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The engines are roaring for the final weekend at Memphis Motorsports Park before operations will cease for good at the facility. This weekend will feature the ASA Late Model Challenge Series headlining the festivities, with the USST Truck Series as the support class for tomorrow’s racing action.

The weather is fantastic! Especially compared to the frigid temps here last year that were reminiscent of this past Oktoberfest Race Weekend! Today however, we topped out in the 70’s…perfect weather for racing!

For a full rundown of practice times, you can click on the ASA Late Model logo at the top fo the page to navigate to their reports. Of local interest, I can tell you that Steve Carlson—defending winner of the event—was 5th fastest in the 1st practice out of 31 cars that spent time on the track.

Carlson has said that despite some guys being able to cut some fast laps in practice, he wasn’t sure how long their machines would be able to keep up that pace. From his vantage point on the track, many of them appeared to be melting their tires right off of the cars. He said he felt real confident that his car was very capable to maintain solid speeds for the duration of the 300-lap event, like last year.

Qualifying will take place tomorrow at 11am for the ASA Late Models. Thirty-three cars are slated to take their 2 laps of qualifying.

The green flag set to drop at approximately 2:30pm. Jacklyn Daniels will be providing Twitter updates during the race—you can set those updates to be sent to your cellphone when you click on the Twitter link found near the bottom of this page. Below are some photos from the day.