Greg Nix Captures First Victory In The Southeast Super Trucks At Anderson Motor Speedway
Press Release By: Gerald E Harris
April 23, 2022
Photos By: Keith Anderson
The teams and drivers of the Southeast Super Truck Series have waited all season to get back under way. They all made the drive down to Anderson Motor Speedway for the 2022 season opener, and boy it was a beautiful afternoon for short track racing. Everyone began to prep for the day’s activities, a few changes to the driver rosters for the season: Kaleb Bradley moved up from the Bandoleros, Joshua Horniman who picked up the 2021 Tri-County Speedway Regular Season Championship decided to move up to the Southeast Super Trucks, and a driver change from last year, truck owner Greg Nix climbed back behind the wheel of his #3 Waters Tire Silverado (Marty Ward piloted the truck last season), DJ Canipe moving up to the Super Trucks (from back to back Championships in the SEST Limited Late Models).
The first practice session it was another new-comer to the series Dusty Garus in his #22 Chevrolet Silverado who set the fast time of 15.971, Nix also laid down the exact same time as Garus. Kaleb Bradley was the only driver who opted to take advantage of the final practice round, the youngster from Chapel Hill, North Carolina was trying to get as much seat time as he possibly could. Dusty Garus would go on and claim the Renegade Race Fuels Pole Award with a time of 15.716 over DJ Canipe. Garus rolled a four on the invert dice which now set Rookie driver Joshua Horniman starting in the top spot and Canipe on the outside. The Rick Hendricks City Chevrolet pace truck led the field around the speedway for a few laps to get heat in the tires and engines, before it dove onto pit road.
Horniman and Canipe leading the field out of turn four, waiting for flagman Timmy Hutson to wave the green flag. Horniman and Canipe stayed side by side as they went through turns one and two, Tim Lollis seen a opening on the bottom and he dove to the inside of Garus and Nix making it three wide down the back straight away. Lollis and Garus made contact as they entered turn three, and both drivers spun around, Bennie Davis also looped it around trying to woe up. All three drivers were able to regroup and fire their trucks back up. The field once again were ready to do a complete redo for the 50 lap feature with $1500 dollars on the line. This time as the green flag flew over the field Canipe was able to pull out in front of the #43 of Horniman. Canipe led the first lap, and quickly began to pull away from everyone.
Canipe remained out front and led the field to the halfway mark with Horniman right in his tracks the first 25 laps. The second caution flew on lap 34 as the #22 of Garus cut a tire down in turn three and made hard contact with the outside wall. After a brief red flag for the clean up, the drivers refired their machines and followed the Rick Hendrick City Chevrolet pace truck around the track. Canipe came out of turn four and led the field back into the KRC Power Steering Restart Zone. Horniman had a rough restart as it appeared he missed a shift, drivers quickly shuffled to get around the slower #43 truck. Canipe pulled back in the front, this time with Nix in his tire tracks, Tim Dale and Tim Lollis were third and fourth, Horniman now found himself in the fifth position. As the race narrowed down to the final twelve laps, your leader DJ Canipe came to a slow crawl down the front straight away, this opened the door for Nix to take over the top spot.
Horniman began to work his way back up towards the front, as he drove back passed the #50 of Lollis taking over third, and this opened the door up for #44 of Ron Hall. With just eight laps remaining Horniman drove back to the inside of the #5 of Dale and regained the second spot. Horniman set his sights on the leader of Nix, but only had a few laps left in the feature. Nix would go on to claim his first ever Southeast Super Truck Series Victory after many years on competing with the series. “We got real lucky tonight, and we needed it, we deserved it, im telling you. We have had enough bad luck, the last fifteen laps I just told them just keep talking. Im an old street stock racer, I knew when he said 15 to go it was my game. Im one and done, I said if I can win one more race Im going to hang it up. Marty Ward will be back in the truck” stated a very happy Greg Nix in Rick Hendricks City Chevrolet Victory Lane Presented by Double Aught Injury Lawyers.
The series will have a few weeks off before returning to action at Kingsport Speedway otherwise known as the “Concrete Jungle” on May 14th. For all of the latest news and information please visit our website www.southeastsupertrucks.com or our social media site https://www.facebook.com/sestseries. And Don’t forget you can catch all of the action Live or On-Demand at www.sest.tv or www.pitrow.tv.
Official Race Results
1. 3 Greg Nix
2. 43 Joshua Horniman
3. 50 Tim Lollis
4. 44 Ron Hall
5. 29 DJ Canipe
6. 22 Dusty Garus
7. 66 Bennie Davis
8. 41 Kaleb Bradley
9. 5 Tim Dale
April 23, 2022
Photos By: Keith Anderson
The teams and drivers of the Southeast Super Truck Series have waited all season to get back under way. They all made the drive down to Anderson Motor Speedway for the 2022 season opener, and boy it was a beautiful afternoon for short track racing. Everyone began to prep for the day’s activities, a few changes to the driver rosters for the season: Kaleb Bradley moved up from the Bandoleros, Joshua Horniman who picked up the 2021 Tri-County Speedway Regular Season Championship decided to move up to the Southeast Super Trucks, and a driver change from last year, truck owner Greg Nix climbed back behind the wheel of his #3 Waters Tire Silverado (Marty Ward piloted the truck last season), DJ Canipe moving up to the Super Trucks (from back to back Championships in the SEST Limited Late Models).
The first practice session it was another new-comer to the series Dusty Garus in his #22 Chevrolet Silverado who set the fast time of 15.971, Nix also laid down the exact same time as Garus. Kaleb Bradley was the only driver who opted to take advantage of the final practice round, the youngster from Chapel Hill, North Carolina was trying to get as much seat time as he possibly could. Dusty Garus would go on and claim the Renegade Race Fuels Pole Award with a time of 15.716 over DJ Canipe. Garus rolled a four on the invert dice which now set Rookie driver Joshua Horniman starting in the top spot and Canipe on the outside. The Rick Hendricks City Chevrolet pace truck led the field around the speedway for a few laps to get heat in the tires and engines, before it dove onto pit road.
Horniman and Canipe leading the field out of turn four, waiting for flagman Timmy Hutson to wave the green flag. Horniman and Canipe stayed side by side as they went through turns one and two, Tim Lollis seen a opening on the bottom and he dove to the inside of Garus and Nix making it three wide down the back straight away. Lollis and Garus made contact as they entered turn three, and both drivers spun around, Bennie Davis also looped it around trying to woe up. All three drivers were able to regroup and fire their trucks back up. The field once again were ready to do a complete redo for the 50 lap feature with $1500 dollars on the line. This time as the green flag flew over the field Canipe was able to pull out in front of the #43 of Horniman. Canipe led the first lap, and quickly began to pull away from everyone.
Canipe remained out front and led the field to the halfway mark with Horniman right in his tracks the first 25 laps. The second caution flew on lap 34 as the #22 of Garus cut a tire down in turn three and made hard contact with the outside wall. After a brief red flag for the clean up, the drivers refired their machines and followed the Rick Hendrick City Chevrolet pace truck around the track. Canipe came out of turn four and led the field back into the KRC Power Steering Restart Zone. Horniman had a rough restart as it appeared he missed a shift, drivers quickly shuffled to get around the slower #43 truck. Canipe pulled back in the front, this time with Nix in his tire tracks, Tim Dale and Tim Lollis were third and fourth, Horniman now found himself in the fifth position. As the race narrowed down to the final twelve laps, your leader DJ Canipe came to a slow crawl down the front straight away, this opened the door for Nix to take over the top spot.
Horniman began to work his way back up towards the front, as he drove back passed the #50 of Lollis taking over third, and this opened the door up for #44 of Ron Hall. With just eight laps remaining Horniman drove back to the inside of the #5 of Dale and regained the second spot. Horniman set his sights on the leader of Nix, but only had a few laps left in the feature. Nix would go on to claim his first ever Southeast Super Truck Series Victory after many years on competing with the series. “We got real lucky tonight, and we needed it, we deserved it, im telling you. We have had enough bad luck, the last fifteen laps I just told them just keep talking. Im an old street stock racer, I knew when he said 15 to go it was my game. Im one and done, I said if I can win one more race Im going to hang it up. Marty Ward will be back in the truck” stated a very happy Greg Nix in Rick Hendricks City Chevrolet Victory Lane Presented by Double Aught Injury Lawyers.
The series will have a few weeks off before returning to action at Kingsport Speedway otherwise known as the “Concrete Jungle” on May 14th. For all of the latest news and information please visit our website www.southeastsupertrucks.com or our social media site https://www.facebook.com/sestseries. And Don’t forget you can catch all of the action Live or On-Demand at www.sest.tv or www.pitrow.tv.
Official Race Results
1. 3 Greg Nix
2. 43 Joshua Horniman
3. 50 Tim Lollis
4. 44 Ron Hall
5. 29 DJ Canipe
6. 22 Dusty Garus
7. 66 Bennie Davis
8. 41 Kaleb Bradley
9. 5 Tim Dale