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T.J. ALFORD WINS ALMOST $3,000 TAKING BOTH SPECIAL LLM & SLM GREEN VALLEY RACES

by Steve Hixson

GLENCOE, AL (6/23/07) -- A little double duty never hurt anybody and you don't have to convince Ballplay, AL, racer T.J. Alford of that fact. This Saturday night the Northeastern Alabama dirt track facility, The New Green Valley Speedway not only welcomed back the REBEL SUPER LATE MODELS, but had a special LIMITED LATE MODEL, 30 lap, big money feature, paying $1,500., to win. At race time nineteen (19) LLM's entered qualifying. On the pole was Tony Brown's # 19 "Sandrock Contracting & Construction, B&W Paving, T-N-T Construction" sponsored GRT chassis, T.A.'s Automotive Machine, Dodge Charger racecar with Alford behind the wheel. Dingus Griffin started his Clay Grogan owned # X machine on the outside pole but was penalized a row for jumping the initial green flag start of the 30 lap "A" Main feature.

On the restart Alford took the lead from new outside pole sitter Mike Pearl, bringing with him Randy Jordan, Ryan Law, Griffin and Brian Smith at the beginning of the feature. The first caution flew for Tony Fleming's solo spin in turn four of lap four. On the restart Micah Nance and Tom Maddox had issues before racing could get back to full throttle. Smith began marching towards the front passing by an ailing Jordan. The races hardest lick of the night was Brian Quallls in his T.J. Alford #007Q mount, hitting the turn three wall. Alford held off challenge after challenge of Smith within some heavy back-marker traffic at times. Griffin held a solid third with Law and Glen McWaters rounding out the top five.

Of the nine Super Late Models taking to the track, one important notification, was current ADVANCE AUTO PARTS THUNDER SERIES points leader Tommy Kerr being in the house. Gaining some valuable seat time at the newly configured facility, Kerr made quick progress in qualifying and in the 25 lap feature. With Alford drawing the QUIK SIX #1 position Kerr had to uphold his ROCKETBOY image and STOMPED THE LOUD PEDAL quickly from his 4th place start, at the green, to gain the advantage over Fast Qualifier (14:555) and third starter Robert Gant. Kerr took a stab early at the #007 "Vulcan Marketing, Renegade Racing Fuels, American Racer Tires, Stealth Racing Carburetors, Racin' Warpaint" sponsored Rocket Chassis, T.A.'s Automotive Machine, Pontiac GTO racecar but had to contend with Gant's persistance.

Gant got by Kerr for second just a few laps prior to the races half-way point. Dennis Hale had a good top five night end when he suffered a race ending flat as the laps waned to the checkers. Gant made several challenges but in the end it was "ALLLLL" ...Alford. Steven Endicott and Dewayne Floyd rounded out the top five. This week at GVS is the last opportunity for seat time (much like Tommy Kerr acquired this past weekend) before the Tuesday Night Thunder race, July 3rd with the Advance Auto Parts THUNDER Series. FIREWORKS will light up the sky and the racing will heat up the surface for 60 laps as the best from Tennessee, Georgia, North and South Carolina converge against the ALABAMA DIRT-GANG. For more info. including full results for all classes, visit the web-site on-line 24/7 at www.greenvalleyspeedway.com/.