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Globe/T. Rob Brown Carl Junction’s Glen Yarbrough piloted No. 12 to a late model points championship.

Published October 21, 2008 12:37 am - Carl Junction’s Glen Yarbrough credited his mom Carol on Monday for playing a key role in winning the late model points championship this season at Springfield Raceway.


Mom plays key role in Yarbrough’s title



By Anvil Welch

awelch@joplinglobe.com

Carl Junction’s Glen Yarbrough credited his mom Carol on Monday for playing a key role in winning the late model points championship this season at Springfield Raceway.

But don’t ask if this is the first title for the veteran driver.

“I’m not sure if it’s my first points championship,” Yarbrough said with a laugh on Monday. “I do know, if I previously won a title, it’s been a long time.”

Yarbrough offered several reasons for success — starting with mom — after missing part of the 2007 season because of her sickness.

“Mom always had watched me race and always wanted me to win a championship,” Yarbrough said. “I’d never really raced before for points.

“But she fought so hard to make it back into good shape. I decided when the season started I was going to win her a championship.”

Mission accomplished, of course, and mom also was a regular in the pits.

Yarbrough, who’ll be 43 on Feb. 9, believes he began driving stock cars competitively in the mid-1980s at several of the area dirt tracks.

“We were pretty fast this season (in a second-year racer from GRT Race Cats, Inc., Greenbrier, Ark.),” Yarbrough said. “We were consistent at running up front each race except when we had something break or a flat tire. I believe we made all of the points races.”

It’s no surprise, considering his success, the high regard that Yarbrough has for the quarter-mile clay track at Springfield Raceway.

“You’ll see real racing in every event,” Yarbrough, a graduate of Joplin Parkwood High School, said. “It’s that kind of a race track.”

Yarbrough, who bested Nixa’s Jeremy Manes for the points title, won two A features in No. 12.

Sponsors this year, in addition to his Glen Yarbrough Auto Sales, 5571 E. Seventh, Joplin, included Hatfield Racing Engines, Auto Xpress Service Center, Cars on the Move, Babe’s Drive In (702 Maiden Lane, Joplin) and Wiland Muffler.



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