ANDERSON, S.C. — Jay Middleton dominated Saturday night’s ASA Southeast Asphalt Tour late-model feature at Anderson Motor Speedway.
Middleton started his run to the checkered flag in qualifying, where he turned in the second fastest time to Chris Fontaine, but he started on the pole after the top-five redraw. From the drop of the green flag, Middleton took control of the event and led 100 laps.
“I have led a lot of laps this year,” said Middleton. “You have to go out and run your own pace. This place is a lot like Pensacola (Five Flags Speedway in Florida). I have had a lot of races around there. You just have to go out there and run a pace you can run the whole race because if you go too fast at the beginning, you will not have anything left for the end. I focused on that. If they were on me, then so be it.”
Rookie Casey Roderick finished second.
“I just want to thank Bill Elliott for believing in me and taking a chance on me,” added Roderick. “I think we are going to have a lot of momentum after this race. I also want to thank Ricky Turner and all of these guys that worked on the car this weekend. We will gain on this a bit and see if we can get a win soon. That was probably the most fun race I have been in throughout my whole racing career.”
Joey Senter, Randy Porter and Ralph Carnes rounded out the top five.
The finish:
Jay Middleton, Casey Roderick, Joey Senter, Randy Porter, Ralph Carnes, David Elliott, Tyler Millwood, John Bolen, Josh Lane, Stephen McCurley, Gene Kirila, Scotty Ellis, Jess Mattox, Chris Fontaine, Keith Carter, Cody Brake, Jerrod Foley, Clay Alexander, Taylor Satterfield, Jeremy Rice, Gary Greenwood, Dennis Wilder, Eric Wallace, Kevin Stephens, Rob Dubnecay.