Tony Stewart held off Greg Biffle in the closing laps to take the Camping World SRX Series win at South Boston Speedway Saturday (June 25), in a night where tempers flared everywhere.
Bobby Labonte, Ryan Newman, and defending SRX winner Helio Castroneves completed the top five. Local all-star Peyton Sellers finished in the 10th position, the last car running on the track.
Stewart earned the most points in the heat races to start on the pole, with Marco Andretti starting alongside. The SRX Fun Flag came out 25 laps into the 100-lap feature. On the restart, Paul Tracy got caught up in his second incident of the night (see the heat two recap below) thanks to Ryan Hunter-Reay to immediately bring out the caution again.
Stewart jumped out to the lead again on the following restart. The caution came out yet again when Biffle and Andretti came together racing for second, with Andretti being the victim, as he spun off of turn 4.
The biggest incident of the night came a few laps after the restart, where Hunter-Reay made an aggressive move on Michael Waltrip, sending the latter sliding into the outside wall. As the field rolled around under caution, Waltrip intentionally ran into Hunter-Reay under caution several times, with the last hit ripping Hunter-Reay’s right front fender loose. Waltrip then parked his car on pit road and told CBS Sports that he was not done with him.
“I just got dumped,” said Waltrip. “He just got into me and never let me go. I just don’t understand how that can happen.
“…And so he’s going to hear from Uncle Mike.”
Stewart was able to hold off Biffle for the final 26 lap stint to win.
Heat One
Labonte led the field to the green, but Biffle quickly took the lead, with Andretti scooting through to second. Following a restart for the SRX Fun Flag, Biffle and Andretti had a spirited battle for the lead, but Biffle eventually prevailed to win the first heat.
Heat Two
The inverted field saw Tracy start on pole, with Castroneves alongside him. Tracy rocketed to the lead, but Newman, who started the heat in sixth, made his way to second in just a few laps and hounded Tracy for the next several laps. Castroneves retook second from Newman about halfway through the heat. Moments later, Castroneves went into turn 1 too hard and spun Tracy to bring out the caution. Castroneves then held off Andretti and Newman to win heat two.
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