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Waycaster Picks up Long Overdue Win at TCMS

Hudson, North Carolina (July 14, 2006) - Nick Waycaster has struggled with bad luck all season long, but his hard work and perseverance paid off in the form of an emotional win Friday night at Tri-County Motor Speedway.

Travis Swaim was fastest in qualifying. With a lap of 16.689 on the 4/10^th mile oval, but the invert put Waycaster sharing the front row with Matt Leicht.

The first dozen laps were run in the same fashion as the pace laps on the first two rows, with Leicht and Waycaster side-by-side and trading the lead back and forth, while Travis Swaim and Lee Tissott ran door-to-door and Rock Harris was trying to find an opening to join the battle.

Numerous times Swaim made attempts to go three wide coming off of turn four.  After things sorted out in the front and cars fell into single file, Waycaster had the point followed by Leicht and they were trailed by Swaim, Tissott and Harris.  Ricky Bryant was ready to make his charge toward the front while Leicht and Tissott were locked in a battle for second.  Positions were swapped lapped after lap among the second through sixth place cars and Leicht began to fall off the pace with mechanical problems.

Bryant was busy methodically taking one position at a time and when it was time to for Bryant to challenge Waycaster, he had his hands full.  Bryant took the lead with five laps to go, but Waycaster was too hungry for a win to let it get away.  One lap later Waycaster was out back out front and Bryant slipped a little, giving Waycaster a two car length advantage.

The win was emotional for Waycaster, his crew, family and fans.  Waycaster’s burn-out nearly blew his engine, but even that could not dampen the hard earned celebration held in victory lane.  Waycaster’s post race interview relayed his emotions as his voice was quivering.

Bryant came home second, Tissott third, Harris fourth and Swaim was fifth.  Travis Mosely was sixth, Josh Goble seventh, Bruce Green eighth, Eric Green ninth, and Eddy Cox was tenth.

Monty Cox picked up his fourth win of the season in the Pepsi Super Stock Challenge after starting from the seventh starting spot.  It only took Cox three laps to take the lead from Steve Parris.  Cox pulled away with the lead, while Scott Franklin was in pursuit but did not have enough to catch Cox and settled for second at the end of the 30-lap feature.  Kaleb Pressley was third, Parris fourth and Shawn Day fifth.

Waylon Flynn was credited with the Street Stock win after Donnie Buckner was disqualified after post-race inspection for not meeting the required engine specifications.  Josh Burchette moved up to take  second with Kevin Eby third, Ernie Harris fourth and Gary Lovelace fifth.

Flynn was also the winner in the Mini Stock feature followed by Randy Freeze in second, A.J. Sanders in third, Doug Setzer fourth and Tony Franklin was fifth.

Jason Garwood picked up another Fast & Furious trophy after beating Jackie Stone across the line.  Stone was second with Stephen Shore third, Stephen Clippard fourth and Nikki Long was fifth.

Drew Bagwell claimed his first win of the season in the Tri-County Minis after holding off Jeff Banks for the trophy.  Banks was second, Travis Cook third, Tim McRae fourth and Matt Sizemore was fifth.

For complete official results, in all divisions, check the Tri-County Motor Speedway web site at www.tricountymotorspeedway.com.

Official Results July 14, 2006 Tri-County Motor Speedway 

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