InsideDirtRacing.com will be providing live updates for the Southern All Stars Dirt Racing Series race from Cherokee Speedway in Gaffney, SC on Sunday afternoon, March 29, 2015. These updates are being provided by Richard Allen( @RichardAllenIDR on Twitter).
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Classes in action: Southern All Stars for $7,500-to-win.
*Please Note: These updates will focus solely on the Southern All Stars race.
General Information: For information regarding weather, start times and a list of potential drivers, please click here to check out the pre-race notes for this event.
12:45- Drivers being called to the drivers meeting.
1:45- Super Late Models about to hot lap.
Chris Madden arrived just before qualifying began. He had no hot laps in the car.
4:00- B-mains about to start.
5:50- Water being put on the track before the SLM feature.
6:20- SLM cars called to the track.
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Live Updates:
Southern All Stars Super Late Models
Car Count: -27 cars
Drivers Here: 116- Randy Weaver, R1- Riley Hickman, T1- Todd Morrow, 6- Jonathan Davenport, 2- Dennis Franklin, 101- Casey Roberts, 57- Zack Mitchell, 38- Dillon Tidmore, 1- Jason Hiett, 93- Donald Bradsher, 44- Chris Madden, 1- Brent Dixon, 5- Ross Bailes, D8- Dustin Mitchell, 22- Chris Ferguson, 8- Jon Thornburg, G2- Godwin Kelly, 6- Jimmy Rasey, Kevin Wilson, 28- Kelly Guy, 11- Austin Kirkpatrick, 42- Doug Sanders, 4- Mike Huey, 1- Doug Davis, 421- Anthony Sanders, 9- Billy Lambert, 47- John Pursley
Qualifying Results:
Field will be broken into two qualifying groups with the top-5 from each locked into the feature.
Group A- 1. Weaver(16.477), 2. Roberts, 3. Ferguson, 4. Davenport, 5. Morrow. They will start 1,3,5,7 & 9 in the feature.
Group B- 1. Hickman (16.754), 2. Franklin, 3. Bailes, 4. Bradsher, 5. A Sanders. They will start 2,4,6,8 & 10 in the feature.
Heat Race Results:
There will be two B-mains taking the top-6 from each.
B-main #1 finish- 1. Hiett, 2. Kirkpatrick, 3. Rasey, 4. D Sanders, 5. Davis, 6. Tidmore. They will start 11, 13, 15, 17, 19 & 21 in the feature.
B-main #2 finish- 1. Madden, 2. Mitchell, 3. Pursley, 4. Dixon, 5. Mitchell, 6. Lambert. They will start 12, 14, 16, 18, 20 & 22 in the feature.
Feature Notes:
6:30- Feature rolling out. 60 laps for $7500.
6:40- Four wide!
6:44- Green flag!
Lap 2 caution as Morrow, Madden and A Sanders tangle in turn one. They all continue at tail of the field. Weaver leads Hickman, Roberts, Ferguson, Franklin and Davenport.
Lap 3 caution for spin by D Sanders. Roberts moved around Hickman for 2nd on the previous restart.
Lap 6 red flag. Brent Dixon has flipped in turn three. Car is on its top. Driver reported to be OK.
On the previous restart, Davenport was making the outside line work. He moved around Ferguson for 4th then Hickman for 3rd. Also, Roberts had closed on Weaver before the caution.
Lap 6 running order- Weaver, Roberts, Davenport, Hickman, Ferguson
7:02- Green flag back out.
Lap 16 caution for Bradsher. Weaver leads over Davenport, Roberts, Ferguson, Franklin, Hickman, Bailes, Kirkpatrick and Hiett.
Caution on restart for spin by Rasey.
Big crash on second lap 16 restart. Ferguson, Franklin, Madden, Tidmore, Mitchell among those involved. Mitchell ended up on his top. All drivers appear to be ok, cars not so much.
7:35- Racing about to resume. Running order is Weaver, Davenport, Roberts, Franklin, Hickman, Hiett.
Lap 38 caution for spin by Hickman as he tangled with a slower car while racing Hiett for 5th. Top-3 of Weaver, Davenport and Roberts had been very tight in traffic with Franklin running further back in 4th.
Davenport challenged Weaver over the final 10 laps but Weaver held on.
Feature Results:
1. Weaver, 2. Davenport, 3. Roberts, 4. Franklin, 5. Hiett, 6. Rasey, 7. Hickman, 8. A Sanders
*Steve Banal won the SECA Crate LM feature over Cory Gordon, Cale Conley, Ron Parker and David Smith.
