Nick Smith scored the pole for the race earlier in the day with a 16.346-second lap, merely 0.005 seconds ahead of the second-place car of C.E. Falk III. Smith, now driving for Dave Atkinson, was riding a wave of momentum as the defending race winner and from winning the Bailey's 200 late model race at South Boston Speedway the week before.
Nick Smith set the pole position in the race earlier today, clocking a 16.346-second lap, just 0.005 seconds ahead of C.E. Falk III's second-place car. Smith, now driving for Dave Atkinson, was riding on a wave of momentum as the defending race winner and having won the Bailey's 200 late model race at South Boston Speedway the week before.