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"12" Carolina Clash Super Late
Model Series Champion Luke Roffers.


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Jonathan
Davenport Surges Through Field To Claim Cherokee
Checkers
Intermittent rain showers and late-race tire issues
complicate series return to Gaffney, SC track
Mark Huey, Carolina Clash PR
Gaffney, SC is world-famous for the peach farms that
cover Cherokee County, SC like a patchwork quilt.
Interstate 85 at exit 90 is known as the “Peach Exit”
with the landmark water tower in the style of a peach.
Two drivers from the “Peach State” would cross the
state line on I-85 as the top two finishers at the
Cherokee Speedway on Saturday night, May 11, 2013.
Jonathan Davenport, of Blairsville, Georgia and Chip
Brindle of Chatsworth, Georgia finished first and
second. It took over eight years for the Carolina
Clash series to find its way back to “the place your
momma warned you about” and the fans were eager as
ever to see many of their favorite super late model
drivers from the Carolinas and Georgia tackle the
“super short track of the upstate.” The teams that
made their way to Cherokee Speedway did not disappoint
the large crowd on hand to watch another great super
late model race at the track that made super late
model racing famous throughout the 1980s and 1990s.
Twenty-three cars signed in for race #7 all time and
series event #250 at the Gaffney, SC short track. When
the Carolina Clash last visited Cherokee, the track
was its former ˝ mile layout and many of the drivers
in the field had raced there and won often on the
current surface.
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Johnny Pursley
Wins At Carolina Speedway Of Gastonia, NC
Last lap pass gives Pursley his fifth Carolina Clash
win and the point lead going to Cherokee this weekend.
Race #5 of season this Saturday at Cherokee Speedway
of Gaffney, SC
Mark Huey, Carolina Clash PR
To open up the first weekend in May, this past
weekend's racing around the Carolinas felt more like a
"winter freeze" when overcast skies, cold
temperatures, biting wind chills, and absence of
sunlight set up over the entire week prior to May 3 at
Carolina Speedway. However, the action on the "action
track" was hotter than the heat lamps in the
concession stands as the forth lap main event treated
the crowd to five lead changes, including a last turn
pass for the win. It was the 17th race in the history
of the Carolina Clash at Carolina Speedway since 2004.
Chip Brindle of Chatsworth, GA set the Roush Yates
Performance Products Fast Time with a lap of 15.607.
Tim Allen would start on the front row with Brindle.
Allen led the first three laps of the race until a
caution slowed the field when Ross Bailes and Chuck
Smith tangled in turn one. Bailes was second in points
entering Carolina and was driving the #75 NDRA Late
Model owned by John and Wesley Page of Rock Hill, SC.
Bailes, of Clover, SC started the race from the 19th
position and went on to finish 8th, earning his team
the Safety-Kleen Hard Charger of the Race Award.
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