Billy Franklin and Joseph Joiner visit SAS victory lane at Southern

3/11/2023

Southern All Stars

Billy Franklin and Joseph Joiner visit SAS victory lane at Southern

The Southern All Stars Super Late Model Series departed South Carolina and headed south to the Panhandle of Florida to visit Southern Raceway for the Battle at the Beach. The Battle at the Beach was a two event that started Friday with a 30 Lap $3,000 to win main event and Saturday paid the winner a cool $10,000. Friday night the SAS would kick off the weekend with 24 SAS Super Late Models signing in to do battle for $3,000 top price. Qualifying would kick off the night and the driver who was the last to show up and drew the highest pill possible, Ryan Crane, former Asphalt Late Model standout, stopped the clock at a 14.644. The field was set based on qualifying setting the lineup for the 30 Lap Main event. An all Florida front row would lead the field to Green, Ryan Crane from Panama City and Joseph Joiner from Milton. Crane jump out to the lead and led lap 1 but a caution for a spinning Kendall Franklin would stack the field once again. The following restart, a couple of back markers get together negating the restart but cars towards the front of the field would bunch up resulting with Caleb Gay spinning and Steven Jernigan having nowhere to go ending Caleb Gay’s night. The next restart would see Ashton Winger wrestle the lead away from Crane, Crane would spin on his own in turn 1 bringing out what would be the final yellow of the night. Ashton Winger would lead the final 27 laps to pick up the win until it was time to cross the scales where he was light, after 3 attempts to cross the scales Winger was Disqualified handing the win over to 2020 SAS Champion Billy Franklin for his first career SAS win. Dalton Cook, Bo Slay, Joseph Joiner and GR Smith would round out the Top 5.

Saturday the SAS regrouped from Friday night and prepared for the 50 Lap $10,000 to win contest. 26 SAS Super Late Models signed for the Battle at the Beach Finale. Qualifying was split into 2 groups, Dalton Cook was Group A and overall Fast Qualifier, Ashton Winger was quickest in Group B. There was Four 6 laps heats, that would set up the A Main, were won by Dalton Cook, Ashton Winger, GR Smith and Tyler Clem. Dalton Cook and Ashton Winger would lead the 24 car starting field to green with Cook getting the advantage in one, Gr Smith and Winger were racing hard for second when Smith made contact with Winger causing him to go to the infield, Smith would retaliate against Winger on 3 different occasions before finally pulling off the racetrack ending his night. The following restart Cook would get out of shape and stack the field behind him leading to Friday nights winner Billy Franklin on his side, SAS point leader Caleb Gay was also involved. Once green flag racing resumed Joseph Joiner would begin to rundown Cook and would eventually over take him and cruise to his 7th career SAS win. Dalton Cook, Steve Brantley, Bo Slay and Tyler Clem rounded out the top 5. (Joshua Joiner photo)

Car Count: 24(Friday) 26(Saturday)
Quick Qualifier: Ryan Crane 14.644 (Friday) Dalton Cook 14.409 (Saturday)
Hard Charger: Michael Franklin +10 (Friday) Dan Cox +11 (Saturday)
Next Event: Mar 31st-April 1st Waycross Motor Speedway $3,000 Friday, $10,000 Saturday
Results:
Friday: A Feature 1 (40 Laps): 1. 17-Billy Franklin[5]; 2. 44D-Dalton Cook[10]; 3. 2-Bo Slay[4]; 4. 10-Joseph Joiner[2]; 5. 2*-GR Smith[7]; 6. 58-Tyler Clem[6]; 7. 6JR-Parker Martin[8]; 8. 17SS-Brenden Smith[9]; 9. 99M-JR Moseley[17]; 10. 24-Steven Jernigan[18]; 11. 6B-Adam Boyd[16]; 12. 22-Michael Franklin[22]; 13. 10C-Ryan Crane[1]; 14. 02-JC Wilson[13]; 15. 78-Matthew Brocato[20]; 16. 21-Shay Miller[14]; 17. 317-Kendall Franklin[15]; 18. X75-Dan Cox[23]; 19. 99-Tim Anderson[24]; 20. 22P-Jeremy Pate[11]; 21. XJR-Caleb Gay[12]; 22. 02B-Stephen Brantley[19]; 23. 77T-Bud Thompson[21]; 24. (DQ) 12-Ashton Winger[3]

Qualifying 1: 1. 10C-Ryan Crane, 00:14.644[24]; 2. 10-Joseph Joiner, 00:14.805[17]; 3. 12-Ashton Winger, 00:14.839[6]; 4. 2-Bo Slay, 00:14.928[16]; 5. 17-Billy Franklin, 00:14.950[7]; 6. 58-Tyler Clem, 00:15.068[20]; 7. 2*-GR Smith, 00:15.130[23]; 8. 6JR-Parker Martin, 00:15.192[14]; 9. 17SS-Brenden Smith, 00:15.222[21]; 10. 44D-Dalton Cook, 00:15.287[22]; 11. 22P-Jeremy Pate, 00:15.340[13]; 12. XJR-Caleb Gay, 00:15.432[9]; 13. 02-JC Wilson, 00:15.462[3]; 14. 21-Shay Miller, 00:15.771[11]; 15. 317-Kendall Franklin, 00:15.786[18]; 16. 6B-Adam Boyd, 00:15.811[1]; 17. 99M-JR Moseley, 00:15.836[12]; 18. 24-Steven Jernigan, 00:16.025[4]; 19. 02B-Stephen Brantley, 00:16.050[10]; 20. 78-Matthew Brocato, 00:16.159[15]; 21. 77T-Bud Thompson, 00:16.560[2]; 22. 22-Michael Franklin, 00:16.798[5]; 23. X75-Dan Cox, 00:17.321[8]; 24. 99-Tim Anderson, 00:17.409[19]

Saturday A Feature 1 (40 Laps): 1. 10-Joseph Joiner[5]; 2. 44D-Dalton Cook[1]; 3. 02B-Stephen Brantley[8]; 4. 2-Bo Slay[10]; 5. 58-Tyler Clem[4]; 6. 18-Matt Dooley[9]; 7. 22P-Jeremy Pate[11]; 8. 24-Steven Jernigan[15]; 9. 10C-Ryan Crane[12]; 10. 6JR-Parker Martin[14]; 11. 317-Kendall Franklin[18]; 12. 78-Matthew Brocato[22]; 13. X75-Dan Cox[24]; 14. 15T-Willie Traywick[19]; 15. 22-Michael Franklin[21]; 16. 6B-Adam Boyd[23]; 17. 42-Jared Watson[16]; 18. 17SS-Brenden Smith[6]; 19. 99-Larry Yates[25]; 20. 17-Billy Franklin[7]; 21. XJR-Caleb Gay[13]; 22. 99A-Tim Anderson[17]; 23. (DNS) 21-Shay Miller; 24. (DQ) 12-Ashton Winger[2]; 25. (DQ) 2*-GR Smith[3]

Heat 1 (6 Laps): 1. 44D-Dalton Cook[1]; 2. 10-Joseph Joiner[2]; 3. 18-Matt Dooley[3]; 4. XJR-Caleb Gay[4]; 5. 99A-Tim Anderson[5]; 6. 22-Michael Franklin[6]; 7. X75-Dan Cox[7]

Heat 2 (6 Laps): 1. 12-Ashton Winger[1]; 2. 17SS-Brenden Smith[2]; 3. 2-Bo Slay[3]; 4. 6JR-Parker Martin[4]; 5. 317-Kendall Franklin[5]; 6. 78-Matthew Brocato[7]; 7. 99-Larry Yates[6]

Heat 3 (6 Laps): 1. 2*-GR Smith[1]; 2. 17-Billy Franklin[2]; 3. 22P-Jeremy Pate[3]; 4. 24-Steven Jernigan[5]; 5. 15T-Willie Traywick[6]; 6. 6B-Adam Boyd[4]

Heat 4 (6 Laps): 1. 58-Tyler Clem[2]; 2. 02B-Stephen Brantley[4]; 3. 10C-Ryan Crane[1]; 4. 42-Jared Watson[5]; 5. 21-Shay Miller[3]; 6. (DNS) 99M-JR Moseley

Qualifying Group 1: 1. 44D-Dalton Cook, 00:14.409[10]; 2. 2*-GR Smith, 00:14.475[8]; 3. 10-Joseph Joiner, 00:14.764[9]; 4. 17-Billy Franklin, 00:14.840[4]; 5. 18-Matt Dooley, 00:15.036[6]; 6. 22P-Jeremy Pate, 00:15.181[1]; 7. XJR-Caleb Gay, 00:15.770[3]; 8. 99A-Tim Anderson, 00:16.072[5]; 9. 6B-Adam Boyd, 00:16.072[12]; 10. 24-Steven Jernigan, 00:16.080[11]; 11. 22-Michael Franklin, 00:16.475[7]; 12. 15T-Willie Traywick, 00:16.881[13]; 13. X75-Dan Cox, 00:17.097[2]

Qualifying Group 2: 1. 12-Ashton Winger, 00:14.459[12]; 2. 10C-Ryan Crane, 00:14.721[7]; 3. 17SS-Brenden Smith, 00:14.810[1]; 4. 58-Tyler Clem, 00:14.838[10]; 5. 2-Bo Slay, 00:14.881[5]; 6. 21-Shay Miller, 00:15.025[3]; 7. 6JR-Parker Martin, 00:15.097[9]; 8. 02B-Stephen Brantley, 00:15.161[8]; 9. 317-Kendall Franklin, 00:15.990[4]; 10. 42-Jared Watson, 00:16.933[13]; 11. 99-Larry Yates, 00:17.538[6]