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PASS South presented by JE
Pistons/Roush Yates Performance Products
TOP 3: DIllon Motor Speedway: L to R Prston
Peltier (2nd) Winner Ryan Blaney,
Jay
Fogleman (3rd) (PASS PR
Photo) |
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Ryan Blaney Wins South Carolina
Clash 150 PASS South Super Late Model Series
Event |
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Young Racer Uses Patience to
Take Win at Dillon Motor Speedway |
Dillon SC (4/2) The second race in
the 2011 season for the Pro All Stars Series
(PASS) South took place
on Saturday, April 2nd at Dillon Motor
Speedway (SC). The South Carolina Clash 150
was delayed by one week due to weather, but
with no precipitation in the area, Ryan
Blaney drove his way to victory lane at
Dillon for the second year in a row.
21 of the 24 Super Late Model racers on hand
answered the call for time trials. Heath
Hindman looked like he was on his way to his
first pole position of the year when he
turned a 15.622-second lap but Jay Fogleman
ripped off a 15.620, earning the pole
position for the South Carolina Clash.
“We had to change some springs and stuff
from our North Wilkesboro set-up,” said
Fogleman. “We changed four springs, two
shocks and a set of stickers (tires) to
qualify and it was a whole lot better.”
After the redraw Jimmy Weller took the
green flag from the first position with
Bradley McCaskill alongside. McCaskill got
the jump, taking the early lead with Weller
dropping into second. With the field
scrambling for positions behind, the first
yellow flag flew at lap four for a
single-car spin in turn one by Joe Heigl.
On the restart the front row
flip-flopped from the initial start and
McCaskill was still able to hold the lead,
but Hindman moved to the second with Justin
Wakefield driving up into third. Weller
settled into the fourth position with
Preston Peltier fifth. On lap 20, after
pressuring McCaskill for several laps,
Hindman moved his way into the top spot.
Yellow-flag fever took over as the
following 50 laps saw the field slowed
multiple times for spins. Andy Loden saw his
day end up in the inside of the turn four
wall on lap 38, and a multi-car incident
occurred on lap 51 that included Preston
Peltier, Jimmy Weller, Dana White, Jody
Lavender, Steve Legendre and Jimmy Doyle.
In-between cautions the lead changed
multiple times with Hindman, McCaskill, and
Wakefield all taking turns on the point.
After a yellow flag at lap 112 for a
spin by Lavender Hindman and McCaskill, who
restarted in the first two positions, made
contact in turn one. Hindman continued on
the leader but McCaskill dropped several
positions in the mix. A few laps later,
Blaney began to show his muscle, moving into
second position and looking to run down
Hindman. Blaney took the lead on lap 130 and
drove away until a caution with four laps
remaining set up a late dash to the
checkered flag. Blaney, who saved his tires
until it was “go time,” easily navigated his
way around the track to take the win.
“We had a game plan going into this
thing,” said Blaney. “I made a driving
mistake last race going to early and ended
up being a sitting duck. We thought long and
hard about this the last couple weeks.
“It is great racing with Jay, Preston,
Andy and everyone in the PASS Series. I hate
it that so many cars got torn up right
before North Wilkesboro. I just want to
thank everybody for making this thing
possible.”
Peltier battled hard with
Fogleman over the final few laps, crossing
the line in second.
“I wasn’t clear
there once on the front stretch and came up
(on
Fogleman),” explained Peltier. “My
spotter said ‘clear’ and he got back in
there real quick. I tried to get down as
quick as I could so we didn’t tear up any
cars.”
Peltier congratulated Blaney
for the win, but also for the way he raced
conservative during the race.
“Over
the last year or so I have been racing that
way and they are catching on. It is making
it a lot more difficult for me.”
Fogleman was second on the final restart,
but crossed the line in third.
“We
had a flat early on,” said Fogleman. “Not to
take anything away from those guys (Blaney
and Peltier); they ran a great race. My guys
worked hard today and we are glad to put on
a good show for the fans.”
Hindman
and Wakefield rounded out the top five.
The PASS South presented by JE Pistons
and Roush Yates Performance Products will be
back in action at North Wilkesboro Speedway
(NC) April 7th – 9th for the 300-lap “The
Race” event, with $75,000 on the line for
the driver who can cross the checkered flag
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Unofficial Results: PASS South
“South Carolina Clash”
- Dillon (SC) Motor Speedway - April 2 2011
- with finishing position,car
number,driver,laps completed |
1 - 10 Ryan Blaney (150)
2 - 26
Preston Peltier (150)
3 - 4 Jay Fogleman
(150)
4 - 91 Heath Hindman 150
5 -
98 Justin Wakefield (150)
6 - 18 Bradley
McCaskill (150)
7 - 33 Roger Lee Newton
(150)
8 - 00 Grant Davidson (150)
9
- 48 John Batten (150)
10 - 60 R.A.
Brown (150)
11 - 05 Alex Fleming (150) |
12 - 20 Steven Legendre (149)
13
- 2 Gray Gaulding (149)
14 - 23 Jimmy
Weller (149)
15 - 115 Jody Lavender
(146)
16 - 7 Dana White (57)
17 - 71
Jimmy Doyle (51)
18 - 14 Clete Caywood
(40)
19 - 29 Andy Loden (37)
20 -
15h Joe Heigl (24)
21 - 12 Mark Reedy
(22) |
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