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CARAWAY SLM TOP THREE -
L to R: Jared Irvan #28, 3rd;
Winner Kyle Grissom #31; & Jay
Fogleman #2, 2nd. |
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CARAWAY PLM TOP THREE -
L to R: Jared Fryer #5f, 2nd;
Winner Trevor Noles #16; & Jeff
Batten #49, 3rd. |
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Grissom Holds Off
Fogleman for PASS South Win at
Caraway |
ASHEBORO, NC (May 24) – Kyle
Grissom took the lead from Brandon
Ward on a lap 84 restart and held
off points leader Jay Fogleman to
win the “Krazy” Kevin Powell 150 for
the Pro All Stars Series (PASS)
South Super Late Models Friday night
at Caraway Speedway. Grissom’s
seventh career PASS South Super Late
Model win moves him to within four
points of Fogleman headed to the
next series event in two weeks at
South Boston Speedway.
“I
wasn’t crazy about taking the lead
that early, but I was getting good
restarts and took advantage of it,”
said Grissom, after becoming the
first two-time winner this season in
PASS South. “Once the 2 car
(Fogleman) got up there, that was
pretty tough, that was nerve
wracking having Jay Fogleman back
there those last 60 laps.”
Grissom began the night by breaking
his own track record in qualifying
with a lap of 100.485 miles per hour
around the .455 mile Caraway
Speedway. Following the top 10
qualifier redraw, Grissom slid back
to the seventh starting position
while veterans Brandon Ward and
Randy Gentry would move up to row
one for the start.
Ward
jumped into the lead at the drop of
the green flag, but Gentry would
take command on lap six setting a
blistering early pace. Meanwhile,
Grissom was pacing himself, moving
around Spencer Davis for fifth on
lap 36. Davis would slow just seven
laps later, struggling through the
rest of the night to eventually
finish 12th. The race would go
caution free until lap 53 when
Jerrick Johnson spun exiting turn
four, making contact with the inside
wall.
On the restart, Ward
reassumed the lead from Gentry as
they entered turn one. At halfway,
Ward and Gentry continued to lead
the field with Grissom and Bobby
Measmer, Jr. not far behind. The
hardest crash of the night occurred
on lap 78 when the caution flew for
the second time in the race for a
grinding crash by Karl Weber into
the inside pit wall. Despite heavy
damage to the car, Weber was
uninjured in the incident.
Following a spin by Measmer on lap
84, Ward struggled to come up to
speed on the ensuing restart which
allowed Grissom and Gentry to move
into the top two spots. Ward’s
strong run ended when he fell from
the race just seven laps later due
to clutch problems and finished
15th.
On lap 93, Fogleman,
who was driving the #2 entry from
Coulter Motorsports, muscled his way
by Gentry for second and set his
sights on Grissom. Despite applying
heavy pressure throughout the final
third of the race, Fogleman had to
settle for second behind Grissom at
the finish.
“We just missed
on the setup a little bit and I had
to use up my tires too early, but
that’s just the way it goes,” said
Fogleman. “To finish second and stay
up in this points hunt is about all
we could ask for.”
PASS South
rookie Jared Irvan drove from 13th
to finish third, a career best run
for him. The son of 1991 Daytona 500
winner Ernie Irvan stormed into the
top five in the final 50 laps and
was happy to get a strong finish.
“That one restart when the whole
inside line went backwards really
helped us because I had been running
the outside for a while,” said
Irvan. “Towards the end, the brakes
started to fade and I didn’t have
anything left for the leaders.”
Veterans John Batten and Justin
Allison finished fourth and fifth
respectively, both career bests in
PASS South. Rounding out the top ten
were Kevin Powell, Measmer, Brandon
Lynn, Kyle Moon, and Gentry.
The PASS Pro Late Models returned to
action and it was a familiar face
back in victory lane. Trevor Noles
started first and led every lap for
his series best third win of the
season in the Foothill Ford 50.
Following Noles to the checkered
flag were Jared Fryar, Jeff Batten,
Harrison Burton and Kodie Connor.
The PASS Pro Late Models will be
in action again next weekend at
Dillon Motor Speedway, while the
PASS South Super Late Models will
return in two weeks for a 150 lapper
at South Boston Speedway. |
UNOFFICIAL PASS SOUTH SLM
RESULTS
150 Laps -
CARAWAY - 5/24/13 |
1. 31 – Kyle Grissom - 150
Laps
2. 2 – Jay Fogleman - 150
3. 28 – Jared Irvan - 150
4.
48 – John Batten - 150
5. 1 –
Justin Allison - 150
6. 104 –
Kevin Powell - 149
7. 51 – Bobby
Measmer, Jr. - 149
8. 97 –
Brandon Lynn - 149
9. 29 – Kyle
Moon - 149
10. 09 – Randy Gentry
- 149 |
11. 8f – Tate Fogleman - 145
12. 129 – Spencer Davis - 126
13.
8 – Joseph Mursuli - 119
14. 19 –
Zak Hausler - 103
15. 62 –
Brandon Ward - 91
16. 50 – Karl
Weber - 77
17. 57 – Cole Timm -
57
18. 36 – Jake Cole - 53
19.
30 – Jerrick Johnson - 51
20. 18
– Bill Catania - 26 |
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OFFICIAL PASS SOUTH PLM
RESULTS
50 Laps -
CARAWAY - 5/24/13 |
A1. 16 – Trevor Noles
2.
5f – Jared Fryar
3. 49 – Jeff
Batten
4. 12 – Harrison Burton
5. 45 – Kodie Connor
6. 35 – Carl
Auman |
7. 02 – Walker Yates
8.
5s – Hans Seth
9. 14 – Austin
Reed
10. 7 – Matt Murphy
11.
71 – Nick Robinson
12. 6 – Evan
Horne |
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PLM Entries Received-Caraway-5/24
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