CECIL — A very full day of racing action was on tap last Saturday, as drag racers and oval track racers alike converged at South Georgia Motorsports Park (SGMP) with consistency favoring the winners. Past winners, with names like Davis, Hodges, Wood and Williams, staked their claim on yet another victory.

Jarred Bullard from Adel was the first winner of the busy weekend. It was also his first win on the monster half mile. Bullard, with his very recognizable purple and white No. 9 Pure Stock, kept the pursuing group well within his rear view mirror before taking the checked flag.

Marty Wood of Jasper, Fla., with the most Super Stock wins this season, scored yet another victory. With an engine that began to “fog for mosquitoes” near the final laps, all wondered if the car would stay together for the win.

David Hodges Jr. of Valdosta made his familiar visit to the winner circle. Hodges, with his Mopar-powered “Late Model,” kept his consistency alive by again winning every race he has completed at SGMP.

In the first win on the drag strip, Allie Alcorn from Crawfordville, Fla., came to the winners circle to claim her Jr. Dragster trophy. Alcorn went six rounds, missing her dial in by only .002 in the final.

Ray Williams of Thomasville had bad luck during qualifying by breaking his ‘Pro’ race car. Williams, who has been known to race grandma’s personal car, decided to race the Ford Dually he used to tow the race car to the event. Proving that consistency is in the driver’s hands, Williams took the diesel power pickup to the winners circle, after filling the drag strip with black diesel smoke.

Jeff Adkinson from Damascus, who races in both the ‘Pro’ and ‘Super Pro’ classes, took his ‘Super Pro’ dragster first to cross the finish line. Adkinson nailed the tree by cutting a .015 light that won him the race.

In the first visit with the ‘Automatic Pro-Mods’ to SGMP, Ronnie Davis from Suwanee won his third consecutive event of the newly-formed series. Top Sportsman champion Davis qualified second, but won the final round with a .004 light and a 4.362 E.T.

This coming Memorial Day weekend will bring the Southern Mopar Nationals to SGMP for a full two days of car shows and drag racing on the all-concrete quarter mile. Saturday and Sunday will mark the event, with testing on Friday, as ‘Mopar takes on the World’. Thirty classes of show cars and racers will be present, from the old to the new. According to event officials, if it looks fast, is fast or has a Hemi, you will see it at the Southern Mopar Nationals.

Located one mile north of Cecil, Georgia on U.S. Highway 41, just off Interstate 75 at Exit 32, South Georgia Motorsports Park features one of the Premier 1/2 mile D-shaped, progressive-banked asphalt oval track speedways in the southeast, in addition to one of only two all-concrete quarter-mile dragstrips in North America. SGMP was voted NHRA track of the Year for the last two years. Additional information and event schedules are available on the track’s official website, www.sgmpracing.com.