Fleming wins wild race at Fayetteville!

Alex Fleming became the first repeat winner in the 2010 Walls' Roofing UCAR Clash Series at Fayetteville Motor Speedway, outlasting the field in a brutal race that featured more than 10 cautions, two red flags, two flipped racecars and multiple leaders.

The night began with twin heat races to determine the lineup for the only dirt feature event of the season. dirt specialist Barry Wilson took an early lead and dominated the first heat in his #7 Honda Prelude. The second heat was handily won by points leader Robert Arch, who would be forced to start in the rear of the field for the feature, thanks to his top-three finish at the last race in Hickory.

The green flag flew in the feature, but would not be displayed for long. On the first lap, Showtime Sammy Pacitti, Vern McClendon and another car were three-wide battling for a top five spot when Pacitti and McClendon's cars would touch. Pacitti's car flew head-on into the inside retaining jersey barrier, climbing airborne and tumbling onto its roof. Though the immaculately prepared #74 Chevy Cavalier was completely destroyed, the strict safety members kept Pacitti safe to race another day.

On the next series of restarts for minor incidents, the caution would fly multiple times. Finally, after being faced with a time limit imposed by the track, officials decided to count caution laps toward the total number of laps in the 25-lap feature.

After the early chaos, the race settled down and developed into an tight three-way battle between Barry Wilson, Jeremy Rowe and Arch, who had somehow worked his way up to third place from the rear of the field, at the expense of his front bumper cover. Rowe appeared to be ready to pounce on Wilson for the lead when the fate of all three leaders changed for good.

Wilson's engine grenaded while leading the race, sending up a cloud of smoke in turn two. Somehow, both Arch and Rowe would suffer mechanical failure, sending both of those drivers to the pits. Arch's damaged ball-joint would put him at least four laps down while his crew made repairs. Rowe would return to the race on the lead lap, but would never again be a factor.

The misfortune of the leaders would give super late model champion Alex Fleming his turn at the point. Fleming would capitalize by getting out to a good lead, but would soon find himself defending the spot again after a second red flag. The #76 Geo Storm of McClendon would hit a rut in turn three, breaking the right rear suspension and sending the car in a wild series of tumbles, onto the hood of Shane Youngren. Both top five cars would be eliminated from the event.

Second place points contender Shane Phillips had been quietly hanging around the top five all night, and would take the lead from Fleming on the late restart. It appeared as if Phillips would claim his first career victory, but Fleming stormed back around the #91 Acura with less than five laps remaining to take the win. It was the second first place finish for the F5 Pontiac Sunfire this season, giving Fleming another big trophy to ad to his collection.

Though he fell laps down, the attrition in the race allowed Arch to retain his points lead, losing only a few valuable points to Phillips. There is still plenty of excitement left this year, as the series now heads back to Dillon Motor Speedway, one of the most competitive speedways on the Clash schedule. Unofficial Top 3

1) F5 Alex Fleming

2) 91 Shane Phillips

3) 0x Bob Carter

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