Sunday, August 03, 2008
Reynolds recovers nicely, wins
After a rough week that saw his car get DQed, Forrest Reynolds wins the second Twin 75 race.
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RADFORD -- Forrest Reynolds couldn't have been further from a win last week when his car was disqualified and he couldn't race in either of the Late Model contests at Motor Mile Speedway.
This week he got some redemption.
Reynolds held off Davin Scites for 61 laps to take the checkered flag in the second Coca-Cola Twin 75 Late Model Stock race of the evening, netting his first win of the year.
"That was a lot of fun. I had a blast," he said. "Davin Scites is my hero now. I've never seen anybody run on the bottom like that and not at least make one mistake."
In the most competitive race for first place at Motor Mile all season, it was Reynolds racing high and Scites underneath with only inches separating the two cars.
Every turn and every straightaway, it seemed, saw a lead change.
Philip Morris led the first 14 laps but spun out in turn 1 to leave the door open for Reynolds and Scites.
After a string of second place finishes and last weekend's problems, Reynolds was not going to let this opportunity go idly by.
And after 61 nerve-wracking, hotly contested laps, Reynolds could finally enjoy the win.
"We were on pins and needles, man. I [had a] death grip on the steering wheel," he said.
"It's probably got fingernail marks in it."
Scites was close the whole race and even led on lap 62 but fell just shy.
"I needed a little more room, I needed that track to get by him," said Scites. "He ran me good, clean."
Morris worked his way from last after the spinout to finish in third place with Kelly Kingery in fourth and Derrick Lancaster in fifth.
Morris also won the first of the Twin 75's, leading flag-to-flag for his eighth victory of the year.
Reynolds finished in second place while Scites finished third in the caution-free race.
Keven Wood took fourth and Chad Harris fifth, with Kingery in eighth place.
The Mod-4 race started with only eight cars and ended with only five as Kevin Kenley led every lap to win his fifth race of the season.
Joe Taylor was challenging Kenley early in the race but a broken throttle cable ended his night early.
Jeff Montgomery took second place and Dennis Holdren worked his way from the back of the field for a third-place finish.
Bryan Reedy and Nick Cole rounded out the top five.
The Limited Sportsman race started promisingly but after 23 laps of green-flag racing the cautions started coming around.
Five cautions, two of them red flags, resulted in only 11 of the original 19 cars finishing the race.
Scott Lancaster and Roger Parrish Jr. were battling in the top three but were taken out when Lancaster bumped Parrish into the wall on lap 23.
Anthony Barnes stayed ahead of the carnage for his second win in a row. Matt Taylor took second and Daryn Cockram finished in third.
Scooter Hollandsworth won the UCar race. Darrell Hamlin took second place and Adam Phillips finished in third.





