Wythe Raceway
September 17, 2011
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Cook captures $4,000 Carolina Clash victory at Wythe Raceway

RURAL RETREAT, Va. (September 17) - Ray Cook left Rural Retreat Virginia Saturday night with a $4000 Carolina Clash victory, the XS Power Batteries Fastest Qualifier Award, and a new track record. During qualifying Cook set a blistering time of 16.082 on his second lap to set a new track record. It was the 3rd time this season the track record has been broken. Jonathon Davenport broke the track record back in July then Chris Madden broke Davenport's record at the first of September. The previous record was a time of 16.188.

Kenny Compton Jr. turned a fast lap of 16.130 to pick up the front row starting spot beside Cook. Dennis Franklin, Tim Allen, and Ray Tucker filled in the top 5 qualifiers. At the drop of the green Cook battled Compton through the first turn and pulled out to an early lead. Compton was followed by Rambo, Tim Allen, and Ray Tucker. On lap 9 the first caution flag flew as the 14 car of David Taylor slammed the outside wall off turn 4. Cook was directly behind Taylor and nearly got caught up in the incident.

On the Delaware double file restart Compton maintained control of the second spot followed by Rambo, Tucker, and Autry. Jeff Smith was on the move as he moved up to the 7th spot by lap 12 and up to 6th by lap 21. On lap 20 Craig Shuffield's night came to an end as he made hard contact with the inside retaining wall down the back stretch.

As the laps started to wind down Compton began to close the gap running Cook down and looking for grip on the bottom grove. On lap 38 the caution flew for the last time to set up a green, white, and checkered. On the restart Compton gave one last bid trying to overtake Cook but Cook held on to take his second Carolina Clash victory in a row. Cook was followed to the line by Compton, Rambo, Smith, and Tucker.

In the JE Pistons Roush/Yates "Chase for the Championship", Kenny Compton Jr. moved to the point overtaking Rambo by 2 points. Roffers held onto the third spot in the Chase with his 6th place finish and Jeff Smith holds onto 4th place in Chase points. Mike Gault moved into the 5th with his 7th place finish. Gault started 14th on the grid and gained 7 spots en-route to take the Safety Kleen Hard Charger of the Race Award.

The Next event for the Carolina Clash will be September 24 at the Dublin Motor Speedway in Dublin North Carolina.

Carolina Clash Series
Super Late Model
1 53 Ray Cook
2 10 Kenny Compton
3 2 Dennis Franklin
4 18S Jeff Smith
5 10T Ray Tucker
6 21R Luke Roffers
7 17 Mike Gault
8 17T Tim Allen
9 A1 Scott Autry
10 6 Kerry Jones
11 98 Travis Yow
12 15G Gary Mabe
13 16B Daniel Baggerly
14 D8 Dustin Mitchell
15 5H Ronnie Hoover
16 11g Travis Greer
17 281 Kyle Pierce
18 3 Daniel Moss
19 360 Craig Shuffield
20 51 Derrick Harmon
21 14 David Taylor
22 84 Jay Sessoms
23 360X Jim Shuffield

Fastrak Late Models
1 4 David Watts
2 19 Bobby Mays
3 24 Tim Byrd
4 14 Lance Reynolds
5 83 Jensen Ford
6 99 Teddy Tate
7 27 Jackie Hughes
8 44W John Broce, Jr
9 21W Kenneth Wilkerson
10 37 Tommy Eastridge
11 54 John Curtis
12 0 Dennis Styles
13 29E Jake Eaton
14 15A Barry Arnold
15 17 R K Dix

Super Streets
1 80 Mike Keith
2 40 Keith Griffitts
3 0T Randy Taylor
4 81 Roby Orr
5 8 R Dix
6 29 Jason Johnson
7 14 Rj Reynolds
8 88 Michael Deskins
9 18 Brian Mock
10 12 Joe Bonham
11 21 Jerry Mcclure
12 1 Cole Dutton
13 57 Brandon Broyles

Dirt Modifieds
1 42 Kevin Pangrazio
2 69 Troy Loomis
3 20 Ron Lawson
4 50 Justin Blevins
5 5 Michael Davis
6 15 Morgan Widener
7 4 Will Ferguson
8 51 Greg Dellinger
9 29 Brandon Bentley
10 3 Doug Monday
11 14 Mark Caudill
12 72 Aaron Hopkins

Pro Mini
1 8 Jerry Dillow
2 3 Doug Monday
3 8P Jason Powers
4 33 Gary Rudolph
5 12 Dennis Jones
6 25 Sammy Mitchem
7 1 Brandon Shupe
8 99 Robby Childress

UCar
1 89 Dustin Dowell
2 94 Dillon Huffman
3 21 Clark Cooper
4 11 Jon Keyes
5 34 Ricky Ward
6 16W Morgan Widener
7 21S Randy Stroupe
8 1 Dean Martin
9 0 Sam Phipps
10 94D Tyler Dowell
11 K34 Ken Mcmahan
12 B2 Dakota Wilson
13 34R Hunter Reedy
14 4 Daniel Wright
15 6SR Kenneth Bentley Sr.
16 9 Eddie Edwards
17 A10 Danny Bland
18 K10 Charles Martin
19 T10 Tom Tate
20 T11 Tim Slagle

Ucar 2
1 12 Ashley Umberger
2 A10 Nissa Widner
3 94H Destiny Huffman
4 3B Kayla Surber
5 9 Kade Davenport
6 98 Kayla Keyes
7 93 Jonathan Sheets
8 15 Courtney Rash
9 6 Kenneth Bentley Jr.
10 K10 Ashley Tate
11 19 Julianna Cooper