Terry Evans inherited the unofficial victory in Saturday’s Southeast Limited Late Model Series event at Myrtle Beach Speedway. Photo by Ryan Willard
Though Justin Hicks crossed the finish line first on Saturday at South Carolina’s Myrtle Beach Speedway, he was not crowned the winner of the final Southeast Limited Late Model Series Pro division event of the season.
Instead, that honor went to Terry Evans, who originally finished second, but inherited the victory after Hicks was disqualified during post-race technical inspection for a weight violation.
The final results are unofficial, with the disqualification being under appeal.
Amid the drama at the front of the field, 17-year-old Anthony Alfredo came out on top of a three-way championship battle to secure the series title by 38 points over 15-year-old Colby Howard.
The day began with Hicks on the pole alongside Howard, who entered the day 22 points in arrears. With Alfredo qualifying 11th and points leader Luke Sorrow rolling off 15th, Howard took the green flag as the championship leader on a tie-breaker over Alfredo.
Hicks held the early lead despite two cautions prior to lap 10, but the man on the move early on was Ryan Glenski, who started ninth but had moved inside the top five by the race’s second restart. He assumed fourth from Mike Jones on the 11th round and was third three laps later.
By lap 15, Glenski had moved past Howard for the runner-up position. On the 17th round, he used an inside move to take the lead from Hicks as the race settled into a long green-flag run.
In fact, from the race’s second caution on lap eight, a 69-lap run broke out as the championship trio diced for their positions among the field.
Glenski held the lead through the halfway point, while Alfredo was mired as far back as 17th and Sorrow sat 26th while Howard ran inside the top six. Following the lap 50 mark, the latter pair began to charge.
On lap 57, Jamie Weatherford used a three-wide move to assume the lead from Hicks and Glenski. By lap 60, Howard had moved back into the top five as Alfredo sat 14th and Sorrow 20th.
By lap 75, Howard had picked off another position, while Sorrow had moved into 17th and was closing rapidly on Alfredo. But then it all went wrong for Sorrow.
On lap 78, He attempted a three-wide pass, but made contact with the back of Thad Moffitt’s machine to send both cars spinning.
Sorrow pulled away despite backing his car into the outside wall. Eventually he retired from the race and saw his title hopes dashed with a 34th-place result.
When the race resumed, Weatherford retook the lead as Howard quickly moved his way back up to third.
But Alfredo was the one ready to seize his championship, as he surged to 11th with 20 to go and made a three-wide dive to take over the ninth spot 15 laps later. That gave him control of the championship fight.
Meanwhile, back-to-back cautions with 12 and 11 laps to go, respectively, set up restarts that put Hicks on Weatherford’s back bumper as the duo raced for the win – but it was a caution with four to go that made the difference.
After Heath Causey crashed hard into the wall, Hicks pounced on the restart, using an inside move in turn four to assume the lead for good.
Evans eventually dispatched Weatherford for second coming to the two to go mark, in what eventually became the pass for the win after Hicks’ disqualification.
Glenski ended up second in the adjusted finishing order, followed by Mack Little III, Weatherford and B.J. Mackey.
Howard was dropped from an apparent top five result in third to 19th after contact with Weatherford exiting turn four on the last lap, in the midst of a multi-car melee on the frontstretch coming to the finish line.
By virtue of that movement, Alfredo’s ninth-place finish was more than enough to secure his first series title.
“It’s just surreal that we pulled it off,” Alfredo said. “Lee (Faulk) did a really great job on the spotter’s stand tonight. It really helped … especially at a place like this, to have him reminding me, ‘Patience, patience, patience.'”
Alfredo said he was never concerned when Howard was racing up among the leaders, knowing that he was saving his equipment and in control of when he wanted to make his move to the front.
“It always comes down to the last 25 laps here, to when you see people making those aggressive moves. We knew we were ahead of the 9 (of Sorrow), which was who we needed to beat, but we knew Colby was the points leader when he was in the top three.
“When we got to three-quarters, I started picking up the pace and just did what I needed to do. By the time we caught him, I knew we had it. This is just a great way to end the season. I couldn’t be happier with this result.”
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Southeast Limited Late Model Series
Myrtle Beach Speedway – Myrtle Beach, SC
Renegade Race Fuels 100 (Unofficial) – Nov. 12, 2016
1. #35 – Terry Evans
2. #28 – Ryan Glenski
3. #16M – Mack Little III
4. #94 – Jamie Weatherford
6. #34 – B.J. Mackey
7. #19C – Adam Congrove
8. #51C – Chris Chapman
9. #5 – Anthony Alfredo
10. #25 – Kevin Leicht
11. #21C – Monty Cox
12. #41 – Brandon Cox
13. #18 – Ty Gibbs
14. #2 – Matt Leicht
15. #15O – Omar Jurado
16. #10 – Ed Williams
17. #21W – Jimmy Wallace
18. #25K – Kate Dallenbach
19. #16H – Colby Howard
20. #32 – Daniel Graff
21. #14X – Talan Gallimore
22. #21H – Wesley Hawkins
23. #05 – Jason Meyers
24. #33 – J.J. June
25. #1 – Blair Addis
26. #26 – Ben Stanton
27. #59 – Heath Causey
28. #19B – Chris Burns
29. #2L – Amber Lynn
30. #39 – Mike Jones
31. #09 – Fabian Hamprect
32. #46 – Thad Moffitt
33. #18R – Alex Reece
34. #9 – Luke Sorrow
35. #5B – Bryant Barnhill
36. #2W – A.J. Walsh
37. #51P- Jeremy Pelfrey
38. #29 – Mitch Walker
39. #4 – Duncan Grant
40. #33J – Jason Tutterow
41. #8X – Trevor Rizzo
42. #23 – Shon Gibson
43. #8 – Dal Wright
DQ: #61 – Justin Hicks
DNS: #11 – Jimmy Odum
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