GREENVILLE, MS – Mike Boland of Cuba, AL swept the preliminary events on Friday night for the NeSmith Chevrolet Dirt Late Model Series “Rumble On The Gumbo” 75 at Greenville Speedway. Boland drove The Strength Center Trak-Star to fast time honors, and then won the first 12-lap heat race to earn the pole position for Saturday night’s main event.

Boland out-timed the 34-car field with a lap around the ¼-mile gumbo clay oval in 15.104 seconds to earn the pole position for the first of four 12-lap heat races. Boland then led all 12 laps to win the heat race and take the inside front row starting spot for the $5,000-to-win Big Show on Saturday night.

NeSmith Chevrolet Dirt Late Model Series point leader Dan Breuer of Troutman, NC won the second heat race driving the AES Special to earn the outside front row starting spot for the Rumble On The Gumbo 75.

VP Racing Fuels Rookie of the Year candidate Mark Tice of Avon, MS won the third heat on his home track and will start the main event from the third starting spot in the Precision Marine Trak-Star. Chase Washington of Houlka, MS took the fourth heat race win in the Greg’s Sawmill GRT and will start on the outside of row two in the Rumble On The Gumbo 75.

Drivers finishing in the top four spots in the four heat races transferred into the Rumble On The Gumbo 75 to make up the “Sweet 16.” Row three starters in the main event are Chase Edge of Lafayette, AL in the Edge’s Gas Company Special and Jeremy Shaw of Millport, AL in the Summit Resources Development Trak-Star, who finished second the first and second heats respectively.

Third heat second-place finisher Shannon Lee of Lumberton, MS starts seventh in the Billy Riels Racing GRT, and fourth heat second-place finisher Johnny Stokes of Columbus, MS starts the TJC Mortgage/Maximum Signs and Graphics GRT in the eighth spot for the Saturday night main event.

The third place finishers in the first and second heats, Lamar Furr of Hollandale, MS in the Geddies Repair GRT and two-time NeSmith Chevrolet Dirt Late Model Series Champion David Earl Gentry of Murfreesboro, TN in the Eads Farms/Dixon Plumbing Special, make up row five for the Rumble On The Gumbo 75.

Row six is made up of the third place finishers in the third and fourth heats. Bobby Jordan of McCarley, MS starts 11th in the Henderson Waste and Recycling Trak-Star and Duke Palasini of Leland, MS will start the Palasini Farms Special in the 12th spot.

Billy Tedford of Pontotoc, MS drove the Billy’s Auto Repair GRT to a fourth-place finish in the first heat and will start on the inside of row seven for the main event, and Matthew Turner of Dawsonville, GA took the fourth spot in the second heat to earn the 14th starting spot for the Saturday night Big Show.

Rounding out the eighth row of the “Sweet 16” were the fourth place finishers in the third and fourth heat races. Wesley Greene of Winona, MS starts on the inside in the Transport Service Center Trak-Star, and Steve Cooke of Mt. Airy, NC goes from the outside in the AES Special.

Drivers that finished fifth on back in the four heat races on Friday night will have another opportunity to make the Rumble On The Gumbo 75 in one of two preliminary 15-lap B-Main races on Saturday night. The top four finishers in each B-Main race will transfer into the main event in starting positions 17 through 24.

On Saturday at Greenville Speedway, the gates open at 4 p.m., with the drivers meeting set for 6:30 p.m., and racing is scheduled for 7 p.m.

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PRELIMINARY RESULTS OF ROUND 5 AT GREENVILLE SPEEDWAY IN GREENVILLE, MS ON 4/8/11:

QUALIFYING:
GROUP 1:
POS CAR # DRIVER HOMETOWN CHASSIS LAP 1 LAP 2 TIME
1 24 Mark Tice - R Avon, MS Trak-Star 16.658 15.512 15.512
2 47 Shannon Lee Lumberton, MS GRT 15.567 15.521 15.521
3 22 Mike Campbell Grenada, MS Mastersbilt 15.871 15.786 15.786
4 J8 Bobby Jordan McCarley, MS Trak-Star 16.108 16.061 16.061
5 C55 David Carpenter Greenwood, MS Rocket 16.118 17.535 16.118
6 95 Wesley Greene Winona, MS Trak-Star 16.309 16.641 16.309
7 93 Jake Knight - R Georgetown, MS Trak-Star 16.434 16.429 16.429
8 D7 Jerry Inmon Bruce, MS GRT 16.812 16.490 16.490
9 72 Frank Wilson - R Harold, FL Trak-Star 17.986 16.552 16.552

GROUP 2:
POS CAR # DRIVER HOMETOWN CHASSIS LAP 1 LAP 2 TIME
1 19w Chase Washington Houlka, MS GRT 15.848 16.154 15.848
2 17c Steve Cooke Mt. Airy, NC Barry Wright 15.896 16.781 15.896
3 V8 Duke Palasini Leland, MS Larry Shaw 15.917 16.401 15.917
4 1 Johnny Stokes Columbus, MS GRT 16.186 16.046 16.046
5 46 Kenny Carpenter Cleveland, MS GRT 16.211 16.697 16.211
6 2T Tootie Arnold - R Bude, MS GRT 16.417 16.256 16.256
7 21k Randle Blalack Wayside, MS Warrior 16.910 17.327 16.910
8 7 Eric Carr Bruce, MS Mastersbilt 18.206 16.917 16.917
9 7p Eric Pollan Cleveland, MS GRT 17.061 16.931 16.931

GROUP 3:
POS CAR # DRIVER HOMETOWN CHASSIS LAP 1 LAP 2 TIME
1 222 Mike Boland Cuba, AL Trak-Star 15.275 15.104 15.104
2 110 Brent Barrett Cleveland, MS GRT 15.947 15.617 15.617
3 F5 Lamar Furr Hollandale, MS GRT 15.758 16.315 15.758
4 18 Chase Edge - R Lafayette, AL Mastersbilt 15.921 15.762 15.762
5 91 Billy Tedford Pontotoc, MS GRT 15.887 15.770 15.770
6 26 Glenn Craft Greenville, MS GRT 15.923 15.874 15.874
7 56h Bubba Harrison Cleveland, MS GRT 16.354 16.212 16.212
8 17 Chad Washington Greenville, MS GRT 16.399 16.481 16.399

GROUP 4:
POS CAR # DRIVER HOMETOWN CHASSIS LAP 1 LAP 2 TIME
1 1s Jeremy Shaw Millport, AL Trak-Star 15.781 15.327 15.327
2 B7 Danny Breuer Troutman, NC Barry Wright 15.695 15.496 15.496
3 10 Matthew Turner Dawsonville, GA DWB 15.839 15.614 15.614
4 33 Wesley Brown Greenville, MS Trak-Star 15.704 15.625 15.625
5 88J Jason Michau Kilmichael, MS TNT 15.625 15.795 15.625
6 56 David Earl Gentry Murfreesboro, TN Mastersbilt 15.670 15.697 15.670
7 62 Zach Jenkins Carrollton, MS Warrior 16.553 16.580 16.553
8 82 Brad Wier Carrollton, MS Warrior 17.060 17.136 17.060

HEAT RACES (10 Laps – Top 4 Transfer To Main Event):

1ST HEAT: 1. Boland; 2. Edge (R); 3. Furr; 4. Tedford; 5. Chad Washington; 6. Craft; 7. Barnett; 8. Harrison.

2ND HEAT: 1. Breuer; 2. Shaw; 3. Gentry; 4. Turner; 5. Brown; 6. Wier; 7. Jenkins; 8. Michau.

3RD HEAT: 1. Tice (R); 2. Lee; 3. Jordan; 4. Greene; 5. D. Carpenter; 6. Knight (R); 7. Inman; 8. Wilson (R); 9. Campbell.

4TH HEAT: 1. Chase Washington; 2. Stokes; 3. Palasini; 4. Cooke; 5. Arnold (R); 6. K. Carpenter; 7. Pollan; 8. Carr; 9. Blalack.

MAIN EVENT “SWEET 16” STARTING LINE-UP:

ROW 1:
222 Mike Boland – B7 Dan Breuer
ROW 2:
24 Mark Tice (R) – 19 Chase Washington
ROW 3:
18 Chase Edge (R) – 1s Jeremy Shaw
ROW 4:
47 Shannon Lee – 1 Johnny Stokes
ROW 5:
F5 Lamar Furr – 56 David Earl Gentry
ROW 6:
J8 Bobby Jordan – V8 Duke Palasini
ROW 7:
91 Billy Tedford – 10 Matthew Turner
ROW 8:
95 Wesley Greene – 17c Steve Cooke

B-MAIN LINE-UPS FOR 4/9/11 (12 Laps – Top 3 Transfer To Main Event):

1ST B-MAIN:
17 Chad Washington – C55 David Carpenter
26 Glenn Craft – 93 Jake Knight (R)
110 Brent Barrett – D7 Jerry Inmon
56h Bubba Harrison – 72 Frank Wilson (R)
22 Mike Campbell

2ND B-MAIN:
33 Wesley Brown – 2T Tootie Arnold (R)
82 Brad Wier – 46 Kenny Carpenter
62 Zach Jenkins – 7p Eric Pollan
88j Jason Michau – 7 Eric Carr
21k Randle Blalack

R – Denotes VP Racing Fuels Rookie of the Year Candidate


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