Key notes: The Schaeffer’s Spring Nationals rolls on with a Peach State doubleheader weekend starting with Friday’s $7,553-to-win opener at Sugar Creek Raceway. … It’s the 12-year tour’s inaugural visit to the Blue Ridge, Ga., oval. … Payton Freeman of Commerce, Ga., won August’s $10,570 Russell Thomas Memorial, an unsanctioned Super Late Model race there. … Dillon Brown of Gaffney, S.C., topped April’s All-Star Crate Series stop. … Ethan Dotson of Bakersfield, Calif., won February’s $7,553 season opener at Waycross (Ga.) Speedway. … David Payne of Murphy, N.C., earned a $5,000 Southern All Star Series victory there last fall. … 604 Crates, 602 Crates, modifieds, street stocks and front-wheel drives. … Pits open at 3 p.m. and grandstands open at 5, with a drivers’ meeting at 6:30 and hot laps at 7. … Watch live on FloRacing. … The doubleheader concludes with Saturday’s $10,053-to-win finale at Dixie Speedway in Woodstock, Ga.

Who to watch: Payton Freeman of Commerce, Ga., eyes his first career Spring Nationals triumph and his second victory in the last 10 months at Sugar Creek.

Points chase: Before Sugar Creek: 1. Pearson Lee Williams (1,124); 2. Donald McIntosh (1,122); 3. Christian Hanger (1,080); 4. Ethan Dotson (896); 5. Brenden Smith (595).

Expected entrants: Payton Freeman, Donald McIntosh, Jadon Frame, Kenny Collins, Will Roland, Dalton Cook, Ethan Dotson, Garrett Smith, Ricky Weiss, Pearson Lee Williams, Christian Hanger, David McCoy, Tyler Millwood, Jamie Oliver, David Payne, Dillon Brown, Caleb Gay, J.R. Moseley, Brenden Smith, Corey Roulette, Austin Smith, Heath Hindman, Shawn Chastain, Jimmy Sharpe Jr. and others.

Next series race: May 4, Dixie Speedway (Woodstock, GA) $10,053