| Justin Wakefield celebrates
in victory lane after winning the Capital City
Clash 150 at the Wake County Speedway. His
Carswell Motorsports needed the win now more
than ever after mechanical failures including
two blown motors struck the team in each of the
first three races of the season. |
Wakefield’s
a Winner at Wake County |
Pro All Stars
Series (PASS) South super late model regular Justin
Wakefield survived a wild finish to capture Friday
nights’ Capitol City Clash 150 at Raleigh North
Carolina’s Wake County Speedway. Wakefield took the lead
away from Ryan Lawler with just two laps to go. Lawler
hung tough in second, with series point leader Preston
Peltier third. Home track hero Alex Fleming raced home
fourth and Heath Hindman completed the top five.
The victory was Wakefield’s fourth in PASS South
competition. His last win came in July of 2009 at
Hickory Motor Speedway.
For the most part the
field kept their cool as the laps clicked away, running
a hard but patient race until the checkered flag was in
sight. Just five caution flags slowed the first 144
laps.. Then came caution number six, and the restart
produced the kind of craziness only a tight bullring
like Wake County Speedway can create.
Preston
Peltier and Ryan Lawler led the field to the green and
it looked like Peltier might be able to extend his PASS
South win streak to three. Peltier seemed to have Lawler
cleared but a nudge from behind had Peltier, Lawler and
Ryan Blaney three wide and the field stacked up behind
them. The caution flew and when the dust cleared the
front five was shaken up considerably. Lawler now had
the lead with Blaney second, John Stancill third, Justin
Wakefield fourth and Alex Fleming fifth. When the green
flew again Lawler led and Blaney tried to dive to the
bottom but he hadn’t quite cleared Stancill. The
resultant crash ended Blaney’s night. Andy Loden
suffered race ending damage trying to avoid the wreck.
The running order with four to go was Lawler in the
lead with Wakefield up to second, Stancill third,
Peltier back up to fourth and Alex Fleming fifth. The
front pair drag raced into turn one, and Wakefield took
over the lead for good on lap 148 Stancill was later
penalized for gaining spots on the track under caution;
he was listed as eighth (last car on the lead lap) at
the finish.
In addition to Wakefield, Peltier and
Lawler, Jay Fogleman and Devin Jones each had a turn at
the front of the field early on. While Fogleman only led
a single lap, Jones led over thirty before handing over
the lead to Lawler.
Andy Loden earned his second
pole award of the season with a fast lap of 12.888
seconds around the .23 mile oval, just a tick faster
than Devin Jones‘ 12.901. Ryan Blaney (12.904), Ryan
Lawler(12.945), and Jimmy Weller (12.971) completed the
fast five.
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Andy Loden in his
#29 Monroe Roadways Impala SS was a bit of a
suprise as he set fast time during Pro Photo
Productions Qualifying after never having seen
the Wake County Speedway before raceday. |
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#15 Clay Jones
(rear), #29 Andy Loden (left), and #47 Trey
Mitchell (right) battle for position around the
tight quarter mile bullring that is Wake
County Speedway in the PASS South Capital City
Clash 150. |
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More Pro Photo Production shots HERE |
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Capital
City Clash 150
- Friday, May 7th
Unofficial
Finishing Order |
1 - Justin Wakefield
2 - Ryan Lawler
3 - Preston Peltier
4 - Alex
Fleming
5 - Heath Hindman
6 - Clay Jones
7 -
Jimmy Weller
8 - John Stancill
9 - Ryan Blaney
10 - Trey Mitchell
11 - Jay Fogleman |
12 - David
Clark
13 - Andy Loden
14 - Joe Heigl
15 - Dana
White
16 - Devin Jones
17 - John Batten
18 -
Kenzie Ruston
19 - Steven Legendre
20 - Joey
Coulter
21 - Tim Pinion |
| Wake County
Time Trials |
1 - Andy
Loden 12.888
2 - Devin Jones 12.901
3 - Ryan
Blaney 12.904
4 - Ryan Lawler 12.94
5 -
Jimmy Weller 12.971
6 - Jay Fogelman 12.991
7 -
Justin Wakefield 12.992
8 - Trey Mitchell 12.995
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- Clay Jones 13.03
10 - John Stancill 13.044
11 -
Heath Hindman 13.057
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12 - Preston Peltier 13.095
13 - Kenzie
Ruston 13.13
14 - John Batten 13.137
15 - Alex
Fleming 13.172
16 - Joe Heigl 13.19
17 - Joey
Coulter 13.24
18 - David Clark 13.266
19 - Steve
Legendre 13.319
20 - Dana White 13.414
21 - Tim
Pinion 13.771 |
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May 7th Wake County
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