Steve Jones and Ben Faircloth Take NLMS Checkers in ‘Lumber Unlimited 100’ Weekend
(Brunswick, Georgia) Golden Isles Speedway played
host to the National Late Model Series (NLMS) with a two-day stop by the sanctioning body at the newly configured four-tenths mile clay oval and when the weekend concluded, there were two new first-time winners on the NLMS tour as Steve Jones of Milan, Georgia and Ben Faircloth of Swainsboro each took their turns in victory lane during the racing filled weekend. Mother Nature tried to wash out the first day of racing at Golden Isles Speedway in the Labor Day weekend special but persistence paid off for the officials and racers at the coastal Georgia racing facility as veteran Steve Jones claimed the three-thousand dollar winner’s share on night one.
Jones took the lead on lap ten of the fifty-lap main event and was able to endure a dozen caution periods and late race charges from a handful of competitors to take the checkered flag. Tyler Ivey, the young gun from Tallahassee, Florida made a dynamic move on the last lap to come home in second, followed by Jacksonville’s Johnny Collins in third, with Bo Allen and Mark Whitner rounding out the top-five. Saturday night’s NLMS action saw Whitener of Middleburg, Florida earn the pole award as the fastest twelve qualifiers were locked into the main event from time trials. Four fast and furious qualifying heats filled the field as twenty-six of the forty-one late models on hand made the start in the fifty-lap feature.
Whitener would lead the first seven laps until Bo Allen of Bryceville, Florida made a three-wide move for the lead on lap eight, but on the tenth lap Jones roared past Allen and Collins to take the top spot.
Jones would survive the caution periods and hold onto the lead despite stiff challenges from Allen, Collins and others to earn the win. On the final lap Allen made one last move on Jones in turn four, but slipped up the banking as Ivey and Collins threaded the needle to move past as Jones took the checkers. Although the facility was deluged with heavy afternoon thunderstorms and accumulating rainfall, the Golden Isles Speedway owners stuck to their guns and prepared the racetrack so that all of the drivers and fans who had traveled to the event could enjoy the night of action as scheduled.
The second day of action got under way on Sunday evening as the field of NLMS entries grew to forty-six competitors. Darrell Padgett captured the pole award with a lap of 17.041 seconds as the top-twelve qualifiers transferred to the main event via time trials. Brad Comer, Phillip Cobb, Johnny Collins and Brandon Dewitt would each win their respective qualifying heat races with the top-three finishers in each preliminary race earning a starting spot in the fifty lap main event. Padgett would take the lead as the green flag waved and hold onto the top spot for the first nine circuits around the four-tenths mile oval until Ben Faircloth of Swainsboro, Georgia made his move to the front of the field on lap ten. During the first half of the race Faircloth was engaged in an intense scramble for the lead with Padgett, Johnny Collins, Jimmy Lee Davis, Brad Comer and the leader’s brother Jeremy Faircloth. The race was plagued by fifteen caution periods with the final yellow flag on lap thirty-eight being the most significant of the night when a nine car pileup occurred in turn one.
The incident was triggered when Skip Pannell got into Tyler Ivey as cars piled into one another with Bo Allen’s machine barrel rolling over the car of Gene Ross. None of the drivers were injured and remarkably, most of the cars were able to continue once the melee was cleared from the track.
On the final restart Faircloth was able to pull away and roar to his first career NLMS sanctioned victory earning three thousand dollars for his winning efforts. Faircloth’s run came in a Brian Lucas prepared CJ Rayburn racecar powered by an Xtreme Motorsports racing engine for the team owned by Danny and Karen Faircloth. It was a family affair as brothers Ben and Jeremy Faircloth took the first two spots in the finishing order. Johnny Collins rumbled through the field from the fifteenth starting spot to take third place as Brad Comer crossed the stripe in fourth. Saturday night’s winner Steve Jones rounded out the top-five in the finishing order with sixth through tenth going to Darrell Padgett, Brandon Cameron, Brett Carlton, Doodle Pipkin and Phillip Cobb, respectively.
In the Shark Chassis Open Wheel Modified action it was Ronnie Chance of Jacksonville, Florida taking the win in the twenty-five lap main event sponsored by Southeast Motorsports. Tallahassee young gun Tyler Ivey scored a runner-up finish with Joey Myers, Donnie Hall and P.J. Wiggins rounding out the top-five. Kyle Van Sickle scored his second straight win at Golden Isles in Limited Sportsman action with Tim Dixon,Marty Kelly, Curtis Rogers and David Tyrell all finishing in the top-five. David Tyrell won the Hobby Stock feature as Drew Smith took the checkered flag in the Super Street main event with Randy Barnhart the winner in Pure Stock action.
Racing action returns to Golden Isles Speedway on Saturday night, September 15th with racing in all divisions. Pit Gates will open at 4 p.m. with grandstand gates opening at 5 p.m. Grandstand tickets are available at the gate with adult admission price $12.00. Golden Isles Speedway now offers premier Trackside Tailgate spectator areas behind the backstretch where race fans may park their personal vehicles and view the racing from outside of the track in the special Trackside Tailgate area. Kids 12 and under are FREE in the Grandstand and Trackside Tailgate areas when accompanied by a paying adult. For additional event information check out the track’s web site at www.goldenislesspeedway.com or call the track office at (912) 778-3767. Golden Isles Speedway is located 12 miles west of I-95 (Exit 29) on U.S. Hwy 82.
Official Finishing Order for National Late Model Series (NLMS) Golden Isles Speedway (Brunswick, GA) ‘Lumber Unlimited 100’ Night 2 Sunday – September 2, 2007 Winner – BEN FAIRCLOTH (Swainsboro, Ga) 2.Jeremy Faircloth (Swainsboro, Ga) 3.Johnny Collins (Jacksonville, Fl) 4.Brad Comer (Gray, Ga) 5.Steve Jones (Milan, Ga) 6.Darrell Padgett (Clay Hill, Fl) 7.Brandon Cameron (Jacksonville, Fl) 8.Brett Carlton (Loxahatchee, Fl ) 9.Doodle Pipkin (Fernandina Beach,
Fl) 10.Phillip Cobb (Riverview, Fl) 11.Tyler Ivey (Tallahassee, Fl) 12.Brandon Dewitt (Morven, Ga) 13.Skip Pannell (Bronwood, Ga) 14.Russell Brown Jr.
(Valdosta, Ga) 15.Gene Ross (Lake Park, Ga) 16.Bo Allen (Bryceville, Fl) 17.Charles Sealy (Moultrie, Ga
) 18.Mark Whitner (Middleburg, Fl) 19.Alex Vickers (Gray, Ga) 20.Jimmy Lee Davis (Jacksonville, Fl) 21.Mike Massengill (Yulee, Fl) 22.Gary Spivey (Jacksonville, Fl) 23.Cale Simons (Leesburg, Ga) 24.Jeff Hunter (Jacksonville, Fl) 25.Chuck Cumby (Jacksonville, Fl ) 26.Carlton Allen (Tallahassee,
Fl)
Official Finishing Order for National Late Model Series (NLMS) Golden Isles Speedway (Brunswick, GA) ‘Lumber Unlimited 100’ Night 1 Saturday – September 1, 2007* Winner – STEVE JONES (Milan, Ga) 2.Tyler Ivey (Tallahassee, Fl) 3.Johnny Collins (Jacksonville, Fl) 4.Bo Allen (Bryceville, Fl) 5.Mark Whitner (Middleburg, Fl) 6. Bob Robertson (Evans, Ga) 7.Brandon Dewitt (Morven, Ga) 8.Skip Pannell (Bronwood, Ga) 9.John Henderson Jr. (Aiken, SC) 10.Clay Bedenbaugh (Lake City, Fl) 11.Jay Johnson (Moultrie, Ga) 12.Brandon Cameron (Jacksonville, Fl) 13.Lonnie Roberts (Sparks, Ga) 14.Russell Brown Jr.
(Valdosta, Ga) 15.Jeremy Faircloth (Swainsboro, Ga) 16.Jeff Hunter (Jacksonville, Fl) 17.Carlton Allen (Tallahassee, Fl) 18.Bucky Gregory (Mooresville, NC) 19.Charlie Williamson (Brunswick, Ga) 20.Ben Faircloth (Swainsboro, Ga) 21.Brad Comer (Gray, Ga) 22.Mike Massengill (Yulee, Fl) 23.Michael Lloyd (Jacksonville, Fl) 24.Chuck Chitty (Oceanway, Fl) 25.Alex Vickers (Gray, Ga) 26.Cale Simons (Leesburg,
Ga) *This is an amended finishing order for the NLMS event of Sep 1, 2007.
Golden Isles Speedway Feature Results
Sunday - September 2, 2007
Southeast Motorsports Open Wheel Modified 1.RONNIE CHANCE (Jacksonville, Fl) 2.Tyler Ivey 3.Joey Myers 4.Donnie Hall 5.P.J. Wiggins 6. Robby Barris 7.George Thrift 8.Dave Barber 9.Ricky Allen 10.Ronald Broughton 11.Jamie Carter 12.Tiny Green 13.James Hunter 14.Mark Padgett 15.David Crews
(DQ-Light)
Ash-Lyn Motors Limited Sportsman
1.KYLE VAN SICKLE (Jacksonville, Fl) 2.Tim Dixon 3.Marty Kelly 4.Curtis Rogers 5.David Tyrell 6.Shane Williams 7.Charlie Davis 8.Kevin Mills 9.Damon Flowers 10.Ricky King 11.Bill Adkins 12.Byron Lockhart 13.Staton Mills 14.Cale Flowers 15.Morrie West 16.Larry Anderson 17.Toby Justice 18.Jordan Lockhart 19.Adam Parrish 20.Brandon Jones 21.Scott Crews Rusty Acres Auto Parts Hobby Stock 1.DAVID TYRELL (Jacksonville, Fl) 2.Chuck Hall 3.Travis Barnes 4.Randy Clark 5.Jimmy Peele Jr.
6.Perry Albritton 7.Veronica Clark 8.Tim Nolan 9.Mitch Wilson 10.Tim Owens Jr. 11.Timmy Roach 12.Robin Clark 13.Jeff Baer 14.Keith Bollman 15.Jamie Yarbrough 16.Ken Lindsey 17.Bobby Powell 18.John Carlino 19.Paul Albritton (DQ-Unauthorized Driver Change) 20.Chad Mercer (DQ-Light) 21.Chuck Stokes (DQ-Unsportsmanlike Conduct) First Coast Hydraulics Super Street 1.DREW SMITH (Brunswick, Ga) 2.Johnny Johnson 3.Frankie Lloyd Jr. 4.Chris Keller 5.Keith Smith 6.Wesley Walley 7.Richard Young 8.Ed Hall 9.Darrell Foster 10.Joey Walker 11.Paul Jones 12.Frank Stokes 13.Brandon Lightfoot 14.Daron Bailey 15.Jimmy Peele Jr.
Pure Stock (Top-Five)
1.Randy Barnhart 2.Scott Fogle 3.Mark Nolan 4.Jamie Flowers 5.Ralph Masters
Racing and entertainment at Golden Isles Speedway is sponsored in part by Brunswick Toyota & Scion, Coastal Mobile Homes, Sunoco Race Fuels, Southeast Motorsports, Hoosier Racing Tire, Braddock Home Improvements, Crowder Racing (Tallahassee, Fl), Paiges Minit-Market, Lumber Unlimited (Jacksonville, Fl) and Lloyd Land Clearing serving North Florida and South Georgia.
Upcoming Golden Isles Speedway Events:
Saturday, September 15
Full Racing Program with Local Divisions
Saturday, September 29
Full Racing Program with Local Divisions
Friday, October 12
Southern All-Stars East $4,000.00 to win Super Late Model feature plus Local Divisions
Saturday, October 13
O-Reilly Auto Parts Southern All-Stars $10,000 to win Super Late Model feature plus Local Divisions
Thursday-Saturday, Oct 25-27
Showdown on the Coast with National Late Model Series
(NLMS) plus Local Divisions
January 23 – February 2, 2008
SuperBowl of Racing IV – 10 Nights $10,000 to win Each Night UMP & SAS SUPER LATE MODELS Plus 5 Nights of NLMS and other divisions TBA
(Brunswick, Georgia) Golden Isles Speedway played
host to the National Late Model Series (NLMS) with a two-day stop by the sanctioning body at the newly configured four-tenths mile clay oval and when the weekend concluded, there were two new first-time winners on the NLMS tour as Steve Jones of Milan, Georgia and Ben Faircloth of Swainsboro each took their turns in victory lane during the racing filled weekend. Mother Nature tried to wash out the first day of racing at Golden Isles Speedway in the Labor Day weekend special but persistence paid off for the officials and racers at the coastal Georgia racing facility as veteran Steve Jones claimed the three-thousand dollar winner’s share on night one.
Jones took the lead on lap ten of the fifty-lap main event and was able to endure a dozen caution periods and late race charges from a handful of competitors to take the checkered flag. Tyler Ivey, the young gun from Tallahassee, Florida made a dynamic move on the last lap to come home in second, followed by Jacksonville’s Johnny Collins in third, with Bo Allen and Mark Whitner rounding out the top-five. Saturday night’s NLMS action saw Whitener of Middleburg, Florida earn the pole award as the fastest twelve qualifiers were locked into the main event from time trials. Four fast and furious qualifying heats filled the field as twenty-six of the forty-one late models on hand made the start in the fifty-lap feature.
Whitener would lead the first seven laps until Bo Allen of Bryceville, Florida made a three-wide move for the lead on lap eight, but on the tenth lap Jones roared past Allen and Collins to take the top spot.
Jones would survive the caution periods and hold onto the lead despite stiff challenges from Allen, Collins and others to earn the win. On the final lap Allen made one last move on Jones in turn four, but slipped up the banking as Ivey and Collins threaded the needle to move past as Jones took the checkers. Although the facility was deluged with heavy afternoon thunderstorms and accumulating rainfall, the Golden Isles Speedway owners stuck to their guns and prepared the racetrack so that all of the drivers and fans who had traveled to the event could enjoy the night of action as scheduled.
The second day of action got under way on Sunday evening as the field of NLMS entries grew to forty-six competitors. Darrell Padgett captured the pole award with a lap of 17.041 seconds as the top-twelve qualifiers transferred to the main event via time trials. Brad Comer, Phillip Cobb, Johnny Collins and Brandon Dewitt would each win their respective qualifying heat races with the top-three finishers in each preliminary race earning a starting spot in the fifty lap main event. Padgett would take the lead as the green flag waved and hold onto the top spot for the first nine circuits around the four-tenths mile oval until Ben Faircloth of Swainsboro, Georgia made his move to the front of the field on lap ten. During the first half of the race Faircloth was engaged in an intense scramble for the lead with Padgett, Johnny Collins, Jimmy Lee Davis, Brad Comer and the leader’s brother Jeremy Faircloth. The race was plagued by fifteen caution periods with the final yellow flag on lap thirty-eight being the most significant of the night when a nine car pileup occurred in turn one.
The incident was triggered when Skip Pannell got into Tyler Ivey as cars piled into one another with Bo Allen’s machine barrel rolling over the car of Gene Ross. None of the drivers were injured and remarkably, most of the cars were able to continue once the melee was cleared from the track.
On the final restart Faircloth was able to pull away and roar to his first career NLMS sanctioned victory earning three thousand dollars for his winning efforts. Faircloth’s run came in a Brian Lucas prepared CJ Rayburn racecar powered by an Xtreme Motorsports racing engine for the team owned by Danny and Karen Faircloth. It was a family affair as brothers Ben and Jeremy Faircloth took the first two spots in the finishing order. Johnny Collins rumbled through the field from the fifteenth starting spot to take third place as Brad Comer crossed the stripe in fourth. Saturday night’s winner Steve Jones rounded out the top-five in the finishing order with sixth through tenth going to Darrell Padgett, Brandon Cameron, Brett Carlton, Doodle Pipkin and Phillip Cobb, respectively.
In the Shark Chassis Open Wheel Modified action it was Ronnie Chance of Jacksonville, Florida taking the win in the twenty-five lap main event sponsored by Southeast Motorsports. Tallahassee young gun Tyler Ivey scored a runner-up finish with Joey Myers, Donnie Hall and P.J. Wiggins rounding out the top-five. Kyle Van Sickle scored his second straight win at Golden Isles in Limited Sportsman action with Tim Dixon,Marty Kelly, Curtis Rogers and David Tyrell all finishing in the top-five. David Tyrell won the Hobby Stock feature as Drew Smith took the checkered flag in the Super Street main event with Randy Barnhart the winner in Pure Stock action.
Racing action returns to Golden Isles Speedway on Saturday night, September 15th with racing in all divisions. Pit Gates will open at 4 p.m. with grandstand gates opening at 5 p.m. Grandstand tickets are available at the gate with adult admission price $12.00. Golden Isles Speedway now offers premier Trackside Tailgate spectator areas behind the backstretch where race fans may park their personal vehicles and view the racing from outside of the track in the special Trackside Tailgate area. Kids 12 and under are FREE in the Grandstand and Trackside Tailgate areas when accompanied by a paying adult. For additional event information check out the track’s web site at www.goldenislesspeedway.com or call the track office at (912) 778-3767. Golden Isles Speedway is located 12 miles west of I-95 (Exit 29) on U.S. Hwy 82.
Official Finishing Order for National Late Model Series (NLMS) Golden Isles Speedway (Brunswick, GA) ‘Lumber Unlimited 100’ Night 2 Sunday – September 2, 2007 Winner – BEN FAIRCLOTH (Swainsboro, Ga) 2.Jeremy Faircloth (Swainsboro, Ga) 3.Johnny Collins (Jacksonville, Fl) 4.Brad Comer (Gray, Ga) 5.Steve Jones (Milan, Ga) 6.Darrell Padgett (Clay Hill, Fl) 7.Brandon Cameron (Jacksonville, Fl) 8.Brett Carlton (Loxahatchee, Fl ) 9.Doodle Pipkin (Fernandina Beach,
Fl) 10.Phillip Cobb (Riverview, Fl) 11.Tyler Ivey (Tallahassee, Fl) 12.Brandon Dewitt (Morven, Ga) 13.Skip Pannell (Bronwood, Ga) 14.Russell Brown Jr.
(Valdosta, Ga) 15.Gene Ross (Lake Park, Ga) 16.Bo Allen (Bryceville, Fl) 17.Charles Sealy (Moultrie, Ga
) 18.Mark Whitner (Middleburg, Fl) 19.Alex Vickers (Gray, Ga) 20.Jimmy Lee Davis (Jacksonville, Fl) 21.Mike Massengill (Yulee, Fl) 22.Gary Spivey (Jacksonville, Fl) 23.Cale Simons (Leesburg, Ga) 24.Jeff Hunter (Jacksonville, Fl) 25.Chuck Cumby (Jacksonville, Fl ) 26.Carlton Allen (Tallahassee,
Fl)
Official Finishing Order for National Late Model Series (NLMS) Golden Isles Speedway (Brunswick, GA) ‘Lumber Unlimited 100’ Night 1 Saturday – September 1, 2007* Winner – STEVE JONES (Milan, Ga) 2.Tyler Ivey (Tallahassee, Fl) 3.Johnny Collins (Jacksonville, Fl) 4.Bo Allen (Bryceville, Fl) 5.Mark Whitner (Middleburg, Fl) 6. Bob Robertson (Evans, Ga) 7.Brandon Dewitt (Morven, Ga) 8.Skip Pannell (Bronwood, Ga) 9.John Henderson Jr. (Aiken, SC) 10.Clay Bedenbaugh (Lake City, Fl) 11.Jay Johnson (Moultrie, Ga) 12.Brandon Cameron (Jacksonville, Fl) 13.Lonnie Roberts (Sparks, Ga) 14.Russell Brown Jr.
(Valdosta, Ga) 15.Jeremy Faircloth (Swainsboro, Ga) 16.Jeff Hunter (Jacksonville, Fl) 17.Carlton Allen (Tallahassee, Fl) 18.Bucky Gregory (Mooresville, NC) 19.Charlie Williamson (Brunswick, Ga) 20.Ben Faircloth (Swainsboro, Ga) 21.Brad Comer (Gray, Ga) 22.Mike Massengill (Yulee, Fl) 23.Michael Lloyd (Jacksonville, Fl) 24.Chuck Chitty (Oceanway, Fl) 25.Alex Vickers (Gray, Ga) 26.Cale Simons (Leesburg,
Ga) *This is an amended finishing order for the NLMS event of Sep 1, 2007.
Golden Isles Speedway Feature Results
Sunday - September 2, 2007
Southeast Motorsports Open Wheel Modified 1.RONNIE CHANCE (Jacksonville, Fl) 2.Tyler Ivey 3.Joey Myers 4.Donnie Hall 5.P.J. Wiggins 6. Robby Barris 7.George Thrift 8.Dave Barber 9.Ricky Allen 10.Ronald Broughton 11.Jamie Carter 12.Tiny Green 13.James Hunter 14.Mark Padgett 15.David Crews
(DQ-Light)
Ash-Lyn Motors Limited Sportsman
1.KYLE VAN SICKLE (Jacksonville, Fl) 2.Tim Dixon 3.Marty Kelly 4.Curtis Rogers 5.David Tyrell 6.Shane Williams 7.Charlie Davis 8.Kevin Mills 9.Damon Flowers 10.Ricky King 11.Bill Adkins 12.Byron Lockhart 13.Staton Mills 14.Cale Flowers 15.Morrie West 16.Larry Anderson 17.Toby Justice 18.Jordan Lockhart 19.Adam Parrish 20.Brandon Jones 21.Scott Crews Rusty Acres Auto Parts Hobby Stock 1.DAVID TYRELL (Jacksonville, Fl) 2.Chuck Hall 3.Travis Barnes 4.Randy Clark 5.Jimmy Peele Jr.
6.Perry Albritton 7.Veronica Clark 8.Tim Nolan 9.Mitch Wilson 10.Tim Owens Jr. 11.Timmy Roach 12.Robin Clark 13.Jeff Baer 14.Keith Bollman 15.Jamie Yarbrough 16.Ken Lindsey 17.Bobby Powell 18.John Carlino 19.Paul Albritton (DQ-Unauthorized Driver Change) 20.Chad Mercer (DQ-Light) 21.Chuck Stokes (DQ-Unsportsmanlike Conduct) First Coast Hydraulics Super Street 1.DREW SMITH (Brunswick, Ga) 2.Johnny Johnson 3.Frankie Lloyd Jr. 4.Chris Keller 5.Keith Smith 6.Wesley Walley 7.Richard Young 8.Ed Hall 9.Darrell Foster 10.Joey Walker 11.Paul Jones 12.Frank Stokes 13.Brandon Lightfoot 14.Daron Bailey 15.Jimmy Peele Jr.
Pure Stock (Top-Five)
1.Randy Barnhart 2.Scott Fogle 3.Mark Nolan 4.Jamie Flowers 5.Ralph Masters
Racing and entertainment at Golden Isles Speedway is sponsored in part by Brunswick Toyota & Scion, Coastal Mobile Homes, Sunoco Race Fuels, Southeast Motorsports, Hoosier Racing Tire, Braddock Home Improvements, Crowder Racing (Tallahassee, Fl), Paiges Minit-Market, Lumber Unlimited (Jacksonville, Fl) and Lloyd Land Clearing serving North Florida and South Georgia.
Upcoming Golden Isles Speedway Events:
Saturday, September 15
Full Racing Program with Local Divisions
Saturday, September 29
Full Racing Program with Local Divisions
Friday, October 12
Southern All-Stars East $4,000.00 to win Super Late Model feature plus Local Divisions
Saturday, October 13
O-Reilly Auto Parts Southern All-Stars $10,000 to win Super Late Model feature plus Local Divisions
Thursday-Saturday, Oct 25-27
Showdown on the Coast with National Late Model Series
(NLMS) plus Local Divisions
January 23 – February 2, 2008
SuperBowl of Racing IV – 10 Nights $10,000 to win Each Night UMP & SAS SUPER LATE MODELS Plus 5 Nights of NLMS and other divisions TBA
