Incident at Speedway overshadowed by great racing action

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Incident at Speedway overshadowed by great racing action

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Incident

at Speedway overshadowed by great racing action

Tallahassee,

Florida's Marc Mitchell wins for the fourth time in five

weeks of racing in the Late Model division at the Senoia

Speedway on Saturday night, during the Alan Vigil

Southlake Ford 50 lap feature. Mitchell, who is sponsored

of the second row worked his way through traffic early

but was held up by Budweiser Pole Award winner Wayne

Hansard for numerous laps.

Mitchell

eventually inherited the lead from rookie driver and Pole

sitter Chad Caldwell on lap 27 when Caldwell slipped up

into the marbles exiting turn four as the two came

towards the start/finish line.

"If

the race had it been only 25 laps I would've won,"

said Chad Caldwell, driver of the #10 Ford Thunderbird.

"The car handled real good for the first 10 laps,

but after that it started pushing in three and four and

got worse and worse. He got by me after that."

caldwell eventually finished in second place.

Credited

with third and fourth place finishes were McDonough's

John Beach and Watkinsville's Ronnie Kittles. Fifth place

went to Fayetteville's Charlie Bagwell with Jefferson's

Lee Langford finishing sixth.

In a post

race incident the original third and fourth place

finishers, Gabriel Corbitt and Wayne Hansard were moved

to the final two positions.

"After

the race was over the Bill Heard Chevrolet sponsored car

driven by Wayne Hansard hit the Snap On Tools sponsored

car driven by Gabriel Corbitt in a very un-sportsmanlike

manner. The Corbitt car did retaliate." said Smitty

Lee, Senoia Speedway Track Owner. Smitty added, "We

try to keep this racing clean and because of that they

were both moved

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