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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