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After surviving yet another wild and confusing finish Troy, NC native Tommy Lemons, Jr. took home his second grandfather clock, along with $25,000, after winning the Valley Star Credit Union 300, at Martinsville Speedway this weekend.<\/p>\n
Due to a new rule that would allow for a blind draw, the top-eight cars were inverted to the top of the field at lap 150, allowing Lemons the opportunity to prove that he could hang onto this lead and leaving the former race dominator, Todd Gilliland doing everything that he could to get back to the lead.<\/p>\n \u201cGilliland definitely had the car to beat today,\u201d said race winner Lemons. \u201cHe\u2019s been good all weekend. A lot of people felt like he should have been on the pole.\u201d<\/p>\n Despite having the dominate car and pulling back to second behind new race leader Lemons with just a few laps to go in the Valley Star Credit Union 300, 15-year-old Gilliland saw his hopes go up into a cloud of smoke on a late race restart.<\/p>\n \u201cI don\u2019t really know what happened,\u201d Gilliland said. \u201cSomeone just got in our left rear and sent us up the track a little bit. It\u2019s a bit frustrating after you\u2019ve been leading all those laps, but we will learn from this and it will make me a better driver.\u201d<\/p>\n Although Gilliland went from first to 24th <\/sup>in the final laps of this hard fought battle, fastest qualifier and top three challenger Timothy Peters had his chance to battle for the race win alongside Lemons. Although it appeared that the NASCAR star would show the weekend warrior how it\u2019s done, Peters would get loose on the final lap after rubbing his right side tire with the tire of race winner Lemons, leaving him spinning and taking a hard hit into the inside wall before sliding across the finish line.<\/p>\n![\"Valley](\"http:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/Article-Pic_2.jpg\")
Starting in the 12th<\/sup> position for the most challenging race of the season for late model drivers throughout the Southeast, Lemons No. 27 didn\u2019t prove to be a dominating car throughout the 200 lap feature. In fact, Lemons hung inside of the top-10 seeming as though he was just ready to pounce on his chance to challenge dominating leaders Todd Gilliland, Jake Crum and NASCAR Camping World Truck Series star Timothy Peters.<\/p>\n![\"Valley](\"http:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/Lemons-against-Gilliland.jpg\")