Young drivers headed for future stardom competing in the Allison Legacy Series had a wide range of luck in the series’ race at Dillon Motor Speedway’s inaugural race weekend.
Racing at Ron Barfield’s new Dillon Motor Speedway’s four-tenths-mile banked oval, 24 Legacy drivers made the start, with one-fourth of them members of the Future Stars in Racing Academy, a training program for young racers.
The top-finishing member was Matthews, N.C. ’s Josh Butler, with a third-place at the checker. “It felt like we could have had a better qualifying position, ” said the teen driver. “We just had to sit through the cautions and take our time and ended up finishing third, ” he explained. “We just barely got there on the white-flag lap. It was passing the whole time, running bumper-to-bumper with the person in front of me the whole time and it was just a real race of patience for me, ” he concluded after the race.
Young Timmy Hill, from Port Tobacco, Maryland, held down sixth place at the finish, after starting in seventh. “We got to fourth, got into a little accident on the front straightaway, bent the toe-in, ” he admitted. “We ended up the day and had a sixth-place finish which was real good for us. ”
Austin Hogue’s No. 52 BAPS Paint Supply Chevy was the next Academy car in the results, at eighth place. The young Manchester, Pennsylvania racer “got spun out by the 3 car and had to start from the rear” early in the race, then after he had worked his way back up to “tenth or eleventh, ” he admits that: “used up a little more track than I had, trying to pass the 99 car, bounced off his wheel and spun out into the inside wall. ” After this spin and caution, he “had to start in the rear again, and somehow worked our way back up to eighth. ”
Closing quickly on Hogue, after a spin ruined qualifying for him, Mooresville, N.C. ’s Ryan Glenski had the No. 28 Glenski Excavating Chevy suffer one of the more interesting nights. In spite of several spins, thanks to other cars and moisture on the track, “Rocket Jr. ” placed ninth in what he said was “the fastest car out there. ” Glenski described his evening after the race as “I got caught up in a couple of people’s messes and went to the back three times, but we got a ninth out of it, or something like that. The car came home in one piece, two scratches. It was an alright night. ”
Tyler Millwood and Paul Tuthill both had worse fortune than the other four. Millwood’s No. 31 Millwood Plumbing Monte Carlo, from Kingston Georgia, finished in sixteenth place for the race, in front of a standing room only crowd. His finishing position did not reflect young Georgian’s speed after a trio of spins: “I was running sixth and I got out a little too high, setting a guy up to get underneath him, spun the car out, went to the back, came back up to ninth, a kid turned down on me, had to go to the back again. Made it back up to twelfth and I was passing that same kid and he spun me out again, ” he explained.
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