Philip Morris is $6,500 richer and has a leg up in the Virginia Late Model Triple Crown series.
The four-time NASCAR Whelen All American Series National Champion and two-time South Boston Speedway NASCAR track champion sped past Nick Smith with 42 laps to go and drove to a .635-second win over Stacy Puryear of Danville in Saturday night’s Thunder Road Harley-Davidson NASCAR Whelen Late Model 200, snapping Lee Pulliam’s streak of having won this race at South Boston Speedway each of the last six years.
“I think we both were doing the four-wheel drift thing,” Morris said in Victory Lane. “We qualified eighth, but I told my guys that I had a really good car. And we were too.”
The race, the first in the three-race series that includes this race, the Langley Heat 200 at Langley Speedway later this month, and the Valley Star Credit Union 300 at Martinsville Speedway in late September, featured a 26-car starting field that included the top names in the region’s NASCAR Whelen All American Series Late Model Stock Car Division ranks.
Smith finished third with former NASCAR Whelen All American Series National Champion and former South Boston Speedway Champion Lee Pulliam of Alton, Virginia finishing fourth and former NASCAR Whelen All American Series National Champion and current South Boston Speedway points leader Peyton Sellers of Danville, Virginia rounding out the top five finishers.
Bobby McCarty of Summerfield, North Carolina, defending NASCAR Whelen All American Series National Champion and South Boston Speedway Champion Matt Bowling of Ridgeway, Virginia, Brenden Queen of Chesapeake, Virginia, Ryan Repko of Denver, North Carolina and Mark Wertz of Chesapeake, Virginia completed the top 10 finishers.
Results
- Philip Morris
- Stacy Puryear
- Nick Smith
- Lee Pulliam
- Peyton Sellers
- Bobby McCarty
- Matt Bowling
- Brenden Queen
- Ryan Repko
- Mark Wertz
- Timothy Peters
- Brandon Pierce
- Austin Thaxton
- Terry Carroll
- Thomas Scott
- Cameron Bowen
- Eddie Johnson
- Justin Carroll
- Danny Willis Jr
- Trevor Ward
- Jason Barnes
- Eric Winslow
- Stuart Crews
- RD Smith
- Dean Ward
- Nathan Crews
