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SATURDAY, OCTOBER 5th |
NOLES - HEMRIC
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Hemric Mounts Late
Charge To Win
PASS South Wildcat
150 At Dillon |
DILLON, SC (October 5) – It
was déjà vu for the #98 Carswell
Motorsports team as Daniel Hemric
made a late race charge Saturday
night to win the Pro All Stars
Series (PASS) South Super Late Model
Wildcat 150 at Dillon Motor
Speedway. The win was Hemric’s
second PASS South win of 2013 and
came at the site of the Carswell
team’s first series victory in 2008
with the now retired Justin
Wakefield.
“Considering that
this is where Jake and Deanna
[Carswell] started their Super Late
Model career, this is pretty cool,
especially doing it here at
Dillon…it’s really neat for
everybody,” Hemric said afterwards
in victory lane.
The afternoon
certainly started out promising for
Hemric as he scored his first career
PASS South quick time in qualifying,
nearly two-tenths of a second
quicker than his nearest competitor
with a lap 89.419 miles per hour
around the 4/10 mile egg-shaped
speedway. But, that was tempered in
the top ten qualifiers redraw when
he drew pill number nine which
resulted in starting the 150 lap
feature inside of row five.
At the drop of the green flag, PASS
South points leader Jay Fogleman
jumped into the lead, but that was
short lived as Alex Fleming moved by
to claim the top spot on lap three.
With the field staying tightly
packed in the early going, Fogleman
made the move to retake the lead on
lap 11. The drive of the race early
on came from Jody Measamer, who
started a disappointing 17th in the
Wildcat 150. Measamer wasted little
time in moving towards the front,
breaking into the top 10 on lap 25
after contact between Rodney Brooks
and Spencer Wauters while battling
for 9th opened the door for him.
With a torrid pace being set by
the entire field, focus shifted back
to the battle for the lead between
Fogleman and rookie Trevor Noles.
The two raced side-by-side for the
lead for over six laps before Noles
finally moved up front on lap 37.
Measamer continued his early charge
towards the front moving past Jimmy
Doyle for fifth lap 41. All the
while, Hemric hung back just inside
the top 10, conserving tires in the
hopes of a late charge.
Just
past halfway, Fogleman was ready to
go again, moving around Noles for
the lead on lap 78. Not long after,
Hemric began to implement his
strategy, passing Brooks for 5th
with 46 laps to go. The first
caution of the fast paced race would
not wave until lap 107 for a solo
spin by rookie Karl Weber in turn
four.
On the restart,
Fogleman continued to lead, but he
would be joined up front by a new
contender after Hemric made his way
up to second. With 29 laps to go,
Hemric’s strategy paid off as he
passed Fogleman for the lead. But,
his luck nearly ran out with 16 laps
to go, when Weber spun again in turn
four just in front of the leaders.
Fogleman hung tough initially
after the final restart going back
and forth with Hemric in a
side-by-side battle for the lead
with less than 15 laps to go.
However, Hemric proved to be too
strong pulling away in the final
laps to win the Wildcat 150 over
Fogleman, Noles, Measamer, and Tyler
Church.
“I knew from lap one
that we could ride and maintain and
stay just where we needed to for the
first 100 laps and when that caution
came out with about 50 to go that
really helped us out,” said Hemric.
“Jay’s just as good as they get on
these short tracks and it was fun to
race side-by-side as long as we did.
We tried to put on a show and I hope
the fans enjoyed it.”
Rounding out the top ten at the
finish were Clete Caywood, Wauters,
John Batten, Kyle Grissom, and
Brooks.
In the PASS Pro Late
Model division, Trevor Noles took
the lead from Adam Welch early and
held off a furious charge by
Harrison Burton for his seventh win
of the season. Following Noles and
Burton at the finish were Jeff
Batten, Austin Reed and Welch.
The PASS South Super Late Models
will be in action again on Saturday
night, October 19th at Orange County
Speedway for the 8th Annual Orange
Blossom Special along with the PASS
Pro Late Models. |
OFFICIAL PASS SOUTH SLM
RESULTS
150 Laps -
DILLON - 10/5/13 |
1) 98h – Daniel Hemric - 150
Laps
2) 4 – Jay Fogleman - 150
3) 2 – Trevor Noles - 150
4)
98 – Jody Measamer - 150
5) 7 –
Tyler Church - 150
6) 14 – Clete
Caywood - 150
7) 5 – Spencer
Wauters - 150
8) 48 – John
Batten - 150
9) 31 – Kyle
Grissom - 150
10) 30 – Rodney
Brooks - 150 |
11) 05 - Alex Fleming - 150
12) 50 – Karl Weber - 148
13) 129
– Spencer Davis - 148
14) 8f –
Tate Fogleman - 147
15) 8 –
Joseph Mursuli - 147
16) 71 –
Jimmy Doyle - 99
17) 18 – Bill
Catania - 93
18) 80 – Shannon
Mines - 92
19) 89 – Lee Hansard -
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SLM Entries - Dillon - 10/5 | |
OFFICIAL PASS SOUTH PLM
RESULTS
50 Laps -
DILLON - 10/5/13 |
1) 16 – Trevor Noles
2)
12 – Harrison Burton
3) 49 – Jeff
Batten
4) 14 – Austin Reed |
5) 14w – Adam Welch
6) 45
– Kodie Conner
7) 71 – Nick
Robinson
8) 16g – Hayes Goodson |
PASS South Makes Return
Trip
to Dillon for The Wildcat
150 |
CHARLOTTE, NC (October 2) –
The Pro All Stars Series (PASS)
South Super Late Models first
started competing “South Of The
Border” at Dillon Motor Speedway in
2008. That race was held on a
sweltering Sunday afternoon under
the hot South Carolina sun and was
won by the now retired Justin
Wakefield. Since then, the South
Carolina Clash at Dillon has been
held in March to kick off the PASS
South season and Ron Barfield’s 4/10
mile speedway has grown to be a
favorite stop for fans and
competitors alike.
This
Saturday night’s Wildcat 150, an
event name harkening back to races
held at Dillon Motor Speedway when
the track was dirt in the 1970’s,
will mark a series of firsts for the
PASS South brigade. It will be the
first time PASS South has ever raced
at Dillon during the fall. And, it
will also be the first time PASS has
ever staged more than one Super Late
Model race in the same year at the
facility. Back in March, Maine
youngster Austin Theriault took
advantage of slower traffic to edge
out veteran Preston Peltier for the
win in the closest finish in PASS
South history.
Like
Theriault, Clete Caywood and Jody
Measamer hope to snare their first
career PASS South victories in this
weekend’s Wildcat 150. Caywood, who
hails from Easley in the South
Carolina upstate, would love nothing
better than to take his first series
win Saturday night in his home
state. Competing in a partial
schedule this year, Caywood backed
up a solid sixth place finish in
last year’s season-ending Mason
Dixon Meltdown at Concord Speedway
with an even more impressive fourth
place finish in August at South
Boston Speedway. Dillon’s egg-shaped
layout proves tough for even the
wiliest of veterans, but with strong
finishes at equally challenging
tracks, Caywood thinks the Wildcat
150 could be another opportunity to
shine.
“This Kaytech/Phat
Dogs Chevrolet has been really
running good, we’ve been getting
some help from Jeff Fultz, and we’ve
really gotten this car turned
around,” said Caywood. “It has a
little bit longer straightaways, a
little bit tighter turns than what
we normally run, so you’ve really go
to get the car to turn through the
middle and get some bite coming
off.”
Likewise, Sanford, NC
veteran Jody Measamer has a lot to
be excited about heading to Dillon.
Since making the move up from the
PASS Pro Late Model division last
year, Measamer has three top five
finishes in 2013, including a career
best third place finish at Southern
National Motorsports Park in August.
And, Measamer has been able to
secure funding from Aquavapor
Electronic Cigarettes to finish out
the 2013 PASS South Super Late Model
season, with an eye towards possibly
competing for the series
championship next year. But, perhaps
even more exciting for Measamer, is
the fact that he probably has more
experience than any other driver
competing Saturday night at Dillon
Motor Speedway. Measamer raced
extensively at Dillon in the local
Supertruck division and that track
knowledge has him optimistic for
another strong showing.
“It’s
a real tough racetrack, getting
through turns 3 and 4, really off 4
is important,” said Measamer. “We
had some success there in the
Trucks, but getting off turn 4 and
getting a good run to the
start/finish line is real important
down there.”
While another
good field of PASS South Super Late
Models is expected, most of the
attention Saturday night will be
focused on the points battles. Jay
Fogleman leads Kyle Grissom by 34
points heading to Dillon and this
weekend Grissom has to tighten the
gap if he hopes to repeat as PASS
South champion. Likewise, Georgia’s
Spencer Davis looks to maintain his
advantage in the Rookie-Of-The-Year
battle over Cole Timm, Tate
Fogleman, and Joseph Mursuli.
Meanwhile, the PASS Pro Late Models
will also be in action and points
leader Trevor Noles will again be
doing double duty racing the Super
and Pro for Coulter Motorsports.
Noles will also be looking to equal
Harrison Burton, who has two PASS
Pro Late Model wins at Dillon so far
this season.
Action gets
under way on Friday, October 4th at
Dillon Motor Speedway with rotating
practice for the PASS South Super
Late Models, PASS Pro Late Models,
Chargers and Street Stocks from 3 PM
– 6:45 PM. On Saturday, October 5th,
practice for the Wildcat 150 rolls
from 1 PM – 3:15 PM, qualifying
begins at 4:15 PM, followed by main
event racing at 6 PM.
Anticipation continues to build for
a huge month of November which kicks
off with the North-South Shootout at
Caraway Speedway on November 9th.
Two weeks later on November 23rd,
the PASS South and PASS National
Champions will be crowned at
Southern National Motorsports Park
as part of the 8th Annual Mason
Dixon Meltdown, which will also
feature the Must See Xtreme Racing
Winged Sprint Cars.
The Pro
All Stars Series is recognized as
North America’s premier sanctioning
body for asphalt Super Late Models
and boasts such marquee events as
the PASS Northwest Triple Crown at
Wenatchee Valley Super Oval, PASS
South’s Easter Bunny 150 at the
historic Hickory Motor Speedway, the
Autobus La Qubecoise Triple Crown at
Autodrome Chaudiere, and the
legendary TD Bank 250 at Oxford
Plains Speedway.
For
technical information concerning all
PASS divisions please send questions
to
passracing@roadrunner.com. For
media or marketing questions, please
contact Alan Dietz at 704-231-2039
or
alandietzpass@live.com.
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