SEGA 2023 Season Opener

SEGA 2023 Season Opener


By Ian Tocher

The Southeast Gassers Association (SEGA) held its season opener Mar. 25, at Silver Dollar Motorsports Park in Reynolds, GA, where Rick Varner made series history by becoming the first driver to win two SEGA classes at one event.


The reigning Super Stock champion successfully opened his campaign to repeat with a final-round win over Jerry Dean, then rushed back to his pit to swap cars and win again in the A/Gas final against Gabriel Burrell.

In SS eliminations, Varner made it past Don Wilmot and his ’66 Mustang, then took out Davis and his “Spinny III” ’63 Falcon in the semis. On the opposite side of the ladder, Dean downed Michael Oden and Randy Keifer in the “Spine Tingler” ’55 Pontiac wagon.


Varner led stripe-to-stripe in the final, visually leaving on Dean, and already beginning to stretch out a lead by the 60-foot mark.

As soon as he won in Super Stock, the first final to be contested, Varner hightailed it back to the starting line, where his A/Gas ’66 Chevy II, also dubbed “The Dirt Man” was waiting after qualifying ninth in a 14-car field.


Ted McKEE MAKES IT HAPPEN IN B/GAS

Meanwhile, defending class champion Colby Welch raced his “Moonbeam” ‘64 Ranchero from a number-two.


Tim HALL HAS C/GAS COVERED

With 17 entries C/Gas provided the largest field at Silver Dollar, but only 15 made it to the final qualifying list led by Brad Wimberly in his “Southern Sizzler” ’65 Comet. Tim Hall, the 2022 class champ in his “Scalded Dog” Rambler qualified second and the two eventually met in the final round.

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