Jones wins but wrecks
LONG POND, Pa. — Brandon Jones took home a trophy and sent a car to the scrap heap in about an hour Sunday at Pocono Raceway.
Jones won a two-lap sprint to the finish to win the wreck-filled Truck Series race, the first of three NASCAR races Sunday at Pocono. It was the first time three NASCAR National Series races were raced on the same day at the same track.
Jones’ enjoyment was short-lived — he wrecked on the first lap of the Xfinity Series race.
“It doesn’t take much when you get three-wide,” Jones said.
Xfinity Series
LONG POND, Pa. — Chase Briscoe held off Ross Chastain in overtime to win the crash-filled Xfinity race.
Chastain, an eighth-generation farmer and fourthgeneration watermelon farmer, and Briscoe swapped the lead until a caution flag — the race’s ninth — bunched the field and sent the race into OT. Briscoe, 25, pulled away from there in the No. 98 Ford for his fourth victory of the season. But
Dixieland Speedway
ELIZABETH CITY, N.C. — Roger Bell of Chesapeake drove his Chevrolet Camaro past pole-sitter Mark Overman on the final lap to win the 20-lap Sportsman feature on Dixieland Speedway’s three-eighths-of-a-mile dirt track with fans in attendance Friday night.
John Staton of Chesapeake won the 40-lap Late Model race. Also prevailing were Chris Freeman (Stock Fours 25), Dennis Barnes (Super Street 20) and Ron Winterburn of Hertford, North Carolina (Super Fours 15).
‘Rope’ fallout
PINE HALL, N.C. — The owner of a North Carolina racetrack said he has faced death threats, lost employees and seen “all but two” of his sponsors evaporate amid the backlash over his social media post invoking the noose found in the garage stall of Black driver Bubba Wallace.
Mike Fulp, who owns the half-mile dirt 311 Speedway in Stokes County, told the News & Record he knew his troubles from what he described as a joke were self-inflicted. He advertised “Bubba Rope” for sale on Facebook Marketplace.