Benji Hicks Wins FASTRAK SE Season Opener At Toccoa Raceway

TOCCOA, GA – Benji Hicks of Mt. Airy, NC drove the T&K Enterprises Rocket to a $2,000 victory on Saturday night in the 40-lap 2017 season opener for the FASTRAK Pro Late Model Series South East Region at Toccoa Raceway. Hicks was the Group 1 Fast Qualifier with a time of 13.090 seconds, the first ten-lap Heat Race winner, and led all 40 laps of the main event to get the sweep.

Hicks had to hold off the defending FASTRAK SE Champion Cla Knight of North Augusta, SC to post the win. Knight had to settle for second in the Augusta Aquatics Longhorn. Colby Cannon took the third spot, and Kenny Collins of Colbert, GA drove to a fourth-place finish.

Forrest Trent of Talbott, TN finished fifth in the Service 101 Rocket. Trent was the overall Fast Qualifier of the event, topping Group 2 qualifiers with a lap around Toccoa Raceway in 12.953 seconds. Trent followed that up with a victory in the second ten-lap Heat Race to earn the outside front row starting spot for the 40-lap Main Event.

Jensen Ford of Piney Flats, TN was sixth in the Tim Byrd Motorsports TNT, and Tyler Arrington of Rural Retreat, VA took the seventh spot. Ron Parker of Belwood, NC drove the Schaefer Oil Rocket to an eighth-place finish, and Frankie Beard of Hartwell, GA finished ninth in the Jessica Cornett Racing Mastersbilt. Matthew Nance of Rhonda, NC rounded out the top ten in the Ultra Shield Barry Wright.

The next event for the FASTRAK SE Region will be a 40-lap $3,000-to-win National Event at Virginia Motor Speedway in Jamaica, VA on Saturday, April 8 as a part of the Aaron’s King of the Commonwealth.

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OFFICIAL RESULTS OF ROUND 1 AT TOCCOA RACEWAY IN TOCCOA, GA ON 4/1/17:

POS STRT CAR # DRIVER LAPS $ WON
1. 1 55 Benji Hicks 40 $2,000
2. 3 42 Cla Knight 40 $1,000
3. 5 16 Colby Cannon 40 $700
4. 7 187 Kenny Collins 40 $600
5. 2 101 Forrest Trent 40 $500
6. 6 83 Jensen Ford 40 $450
7. 10 002 Tyler Arrington 40 $400
8. 13 8 Ron Parker 40 $375
9. 12 2 Frankie Bread 40 $350
10. 8 24 Matthew Nance 40 $325
11. 11 11 David Smith 40 $315
12. 16 44 Dillon Lewis 40 $300
13. 9 F1 Payton Freeman 40 $275
14. 14 99 Teddy Tate 40 $265
15. 18 12 Daniel Wilson 39 $250
16. 4 14 Adam Smith 13 $250
17. 15 14s Sylvan Schuette 12 $250
18. 17 24 Phillip Thompson 12 $250
19. 20 74 Jody Farmer 12 $250
20. 19 23 Corey Gordon 0 $250

QUALIFYING:

GROUP 1:
1. 55 Benji Hicks, 13.090
2. 23 Corey Gordon, 13.112
3. 16 Colby Cannon, 13.161
4. 42 Cla Knight, 13.191
5. 187 Kenny Collins, 13.290
6. 11 David Smith, 13.372
7. 14s Sylvan Schuette, 13.472
8. F1 Payton Freeman, 13.488
9. 8 Ron Parker, 13.591
10. 24 Phillip Thompson, 13.632

GROUP 2:
1. 101 Forrest Trent, 12.953
2. 14 Adam Smith, 13.176
3. 83 Jensen Ford, 13.241
4. 24 Matthew Nance, 13.256
5. 002 Tyler Arrington, 13.443
6. 12 Daniel Wilson, 13.470
7. 2 Frankie Beard, 13.474
8. 99 Teddy Tate, 13.689
9. 74 Jody Farmer, 13.791
10. 44 Dillon Lewis, 13.957

HEAT RACES – 10 LAPS:

1ST HEAT: 1. Hicks; 2. Knight; 3. Cannon; 4. Collins; 5. Freeman; 6. D. Smith; 7. Parker; 8. Schuette; 9. Thompson; 10. Gordon.

2ND HEAT: 1. Trent; 2. A. Smith; 3. Ford; 4. Nance; 5. Arrington; 6. Beard; 7. Tate; 8. Lewis; 9. Wilson; 10. Farmer.


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