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November
9th-10th
Caraway Speedway - Sophia, NC |
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Jay Fogleman celebrates
in victory lane. |
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#26 Preston Peltier
battles to the inside of #29 Landon
Cling. |
Don’t Count Him out Just
Yet;
Jay Fogleman wins PASS
North vs. South Shootout at Caraway |
Charlotte, NC 11/11/12-
Veteran Jay Fogleman came in to this
weekend’s PASS South North vs. South
Shootout 150 at the Caraway Speedway
as a man on a mission. That mission
was pretty plain and simple; win the
race and let the championship points
fall where they may. Well consider
it mission accomplished for the
Durham, North Carolina driver as he
picked up his second win of 2012,
and more importantly gave his Bull
City Racecars race team a shot at
the series championship heading into
the final race of the season at the
Concord Speedway coming up on
November 24th.
“We knew
coming in to these last two races it
was going to take everything going
just right for us to have a shot at
this championship, and it just so
happened to go our way this weekend.
I knew we had a good car here this
weekend in practice, but I was kind
of all over the place with Tate (son
of Jay Fogleman) making his PASS
debut I never have had time to even
think about the championship or
capitalizing on a good run,” said
Foglman in victory lane. “Right now
I’m just happy to be back in victory
lane, and the fact I can always
remind Tate years from now that the
first time we raced against each
other I beat him.”
Jay
Fogleman picked up the victory after
starting ninth in the twenty five
car starting field that saw several
newcomers making their PASS South
Series debut such as Casey
Hillenburg, Rich Gould, and twelve
year old Tate Fogleman, son of the
elder Fogleman mentioned above.
Despite a flurry of newcomers it was
the 2010 series champion, Preston
Peltier, that jumped out to the
initial lead after drawing the
number one pill in the series redraw
of the top ten qualifiers. No
quicker than going green the yellow
flag would waive on lap one for in
incident involving a trio of
youngsters all under the age of
sixteen when Tate Fogleman spun
collecting Casey Hillenburg and Gray
Gaulding along the way. All three
drivers would be able to continue
despite their damage.
Quickly after going back green
Brandon Ward showed the healthy
crowd in attendance how strong his
#62 machine was as he moved into the
second position just before
aggressive racing between Jordan
Anderson and Bill Catania resulted
Catania going for a spin off the
front bumper of Anderson’s machine
bringing out the yellow once again
on lap twenty-two. The restart put
Ward in his best position to make
his bid for lead which he overtook
just three laps later sending
Peltier fading and championship
leader Kyle Grissom into the
runner-up spot.
Over the
next forty-seven laps the action on
track stayed clean and green before
the lead lap cars starting catching
slower lapped machines just short of
the halfway point of the 150 lap
race. Officials were forced to slow
the field on lap sixty-nine due to
debris on track bunching the field
back together. With Ward out front
it gave the rest of the top five;
Grissom, Landon Cling, Fogleman, and
Peltier as shot at challenging for
the lead. Ward continued to be just
too strong for the rest of the field
at the time maintaining his race
lead as the race continued under
green.
Action outside the top
five heated up in hurry after the
halfway point, in particular the
battle for seventh between Jordan
Anderson and Ben Rowe. The Maine
driver came into North vs. South
Shootout 150, which doubled as a
PASS National Series event, as the
national points leader and was
attempting to make a pass for
seventh over Anderson when Anderson
turned his #19 down the track coming
off the exit of turn four sending
Rowe spinning and damaging the right
front of his #4 ride. The result
lead to Rowe losing laps on the
track and eventually the national
points lead to Fogleman at night’s
end.
The action between
Anderson and Rowe was just the start
of an action packed second half as
the top five now decided it was time
to show their stuff in particular
Fogleman and a rather quiet Ross
Kenseth who maintained a top six
running position all afternoon long.
Slight contact between Ward and
Fogleman battling for the lead on
lap 104 resulted in Fogleman
powering his way to the front and
never looking back. Fellow
championship contenders Kyle Grissom
and Brandon Ward set up the
afternoon’s final caution period
when two made contact sending
Grissom’s #31 car spinning while
battling for fifth with just sixteen
laps to go.
Despite one
final restart Fogleman proved to be
too much as he crossed the finish
line with a three car lengths lead
over second place finisher Ross
Kenseth. Landon Cling found his way
back to the podium after recent
struggles with teammate Nate Caruth
finishing right behind him in fourth
after qualifying sixteenth. Preston
Peltier hung on for a fifth place
finish after struggling in the
closing laps to round out the top
five.
The results at this
weekend’s event has set up what
should be an incredible fight to the
finish to crown the 2012 PASS South
Series champion as the “BIG BOYS
WITH THE BAD FAST TOYS” travel to
the Concord Speedway located in
Concord, North Carolina on Saturday
November 24th for the final race of
the 2012 season. |
OFFICIAL PASS SOUTH/NAT'L SLM
RESULTS
150 Laps - CARAWAY SPEEDWAY - 11/10/12 |
1) #4 - Jay Fogleman
2)
#25 - Ross Kenseth
3) #29 -
Landon Cling
4) #19 - Nate Caruth
5) #26 - Preston Peltier
6) #Q104
- Kevin Powell
7) #19sc - Jordan
Anderson
8) #62 - Brandon Ward
9) #54 - Logan Ruffin
10) #28 -
Jared Irvan
11) #31 - Kyle
Grissom
12) #98 - Jody Measamer
13) #12 - Scott Hensley |
14) #34 - David Clark
15)
#101 - Karl Weber
16) #4n - Ben
Rowe
17) #48 - John Batten
18)
#09 - Randy Gentry
19) #2 - Gray
Gaulding
20) #47 - Rich Gould
21) #30 - Casey Hillenburg
22)
#18 - Bill Catania
23) #4f - Tate
Fogleman
24) #2n - Matt Matheson
25) #71 - Jimmy Doyle |
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