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Green Wins Rain-Shortened Legends All-Star Race At Charlotte

Thursday, May 23 – Tyler Green won the weather-shortened Legends All-Star Race Thursday at
Charlotte Motor Speedway, leading all 31 laps of the caution-filled contest to
bring home the $2,500 payday.

Green, the son of former NASCAR driver Mark Green, started from the pole and was
able to stay in front of the fray, avoiding all of the early chaos. A large
pileup brought out the caution on lap 31, and the cleanup was lengthy enough to
allow strong approaching lightning storms to reach the track, ending the race
nine laps short of the advertised distance and giving Green the win.

“I was upset to see that last caution with nine to go,” Green said. “I think we
were in a good spot. They were battling behind me but I had a good distance on
them, just trying to take care of my stuff and be at the checkered flag when it
dropped.”

Prior to the final caution, Green was being stalked by Steven Cantrell, who
transferred into the main event by winning the earlier hooligan race, and Doug
Stevens, who had worked his way to the front despite being involved in an early
caution.

“I knew with (them) behind me, we’d have a good race, but I felt like as the
night went on, (they) probably wore (their) stuff out to get up there,” Green
said. “Those restarts are critical, and I felt like we got good jumps on all of
them, getting away from them before they can get to you.”

Cantrell and Stevens finished second and third respectively. Joey Pagget and Kaz
Grala rounded out the top five.

The evening’s first Legend Car event, the 25-lap hooligan race, also started
with a flurry of cautions, whittling the field and leaving behind a trail of
debris.

But Steven Cantrell rose above the fray and stayed out of trouble to easily
transfer to the main race. The rest of the top 10 transferring with him were Jay
Coen, Evan Swilling, Kory Abbott, Connor Pyle, Joshua Brimecombe, Stefan
Parsons, Dillon Faggart and Austin Langenstein. Bruce Silver and Randy Schaaf
were added as provisional starters.

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