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Wednesday, November 14, 2007
The Braselton News
Page 3B
World Crown — continued from page IB
100-lap segment. At one point,
he was only four or so laps away
from being put a lap down by the
hard charging Hawkins.
But a caution flag on lap 185
gave Kelley the break he needed.
His crew made the gutsy call to
bring their driver in for fresh tires,
gambling that few green flag laps
they would get before the second
schedules competition yellow on
lap 200 would give them a chance
to make up some ground over the
competition’s worn out tires.
The gamble paid off. When
the second competition yellow
flew, Kelley found himself in fifth
place, well within striking dis
tance of the leaders.
“We took two tires that second
segment, and we weren’t sure if
we shot ourselves in the foot or
not. If there had been about four
more laps, I probably would have
been lapped. Luckily, a caution
came out, and we decided to
come in and get our tires, and try
to pick some of them off, because
they would be sitting ducks.”
When the green flag flew on the
final 50-lap segment, Hawkins
again began to pull away, but
Bubba Pollard, Kelley, and 2007
GAS champion Russell Fleeman
gave chase, with Pollard and
Kelley reeling in the leader. With
25 laps to go, less than a second
separated the three leaders. Kelley
worked his way around Pollard
and set his sights on Hawkins as
the two worked lap traffic.
Kelley closed up on the back of
Hawkins rear bumper with 10 to
go, setting up the finish.
“I’m not sure exactly how many
tires he took, but evidently he
didn’t take four, because if he
did, I knew he would have been
gone,” Kelley said. “The first 200
laps, we couldn’t do anything
with him. He’d just motor down
the straightaway. To catch him,
it really surprised me, because
I didn’t think we really had a
chance right then. But once we
got up there, I found we had a
chance to win this thing. He was
a little worse getting in, and I just
dove right underneath him com
ing off of corner four.”
The event was slowed seven
times by cautions and was red
flagged on lap 134 when a 14-car
pile-up occurred in turn three,
soon after a restart.
Several drivers who had been
picked as favorites saw their day
hampered by the crash, including
Kyle Fowler, Commerce’s Taylor
Satterfield, Braselton’s Shane
Sawyer, and Michael Pope. No
one was injured in the accident.
Another multi-car shunt
occurred on the front stretch
on lap 35, Dwayne Buggay and
Bobby East tangled with each
other. That left several drivers
with nowhere to go, including
Jefferson driver Kevin Perry, vet
eran racer Ronnie Sanders, and
Alex Garcia. Buggay, East and
Perry were eliminated in the acci
dent, while Sanders would park
his car about 25 laps later.
Before the final 50-lap segment,
only two racers gave Hawkins
trouble during the day. One was
Braselton veteran Jimmy Garmon,
who found himself a lap down.
Garmon did everything he could
to try to get back on the lead
lap and gave no quarter to the
leaders as he fought to make up
ground. Garmon shot out in front
on each re-start and couldn’t hold
off Hawkins.
“...We took two
tires that second
segment, and we
weren’t sure if we
shot ourselves in
the foot or not...”
—World Crown 250
champion Paul Kelley
Jefferson’s Joey Senter also
gave Hawkins a run for his money.
Senter moved into second place
about halfway through the second
segment of the event and several
times moved alongside Hawkins
in a bid for the lead. Senter would
finish second in the second seg
ment, but his car faded in the final
50 laps, as he finished his day in
sixth position.
Hawkins held on to finish
in second, with Pollard third,
Fleeman fourth and Wes Burton
in fifth. Senter, Satterfield, Ryan
Crane, Garmon and Jack Smith
rounded out the top 10. Other
finishers of note were Sawyer,
who finished 16th, Dennis Wilder
of Commerce in 27th and Perry,
in 36th.
Local divisions took to the track
for their World Crown events
Saturday night. Troy French
won in the mini-stock division,
Russell Shore took the Iceman
victory, and Kevin Barrett won
in the truck division. The Aaron’s
Pro Challenge series also ended
its season at Peachstate Saturday
night with John Chandler record
ing the win and picking up the
2007 series championship.
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Paul Kelley enjoys the spoils of victory after winning his third World Crown at Peachstate Speedway
Sunday. Kelley was the first recipient of the Rob Joyce Memorial trophy, named for the long time
promoter of the speedway. Photo by Brandon Reed
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