Chase Elliott's Awesome in PASS South Hickory SLM win



Naples, ME 8/31/09- He may only be thirteen and it may have only been his
first ever Pro All Stars Series ( PASS) South super late model start but
Chase Elliot looked as if he knew each and every move to make to score his
first career PASS South series win in his first career start. Elliot used
the lapped car of John Batten as a pick to make his way by third place
finisher Cassius Clark and then ran down second place finisher Jeff
Choquette from ten car lengths back making a last lap pass on his way to
securing the win. Bradley McCaskill showed that you can do a lot with a
little as he scored his career best finish of fourth followed by another
newbie to the series, Andy Loden, who rounded out the top five in his first
career start and his second race in a super late model.



John Stancill grabbed the Pro Photo Productions fast qualifier award after
posting a time of 14.914 around the 3/8th mile track. Qualifying times
easily showed how tough PASS South competition has gotten over the years as
half a second separated Stancill from the last place qualifier. After the
series top ten redraw it shuffled several drivers around especially Cassius
Clark who benefited the most by moving from eighth to the pole position to
take the green flag.



An early race caution took out several drivers who never really had a chance
to show what they had including Preston Peltier, Alex Yontz, and Tayla
Orleans who all could have been a factor late in the going. At the same time
the caution flag was being displayed Jeff Choquette had made his move by
Cassius Clark for the top spot. From that point on Choquette's #33 machine
lead the next most laps, unfortunately for him that was one lap that he didn't
lead was the one he needed to. Elliot and Choquette raced side by side with
the white flag in the air before finally clearing Choquette's #33 machine
coming off of turn four for the win. With dad Bill Elliot and mom Cindy
Elliot celebrating in victory lane along with him, it couldn't have been
more fitting for the youngster to add his name to the list of famous drivers
that have won at the historic track.



In PASS truck series competition Jody Measamer made it back to back Hickory
wins as he cruised to the win in the fifty lap event. Michael Cooper muscled
his way past Grant Davidson on the final lap to finish second. The win by
Measamer propelled him to second in points over Clint King who previously
held the position, however, they all trail Grant Davidson who has lead the
newly formed series since the second race of the season back in April.



Next up is round two of the PASS National Championship series, the
$10,000.00 to win PASS 300 at Scarborough Maine's  Beech Ridge Motor
Speedway on September  12th and 13th. Two weeks later on Saturday September
26th the PASS South series will breathe new life into Kenly, North Carolina's
Southern National Speedway which has been dormant the entire 2009 racing
season thus far.



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Unofficial Results - PASS South Super Late Model Over the Mountain 150 -
Hickory Motor Speedway - Hickory NC - 8/29/2009 (with finishing position,
car number, driver)



      1 - 9 - Chase Elliott
      2 - 33 - Jeff Choquette
      3 - 8 - Cassius Clark
      4 - 18 - Bradley McCaskill
      5 - 29 - Andy Loden
      6 - 10 - Ryan Blaney
      7 - 9 - Keeton Hanks
      8 - 35 - Devin Jones
      9 - 4n - Ben Rowe
      10 - 05k - Gene Kirlia
      11 - 98 - Justin Wakefield
      12 - 18x - Billy Leslie
      13 - 48 - John Batten
      14 - 4s - Jay Fogleman
     15 - 51 - Michael Pope
      16 - 23 - Jimmy Weller
      17 - 47 - Corey Williams
      18 - 1 - Fred Moore
      19 - 22 - Perry Brown
      20 - 05 - Alex Fleming
      21 - 74 - Ryan Moore
      22 - 91 - Heath Hindman
      23 - 02 - Tim Nooner
      24 - 20 - John Stancill
      25 - 26 - Preston Peltier
      26 - 00 - Jeramie Whorff
      27 - 93 - Tayla Orleans
      28 - 55 - Alex Yontz