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Several local charities and community agencies will be the big winners at the Gresham Motorsports Park Grand Opening free community festival this Saturday, November 7.

Multiple events at the totally refurbished Gresham Motorsports Park facility will raise funds, food and toys for several local groups that day, according to GMP General Manager Dan Elliott. [Full Story »] 

Defending World Crown 300 champion Russell Fleeman heads a quickly growing list of entries for the 2009 Late Model racing classic that will re-open the totally renovated Gresham Motorsports Park in Jefferson the weekend of November 13-15.

“The old racetrack had a lot of character to it,” said Fleeman of the former Peach State Speedway. “Now the racetrack has new asphalt on it and while it has similar characteristics, it’s a whole lot faster. This place is fabulous. Mr. Gresham and the rest of the team here have done a fantastic job with the entire facility renovation.

"I can’t wait for all the fans to come here and experience this. I know I can’t wait to get here and try to defend our title in the World Crown 300.” [Full Story »] 

For a while, it looked like Casey Roderick had picked up his second GAS series win Saturday night at Lanier National Speedway.

But after failing post-race tech, Braselton’s Shane Sawyer inherited the win, his first GAS victory of 2009.

“I really hate it for Casey,” said Sawyer. “We have lost some that way as well. This isn’t the way that I wanted to win tonight’s race, but a win is a win.” [Full Story »] 

Braselton’s Shane Sawyer started up front and finished in the same place, recording another Pro Late Model victory at Lanier National Speedway Saturday night.

Sawyer fell back on the drop of the green flag, and then charged back to take the lead on the fourth lap. He would lead the next 46 circuits to take the victory.

It was a double race night for the truck division, as it was a make-up night for last week’s rain out. Kristin Wallace recorded her first win of the year in one race, while Paul Antley recorded his seventh victory of 2009 in the other. [Full Story »] 

No matter how hard it rained Saturday, it wasn’t going to ruin Casey Roderick’s parade.

The Lawrenceville native was out front in the GAS series event at Lanier National Speedway when the skies opened up on lap 88 of the 100-lap Pro Late Model event. When the event was called due to the rain, that gave Roderick his first career GAS series win.

Roderick, piloting the number 19 Bill Elliott Motorsports Ford, started on the outside of the front row, alongside Bill Elliott’s son, Chase, who is also Roderick’s teammate. [Full Story »] 

Braselton’s Shane Sawyer took control of the Pro Late Model event Saturday night at Lanier National Speedway on the 12th lap, and never looked back as he recorded his second win of the year at the Braselton short track.

“We have had back luck so far this year, but lucky it was one of those nights to where everything worked out right for us,” Sawyer said after the win.

The Braselton driver won the pole for the late model event, but was moved to fourth on an inversion dice roll. Tony Bennett led the first 12 laps before giving up the lead to Sawyer. [Full Story »] 

Fans at Lanier National Speedway may have thought they were experiencing déjà vu during the July 3 Georgia Asphalt Series Independence Day 100.

Pendergrass’ Paul Kelley and Dacula’s Russell Fleeman, who finished 1-2 in last weekend’s ASA Southeast Asphalt Tour event at Lanier, battled it out again this weekend with Kelley taking his second straight win at Lanier and his first in the Georgia Asphalt Series, just 0.141 seconds ahead of Fleeman.

At the start of the Independence Day 100, pole sitter T.J. Reaid jumped out front of the field until the first caution on lap 11. On the restart, Kelley battled Reaid on the outside, pushing the nose of his car ahead to lead lap 12 before clearing Reaid on lap 13. [Full Story »] 

On paper, Paul Kelley’s night at Lanier National Speedway looked like a walk in the park. The Pendergrass racer started from the pole, led the most laps and won the ASA Southeast Asphalt Tour 100 on Saturday.

But despite the nice stat line, Kelley had his hands full in taking his second win of the season.

After battling the heat and Casey Roderick for the first half of the event, Kelley spent the rest of the 100-lap race fighting Dacula’s Russell Fleeman for the victory. [Full Story »] 

It was a family affair Saturday night at Lanier National Speedway as Greg Simpson held off his brother Shawn to take the win in the Pro-Late Model feature event. Greg took the lead on the 14th lap, and would stay there the rest of the night to win the 60-lap race.

The event was stopped by a lengthy red flag after the cars of James Nealis and Shane Chastain crashed on the front stretch. After the cleanup, Greg was able to hold off Shawn for the win, with Braselton’s Shane Sawyer finishing third, Trey Poole fourth and Dwayne Buggay fifth. Jeremy Rice, Dalton Grindle, Tom Schuette, Will Prance and Cale Langford rounded out the top ten. [Full Story »]