Batesville Motor Speedway
Fast Facts: 23rd annual Comp Cams Topless 100
23rd annual Comp Cams Topless 100
Dates: Aug. 13-15 (practice on Thursday; time trials and heat races Friday; consolations and 100-lap main event Saturday)
Track: Batesville Motor Speedway, Locust Grove, Ark. (3/8-mile high-banked oval)
Purse: $40,000-to-win, $2,000-to-start
Sanction: Lucas Oil Late Model Dirt Series
Tickets: General admission $25 each night (children 6-to-11 $5; ages 5-and-under free); see track website or call the track for more details.
On the web: batesvillemotorspeedway.net or lucasdirt.com
Phone: (870) 613-1337
Television: The event will appear later this year on MavTV and NBC Sports Network.
Last year’s winner: Jimmy Owens of Newport, Tenn., overtook Don O’Neal on the 81st lap and captured his second Topless 100.
Notes: The total purse is more than $130,000. … Crop Production Services is the presenting sponsor. … Cars run roofless, allowing fans a better view of drivers in the cockpit. … Lucas Oil Late Model Dirt Series points leader Jonathan Davenport, on a torrid hot streak that includes back-to-back $50,000 victories, has a best Topless 100 finish of third in 2014. … Jimmy Owens is the only two-time race winner over the past eight years. … Scott Bloomquist and Billy Moyer are tied with four victories apiece; Bloomquist’s last victory came in 2011 while Moyer’s most recent was 2005. … The Arkansas-based Comp Cams Super Dirt Series, whose director Chris Ellis has flagged many events at Batesville, is co-sanctioning the event for the second time. … Jack Sullivan of Greenbrier, Ark., leads that tour’s points. … A driver autograph session is scheduled for Saturday afternoon. … Modifieds will run complete programs Friday and Saturday. … The race is part of the Bad Boy Mowers TV Challenge and ASi Crown Jewel Cup.
Comp Camps Topless 100 winners
1993: Tony Cardin, Greenbrier, Ark.
Comp Cams Topless 100 purse
24. $2,000
