Casey Roderick, seen here from an earlier victory, scored his second Southern Super Series victory of the season Friday night at Five Flags Speedway. Photo: Casey Roderick Motorsports
Casey Roderick beat out a stout field of 24 Super Late Model standouts to record his second Southern Super Series victory of the season Friday night at 5 Flags Speedway in Pensacola, Florida.
Roderick, the defending series champion from Lawrenceville, Georgia, battled in the second half of the race with Jeff Choquette, eventually taking the lead and moving away for the win.
“The car was awesome tonight.” Roderick said in victory lane. “This car has always been good when we get cautions. Once we go back green it just gets better and better.”
It was the tale of two races, as Choquette jumped out to the lead on lap 14 and opened up a four second advantage on the field throughout the course of the opening 75 laps.
With Choquette setting sail, all eyes were on the battle from second to fifth as series points leader Donnie Wilson tried to fend off Harrison Burton, Augie Grill and Casey Smith.
“He was checking out on us.” Roderick said. “I started pushing the issue a little bit without wearing out my tires too bad.”
Roderick moved past Grill for fourth on lap 64, putting him in a good spot for the first restart of the race just 10 laps later.
With Choquette and Burton racing for the top spot on the restart, Roderick capitalized on a slip by Burton to move to second. That gave him the opportunity he needed to flex his muscle as the pair entered lapped traffic.
“It looked like, going into three, he was going to take the bottom,” Roderick said. “I had already made my mind up that I was going to stay to the top. He chose the wrong lane obviously and I got on the outside of him. We went in the corner three-four-wide. We used each other up a little bit because there was no room. ”
Roderick came away with the lead but it was all for not as a caution quickly flew, negating the pass.
After one failed attempt to complete a lap on the initial restart, Roderick was able to push past Choquette and take the lead for good out of turn two, despite Grill pushing Choquette on the high-side.
Roderick dominated from that point, opening his own sizeable advantage over the last portion of the event as Choquette slipped back to fourth.
“This is just our second (Super Late Model) race down here with team,” said Choquette. “I’ll take a fourth-place finish.”
Choquette harbored no ill feelings towards Roderick’s three and four-wide move in traffic.
“He did the same thing I would’ve done,” said Choquette. “As the leader you have to clear the path for everyone. Casey and I got into each other a little bit so I apologize for that. Just good hard racing.”
Behind Roderick, Zane Smith, who was involved in an incident on the earlier failed restart attempt, raced a battered and bruised No. 77 car – complete with a taped together nose piece – back to an impressive second place finish.
“That was the definition of never giving up,” stated Smith at the end of the night after his team’s effort to repair his car in the closing stages.
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“Starting fifteenth we just rode around a little bit and got used to the racetrack and adjusted to the line,” the Jasper, Georgia native said. “It just came down to conserving tires.”
Next up for the Southern Super Series is a trip to Mobile International Speedway in Irvington, Alabama on Saturday, August 20.
Southern Super Series
Five Flags Speedway – Pensacola, FL
Race Results – July 22, 2016
1. 7 Casey Roderick
2. 77 Zane Smith
3. 26S Chandler Smith
4. 9C Jeff Choquette
5. 5 Noah Gragson
6. 11 David Rogers
7. 26 Bubba Pollard
8. 4 Kyle Plott
9. 14 Chris Davidson
10. 14L Ryan Luza
11. 12 Harrison Burton
12. 26E Scotty Ellis
13. 54 Matt Craig
14. 2W Donnie Wilson
15. 11B Logan Boyett
16. 43 Dennis Schoenfeld
17. 112 Augie Grill
18. 1 Brad Tilton
19. 47 Allen Karnes
20. 99N Wayne Niedecken, Jr.
21. 99S Casey Smith
22. 98 Kenzie Ruston
23. 92 Ron McDonald
24. 97 Cole Anderson
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