Fayette County SN

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Heading that way shortly.

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Awesome! Have fun!

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Hotlaps underway.

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Hotlaps complete.
Fastest: Matt Bailey 13.432

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Delay for guardrail repair.

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Qualifying underway.
A/B tonight.

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Group A fast time:

Shannon Babb 13.045

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Group B fast time:

Steve Casebolt 13.493

Qualifying complete.

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Heat 1 on track. Top 4 transfer.

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Heat 1 green.

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Heat 1 transfers:

Shirley
Heckenast
Babb
Zobrist

Babb fell from 1st to 3rd over the last lap. Flat tire.

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Heat 2 green.

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Heat 2 transfers:

Sheppard
Moyer
Kloos
Schlenk

Daryn Klein had a flat while running in a transfer position.

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Heat 3 green.

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Heat 3 transfers:

Feger
Casebolt
Bauer
Kuper

Tim Manville blew a tire while running in a transfer position.

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Heat 4 green.

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Caution immediately as Steven Roberts spins.
Complete restart.

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Back to green.

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Caution as Dean Carpenter slaps the wall.

7 to go

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111 4g
26m 16

Back to green

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Heat 4 transfers:

Erb Jr
Gardner
McKinnon
Griffaw

Steven Roberts dug the nose in and killed the radiator while running in a transfer position.

Heats complete.

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[153J]

thanks for the updates

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C-Main on track.
Top 4 transfer.

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C-Main green.

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Caution with 6 to go as Tim Lance Jr spins.

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Back to green.

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C-Main transfers:

Klein
Milam
Jacoby
Conaway

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B-Main on track.

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B-Main green.

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Caution at lap 1 as Dan Jacober spins.

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Back to green with 11 to go.

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Caution immediately as Daryn Klein spins.

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Klein parks it.
Back to green with 11 to go.

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Caution immediately as Milam, Jacober, Fetter, and Koch tangle.

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Back to green with 11 to go..

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B-Main transfers:

Melvin
Vandenbergh

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Intermission.

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50 lap A-Main is staging.

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A-Main on track.

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Rolling...

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Green flag!

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Caution immediately as Zobrist and Lance spin.
Complete restart.

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Back to green with 50 to go.

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Shirley leads lap 1.
Feger falls to 5th.

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Lap 4

Shirley by 7 over Erb.
Sheppard 3rd.

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Lap 7

Shirley stretching it out.

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B5
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Lap 10

Shirley hits traffic with a healthy lead over Erb.

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Lap 13

Shirley by almost a straightaway over Erb.
Running top in traffic.

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Lap 16

Sheppard has caught Erb.
Shirley still out front.

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Lap 19

Erb and Sheppard start to close on Shirley as he laps faster cars.

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Lap 22

Shirley scooting away again as Erb and Sheppard battle side by side for 2nd.

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Halfway

Shirley is gone.
Heckenast, Erb, and Sheppard 3 wide for 2nd.

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Lap 28

Heckenast breaks through to 2nd.

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Caution with 20 to go as one of the Lance cars spins.

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Back to green with 20 to go.
Heckenast and Sheppard were locked in an intense battle for 2nd in traffic before the yellow.

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6k c9

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17 to go

Heckenast trying to charge on the bottom!!

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14 to go

3s 99 b5 under a blanket!!!

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Caution with 13 to go as Feger is up in smoke.

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B5
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Back to green with 13 to go

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Caution immediately as Brent McKinnon spins.

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Back to green with 13 to go..

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18 91
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HOLY COW!

CAUTION immediately as Heckenast and Sheppard make contact and spin into the infield!

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Schlenk is out.
Casebolt to the infield

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Back to green with 13 to go

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12 cars remaining.

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11 to go

Here comes Babb!

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8 to go

Shirley by 6 over Babb.

Shirley top, Babb bottom.

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6 to go

Moyer broke.

Shirley starting to pull away from Babb.

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3 to go

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All spread out.

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White flag

Babb charging on the bottom!

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Checker

Shirley BARELY holds off a hard charging Shannon Babb on the bottom.

Shirley
Babb
Erb Jr
Heckenast
Melvin

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Only 11 finishers.

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[intel8]

Thanks Shiny!

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Thanks for the updates.

[Dirt Clod]

Great job on the updates. THANKS AGAIN!

[50Dixon50]

Thanks Shiny

[Mud Packer]

As always, great job Shiny on the updates. I appreciate it very much.

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I forgot to ask. What was up with the tire issues in the heat races. I wasn't aware that Fayette County was hard on tires. Any issues in the A-Main?

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I forgot to ask. What was up with the tire issues in the heat races. I wasn't aware that Fayette County was hard on tires. Any issues in the A-Main?

It was mostly due to drivers smacking the wall out of turn 2. I don't recall any tire issues in the feature.