After two rainouts the Southern Ground Pounders were finally able to get a night full of racing it at the tight bullri
ng they call Wake County
Speedway in southern Wake County. We ended up with 8 cars for
this evening. Two of those cars are brand new. Ken Smith
unvieled his new '66 Chevelle and Mack Tatum had a vintage '38 Ford
Sedan with a lot of vintage type suspension and all in the car.
Thanks for bringing out these new machines fellas! In this
economy with money as tight as it is we all know its tight.
Wake County Speedway
had 8 divisions on tap for this evening. The personal at the
speedway were very informative and generous to the drivers that have
never raced at this tight and very tricky bullring. Thank you to
the track personal who took the time to help the drivers one-on-one to
answer all of their questions.
Once the cars got out on the track for practice it was pretty
uneventful until Rodney Dye went a little too hard into turn one and
looped the car. Once the car started to spin Rodney just turned
hard left and gasses it bring his '39 Ford coupe almost all the way
around in a 360 until he stopped due to oncoming traffic. After
that, everyone kept it straight and worked on getting the right line
around the track. The feature event went green to checkers so
everyone brought thier cars home in one piece. See below for the
final results. Thanks to all the drivers, car owners, and fans
that came out to support the club!
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Ken Smith had his brand new 1966 Chevelle ready for this race. Great looking machine Ken! Ken ran really good in the feature and came from the back to finish a strong third place in his first race in many years with the club. |
The starting lineup for the feature race was as follows:
(OM = Open Modified, LM - limited Modified, and SP = Sportsman)
| Car # | Driver | Class | Car # | Driver | Class | |
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Outside row |
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| Row 1 | 83 |
Corey Agee |
SP |
16 |
Mack Tatum |
LM |
| Row 2 | 51 |
James Turner |
SP |
77 |
Ken Smith |
SP |
| Row 3 | 45 |
Ricky Pope |
SP |
9 |
Rodney Dye |
LM |
| Row 4 | 73 |
Troy Gaston |
SP |
3 |
James Brown |
SP |
Sportsman Feature Results
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Sportsman - Winner
Corey Agee "Notice the pink car numbers. This is for his aunt who is battling breast cancer"
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Sportsman - 2nd Place Ricky Pope
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Sportsman - 3rd Place Ken Smith
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The rest of the finishing order for the Sportsman feature race:
| Finishing Position | Car # | Driver |
| 4th | 3 |
James Brown |
| 5th |
51 |
James Turner |
| 6th |
73 |
Troy Gaston |
Limited Modified Feature Results
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Limited-Modified - Winner Rodney Dye
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| Limited-Modified - 2nd Place Mack Tatum |
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Thanks to all the car owners and drivers who came out. Come see us at our next scheduled event.
Until then... keep the rubber side down and be safe!
Steve
