MYRTLE BEACH, SC :: Dylan Hall scored the victory in a bizarre Southeast Limited Late Model (SELLM) race at Myrtle Beach on Sunday night.

Hall made the winning move with seven laps to go, getting around Dexter Canipe to take the lead.  He went on to survive a challenge from Ryan Glenski during a Green-White-Checkered finish to score the victory.

“My crew chief, Lee McCall, told me to save tires the whole time.  We thought we had enough saved there at the end.  I didn’t think we were going to have another restart.  Coming to the white flag, we had another caution come out but we saved just enough tires to come away with the win.”

Glenski felt he had a car that could have won the race but said he ran out of time in the abbreviated race.

“Kind of ran out of time,” Glenski said.  “I was just taking my time and saving tires.  Got there at the end with 10 laps to go and was really gunning hard and was up to second and had a shot at the lead but that last restart killed me and I couldn’t get around him.”

Jamie Weatherford finished third while Canipe, who dominated much of the event, finished in fourth and Ryan Shattuck finished in fifth.

The first 25 laps were run under caution, after a lengthy rain delay, as track and series officials worked to build heat in to the track to dry the racing surface – much to the dismay of the competitors  As the laps kept clicking off as the cars were on the track attempting to dry the surface, teams requested series officials reset the lap counter so they could run the entire 100 laps.  Meanwhile, Michael Faulk and Kate Dallenbach both parked their cars, saying the track surface was still wet when they started the race – a statement echoed later in the evening by pole-sitter Haley Moody.

The red flag came out twice in the race and the final 10 laps featured a series of chaotic events which resulted in contenders Todd Gilliland, Doug Barnes, Ryan Repko, Tim Allensworth, Connor Pyle and Dan Moore, among others, sustaining damage in accidents.  Pyle arguably suffered the worst accident of the evening when he wrecked at the pit gate where it closes in turn one.  He was okay after the incident.

Controversy and confusion also surrounded qualifying when Haley Moody, who was credited with the pole, registered a 20.184 second lap.  After her qualifying lap, Moody said that her time of record was faster than what she actually ran.  Eventual race winner Dylan Hall also questioned the legitimacy of Moody’s pole-winning lap.  The 25 caution laps were the only laps Moody, who won the SELLM Challenger race at Myrtle Beach Speedway in 2013, would lead all race as she ended up retiring from the race after her involvement in an accident with Chris Chapman.

The SELLM race weekend makes up the first weekend of the expanded, two week Myrtle Beach 400 at Myrtle Beach Speedway.  Next weekend, the NASCAR Whelen All-American Series Late Model Stock Cars and the KOMA Modifieds will headline week two of the 2014 Myrtle Beach 400.

Unofficial Results

1. #4H Dylan Hall
2. #28 Ryan Glenski
3. #94 Jamie Weatherford
4. #5C Dexter Canipe
5. #51S Ryan Shattuck
6. #51P Jeremy Pelfrey
7. #11LW Lucas Williams
8. #44J Justin Johnson
9. #21W Jimmy Wallace
10. #32 Brandon Grosso
11. #01 Barry Andrews
12. #25Huf Allen Huffman
13. #14C Brandon Cox
14. #05 Billy Myers
15. #55 Brian Vause
16. #60 Justin Fontaine
17. #37 Chris Phipps
18. #88B Doug Barnes
19. #7 Bradley McCaskill
20. #5B Bryant Barnhill
21. #11 Dillon Houser
22. #92Y Lance West
23. #33J JJ June
24. #33C Andrew Cordell
25. #23P Donnie Puryear
26. #22M Dan Moore
27. #21A Tim Allensworth
28. #50D Boo Dalton
29. #07 Connor Pyle
30. #78 Ricky Gillespie
31. #98 Todd Gilliland
32. #14R Ryan Repko
33. #44B TJ Barron
34. #22B Greg Bohanon
35. #92N Taylor Nesbitt
36. #19 Adam Congrove
37. #50M Haley Moody
38. #21C Monty Cox
39. #51C Chris Chapman
40. #13 Bobby June
41. #23F Michael Faulk
42. #03 Robert Sterling
43. #25H Kate Dallenbach