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Fast Facts: 31st annual Sunoco North-South 100

August 6, 2013, 5:14 pm
From staff and series reports

31st annual Sunoco Race Fuels North-South 100

Dates: Aug. 8-10 (practice on Thursday; time trials and dash on Friday; heat races, consolations and 100-lap main event on Saturday).

Track: Florence Speedway, Union, Ky. (high-banked half-mile oval)

Purse: $50,000-to-win, $2,500-to-start.

Sanction: Lucas Oil Late Model Dirt Series

Tickets: Two-day tickets $45 ($7 for children 6-11); pit passes $60; see track website for more ticket details.

On the web: florencespeedway.com or lucasdirt.com

Phone: (859) 485-7591

Last year’s winner: Don O’Neal of Martinsville, Ind., wedged past Jimmy Owens of Newport, Tenn., with 16 laps remaining, making contact while taking command for his first North-South 100 victory.

Notes: Lucas Oil is the presenting sponsor. ... Friday's Red Buck Cigars-sponsored dash will be among the top three qualifiers from each qualifying group paying $500-to-win. ... Jimmy Owens (2007, ’10, ’11) will try to become the race’s first four-time winner. ... The only other three-time winner: the late Jack Boggs (’86, ’92, ’94). ... Six other drivers have won the event twice. ... The National Dirt Late Model Hall of Fame Induction is scheduled for Saturday. This year’s class: Eddie Carrier Sr., Darrell Dake, Bill Frye, John Gill and Willy Kraft, as well as contributors Bret Emrick, Joe Garrison and Jack Starrette. Don O’Neal will receive the Sportsman Award. ... A driver autograph session is scheduled for Saturday. ... Owens leads the Lucas Oil Series standings by 20 points over Steve Francis of Ashland, Ky., and 65 points over John Blankenship of Williamson, W.Va., who held the points lead for a two-week stretch in July. ... Jack Boggs is the only home-state driver to win the event.

Sunoco North-South 100 winners

(Complete race history)

Year: Winner, hometown
2012: Don O'Neal, Martinsville, Ind.
2011: Jimmy Owens, Newport, Tenn.
2010: Jimmy Owens, Newport, Tenn.
2009: Jimmy Mars, Menomonie, Wis.
2008: Darren Miller, Milledgeville, Ill.
2007: Jimmy Owens, Newport, Tenn.
2006: Steve Shaver, Vienna, W.Va.
2005: Bart Hartman, Zanesville, Ohio
2004: Steve Shaver, Vienna, W.Va.
2003: Dan Schlieper, Sullivan, Wis.
2002: Chub Frank, Bear Lake, Pa.
2001: Rained out
2000: Scott Bloomquist, Mooresburg, Tenn.
1999: Bob Pierce, Danville, Ill.
1998: Donnie Moran, Dresden, Ohio
1997: Rick Aukland, Fargo, N.D.
1996: Donnie Moran, Dresden, Ohio
1995: John Gill, Mitchell, Ind.
1994: Jack Boggs, Grayson, Ky.
1993: John Gill, Mitchell, Ind.
1992: Jack Boggs, Grayson, Ky.
1991: Rodney Combs, Lost Creek, W.Va.
1990: Mike Head, Ellenwood, Ga.
1989: Jeff Purvis, Clarksville, Tenn.
1988: Scott Bloomquist, Mooresburg, Tenn.
1987: Jeff Purvis, Clarksville, Tenn.
1986: Jack Boggs, Webbville, Ky.
1985: John Mason, Millersburg, Ohio
1984: Pat Patrick, Saylor Park, Ohio

1983: Pat Patrick, Saylor Park, Ohio

Sunoco North-South 100 purse

1. $50,000
2. $10,000
3. $7,000
4. $5,000
5. $4,000
6. $3,800
7. $3,600
8. $3,400
9. $3,200
10. $3,000
11. $2,750
12. $2,700
13. $2,650
14. $2,625
15. $2,600
16. $2,575
17. $2,550
18. $2,525
19. $2,500
20. $2,500
21. $2,500
22. $2,500
23. $2,500

24. $2,500

Sunoco North-South 100 schedule

Thursday
(Open practice session)
5 p.m.: All gates open
Friday
(Race program: Late Model time trials and Red Buck fast dash, modified heats and consolations, pure stocks heats, consolations and feature)
3 p.m.: Pit gate opens
5 p.m.: Grandstand gates open
6:30 p.m. Hot laps
7:30 p.m.: Racing begins
8:30 p.m.: Late Model time trials
Saturday
(Race program: Late Model heats, consolations and feature; modified feature)
1 p.m.: Fund-raising auction at National Dirt Late Model Hall of Fame
3 p.m.: All gates open
6 p.m.: National Dirt Late Model Hall of Fame induction ceremonies
8 p.m.: Racing begins
 
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