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NeSMITH CHEVROLET PRESENTS SWAINSBORO/SCREVEN COUNTY DOUBLE HEADER FOR THE NeSMITH CHEVROLET DLMS THIS WEEKEND
CARTERSVILLE, GA – NeSmith Chevrolet of Claxton, GA presents
a racing double header “Salute To The Armed Forces” this weekend
for the NeSmith Chevrolet Dirt Late Model Series National Tour on
Friday night at Swainsboro Raceway in Swainsboro, GA, and on Saturday
night at Screven Motor Speedway in Sylvania, GA.
NeSmith Chevrolet is the country’s leading GM Performance
Crate Engine dealer which power the race cars in the series, and the
dealership is also the title sponsorship for the NeSmith Chevrolet
Dirt Late Model Series.
“We appreciate everything Demere NeSmith and the folks at
NeSmith Chevrolet do for the series and racing in general,” NeSmith
Chevrolet Dirt Late Model Series Founder and Director Mike Vaughn
said. “It’s great that
we get an opportunity to showcase our sponsor this weekend in their
own backyard at Swainsboro Raceway on Friday night, and Screven Motor
This weekend’s events will be highlighted by one of the
tightest point battles in dirt late model racing.
The top ten drivers in the NeSmith Chevrolet Dirt Late Model
Series National Tour point standings are separated by just 88 points.
The 2007 NeSmith Chevrolet DLMS Rookie of the Year Chip Brindle
of Chatsworth, GA leads the National Tour points chase with 484
points, and holds a 24-point lead over Jeff Fields of Aragon, GA.
Brindle has two top five finishes, and four top ten finishes in
six starts. Fields has two
top ten finishes in six starts.
Larry Boutwell of Baker, FL holds down the third spot with 448
points, just 12 points behind fields.
Boutwell has one top five, and four top ten finishes in six
starts. The 2007 NeSmith
Chevrolet DLMS National Championship Runner-Up Jay Blair of Angie, LA
and Chris Tays of Corinth, MS are tied for the fourth spot with 440
points.
Blair is coming off his first win of the season on May 10 at A1
Raceway in
Ted Lackey of Munford, AL and Scott Knowles of Lanett,
Just two points behind Lackey and Knowles in the eighth
position is Matthew Turner of
Hunter Peacock of Macon, GA rounds out the Top 10 in the
NeSmith Chevrolet DLMS National points chase and is third in the
Sunoco Race Fuels
Eric Cooley of Fulton, MS is 11th in the NeSmith
Chevrolet DLMS National standings, and fourth in the Sunoco Race Fuels
RoY points with 342 after competing in just five of the first six
events of the 2008 season. Derrick
Rainey of Powder Springs, GA is 12th with 306 points.
Rainey, who finished third in the 2007 National point
standings, has put together two top five finishes in four starts.
Frank Ingram of Woodstock, GA is 13th with 292
points. Ingram challenged
for the NeSmith Chevrolet DLMS National Championship last season, and
this season has two top ten finishes in four starts.
The defending and two-time NeSmith Chevrolet Weekly Racing
Series West Region Champion Lucky Keeton of Toomsuba, MS took some
time off from Weekly Racing Series competition for non-touring
drivers, and won the National Touring event at Southern Speedway in
Hattiesburg, MS on May 9. Keeton
is 14th in the National standings with 252 points.
With Keeton expected to return to NeSmith Chevrolet Weekly
Racing Series West Region competition over the weekend, Sunoco Race
Fuels Rookie of the Year Candidate Chad Wallace of LaGrange, GA will
be looking to move up in the National standings. Wallace, who finished third in the 2007
NeSmith Chevrolet Weekly Racing Series East Region points, is
currently 15th in the National standings, and fifth in the
Sunoco Race Fuels Rookie of the Year standings, with 246 points.
On Friday night at Swainsboro Raceway and
on Saturday night at Screven Motor Speedway, the NeSmith Chevrolet
DLMS National Tour will compete in Time Trials that lock the top 10
qualifiers into the main event, Qualifying Races that fill starting
spots 11 through 24, and a main event. Swainsboro Raceway will see a 40-lap
$2,500-to-win main event on Friday night, and Screven Motor Swainsboro Raceway is a 3/8-mile clay
oval located two miles north of Screven Motor |
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