Carolina Clash Super Late Model Series Schedule Set For 2006

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Three Quarters of a Million Dollars on the Line in Four State CAROLINA CLASH ‘2006 Tour de Force’
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(Fayetteville, N.C. – January 20, 2006) A new season
of super late model racing action has been announced by officials of the CAROLINA CLASH Super Late Model Series (SLMS) for 2006 that will barnstorm the Carolina’s and the bordering states of Virginia and Georgia. The thirty-four race schedule will see events with increased purses and a substantially growing championship points fund for the new calendar year. The series is entering its seventh year under the direction of series founder and President Larry Lee of Fayetteville, North Carolina and brings with it a host of talented short-track racers to tracks in the region.
"This should be a special year for the fans, competitors and hosting race tracks," notes Lee from the Fayetteville, North Carolina headquarters of the CAROLINA CLASH SLMS. "We are happy to be returning to the tracks that have been a crucial part of the continuing growth of the series during the past six years, and we have added a few new events at exciting venues."
2006 CAROLINA CLASH Super Late Model Series Schedule of Events Fri March 10-Season Opening Practice and Media Day (Carolina Speedway, Gastonia, NC) Sat March 11-Carolina Speedway (Gastonia, NC) $5,000 to win Sat March 18-Lancaster Speedway (Lancaster, SC) $5,000 to win Sat March 25-Off Weekend Sat April 1-Off Weekend Sat April 8-Fayetteville Motor Speedway (Fayetteville,
NC) $4,000 to win
Sat April 15-I-20 Speedway (Batesburg, SC) $4,000 to win Sat April 22-Off Weekend Fri April 28-Modoc Speedway (Modoc, SC) $4,000 to win Sat April 29-Riverside Speedway (Travelers Rest, SC) $4,000 to win Sat May 6-Fayetteville Motor Speedway (Fayetteville,
NC) $4,000 to win
Fri May 12-Thunder Valley Speedway (Lawndale, NC) $4,000 to win Sat May 13-I-20 Speedway (Batesburg, SC) $4,000 to win Sat May 20-Off Weekend Fri May 26-Clary’s Speedway (Brinkleyville, NC) $5,000 to win Sat May 27-Clary’s Speedway (Brinkleyville, NC) $5,000 to win Sat June 3-Wythe Raceway (Rural Retreat, VA) $4,000 to win Sat June 10-Off Weekend Sat June 17-Oglethorpe Speedway Park (Savannah, GA) $5,000 to win Fri June 23-Carolina Speedway (Gastonia, NC) $4,000 to win Sat June 24-Laurens County Speedway (Laurens, SC) $4,000 to win Sat July 1-Fayetteville Motor Speedway (Fayetteville,
NC) $5,000 to win
Sat July 8-Lancaster Speedway (Lancaster, SC) $5,000 to win Sat July 15-Off Weekend Sat July 22-I-20 Speedway (Batesburg, SC) $5,000 to win Sat July 29-Laurens County Speedway (Laurens, SC) $4,000 to win Sat August 5-Wythe Raceway (Rural Retreat, VA) $4,000 to win Fri August 11-Oak Level Raceway (Martinsville, VA) $4,000 to win Sat August 12-New 311 Speedway (Madison, NC) $4,000 to win Sat August 19-Toccoa Motor Speedway (Toccoa, GA) $5,000 to win Sat August 26-Off Weekend Fri September 1-Fayetteville Motor Speedway (Fayetteville, NC) $4,000 to win Sat September 2-Fayetteville Motor Speedway (Fayetteville, NC) $5,000 to win Sat September 9-Off Weekend Sat September 16-Wythe Raceway (Rural Retreat, VA) $4,000 to win Sat September 23-I-20 Speedway (Batesburg, SC) $4,000 to win Fri September 29-Clary’s Speedway (Brinkleyville, NC) $5,000 to win Sat September 30-Clary’s Speedway (Brinkleyville, NC) $5,000 to win Fri October 6-Modoc Speedway (Modoc, SC) $4,000 to win Sat October 7-Riverside Speedway (Travelers Rest, SC) $4,000 to win Sat October 14-Off Weekend Fri October 20-21-Oglethorpe Speedway Park (Savannah,
GA) $10,000 to win
Fri October 27-Fayetteville Motor Speedway (Fayetteville, NC) $4,000 to win Sat October 28-Fayetteville Motor Speedway (Fayetteville, NC) $5,000 to win
The CAROLINA CLASH SLMS ‘2006 Tour de Force’ will shift into high gear when the tour opens the season on the weekend of March 10-11 at Carolina Speedway in Gastonia, North Carolina. On Friday, March 10th the series will host a special Media Day, Cookout and Season-Opening Practice session for the drivers of the CAROLINA CLASH SLMS, the Championship Modified Tour
(CMT) and all support divisions of Carolina Speedway.
On Saturday, March 11th the CAROLINA CLASH SLMS will officially open when the green flag waves on the special 50 lap, $5,000 to win main event and all support division features. The series will return to Gastonia for a mid-season visit on Friday night, June 23rd in a $4,000 to win 40 lap sanctioned race. The track is promoted by former NASCAR Grand National Crew Chief David Ifft and should provide some memorable racing highlights in the pair of visits during the
2006 season.
Lancaster Speedway will host the second CAROLINA CLASH SLMS event when the tour rolls into Lancaster, South Carolina on Saturday, March 18th. The trip to the Palmetto State will see the tour’s talented racers square off in a 50 Lap $5,000 to win thriller. Doug McManus brings the Clash drivers back to the speedy half-mile Lancaster Speedway for a second time around on Saturday, July 8th in another $5,000 to win 50 lap shootout.
After taking two weekends off on, March 25 and April 1, the Clash driver’s will race into Fayetteville Motor Speedway in the host city of the CAROLINA CLASH SLMS. The first of the tour’s handful of trips to the Fayetteville, North Carolina four-tenths mile oval will be on Saturday, April 8th with a $4,000 to win 40-lap affair. The tour’s second stop at Fayetteville Motor Speedway will come on Saturday, May 6th.
Fayetteville Motor Speedway will up the ante during the Fourth of July weekend when the series lights the candle on a $5,000 to win 50 Lap holiday special. The final two visits to Fayetteville will each feature double-header weekends with Friday night $4,000 to win 40 lap events combined with $5,000 to win 50 lappers.
The twin feature weekends first happen during the Labor Day weekend on Friday and Saturday, September
1-2 and then again in the season-ending CAROLINA CLASH SLMS events on Friday and Saturday, October 27-28 which will pay $5,000 to the winner each night. Larry Norris and Ed Longhany are enthusiastic about the series’ visits to the Fayetteville Motor Speedway and should have the fans ready for some serious coastal Carolina racing action on each tour stop off of Interstate 95.
A lot of racing history has been recorded in Batesburg, South Carolina over the years and this year should be no different as the CAROLINA CLASH SLMS hammers down with four one-day stops at I-20 Speedway.
Billy and Judy Hallman have posted their series dates as Saturday, April 15th; Saturday, May 13th; Saturday, July 22nd; and Saturday, September 23rd. The July 22nd visit will feature a $5,000 to win 50-lap event with the balance of the other three Clash stops offering $4,000 to win. Long-time racing supporter and advocate Jack Starrette has placed I-20 Speedway in competent hands with the Hallman's ready to really add to the racing excitement at the Batesburg facility with major speedway upgrades.
South Carolina race fans are in for an added treat when the CAROLINA CLASH SLMS makes two different back-to-back nights of racing at Modoc Speedway and Riverside Speedway. The first of the two double-header weekends in South Carolina will occur on Friday night, April 28th in Modoc with a $4,000 to win feature, followed by a Saturday night trek to Travelers Rest, South when Riverside Speedway promoter Curtis Teems and company host a $4,000 to win showdown on Saturday, April 29th. The second twin weekend of racing in South Carolina will happen on Friday, October 6th when the Clash roars back to life at Terry Odom’s Modoc Speedway followed by another Saturday night special at Riverside Speedway in Travelers Rest.

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Thunder Valley Speedway in Lawndale, North Carolina will host the CAROLINA CLASH SLMS on Friday night May 12th. A field of heavy hitters will be expected at the Cleveland County speedplant when Terry Harris and Steve Mason host the tour.
Clary’s Speedway in Brinkleyville, North Carolina will host two separate weekends on the CAROLINA CLASH SLMS which feature $5,000 to win 50 lappers each night. J. C. Clary Jr. announced that the Clary family owned facility in northeastern North Carolina will host the first of the two special double-headers will on Friday, May 26th and Saturday, May 27th with $5,000 up for the winner each time. The special format will be repeated with the series heads back to Clary’s Speedway on Friday, September 29th and Saturday, September 30th with another pair of 50 lap main events.
The Clash "2006 Tour de Force" will make its first trek into Virginia on Saturday, June 3rd with a $4,000 to win 40-lap stop at the Fred Brown owned Rural Retreat, Virginia high-banked facility. It is the first of three sanctioned CAROLINA CLASH SLMS races at the Wytheville area track with the other two visits coming on Saturday, August 5th and again on Saturday, September 16, each of the events being $4,000 to win shows. Brown should once again pack the hillsides of the exciting Virginia racing venue with ultra-competitive racing slated for the three visits from the series.
The border state of Georgia will see two special events on the CAROLINA CLASH SLMS roll into the colonial coastal city of Savannah, Georgia, including the first-ever $10,000 to win event on the Clash tour.
Oglethorpe Speedway Park will host the series on Saturday, June 17th during a $5,000 to win 50 lap date when the circuit stops at the Stone family owned half-mile speedway. Oglethorpe Speedway Park promoter Ted Austad, a former national promoter of the year, has tabbed the CAROLINA CLASH SLMS as the headline event when the tour comes back into Savannah during the annual "Showdown on the Coast" on October 20-21.
The lucrative two-day event is the highest paying event to date in the seven-year history of the CAROLINA CLASH SLMS and will feature a 100 lap, $10,000 to win feature.
The summer’s soaring temperatures won’t be the only thing heat up in South Carolina as the Clash "Tour de Force 2006" rumbles into Laurens County Speedway with a pair of events slated for Saturday, June 24th and again on Saturday, July 29th. Track owner Fred Cogsdill will host the two 40 lap races that pay the winners $4,000 each.
On August 12th the CAROLINA CLASH SLMS heads to the New 311 Speedway in Madison, North Carolina. The Saturday night at the Bobby Johns owned facility promises to be a thunderous night of racing action at the track steeped in dirt late model history in the Carolina’s.
The CAROLINA CLASH SLMS regulars will battle it out with the regional hot shoes in the hills of North Georgia on Saturday, August 19th when the tour turns the heat up at Toccoa Motor Speedway. A payday of $5,000 awaits the winner of the 50-lap rumble on the unique and racy surface of the Toccoa, Georgia track owned by Randy McCoy.
During the 2005 racing season, CAROLINA CLASH SLMS Champion Ricky Weeks of Rutherfordton, North Carolina led the way in the win column picking up seven series checkered flags as he won the season-long championship points battle over David Smith of Inman, South Carolina who had one series win during the 2005 campaign. Jeff Smith notched five wins for his team based out of Kings Mountain, North Carolina, while veteran Gary Mabe of Danbury, North Carolina picked two wins on the tour. A pair of Georgia drivers each scored two wins apiece on the CAROLINA CLASH SLMS in
2005 including former NASCAR Winston Cup ace Jack Pennington of Winston, Georgia and Benji Cole of Toccoa, Georgia. Royce Bray of Athens, Georgia and Kelly Guy of Thomaston, Georgia also won Clash events in 2005.
In addition to last year’s winners on the series, the list of history making stock car drivers who make up the all-time winners list on the CAROLINA CLASH SLMS tour include former tour champions Ed Basey, Scott Autry, Ed Gibbons and Jeff Tyndall and Hall of Famers and World Champions Freddy Smith, Mike Duvall and Ronnie Johnson. Other renown short track heroes who have scored wins on the CAROLINA CLASH SLMS over the first six years of the tour include veterans Billy Hicks, Skip Arp, Dan Breuer, Ray Tucker, Ricky Boahn, Tim Headen, Phil Hall, Gerald Mintz, Doug Sanders, Hank Edwards and Neal Sykes. A strong group of America’s hottest young guns in the dirt late model world have also taken series wins including 2005 NARA Dirt Series National Champion Earl Pearson Jr., Jimmy Owens, Chris Madden, Jeff Cooke, Dennis Franklin and Johnny Collins. Other CAROLINA CLASH series winners during the past six seasons have been Ricky Sullivan, Chris Usry, Chuck Finch, Kent Wright and Tommy Massey.
Additional news, competitor information and details on host facilities can be found throughout the 2006 season at the official web site of the CAROLINA CLASH SLMS on the internet at www.carolinaclash.com (http://www.dirt4m.com/www.carolinaclash.com). Series officials may be reached via e-mail at racing@carolinaclash.com or by fax at (910) 823-9150.