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Southern All Stars Dirt Racing Series Return To Tennessee National Raceway May 24th

FAYETTEVILLE, TN–The Southern All Star Dirt Racing Series will be making it’s sixth stop of the 2014 season Saturday night May 24^th at the Tennessee National Raceway in Hohenwald, TN., for a 40 lap $4,000 to win event that will feature a special Memorial Day weekend celebration. The series will be returning to the west Tennessee track for the first time since 1993, the first event held there was in 1991 as Mike Head of Ellenwood, GA., took the win then in the 1992 and 1993 season Rex Richey of Ringgold, GA., and scored the victories. This Saturday night there will be a new name to put on the list as the Southern All Star winner at the ¼ mile oval.

Riley Hickman of Cleveland, TN., will be on leading the series drivers into the return trip to Tennessee National as he holds a 64 point lead over second place driver Dylan Ames of Harvest, AL., third place in points just 14 points behind Ames is Josh Putnam of Florence, AL., and tied for fourth place in points is Bo Shirley of Gadsden, AL., and leading Cruise with the Champions/Dirt On Dirt Rookie of the Year Chris Wilson of Crossville, TN., all of these drivers will be in action for the series return.

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By Scott|2014-05-21T13:24:52-04:00May 21st, 2014|Featured, Front Page News, Southern All Stars, Upcoming Events|Comments Off

Waycross Motor Speedway Next Up For Southern All Stars May 17th

FAYETTEVILLE, TN—The Southern All Star Dirt Racing Series will be making it’s first stop of two in the 2014 season this Saturday night May 17th at the Waycross Motor Speedway in Waycross, GA., for a 40 lap $4,000 to win main event along with a full racing program of Limited Late Models, Super Street, Hobbys and E Mods to make a full night of racing action.

The Southern All Star Dirt Racing Series will be making it fourth ever visit to the south Georgia oval as it’s first appearance was in 1993 when Scott Bloomquist of Mooresburg, TN., captured the win, then in 1998 Earl Pearson Jr of Jacksonville, FL., took home the checked flag and the series most recent visit was in 2011when Tyler Ivey of Tallahassee, Fl., scored his career first Southern All Star win.

Defending Southern All Star Dirt Racing Series points champion Riley Hickman of Cleveland, TN., will be the driver leading the series into the event as he is currently on top of the series standings after four races, behind the veteran Hickman is two new drivers with the series one with limited touring racing experience and the other a veteran as Dylan Ames of Harvest, AL., is second in points and tied for the Cruise with the Champions/Dirt on Dirt Rookie of the Year title and third place is the touring veteran as Josh Putnam of Florence, AL., has titles with the Southern Regional Racing Series, both will be making their fist appearance at Waycross. Fourth place in series points is Bo Shirley of Gadsden, AL., who came back this year full time to make a run at the title and is off to a good start being in the top five in points and rounding out the top five is another first time series regular as well as making his first visit to Waycross is Chris Wilson of Crossville, TN., who is tied with Ames for the rookie of the year title going into the fifth event of the season. All these drivers are expected to be in action Saturday night.

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By Scott|2014-05-15T13:39:32-04:00May 15th, 2014|Featured, Front Page News, Southern All Stars, Upcoming Events|Comments Off

Waycross Motor Speedway Next Up For Southern All Stars May 17th

FAYETTEVILLE, TN—The Southern All Star Dirt Racing Series will be making it’s first stop of two in the 2014 season this Saturday night May 17^th at the Waycross Motor Speedway in Waycross, GA., for a 40 lap $4,000 to win main event along with a full racing program of Limited Late Models, Super Street, Hobbys and E Mods to make a full night of racing action.

The Southern All Star Dirt Racing Series will be making it fourth ever visit to the south Georgia oval as it’s first appearance was in 1993 when Scott Bloomquist of Mooresburg, TN., captured the win, then in 1998 Earl Pearson Jr of Jacksonville, FL., took home the checked flag and the series most recent visit was in 2011when Tyler Ivey of Tallahassee, Fl., scored his career first Southern All Star win.

Defending Southern All Star Dirt Racing Series points champion Riley Hickman of Cleveland, TN., will be the driver leading the series into the event as he is currently on top of the series standings after four races, behind the veteran Hickman is two new drivers with the series one with limited touring racing experience and the other a veteran as Dylan Ames of Harvest, AL., is second in points and tied for the Cruise with the Champions/Dirt on Dirt Rookie of the Year title and third place is the touring veteran as Josh Putnam of Florence, AL., has titles with the Southern Regional Racing Series, both will be making their fist appearance at Waycross. Fourth place in series points is Bo Shirley of Gadsden, AL., who came back this year full time to make a run at the title and is off to a good start being in the top five in points and rounding out the top five is another first time series regular as well as making his first visit to Waycross is Chris Wilson of Crossville, TN., who is tied with Ames for the rookie of the year title going into the fifth event of the season. All these drivers are expected to be in action Saturday night.

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By Scott|2014-05-13T14:13:13-04:00May 13th, 2014|Featured, Front Page News, Southern All Stars, Upcoming Events|Comments Off

Southern All Stars Return To Talladega Short For NASCAR Weekend May 3rd

MARYVILLE, TN—The Southern All Star Dirt Racing Series will make it’s first of four appearances this Saturday night May 3^rd for the Annual NASCAR weekend at the Talladega Short Track in Eastaboga, AL., for a 40 lap $4,000 to win event along with a full racing program.

NASCAR weekend has always been a big weekend with the Southern All Stars as many of the drivers like to compete in the Friday night regular program that will pay Super Late Models $2,000 to win.

Saturday the Southern All Stars will compete in White Performance qualifying with the top four from group A & B locked in, then there will be 2 PPM Racing Products B Mains along with a 40 lap feature event.

Riley Hickman of Ooltewah, TN., is back on top of the series standings after three events and will be one of the favorites to take the win, as he will be joined by Harvest, AL., driver Dylan Ames, who is in his first year of competing with the series and currently is second in the points after a top five run at Smoky Mt last weekend. Third place in points is no stranger to Talladega Short Track and that is Bo Shirley of Gadsden, AL., who is making a strong charge for the top spot in the points. Fourth place is Josh Putnam of Florence, AL., who has worked his way into the top five in three and is also going to make a run at the championship and fifth is Chris Wilson of Crossville, TN., who also is current Cruise with the Champions/Dirt On Dirt Rookie of the Year leader, all of these drivers are expected to be in action at Talladega Short Track Saturday night. (more…)

By Scott|2014-04-30T23:44:10-04:00April 30th, 2014|Featured, Front Page News, Southern All Stars|Comments Off

Billy Ogle Jr Dominates Ricking With the Stars Smoky Mt Southern All Star Event

MARYVILLE, TN—The Southern All Stars Dirt Racing Series returned to the Smoky Mt Speedway in Maryville, TN., Saturday night and local favorite Billy Ogle Jr of Knoxville, TN., put on dominating performance for the night as he sat fast time in White Performance qualifying and then lead 39 of the 40 lap event en route to the $5,000 to win paycheck.

Ogle along with outside pole sitter Ray Cook of Brasstown, NC., brought the field to the green for the initial start of the race, but as the field headed down the backstretch, midway through the field in turn three the cars of Tommy Kerr and Josh Putnam got together with Putnam cutting across the infield through the go kart track and Kerr flipping his car over. Putnam was able to continue but Kerr was done for the night.

The next start saw Cook get a slight jump ahead of Ogle on the start and Cook lead lap one but Ogle moved under him in turns one and two and then proceeded to stay up front and work lapped traffic with ease to get his 12^th career series win. Mike Marlar of Winfield, TN., came home in second spot, who made a late race charge from his ninth starting spot to get by Cook, who fell back to third and blew a tire as he came across the finish line, fourth place went to point leader Riley Hickman of Ooltewah, TN., and fifth place was Dylan Ames of Harvest, AL., in his best career finish with the series. (more…)

By Scott|2014-04-28T19:05:34-04:00April 28th, 2014|Featured, Front Page News, Race Results, Southern All Stars|Comments Off

Rockin’ With The Stars Returns To Smoky Mt Speedway April 26th

Smoky-Mountain-Speedway3 FAYETTEVILLE, TN—The Southern All Stars Dirt Racing Series will be making its first stop of the 2014 season Saturday night April 25^th at the Smoky Mt Speedway in Maryville, TN., for the 3^rd Annual Rocking with the Stars 40 sponsored by WIMZ for the Super Late Models paying $5,000 to win.

Riley Hickman of Ooltewah, TN., who scored the first win of the season at Boyds will be leading the Southern All Stars drivers into the third event of the season as he is currently sitting on top in the series standings, but only has a 6 point lead over Jason Hiett of Oxford, AL., third place in series points is the East Alabama winner Joe Armistead of Senoia, GA., fourth place is Chris Wilson of Crossville, TN., and fifth is Bo Shirley of Gadsden, AL., all of who are expected to be in action at Smoky Mt.

More drivers from across the southeast are expected such as Eric Cooley of Fulton, MS., Dylan Ames of Harvest, AL., Josh Putnam of Florence, AL., William Thomas of Phenix City, AL., Jason Welshan of Maryville, TN., Cale Finley of Athens, AL., Skip Arp of Georgetown, TN., Mark Gant of Savannah, TN., Davie Payne of Murphy, NC., 2011 Southern All Star Dirt Racing Series Champion Billy Ogle Jr., of Knoxville, TN., plus many more. (more…)

By Scott|2014-04-17T14:31:02-04:00April 17th, 2014|Featured, Front Page News, Southern All Stars|Comments Off

Southern All Stars Add Two More Races To Schedule

FAYETTEVILLE, TN—The Southern All Star Dirt Racing Series has announced tow more dates for the Memorial Day Weekend Shootout on Friday & Saturday night May 23^rd & 24^th with a pair of $4,000 to win events at the Thunderhill Raceway in Summertown, TN., and the Tennessee National Raceway in Hohenwald, TN.

Friday nigh May 23^rd the series will return to the high banks of Thunderhill Raceway in Summertown, TN., located just north of Lawrenceburg, TN., for a 40 lap $4,000 to win event. It will be the first return of the Southern All Star Dirt Racing Series since 2001 when Byron Michaels of Florence, AL., captured the win in a May race and the only other appearance of the series in August of 1992 when Johnny Williams of Lexington, TN., took home the win. The race at Thunderhill will all be contingent that all the remodeling that has begun at the track will be completed by then, if not the race will be moved to another date later in the year.

Then on Saturday night May 24^th the series will head into the Tennessee National Raceway in Hohenwald, TN., for another 40 lap $4,000 to win event. The series has ran three races in the past at the west Tennessee oval from 1991-1993 with Southern All Star veterans, Mike of Ellenwood, GA., winning in ’91, Rex Richey of Ringgold, GA., taking wins in ’92 and ’93. (more…)

By Scott|2013-12-26T16:51:13-05:00December 26th, 2013|Featured, Front Page News, Racing News, Southern All Stars|Comments Off

Southern All Stars Will Once Again Officiate 2014 Ice Bowl At TST

IceBowl2014comingFirelarge FAYETTEVILLE, TN—The Southern All Star Dirt Racing Series has been once again selected to officiate the 2014 Ice Bowl Jan 2-5 at the Talladega Short Track in Eastaboga, AL.

The Southern All Star Dirt Racing Series the longest running touring Super Late Model series in the country will handle all technical and race procedures for the Super Late Models as well at the Sportsman/Limited Late Models. The Super will compete in a $6,000 to win $500 to start 50 lap event that will utilize the following rules: Open Motors will weight 2300 lbs while all other motors will weight 2250 lbs. Tires will be ANY 11×92 max. 1 lb per lap burn off, Southern All Star Dirt Racing Series body rules apply and all cars will utilize an 8 inch spoiler. Entry fee is $100.

Thursday & Friday will be open practice for the Super Late Models as well as tech and registration will open on Friday. Then on Saturday the Super Late Models will qualify and run heat. Sunday there will be Last Chance races along with the 50 lap main event. (more…)

By Scott|2013-12-19T20:17:17-05:00December 19th, 2013|Featured, Front Page News, Racing News, Southern All Stars, Upcoming Events|Comments Off

Chris Madden Two For Two In Southern All Star Rain Delays

534774_173559259490329_410965370_n FAYETTEVILLE, TN— Two time Southern All Star Champion Chris Madden is going to start liking rain delayed races if this keeps up as he now has won his second rained delayed Southern All Star event of the year by capturing the 23^rd Annual Blue/Gray 100 for the 4^th time in his racing career. Earlier this season with the Southern All Stars the series was at Volunteer Speedway when rain stopped the action on lap 17 with Madden on top. The series came back three weeks later and Madden came out the winner of the that event, now he is back in victory lane one week later claiming the $10,000 first place check.

Madden who took the lead at the start continued to stay up front on the lap five restart as he showed his home track dominance leading all 100 laps and holding off challenges from Casey Roberts Early in the race, Jonathan Davenport, through the middle stages of the race and then finally a spirited battled with Don O’Neal late in the race to get the win.

Finishing behind Madden win second place was Don O’Neal of Martinsville, IN,, third to Jonathan Davenport Blairsville, GA,, fourth to Chris Ferguson of Mt Holly, NC., who set overall fast time in White Performance Qualifying and fifth to Casey Roberts of Toccoa, GA.

Rounding out the top ten were Steve Shaver in sixth, Dennis Franklin seventh, Johnny Pursley eighth, Bret Home ninth and Ross Bailes tenth. (more…)

By Scott|2013-11-27T00:17:04-05:00November 27th, 2013|Featured, Front Page News, Race Results, Southern All Stars|Comments Off

Over $50,000 Up For Grabs During The Final Southern All Stars Weekend of 2013

FAYETTEVILLE, TN—The Southern All Star Dirt Racing Series will conclude the 2013 season with a pair of traditional fall events that will have over $50,000 in posted awards for the doubleheader event.

Saturday night November 16^th the series will be in action at the Cleveland Speedway in Cleveland, TN., for the 25^th Annual Gobbler 50, a $5,000 to win 50 lap event, then on Sunday afternoon the series will be in action at the Cherokee Speedway in Gaffney, SC., for the 23^rd Annual Blue/Gray 100 that will pay $10,000 to win. Also the 2013 Southern All Star Dirt Racing Series Champion will be crowned as well as the 2013 Cruise with the Champions/Dirt on Dirt Rookie of the Year.

The Southern All stars opened the 2013 season at the Cherokee Speedway with March Madness and Jared Landers took the win, and there has been three events with the Southern All Stars at Cleveland in 2013 and they have been won by Randy Weaver, Steve Casebolt and Ray Cook.

Drivers that are expected to be in action at Cleveland Speedway include Riley Hickman of Cleveland, TN., Bret Holmes of Minford, AL., Jason Hiett of Oxford, AL., former Southern All Star Champion Billy Ogle Jr of Knoxville, TN., 2011 Southern All Star Rookie of the Year William Thomas of Phenix City, AL., three time Southern All Star Champion Randy Weaver of Crossville, TN., Jake Knowles of Tyrone, GA., Austin Smith of Cedartown, GA., former Southern All Star Champion Dale McDowell of Chickamauga, GA., Mike Marlar of Winfield, TN., Skip Arp of Georgetown, TN., Derek Ellis of Chatsworth, GA., Dusty Carver of Englewood, TN., Mark Vineyard of Knoxville, TN., Mark Douglas of Knoxville, TN., and Kenny Collins of Colbert, GA., plus many more regional drivers. (more…)

By Scott|2013-11-11T14:37:13-05:00November 11th, 2013|Featured, Front Page News, Race Results, Southern All Stars|Comments Off