Friday was a nice day although very windy as I pulled into the scenic city of Blue Ridge Georgia for a stop at Sugar Creek Raceway. The track is a 1/3-mile banked red clay surface surrounded by concrete walls and an inner wall of Armco that made a narrow racing groove. The facility was very clean and looked very well kept with fresh paint and mowed grass. Spectator seating was all along the straightaway on seven poured concrete steps with some reserved terrace parking outside the first and second turns. Half the racecars pitted in the infield but with only 2 semi trailer haulers there was minimal visibility problems. The rest of the pits were behind the backstretch. The lights and speakers were good but the scoreboard was not operational. About 500 people were here tonight to see 18 crate late models, 8 limited late models, 12 pony stocks, 4 pony outlaws, 6 econo hobbies, 7 modified hobbies and 4 front wheel drive cars. The drivers meeting and draw was at 7PM with warm ups about 20 minutes later and the first heat of pony stocks at 8:30. Qualifying was next for the two late model classes then they went into the feature races about 9:30PM. I observed a neat promotion by the photographer as he took pictures of many of the kids before the races started and handed out business cards with a website address to the parents. The econo hobbies went 15 laps with only one yellow and Justin Thomas won from the front. The modified hobbies needed 5 yellows in their 15-lap feature as Junior Whitener started 3rd and won. The main feature was a $1000 to win 40-lap feature for the crate late models and after 16 green flag laps for the 18 cars they went in to spin mode. There were 8 yellows before they declared a time limit and went two more laps for about a 34-lap feature with Bobby Mayse the winner from the pole. Jason Deal was second from 3rd and Josh Morrow came home third from 6th. By this time the track was dusty and the wind was whipping up dust from the infield so all the spectators were now red heads. The limited lates had 4 yellows in a 20-lap feature won by Devin Dillbeck from the front. The pony stocks had 3 yellows in a 10-lap feature won by Justin Woodard from the front. The outlaw pony cars have Plexiglas sideboards and the Beavers car was the winner of the 10-lap feature from 4th. The front wheel drive class finished the night out at about 11:50PM and number 11 won from the pole. I am not sure if the speakers went out or the announcer was just tired and left as no announcing was done during the last 2 races.
#1089 4/18/08 Sugar Creek Raceway - Blue Ridge, GA - 1/3 dirt - Late Models
