Rayburn were longtime friends and on Friday night he paid the best tribute he could to one of his racing mentors — winning the 40-lap second annual C.J. Marlar grabbed the lead from Nick Hoffman on lap nine when Hoffman slipped off the frontstretch. Marlar then went on to take the $10,000 victory ahead of Ricky Thornton Jr., Devin Moran, Jonathan Davenport and Hoffman. Hoffman held the second spot behind Marlar for several laps with Brandon Overton, Thornton, and Moran all in the hunt. Marlar’s third win this season with the Lucas Oil Late Model Dirt Series was arguably the most emotional of his racing career. “He [Marlar] was good we had a couple of shots and just got ran off the race track,” Thornton said. “But we’ll try again tomorrow congrats to him [Marlar] he had a really good car.

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