Terry Evans inherited the victory in Saturday night’s Renegade Race Fuels 100 at Myrtle Beach Speedway after Justin Hicks was disqualified following postrace technical inspection for a weight violation.
Hicks got the lead from Jamie Weatherford on a restart with four laps to go and survived a frantic shootout to the finish, holding back Evans and Ryan Glenski. Evans took his initial second place finish in stride after disappointment in the race one year ago.
“After the disappointment last year in this race, we pretty much had it won,” Evans said. “So, man, I’ll take second all day long. All the guys, they put out, they deserve it, I deserve it. Second’s just like a win actually. I’m happy and the team’s happy.”
Ryan Glenski ended up being credited with a second place finish.
“We’ve got a good car,” Glenski said. “It’s all in one piece. We’ll go back this week, look it over, see what went down in the car and we definitely found something now. The car’s rotating good. Good forward bite. Can’t help Jay Hedgecock enough for helping me out this year getting this car running good and Billy Banks for all the power.”
Jamie Weatherford had dominated the late stages of the race but Hicks got a holeshot on him on a restart to take the lead. Coming to the checkered flag, Weatherford spun after contact with another car. Weatherford crossed the line sideways but ended up with a fourth place finish.
“Somebody got under the back of me and lifted the back wheels off the ground,” Weatherford said. “I was in a cloud of smoke. Very disappointing, especially when they tell you, inside 10 to go is going to be a single file restart and they don’t do what they tell you.”
Myrtle Beach Speedway general manager Steve Zacharias told Race22.com that drivers were told restarts inside 10 laps to go might be single file if race control felt it was necessary – a procedure implemented after the chaos that unfolded in the race in 2015.
Anthony Alfredo clinched the Southeast Limited Late Model Series Pro championship with his eighth place finish in Saturday night’s season finale event.
While two and three wide racing was the norm throughout the entirety of the 100 lap event, the race itself was mostly clean. In fact, the race saw a prolonged green flag run from lap 9 to lap 72.
Unofficial Results
- Terry Evans
- Ryan Glenski
- Mack Little
- Jamie Weatherford
- BJ Macket
- Adam Congrove
- Chris Chapman
- Anthony Alfredo
- Kevin Leicht
- Monty Cox
- Brandon Cox
- Ty Gibbs
- Matt Leicht
- Omar Jurado
- Ed Williams
- Jimmy Wallace
- Kate Dallenbach
- Colby Howard
- Daniel Graeff
- Talon Gallimore
- Wesley Hawkins
- Jason Myers
- JJ June
- Blair Addis
- Ben Stanton
- Heath Causey
- Chris Burns
- Amber Lynn
- Mike Jones
- Fabian Hamprecht
- Thad Moffitt
- Alex Reece
- Luke Sorrow
- Bryant Barnhill
- AJ Walsh
- Jeremy Pelfrey
- Mitch Walker
- Grant Duncan
- Jason Tutterow
- Trevor Rizzo
- Shon Gibson
- Dal Wright
- Justin Hicks — DQ
