It was originally announced back in September that the traditional season ending event for dirt racers in east Tennessee would be a two-day affair of separate $5,000-to-win Super Late Model races sanctioned by the Southern All Stars Series at both the Cleveland(TN) Speedway and Boyd’s Speedway in Ringgold, GA. However, those plans have now changed.
According to a press release sent out on Wednesday(Nov. 5) by SAS spokesman Lynn Acklin, terms could not be agreed upon between his organization and track officials at Boyd’s, leaving only the Cleveland race to be sanction by SAS.
The release points out that SAS and Boyd’s officials agreed that “business is business” and that the Chattanooga area track will conduct its own race without Southern All Stars sanctioning. The release also points out that the track and the sanctioning body still hope to work together in 2015.
‘The Gobbler’ has long been held at Cleveland Speedway, but when that track’s future remained in question earlier this year, SAS officials sought to sanction the traditional race elsewhere. Boyd’s Speedway, located only about 20 miles to the south of Cleveland, seemed a natural fit.
Now, it appears as if there will be a Southern All Stars sanctioned race along with several other classes in action at Cleveland Speedway on Friday, November 21st. No announcement updating Boyd’s Speedway’s plans for Saturday, November 22nd have yet been released although the SAS release indicated that there would still be racing on the originally scheduled night without sanction.
