Justin Gill will be making his second career Pro All Stars Series (PASS) Super Late Model start on Saturday night when he heads to Caraway Speedway for the first time.

Gill, 26, from Wilson, North Carolina competed at Southern National Motorsports Park for several years in a Mini-Stock and a Limited Late Model and also raced in the UARA-STARS series part-time prior to acquiring a Super Late Model.

“I started racing at Southern National when I was 15 years old. In fact, I was racing here back when it was ASA sanctioned way long ago before NASCAR came along.  This is my home track.  It’s right down the road from my house.  We love it there.  Hoping to one day racing will get back to where it was in the early 90s there.  I started out running Mini Stocks.  For the longest time I stayed there until the Limiteds started coming back around.  Now, we got this Super Late Model.  Don’t know how we ended up with it but we did.”

He made his debut in PASS last year at Southern National in the season finale, finishing 24th.

“This is actually, if you want to call it that, my second race,” Gill said. “I raced in the Mason-Dixon Meltdown race last year, finished 23rd.  Didn’t have a really good car.  We did a lot of work to the car during the winter and got it a lot better.”

The main focus for Justin Gill at Caraway is getting seat time and experience as he tries to figure out the Super Late Model, which is different from the Limited Late Models he is used to racing at Southern National Motorsports Park.

“We’re just trying to get a little more seat time now.  The Super Late Model is a lot different.  I’ve got a little Limited Late Model experience.  This Super Late Model is a different animal.  We’re just trying to get it figured out.”

His immediate goal is to run well at Caraway Speedway but he expects to make another appearance in PASS competition later this year when the series heads to Southern National Motorsports Park on September 26th.

“We’re going to Caraway this weekend for that race,” Gill stated.  “If everything goes good, we’re definitely coming here in September.  We’ve got a lot to learn.  We’re still getting there.  I feel like we’ve got a good piece and something to compete with.  We definitely don’t have the money that some of the other teams have but that’s about like everybody but we’ll make what we’ve got work and do the best we can.  We got a little work to do but I think we’re making gains.”

While many drivers from the Raleigh area have opted to run in the new Championship Auto Racing Series (CARS) Tour, Gill has elected to run in PASS because it’s much more affordable for Super Late Model teams that aren’t big budget race teams.

“For the underfunded teams, that other series was really expensive,” Gill said.  “It was pretty much going to cost me $500 to start the race at Orange County and that’s without buying tires.  That’s just buying my license and all that stuff.  I’m going to PASS, I’m running Caraway, it will only cost me $150.  That’s why we want to stick with PASS.  We would like for them to come back and run Southern National more.  We’ll do what we can and maybe travel as much as we can and try to keep up with them.”