Camaron
Marlar Collects First Southern All-Stars Victory
(April
23, 2022) Camaron Marlar led all 40 laps to win his first
Southern All-Stars race Saturday night. Marlar got a tremendous
start when the green flag waved to start the race. Marlar quickly
got out to a sizeable lead over pole sitter Vic Hill. Hill and
Eli Beets battled for second which allowed Marlar to extend his
lead to well over one second. Most of the action was between Hill,
Beets, Garrett Smith, and Jensen Ford. That foursome raced hard
in an effort to take second place. Beets finally took second as
Hill had to fight off Ford and Smith. Smith grabbed third and
ran down Beets. Smith would take the spot and brought Ford with
him who took third from Beets. Meanwhile, Hill continued to fade
as Dakotah Knuckles took over fifth. (MRM
Racing Photo)
Marlar masterfully negotiated traffic to comfortably win in a
caution-free affair.
Southern All-Stars Feature: 1. 99-Camaron Marlar[2]; 2. 10-Garrett
Smith[7]; 3. 83-Jensen Ford[4]; 4. 109-Eli Beets[3]; 5. 21K-Dakotah
Knuckles[5]; 6. 1-Vic Hill[1]; 7. 3N-Austin Neely[11]; 8. 18-Matt
Dooley[12]; 9. 116-Cameron Weaver[9]; 10. 21M-Robby Moses[14];
11. 23-John Blankenship[8]; 12. 17-Billy Franklin[18]; 13. 9-Jason
Croft[13]; 14. 9C-Dusty Carver[19]; 15. 6-Josh Sneed[21]; 16.
14-Terry Wolfenbarger[16]; 17. 7G-Craig Greer[25]; 18. 3D-Dakota
Smith[22]; 19. (DNF) 97-Michael Chilton[6]; 20. (DNF) 90J-Jason
Trammell[17]; 21. (DNF) 21-Shay Miller[15]; 22. (DNF) 47-Tim Rucker[20];
23. (DNF) C5-David Crabtree[10]; 24. (DNS) 49-James Kelso; 25.
(DNS) 3-Steve Smith
Cameron
Weaver took the early lead over Jed Emert, then pulled away from
the field to win the Steel Block Bandits feature. Emert led the
field to green from the pole position, but it was Weaver that
got the early lead. Emert tried to stay close to Weaver, but came
under fire from Mack McCarter. The two spent several laps battling
for second before McCarter took over second. Ronnie Johnson joined
the fray as he closed up on Emert in a battle for third. Johnson
looked to chase down McCarter for second until Russell Erwin passed
Emert and began stalking Johnson. Erwin would later take second
after McCarter had issues. Emert fought back to hold off Dustin
Mitchell, then pass Johnson into third. No one had anything for
Weaver who won with a sizeable margin over the rest of the field.
(MRM
Racing Photo)
Steel Block Bandits Feature: 1. 116-Cameron Weaver, 2. 22-Russell
Erwin, 3. (51) Jed Emert, 4. (5) Ronnie Johnson, 5. (32) Dustin
Mitchell, 6. (31) Skip Arp, 7. (44) Chase King, 8. (30) Tyler
Bare, 9. (171) Kyle Courtney, 10. (51) Mack McCarter, 11. (39)
Eddie King Jr., 12 (72 Derick Rankin, 13. (74) Derick Quade, 14.
(116) Jake Whitehead, 15. (21) Michael Batten, 16. (C11) Cody
Courtney, 17. (16) Brad Lowe, 18. (537) Jesse Rockett, 19. (1)
Willie Milliken, 20. (B3) Brian Strickland, 21. (7) Dan Breuer,
22. (84) Jay Sessoms, 23. (32M) Jason Manley, 24. (28) Taylor
Puckett
Tyler Price took the lead from the pole position to start the
sportsman late model feature. Kip Sawyer and Brad Seagle spent
most of the 20 laps in a battle for second. That allowed Price
to pull away. Seagle looked to have second before Sawyer fought
back on the outside to retake the spot. Tyler took the checkers
first with Sawyer holding off Seagle for second. After the race,
Price was disqualified for having illegal headers. That handed
the win to Sawyer.
Sportsman Late Model Feature: 1. 44-Kip Sawyer[2]; 2. 31-Brad
Seagle[3]; 3. 40H-Hunter Kerr[9]; 4. 15-Bryan Cooper[8]; 5. 18-Nicholas
Phillips[7]; 6. 33-Warren McMahan[6]; 7. 21H-Tyler Haynes[5];
8. 3-David Beeler[12]; 9. (DNF) 50-Adam Mitchell[4]; 10. (DNF)
6-Andy Standridge[11]; 11. (DNS) 11-Tim Bounds 12. (DQ) Tyler
Price
The next race at Smoky Mountain Speedway is Saturday, May 28
for Memorial Day Mayhem in the Mountains featuring the American
All-Stars Pro Late Models and the Vision Wheel Topless Outlaws.
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