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Saturday
August 18th |
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SOBO Top 3: 2nd - Nate
Caruth (left), 1st - Kyle Grissom
(center),
3rd - Jody
Lavender (right) |
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Kyle Grissom Makes It
Two in a Row & Four on the Year in
Southern Virginia 150
at South
Boston Speedway |
Charlotte, NC 8/20/12- The
fans of the South Boston (VA)
Speedway were treated to a barn
burner of a race Saturday night as
Kyle Grissom held off a hungry field
of drivers to score his second win
in a row and fourth of the season.
Rookie Nate Caruth made things very
interesting on the final lap before
settling for second. The runner-up
finish is a career best for the Iowa
native driving for NASCAR driver
Brad Keselowski. Jody Lavender in
his first start of 2012 rounded out
the podium with his third place run.
Brandon Ward set fast time
during qualifying before redrawing
eighth putting veteran Jay Fogleman
on the pole and Ross Kenseth to his
outside to take the green flag for
the 150 lap event. Kenseth got the
jump on the start putting his #25
machine out front for the first
nineteen laps before Fogleman raced
side-by-side with Kenseth to take
his turn leading.
Meanwhile
it was Steve Wallace who, “went
where no man has gone before”, as he
piloted his #66 machine to the high
side of field up against the outside
wall of the South Boston Speedway
going from eleventh to the taking
the lead on lap thirty-one. Several
laps later series newcomer John
Gibson would bring the yellow out
for the first time of the night on
lap thirty nine when he pulled to a
stop on the front straightaway after
making contact with the outside
wall.
Wild racing throughout
the field would ensue as each and
every driver would take the lead of
Steve Wallace attempting to make
their machine work on the high side
around the 4/10th mile oval. Lap
after lap the field fanned out from
top to bottom through the turns
making for superior racing
throughout the entire twenty-three
car starting field. The continuous
side-by-side racing saw rookie Nate
Caruth eventually take the lead from
Wallace just past the halfway point
before finally on lap eighty-seven,
Trey Mitchell stopped in the middle
of turns three and four forcing
series officials to display the
yellow flag once again. Mitchell,
who never ran outside the top four,
pulled his machine to pit road to
the attention of his crew before
calling it a night due to mechanical
problems.
With Wallace
fading, championship points leader,
Kyle Grissom took advantage of a
good restart on lap eighty-eight to
take the lead and never look back.
Several cautions plagued the field
including an incident between
championship contenders Preston
Peltier and Jay Fogleman on lap 108
battling it for fifth. Peltier would
go around and bring out the yellow
on lap 112, but it was Fogleman that
would struggle to a disappointing
eighth place finish while Peltier
would recover to finish in the top
five once again. A final incident
considered the “big one” on lap 117
put the close racing in check as a
wreck involving Stephen Burg Jr.,
Garrett Campbell, Joe Boyd, Bill
Catania, and Kevin Powell ended the
night for several drivers. From this
point on, green flag racing
concluded the 150 event ending a
wild yet superior night of PASS
South super late model racing.
Next up for the “BIG BOYS WITH
THEIR BAD FAST TOYS” PASS South
Super Late Model Series is the
annual Labor Day Classic 125 this
year at the Caraway Speedway in
Sophia, North Carolina on Saturday
night September 1st. |
OFFICIAL PASS SOUTH SLM
RESULTS
South Boston Speedway - 8/18/12 |
1) #31 - Kyle Grissom
2)
#19 - Nate Caruth
3) #115 - Jody
Lavender
4) #2 - Gray Gaulding
5) #26 - Preston Peltier
6) #62 -
Brandon Ward
7) #98h - Daniel
Hemric
8) #4 -Jay Fogleman
9)
#Q104 - Kevin Powell
10) #25 -
Ross Kenseth
11) #70 - Stephen
Bergh Jr. |
12) #29 - Landon Cling
13) #31c - Garrett Campbell
14)
#18 - Bill Catania
15) #5 - Joe
Boyd
16) #66 - Steve Wallace
17) #72 - Scott Heckert
18) #47 -
Trey Mitchell
19) #48 - John
Batten
20) #98 - Jody Measamer
21) #13 - John Gibson
22) #89 -
David Latour Jr. |
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