Cody Coughlin and his team celebrate in victory lane after winning the JEGS/CRA All Stars Series Dixie 100 at Dixie Motor Speedway Friday night. Photo courtesy CRA Media
The third race of the 2013 racing season within the JEGS/CRA All-Stars Tour Presented by Chevrolet Performance was at the fast 4/10s (0.400) mile progressively banked d-shaped paved oval of Dixie Motor Speedway, located south of Saginaw in Birch Run, Michigan for the running of the Dixie 100 Presented by JEGS.com. At the end of the night, it was 17-year-old Cody Coughlin standing in victory lane after retaking the lead with seven laps to go to score his first career JEGS/CRA All-Stars Tour victory.
“This is pretty awesome to be standing here after winning a race,” Coughlin sais. “We won earlier this year down at New Smyrna Speedway in Florida during Speedweeks in February, but this is the one I wanted to win the most, a JEGS/CRA race. The Team did a great job all weekend and they have all season for that matter. We’ve had fast cars all year, but just always seem to have had bad luck. But not tonight.”
After starting the night off by winning his first career Boyne Machine Fast Qualifier Award, the 17-year-old, the 2011 Howie Lettow Memorial Rookie of the Year, drew a four for an inversion which would place Brent Downey and Brandon Hermiller on the front row for the 100-lap main and they led the 26-car field to the green flag, with Hermiller beating Downey to the first corner to take the early lead while the rest of the field jockeyed for position behind them.
Hermiller would get away from Downey and set a torrid early pace as the first 36 laps ran under green flag conditions before the first caution flew. On the restart, Hermiller again pulled away when Dan Leeck, who was running fourth, spun in front of the field after contact and mass chaos ensued with several cars on the receiving end of cosmetic damage. When the green flew again, Jimmy Novak drove past Cody Coughlin for third and then Downey for second. He kept on going and took the lead from Hermiller on lap 39.
Novak brought Josh Nelms, and the battle was on for the lead. They continued their fight until lap 70 when Coughlin made a daring three-wide pass of both drivers as they battled side by side to take the lead for the first time. A lap later, contact between Nelms and Novak sent both around and brought out the caution flag once more.
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Coughlin regrouped and retook second place from Cling on lap 81 and set his sights on Stacy who had built up a nearly two second lead over the rest of the field. Coughlin then began to reel in Stacy and caught him with 10 laps to go. With seven laps to go, Coughlin made the winning pass and from there, it was all Coughlin as the Buckeye State teenager pulled away to not only score his first career JEGS/CRA All-Stars Tour Win, he would also take over the points lead as well.
“The car was tight, so I had to be real aggressive with the throttle to break the rear end loose and help it rotate and it obviously worked out,” Coughlin said. “This really means a lot to win especially here at Dixie. This was one of the very first tracks we ever tested at back in 2010 and I made my second ever start in a Late Model here that same season. This is a big win for us and hopefully it leads to more wins this season.” He ended.
Coming home in second place in only his second career JEGS/CRA start was open-wheeled Modifieds ace, Mike Stacy. Landon Cling, Tom Woodin, and D.J. Weltmeyer rounded out the top five.
The JEGS/CRA All-Stars Tour returns to action in the Battle at Berlin Weekend on Friday-Saturday, June 14-15th at the historic 0.437 mile semi-banked paved oval of Berlin Raceway, located west of Grand Rapids in Marne, Michigan.
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