Austin Thaxton celebrates in victory lane after winning Saturday’s Late Model feature at South Boston Speedway. Photo: South Boston Speedway
Austin Thaxton fended off last-lap challenges from defending NASCAR Whelen All American Series National Champion Lee Pulliam and former series champ Peyton Sellers to win Saturday’s NASCAR Late Model 100 at South Boston Speedway in South Boston, VA.
Thaxton grabbed the lead on the final restart that set up a two-lap dash to the finish, and was just ahead of Pulliam and Sellers when they got together and crashed in the fourth turn as they headed to the checkered flag.
Defending track champion Matt Bowling, who was running fourth, ducked around the spinning cars of Pulliam and Sellers and followed Thaxton across the finish line to take second place.
Mark Wertz finished in third, with Brenden Queen in fourth and Sellers in fifth.
Josh Oakley, Pulliam, Justin Carroll, Dennis Holdren and Chuck Lawson rounded out the top ten.
Thaxton’s victory, his first of the season at South Boston, came by a scant .573-second. He led 59 laps of the race that had to be extended to 101 laps to make the green-white-checker finish.
Joey Throckmorton is now a perfect three-for-three for the season in the NASCAR Limited Sportsman Division at South Boston Speedway.
Throckmorton swept Saturday’s pair of 25-lap NASCAR Limited Sportsman Division races, winning the pole and scoring a flag-to-flag win in the opener, and rallying from his sixth-place starting position in the second race to overtake race leader Tommy Peregoy to earn the win in the second race.
The South Boston, Virginia resident edged Mike Jones by .990-second to win the opener, with David Latour, Jr. finishing third, followed by Calvin Meadows in fourth and Peregoy in fifth.
Peregoy finished second in the second race, trailing Throckmorton by 1.271-second at the finish. Daniel Moss came home in third, with Mike Chambers in fourth and Latour in fifth.
Chris Humblet and his father, Jimmy Humblet, shared a big family day Saturday.
The younger Humblet won the pole and scored a flag-to-flag win in the first of the day’s pair of 25-lap Modified Division races to earn his first victory of the season at the .4-mile oval.
Jimmy Humblet started on the outside pole in the second race and led all but one lap in winning the nightcap and scoring his second win of the season.
Chris Humblet edged his dad by 2.402 seconds in winning the opening race, with Matt Slye, Robbie Babb and Robert Conner rounding out the top five.
Defending division champion Mike Rudy trailed Jimmy Humblet by .935-second at the finish of the second race, with Babb in third, Slye in fourth and Conner in fifth.
Randy Hupp survived a tough late-race battle with Harrison Walker to win Saturday’s 30-lap Budweiser Pure Stock Division race.
Hupp’s first win of the season came by a narrow margin of .385-second.
Pole winner Bruce Mayo finished third after having led over half of the race, with Jordan Pickrel in fourth and Scott Phillips in fifth.
Guy Bralley made his first visit of the season to South Boston Speedway count in a big way Saturday by taking home the win in the 15-lap race for the Budweiser Hornets Division.
Apparent runner-up Kenny Mills, Jr. was disqualified after failing a post-race technical inspection by track officials, giving the runner-up spot to Kevin Currin.
Drew Dawson was third, with Justin Dawson fourth and Brandon Radford in fifth.
South Boston Speedway will go under the lights for the first time in 2016 as it hosts one of its bigger events of the season, the NASCAR Whelen Southern Modified Tour 150 racing program, on Saturday night April 9.
For additional information, visit SouthBostonSpeedway.com.
South Boston Speedway – South Boston, VA
Race Results, March 19, 2016
Late Models
1. 12 Austin Thaxton
2. 83 Matt Bowling
3. 55 Mark Wertz
4. 03 Brenden Queen
5. 26 Peyton Sellers
6. 8 Josh Oakley
7. 5 Lee Pulliam
8. 91 Justin Carroll
9. 2 Dennis Holdren
10. 42 Chuck Lawson
11. 3 Nathan Crews
12. 90 Terry Carroll
13. 4 Kyle Dudley
14. 2B Brandon Pierce
15. 9A Alex Brock
16. 22 Eric Winslow
17. 28 Jason Barnes
18. 6 Bobby McCarty
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20. 10 Maddy Ryan Mulligan
Limited Sportsman Race One
1. 21 Joey Throckmorton
2. 39 Mike Jones
3. 89 David Latour, Jr.
4. 07 Calvin Meadows
5. 2 Tommy Peregoy
6. 27 Mike Chambers
7. 85 Bobby Griffin
8. 24 Colin Garrett
9. 91 Kyle Barnes
10. 58 Daniel Moss
11. 92 Doug Patton
Limited Sportsman Race Two
1. 21 Joey Throckmorton
2. 2 Tommy Peregoy
3. 58 Daniel Moss
4. 27 Mike Chambers
5. 89 David Latour, Jr
6. 24 Colin Garrett
7. 85 Bobby Griffin
8. 92 Doug Patton
9. 91 Kyle Barnes
10. 39 Mike Jones
Pure Stocks
1. 12 Randy Hupp
2. 10 Harrison Walker
3. 00 Bruce Mayo
4. 88 Jordan Pickrel
5. 66 Scott Phillips
6. 61 Jimmy Wade
7. 9 Johnny Layne
8. 3 Tyler Conner
9. 01 Andrew Amos
10. 15 Cody Bell
Hornets
1. 92 Guy Bralley
2. 49 Kevin Currin
3. 03 Drew Dawson
4. 88 Justin Dawson
5. 87 Brandon Radford
6. 3 Kaitlinn Simmons
7. 89 Todd Garnett
8. 7 Frank Wagner
9. 4 Kirstin Simmons
10. 8 Lynn Morris
DQ: 12 Kenny Mills
Modified Race One
1. 20 Chris Humblet
2. 11 Jimmy Humblet
3. 33 Matt Slye
4. 44 Robbie Babb
5. 12 Robert Conner
6. 8 Mike Rudy
Modified Race Two
1. 11 Jimmy Humblet
2. 8 Mike Rudy
3. 44 Robbie Babb
4. 33 Matt Slye
5. 12 Robert Conner
6. 20 Chris Humblet
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