Chad Finchum celebrates in victory lane after winning Saturday’s Model City 175 at Kingsport Speedway. Photo: Walden Motorsports
Chad Finchum picked up where he left off last season by winning the Model City 175 at Kingsport Speedway in Kingsport, TN.
Joey Trent had the field in tow for the season-opening Late Model Stock Car feature. As the field exited turn four to complete the opening lap, Wayne Hale would take over the lead.
With Hale now in command, Finchum and defending champion Ronnie McCarty began working their way through the field to second and third places, respectively. The first race’s first caution would wave on lap five when Danny Casteel spun between turns one and two.
On the restart, Hale would battle with Finchum for the lead, with the 2014 track champion taking the spot one lap later. Hale would begin to slide backwards through the field, allowing McCarty and Kres VanDyke to gain another position on their trek to the front.
Finchum would continue to hold his position in the lead, while McCarty had raced his way into second place, and Kres VanDyke into third. With 20 laps remaining, Finchum and McCarty began to pull a comfortable lead over the rest of the field, and McCarty was gaining ground.
Fifteen laps later, Finchum began to pull away from McCarty, gaining a comfortable lead.
Finchum would lead the five remaining laps and claim the victory to kick off his return to “The Concrete Jungle.”
“We had an excellent race today,” said Finchum. “We loaded the car up at the end of the season last year and we hadn’t touched it until we came to test on Tuesday. We unloaded this morning and hadn’t touched a thing all day.
“We didn’t decide to race the Late Model until about a month ago. We weren’t ready to race last week, so it worked in our favor that the season opener was pushed to this week.”
After an invert of six positions, Chris Tunnell found himself on point for the Street Stock feature.
Jared Broadbent wasted no time getting to the front, grabbing the lead from Tunnell on the opening lap. Fourteen laps later, Broadbent would find himself under fire from Tunnell, as he would take the lead on lap 15. A spin with three laps remaining would bring the field under yellow flag conditions.
Back under green, Tunnell would battle with John Harrell for the top spot. Harrell would briefly take the lead with Tunnell pulling back alongside with two laps to go.
With the white flag waving, Tunnell and Harrell would continue to battle as the two raced into turn one. Exiting turn two, chaos would ensue with the two making contacting, and sending Harrell into the outside retaining wall. With the caution displayed on the final lap, the field would be frozen, relegating Tunnell to the win over Broadbent and Royce Peters.
Billy Ketron would lead the field to the green for the season’s first Pure 4 feature. Ketron would lead for only a fraction of the lap before younger brother Jason Ketron took over the position. The first caution would wave on lap 10 when the machine of Robert Young slowed with a tire problem.
Working the restart, Jason Ketron would battle with his father, John Ketron. With the two battling for the lead, Billy Byington would sneak into the picture and take over the lead. Lap 25 would see another yellow flag displayed when Billy Ketron and Young tangled in turns one and two.
With the green flag back in the air for the restart, Byington would regain the lead and never relinquish, going on to score the win.
Billy Duty took the lead to open the Mod 4 race. The race would be slowed by two caution periods over 25 laps. Kirby Gobble would take the lead on the race’s final restart and drive on to score the win.
The first Pure Street race of the season would see Brad Ball and Marty Tunnell battle throughout the majority of the race.
On the final lap of the race, Ball and Tunnell would make contact on the backstretch, sending both machines out of control and into a partial spin. The two would regain control of their cars as the barreled into turns three and four.
Racing towards the checkered flag, Ball would pull ahead of Tunnell for the win.
Kingsport Speedway returns to action on Friday, April 1. For more information, visit NewKingsportSpeedway.com.
Kingsport Speedway – Kingsport, TN
Model City 175 – March 26, 2016
1. #19 Chad Finchum – Knoxville, TN
2. #5 Ronnie McCarty – Kingsport, TN
3. #15 Kres VanDyke – Abingdon, VA
4. #97 Zeke Shell – Johnson City, TN
5. #19 Wayne Hale – Bluff City, TN
6. #87 Hayden Woods – Piney Flats, TN
7. #32 Robbie Ferguson – Kingsport, TN
8. #26 Joey Trent – Gray, TN
9. #60 Justin Fontaine – Fletcher, NC
10. #28 Derek Lane – Kingsport, TN
11. #64 Tyler Goodwin – Kingsport, TN
12. #37 Adam Gray – Kingsport, TN
13. #55 Mardy Roberts – Kingsport, TN
14. #33 Rick Pannell – Kingsport, TN
15. #30 Taylor Coffman – Morristown, TN
16. #7 Austin Peters – Kingsport, TN
17. #41 Danny Casteel – Kingsport, TN
18. #38 Royce Peters – Kingsport, TN
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Street Stock
1. #6 Chris Tunnell
2. #74 Jared Broadbent
3. #40 Royce Peters
4. #11 Sam Hurd
5. #24 Dennis Deese
6. #19 John Harrell
7. #48 Paul Shull
8. #59 Gary Crumbley
9. #36 Kirby Gobble
Pure 4
1. #11 Billy Byington
2. #27 John Ketron
3. #33 Bruce Crumbley
4. #6 Dylan Bates
5. #28 Jason Ketron
6. #66 Tim Abelseth
7. #4 Kevin Darnell
8. #00 Craig Phelps
9. #01 Kenny Absher
10. #26 Billy Ketron
11. #21 Dennis Stanley
12. #47 William Hale
13. #14 Jonathan Feagins
14. #15 Larry Stapleton
15. #99 Alexcia Ray
16. #99 Bucky Smith
17. #88 Robert Darnell
18. #98 Paul Stanley
19. #0 Daniel McMurray
20. #13 Richard Quillen
21. #59 Robert Young
22. #1 Robert Smith
23. #16 Tim Jennings
24. 9 Keith Helton
Mod 4
1. #77 Kirby Gobble
2. #8 Jason Yates
3. #45 Billy Duty
4. #2 Kevin Canter
5. #9 Hershell Robinette
6. #7 Dennis Arnold
7. #01 Jerry Miller
8. #11 Lynn Schafer
9. #18 Larry Bowens
10. #7 Jessie Amburgey
11. #43 Darrell Whitehead
12. #17 Chris Amburgey
Pure Street
1. #17 Brad Ball
2. #99 Marty Tunnell
3. #52 Duke Bare
4. #59 Dennis Arnold
5. #4 Jake Phipps
6. #0 Travis Stoots
7. #11 Jamie Meadows
8. #7 Jeremy Draughn
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