South Africa will never be the same. After the inaugural ASA Free State 500 drivers from both the USA and South Africa are even more excited about what is to come. Toni McCray, the first woman in history to win a super late model main event backed up her strong showing in the 2009 series with a strong second place finish to John Mickel from the United Kingdom.
Toni McCray stayed in the top 5 the entire race and with just 3 laps to go took the lead as Geoff Bodine, former NASCAR superstar had a four second lead with just 3 laps to suddenly ran into engine problems handing the lead over to Toni McCray. McCray led through the final lap when Mickel took the lead and the checkered flag. The highlight of the race was watching father and daughter, Toni and Rick McCray swap positions on track within the top 5 all race, having never raced each other previously.
Finishing Order
Pos No. Name Laps
1 09 John Mickel 207
2 90 Toni McCray 207
3 96 Marc Davis 207
4 08 Rick McCray 207
5 900 Johan Spies 207
6 73 Gary Lewis 207
7 19 Tiffany Daniels 207
8 55 Greg Barnhart 206
9 8 Geoff Bodine 206
10 68 Danie Correia 204
11 20 Gugu Zulu 202
12 97 Mark Ebert 202
13 41 Ron Norman 198
14 98 Shaun Richardson 176
15 22 Johan Cronje 155
16 F22 Russ Blakeley 128
17 61 Tim Olson 115
18 00 Johan Coetzer 88
19 F66 Steve Carlson 54
20 52 Chris Wimmer 38
21 11 Jaco Correia 28
22 80 Mark Shaffer 28
23 85 Lance Fenton 12
24 88 Don Uhlir 1
