{"id":16950,"date":"2017-03-05T16:05:37","date_gmt":"2017-03-05T21:05:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.maineracing.com\/wp\/?p=16950"},"modified":"2017-03-05T16:19:39","modified_gmt":"2017-03-05T21:19:39","slug":"craig-dominates-southern-national-2nd-career-pass-south-victory","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maineracing.com\/legacy\/2017\/03\/craig-dominates-southern-national-2nd-career-pass-south-victory\/","title":{"rendered":"Craig Dominates Southern National For 2nd Career PASS South Victory"},"content":{"rendered":"

Craig Dominates Southern National For 2nd Career PASS South Victory<\/strong><\/p>\n

LUCAMA, NC (March 4) \u2013 Defending Pro All Stars Series (PASS) South Super Late Model champion, Matt Craig captured the lead from Spencer Davis on lap 16 and never looked back en route to his second career series win in the Dogwood 150 Saturday afternoon at Southern National Motorsports Park. Following his win, Craig laid down a challenge amidst a furious chassis builder battle going on in the South\u2019s oldest Super Late Model tour.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis was just an awesome car and I can\u2019t thank my crew enough for all the hard work they put in to it,\u201d said Craig, driver of the C&C Boilers Sales & Service Chevrolet. \u201cEverybody thinks the Furys are the best, but they just got waxed by a brand new Hamke. We struggled a bit at Dillon, but we\u2019ve got it figured out. He [Noles] got us on a restart, but I laid the hammer down off two and cruised from there.\u201d
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In qualifying, Craig just missed out on the track record to claim his first career PASS quick qualifying time with a speed of 97.853 miles per hour. Following the top 10 qualifiers redraw, Craig would start third, while Davis and Tanner Thorson moved to the front row.<\/p>\n

At the drop of the green flag, Davis jumped to the lead over Craig, while Thorson and Noles struggled in the outside groove. The car on the move in the early going was PASS South points leader, Bradley McCaskill. After starting 10th, McCaskill moved by Jeff Batten for fifth just five laps into the race. On lap 16, Craig was able to make the move on a faltering Davis for the lead. By lap 34, Davis would pull into the pits with distributor problems, losing many laps in the process.<\/p>\n

The first caution of the race would not wave until lap 97 when Dave Farrington, Jr. appeared to drop fluid on the track causing Batten and Preston Peltier to spin in turn one. Just five laps later, Batten\u2019s day would come to an end after serious contact with JP Josiasse sent both cars hard into the outside wall in turn one.<\/p>\n

On the restart, Noles would take the lead from Craig entering turn one, but before the lap was complete, Craig had retaken the lead down the back straightaway. At this time a furious battle was taking place between McCaskill, Thorson, and Sarah Cornett-Ching for fifth. Cornett-Ching made an aggressive move around both drivers with 17 laps to go to take fifth, before McCaskill would spin from contention seven laps later.<\/p>\n

Craig led the rest of the way to take the win over Peltier, Noles, Tate Fogleman, and Thorson. Rounding out the top ten were Cornett-Ching, Kodie Conner, Tyler Church, Eddie Fatscher, and McCaskill. With her sixth place finish, Cornett-Ching equals Tayla Orleans and Kenzie Ruston as the highest finishing female driver in PASS history.
\nLee Pulliam survived a furious race, taking the lead when Tommy Lemons, Jr was sidelined with a mechanical problem late in the going, to take the win in the 150 lapper for the NASCAR Late Model Stocks. Mason Diaz finished second, over Justin Johnson, Tyler Hughes, and Rusty Daniels.<\/p>\n

The PASS National Championship Super Late Models will be in action again, along with the Southern Modified Racing Series Tour Modifieds, as part of the 10th Running of the Orange Blossom Special on Saturday night, March 25 at Orange County Speedway in Rougemont, NC. The PASS race winner will also receive a guaranteed starting spot for the $25,000 to win, 44th Annual Oxford 250 at Oxford Plains Speedway in August. Entry forms are currently available at ProAllStarsSeries.com. Be sure to \u201cLike\u201d the Pro All Stars Series on Facebook or follow us on Twitter at @PASSSLM14.<\/p>\n

PASS Super Late Model \u2013 Dogwood 150 \u2013 Unofficial Results
\n54 Matt Crag \u2013 150
\n33 Preston Peltier 150
\n2 \u2013 Trevor Noles 150
\n8 \u2013 Tate Fogleman 150
\n55 \u2013 Tanner Thorson 150
\n99 \u2013 Sarah Cornett-Ching 150
\n45 \u2013 Kodie Conner 150
\n7c \u2013 Tyler Church 150
\n51 \u2013 Eddie Fatscher 149
\n118 \u2013 Bradley McCaskill 148
\n15 \u2013 Roy Hayes, Jr. 147
\n48 \u2013 John Batten 146
\n7 \u2013 Dave Farrington, Jr. 145
\n24 \u2013 JP Josiasse 145
\n29 \u2013 Spencer Davis 117
\n49 \u2013 Jeff Batten 99
\n10 \u2013 Kyle Desouza 55
\n55 \u2013 Kevin Floars DNS<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Craig Dominates Southern National For 2nd Career PASS South Victory LUCAMA, NC (March 4) \u2013 Defending Pro All Stars Series (PASS) South Super Late Model champion, Matt Craig captured the lead from Spencer Davis on lap 16 and never looked back en route to his second career series win in the Dogwood 150 Saturday afternoon […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16950","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-pass"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maineracing.com\/legacy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16950","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maineracing.com\/legacy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maineracing.com\/legacy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maineracing.com\/legacy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maineracing.com\/legacy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16950"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/maineracing.com\/legacy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16950\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16954,"href":"https:\/\/maineracing.com\/legacy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16950\/revisions\/16954"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maineracing.com\/legacy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16950"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maineracing.com\/legacy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16950"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maineracing.com\/legacy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16950"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}