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Brad
takes crate win at Volunteer Speedway
Brad
Hall took the FasTrak crate late model win at Volunteer Speedway
on May 3, 2008. The key word is took as Hall ran 3rd most of the
race.
Hall
qualified on the outside front row for the 25-lap feature. Jensen
Ford got the early lead from the pole and Hall lost 2nd place to
Dale Ball on lap 2. As the lead trio worked heavy lapped traffic,
Ball used the traffic to take the lead from Ford. The lapped traffic
would later cost Ball the win as a lapped car took out the leader.
Ford
regained the lead with Hall in second. But Ford would suffer the
same fate as Ball as a lapped car made contact with Ford on the
last lap in turn 2. That sent Ford spinning to the inside and put
Hall into the lead. Hall went on to win the race.
“Hey,
sometimes it’s just better to be lucky than good,” said
a smiling Hall from victory lane. “Really, Jensen (Ford) and
Dale (Ball) both were a little better than us tonight, but we caught
the lucky breaks when they got tangled up with the slower cars and
here we are with the win. I’ve lost races before due to lapped
traffic, and maybe tonight was my time to get paid back and get
a win I’d had slip out of my grasp in the past. I don’t
get the opportunity to race here at ‘The Gap’ all that
often, but it’s a blast getting to compete here against a really
strong field of crate-engine cars. This is a very good class of
racing.”
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