Tazewell Speedway
August 18, 2012
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Trammell takes Late Model win at Tazewell

TAZEWELL, TN (August 18) - Fast qualifier wasn’t the position to have if you were a Tazewell Late model driver this week. A four drawn on the inversion flipped the front two rows. Heath Alvey and Keith Chapman started the point. Thirteen cars made up the stellar field and it could have been anyone’s night. Alvey took the lead as the battle for second would fall to Steve Smith and Jason Trammel. The duo found themselves first and second as Alvey slowed and brought out caution to a awfully fast group of late models. A single file restart grouped up the field with Smith and Trammel running door to door for an entire lap. Trammell executed a perfect pass on the veteran, Smith. Greg Estes, looking for his chance at Smith, took over third from Jody Horton. Trammell threaded the needle by going between two cars to extend his already sizable lead. Caution on lap 24 set up a six lap shoot out to the finish. Trammell took the command on the restart and never looked back or slowed down until he pulled in to victory lane. A protest was raised against Trammell’s machine post race. He was found to be completely legal. Steve Smith, Greg Estes, Jody Horton, and Keith Chapman would round out the top five.

1 90J Jason Trammell
2 3 Steve Smith
3 31 Greg Estes
4 56J Jody Horton
5 97 Keith Chapman
6 18 Michael Rutherford
7 111 J. Allen
8 2 Donnie Cameron
9 24 Andy Wilder
10 77 Jimmy Calloway
11 34 Phillip Shockley
12 7 Heath Alvey
13 21 Brian Howerton
Matthew Holt DNS
Darryl Saylor DNS