Jake Crum will lead the field to the green flag in Saturday’s ValleyStar Credit Union 300 after inheriting the pole following post-qualifying technical inspection.
The times for Jeff Oakley and Deac McCaskill, who qualified first and second respectively, were disallowed following inspection. Race director Lynn Carroll said Oakley was disqualified for having a spacer plate under the carburetor while McCaskill had an issue with the squirters on his carburetor.
Crum, who won the 2009 ValleyStar Credit Union 300, said in a press conference that he was excited to lead the field to the green flag in the first primetime Late Model Stock Car race at Martinsville Speedway.
“It means a lot,” Crum said. “It means a lot for everybody that has put a lot of work into this. It’s just an honor to be the first one under the lights here. Hopefully we can bring home a win.”
Stacy Puryear will start on the outside of the front row. As a result of moving up to the front row, neither Puryear or Crum will have to race their way in during heat races.
“It’s pretty amazing,” Puryear said. “We were excited to qualify fourth. To be on the front row and not have to run the heat race, I’m pretty excited. I knew we had a good car in practice today. Just still pretty amazed that we’re here.”
Two-time Martinsville winner Tommy Lemons, Jr. will start on the pole in the first heat race while 2016 NASCAR Whelen All-American Series national champion Matt Bowling will start on the pole for the second heat race and two-time Martinsville winner and newly crowned four-time national champion Lee Pulliam will start on the point in the third heat race.
The heat races, which will run for 25 laps each, will commence at 4pm EST on Saturday, which will be followed by a last chance qualifying race. 10 cars will transfer in from each qualifier. The 200-lap main event will go green at 8pm EST.
More details in our coverage from Friday’s Pole Day action: https://race22.online/live-valley-star-credit-union-300-pole-day-sept-22nd/
Official Qualifying Results:
1. 01 Jake Crum 20.414
2. 17 Stacy Puryear 20.417
3. 27 Tommy Lemons Jr. 20.422
4. 83 Matt Bowling 20.435
5. 5 Lee Pulliam 20.438
6. 2 Trevor Noles 20.439
7. 01 Philip Morris 20.450
8. 22 Bobby McCarty 20.453
9. 12 Timothy Peters 20.454
10. 26 Peyton Sellers 20.459
11. 02 CE Falk 20.460
12. 2 Dennis Holdren 20.466
13. 57 Eddie Johnson 20.475
14. 44 Justin Johnson 20.482
15. 88 Josh Berry 20.489
16. 14 Ryan Repko 20.506
17. 03 Brendan Queen 20.518
18. 21 Mike Darne 20.521
19. 22 Robert Powell 20.521
20. 87 Mike Looney 20.522
21. 50 Jamey Caudill 20.524
22. 34 Justin Snow 20.528
23. 22 Grayson Cullather 20.530
24. 15 Kres Van Dyke 20.530
25. 24 Mason Diaz 20.530
26. 21 Travis Swaim 20.557
27. 77 Trevor Ward 20.574
28. 77 Blake Stallings 20.575
29. 18 Ty Gibbs 20.575
30. 18 Jason York 20.596
31. 55 Mark Wertz 20.596
32. 16 RD Smith 20.611
33. 61 Justin Hicks 20.611
34. 2 Myatt Snider 20.614
35. 26 Danny Edwards Jr. 20.619
36. 06 Davin Scites 20.625
37. 57 Justin T. Carroll 20.626
38. 5 Ronnie McCarty 20.642
39. 33 Macy Causey 20.650
40. 25 Derrick Lancaster 20.650
41. 4 Annabeth Barnes-Crum 20.652
42. 4 Timmy Phipps 20.662
43. 73 Bruce Anderson 20.688
44. 63 Tyler Matthews 20.668
45. 82 Barry Beggarly 20.673
46. 2 Brandon Pierce 20.676
47. 17 Bryan Reedy 20.691
48. 57 Jimmy Mullins 20.695
49. 12 Austin Thaxton 20.708
50. 12 Nick Smith 20.708
51. 1 Jamie Sweeney 20.729
52. 7 Jamie Byrd 20.738
53. 7 Justin Crider 20.742
54. 12 Ryan Wilson 20.744
55. 51 Chris Chapman 20.748
56. 90 Terry Carroll 20.766
57. 81 Jared Fryar 20.770
58. 9 Brad Kurth 20.775
59. 8 Thomas Scott 20.780
60. 92 Casey Wyatt 20.781
61. 07 Dean Ward 20.785
62. 27 Coy Beard 20.804
63. 91 Justin Carroll 20.811
64. 95 Jacob Heafner 20.811
65. 24 Colin Garrett 20.812
66. 22 Scott Lancaster 20.850
67. 50 Haley Moody 20.857
68. 2 Matt Leicht 20.864
69. 4 John Moore 20.883
70. 19 Cameron Bowen 20.934
71. 37 Adam Gray 20.937
72. 36 Owen Smith 20.946
73. 28 Jason Barnes 20.981
74. 05 Mason Bailey 20.984
75. 33 Jimmy Wallace 21.017
76. 18 Bobby Gillespie 21.026
77. 21 Tommy Neal 21.038
78. 07 Kevin Neal 21.080
79. 12 Ryan Gray 21.143
80. 25 Craig Eastep 21.166
81. 78 Ricky Gillespie 21.282
82. 04 Larry Barrett 21.299
