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GAS Officials Release Revised Results

Senoia driver Bubba Pollard grabbed his third Georgia Asphalt Series win of the season at Peach State Speedway Saturday night after a spirited battle with Paul Kelley of Pendergrass.

Kelley recovered from a last lap tangle with a lap car to finish second, although GAS timing and scoring originally listed his as finishing fifth.
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Traditional race fans got a pleasant surprise last Thursday morning when the announcement was made that the Southern 500 would be returning to the NASCAR Sprint Cup schedule, in name at least, at Darlington Raceway in South Carolina in 2009.

The Southern 500 was one of the races that helped build NASCAR into what it is today. But a desire to cash in on a supposed goldmine of fans in California (that has since failed to materialize) saw Darlington’s traditional date go to the California Speedway in 2003. The Southern 500 event itself, after a one-year run in November, was done away with in 2005.
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After reading several of the reports and opinions about Saturday’s Nationwide series race in Montreal, which was run as a steady rain fell, one supposed “fact” was stated several times.

The offending item was the notion that Saturday’s event was the first ever NASCAR race run in the rain.

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