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Atlanta Motorsports Park in Dawsonville Holds Groundbreaking
Atlanta Motorsports Park is a motorsports country club, similar to that of a golf country club, but instead of a golf course, it is a driving course where owners of sports cars, muscle cars, vintage cars and bikes can drive their cars fast and legally in a safe road course environment...
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Casey Roderick Competes in Palm Beach
The young Bill Elliott Development driver from Lawrenceville, Ga., who had just one prior ARCA start under his belt, put his No. 51 Monolith Hospitality Dodge at the top of the leader board in practice then won the pole with a new one-lap track record of 93.235 miles per hour...
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Teams Participate in Open Test at Gresham Motorsports Park
Sunny skies and crisp temperatures greeted six divisions of race cars -- Super, Pro and Outlaw Late Models, Trucks, Renegade Street Stocks and USAR Pro Cup vehicles -- during a five-hour practice on Saturday afternoon...
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Tickets on Sale for 27th Annual World Crown 300
The stock car racing classic - which will be headlined by a 300-Lap Super Late Model event -- will be held Sunday, November 14 at Gresham Motorsports Park. Also added to this year's World Crown 300 line-up will be a 125-Lap Pro Late Model clash on Saturday, November 13...
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Monolith announces partnership for 2010 with Bill Elliott Racing’s Driver Development Program
Casey Roderick, a member of the Bill Elliott Driver Development Program, will pilot the No. 51 Monolith Hospitality Dodge. The car will be fielded by a joint venture with Bill Elliott Racing and Phoenix Racing...
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Casey Roderick Begins Rookie Season in Eligible ARCA Events
Roderick and his Dawsonville, Georgia-based team are kicking off what could be a pivotal year in the career of a young racer who hopes to one day compete at the top levels of NASCAR racing...
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Early Entries Heating Up For CRA Super Late Model Season-Opening Event At GMP
The state of Georgia is well represented with Dawsonville natives Chase Elliott, the 14-year-old son of NASCAR legend Bill Elliott, as well as Casey Roderick driving a Bill Elliott Motorsports entry. Cleveland, Georgia's Jason Hogan is also entered...
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Chase Elliott Closes ’09 Season with 7th Place Showing in Snowball Derby
In August, Elliott also made his first start in the CRA Super Series at the Fairgrounds Speedway at Nashville (Tenn.), becoming the youngest driver to ever start a CRA race and the youngest to finish in the top-ten with a solid eighth place run...
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Chase Elliott Looks to Cap Stellar Rookie Season with Snowball Derby Run
Elliott, who turned 14 over the holiday weekend, will make his first attempt to qualify for the 300-lap Super Late Model race, considered by many as the “Daytona 500” of short track racing.  The young driver will attempt to make it an exciting double header...
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Chase Elliott Records Top-Five in Strong North-South Shootout Field
After struggling slightly in qualifying, thirteen-year-old Elliott started 14th and drove his way toward the front to post a solid top-five finish in strong 26-car field. After the race, Elliott radioed to his crew, “I’m sorry guys, if I had had a better qualifying effort, we wouldn’t have had to use our equipment up to get to fifth.  The car was great tonight; I wish I could have done more”...
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Exotic Sports Car Brings Championship Heritage to Dawsonville
The No. 99 GAINSCO Auto Insurance racing show car – an exact replica of the 185-mph Pontiac Riley Daytona Prototype that carried GAINSCO/Bob Stallings Racing and drivers Alex Gurney and Jon Fogarty to the 2007 and 2009 championships – will maintain a busy touring schedule for the rest of the year. Its next stop is this weekend’s 42nd annual Mountain Moonshine Festival in Dawsonville, Ga...
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Chase Elliott Overcomes Double Dose of Trouble to Finish Eighth in Winchester 400 Debut
After running near the top of the charts during Friday’s practice, a mechanical failure sent Elliott into the wall and forced the team to load up the primary car.  Elliott made his first practice laps in the back-up car Saturday morning and then qualified sixth out of 36 cars...
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Engine Trouble, Mother Nature Make for Disappointing Weekend for Elliott
Unfortunately, Elliott and the No. 9 Aaron’s Dream Machine didn’t come back to Dawsonville, with the results they had hoped for.  While running in the top-ten at Five Flags, the engine on the No. 9 Ford gave out on lap 66, resulting in a DNF and a 21st place finish.  Over at Mobile, rain washed out qualifying and the 100-lap race, which is rescheduled for October 24th...
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Lanier Set to Crown Super 6 Champion
One racer who has had a season that many dream of is Chase Elliott.  Elliott, driver of the #9 Aaron’s Dream Machine Ford, from Dawsonville, GA, started off the 2009 Georgia Asphalt Series season with a respectable 7th and 3rd place finish from the season opening race at Watermelon Capital Speedway...
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Chase Elliott Finishes Eighth in CRA Super Series Debut
After starting 14th in the 32-car field, Elliott ran as high as seventh and showed patience while racing with NASCAR’s Kyle Busch, who won the night before at Bristol (Tenn.) Motor Speedway...
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Holy Wars Proved Heavenly For Some
With the NASCAR Whelen All-American Weekly Series in action at Lanier National Speedway, fans enjoyed INEX Legends and Bandoleros, as well as the NVRA Vintage Association, and the most talked about race of the evening, Lanier’s second annual ‘Faster Pastor’ School Bus race...
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Lanier to Feature Faster Pastor School Bus Race, Vintage Cars
On Saturday, August 22, fans can come and cheer on their favorite church ministers, who will be driving specially prepared school buses at Lanier National Speedway...

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Roderick Dominates at Lanier; Trouble in Post-Race Tech Results in First DQ
The No. 19 Bill Elliott Racing Ford failed post-race inspection due to brake blowers that are legal in the ASA Southeast Asphalt Tour, but not in the GAS series...
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Elliott Finishes Second at Lanier; Moves into GAS Points Lead

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Atlanta Motor Speedway Set to Host Pep Boys Auto 500 on Sept.6
Back in 1941, Dawson County's Lloyd Seay was enjoying an impressive winning streak in Atlanta by defeating stock car star Bob Flock in that year's Labor Day race. Unbeknownst to fans in attendance, the win would mark Seay’s last after he was shot and killed the next day in a dispute over his moonshine business.
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