ROANOKE TIMES 

                         Roanoke Times
                 Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.

DATE: SUNDAY, July 18, 1993                   TAG: 9307180178
SECTION: SPORTS                    PAGE: D12   EDITION: METRO 
SOURCE: Staff report
DATELINE: CALLAWAY                                LENGTH: Medium

TONY MCGUIRE CAPTURES LMSC FEATURE

Tony McGuire may have backed into a win at Franklin County Speedway last Saturday night, but this week he won it with heads-up driving.

On July 10, McGuire won the 100-lap Late Model Stock Car feature of the Unocal/Paper Gold 300 when the apparent winner, McGuire's brother Tim, was disqualified during a post-race inspection.

Saturday night, Tony McGuire won the LMSC race of the Mountain Dew 300 by slicing past two drivers midway through the race and then remembering to race to the flag when the race ended under caution.

With the victory, his third of the season, McGuire moved into the top 10 in points for the first time this year.

Dicky Wilson, the defending points champion, started on the pole and appeared unstoppable for the first half of the race. Wilson averaged nearly 93 mph for the first 54 laps - until McGuire and Dudley Lawhorn overtook him almost simultaneously.

McGuire, who was third on lap 54, moved into the lead seconds later.

Lawhorn's tires failed him late in the race, and he faded to fourth. Wilson collided with Ronnie Newman on lap 98 and finished sixth.

Harvey Harrison, fifth in the points race, was the second-place finisher Saturday night, and Randy Smith took third.

In other early races Saturday night:

Pole-sitter John Hall moved to 24 points out of the driver standings with a victory in the Mini Stock opener. The win was his fourth of the year and second in two weeks.

Points leader Steve Lynch overtook Tommy Dean late in the race to claim second. Dean finished third.

Collinsville's Jimmy Mullins, making his 1993 debut at FCS, interrupted Phillip VanDerVeer's string of wins and took the checkered flag in the Street Stock competition.

VanDerVeer entered the race with 10 wins this season, and he qualified .01 seconds behind Mullins. VanDerVeer grabbed the lead early and battled Mullins until lap 18 when his Pontiac spun out and nearly kissed the wall.

Freddie Goff and Lonnie Foley finished second and third, respectively, in the race. VanDerVeer limped home eighth.

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