South Boston Recap

Will_WWPTV

South Boston Speedway...Saturday, SATURday, SATURDAY!  What a hot humid night for pulling.  The Rice family and the Halifax crew welcomed Dragon Motorsports and The Hammer.  This location is growing and getting better.  A few more light banks, a nice announcer’s booth, and better sound setup and we are talking about a nice facility in the making.  This was worth the trip down.

Sixty Two National Four Wheeled Drives up first and leave it to Bunky Davis to evaluate, feel, and measure up the track.  He spent off and on 60 minutes of walking for 30 seconds of success.  It worked!  He put 15 feet on the competition with a run og 321.27.  Ben Ellis Jr. taking the two spot with a fine run of 306.44.  Shane Hanks is getting cozy with that three spot.  His third on the year with Dragon.  Shane ran a 294.61 to edge Randy Brann by about 3/10 of an inch.

6200 Outlaw 4x4 saw Brandon Culliton run a 305.45 in his BC Fab Bad Mannerz 4x4.  Steve Simmons started the class out and dropped a 311.45.  Steve couldn't get hooked up on his second hook.  That is the option you get and you play the hand that you think gives you the best advantage.  Steve will be back, no doubt about that.  David Hall did some full time driving on his Part Time Hooker.  David drove a strong 299.37 slinging dirt all over the crowd.  Delton Stallings rounded out the top three with a good run of 294.23.

8050 RWB Diesel 4x4.  Me, "Jevon, you together?"  Jevon, "Kind of.  I noticed a hairline crack in the block between 6 and 5"  Well Jevon was waiting for the other shoe to drop and it did.  Not the big noisy break, but the, "Hey dude I only got second" and stalled out kind of run.  He managed to go about 335.00 to get the second spot.  Wade Boice took the third spot with a good run of 315.75.  Ok, now on the big winner tonight, Bob Martin was working feverishly in the pits in the rear of the truck and it worked.  He got that joker hooked up and put it way out of the gate.  He topped Jevon by .89 with a 335.89.  Congratulation Bob!  That ain't the same truck we saw last year at the Showdown.

78 Hundred Light Pro Stock Tractors.  Seven in the class, and our Points Leaders was out doing something or another, and Roger filled in making some curvy letters in the dirt.  I think it read "R-O-G-er" by the time he was done.  But, hey he did all that and still ran a 305.99.  Paul Martin in the seat of that bad IH966 and ran a 309.37.  I mean he couldn't let Bob take three top-three spots on the night, could he?  2013 Dragon Points Champion, Paul Schrock taking home the two spot with a fine pass of 309.66.  The winner for this class, Steve Flint on his Case IH MX 285 "Headcase".  Steve took the business as usual approach to his run.  It was a very clean and very strong run of 314.47.  Anything over 310 on the night seemed strong as this was a good track.  That combined with last week and Steve is right there in second for the Points Championship.  Congrats Steve.

Host Class, Twelve Thousand Hot Farm, 7 tractors in the class.  Billy Rice!  What an outstanding pull and what a run to take your class.  Billy ran a 309.97.  Kenny Sandrige did a great job taking the second spot with a good run of 298.00.  Bob Martin took the three spot and a sweet drive back to Farmville.  Bob took the Hammer some 297.60 feet from the starting line.  Larry Moon got a huge roar from the crowd that looked to be 1500-2000 or so.  Must have been wearing a "Lights Out" shirt or something.  The crowd cheered Larry to a distance of 255.75.

Good night once it cooled off a bit.  Good pull.

6point7cummins

Great job Bob! Your truck ran great!

morgan

How about the food. I was not expecting that spread.
 

Temple_DMP

The food supplied by the Rice family was over the top. Thanks to everyone involved. :D