InsideDirtRacing.com will be providing live updates from the $21,000-to-win ‘Lil Bill Corum Memorial’ Schaeffer’s Oil Spring Nationals/Valvoline Iron-Man Late Model Series co-sanctioned event at Tazewell Speedway in Tazewell, TN on Saturday, April 3, 2021. The updates will be provided by Richard Allen(@RichardAllenIDR on Twitter and @RichardAllenIDR on Instagram).
These updates are brought to you by Smoky Mountain Speedway in Maryville, Tenn. The next event will be the ‘Rockin in the Smokies’ event featuring a $5,000-to-win Southern All Stars race for Super Late Models as well as a $5,000-to-win Steel Block Bandits race for Limited Late Models. This event will take place on April 17, 2021.
General Information:
Weather is expected to be cool with little to no chance for rain.
The drivers meeting is slated to begin at 5:30pm with hot laps and racing action to follow soon afterwards.
The Bill Corum Memorial race will be 75 laps for $21,000.
This is the first race of the 2021 season for the Spring Nationals.
Randy Weaver won the Iron-Man Late Model season opener at Boyd’s Speedway on January 30th.
This race was scheduled to take place last year but was cancelled due to coronavirus restrictions.
5:00- Drivers meeting about to commence.
5:40- Final track prep underway.
6:00- Hot laps underway.
6:36: Hot laps over for the SLM cars.
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Live Updates:
Super Late Models
Car Count: 35 cars
Drivers Here: 1- Tyler Erb, 1G- Ryan King, 2- Stormy Scott, 3- Austin Neely, 3- Steve Smith, 5N- Dustin Nobbe, 6- Kyle Larson, 7M- Donald McIntosh, 8- David Payne, 11B- Stacy Boles, 14- Johnny Cloer, 17M- Dale McDowell, 20- Jimmy Owens, 21K- Dakotah Knuckles, 22- Lynn Leach, 23- Cory Hedgecock, 24- Jimmy Johnson, 29- Christian Hanger, 31- Greg Estes, 34- Austin Glass, 49- Jonathan Davenport, 52- Troy Eads, 54- Mitchell Burke, 56H- Jordon Horton, 57- Zack Mitchell, 58- Ross Bailes, 71- Pierce McCarter, 76- Brandon Overton, 83- Jensen Ford, 86- Jeff Neubert, 90- John Llewellyn, 90J- Jason Trammell, 97- Michael Chilton, 101- Forrest Trent, 157- Mike Marlar, 329- Travis Fultz
Qualifying Results: The drivers will be divided into two groups for qualifying.
Group A Results- 1. Erb(11.420), 2. Knuckles, 3. McIntosh, 4. McCarter, 5. Overton
*Owens crashed on his qualifying lap. The appeared to suffer significant damage.
Group B Results- 1. Davenport (11.488), 2. Larson, 3. Mitchell, 4. Chilton, 5. King
*No one collected the $2100 for fastest overall time since Erb did not pre-register.
Heat Race Results: There will be four heats with the top-4 from each transferring to the feature.
Heat 1 Lineup- 1. Erb, 2. McIntosh, 3. Overton, 4. Scott, 5. Llewellyn, 6. Ford, 7. Estes, 8. Horton, 9. Glass
Heat 1 Finish- 1. McIntosh, 2. Erb, 3. Scott, 4. Overton
Heat 2 Lineup- 1. Knuckles, 2. McCarter, 3. Marlar, 4. Fultz, 5. Boles, 6. Hanger, 7. Neubert, 8. Cloer, 9. Owens
Heat 2 Finish- 1. Knuckles, 2. McCarter, 3. Fultz, 4. Marlar … Owens
Heat 3 Lineup- 1. Davenport, 2. Mitchell, 3. King, 4. McDowell, 5. Payne, 6. Neely, 7. Smith, 8. Eads, 9. Johnson
Heat 3 Finish- 1. Davenport, 2. Mitchell, 3. McDowell, 4. King … Payne
Heat 4 Lineup- 1. Larson, 2. Chilton, 3. Trammell, 4. Hedgecock, 5. Trent, 6. Nobbe, 7. Burke, 8. Leach
Heat 4 Finish- 1. Larson, 2. Chilton, 3. Trammell, 4. Hedgecock
B-main Results: There will be two B-main races with the top-2 from each transferring to the feature.
B-main 1 Finish- 1. Ford, 2. Owens
B-main 2 Finish- 1. Payne, 2. Neely
Feature Notes:
Feature Lineup- 1. McIntosh, 2. Davenport, 3. Knuckles, 4. Larson, 5. Erb, 6. Mitchell, 7. McCarter, 8. Chilton, 9. Scott, 10. McDowell, 11. Fultz, 12. Trammell, 13. Overton, 14. King, 15. Marlar, 16. Hedgecock, 17. Ford, 18. Payne, 19. Owens, 20. Neely, 21. Boles, 22. Trent, 23. Hanger
9:24- Feature rolling out. 75 laps for $21,000.
9:33- Four wide!
9:37- Stacy Boles looses a wheel as the cars were forming up to take the green.
9:40- Green flag
Lap 5 caution for Marlar spin. Davenport leads Knuckles, Larson, McIntosh, Erb, McCarter, Mitchell
Lap 14 caution for Chilton loosing a wheel. Davenport leads Larson, Knuckles, Erb, McIntosh, McDowell. The leaders had just caught the tail of the field and Larson had closed in on Davenport.
Lap 35- Davenport leads Larson in traffic. Erb, McDowell, McIntosh, Knuckles, Mitchell, Owens, McCarter, Trammell are the top-10.
Lap 40 caution for flat on Trammell. Davenport leads Larson, Erb, McDowell, McIntosh, Mitchell, Owens, Knuckles, McCarter, Overton
15 to go. Davenport leads Erb, Larson, McDowell, McIntosh, Owens
Feature Results: 1. Davenport, 2. Larson, 3. Erb, 4. McDowell, 5. McIntosh, 6. Owens, 7. Mitchell, 8. Overton, 9. Marlar
“Little” Bill Corum
