[Tabitha Draughon]

Sunday's race action started shortly after 2 p.m. We completed our 1st race & then did our 3rd Annual Karen Hardee Warren award presentation & this year's award winners were Keith Alexander & Sheila Sloan. Neither of these two knew about them getting the award & I think both were shocked when their names were called out. Due to time restraints, it was determined to go straight into first round action & apply the Warren Engines Dash for Cash money to the winner & runner-up. There was a random tech card pulled from all entries for the Half Moon Marketplace "Act of Giving Back" & Tanner Hiatt was awarded the $35.00 Visa gift card. We had 38 cars make the 1st round call for this race. Homer Carty picked up the Victory Lane Golf Carts First Round Best Losing Package money. He was dialed a 6.12, had a .066 RT, & ran a 6.126 @ 108.84 mph. Jake Melton received 5 gallons of Renegade Race Fuels & Lubricants PRO 112+ racing fuel when he lost his run during R2. He had a .052 RT, ran a 6.301 @ 103.49 mph on his 6.29 dial. Curtis Smith Racing was the lone semi-finalist where he took a loss against Tanner Hiatt. Curtis was late at the hit & broke out running a 6.983 @ 94.10 mph on his 7.00 dial in. Curtis Smith Racing also picked up the Wayside Landscapes & Supply Bounty Hunter Award taking out the previous race winner, Doug Hobgood. The finals were now set between Tanner Hiatt & James "Cooter" Williamson. Just like the last race, neither driver wanted to take a chance getting bit by the red bulb in the finals & both were late at the hit. Cooter came out on top over Tanner although Tanner ran dead on his dial but was too much to overcome the difference at the tree. Cooter had a .109 RT & ran a 6.415 @ 98.35 mph on his 6.35 dial. Tanner had a .176 RT, ran a 6.546 @ 102.91 mph on 6.54 dial. Cooter also received The Wisecarver Brothers Sportsmanship Award. He entered the CCRA membership on the very late race of the season basically just to support our association. Williamson received his race winnings, a $100.00 gift certificate from Altronics Inc, a can of FOGGIT, an E3 Ignition certificate for a set of spark plugs, a certificate for 50% of one item from Zamp Racing, $100.00 gift certificate from COMP Cams, $100.00 gift certificate from Edelbrock Performance, & a 5 gallon pail of racing fuel from Fuel Factory. Hiatt received his race winnings, a certificate for a set of spark plugs from E3 Ignition, a $50.00 gift certificate from Edelbrock Performance, a $50.00 gift certificate from COMP Cams, a $50.00 gift certificate from Meziere Enterprises, & a 5 gallon pail of racing fuel from Fuel Factory. Jim Reynolds, first race for 2025, received the McLawhorn Racing Hard Luck Award after being the only car to lose traction during R1 of competition. Dell Britt received the Dunn Logging Company "Paul Bunyan/Best RT" award for his .004 during E2 & he also was awarded the Performance Sealing and Striping Best Winning Package of the race for that round win. He had a .004 RT, ran a 6.845 at 91.59 mph on his 6.84 dial. Jake Melton received the Gutters by Design/Worst RT for his .296 RT during R1 which still resulted in a round win.

CCRA-Carolina Class Racers Association racing is in the books for yet another successful year. We continue to grow each year, both with racers & sponsors. We hope are racers are already looking forward to racing with us in 2025! The final points information will be posted a little while later. Our schedule was released on Saturday & will be posted online this week as well as banquet details for January. I am in search for both returning & new sponsors for 2025 so if you know of any businesses that might be interested, please send them my way.

Much love to all of y'all & THANKS a bunch for always supporting CCRA & our officials!!!!