Budds Creek, MD- Rockbridge Baths Virginia’s Booper Bare was victorious in last Sunday nights 40-lap Mike Clore memorial at Southern Maryland’s Potomac Speedway.

In scoring his first late model feature win of the season at Potomac, Bare also became the sixth different driver to score a win at Potomac in six late model races run to date.

Kirk Ryan and Bare brought the field down to the initial waving of the green flag. Bare would get the jump at the start and dart into the race lead. Although Bare would eventually lead every lap of the event the action behind him was quite intense. Eventual runner-up Kirk Ryan, Daryl Hills and 14th starting Kyle Lear battled furiously over the final fourteen laps of the event. Despite a caution on lap-38 Bare would go on to post the win, his second Mike Clore Memorial win, and his division leading 47th career Potomac late model feature win.

“We went a little old school tonight.” Bare replied from Potomac’s victory lane. “We went with a little harder tire for the feature and it really fired well after those restarts.” Bare was quick to praise his engine builder that aided in his winning run. “I’ve been with Malcuit racing engines f or the better part of 20-years and they once again provided me with some great horsepower. I really have to thank Robby Allen as well. We’ve got a new style Rocket car that a lot of the traveling guy’s are using and he’s helped us work the bugs out of it.” Ryan would post his career best Potomac effort taking second, Kyle Lear rallied late to take third, Daryl Hills settled for fourth and Roland Mann completed the top-five. Heats for the 19-cars on hand went to David Williams and Andy Anderson.

In the 16-lap street stock feature it was Kevin Cooke scoring his first career feature win in the division. Cooke started on the pole and despite the repeated challenges of eventual runner-up Ben Bowie, would lead every lap of the event to post the win. Michael Carter took third, Kyle Nelson was fourth and Jason Murphy rounded out the top-five. Heats went to Nelson and Cooke.

In other action, Josh Dotson collected his first-career feature win as he scored in the 15-lap hobby stock feature, Defending champion Kyle Vantassel took his second win of the season in the 20-lap strictly stock main and Greg Gunter annexed his second win of the weekend and third of the season in the 15-lap four-cylinder feature.

Late Model Feature Finish 40-laps (Lap leaders, Booper Bare 1-40)

1. Booper Bare 2. Kirk Ryan 3. Kyle Lear 4. Daryl Hills 5. Roland Mann 6. Jeff Pilkerton 7. David Williams 8. Matt Quade 9. Walter Crouch 10. Ben Bowie 11. Dale Hollidge 12. Jamie Lathroum 13. Andy Anderson 14. Richard Hulson 15. Kerry King 16. Ray Kable Jr. 17. Steven Axtell Jr. 18. Billy Wampler 19. Deane Guy (DNS)

Street Stock Feature Finish

1. Kevin Cooke 2. Ben Bowie 3. Michael Carter 4. Kyle Nelson 5. Jason Murphy 6. Troy Kassiris 7. Kurt Zimmerman 8. Country Prince 9. Donnie Smith 10. Stephen Quade 11. Eric Hanson 12. Mike Reynolds 13. Walt Homberg 14. Teddy Dickson (DNS)