young driver in a position to win the second race of the season on the South Boston, VA track. Lemons ran strong all day long and as the laps began to wind down he found himself running fourth behind a trio of big name Late Model Stock Car competitors, but a late race incident between the front two moved Lemons into a position to race for the win.

Lemons then put his racer to the inside of the leader and raced along side, before being slowed and put back behind the leader as the caution flag waved over the field for a wreck behind them. Now Lemons would have just a green, white, checkered finish to complete the task he had started before the caution waved, but he had a three-time NASCAR National Champion standing in his way. Lemons didn't let that detour him from the task at hand and as the green flag waved he motored along side the leader once again and as he was working to clear him and head for the checkered flag, the now former lead cut a tire and disappeared from Lemons side.

Lemons was able to secure the checkered flag and secure his first career win on the historic 3/8 mile track that hadn't been that good to him over the years.

"This has been a tough track for us for sure," said Lemons. "We've come up here a lot of times and either not finished or not finished good, but last week we felt like we had a good car and things just didn't go our way. This week to come back and run solid all day and come home with the win is pretty awesome."

In racing there's always a substantial amount of luck and skill involved and fortunately for Lemons the final 30-laps of the race were kinder to him than they were the guys running in front of him and he was able to take home a win that had eluded him for some time.

"You know sometimes when you win, you don't have the best car and we didn't have the best car today, but I've had the best car and ended up losing, so we'll take these things anyway we can get them," commented Lemons. "We had a good car and we were just riding waiting for a late caution here, which always seems to come and to try to put some pressure on the guys ahead of us and see what happened. When the two leaders got together I was confident I had something for Philip(Morris) there at the end and I was along side of him there before that caution, so I knew we could win this thing if we had any good luck."

Lemons now on the heels of the three top ten finishes including a win this week and a sixth last week at South Boston finds himself atop the points standings in a tie with last weeks winner, Justin Johnson, who finished sixth this week behind Lemons. However, Lemons isn't currently planning on competing full-time at South Boston, but rather returning to his 2009 home track, Motor Mile Speedway, which doesn't start racing for two weeks.

Lemons competes in a Marlowe Racing Chassis powered by a Cox Racing Engine and the up-and-coming driver is supported by; Lemons Backhoe, Summit Construction and Colonial LP Gas, but is also still seeking full-time sponsorship for this season. Lemons will be off this weekend as he prepares to compete in the Motor Mile Speedway season opener on April 3rd.

For more information on Tommy Lemons, Jr. or Lemons Motorsports visit the teams website www.tommylemonsjr27.com or contact RACE22 Driver Management at (276) 613-4208.