Ball takes Volunteer Speedway Victory, Llewellyn takes both Regional Championships!
Dale Ball having been injured earlier in the year, came back to race at Volunteer Speedway Saturday night and he came back in style as he won the $2000 to win FASTRAK Late Model Victory. Although Ball may have been the race winner, John Llewellyn was the big winner of the evening taking home both the Mid East and Southern Regional Championships winning a total of $10,000.
Ball qualified in the # 4 position with Shanon Buckingham taking the GM Performance Parts “TOP GUN” award. Ball, was moved to the outside of the front row during the Old 29 Golf Karts “Six Lucky Kids” Inversion on the front straight before the main event.
The track itself had a tough night as the lower part of the track was terribly dusty. The track was watered on the lower side in order to attempt to keep the dust at a minimum. That set off a lap one wreck that took out nine cars for the night including that of Jensen Ford, Warren McMahon, David McCoy, Matt Long along with others. The incident had an effect on the out come of the Regional Championships as the 187 of McCoy was out for the night.
Ball and Mays fought the entire race. Ball had a pretty comfortable lead in the initial half but Mays was coming quick. Mays was under Ball lap after lap making his bid for the lead several times but eventually ended up in the 14th position after spinning coming off turn four. Ball eventually took the win with Allen Champ, Shanon Buckingham, Jerry Broyles and John Llewellyn making up the top five.
Both the Mid East and Southern Regional Championships were at stake this weekend as this was a “combined” event. John Llewellyn in the #90 from Knoxville TN held a very small margin going into the race as his lead was only a very narrow 6 points over Lee Cooper (57) in the Southern Region and 5 points in the Mid East Region for both $5000 to win Championships. David McCoy (187) was still very much a player in the Championship chase as he won the Winter Nationals in Feb and held a ‘ace in the hole’ as he won himself a drop race during the year. McCoy including his ‘drop’ had a total of 361 points actually putting him 4 points behind Llewellyn and moving him into 2nd in front of Cooper. This was then night all of the top three were going to remember as the Championship chase in both regions would be decided at this event.
Llewellyn had the best qualifying effort of the top 3 Regional Contenders as he made his way into 9th spot. Cooper went to heat 1 and started on the pole. He won the heat by a mile which put him 13th on the starting grid. As this ‘cinderella’ story would have it, McCoy was in heat 2, and moved into 4th position with 2 laps left in his heat making his way into the main event starting in the 20th position “Man I didn’t want to have to run a consi’ said McCoy. I need to get in trough the heat the 54 slipped and that put me in the transfer spot. That was exactly what we needed”.
There they were. All in the main event. Llewellyn 9th, Cooper 13th and McCoy 20th on the grid for the feature. Obviously Llewellyn was in better shape than the latter two but no one had any guarantees and that’s exactly what happed too. McCoy just happened to be in the wrong starting position as the middle of the pack was torn to pieces as something happened. “I gave no idea where it started” said Matt Long in the 25 car. “Cars were going everywhere and the next thing I knew my car was actually on fire”. This sidelined the 187 of McCoy ending his hopes for the night as well as the Regional Championship. “I hate to see this happen to people” said FASTRAK Founder Stan Lester. “This Kenny Harris owned teams has been a big supported of FASTRAK and its just tough to see especially under the circumstances”.
With McCoy out, now it was all between Llewellyn and Cooper. Cooper fought and clawed his way through the field from his 13th starting position being careful while having to be aggressive at the same time. Cooper made his way through the field and ended up right behind Llewellyn for the final 8 laps of the event and worked and worked and although closed in bit by bit just could not make his way past him. Cooper finished 6th right behind Llewellyn, resulting in finishing only a small 7 points behind for the Championship. $5000 and 7points. Now that is as close as it gets.
GM PERFORMANCE PARTS ‘TOP GUN AWARD: Shanon Buckingam (50) TN
Hard Charger Award: Shane Roberts (17s) TN
Race Winner: Dale Ball (2) TN
MID EAST REGIONAL CHAMPION: John Llewellyn (90) TN
SOUTHERN REIGIONAL CHAMPION: John Llewellyn (90) TN
Finishing results:
2 Dale Ball
11c Alen Champ
50 Shanon Buckingham
72 Jerry Broyles
90 John Llewellyn
57 Lee Cooper
88 Vic Chandler
17s Shane Roberts
8 Chris Chandler
91 Jason Tramel
97 Joey McCoy
11 Anthony Arnwine
99 AJ Watson
19 Bobby Mays
54 Jason Lawrence
17 Greg Burchett
83 Jenson Ford
9 Luke Laney
33 Warren McMahan
25 Matt Long
187 David McCoy
98 Brad Kenyon
91 Chuck Laney
T1 Todd Brooks
$50,000 TO WIN FASTRAK Grand Nationals
$250,000 in point money up for grabs
$6000 in tow money
Over $45,000 in purse money.
Southern and Mid East Region Night 1: Green Valley Speedway- Glencoe AL
Open Practice: Friday October 5th;
Night one race: Saturday October 6th $2000 to win- $400 to start.
Night 2: (The entire country) Mountain Raceway Park, Maryville TN
Open practice: Weds Oct 17th
Night two race: Thursday Oct 18th (Rain date Oct 20th)
Night 3 and GRAND FINALE! Volunteer Speedway, Bulls Gap TN
Open practice: Friday Oct 19th
Night 3 and final event: Saturday Oct 20th. (Rain date Oct 21st)
www.fastrakracing.com
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Partners of the FASTRAK Racing Series Include: Goodyear Racing, GM Performance Parts, Sunoco Race Fuels, Maypole Chevrolet, Duralite Wheels, PPM Racing Products, Heintz Performance, MK-Direct, Braswell Carburetion, Mastersbilt Racing Chassis, TNT Racing Chassis, Rocket Racing Chassis, Modern Chevrolet, Schoenfeld Headers.
*THE FASTRAK DIRT LATE MODEL SEIRES is based on the GM crate engine program using both the 602 and 604 engine types. All teams utilize Goodyear Racing Tires as the “spec tire” allowing teams tremendous savings in both engine and tire expense. The National Championship of the FASTRAK RACING SEIRES is one of the largest in the United States totaling over $350,000.00 for the 2007 season. *The FASTRAK Racing Series is a dirt late model series based on GM Performance parts crate engines.
Dale Ball having been injured earlier in the year, came back to race at Volunteer Speedway Saturday night and he came back in style as he won the $2000 to win FASTRAK Late Model Victory. Although Ball may have been the race winner, John Llewellyn was the big winner of the evening taking home both the Mid East and Southern Regional Championships winning a total of $10,000.
Ball qualified in the # 4 position with Shanon Buckingham taking the GM Performance Parts “TOP GUN” award. Ball, was moved to the outside of the front row during the Old 29 Golf Karts “Six Lucky Kids” Inversion on the front straight before the main event.
The track itself had a tough night as the lower part of the track was terribly dusty. The track was watered on the lower side in order to attempt to keep the dust at a minimum. That set off a lap one wreck that took out nine cars for the night including that of Jensen Ford, Warren McMahon, David McCoy, Matt Long along with others. The incident had an effect on the out come of the Regional Championships as the 187 of McCoy was out for the night.
Ball and Mays fought the entire race. Ball had a pretty comfortable lead in the initial half but Mays was coming quick. Mays was under Ball lap after lap making his bid for the lead several times but eventually ended up in the 14th position after spinning coming off turn four. Ball eventually took the win with Allen Champ, Shanon Buckingham, Jerry Broyles and John Llewellyn making up the top five.
Both the Mid East and Southern Regional Championships were at stake this weekend as this was a “combined” event. John Llewellyn in the #90 from Knoxville TN held a very small margin going into the race as his lead was only a very narrow 6 points over Lee Cooper (57) in the Southern Region and 5 points in the Mid East Region for both $5000 to win Championships. David McCoy (187) was still very much a player in the Championship chase as he won the Winter Nationals in Feb and held a ‘ace in the hole’ as he won himself a drop race during the year. McCoy including his ‘drop’ had a total of 361 points actually putting him 4 points behind Llewellyn and moving him into 2nd in front of Cooper. This was then night all of the top three were going to remember as the Championship chase in both regions would be decided at this event.
Llewellyn had the best qualifying effort of the top 3 Regional Contenders as he made his way into 9th spot. Cooper went to heat 1 and started on the pole. He won the heat by a mile which put him 13th on the starting grid. As this ‘cinderella’ story would have it, McCoy was in heat 2, and moved into 4th position with 2 laps left in his heat making his way into the main event starting in the 20th position “Man I didn’t want to have to run a consi’ said McCoy. I need to get in trough the heat the 54 slipped and that put me in the transfer spot. That was exactly what we needed”.
There they were. All in the main event. Llewellyn 9th, Cooper 13th and McCoy 20th on the grid for the feature. Obviously Llewellyn was in better shape than the latter two but no one had any guarantees and that’s exactly what happed too. McCoy just happened to be in the wrong starting position as the middle of the pack was torn to pieces as something happened. “I gave no idea where it started” said Matt Long in the 25 car. “Cars were going everywhere and the next thing I knew my car was actually on fire”. This sidelined the 187 of McCoy ending his hopes for the night as well as the Regional Championship. “I hate to see this happen to people” said FASTRAK Founder Stan Lester. “This Kenny Harris owned teams has been a big supported of FASTRAK and its just tough to see especially under the circumstances”.
With McCoy out, now it was all between Llewellyn and Cooper. Cooper fought and clawed his way through the field from his 13th starting position being careful while having to be aggressive at the same time. Cooper made his way through the field and ended up right behind Llewellyn for the final 8 laps of the event and worked and worked and although closed in bit by bit just could not make his way past him. Cooper finished 6th right behind Llewellyn, resulting in finishing only a small 7 points behind for the Championship. $5000 and 7points. Now that is as close as it gets.
GM PERFORMANCE PARTS ‘TOP GUN AWARD: Shanon Buckingam (50) TN
Hard Charger Award: Shane Roberts (17s) TN
Race Winner: Dale Ball (2) TN
MID EAST REGIONAL CHAMPION: John Llewellyn (90) TN
SOUTHERN REIGIONAL CHAMPION: John Llewellyn (90) TN
Finishing results:
2 Dale Ball
11c Alen Champ
50 Shanon Buckingham
72 Jerry Broyles
90 John Llewellyn
57 Lee Cooper
88 Vic Chandler
17s Shane Roberts
8 Chris Chandler
91 Jason Tramel
97 Joey McCoy
11 Anthony Arnwine
99 AJ Watson
19 Bobby Mays
54 Jason Lawrence
17 Greg Burchett
83 Jenson Ford
9 Luke Laney
33 Warren McMahan
25 Matt Long
187 David McCoy
98 Brad Kenyon
91 Chuck Laney
T1 Todd Brooks
$50,000 TO WIN FASTRAK Grand Nationals
$250,000 in point money up for grabs
$6000 in tow money
Over $45,000 in purse money.
Southern and Mid East Region Night 1: Green Valley Speedway- Glencoe AL
Open Practice: Friday October 5th;
Night one race: Saturday October 6th $2000 to win- $400 to start.
Night 2: (The entire country) Mountain Raceway Park, Maryville TN
Open practice: Weds Oct 17th
Night two race: Thursday Oct 18th (Rain date Oct 20th)
Night 3 and GRAND FINALE! Volunteer Speedway, Bulls Gap TN
Open practice: Friday Oct 19th
Night 3 and final event: Saturday Oct 20th. (Rain date Oct 21st)
www.fastrakracing.com
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Partners of the FASTRAK Racing Series Include: Goodyear Racing, GM Performance Parts, Sunoco Race Fuels, Maypole Chevrolet, Duralite Wheels, PPM Racing Products, Heintz Performance, MK-Direct, Braswell Carburetion, Mastersbilt Racing Chassis, TNT Racing Chassis, Rocket Racing Chassis, Modern Chevrolet, Schoenfeld Headers.
*THE FASTRAK DIRT LATE MODEL SEIRES is based on the GM crate engine program using both the 602 and 604 engine types. All teams utilize Goodyear Racing Tires as the “spec tire” allowing teams tremendous savings in both engine and tire expense. The National Championship of the FASTRAK RACING SEIRES is one of the largest in the United States totaling over $350,000.00 for the 2007 season. *The FASTRAK Racing Series is a dirt late model series based on GM Performance parts crate engines.
