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SATURDAY, JUNE 9th, 2012 |
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Top Three at
SOBO - L to R: Jay Fogleman (3rd),
Winner
Landon Cling, Preston Peltier (2nd) |
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It All Clicks for Cling at South
Boston as Youngster Picks up His
First Career Super Late Model Win |
Charlotte, NC 6/11/12- The
notion of a sophomore slump in
sports can be thrown out of the
window for Landon Cling and his Brad
Keselowski Racing race team as the
Tempe, Arizona youngster scored his
first career super late model win
Saturday night in the PASS South
SoBo 150 at the South Boston
Speedway in Virginia. Cling took
advantage of a second place starting
position during the series redraw of
the top ten qualifiers after posting
the fifth fastest time during
qualifying and never looked back. It
was the seventeen year old driver’s
first win in a full size super late
model machine after majority of his
experience up until last year had
been behind the wheel of a go-kart.
“Our plan was to get out front
and set the pace that we wanted
until it got down to about fifty to
go before we really started racing.
I thought we were going to be fine
but then all those cautions killed
us and allowed Preston to really
race us hard for the win. Luckily I
was able to hold on and man does it
feel good to be here in victory lane
right now,” said Cling. “I knew at
the end of the season last year we
were getting close to winning a race
so I had a good feeling about 2012
and here we are. I really want to
say thank you to Brad Kelselowski
for taking a chance on me, my family
who’s been supporting me every step
of the way, and this race team.
They’ve really worked with me over
the last year and half and developed
me into a winning race car driver.”
Cling battled with Preston
Peltier, who set fast time during
qualifying for the eighth time in
his career, in the closing laps
especially on a lap 144 restart to
decide the event winner. The two
made contact on several occasions
before Cling was able to muscle his
way to the lead off the exit of turn
two with four laps to go. Peltier
was not able to just ride it out to
the finish as Jay Fogleman, who
recovered nicely from a lap one
incident with Gray Gaulding, nosed
his way to the inside of Peltier’s
#26 machine on several occasions
before being denied at the checkered
flag and settling for his second
podium finish in as many races.
While the battle for the win
took the eyes of most fans in
attendance, die hard PASS South fans
paid close attention to the top two
drivers in the championship
standings. Brandon Ward, who came to
South Boston second in standings ten
points behind leader Kyle Grissom,
flexed his muscle early behind the
wheel of his #62 New Day Motorsports
ride running down leader Cling from
a ten car length distance just as
the race hit the halfway distance.
Over the course of the closing laps
Ward succumbed to the above
mentioned podium finishers forcing
the Winston-Salem, NC driver to
settle in to the fourth position.
All the while Kyle Grissom never
really showed much from his #31 team
as he had over the last few races.
After starting the race tenth
Grissom just hung around the sixth
position over the course of the
event before going for a spin on lap
144 setting up the wild six lap
sprint to the finish for Cling.
Ward’s consistency of another top
five finish mixed with Grissom’s
late race incident was the exact
formula needed to make both drivers
co-championship point leaders
heading into the month of July.
Next up for the “BIG BOYS AND
THEIR BAD FAST TOYS” PASS South
Super Late Model Series will be the
Firecracker 150 at the Anderson
Motor Speedway located in
Williamston, South Carolina on a
special holiday night, Tuesday July
3rd. The 150 lap race will be a
“Road to the All American 400”
qualifier allowing one lucky driver
that wins the event to earn a
guarantee starting position for the
historic All American 400 race on
October 6th in Nashville, Tennessee.
As part of the race’s holiday
festivities a gigantic fireworks
display courtesy of Zambelli
Fireworks will occur after the
feature events. |
OFFICIAL PASS SOUTH SLM
RESULTS
South Boston Speedway - 6/9/12 |
1) #29 - Landon Cling
2)
#26 - Preston Peltier
3) #4 -
Jay Fogleman
4) #62 - Brandon
Ward
5) #91 - David Quackenbush
6) #19 - Nate Caruth
7) #2 - Gray
Gaulding
8) #67 - Duane Linville
9) #31 - Kyle Grissom |
10) #70 - Setphen Bergh Jr.
11) #25 - Ross Kenseth
12) #1 -
Justin Allison
13) #18 - Bill
Catania
14) #89 - David Latour
Jr.
15) #42 - Tim Pinion
16)
#05 - Alex Fleming
17) #48 - John
Batten |
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