Photo by: Chris McGuire
Brian Wooten takes home the money in Street Stocks
By Rob Lee
WAYNESVILLE, Ga. (May 14) – It was good to be out front. Or maybe it
was not.
Michael Lloyd took advantage of demolition derby-type situations and
won the Limited Late Model Super 5 Challenge at Golden Isles Speedway Saturday
evening.
“It was good just to finish,” Lloyd said. “The car had some damage, but
the night turned out all right. I’d rather be lucky than good any time.”
Polesitter Woodrow Mullis had built a straightaway advantage as Lloyd
moved into second in the 25-lapper. The 17-year old superstar was then gathered
in a crash from Cecil Eunice spinning in turn three on Lap 12 and was forced
pitside to change a tire.
“We started picking off some cars,” Lloyd said. “We were way behind.
(Mullis) probably would’ve won if he wasn’t in the wreck, but we were gaining
people said.”
Lloyd’s Michael Lloyd Hauling/Bradco Environmental Hall-powered machine
beat Scott Waters by 10 car lengths and pocketed $2,000. Mullis battled from
the rear to take third followed by Adam Collins and Lonnie Roberts.
Several of the race teams pondered over tire selection to create the
ultimate stagger for the quick 4/10-mile red clay oval. Tires never seemed to
be an issue.
“The track was real dry slick,” Lloyd said. “You had to slow down early
and let the car coast down through the center of the corner and get some good
forward (bite) off.”
Mullis started the night as fast qualifier.
The
victory bettered the night for Lloyd, whose EMod blew an engine in that feature
Stepping in was nephew Garrett Lloyd. He cruised from the pole and
paced the 15-lap EMod finale. The Tom Kelly Construction/P&G Land Clearing/Stover
Sales Koury-powered Shaw by Lloyd beat Brandon Wells, Dillon Turner, Randy
Gainey and Nick Kirkus.
Chris Keller led all 15 laps and won the Super Street feature. He left
a nearly three-wide battle between Roger Thomas, Keith Smith, Paul Jones
behind. Smith spun with two laps left leaving Thomas and Jones as the rest of
the top three.
Johnny Barker topped a 18-car Enduro field and won a side by side
battle with Billy Ammons. The runner up topped all but the last of 15 laps when
Barker slid by on the inside. The defending track champ is the third different
Enduro winner in three 2016 events. The finale was crash-marred keeping the
field close.
Brian Wooten debuted his brand new Rocketman chassis and dominated the NeSmith
Performance Street Stock night. He was first in his heat and first in the
16-car, 15-lap feature over the other heat winner Shaun Washam, Windal Clark,
Brian Grantham and Daron Bailey.
Courtney Parsons took the 440 finale, edging a charging Jimmy Williams.
Racing continues May 21 at GIS featuring the I-95 Toyota Challenge Late
Model Series racing for $3,000 to win and will serve as race number two in the
GIS Super 5 Challenge. Also in action are the Enduros for a GIS Super 5
Challenge event with $1,000 to the winner. Those classes will be joined by Super
Streets, Hobby Stocks and 440s. Hot laps are set for 6 p.m. with racing to
follow.
For more information log on to goldenislesspeedway.com, the track’s
Facebook page or call 912-778-3767.
Following are results from stock car racing Saturday evening May 14 at
Golden Isles Speedway, Waynesville, Ga.
Limiteds
Feature (20 laps) – 1. 18 Michael Lloyd 2. 5 Scott Waters 3. 24 Woodrow
Mullis 4. 34 Adam Collins 5. 81 Lonnie Roberts 6. 38 Chris Lovett 7. Jason
Green 8. 53 Cecil Eunice 9. 81 Donnie Durrance 10. 3 Bruce Collins 11. Jordan Lockhart
12. 14 Daniel Thompson 13. 26 Bill Adkins 14. 52 Ryan Carter 15. 21 Charlie
Davis.
Qualifying – 1. Mullis
Super Streets
Feature (15 laps) – 1. HOT ROD Chris Keller 2. 23 Roger Thomas 3. 11
Paul Jones 4. 7 Luke Hayes 5. Lee Keller 6. Ronald Altman 7. 5 Keith Smith 8.
Billy Benefield 9. 15 Caleb Payne 10. 44 Jordan Fowler 11. 22 Russell Waters
12. Michael Reed
NeSmith Performance Street Stocks
Feature (20 laps) – 1. 81 Brian Wooten 2. 424 Shaun Washam 3. 88 Windal
Clark 4. 8G Brian Grantham 5. 1 Daron Bailey 6. 122 Carl Moore 7. Chris Keller
8. 16 Morrie West 9. 3D Makayla Tyrell 10. 1X Chris Williams 11. 52 Dale Mimbs
12. 18 Chad Fry 13. 14 Taylor Sowell 14. 2 John Corbitt 15. 18W Wesley Jones
16. 96 Luke Johns
EMods
Feature (15 laps) – 1. 27 Garrett Lloyd 2. 39 Brandon Wells 3. 10
Dillon Turner 4. 11 Randy Gainey 5. 20K Nick Kirkus 6. 17 Allen Scurry 7. 15 Doodle
Pipkin 8. 15 Holt Pipkin 9. 47 Manny Valderrama 10. 7 Travis Grant 11. 4 Kenny
Wells 12. 5 Keith Tuten 13. 18 Michael Lloyd 14. 46 Trey Pearson
Enduros
Feature (15 laps) – 1. 6 Johnny Barker 2. 21 Billy Ammons 3. 26 Wally
Wallace 4. 00 Kyle Livingood 5. 3 Dylan
Taylor 6. 44 Timmy Roach 7. Mike Copeland 8. 26 Kyle Davis 9. 131 Tim
Keener 10. 5 Chase Ammons 11. 17C Tami Clark 12. 41 Charles Smith 13. J4
Johnathan New 14. 16 John Carlino 15. 08 Danny Farmer 16 35 John Kelly 17. 11
Bryan Beasley 18. 07 EC Harrell (four cars did not start)
440s
Featue (10 laps) – 1. 86 Courtney Parsons 2. 94 Jimmy Williams 3. 07 Gary
Langford 4. 95 Mack Williams 5. 1A
Austin Bailey
