Abingdon, VA driver Eric McClure showed the fans and the UARA drivers he knows how to get around Lonesome Pine Raceway Saturday night in the Advance Auto Parts/Hobart UARA 150 as he sat on the pole and lead all 150 laps to win the event.
With this Saturday night’s race being sanctioned by UARA-Stars the local points would not be in effect, but on Thursday afternoon after talking to UARA officials, Jerry McClure, Eric’s dad and car owner, decided to make the trip, and after Saturday’s win the team is glad they did.
After the two hour practice session, McClure was not happy with the car and was uncertain about how well they would qualify or run in the race. As it would turn out McClure bumped series point leader Lee Tissot from the pole by a tenth of a second.
As the green flag fell McClure would jump out to a comfortable lead for the first 60 laps when Nate Monteith and Mark King came together on the back straight finish to bring out the caution and tighten the field. When the field returned to green McClure seemed to have not cleaned off his tires well and slide up the banking in turn three. This allowed a hard charging Tissot to pull alongside. Keeping his patience McClure was able to pull ahead and keep Tissot behind behind him. It was McClure’s first UARA-Stars win.
Following McClure to the line were Tissot, Keith Stiltner, Robbie Ferguson, and Mark Ketron. Finishing sixth through ten were Tim Weaver, Dange Haniford, Jason Mitcham, Ronnie McCarty, and Brandon McCarson.

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