CARTERSVILLE, GA – There are nine races in six states on the NeSmith Chevrolet Weekly Racing Series Week 14 schedule of events, as the 27-week season reaches the halfway point. Even though the season has reached the 14-week mark, no driver will also reach that point of their season. Point leader Michael Arnold of Hattiesburg, MS has competed for the most weeks at 12.

Week 14 of the 2015 NeSmith Chevrolet Weekly Racing Series season will feature three races on Friday night and six races on Saturday night. Friday night events are scheduled for Hattiesburg Speedway in Hattiesburg, MS, Penton Raceway in Penton, AL, and Salina Speedway in Salina, KS.

On Saturday night, Jackson Motor Speedway in Jackson, MS will host a $1,000-to-win I-20 Challenge Series race, and there will also be a $1,000-to-win race at Sabine Raceway in Many, LA for Round 4 of the Southern Crate Late Model Series and co-sanctioned by the NeSmith Chevrolet Weekly Racing Series.

Round 8 of the NeSmith Panhandle Challenge Series will take place Saturday night at Southern Raceway in Milton, FL. Also in action on Saturday night with NeSmith Chevrolet Weekly Racing Series Week 14 events will be Camden Speedway in Camden, TN, Greenville Speedway in Greenville, MS, and Talladega Short Track in Eastaboga, AL.

Arnold has 585 points at the top of the NeSmith Chevrolet Weekly Racing Series standings after nine wins, 12 top five finishes and 14 top ten finishes in 16 races over 12 weeks. Arnold has a 77-point lead over Joseph Joiner of Milton, FL who has 508 points after one win, nine top five finishes and 11 top ten finishes in 12 races over 11 weeks. Joiner also leads the NeSmith Panhandle Challenge Series point standings.

Cruz Skinner of Oxford, AL is third in the NeSmith Chevrolet Weekly Racing Series standings with 433 points after five wins, eight top five finishes and ten top ten finishes in ten races over nine weeks. The 13-year-old driver also leads the Sunoco Young Guns Challenge Series for NeSmith Late Model drivers 18 years of age and younger.

Billy Riels Racing teammates Shannon Lee of Lumberton, MS and the 2013 NeSmith Chevrolet Weekly Racing Series National Champion Noah Daspit of Kiln, MS are fourth and fifth respectively in the point standings. Lee has 429 points after one win and 11 top five finishes in 12 races over nine weeks.

Daspit is tied for the fifth spot in the NeSmith Chevrolet Weekly Racing Series standings with Bobby Jordan of McCarley, MS with 421 points apiece. Daspit has four wins, six top five finishes and nine top ten finishes in ten races over nine weeks. Jordan has two top five finishes and four top ten finishes in 12 races over ten weeks.

Three-time NeSmith Chevrolet Weekly Racing Series West Region Champion Lucky Keeton of Collinsville, MS is seventh in the standings with 373 points after one win, six top five finishes and nine top ten finishes in ten races over eight weeks. Greg Fore of Greenville, MS is eighth with 369 points after one win, five top five finishes and seven top ten finishes in ten races over eight weeks.

Jamey Boland of Cuba, AL is ninth in the standings with 362 points after six top five finishes and seven top ten finishes in 11 races over eight weeks. Al Kouhout of Hattiesburg, MS rounds out the Top 10 in the NeSmith Chevrolet Weekly Racing Series standings with 343 points after six top ten finishes in eight races over eight weeks.

Looking at the Top 10 Weekly Point Averages, or WPAs, among the Top 20 drivers in the NeSmith Chevrolet Weekly Racing Series point standings, Arnold has the highest WPA at 48.75 out of a possible 50. Skinner has the second highest WPA at 48.11, and the third highest WPA belongs to the 11th-place driver in the point standings, Robbie Starnes of Livingston, TX, at 47.86.

Lee has the fourth highest WPA at 47.67, and the 12th-place driver in the NeSmith Chevrolet Weekly Racing Series point standings, Adam Cummings of Odenville, AL, has the fifth highest WPA at 47.29. Daspit has the sixth highest WPA at 46.78, and Keeton has the seventh highest WPA at 46.63.

Joiner has the eighth highest WPA at 46.18, and Fore has the ninth highest WPA at 46.13. Mike Palasini Jr. of Leland, MS is 13th in the NeSmith Chevrolet Weekly Racing Series point standings, but he has the tenth highest WPA among the Top 20 drivers in the point standings at 46.

Drivers in the NeSmith Chevrolet Weekly Racing Series will compete against each other nationally using a points system that will count their best 14 weekly point totals over a 27-week season from March 23 through September 27. The $20,000 National point fund will pay $10,000 to the National Champion and pay back to the Top 10 drivers in the final point standings.

NeSmith Chevrolet Weekly Racing Series competitors have the option of two different economical Chevrolet Performance Circle Track Engines to compete with. The aluminum-head 400 horsepower 604 engine costs $5,795 and the steel-head 350 horsepower Chevrolet Performance 602 Circle Track Engine with a 100-pound weight break costs $3,495.

Both of these Chevrolet Performance Racing Engines are in stock and available at NeSmith Chevrolet in Claxton, GA with free next day delivery anywhere in the Southeast. To place an order, call Tim Bland at 1-877-497-3624.

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NeSMITH CHEVROLET WEEKLY RACING SERIES WEEK 14 SCHEDULE OF EVENTS:

June 26:

HATTIESBURG SPEEDWAY – HATTIESBURG, MS
PENTON RACEWAY – PENTON, AL
SALINA SPEEDWAY – SALINA, KS

June 27:

CAMDEN SPEEDWAY – CAMDEN, TN
GREENVILLE SPEEDWAY – GREENVILLE, MS
JACKSON MOTOR SPEEDWAY – JACKSON, MS ($1,000-To-Win I-20 Challenge Series Race)
SABINE RACEWAY – MANY, LA ($1,000-To-Win Southern Crate Late Model Series Race)
SOUTHERN RACEWAY – MILTON, FL (NeSmith Panhandle Challenge Series Race)
TALLADEGA SHORT TRACK – EASTABOGA, AL


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