Three things are certain in life: Death, taxes and Lee Pulliam winning the South Boston 200.
Pulliam is finding himself quite a niche in South Boston Speedway’s biggest race of the season, and the Alton, Virginia resident found the Mother Lode once again Saturday night, winning the South Boston 200..
The win, Pulliam’s eighth of the year at South Boston Speedway, was his fifth straight in the biggest race of the season and gave him wins in the first two of three races for the Virginia Late Model Triple Crown.
The win also allowed Pulliam to draw closer to Ridgeway, Virginia driver Matt Bowling in the Late Model Stock Car points standings.
Bowling won his fourth pole of the season with a time of 15.876 seconds (90.703 MPH) and led each of the first 100 laps, with a seven-car inversion at the halfway mark putting South Boston, Virginia driver Austin Thaxton on the inside pole for the second 100 laps.
Hampton, Virginia, driver Nick Smith took the lead from Thaxton on lap 121, but Bowling took the lead again on lap 130 and held it through two caution periods, the final one a red flag stoppage before Pulliam passed for the lead on lap 162.
Pulliam pulled away to a 1.577-second win over Bowling, with Smith finishing third.
Bobby McCarty of Summerfield, North Carolina, and Matt Waltz of Newport News, Virginia, rounded out the top-five finishers in a field of 19 cars.
Only six finished on the lead lap in a race that had eight cautions, including the red flag stoppage for rear end grease on the track.
