Kyle Fowler Works His Way to Seventh at Peachstate

If the Georgia Asphalt Series gave out an award for “Hardest Working Driver” every race, the July 21st award for the Peachstate Speedway (GA) event would’ve certainly gone to 14-year-old Kyle Fowler. On a scorching hot night full of on-track skirmishes, Fowler raced clean and worked his way up to an impressive seventh-place finish after starting deep in the field for another top-10 run to keep up his GAS Rookie of the Year title hopes.

“All those cautions made it really hot in there,” said a relieved Fowler after the seventh-place run in the 100-lap event. “There were a lot of one of them, so I had to go all the way to the apron all the way to the wall to try and avoid them.

“We missed the set up a little bit during qualifying and it got us about mid-field or so. We started 18th. From there, my main goal was to just finish, but we also wanted to move up in the points.

At Peachstate Speedway, there are multiple lines available to drivers to make their cars work. Young Fowler found the top groove to be his best and used it to pass so many cars en route to seventh.

“As the race progressed I was running different lines, my dad told me that the leaders were running up high so I tried that and that seemed to work, and I started making my way up through that.

“It is kinda scary, you are running about six inches off the wall. Especially whenever you got somebody on the inside, but we were able to bring home a top-10 out of it.”

Fowler kept up his Rookie of the Year point lead with the seventh-place run. He will be back out to improve his overall points standing when the Georgia Asphalt Series returns to action on August 4th at Lanier National Speedway.