BUFFALO TWP— The World of Outlaws Late Models make their second Lernerville Speedway appearance of the season Friday night.

Time trials begin at 7:15 p.m. with racing slated to start at 8. The 50-lap feature pays $10,000 to win.

Rick Eckert of York won the 50-lap Outlaws Late Models spring race at Lernerville, overtaking race leader Steve Francis on the 26th lap. Eckert has nine feature wins on the Outlaws circuit, the most in the series this season.

The Outlaws Late Models raced twice at Lernerville in 2004, with Chub Frank and Dale McDowell taking the checkered flags. Current series points leader Billy Moyer won the April, 2005 event, and Frank claimed the August race at Lernerville that season.

Frank, from Bear Lake, Pa., has seven career victories at Lernerville, the first coming in 1992.

Darrell Lanigan set Lernerville's Late Model fast-lap record of 15.072 seconds in 2005.

Area drivers expected to compete Friday include Cranberry Township's Lynn Geisler and Zelienople's John Flinner. Geisler leads the track's Late Model points standings this season, has two Lernerville wins on the campaign and 106 Late Model wins at the Sarver track in his career.

Flinner is the track's five-time defending points champion and also has two wins in 2006.

Charleroi's Sam Stile, one of the top Late Model drivers in Western Pennsylvania, is a first-time regular at Lernerville this season and picked up his first two Lernerville feature wins during the current campaign.

Other area drivers who might join the action Friday include 1998 Lernerville points champion Gary Lyle, Matt Lux, Ken Schaltenbrand, Alex Ferree, Mike Blose, Bob Wearing Jr., Tony Burke, Chuck Kennedy, Jared Miley and David Scott.

Moyer has 2,622 Outlawspoints on the season, 20 in front of Tim McCreadie and 24 in front of Eckert.

The average car count at Outlaws Late Model events this year is 55.

Pit gates open at 4 p.m., grandstands open at 5.