Charlotte, NC 9/3/12- It’s
hard to believe that a driver in his
rookie season in a series as tough
as the PASS South super late model
series would be rewriting history
books, but that’s exactly what Kyle
Grissom has done so far in 2012.
Grissom, from nearby Concord, North
Carolina, made it three wins in a
row Saturday night at the Caraway
Speedway in Sophia, North Carolina.
Grissom’s win was his fifth of the
year, breaking the record for most
wins in a single season by a PASS
South Series driver previously held
by Ben Rowe who won four events in
2009 in route to the series
championship that same season.
“This one wasn’t easy tonight.
Jay Fogleman did everything he could
except wreck me to try to get the
win tonight, I was just fortunate to
get a good jump on that final
restart and bring it back around to
the finish,” stated Grissom in
victory lane. “If it had been anyone
else racing me that hard other than
Jay I would have probably ended up
with a wrecked racecar.”
“Greg (Marlowe) and the guys gave me
another great car that handled
through the turns which allowed us
to jump out front to the lead and
stay out of some of the wild stuff
that happened behind us tonight. I
have to thank Harrison’s Workwear,
without their support we couldn’t do
this, and all my crew guys that work
hard to keep us up front,” added
Grissom.
Fogleman managed the
second place finish despite starting
a little deeper in the field than
Grissom, who took the green from the
outside of the front row. The
veteran driver from Durham, NC was
behind the wheel of Dick Woodman’s
machine for this event due to the
fact that his fleet of racecars were
north of the border in preparation
for several PASS National events.
The transition to Woodman’s machine
didn’t faze Fogleman one bit, in
fact he made the mention of learning
quite a bit of information during
his runner-up run over the 125 lap
event.
“I thought we had a
chance at the win tonight because we
had such a good car throughout the
race. Kyle (Grissom) just got away
from us there at the end and I
wasn’t going to wreck him to win
because that’s not how I race,” said
Fogleman. “Dickey Woodman really
helped us out this weekend letting
us run his car here tonight. I
really learned a lot too because my
cars have a little bit more motor
than most guys, so I normally really
have to save twice as hard as the
next guy but with Dickey’s car we
could go to the front early and stay
there. It might be something we look
at going forward.”
Brandon
Ward recovered nicely from an early
race pit stop that forced his #62
machine to come from the back of the
pack to finish third. Alex Fleming
turned some heads with an impressive
fourth place finish after battling
back from being two laps down due to
electrical problems forcing his
motor to shut on and off throughout
the mid portion of the event.
Preston Peltier rounded out the top
five passing the most cars along the
way after multiple pit stops
throughout the event putting his #26
Johnson Motorsports owned machine to
the rear of the field on no less
than five different occasions.
Next up for the “BIG BOYS AND
THEIR BAD FAST TOYS” PASS South
Super Late Model Series will be Over
the Mountain 150 at the Hickory
Motor Speedway on Saturday night
September 22nd; the final tune up
for the All American 400 event at
the Nashville Fairgrounds Speedway
in October. |
