Lawler One Step Closer to PASS South Title With Fourth at Greenville

Ryan Lawler has made a name for himself in his still-young Super Late Model career by winning races.  He's a consistent threat for victory every week, especially in the PASS South Super Late Model tour. 

But Lawler also understands that sometimes, not everything comes together to have a car that visits victory lane.  That mentality of winning when he can and just finishing as well as possible when he can't win now has the young driver on the verge of the 2007 PASS South Championship.

On Saturday, October 27th, Lawler wrestled the #31 machine around the tricky Greenville-Pickens Speedway (SC) to a fourth-place finish and extended his PASS South points lead with one event remaining.

"My guys told me on the radio afterwards that this is why we are going to win championships," said Lawler of the fourth-place effort at Greenville.  "We just kept digging all weekend.  I think we were 15th or 20th on the (practice times) sheet the first day.  We kept working on it and working on it and got the thing pretty decent, and we ended up fourth.

With a successful test session under their belts before the Greenville race, the #31 team was excited about their chances come race weekend.  The historic GPS facility, however, was not going to let Lawler walk away with a successful run without first making it tough on the young driver.

"Man, I knew from the get go, about five or ten laps into it, it was going to be slick.  It was maybe lap 20 or 30 it

Ryan met with his fans before the start of "The Howler" at Greenville.

was bad slick.  I don’t know, I was just hanging out saving my stuff.  We dropped back, then people were getting bottled up so we went to the high side and got our way back up.  It is pretty unusual.  I like running the top side pretty well everywhere we go, but I have never done it on a flat track."

Ryan will have his chance to clinch the PASS South title on November 17th in the Mason-Dixon Meltdown at Concord Motorsport Park (NC).  First, though, Lawler will bring the Grapevine Suzuki #31 to Nashville, TN's Music City Motorplex for the All-American 400 CRA Super Series event on November 3rd.