Topless Outlaw Dirt Racing Series

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📍Smoky Mountain Speedway

- Spring Pro Fastest in Hot Laps - Hayden Ownbey

- Extreme Towing and Recovery Fast Qualifier - Jensen Ford

- 22 Speedshop Hard Charger - Ryan Tims

- Kinzer Foundation Donnie Carroll Crew Chief of the Race - Brian Courtney

- Warsh Day Hard Luck - Layne Clifton

- Race City Highest CT525 - Heath Hindman

Kid Quick Claims Inaugural Roger Kerr Memorial at Smoky Mountain Speedway

Maryville, TN (9-5-26) Kyle Courtney of Knoxville, TN led green flag to checker in the 40-lap, $4,000 to win Roger Kerr Memorial at Smoky Mountain Speedway.

The caution filled, attrition winning affair saw 6 Schaffer Oil caution flags wave and only 13 of the original 24 starters finished the race.

Courtney started from the front row outside after claiming the win in CV Racing Parts Heat #3 and with track conditions very fast, as mother nature dropped a ton of water on the track in the early afternoon hours, it took track officials until nearly 8pm to start hot laps but the track was very fast all night.

Jenson Ford of Johnson City, TN was the pole starter after he won CV Racing Parts Heat #1. Cody Courtney, younger brother to Kyle, won Heat #2 while Jason Manley of Loudon, TN claimed the 4th heat.

Ford and Manley swapped 2nd place multiple times in the feature and were able to hang with Kyle Courtney for the first 10 laps or so but Courtney would pull away down the stretch and win by a margin of 3.411 seconds over Manley. Ford finished 3rd.

Series point leader Austin Horton of Whitesburg, GA finished 4th after starting 7th and Chase King of Seymour, TN rounded out the top 5 after he started 11th.

The first caution flew on lap 8 for Hunter Jenkins of Sweetwater, TN when he stopped on the high side of turn 4.

Yellow waved again on the restart of lap 8 for Noah Phillips of Sevierville, TN who suffered significant left side body damage after shredding a left rear tire.

A lap 12 caution flew for Layne Clifton of Seymour, TN, who was second in Topless point standings heading into Smoky Mountain Speedway, for mechanical failure for the second week in a row.

Caution #4 waved on lap 12 again for overall fastest qualifier (14.171) Hayden Ownbey of Cleveland, TN after he slipped over the turn 3 cushion, causing a right front flat. He retired at that point.

A tangle between Cody Courtney and John Ownbey of Cleveland, TN in turn 1 after the two had a heated battle for 5th brought out caution #5. Both cars retired.

The sixth and final caution waved on lap 31 for a dustup between Jason Croft of Woodstock, GA and Rusty Ballenger of Seymour, TN. Ballenger backed into the front stretch wall, but Croft was awarded the caution and he retired from the event at this point while Ballenger continued on and finished 9th.

"Man, this is our fourth race out in this thing (Savage Chassis) and it has been bad to the bone since day one. We built these cars in six days and I wouldn't be able to do this if it wasn't for my dad and my brother Blake, Billy Joe, Ashton, my fiance Haley and Jason Welshan at Competition Racing Equipment and Savage Chassis, who built one bad piece and is a hell of a car builder" stated a very excited Kyle Courtney form VP Racing Fuels Victory Lane.

Courtney’s Savage Chassis has a Phantom Race Engine and carries sponsorship from Competition Racing Equipment, Launch Point Aviation, Mighty Muffler & Brake, Daytona-1 Performance Lubricants, Stealth Carbs, PPM Racing Products, B&W Electric, National Heating & Cooling, Hardin Valley Tree & More and Body’s by Skinny.

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Topless Outlaws - A Feature (Results Pending Post Race Tech Inspection): 1-Courtney.Kyle 2-Manley.Jason 3-Ford.Jensen 4-Horton.Austin 5-King.Chase 6-Lee.Brady 7-Tims.Ryan 8-Emert.Jed 9-Ballenger.Rusty 10-Allen.Holden 11-Mayfield.Ruben 12-Jackson.Colten 13-Hendrix.Bryan 14-Croft.Jason 15-Curtis.Dante 16-Ownbey.John 17-Courtney.Cody 18-Hindman.Heath 19-Ownbey.Hayden 20-Clifton.Layne 21-Sise.Zach 22-Phillips.Noah 23-Jenkins.Hunter 24-Giffin.Bobby

Topless Outlaws - Heat 4 (Top 5 Transfer): 1-Manley.Jason 2-Ballenger.Rusty 3-Clifton.Layne 4-Ownbey.John 5-Newby.Kane 6-Jackson.Colten 7-Hawkins.Jayke

Topless Outlaws - Heat 3 (Top 5 Transfer): 1-Courtney.Kyle 2-Ownbey.Hayden 3-Lee.Brady 4-Croft.Jason 5-Tims.Ryan 6-Hindman.Heath 7-Hendrix.Bryan

Topless Outlaws - Heat 2 (Top 5 Transfer): 1-Courtney.Cody 2-Horton.Austin 3-King.Chase 4-Giffin.Bobby 5-Emert.Jed 6-Mayfield.Ruben 7-Hendrix.Jerry

Topless Outlaws - Heat 1 (Top 5 Transfer): 1-Ford.Jensen 2-Sise.Zach 3-Phillips.Noah 4-Curtis.Dante 5-Allen.Holden 6-Lewis.Chris 7-Jenkins.Hunter

Topless Outlaws - Clifton Construction Qualify B (Results): 1-Ownbey.Hayden 2-Manley.Jason 3-Courtney.Kyle 4-Ballenger.Rusty 5-Lee.Brady 6-Jackson.Colten 7-Croft.Jason 8-Clifton.Layne 9-Tims.Ryan 10-Ownbey.John 11-Hindman.Heath 12-Newby.Kane 13-Hendrix.Bryan 14-Hawkins.Jayke 15-Crabtree.David

Topless Outlaws - Clifton Construction Qualify A (Results): 1-Ford.Jensen 2-Horton.Austin 3-Phillips.Noah 4-Courtney.Cody 5-Curtis.Dante 6-Giffin.Bobby 7-Sise.Zach 8-King.Chase 9-Jenkins.Hunter 10-Emert.Jed 11-Allen.Holden 12-Mayfield.Ruben 13-Lewis.Chris 14-Hendrix.Jerry

Topless Outlaws - Hot Laps (Results): 1-Ownbey.Hayden 2-King.Chase 3-Courtney.Kyle 4-Emert.Jed 5-Manley.Jason 6-Clifton.Layne 7-Ballenger.Rusty 8-Hindman.Heath 9-Crabtree.David 10-Ford.Jensen 11-Curtis.Dante 12-Courtney.Cody 13-Newby.Kane 14-Phillips.Noah 15-Giffin.Bobby 16-Horton.Austin 17-Croft.Jason 18-Allen.Holden 19-Lee.Brady 20-Hawkins.Jayke 21-Jackson.Colten 22-Tims.Ryan 23-Hendrix.Bryan 24-Mayfield.Ruben 25-Lewis.Chris 26-Jenkins.Hunter 27-Hendrix.Jerry 28-Sise.Zach 29-Ownbey.John