RALEIGH, NC :: Clay Jones was credited with the sweep at Wake County Speedway on Friday night after Alex Fleming was stripped of his win in the second of two Late Model features.  Jones’ sweep marks his fourth and fifth consecutive victories at the Raleigh bullring.

Wake County Speedway Promoter Adam Resnick told RACE22.com that Fleming was disqualified due to limited travel in the left front spring.

“Now days, you’ve got springs made where they’ve got such a large resistance, they’ve got so much tricked up stuff now, it’s hard,” Resnick said.  “I hate it for him.  I don’t think people understand how much it breaks me.  It breaks my heart.  I’ve got to support my tech officials and if both of them tell me it’s not right, I’m not going to be like some other tracks and overrule them.  That’s not what I do.”

With Clay Jones winning both races, Resnick said the bounty is still on and will likely be increased for the next race.

A flurry of rumors showed up on social media and internet message boards following the race, claiming Fleming had been suspended by Wake County Speedway for two races – something both Fleming and Resnick denied.  Resnick said the rumored suspension simply was not true.

“The first I heard of it was somebody put it on the internet,” Fleming said.  “I’ve cleared it up with Adam and we’re welcome to come back and try to win the bounty the next race.”

Fleming told RACE22.com that the decision to disqualify him was the right decision.

“The issue I had before now was they couldn’t find in writing a definition of coil binding to prove the spring was coil-binding,” Fleming explained.  “In the NASAR rulebook, it does reference a definition.  I’m satisfied with the call, they made the right call.  The spring, by the NASCAR rules was coil-binding and was illegal and we were disqualified for the right reasons.”

With the bounty still on Jones, Fleming says he will be back and the car will be even better in two weeks.

“The car will be even better next race.  We went thought a lot of work to get the car back where it was yesterday.  We had one shot at it in practice, got it close but it wasn’t all the way right.  We made some adjustments between the two races and got it where it held.  We just have to get that issue worked out and we’ll be faster next time we go back.”

Wake County Speedway will be back in action on Friday night, August 22nd.