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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Johnson
First Repeat NASCAR Late Model Winner at
Music
City Motorplex
June 14, 2008,
Nashville, Tenn. – It was a night of non-stop action at the Music
City Motorplex as fans witnessed the return of Sterling Marlin in
the Coors Light Silver Bullet machine, saw cars flipped on their
tops, finishing races
backward and the first
repeat NASCAR Late Model winner.
Mt.
Juliet’s
Andy Johnson became the first repeat winner in the NASCAR Late Model
division at the Motorplex Saturday night, leading from the green to
the checkered flag in a car that looked simply unbeatable all night.
Sterling Marlin’s return to the track where he won three
championships was not as stellar as he hoped, finishing eighth in
the Coors Light machine in his return. The battle of the night was
between the 650 WSM
Dollar General machine of Skip McCord and points leader Dillon
Oliver for the third spot. The two ran hard, side by side for most
of the race until McCord was finally able to get around Oliver on
lap forty-three to take the spot. By then it was too late for McCord
to catch the car of Michael Driskell, who finished second, followed
by McCord, Oliver, and Chevy White, who backed up last week’s
victory with a top five finish.
Bobby Buttrey and Terry Hayes led the NASCAR
Super Trucks to the green flag and rookie Bobby Buttrey’s string of
recent bad luck came to an end as he took home his second win of the
season. Buttrey grabbed the lead on the first lap and never looked
back, leading all forty laps. Late in the race, the lapped truck of
Stacey Crain ran Buttrey up the track off turn two and allowed Jess
Williams to catch up, but Williams had nothing for the truck of
Buttrey. Williams
finished a close second, with Daniel Bolden, Larry Ryman and Terry
Hayes rounding out the top five. Points leader Daniel Victory took a
hit in the standings with a last place finish.
The NASCAR Grand Nationals put on the show of the
night as Wayne White and Lee Goddard spun coming off turn four on
the last lap, allowing Eddie Taylor to race by and pick up his first
win of the year. White made a complete 360° turn on the front
straightaway and came across the line backward to finish ninth.
Goddard and White had been racing hard over the last laps of the
race, and it seemed that
Taylor
knew what was about to happen as he seemed content to hang back in
third and allow White and Goddard to take each other out. Goddard
managed to hang on for a second place finish, Howard Tucker was
third, Jeffrey Belt finished fourth, and Tim Haggard came in fifth.
The sheet metal was flying left and right as
Jeremy Newman picked up his third win of 2008 in the rough and
tumble ThunderStox division. Only ten of the sixteen cars that
started were able to finish the race that featured eight cautions
and the cars of Taylor Ryman and Joshua Hood being parked after an
altercation on the track. Matt Barnes, Mark Ryman, Dale Travis and
Charles Goddard, Jr. rounded out the top five.
INEX Legends Pro Master points leader Kevin
Rollins took a wild ride on the last lap of their twenty lap feature
race, as he got together with the car of James Fowlkes in a battle
for the lead off turn one and ended up sliding through turn two on
his roof. Thankfully, Rollins was unhurt and able to walk away from
the crash. Sanders managed to hang on for the win, followed by Josh
Berry, Tyler Cordell, Kenny Summers and Wade “Ten-A-C” Slatton.
In the INEX Legends Semi Pro division, Giles
Martin raced to his second win of 2008. It was a three man race for
the win, with Martin battling points leader Brandon Summers and Cody
Fernett to take home the checkered flag. Summers finished second,
followed by Fernett, Michael Bolden and AJ Carlisi.
Ricky McIlwain continued to dominate in the Dwarf
division, claiming his third victory in five races this season.
Timothy Lunn, David Ring, Michael Wood and Allen Ring finished out
the top five.
In the Bandolero division, Zach McLean raced to
the best birthday gift that he could have asked for – his first win
of the season. McLean was followed by Layne Clifton, Sean Hosey, Larua
Gentry and Steven Layne in the top five.
Racing action will continue June 20 and 21 at the
Music City Motorplex. Friday Night Drags will resume June 20 at 7:30 p.m., and Saturday Night Thunder will kick
off at 6:30 p.m.
June 21.
For additional information
about these or any upcoming Motorplex events, please visit
www.musiccitymotorplex.com, or contact the
Motorplex office at (615)
726-1818.
Contact:
Music
City
Motorplex
Alyssa Hall Dodson
615.726.1818
adodson@musiccitymotorplex.com
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