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Jay Fogleman
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PASS South SLM Opener |
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Veteran Racer Ends Winless Streak at
Anderson (SC) Motor Speedway |
Anderson SC (3/12) The Pro All Stars Series
(PASS) Super Late Model season kicked off at
Anderson (SC) Motor Speedway ) on Saturday,
March 12th with the Electric City 150.
Durham North Carolina's Jay Fogleman, who
watched his son Tate win the Bandolero
feature earlier in the program, drove his #4
machine from the seventh starting position
to the lead and on to the win, his first
since 2009.
2011 South Points
HERE
'You never like to go a year
without a win,' said Fogleman. 'We had two
or three close calls last year. To start
this season with a win with all the new
stuff we have going on, I just can't say
enough. We are just looking forward to this
year.'
24 of the 26 Super Late Model
drivers on hand hit the track for qualifying
and a familiar face was back on top of the
charts as Andy Loden turned a 14.949 second
lap to earn his eighth-career PASS South
pole, a series record. After the top 10
redraw Loden went from first to third for
the start, with Dylan Kwasniewski and Devin
Jones starting from the front row.
At
the green Kwasniewski got the jump, leading
the field across the stripe on first lap.
After a few circuits Loden took over the
second spot, putting Jones back to third. On
the 12th lap, Jones drove his way back to
second, dropping Loden to third with Justin
Wakefield fourth and Ryan Blaney up to fifth
after starting ninth.
Justin
Wakefield pulled his #98 machine into the
pits and out of the event on lap 21, moving
Jody Lavender into the fifth position. 10
laps later Loden moved back into the second
position, putting Jones back to third.
The first yellow of the race flew on lap
44 when Bradley McCaskill slowed down the
back stretch, coming to a stop in turn four
on the high side.On the first restart of the
night, the field scrambled as Jones' car
initially didn't come up to speed. Everyone
was able to avoid disaster and Jones was
able to get going, losing several spots in
the process. Up front Kwasniewski held serve
as the leader but Blaney worked his way to
second and then put pressure on for the lead
until the yellow flew for the second time
when Jones went around in turn two on lap
54.
With Blaney to his outside,
Kwasniewski took the green flag but Blaney
held strong as the field went two by two for
a few laps. Blaney ended up with the lead
with Kwasniewski second, and Lavender third.
On lap 60, the third yellow flag flew as
Heath Hindman went around in turn four.
Blaney was able to get a great restart,
holding on to the lead over Kwasniewski as
Fogleman worked his way to the third
position. Shortly after the restart, Loden
worked his way to fourth, putting Lavender
back to fifth. At lap 69 Fogleman drove to
second, pulling Loden to third and dropping
Kwasniewski to fourth.
Just before
lap 100 Loden was able to work his way
around Blaney to take the lead. Fogleman
also moved past Blaney,shuffling him back to
third. At lap 129, the yellow flag came out
for the third time as Tim Pinion went around
in turn two. On the restart, Loden and
Fogleman fought hard for track position, but
a spin by Chase Oliver in turn one slowed
the field for the fourth time without a lap
completed.
Fogleman took the lead
when the field went back to green as Peltier
slipped his way to second around Loden. On
lap 132 though, the yellow flag flew for the
fifth time as Oliver went around in turn
four.
Just after the restart, with
Fogleman out front, Peltier and Loden
appeared to make contact coming off turn
four, and while trying to save his mount
Loden hit another car, sliding up the track
and bringing out the yellow flag for the
sixth time. The damage ended the fast
timer's night.
Yellow flag fever
continued as the seventh caution flew on lap
137 for a spin in turn four by Steve
Legendre, and came out again on lap 139 when
Jimmy Weller went around in turn one.
Over the remaining circuits Peltier
battled hard trying to stay with Fogleman,
but even a last-lap attempt to take the top
spot wasn't enough as Fogleman took the
checkered flag first.
'I am just
awfully proud of this whole organization,'
said Fogleman in victory lane. 'We put
together a different plan this winter, and
to have it all come together for Shark
Racing Development, it is cool. It just all
fell in place.'
'We didn't have the
best car tonight, but we had the best luck
on cautions. Preston definitely had a better
car. We were just a little free getting in,
but we will take a win any way we can get
it.'
While there was some late-race
hard racing between Fogleman and Peltier,
there wasn't any bad blood between the
drivers.'Preston is a racer. We race good
together. He isn't going to turn you all the
way around, and I am not going to turn him
all the way around.'
After Peltier
gave congratulations to Fogleman for the
great run on the track, he was still wishing
it was him celebrating the win, not a
second-place finish.
'We came here to
win,' said the 2010 PASS South and PASS
National champ. 'Unfortunately I think the
alternator stopped working and the battery
went dead. At first I thought we broke a
valve spring or something on one of those
restarts when Andy (Loden) and I got
together on the front stretch. I started to
accelerate and the thing just stopped. I
tried to salvage what I could. 'I love
racing with Fogleman. It is fun!.'
Grant Davidson crossed the line in third
after a fairly quiet run up to the podium.
'We just kind of hung back there,' said
Davidson. 'We were really good on old tires
and I felt like we would be strong at the
end, so we just rode around the first 100
laps. They started coming to us. Then, we
had a left front going down, so we were
bouncing around on the last 15 laps.
Hopefully we can work from this and move
forward.'
Roger Lee Newton and
Kwasniewski rounded out the top five.
The PASS South Super Late Model Series
will be back in action on Saturday, March
26th, for the South Carolina Clash at Dillon
Motor Speedway (SC), and then will head to
North Wilkesboro Speedway (NC) April 7th '
9th for the 300-lap 'The Race' event, with
$75,000 on the line for the driver who can
cross the checkered flag first. |
Official
Results - 2011 PASS South Race #1
- The
Electric City 150
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Anderson Motor Speedway, Anderson, South
Carolina
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finishing position,car number,driver,laps
completed |
1 - 4 Jay Fogleman 150
2 - 29
Preston Peltier 150
3 - 00 Grant
Davidson 150
4 - 33 Roger Lee Newton 150
5 - 20
Steven Legendre 150
6 - 2x Ralph Carnes
150
7 - 91 Heath Hindman 150
8 - 10
Ryan Blaney 150
9 - 56 Gus Dean 150
10
- 48 John Batten 149
11 - 3 Dylan
Kwasniewski 149
12 - 115 Jody Lavender
149
13 - 35 Devin
Jones 148
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14 - 5x Chase Oliver 146
15 - 29
Andy Loden 145
16 - 05 Alex Fleming 144
17 - 42 Tim Pinion 142
18 - 09 Randy
Gentry 142
19 - 23 Jimmy Weller 133
20 - 71 Jimmy Doyle 130
21 - 2 Gray
Gaulding 90
22 - 89 Sean Shalvey 68
23 - 18 Bradley McCaskill 46
24 - 98
Justin Wakefield 21
25 - 7 Dana White 17
26 - 5 Spencer Wauters 2 |
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