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JOHN SMITH
#25 |
SMRS MODIFIEDS at HICKORY
UNOFFICIAL RACE
RESULTS - 10-1-16 |
1) 25 - John Smith
2) 4 - Jason Myers
3) 1 -
Burt Myers
4) 14 - Bobby
Measmer, Jr.
5) 37 - Andy
Jankoiak
6) 5 - Tom Buzze |
7) 54 - Scott Hall
8) 19 - Brandon Ward
9)
08 - Dan Speeney
10) 17 -
Darren Shaw
11) 70 - John
Barilka
12) 75 - Ronnie
Souders, Jr. |
John Smith Takes
4th SMRS
Modified Win Of
Season At Hickory |
HICKORY, NC (October
1) - Mt. Airy, NC's John
Smith played the pit
strategy game correctly
again to claim his fourth
Southern Modified Racing
Series (SMRS) presented by
PASS win Saturday night at
Hickory Motor Speedway in
the Hickory 125. With his
win, Smith and Burt Myers
are unofficially tied for
the series points lead
heading to the season-ending
Kenny Minter Memorial 125 on
October 22 at Caraway
Speedway.
"Yeah, we
sat there and took care of
our tires for the first 50
or 75 laps and my guys are
good on pit road and I made
a deal with them that if
they got me out first that I
thought we could win and
luckily we did," said Smith,
driver of the Mumy Financial
#25. "Going to Caraway,
we've just got to race our
hearts out. Burt [Myers] is
a helluva racer and we've
just got to go at it and let
the chips fall where they
may."
For the fourth
time this year, Brandon Ward
was able to capture the
Precision Built Spindles
Pole Award with a lap of
14.371 seconds (90.933 MPH)
around the 66-year-old
facility. But, after the top
six qualifiers redraw, Bobby
Measmer, Jr. and Burt Myers
would move to the front row,
while Ward would move back
to the fifth starting
position.
At the drop
of the green, Measmer would
move to the point, before
Tom Buzze would flex his
muscle and move into the
lead on lap 7. The leaders
would go back-and-forth over
the first 50 laps,
exchanging the lead amongst
Buzze, Measmer, and Ward at
least 12 times. The first
caution of the night waved
on lap 46 for debris giving
teams the first opportunity
to pit for tires. The only
taker on this round of stops
would be Scott Hall.
Back under way, Buzze
continued to lead, with Burt
Myers leading for a short
stint from laps 52 through
56. Buzze opened up more
than a straightaway
advantage before the caution
waved again for debris with
37 laps to go. All the
leaders would use this
opportunity to pit for
tires, with the exception of
Hall who had pitted earlier.
Back under green, the
cars with fresher tires
quickly disposed of Hall, as
Smith assumed the lead for
the first time on lap 91.
With 23 laps to go, B. Myers
nearly saw his championship
hopes slip away as he spun
off turn four while battling
for third due to a broken
axle. Luckily for B. Myers,
Buzze, Darren Shaw, and Dan
Speeney tangled in turn two
causing an extended caution
that allowed the #1 team to
replace the axle without
losing a lap.
Smith
continued to lead, but was
being pressured heavily by
Ward. But, with 7 laps to
go, Ward fell off the pace
with a mechanical problem,
allowing Smith to cruise on
for the win over Jason
Myers, B. Myers, Measmer,
and Andy Jankoiak. Rounding
out the top 10 were Buzze,
the Mod Lite winner, Hall,
Ward, Speeney, and Shaw.
The Southern Modified
Racing Series Presented By
PASS will be in action again
on Saturday night, October
22 at Caraway Speedway for
the Kenny Minter Memorial
125 season finale.
Entry forms will be
available at
SouthernModifiedRacingSeries,com.
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