GOLDSBORO, NC :: Clay Jones expects Saturday’s Halloween Spooktacular, being held at Southern National Motorsports Park, to be a challenging race for the drivers and an entertaining race for the fans.

Jones won the Limited Late Model championship at Southern National back in 2013, scoring six wins on the season to win that championship.   This season, he competed at Wake County Speedway in Raleigh, North Carolina where he won 12 races and the track championship.  He’ll be entering the Halloween Spooktacular with confidence fresh off a second place finish at Dillon Motor Speedway this past weekend.

“We’ve got a lot of races and laps there,” Jones said.  “We’ll try to test a little bit and get it good.  We’ve had the car setup for Wake County.  We ran really well at Dillon and that track’s not a lot different from Kenly.  Hopefeully we can throw the Dillon setup and get it close and be really fast.”

While Jones is often dominant when he runs in a Limited Late Model, he knows the competition at Southern National will be no slouch.

“It’s going to be tough.  There’s going to be a lot of competition.  We’ll be at a disadvantage a little.  It’s my home track being so close and I’ve run there.  We’ll test there a little this week and try to get it dialed in like it used to be.”

Jones expects the race to be exciting for the fans with the scuff tire rule that is in effect for Saturday’s 75-lap race.

“We got one new tire every week at Wake County.  I like the four scuffs, it cuts the costs and more guys can go there and not spend a fortune.  It’s going to be a good race.  The tires will already be wore out so it’s going to come down to who can get it the closest and last the longest.”

Jones elaborated more on the scuff tires, which he looks forward to racing on, saying that it puts the driver in control of the race more than the car itself.

“For A lot of guys, new tires makes every car good no matter how well it’s set up.  That’s one thing about the used tires, you’ve got what you’ve got.  You have to adjust the car to the tires.  You have to do a lot of thinking and come up with the best scenario you can and hope it works.

“You’re starting on wore out tires and, with it being 75 laps, that’s more than what we’re used to running.  We run 50 laps.  15-30 laps, you’re just sliding around.  It puts the driver in to it but it puts a lot of work in to it.  You have to make the best of what you’ve got.  It makes the driver everything.”

Jones is confident that he can compete for the win at a track that he has a lot of wins at.  He’s also confident that the fans who attend Saturday’s race will get their money’s worth.

“It should be very exciting and I’m expecting a good car count.”