East Alabama Motor Speedway
Fast Facts: 46th annual National 100
By Robert Holman
DirtonDirt.com weekend editor
Event: 46th annual National 100
Dates: Nov. 7-8 (qualifying and heats on Saturday followed by Sunday’s $15,000-to-win finale)
Track: East Alabama Motor Speedway in Phenix City (3/8-mile high-banked clay oval).
Sanction: None
Purse: $15,000-to-win, $1,000-to-start (no other details released)
Tickets: Adult general admission is $80 for a three-day pass, $65 for a two-day pass (Saturday-Sunday) or $35 for Sunday; see below for discounts for children and more information.
On the web: eamsdirt.com
Track phone: (334) 297-2594
Last year’s winner: Chris Madden of Gray Court, S.C., who claimed his second career National 100 victory.
Video: Live streaming available at floracing.com. FloRacing’s broadcasts feature every lap of National 100 action — including Saturday’s preliminary action and Sunday’s 100-lap, $15,000-to-win finale — along with support division competition.
Notes: The two-day format features times trials and heat races on Saturday, while Sunday’s action includes consolation races and the 100-lap finale. … Twenty-six drivers have won the race, with two reach victory lane multiple times. … Scott Bloomquist of Mooresburg, Tenn., leads all drivers with eight National 100 victories, but hasn’t won it since 2003. … Jeff Purvis, Rick Eckert and Jonathan Davenport have three wins each. … Chris Madden, Dale McDowell, Jimmy Owens, Randle Chupp, Freddy Smith and Billy Thomas has won the main event twice each. … With the 2018 National 100 rained out, the race was held twice in 2019, with Jason Hiett of Oxford, Ala., winning a makeup race in January and Madden of Gray Court, S.C., winning the regular event in November. … There has not been a repeat winner in the last seven National 100s. … A home state driver has prevailed only four times, with Hiett the first to do so since Bobby Thomas in 1991. … Among the weekend’s 11-division slate are the National Late Model Super Car Series and Crate Late Models, each with $5,000-to-win programs, and the 602 Sportsman Late Models vying for $3,000-to-win. … Also up for grabs for Super Late Models is the $3,000 Zaxby’s Pole Award and an additional $5,000 in lap money.
National 100 winners
Year: Winner, hometown
2019: Chris Madden, Gray Court, S.C.; Jason Hiett, Oxford, Ala.
2018: Postponed to January 2019
2017: Dale McDowell, Chickamauga, Ga.
2016: Dennis Erb Jr., Carpentersville, Ill.
2015: Jimmy Owens, Newport, Tenn.
2014: Jonathan Davenport, Blairsville, Ga.
2013: Rick Eckert, York, Pa.
2012: Jimmy Owens, Newport, Tenn.
2011: Jonathan Davenport, Blairsville, Ga.
2010: Steve Francis, Ashland, Ky.
2009: Jonathan Davenport, Blairsville, Ga.
2008: Jimmy Mars, Menomonie, Wis.
2007: Chris Madden, Gray Court, S.C.
2006: Dale McDowell, Rossville, Ga.
2005: Rick Eckert, York, Pa.
2004: Rick Eckert, York, Pa.
2003: Scott Bloomquist, Mooresburg, Tenn.
2002: Scott Bloomquist, Mooresburg, Tenn.
2001: Scott Bloomquist, Mooresburg, Tenn.
2000: Randle Chupp, Knoxville, Tenn.
1999: Scott Bloomquist, Mooresburg, Tenn.
1998: Jack Pennington, Winston, Ga.
1997: Scott Bloomquist, Mooresburg, Tenn.
1996: Randle Chupp, Leburn, Ky.
1995: Jody Summerville, Rome, Ga.
1994: Scott Bloomquist, Mooresburg, Tenn.
1993: Scott Bloomquist, Mooresburg, Tenn.
1992: Freddy Smith, Baton Rouge, La.
1991: Bobby Thomas, Phenix City, Ala.
1990: Scott Bloomquist, Mooresburg, Tenn.
1989: Bobby Thomas, Phenix City, Ala.
1988: Freddy Smith, Kings Mountain, N.C.
1987: Billy Moyer, Batesville, Ark.
1986: Jack Boggs, Webbville, Ky.
1985: Jeff Purvis, Clarksville, Tenn.
1984: Buddy Boutwell, Lynn Haven, Fla.
1983: Jeff Purvis, Clarksville, Tenn.
1982: Jeff Purvis, Clarksville, Tenn.
1981: Larry Moore, Dayton, Ohio
1980: Tommy Helfrich, Haubstadt, Ind.
1979: Don Hester, Tupelo, Miss
1978: Billy Thomas, Phenix City, Ala.
1977: Buck Simmons, Cornelia, Ga.
1976: Charlie Hughes, Dalton, Ga.
1975: Bud Lunsford, Gainesville, Ga.
(Complete history)
Event schedule
Friday
9 a.m. - Pit gates open
10 a.m. - Technical inspection (at the scales)
11 a.m. - Grandstand gates open
Noon - Hot laps
5 p.m. - Track prep
6 p.m. - Hot laps
- 602 Sportsman
- E-mod
- Hobby
- Crate Late Model
- Southern mod4
- Super Late Model
- NLMSCS Late Models
- Road Warrior
- Hot shot
- Super Late Model
- Outlaw front-wheel drive
Heat races
- Southern mod4 (10 laps)
- Race of Champions (16 laps)
Saturday
8 a.m. - Pit gates open
9 a.m. - Grandstand gates open
10 a.m. - Hot laps
- Hobby
- Crate Late Model
- Southern mod4
- Super Late Model
- NLMSCS Late Models
- Road Warrior
- Hot shot
- Outlaw front-wheel drive
- 602 Sportsman
- E-mod
2:30 p.m. - Heat race/group qualifying
- Crate Late Model qualifying
- NLMSCS qualifying
- 602 Sportsman qualifying
- E-mod heats (10 laps)
- Hobby heats (10 laps)
- Hot shot heat (10 laps)
- Road warrior heats (10 laps)
6 p.m. - Super Late Model hot laps
- 602 Sportsman heats (10 laps)
- Street stock heats (10 laps)
- Crate Late Model heats (10 laps)
- Outlaw front-wheel drive heats (10 laps)
- NLMSCS Late Models heats (10 laps)
- Super Late Model qualifyingSuper Late Model heats
- Southern mod4 feature (25 laps)
Sunday
8 a.m. - Pit gates open
9 a.m. - Grandstand gates open
10:30 a.m. - Consolation races
- Hobby (10 laps)
- Road warrior (10 laps)
- 602 Sportsman (10 laps)
- Crate Late Models (10 laps)
- NLMSCS Late Models (10 laps)
Features
- Street stocks (25 laps)
- E-mods (25 laps)ww
- Crate Late Models (50 laps)
- Hobby (30 laps)
- NLMSCS Late Models (50 laps)
- Road warrior (25 laps)
- 602 Sportsman (40 laps)
- Outlaw front-wheel drive (20 laps)
- Hot shots (20 laps)
Track maintenance
- National 100
Tickets
Friday
Adult three-day general admission: $80
Adult three-day reserved/stadium: $130
Pit pass: (adult three-day) $95; (youth) $35
Saturday
Adult two-day general admission: $65
Adult two-day reserved/stadium: $110
Pit pass: (adult two-day) $85; (youth) $30
Sunday
Adult: $35
Pit pass: (adult) $45; (youth) $15
Pit parking
Infield: $60
Eckert Field: $30
Camping
Call (334) 297-2594
