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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. 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