Freddy Smith wins in North Alabama

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Freddy Smith wins Lucas Oil N. Alabama

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1 Freddy Smith
2 Earl Pearson
3 Bart Hartman
4 Terry Casey
5 Billy Drake
6 Steve Casebolt
7 Eddie Rickman
8 Justin Rattliff
9 Chris Ragan
10 John Mason
11 Anthony Burroughs
12 Jimmy Owens
13 Bub McCool
14 Billy Moyer
15 Michael Walker
16 Mark Tice
17 Josh Putnam
18 Jerry Jackson
19 Jason Fitzgerald
20 Scott Bloomquist
21 Wayne Chinn
22 Dan Schleiper
23 Jamie Elam
24 Scott James

Pearson lead until lap 29 when involvement in a caution put him to the tail of the lead lap cars.

Owens then lead until he broke a right rear hub on lap 36.

Freddy Smith held off the late race charges of Bart Hartman & Earl Pearson to take career checkered flag #784.

[derf]

Those wins are getting harder to get for Freddy.It's good to here he get it done.

[Frasson118]

It's been a couple of lean years for "The Southern Gentleman", but glad to see he still has it.

His popularity in Dirt Late Model racing can only be compared to King Richard Petty's. Not an enemy in the world it seems.

At the inaugural Colossal 100 in Charlotte, there was a mandatory drivers autograph session, where the longest line, by FAR, was right in front of Freddie Smith. When he retires, I think you'll see a big drop in attendance at the shows he would normally have run. Kinda like with the retirement of Richard, Harry Gant and the death of Earnhardt, a lot of fans left the sport and never did return.

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I have certainly been a fan of Freddy Smith for many years. I was at Cleveland Speedway a few years ago for a Southern Allstars show and another car showed up with the famous "00" and he was soundly booed and publically criticized by the announcer. Freddy is truly a legend.