David McCoy powers through a turn at Toccoa Raceway during Saturday night’s race program. McCoy scored the win in the Limited Late Model feature, the 401st win of his career. Photo: DTGW Productions / CW Photography
David McCoy made a major milestone in his racing career as he claimed his 400th career win this past weekend.
Actually, the Franklin, North Carolina driver’s 400th win came at nearby Lavonia Speedway on Friday night and he capped it off with No. 401 at Georgia’s Toccoa Raceway on Saturday night.
“Well, I would have thought that I would have gotten it at Toccoa,” McCoy said. “I run so well there. Sure didn’t expect to get the 400th at Lavonia, but that’s the way it worked out.”
McCoy had said previously that when he started racing in an old Ford Pinto way back when, no one would have thought that he would be the successful driver he has become.
“I couldn’t get out of everybody’s way fast enough,” he said. “I tore up a lot of cars trying to learn how to drive at the old Smoky Mountain Speedway in Cherokee, North Carolina.”
It didn’t take too long for the young driver to learn how to get to victory lane, and get there often.
While he’s driven for a number of different car owners, he has really hit the mark with his present car owners Steve ‘Hollywood’ Turner in the Limited Late Models and Paul and Cindy Campbell in the Pro Late Model car.
“We had a disappointing year last year,” said McCoy, “We only won 17 races.”
For most that would be a career season, but for a driver who has several 40-plus season victories, I guess 17 wins could be classified as disappointing.
Saturday night, McCoy took the win in the Midsouth Cage Equipment Limited Late Models. He won out over Toccoa natives Clayton Turner and Drew Benfield.
In the FASTRAK Pro Late Model feature it was Nick Schlager getting his first ever win. He was followed by David McCoy and Frankie Beard.
In the Safety Plus 602 Sportsman race, it was Rusty House winning his second feature in a row. Dustin Morris was second, followed by Brandon Stroud in third.
Billy Buffington took the Modified Street win for the second week in a row. He was trailed by Sterling Helm and Daniel Snow.
In the Toccoa Pro Trucks feature, Matthew Furgerson got his first win of the season. Sterling Helm and Spud Nicholson finished second and third.
Kevin Kelly won the Stock 4 main event. Bobby Rhinehart was second, with Randy Boshears in third.
Frankie Beard set sail in the Stock 8 feature but was dogged throughout the race by Hayden Collett. In the end, Beard scored the win, with Collett in second and Jack Hill in third.
Justin Sorrow topped the O’Rielly Auto Parts Front Wheel Drive division feature. Tony Stevens finished second, followed by North West finished in third.
Preston Kelly won the Kettle Construction Young Guns race. Caylan Kettle was second and Will Kettle finished third.
Toccoa Raceway is back in action this Saturday night for Autism Awareness Night at the track. For more information, visit ToccoaRaceway.com.
Toccoa Raceway – Toccoa, GA
Race Results – April 21, 2018
Limited Late Model
1. David McCoy
2. Clayton Turner
3. Drew Benfield
4. Bubba Russell
5. Wesley English
6. Nick Sellers
7. Jeremy Ledford
8. Daniel Wilson
9. Jr. Headen
DNS: Steve “Hot Rod” LaMance
DNS: Chris Segars
FASTRAK Pro Late Models
1. Nick Schlager
2. David McCoy
3. Frankie Beard
4. Colby Cannon
5. Adam Partain
6. Dustin Morris
7. Derrick Harvey
8. Adam Smith
9. Jerome Loudermilk
DNS: Ricky Smith
DNS: Larry Timms
602 Sportsman
1. Rusty House
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3. Brandon Stroud
4. Nick Sellers
5. Crandall Turner
6. Mark Wilbanks
7. Ben Riggins
8. Walker Kastner
9. Josh Roberts
10. Jermey Kastner
DNS: Dale Timms
Modified Street
1. Billy Buffington
2. Sterling Helm
3. Daniel Snow
4. Smokey Roberts
5. Louis Tetreault
6. Justin Barnes
7. Chris Nickerson
8. Josh Thurmond
9. Clay Bryson
10. Ray Foskey
DNS: Tim Bohannan
Toccoa Pro Trucks
1. Matthew Furgerson
2. Sterling Helm
3. Spud Nicholson
4. Bill Pulliam
5. Ralph Anderson
Stock 4
1. Kevin Kelly
2. Bobby Rhinehart
3. Randy Boshears
4. Ryan Crawford
Stock V8
1. Frankie Beard
2. Hayden Collett
3. Jack Hill
4. Ray Foskey
5. Ricky Jones
6. Stacy Watts
7. James Campbell
Young Guns
1. Preston Kelly
2. Caylan Kettle
3. Will Kettle
4. Jeffrey Turner
DNS: Ronny Goodson
FWD
1. Justin Sorrow
2. Tony Stevens
3. North West
4. Scott Hendircks
5. D.J. Carey
6. Michael Davis
7. David Crenighton
8. Daryle Sutton
9. Joe Nix
10. David Glenn
11. Heath Jandik
12. Stephen Godfrey
13. Kenneth Taylor
14. J.J. Sorrow
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