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NeSMITH
CHEVROLET DLMS STARS TAKE ON LOCAL FAVORITES AT PENTON AND EAMS On Saturday night, the NeSmith Chevrolet Dirt Late Model Series drivers and East Alabama Motor Speedway fans will team up to benefit the American Cancer Society with the Ride For Life two-seat dirt late model race car.
Over 50 entrants are expected to compete for the Rounds 11 and 12 of the 2008 NeSmith
Chevrolet Dirt Late Model Series National Tour will see point leader
Chip Brindle of Chatsworth, GA lead a contingent of touring regulars
that includes Larry Boutwell of Baker, FL, Chris Tays of Corinth, MS,
Scott Knowles of Lanett, AL, and Hunter Peacock of Macon, GA into
Penton Raceway on Friday night and East Alabama Motor Speedway on
Saturday night.
The top four drivers in the NeSmith Chevrolet DLMS National
points chase; Brindle, Boutwell, Tays and Knowles are still looking
for their first wins of the season that has produced nine different
winners in ten races. Knowles
leads the Sunoco Race Fuels Rookie of the Year point standings, but
several drivers are right on his heels in both the rookie points and
national points.
Peacock and Jason Hiett of Lincoln, AL are tied for the fifth
spot in the National points and second in the Sunoco Race Fuels Rookie
of the Year points. Peacock
has one win and a series-leading three Pole Awards coming into this
weekend’s action. Eric
Cooley of Fulton, MS is seventh in National points and fourth in
rookie points, just eight points behind Peacock and Hiett.
Other top NeSmith Chevrolet DLMS National Touring drivers
expected this Friday night at Penton Raceway and Saturday night at
East Alabama Motor Speedway include Ted Lackey of Munford, AL, Matthew
Turner of Dawsonville, GA, Derrick Rainey of Powder Springs, GA, Frank
Ingram of Woodstock, GA, Marcus Minga of Shannon, MS, and Chad Wallace
of LaGrange, GA.
Lackey, Turner and Rainey are eighth, ninth, and tenth
respectively in the National point standings, and Ingram is fresh off
his first National Touring win of the season on July 4 at Fort Payne
Motor Speedway in Fort Payne, AL.
Minga and Wallace are Sunoco Race Fuels Rookie of the Year
candidates, and Wallace is the defending NeSmith Chevrolet Weekly
Racing Series Track Champion at Penton Raceway.
One of the toughest contingents of local NeSmith Chevrolet
Weekly Racing Series drivers from Penton Raceway and East Alabama
Motor Speedway will face the National Touring drivers this weekend led
by NeSmith Chevrolet WRS East Region point leader Richie Stephens of
Phenix City, AL Stephens
has ten wins this season in 24 starts at both tracks.
Other top local favorites include defending NeSmith Chevrolet
DLMS EAMS race winner William Thomas of Phenix City, AL, Terrance
Nowell of Phenix City, AL, Larry Harrod of Plains, GA, Anthony Meadows
of Lanett, AL, Marc Gooden of Lafayette, AL, Chase Edge of Lafayette,
AL, Dana Eiland of Salem, AL, and Montana Dudley of Phenix City, AL.
Harrod, Meadows, Gooden, Edge, Eiland, and Dudley are fifth,
sixth, seventh, eleventh, 12th and 13th
respectively in the NeSmith Chevrolet Weekly Racing Series East Region
point standings. Also
expected is Blake Stewart of Centre,
Race fans will also get a chance to get into the action on
Saturday night at East Alabama Motor Speedway by bidding for a ride at
race speed around the track with their favorite driver in the two-seat
dirt late model and at the same time, benefit the American Cancer
Society. The Ride For Life
two seater is an actual dirt late model race car built with a special
passenger seat.
There will be an auction at intermission where fans can bid for
a ride in the car with their favorite driver, and raffle tickets will
also be sold with the winner to be determined through a drawing.
All of the proceeds will benefit the local chapter of the
American Cancer Society in an effort to find a cure for the deadly
disease.
On Friday night at Penton Raceway and on Saturday night at East
Alabama Motor Speedway, the NeSmith Chevrolet Dirt Late Model Series
National Tour will compete in Time Trials where the Top 10 starting
spots for the big show will be determined, and then starting spots 11
through 24 for the 40-lap $2,500-to-win main event will be determined
through two Qualifying Races.
The Official Host Hotel for the weekend is the Quality Inn in Penton Raceway is located just south of |
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