Head, Duffey Sweep Late Model Features At New Senoia

Georgia Racing Hall of Fame inductee Mike Head scored a Late Model victory Saturday night at New Senoia Raceway in Senoia, Georgia. Photo courtesy Francis Hauke/22fstops.com

New Senoia Raceway in Senoia, Georgia returned to racing action on Saturday night and showcased the weekly contingent in a double feature race format.  A crowd of 1,032 witnessed each class competing in a twin bill of racing that stirred the point chases creating a two week run that will be very interesting.

Georgia Racing Hall of Fame inductee Mike Head of Ellenwood,Georgia and Newnan, Georgia’s Scott Duffey split the feature victories for the Mike Wheeler’s Automotive & Transmission Late Model division, but the story of the night was Phenix City’s Lavon Sparks using the double bill to erase a thirteen point deficit to Locust Grove’s “Racin Jason” Williams.  Sparks and Williams will race into the final two weeks of competition at the 3/8ths mile clay track in a dead heat for the point’s title.

Whitesburg’s Dorough Bright used his Mini Stock win in the second round of features to retake his point’s lead over Gary Parker of Barnesville.  Parker came into the night with a seven point lead in the four cylinder stock car division’s race for the championship, but Bright used his top five finishes to move back into the point’s lead.

Other Saturday night winners included LaGrange’s Dusty Jones in the first Mini Stock feature, Trey White and Tod Darda in the Crown Security Crate Late Model twins, Newnan drivers Marcus Caswell and Corey Payton in the Newnan Bonding B Cadets and Carrollton’s Clifton ‘Hog Head’ Moran winning both features for the Summit Racing Equipment Hobby Stocks.

Legendary racer Mike Head dominated the action in the Mike Wheeler’s Automotive & Transmission Late Model feature race number one.  Head shot out to the lead at the drop of the green as Fayetteville’s Glenn Morris developed problems and dropped from the field.  Thomaston’s Laddie Fulcher nabbed second leaving his son Shane Fulcher to battle with Lavon Sparks and Scott Duffey for the show position.  Shane Fulcher would squeeze between Sparks and Duffey to steal away third in wild race for the high powered machines.

Head would win his second of the season and add to his unbelievable 600+ feature victories during his illustrious career.  Laddie Fulcher was second followed by Shane Fulcher, Lavon Sparks and Scott Duffey.

Scott Duffey scored the second Late Model feature win at Senoia Saturday. Photo courtesy Francis Hauke/22fstops.com

Newnan’s Scott Duffey was the man to beat in second round for the Mike Wheeler’s Automotive & Transmission Late Models.  Duffey held off a strong challenge by Salem, Alabama’s Dana Eiland to win his first of the season.

Lavon Sparks used an early race run to shoot into third ahead of Shane Fulcher while point’s leader “Racin Jason” Williams rounded out the first five.

Sparks’ fifth place and third place finishes gained him thirteen points on Williams for the night.  He took advantage of the double feature opportunity to erase his deficit to Williams as each driver will head into the final two nights of racing in a tie for the point’s lead.

Trey White won the first of two Crate Late Model features Saturday night. Photo courtesy Francis Hauke/22fstops.com

The Crown Security Crate Late Model division also has a point’s battle to watch.  LaGrange’s Tod Darda is in the middle of a late season charge for a regional title in the crate engine powered division.  This past Saturday Darda found his nearest rival in the regional points, Jimmy Elkins, Jr., at New Senoia Raceway.  Elkins made the trip down while his regular Saturday night track, Talladega Short Track, took a week off from competition.  Darda, Elkins were joined by the current third place competitor Adam Gauldin as the three chase down a $5,000 pay day that accompanies the regional title.

In the first of two feature races for the Crown Security Crate Late Models Jenkinsburg’s Trey White stole the attention.  White ran flag to flag for his first career victory on dirt.  The eleven year veteran of New Senoia Raceway had competed on the asphalt surface prior to the change over to dirt two years ago.

White claimed the first feature race with Talladega’s Adam Gauldin coming home second.  LaGrange’s Dennis Hale was running third until the white flag lap when his car slowed coming out of the second turn.  Tod Darda slowed to avoid slamming the rear of Hale’s car which allowed Jimmy Elkins, Jr. to shoot past on the outside.  Elkins came across the finish line just ahead of Darda for third place.  Grantville’s Doug Ludwig rounded out the first five finishers.

Tod Darda scored another feature win in the Crate Late Models Saturday night. Photo courtesy Francis Hauke/22fstops.com

The second feature race pitted Darda and Elkins on the front row.  Darda used his New Senoia Raceway experience to rocket past Elkins on the outside of turn one.  Darda went on to record his eighth win of the season and move closer to the regional point’s title.  Elkins came home second followed by Ludwig, Hale and Gauldin.

Marcus Caswell used a last lap pass to win the first of two feature races for the Newnan Bonding B Cadets.  West Point’s Charlie Garrett looked to be on his way to his first win of the season at New Senoia Raceway, but Garrett bobbled on the final lap allowing Caswell to move around and into the lead as the checkered flag fell over the field.  Point’s leader Jeff Carter of Stockbridge came home third ahead of Watkinsville’s Buck Williams and Newnan’s Corey Payton.

A caution-filled second round for the Newnan Bonding B Cadets found the silver lining with 15-year-old high school student Corey Payton winning his first of the season.  Payton held off several challenges for his lead position by Grantville’s Thomas Mewborn and Newnan’s Chris Carr before hold back point’s leader Jeff Carter for the victory.

The elated Payton picked up the laurels with Carter ending up in second ahead of Hapeville’s Johnny Stinchcomb, Mewborn and Charlie Garrett.

Clifton Moran swept Saturday night's Hobby Stock features. Photo courtesy Francis Hauke/22fstops.com

Carrollton’s Clifton “Hog Head” Moran sliced and diced his way through traffic to sweep the action in the Summit Racing Equipment Hobby Stock division.  Moran picked up unprecedented sixteenth and seventeenth victories after starting in the middle of both twenty car fields.

In the first feature, Moran methodically moved around Temple’s Steven Parker before securing the lead with a top side pass of Brook’s Kerry Carden.  He then held off a late race charge by Newnan’s Scott Sherrer for the win.  Sherrer was second in his long awaited return to New Senoia Raceway while fellow Newnan driver Rusty “Rocketman” Johnson was third.  Parker came home fourth with Brook’s Mike Jenkins fifth.

Moran needed a little more help in the second round feature.  Johnson battled with Jenkins for the top spot before securing it on lap three.  Moran moved past Jenkins on lap five and set his sights on Johnson.

Johnson and Moran came up on lapped traffic near the halfway point of the race.  Johnson went high to try and pass Griffin’s David Johnson while Moran shot down low.  David Johnson slid high which shoved Rusty Johnson up near the wall.  Moran rolled on by and never looked back posting yet another victory in an unbelievable season.  Mike Jenkins would fight back to take the runner-up spot over Rusty Johnson.  Kerry Carden and the Grantville Grenade Austin Horton rounded out the first five across the finish line.

Dusty Jones (top) and Dorough Bright (bottom) won the Mini-Stock features. Photo courtesy Francis Hauke/22fstops.com

In the Mini Stock features, LaGrange’s Dusty Jones claimed the first race while Whitesburg’s Dorough Bright took home the top honors in the second race.  Danielsville Jeffrey Lord had the fans on their feet in the first race when his fuel cell caught fire.  Lord would come back in the second race to finish in second behind Bright.

Jones bested fellow LaGrange driver Stephen Hill in the first race.  Griffin’s Bo Chambers was third followed by Hogansville’s Tim Collier and Bright.

Bright took home top honors in the second feature with Lord second, Jones third, Barnesville’s Gary Parker fourth and Senoia’s Robert Caldwell fifth.

Bright’s pair of top five finishes gave him a nineteen point swing in the race for the Mini Stock divisional title.  Bright came into the double feature race night trailing Gary Parker by seven points.  Bright will head into the final two nights of racing with a slim twelve point lead over Parker.  The two drivers have been ensnarled in the point’s battle for the entire second half of the season.

Only two Saturday nights remain on the New Senoia Raceway calendar.  Saturday, September 17 and Saturday, September 24.  This Saturday night will feature a full slate of racing in the Mike Wheeler’s Automotive & Transmission Late Models, Crown Security Crate Late Models, Newnan Bonding B Cadets, Summit Racing Equipment Hobby Stocks and Mini Stocks.  Plus, the Buzz Cars from Atlanta Motor Speedway will be racing.

For more information, visit www.newsenoiaraceway.com.

New Senoia Raceway – Senoia, GA
Race Results – Sept. 10, 2011

Mike Wheeler’s Automotive & Transmission Late Models
Feature #1
1. Mike Head – Ellenwood, GA
2. Laddie Fulcher – Thomaston, GA
3. Shane Fulcher – Thomaston, GA
4. Lavon Sparks – Phenix City, AL
5. Scott Duffey – Newnan, GA
6. Troy Tyson – Fayetteville, GA
7. Jason Williams – Locust Grove, GA
8. Steven Nicholson – Jackson, GA
9. Dana Eiland – Salem, AL
10. Glenn Morris – Fayetteville, GA

Feature #2
1. Duffey
2. Eiland
3. Sparks
4. S. Fulcher
5. Williams
6. L. Fulcher
7. Tyson
8. Head
DNS: Nicholson; Morris

Crown Security Crate Late Models
Feature #1
1. Trey White – Jenkinsburg, GA
2. Adam Gauldin – Talladega, AL
3. Jimmy Elkins, Jr. – Talladega, AL
4. Tod Darda – LaGrange, GA
5. Doug Ludwig – Granville, GA
6. Brian Ponder – Talladega, AL
7. Dennis Hale – LaGrange, GA
8. Todd Mitchell – LaGrange, GA

Feature #2
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2. Elkins, Jr.
3. Ludwig
4. Hale
5. Gauldin
6. Ponder
7. White
8. Mitchell

Newnan Bonding B-Cadets
Feature #1
1. Marcus Caswell – Newnan, GA
2. Charlie Garrett – West Point, GA
3. Jeff Carter – Stockbridge, GA
4. Buck Williams – Watkinsville, GA
5. Corey Payton – Newnan, GA
6. Chad Ethridge – Newnan, GA
7. Chris Carr – Newnan, GA
8. Kevin Horton – Grantville, GA
9. Johnny Stinchcomb – Hapeville, GA
10. Thomas Mewborn – Greenville, GA
11. Blake Griffin – Grantville, GA

Feature #2
1. Payton
2. Carter
3. Stinchcomb
4. Mewborn
5. Garrett
6. Ethridge
7. Carr
8. Williams
9. Caswell
10. Horton

Summit Racing Equipment Hobby Stocks
Feature #1
1. Clifton Moran – Carrollton, GA
2. Scott Sherrer – Newnan, GA
3. Rusty Johnson – Newnan, GA
4. Steven Parker – Temple, GA
5. Mike Jenkins – Brooks, GA
6. Austin Horton – Grantville, GA
7. Kerry Carden – Brooks, GA
8. Zak Sockwell – Newnan, GA
9. Eddie Albitron – Barnesville, GA
10. Paxton Keller – Hampton, GA
11. Bill Brown – Loganville, GA
12. Brandon Jones – Senoia, GA
13. John Landrum – Conyers, GA
14. Blake Coley – Senoia, GA
15. Joey McConnell
16. David Waits – Newnan, GA
17. Wilson Boozer – Locust Grove, GA
DNS: Craig Moss – Jackson, GA; George Purgason – Hogansville, GA

Feature #2
1. Moran
2. Jenkins
3. R. Johnson
4. Carden
5. Horton
6. Brown
7. Keller
8. Albitron
9. David Johnson – Griffin, GA
10. Parker
11. Jones
12. Sockwell
13. Coley
14. Landrum
15. Sherrer
DNS: Waits, McConnell, Purgason, Moss, Boozer

Mini Stocks
Feature #1
1. Dusty Jones – LaGrange, GA
2. Stephen Hill – LaGrange, GA
3. Bo Chambers – Griffin, GA
4. Tim Collier – Hogansville, GA
5. Dorough Bright – Whitesburg, GA
6. Joe Spencer – Newnan, GA
7. Bobby Arnold – Newnan, GA
8. Joshua Blume – Sharpsburg, GA
9. Rocky Johnson – Douglasville, GA
10. Gary Parker – Barnesville, GA
11. Robert Caldwell – Senoia, GA
12. Jeffrey Lord – Danielsville, GA

Feature #2
1. Bright
2. Lord
3. Jones
4. Parker
5. Caldwell
6. Johnson
7. Hill
8. Collier
9. Arnold
10. Spencer
11. Blume
12. Chambers

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