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“Purgin’ Spurgeon” Adkins paced the full 16-car Modified Street class with a 5.525-seconds effort at 132.24 mph. Adkins, from Cordele, GA, had an opening-round bye after Glen Jones couldn’t make the call, then advanced to
the semis with a come-
from-behind win over Ryan Padgett. He gave away the race, however, with a .150 reaction negating his 5.579/128.87 against the 5.642 at 128.08 posted by Reagan following his .058 reaction time.
Covington, GA’s Brian Southard wowed the Saturday-afternoon crowd with this bumper-dragging qualifying pass. Southard settled the car down and eventually qualified his Kaboom Racing (“We usually blow something up!”) ’89 Stang in the 10th position and made it to round two against Normal.
