November 7, Concord, NC--- The first major race of the afternoon is the SK-Type Modified race. 23 cars coming to the green.

When the 50-lap SK race came to the green, Ryan Preece and Matt Hirschman were on the front row, with Ron silk and Eric Beers in row 2. Preece took the lead, followed by Hirschman, Silk, Beers, and Rowan Pennink.

By lap 3, the field had fallen in line in ‘freight-train’ order. Mike Nichols went to the pits on lap 6 with a problem, as the race continued. Ryan Preece had a slim 5-car advantage by lap 10. Surprisingly, Ted Christopher had fallen back to 10^th from his 7^th starting position.

A yellow flew on lap 12 as oil coated the track. It appeared that Keith Rocco was dropping oil, as he pulled to pit road, so his car could be looked at by his crew, then the race officials. After a quick look, he was allowed back on the track, as the track crew laid down the Speedy Dry.

Finally, the red flag was thrown so the officials could get the race cars to pit road, and the track crew could do a thorough job cleaning the track. While the cars were coming to a stop, it was clear that Jimmy Zacharias was laying down a river of oil on pit road. Officials stopped the drivers from working on the car, as they moved the car out of the way to the pit wall. Since it wasn’t Keith Rocco dropping fluid, he got his spot back.

It’s unfortunate that the race had this problem, as the drivers were all racing unusually clean. This is turning out to be a very long cleanup. It turned out after a long yellow, and a 13-minute red period, the cars were pulled back onto the track. The long cleanup is not unusual as these cars are running only a tenth off the pace of the Tour Modifieds. After the track trucks cleared the pavement, the field was given a combination green and yellow to go at ¾ speed to clear the track of the excess Speedy Dry for a number of laps.

When the field once again went green, Matt Hirschman took the lead, followed by Ryan Preece, Eric Beers, Ron Silk, and Rowan Pennink, as the field quickly fell in line.

Jimmy Zacharias brought out the next caution on lap 20, as he spun, tapped the inside wall on the front stretch. He needed the wrecker back to the pits.

When they went green, it was Hirschman to the lead, followed by Preece, Silk, Beers, and Doug Coby. They only stayed green for two laps, as Steven Reed, Ron Yuhas Jr., and Rowan Pennink got together in turn three. While they were waiting for traffic to clear, Mike Speeney came up fast, and hit the wall before he could avoid the incident (making his own incident).

At the green, the cars only went one lap before a spin shut them down again. So at the halfway point on lap 25, the top 10 were Hirschman, Preece, Silk, Beers, Coby, Steven Reed, Kerry Malone, Yuhas, Ted Christopher, and Rick Kluth. Coby got around Beers for 4^th a lap later. The front four started stretching out their lead, as cars behind the top ten started getting a little bit antsy.

Craig Dolphin spun in turn three right in front of Matt Hirschman on lap 34 bringing out the first yellow. It appears that the next hurdle might be the setting sun, as it is starting to get low over turn one.

After a fairly quick caution, Preece out-muscled Hirschman for the lead, with Coby, Silk, and TC rounding out the top five. Of course, it was then time for the caution as Dan Kerzejewski spun into the front stretch wall. With all of the cautions, it turning out to be the SK division we knew.

Preece took the lead, followed by Hirschman, Coby, TC, and Reed. A spin on the frontstretch by Mike Nichols caused Preece and Hirschman got together, with Preece sitting against Nichols car. Since the track was mostly blocked, officials gave Preece his spot back at the front.

With 42 laps of the 50 run, the field restarted in single file. However, Hirschman went right to the lead, as Preece got stuck on the outside. Slight side by side contact was made with Ted Christopher, causing Ryan Preece to spin in turn one.

That made it a whole new ballgame as past winner took the lead for the restart, followed by Doug Coby, Ted Christopher, Steven Reed, and Ronnie Silk being the top five, with seven laps to go.

Coby was slow on the restart, with TC banging on his rear bumper. Hirschman had a five car lead, as TC looked for a way around Coby. TC fell back a couple of car lengths, and that gave the win to Matt Hirschman. This is the first SK win for Hirschman at the Shootout.

At the finish was Matt Hirschman, Doug Coby, Ted Christopher, Steven Reed, and Doug Coby.