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STEWART SWEEPS NeSMITH CHEVROLET DLMS FORT PAYNE PRELIMINARIES
FORT PAYNE, AL – Blake Stewart of Centre, AL upheld his
“home turf” on Thursday night at Fort Payne Motor Speedway by
earning the pole position for Friday night’s $5,000-to-win Red Top
Auto Auction 75 Presented By South 107 for the NeSmith Chevrolet Dirt
Late Model Series. Stewart set fast time, and won the first
15-lap Dominator Race Products Heat Race on Thursday night to earn the
pole position for Friday night’s big show driving the Parodi &
Welch GRT. Stewart set a
new track record at his home track during time trials among the 40
entrants with a time around the 3/8-mile clay oval in 14.618 seconds. Stewart is a regular competitor on Friday
nights at Frank Ingram of Woodstock, GA won the
second 15-lap Dominator Race Products Heat Race on Thursday night, and
will start his Dixon Hauling and Grading Rocket from the outside of
the front row for the Friday night main event. NeSmith Chevrolet DLMS National point
leader Chip Brindle of Chatsworth, GA won the third 15-lap Dominator
Race Products Heat Race in the CSC Trailer Repair/Brindle Brothers
Auto Parts GRT, and starts the feature race on Friday night from the
inside of the second row. Chase
Washington of Houlka, MS drove the Jerry Inmon Race Cars GRT to the
fourth heat win and the outside second row starting spot for the big
show. The top four finishers in each of the
four 15-lap Dominator Race Products Heat Races transferred into the
top 16 starting positions for the Red Top Auto Auction 75 Presented By
South 107 on Friday night. Tom Maddox of Center, AL in the Cherokee
Timber Barry Wright, Chris Tays of Corinth, MS in the Bud Coley
Trucking/Circle H Concrete Trak-Star, and the defending NeSmith
Chevrolet Weekly Racing Series East Region Champion Jason Wilson of
Margaret, AL joined Stewart in transferring out of the first heat. Following Ingram in the second heat were
Larry Boutwell of Baker, FL in the McLeod Construction TNT, Curtis
Cline of Douglasville, GA in the Flood Brothers Warrior, and Kenny
Hall of Geraldine, AL in the Equipment Installation Sales Warrior. Joining Brindle out of the third heat
into the main event were Eric Cooley of Fulton, MS in the Tiffin
Motorhomes Mastersbilt, Jordy Nipper of Gray, GA in the Scotty’s
Muffler Rocket, and Brandon Overton of Appling, GA in the Dorsey
Trucking GRT. Coming out of the fourth heat along with
Washington were Derrick Rainey of Powder Springs, GA in the Hays
Family Racing/Barto Enterprises Warrior, Hunter Peacock of Macon, GA
in the Nasworthy Mechanical Bullitt, and National Dirt Late Model Hall
of Fame Inductee Ronnie Johnson of Chattanooga, TN in the Miller
Brothers Coal Warrior. Starting positions 17 through 22 for the
Red Top Auto Auctions 75 Presented By South 107 will be determined on
Friday night through two 15-lap B-Main races where the top three
finishers in each race will transfer to the big show.
Starting positions 23 and 24 are NeSmith Chevrolet DLMS
Provisional spots reserved for the top 15 in points that fail to
qualify for the main event through the preliminary races. Among the NeSmith Chevrolet DLMS Top 15
point drivers still on the outside looking in are fourth-place and
Sunoco Race Fuels Rookie of the Year point leader Scott Knowles of
Lanett, AL, seventh-place Ted Lackey of Munford, AL, ninth-place Jason
Hiett of Lincoln, AL, and tenth-place Matthew Turner of Dawsonville,
GA. PRELIMINARY
RESULTS OF ROUND 10 AT QUALIFYING:
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