Eric Jones Earns Pole at Beau Slocomb Memorial 100, Finishes 9th

Bubba Pollard Wins Beau Slocomb Memorial 100 Victory at Gresham Motorsports Park

JEFFERSON, GA (November 12th, 2011) – Georgia-native Bubba Pollard gets an emotional victory in the Beau Slocumb Memorial 100 Pro Late Model feature on Saturday, November 12th, at Gresham Motorsports Park (GA) as part of the 28th-Annual Rheem World Crown Weekend.“I told them all earlier I’d give up all 18 wins this year for this one,” said Pollard in Victory Lane. “I told them was going to give it all I had. I know he’s (Slocumb) riding with me and it means a lot.”

Erik Jones, a 15-year-old driver from Michigan, earned the pole with a 16.454-second lap beating Pollard by five-hundredths of a second. Once the green flag flew, Pollard took the top spot with his No. 18 machine and lead the first lap. Colt James took the lead from Pollard briefly, but the No. 18 was back out front within a handful of laps.The first 75-lap segment of this event saw only two yellow flags. The first came on the initial start when Spencer Davis went for a spin in turn two. The second flew on lap 28 when Anderson Bowen got a piece of the wall on the backstretch while working his way through lapped traffic. Pollard was on point when the first segment was over. Those drivers on the lead lap, the first car one lap down, and a couple of provisional drivers continued on for the final 25-laps of the event.

The last segment went caution free as Pollard managed to hold off Willie Allen who charged all the way through the field after having transmission issues during qualifying. The No. 18 crossed the stripe three-tenths of a second ahead of Allen, who was followed by Michael Pilla, Dillon Oliver, and Eddie Hoffman.For more information on the 28th Annual Rheem World Crown 300, visit the Gresham Motorsports Park website at http://www.greshammotorsportspark.com/.

# # # #Beau Slocumb Memorial 100 Results
1. 18 Bubba Pollard
2. 6A Willie Allen
3. 4P Michael Pilla
4. 88 Dillon Oliver
5. 8 Eddie Hoffman
6. 15 Colt James
7. 45 Dwayne Buggay
8. 60 Tyler Speers
9. 4 Erik Jones
10. 33 Brandon Jones
11. 55 Mason Mitchell
12. 56 Gus Dean
13. 7 Tyler Edwards
14. 29 Spencer Davis
15. 98 Russell Fleeman
16. 10 R.S. Senter
17. 23 Dalton Grindle
18. 31 Fredrick Moore
19. 7M Donald McIntosh
20. 72 D J Vanderlay
21. 09 Daniel Bolden
22. 04m Michael Lance
23. 97 Tanner Berryhill
24. 76 Jerick Johnson
25. 36 Rodney Benefield