Bright, shines at Gary Allen Memorial

Bright holds off Rutledge in the final laps

By Scott White

Trey Bright of Northport, AL held off "Mr. Whynot" Kyle Rutledge in the final laps to claim the 1st annual Gary Allen Memorial Street Stock main event Saturday night at Whynot Motorsports Park.

Bright jumped out to commanding lead early, until Rutledge chased him down in the final circuits of the 30 lap $2000 to win event. The two traded paint and making contact twice battling for the lead with two laps remaining, but Bright held on for the win.

"I'm glad Kyle raced me clean at the end" Bright said in victory lane. "I enjoy racing with these guys down here, it's a lot of fun".

Bright also claimed the Sinclair Auto Sales/Scisson Motorsports $250 fast time award over a strong field of 37 Street Stocks.

Jeff Butler of the Jackson area picked up the White Lightning Auto Sales/ Scisson Motorsports $250 hard charger award racing from 16th to third. Butler arrived late, missed qualifying and raced his way from dead last in his heat to make the show.

Rutledge finished second, with Jeff Butler third, Kyle Mars of Whynot fourth and Tony Slyvester of Columbus fifth.

Jim McDuffie of Meridian driving the H. E. Mosley Construction/ Boland Performance/ Trak Star held off a hard charging Lucky Keeton of Toomsuba, to win the NeSmith Chevrolet weekly racing series Late Model feature. Randy Boyd finished third with Larry Murphy fourth and Roger Rolison fifth.  

Randy King continues to dominate winning the Open Wheel Modified feature, Jennifer Shelton won the Mini Stock feature, Christian Shelby won the Stinger feature and Tim Culpepper won the Pure Stock feature.