Tankersley and 10th place starter Chase Randall would begin their charge through the field. On lap 4, the yellow lights would flicker when Steve McMackin would spin off the racing surface at the apex of corners one and two. McMackin would rejoin the field at the tail when the race would resume, with another 7 laps clicking off in short order with Stevens still in control of the lead and Jeff Day Jr. and Blake Mallory in pursuit. Most teams opted for the high upper ledge of the track as their preferred racing line at that point, when a brief yellow would appear for the slowing car of McMackin. With 14 laps to go, Stevens would remain the leader with Blake Mallory and Chase Randall up to 3rd place. Randall would take over the 2nd position on the restart with John Ricketts moving up to third after starting in 5th. As the lead pair of cars would pull away from the field, Randall continued to pull closer and closer to Stevens, when on lap 19 Randall would drop all the way to the bottom of the entry in corner one and make a massive slide job, with Stevens sneaking by, only to have the same thing happen on the next pair of corners. The pair raced each other cleanly and flawlessly throughout the entire event. It was on lap 20 when Randall would dive low in corner three and make another bold move on the bottom – but this time the pass stuck, and he would cruise to a 5-car length win over Stevens, Ricketts, Tankersley and Mallory. If the pass would have happened just a few laps later, Randall would have also picked up the $500 KoolTrikes.com ‘Last Lap Pass for the Win’ award money, which rolls on to LoneStar Speedway tonight at 8pm. We would like to thank 82 Speedway for overcoming the soaking rains from earlier in the week and providing teams with an extremely smooth racing surface that did not become a ‘tire eater’ – as no cars dropped out of the event due to an over-worn tire. NEXT UP: the Bandits Outlaw Sprint Series moves about 120 miles SSE of Petty Texas to LoneStar Speedway near Kilgore, Texas TONIGHT, with racing firing off at 8pm! JOIN US if you can, as we return to this fabulous 3/10-mile high-banked oval. The series was rained out last year, so everyone is excited to head back to Lisa and Sam Hafertepe’s speed plant. Dry weather conditions are forecast with a race time temperature in the mid-80s will greet fans. Click www.LoneStarSpeedway.com for complete track and event information. LoneStar Speedway is located at 3131 FM 1252 Kilgore, TX 75662, Track Phone on race day is: (903)-986-9731. Specifically, if you are on I-20 (either direction) take Exit 583 and head north to the 4-way stop light (about 1/2 mile). Go east (right) about 1 mile and you will see the track entrance on the south (right) side of the road. The web address is www.LoneStarSpeedway.com or search Facebook by entering: "LoneStar Speedway." Adult GA to this event is $20, with Seniors/Military $15, Ages 6-11 are $5; while Pit Passes are $35. Here are your results from Saturday night’s Bandits Outlaw Sprint Series ‘Flags & Fireworks 25’ at 82 Speedway: Finish Start # Driver Purse 1 10 9 Chase Randall $2,000 2 4 99X Dalton Stevens 1200 3 5 99B John Ricketts 850 4 7 17G Channin Tankersley 700 5 2 B99 Blake Mallory 600 6 6 74E Claud Estes III 500 7 3 3D Jeff Day Jr. 480 8 16 80 Josh Hawkins 460 9 12 91 Michael Day 440 10 19 23 Junior Jenkins 420 11 13 42P Preston Perlmutter 400 12 14 74 Colby Estes 400 13 11 17 Matt Etzelmiller 400 14 18 41M Steve McMackin 400 15 20 72 Daniel Estes 400 16 15 44C Cody Price 400 17 8 13M Chance McCrary 400 18 21 4 Austin Mundie 400 19 22 90M Mark Seiple 400 20 17 33 Michael Merrell 400 21 1 45B Casey Burkham 400 22 9 01J Jeb Sessums 400 A quick top-10 of 'Bandits series points is as follows, provided by series statistician John Merrell - and what an exciting chase for the championship is underway! Claud Estes III 1,203 points Blake Mallory 1,198 Channin Tankersley 1,189 Michael Day 1,099 John Ricketts 970 Austin Mundie 932 Colby Estes 924 Chase Randall 914 Daniel Estes 870 Jeb Sessums 826 Complete points will be available after tonight's series event at LoneStar Speedway - hope to see you all there!

Mundie, Randall & Tankersley Take Swipes at 82 Speedway ‘Bandits Feature Win Petty, TX (04/04/2) - The Bandits Outlaw Sprint Series rolled into ‘The Land of the XL,’ 82 Speedway, in Petty, Texas last night for the third tour stop of the young 2021 season. A beautiful Easter eve drew a solid crowd of fans and teams to the vast expanses of ‘82, thus the tracks nickname. A talent-soaked field of 24 teams would assemble to entertain the fans – especially the youngsters – as car owner Sherry Bryant (#99B and #B99) had coordinated a massive Easter Basket drive that resulted in dozens of baskets being doled out to kids in the Texoma area attending the event. Track owners Tracy and Shelley Peters had the facility in pristine condition and the track surface would be ultra-fast in the qualifying heat races with lap times in the upper-11 second bracket on several occasions. Originally slated to start 5th in heat race number two was the young hot shoe driver out of Waco, Chase Randall, in the Bush’s Chicken #9 EMI sprinter. The #777 of Tulsa’s Bailey Hughes was slated to start directly in front of Chase, but she would suffer a blown engine in hot laps, ending her highly anticipated debut in the Bandits Outlaw Sprint Series. That would move Chase up to a 2nd row outside starting position. He would go on to power his way through the field and take the win – and securing the top qualifier spot in the A-feature to come. Channin Tankersley would cruise to a heat race number one victory after starting second, while Austin Mundie would win heat race number three after firing off from second row, inside. Those three drivers would also become the primary focus in the feature race, as all three would take the lead at one point, making for a highly entertaining race for the fans – as each of them looked dominant while they had their time in the point position. So, lets jump into the feature event. After a beautiful 23-car 4-wide parade lap, the appreciative crowd settled in for the highly anticipated battle to come. And a battle it was. Austin Mundie would blast his way to the lead from his outside-pole position and immediately assume a 10-car length lead over Tankersley and Randall. The trio would pull away from the balance of the field until lap three when the caution lights would blink for Austin Burkham who experienced mechanical woes and would be sidelined for the night. On the ensuing Delaware restart pinning Mundie as the lone polesitter, he would take the green only to have 4th and 5th place drivers of Chad Wilson and Casey Burkham lock horns going into corner one, sending the rest of the field scrambling behind them. Luckily for the field, with the wide expanses of 82 Speedway, they were able to avoid further carnage as the disabled pair of cars blocked the bottom half of the track. The red flag was thrown at the time of the incident so track crews could extricate the pair of cars without being incumbered by the rest of the field circulating around the speedway. When the cars of Burkham and Wilson were untangled, it would leave Burkham on the hook ending his night, while Wilson would be relegated to the tail of the field. But his night was far from over. The race would resume with Mundie once again surging to a 10-car length lead. Over the course of the next few laps, Tankersley and Randall would chip away at the lead Mundie had established. That lead completely evaporated at lap 10 whilst the lead trio was negotiating lapped traffic. They would all continue slicing and dicing their way through traffic with Randall slipping by Tankersley for 2nd on lap 12. Shortly thereafter, Mundie would choose a high line entering corner three, once again still mired by lapped traffic, while Randall would precariously huggie-pole the inside line and would exit corner four as leader by just a scant amount. Then Mundie would execute a clean slider across the bottom of corner one and the top of corner two retaking the lead – but Randall anticipated such a move and would charge back under Mundie to regain the lead once again. The following lap, 15, would see the #99B Cabinets by Tommy owned sprinter of point leader John Ricketts unexpectedly losing the left rear tire and wheel assembly, sending Johns car to the infield with the tire and wheel nearly making a half a lap around the track – yet without any of the cars making contact with it during that wild sequence of events. This caution set up a 10-lap battle to the finish with Randall out on the point by himself and the pair of Mundie and Tankersley glued to his rear bumper as the green unfurled…with Michael Day and Dalton Steed now pressuring the lead trio. As the field entered corner one Tankersley would blast the upper tier of the ’82 high banks and exit corner two with the lead from his third-place restart position, snookering the lead pair of drivers – much to the surprise of all – except those who have been to a Bandits Outlaw Sprint Series event, as this sort of action has become commonplace. As the excitement of the swath of lead changes still at top-of-mind to the fans witnessing the event, in just one click of the clock the drivers were shown the 5-to-go signal from the flagman, and it was at that point Randall would quickly start tracking down Tankersley, and right when it started to look that Randall might have one final chance to battle it out for the lead, a quick caution would come out for a disabled car at the bottom of corners one and two; setting up a two lap dash to the finish. Series marketing partner www.KoolTrikes.com had established an exciting promotion prior to this event called the Kool Trikes $500 Last Lap Pass For The Win award, which was clearly a distinct possibility of being claimed going into the final restart. ‘Bandits series rules require when any race gets down to three laps to go, any restart becomes single-file. As the final restart of the night resumed, Tankersley would again choose the high line with Randall executing a jumbo-sized slider from the pole of corner one to the top of corner two exit, getting nearly side-by-side with Tankersley, the pair would get precariously close to each other, yet not touching, and Tankersley would have the preferred line on corner exit and pulled away with the lead – and eventual win. On that final restart, seemingly out of nowhere, young Chance McCrary had been quietly passing car after car from his 17th place starting position and would zip to the checkers in third position, while Chad Wilson would claw his way through the field after his lap-3 fracas with Burkham to take home the 4th position, with 2020 ‘Bandits champion Michael Day rounding out the top 5 with a very solid performance in the Rodney Henderson owned #67 sprinter. The final checkers were thrown at 10:37pm, allowing fans and teams to get back on the road so they could enjoy their Easter holiday today. This marks all three ‘Bandits events of 2020 concluding prior to 11pm thus far. The tour now moves to a highly anticipated 1-night stand at I-30 Speedway in Little Rock, AR on Saturday, April 24th (7:30pm) with the running of the Hammer Hill Bandits Outlaw Sprint Nationals. Complete event information will be forthcoming in the next few days. We’d like to thank 82 Speedway and its crew for providing such an awesome facility and well-expedited racing program for our Series drivers to showcase their talent at. The ‘Bandits will return to 82 Speedway on Saturday, July 3rd with the 3rd Annual Flags and Fireworks 25, and for the 3rd annual Paul Peters Memorial on Saturday October 9th. For complete series information, visit www.2021BOSS.com or on Facebook, check us out @BanditsOutlawSprintSeries. Happy Easter to everyone out there and thanks once again to our marketing partners for helping us bring sustainable outlaw sprint car racing to this region. I would like to dedicate this press release to my Uncle Ronnie who passed away this morning in Minnesota. He was a big racing fan – just like his brothers and sister (my mom, who still attends 'Bandits events today). May he rest in peace. Here’s the feature rundown from the April 3 Texoma Bandits Outlaw Sprint Nationals at 82 Speedway in Petty Texas: Car Number Driver Positions Advanced: 17g Channin Tankersley (+3) 9 Chase Randall 13m Chance McCrary (+14) 20 Chad Wilson (+1) 67 Michael Day (+6) 83 Jett Hays (+4) 4 Austin Mundie B99 Blake Mallory (+14) 26 Dalton Steed 35K Dylan McCann (+3) 7 Jerrad Warhurst (+10) 3 Brett Engstrom (+8) 4X Heath Nestrick 41M Steve McMackin (+4) 71 Colby Estes V8 Robert Vetter 74 DJ Estes (+2) 74E Claud Estes III 45B Casey Burkham 4B Austin Burkham 0 Bill Miller 99B John Ricketts 23 Junior Jenkins 777 Bailey Hughes (DNS)