Ben Rowe looks to get his 2016 PASS Series season off to a strong start Saturday at Greenville-Pickens Speedway. Photo by Christy Kelley
Greenville-Pickens Speedway will take center stage on Saturday, as the legendary Easley, SC raceway plays host to the PASS Asphalt Late Model Series season opener with the third annual Winter Meltdown.
Both the PASS National Championship Series and the PASS South Super Late Models will be in action.
Turner, Maine’s, Ben Rowe, a former three-time PASS National champion and the 2009 PASS South Super Late Model titlist, knows the importance of starting a season off strong. Rowe captured the checkered flag at nearby Anderson Motor Speedway in Williamston, SC last March and is excited to leave the cold confines of New England to head south.
“I guarantee Greenville will be warmer than where I’m coming from, but it’s fun for us to come down and get out of the weather and get the race team back in the swing of things,” said Rowe. “Greenville’s fun, we had a good run there last fall and finished third. We’re going to bring a different engine package this time and see what happens. Greenville is a great race track. It’s big, it’s worn out, and it puts on some great racing.”
For Rowe and a strong contingent of teams coming from New England and Canada which includes former Meltdown winner Joey Doiron, as well as Mike Hopkins, Matt Matheson, Derek Ramstrom, and John-Michael Shenette, the PASS South Super Late Model schedule sets up perfectly. The PASS South Super Late Models will compete four times – at Greenville-Pickens Speedway, Dillon Motor Speedway, Concord Speedway, and Hickory Motor Speedway – before the PASS North Super Late Model season opener at Thompson Speedway goes green in April.
“We’ve been bouncing a lot of guys around the last few years and these South races help us to get our cars going,” says Rowe. “Dean Clattenburg has built us a couple of good cars and we’ve just got to get a couple of good guys around to get them going the way I like them. Now with the PASS National deal, you can’t afford to have a bad race so it’s big to get off to a good start.”
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A strong group of contenders from North Carolina have also entered, including two former PASS champions. Tate Fogleman from Durham claimed his first PASS South Super Late Model championship in 2015 and hopes to become the first driver in series history to repeat. Fellow teenager Kodie Conner from Kannapolis moves up to the PASS South Super Late Model division full-time in 2016 after taking the PASS Pro Late Model title last year.
Matt Craig, another teenaged driver from Kannapolis, looks to build on a strong finish to the 2015 season in the C&C Boilers machine which saw him finish fourth in points. Veteran Jimmy Doyle of Hendersonville finished fifth in PASS South points in 2015 and will be seeking his first career win. And, North Carolina’s Jeff Batten has filed an entry for the Meltdown, following a career best sixth place finish in the final PASS South Super Late Model standings last year.
The PASS Winter Meltdown will be short track racing’s first major points event of 2016 and will also feature a 100 lap event for the South East Limited Late Models (Non-Winners), a 75 lapper for the Southeast Supertruck Series, both paying $3,000 to win, and a 40 lap event for the Mini Stocks paying $2,000 to the winner.
The PASS Winter Meltdown 150 lapper will go green on Saturday afternoon at 2 PM. For more information, visit ProAllStarsSeries.com.
For more info on Greenville-Pickens Speedway, visit GreenvillePickens.com.
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