Chevy Super Series Gives Racers And Fans New Opportunites At 411 Motor Speedway

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CARTERSVILLE, GA – The Chevrolet Performance Super Late Model Series will make its first visit to 411 Motor Speedway in Seymour, TN this Saturday night for a $3,000-to-win $300-to-start 50-lap race. The Chevy Super Series is America’s first “Factory Backed and Factory Built” super late model series that has brought new opportunities to both competitors and fans.

With financial support from Chevrolet Performance, the Chevy Super Series is the first dirt late model series in the history of the sport to be backed by a major automobile manufacturer. The dirt late models in the series are powered by the all-aluminum Chevrolet Performance CT525 racing engine that is based off the Chevrolet production LS3 Engine.

The LS3 Engine comes under the hood of the Chevrolet Corvette, Chevrolet Camaro, and the Chevrolet SS available to the consumer at Chevrolet dealership worldwide. The Chevrolet Performance Super Late Model Series is the first dirt late model series in the history of the sport where the race cars are powered by the same factory built engine the fans can purchase in their passenger cars to get to the race track to watch them.

The Chevrolet Performance Super Late Model Series with the CT 525 Engine has created new opportunities for racers to reach the super late model level of the sport by being economical and durable. The cost of the all-aluminum Chevrolet racing engine with all of the accessories needed to go racing is under $11,000. That’s a lot less than a built open engine that can cost $40,000 up.

The Chevy built racing engine gives the super late model racer plenty of speed while not overpowering the track. Just about every driver that has driven a super late model powered by the CT 525 Engine has said the same thing about it: The engine gives the car more drivability and is easier to handle than a more expensive higher horsepower engine.

The CT 525 is basically a maintenance free engine. All the racers have to do is change the oil. This gives racers more time to work on the handling of their race cars. The speed, the drivability, the more work on handling all leads to giving the fans a new opportunity in watching a super late model race – close, side-by-side competition.

High horsepower engines lead to spinning tires, that leads to rubber being laid down on the track, and that leads to single-file racing. The CT 525 Engine is more based on torque than horsepower. This torque gives the cars forward bite without spinning the tires. This leads to multi-groove racing with drivers battling each other for position two and three-wide.

This Saturday night at 411 Motor Speedway, race fans will have a new opportunity to see a new style of super late model racing with the Chevrolet Performance Super Late Model Series that will give them the opportunity to see speed, close racing, and driver talent on display. Fans should not come to 411 Motor Speedway this Saturday night if they want to see cubic dollars racing.

Race fans that have seen the Chevrolet Performance Super Late Model Series have been pleasantly surprised with the type of racing they have just witnessed, and have expressed their approval to series officials and track promoters, letting them know they would like to see it again. They have been reacquainted with drivers they haven’t seen for a while, and are getting to know a new crop of drivers.
Driver talent and the opportunity to showcase that talent has become the hallmark of the Chevrolet Performance Super Late Model Series.

This Saturday night at 411 Motor Speedway, the fans will see an abundance of talent from a Hall of Fame driver, veteran super late model drivers, young drivers making names for themselves, and overnight sensations that just needed the opportunity the Chevy Super Series provides to step up on to the National stage of super late model racing.

National Dirt Late Model Hall of Fame Inductee Ronnie Johnson of Chattanooga, TN has seized the opportunity to revive his illustrious dirt late model racing career through the Chevrolet Performance Super Late Model Series. Johnson is well known on the National level of the sport as a two-time Dirt Track World Championship Race winner.

Johnson was the lead driver for Chevrolet Performance in the Research and Development of the CT 525 Engine, and won many races against more expensive engines during this period. In his second season with the Chevrolet Performance Super Late Model Series, the “Chattanooga Flash” leads the point standings towards the $10,000 National Championship with two wins in the first five races this season.

All of the competitors in the Chevy Super Series look up to Johnson, and they all know that to be the man, you have to beat the man! Nobody knows that better than 20-year-old Mack McCarter of Gatlinburg, TN. McCarter spent the first part of the season chasing Johnson in the Chevy Super Series’ sister series, the NeSmith Chevrolet Dirt Late Model Series.

Johnson had wins, and McCarter had second-place finishes. Johnson led the points, and McCarter was second in the points. McCarter set a goal for himself to beat Johnson for a win in 2014. The Chevrolet Performance Super Late Model Series gave McCarter another opportunity to reach his goal, and he seized that opportunity last Saturday night at Tazewell Speedway in Tazewell, TN.

McCarter and Johnson were battling for the win on the final lap of the 6th Annual Buddy Rogers Memorial 44 when they came upon a lapped car in the fourth turn coming to the checkered flag. Johnson tried to use the lapped car as a pick and go around the outside of McCarter for the win.

McCarter would none of it, as he drove through the lapped car and then tried to slow Johnson’s momentum on the outside. As McCarter drifted up the banking on the front straightaway with the checkered flag waiving in front of him, Johnson already had his left-front outside McCarter’s right-rear. The two drivers made contact, and neither backed off the throttle.

McCarter was not to be denied, as he took the checkered flag sideways with the nose of his race car pointing towards the grandstand. In only his second start with the Chevrolet Performance Super Late Model Series, McCarter seized the opportunity of reaching his season goal of beating Johnson.

Another driver that seized the opportunity of becoming an overnight sensation was the third-place finisher last Saturday night at Tazewell Speedway, third-generation East Tennessee driver Brandon Williams of Crossville, TN.

Williams comes from a racing family that includes his late Grandfather Lloyd Williams, his Uncle Sam Williams, and his Father Rick Williams. The third gen Williams came up through the ranks of weekly racing running Street Stocks, Crate Late Models and Limited Late Models. He was looking for an opportunity to go super late model racing.

The Chevrolet Performance Super Late Model Series provided that opportunity. Williams seized the opportunity, and it came quickly. Earlier in the week, Williams purchased his Chevrolet Performance CT 525 Engine from NeSmith Chevrolet in Claxton, GA, who provided free next day delivery to Williams the next day.

Williams, along with his family and his crew put the engine in his late model in time to make the trip to the Bad Fast Taz, a 1/3-mile high-banked clay oval that many a driver has a fear of. Williams had only been there a couple of times, and had a bad crash there a couple of years ago. Williams was trying to finish up some last minute details on the race car and missed hot laps.

Next up was qualifying. They had a cold race car with no practice to work on the set up with a new-style engine they had never raced before. There would be no practice laps before qualifying. Williams shot off the pit ramp in turn two, and picked up speed heading down the backstretch not knowing what he had when he got to turn three.

If he made it through turns three and four, the green flag would be in the air and Williams would be on the clock. The electronic time clock tells no lies, and it told everyone at Tazewell Speedway that this newcomer was pretty fast.

Williams ended up fourth fastest among the talented field of drivers, and would start the 6th Annual Buddy Rogers Memorial 44, one of the most prestigious races in East Tennessee, from the outside of the second row. When the green flag started the race, McCarter and Johnson took the top two spots from the front row, while Williams took command of the third spot.

Johnson had packed his fuel cell full of go-go juice, and in the opening laps of the race, it began to vent out of the overflow and right into the face of Williams. Before the race, Williams had placed 20 tear offs on his helmet visor that he could pull off individually to help give him clear vision throughout the race.

The fuel from Johnson’s car rendered the tear offs useless and forced Williams to pull them all off his helmet visor by lap six. Williams kept his distance from McCarter and Johnson in order to keep his visor from getting covered up with loose dirt from their rear tires.

Williams carefully made his way through lapped traffic one hand on the steering wheel and the other wiping his visor to help with his vision. Williams came home with an impressive third-place finish in his first-ever Chevy Super Series race. Williams started the week with no engine, but by the end of Saturday night, he had seized the opportunity, had an engine, overcame adversity, and stepped out on the National stage of dirt late model racing.

Race fans are encouraged to seize the opportunity to see a new style of super late model racing and a new group of talent, as the future of American Super Late Model Racing comes to 411 Motor Speedway this Saturday night when the Chevrolet Super Late Model Series comes to Seymour, TN for a $3,000-to-win 50-lap race. Seize the opportunity to be impressed!

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Race fans are encouraged to seize the opportunity to see a new style of super late model racing and a new group of talent, as the future of American Super Late Model Racing comes to 411 Motor Speedway this Saturday night when the Chevrolet Super Late Model Series comes to Seymour, TN for a $3,000-to-win 50-lap race. Seize the opportunity to be impressed!

On Saturday at 411 Motor Speedway, the pit area and grandstand gates open at 3 p.m. with Chevrolet Performance Super Late Model Series Pre-Race Registration and Technical Inspection from 3:30 p.m. to 5:45 p.m. The Chevy Fan Zone will be open from 4 p.m. to 5 p.m. The Drivers Meeting is set for 5:45 p.m. with hot laps beginning immediately after the Drivers Meeting.

411 Motor Speedway is located one mile south of U.S. Highway 441 on U.S. Highway 411 at 632 Maryville Highway, Seymour, TN 37865. For more information call 865-257-7223 or visit the track web site at www.411motorspeedway.net and their Facebook page at 411 Motor Speedway.

For more information about the Chevrolet Performance Super Late Model Series visit the series web site at www.525superseries.com, or visit the series on Facebook at Chevrolet Performance Super Late Model Series.


Chevrolet Performance Parts is the Title Sponsor of the Chevrolet Performance Super Late Model Series. Hoosier Racing Tire is the Official Tire Sponsor of the Chevrolet Performance Super Late Model Series. Schaeffer’s Oil Presented By Chad Wallace and Heather Newsome is the Official Oil of the Chevrolet Performance Super Late Model Series. AR Bodies is an Official Sponsor of the Chevrolet Performance Super Late Model Series. Cruise With The Champions is an Official Sponsor of the Chevrolet Performance Super Late Model Series. Chevrolet Performance Super Late Model Series Contingency Sponsors for 2014 are Modern Images, Mike Custom Tanks, KRC Power Steering, David Smith Carburetors, Kinser Air Filters, and Shorty’s Shock Service.