Story by Godwin Kelly – Daytona News Journal Sports Editor<\/p>\n
SAMSULA — Tim Russell, who started fourth in the 26-car field, led almost every lap to win Saturday’s caution-filled Billie Harvey 100 Super Late Model feature at New Smyrna Speedway. <\/p>\n
Sam Watts finished second followed by Ben Kennedy in his No. 96 Chevrolet, who raced side-by-side with Rich Clouser. <\/p>\n
Russell has won five consecutive FASCAR Triple Crown races, including last year’s Billie Harvey 100. <\/p>\n
“We had an awesome car,” Russell said. “It’s pretty cool to win this race. My dad said Billie Harvey would give the shirt off his back.” <\/p>\n
It was a wild race with six cautions, two red flags and one serious hissy fit. <\/p>\n
The first green flag set the tone for the night. It took three tries to start the 100-lap race over the fast, half-mile oval. There was action on the first lap when the No. 34 of Shaughn McCormick spun on the front stretch as the green flag was displayed. <\/p>\n
On the next restart, there was a four-car pileup on the backstretch that forced a red-flag to clean up the mess. The red flag lasted about 15 minutes. <\/p>\n
When the cars came to a stop, Matthew Stichmann emerged from his battered machine and started jumping up and down on the hood of the No. 14 entry driven by Mario Maresca. <\/p>\n
Stichmann then bounded off the Maresca’s machine and started kicking it and punching the sheet metal with his fist. Stichmann tried to throw a punch at Maresca through the driver’s side window before he was restrained by track officials. FASCAR told Stichmann to pack up and head home. <\/p>\n
When the race started, just after 10 p.m., it quickly became a two-car battle between short-track aces Russell and Wayne Anderson. But Anderson wiped out with 20 laps to go. <\/p>\n
The third yellow flag was waved on Lap 10 when Mike Finn slammed the wall in Turn 2. The race went back to green on Lap 17, with Russell and Anderson continuing their side-by-side battle. <\/p>\n
The fourth caution came out for Mario Gosselin, who slapped the wall hard in Turn 4 on Lap 60. The right side of Gosselin’s No. 61 car was pancaked, but the driver was reported unharmed. <\/p>\n
Gosselin’s machine leaked so much fluid on the track, FASCAR officials had to red-flag the race a second time for extensive cleanup.<\/p>\n
\nBILLIE HARVEY MEMORIAL 100
\nSUPER LATE MODELS<\/div>\n\n1. #36 Tim Russell
\n2. #73 Sam Watts
\n3. #96 Ben Kennedy
\n4. #9 Rich Clouser
\n5. #141 Travis Hanson
\n6. #33x Daniel Webster
\n7. #4B Alan Bruns
\n8. #88 Justin Larson
\n9. #9z Zack Donatti<\/div>\n10. #127 Brandon Booth
\n11. #29 Mallory Harvey
\n12. #22 Dusty Cornelius<\/div>\n13. #21 James Carter
\n14. #64 Joe Winchell<\/div>\n15. #84 Wayne Anderson<\/div>\n16. #33 Jeff Choquette<\/div>\n17. #61 Mario Gosselin<\/div>\n18. #26c Travis Cope<\/div>\n19. #119 JR McMickle<\/div>\n20. #14 Mario Maresca<\/div>\n21. #80 Brian Finney<\/div>\n22. #05x David LeBeau<\/div>\n23. #06 Mike Finn<\/div>\n24. #13 Bob Greene<\/div>\n25. #34 Shaughn McCormick
\nDQ #52 Matthew Stichmann<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\nPRO-TRUCKS<\/div>\n\n1. #20 Anthony Sergi
\n2. #15 Cody Blair
\n3. #7 Thomas Warnick
\n4. #99 Brent Tyler<\/div>\n5. #10 Blake Suttie
\n6. #8 Bobby Kennedy<\/div>\n7. #4K Amanda Gogel
\n8. #7B Sonny Buchanan<\/div>\n9. #7S Dale Stephens<\/div>\n10. #73 Jim Campbell<\/div>\n11. #28 TJ Duke<\/div>\n12. #24 Bruce Bennett<\/div>\n13. #3 Jim Alterizio
\nDQ #21 Scott Reeves<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\nE-MODIFIEDS<\/div>\n\n1. #15 Cody Blair
\n2. #89 Josh Todd<\/div>\n3. #54 David Hite
\n4. #6 Rich Clouser<\/div>\n5. #59 Chris Brannon<\/div>\n6. #36 Russ Moore
\n7. #5 John Compagnone<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\nSUPER STOCKS<\/div>\n\n1. #56 Bobby Holley<\/div>\n2. #60 Ernie Tumminello<\/div>\n3. #86 RIchard Goodrich
\n4. #21 Mike Dahm<\/div>\n5. #22K Eric Kottwitz<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\nSTRICTLY STOCKS<\/div>\n\n1. #8 Neil Kirby
\n2. #9 David Brannon<\/div>\n3. #54 Daryl Thiel<\/div>\n4. #21 Maureen Dahm<\/div>\nDQ #60 Gino Tumminello<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Story by Godwin Kelly – Daytona News Journal Sports Editor SAMSULA — Tim Russell, who started fourth in the 26-car field, led almost every lap […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"publish_to_discourse":"","publish_post_category":"","wpdc_auto_publish_overridden":"","wpdc_topic_tags":"","wpdc_pin_topic":"","wpdc_pin_until":"","discourse_post_id":"","discourse_permalink":"","wpdc_publishing_response":"","wpdc_publishing_error":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[16,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1308","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-new-smyrna-speedway","category-race-results"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/karnac.com\/flanews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1308","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/karnac.com\/flanews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/karnac.com\/flanews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/karnac.com\/flanews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/karnac.com\/flanews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1308"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/karnac.com\/flanews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1308\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1314,"href":"https:\/\/karnac.com\/flanews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1308\/revisions\/1314"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/karnac.com\/flanews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1308"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/karnac.com\/flanews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1308"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/karnac.com\/flanews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1308"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}