Event Preview: Crews, Goble in Opposite Positions Entering Saturday’s Second Annual Kenny Meadows Memorial Feature

By Joe Chandler

Director, Public Relations

South Boston Speedway

SOUTH BOSTON, VA (April 9, 2025) – Nathan Crews and Cameron Goble are in vastly different positions heading into the $3,000-to-win Second Annual Kenny Meadows Memorial Limited Sportsman Feature that highlights the Danville Toyota Race Day event on Saturday afternoon, April 12 at South Boston Speedway.

Crews enters the race as the defending champion. He survived the chaos of three incidents during the last eight laps of last year’s race and earned the $3,000 prize for winning the 50-lap race.

“That was probably one of the biggest, if not the biggest win of my racing career,” Crews pointed out. “It was a tough race. It seemed like it went on forever. I’m really looking forward to racing in it again this year. Hopefully we will have a strong enough car that we can have a shot at winning it again.”

This season’s Second Annual Kenny Meadows Memorial Limited Sportsman Feature, at 75-laps, makes the season-opening event for South Boston Speedway’s Budweiser Limited Sportsman Division the longest and richest race of the season.

Crews, a veteran racer that has compiled seven wins, a pole, 11 Top-5 finishes and 18 Top-10 finishes in 21 starts in the Budweiser Limited Sportsman Division spanning the past two seasons can be considered to be among the favorites to win Saturday’s race.

Goble, from Ringgold, VA, is on the other side of the spectrum.

The young racer was one of the top performers in South Boston Speedway’s Dollar General Hornets Division over the past two-plus seasons. His cumulative record shows eight wins, 12 poles, 12 Top-5 finishes and 16 Top-10 finishes in a total of 20 starts. He also led the most laps in the division each of the past two years.

This season Goble is moving up to the Budweiser Limited Sportsman Division and enters the 75-lap Second Annual Kenny Meadows Memorial Limited Sportsman Feature with no races under his belt in the division.

“It scares me that it’s the first one,” Goble remarked of his debut race in the division being the biggest race of the season for the Budweiser Limited Sportsman Division. “We’re going to power through it. The first goal is don’t tear up the car. We’re just going to go out and do the best we can.”

Crews has two goals – the first being to win the Saturday, April 12 Second Annual Kenny Meadows Memorial Limited Sportsman Feature. His other goal is to win the 2025 Budweiser Limited Sportsman Division championship.

“If can only win one race, that (the Second Annual Kenny Meadows Memorial Limited Sportsman Feature) would be the one I would want to win,” Crews pointed out. “If I could win it again, it would feel like I’m on top of the world. It would mean just about everything to me.”

At the same time, Crews understands the importance of both entering the season’s opening race for the Budweiser Limited Sportsman Division competitors.

“You want to win and do well,” Crews said, “but at the same time, if I’m not capable of winning the race I’m still going to try to put myself in the best position I can to finish the best I can and stay out of trouble because this kind of puts you on the platform for the rest of the year.”

Goble is on a more modest side of things in 2025.

“It’s a whole new field of drivers,” Goble said of racing in the Budweiser Limited Sportsman Division. “It’s new people. I’ve never taken laps with them, so we have to take it one step at a time. If we can finish top five in points, I’d be thrilled. I don’t think I’ve ever finished top five in points. Even with a Top-10 in points, I’d be happy. Anything except for hitting the wall, I’m good with.”

A 100-lap race for the Sentara Health Late Model Stock Car Division will be co-feature race of Saturday’s five-race card. Two-time NASCAR national champion and seven-time South Boston Speedway champion Peyton Sellers of Danville, Virginia and Trevor Ward of Winston-Salem, North Carolina split wins in the track’s season-opening twinbill on March 22. Mike Looney of Catawba, Virginia won the pole for the event.

Ward leads the division point standings entering Saturday’s 100-lap race with Looney standing three points behind in second place and Landon Pembelton of Amelia, Virginia sitting in third place, five points down. Craig Moore of Rougemont, North Carolina (seven points down) and Sellers (eight points down) round out the top five in the standings.

Also on Saturday, fans will see twin 15-lap races for the Southside Disposal Pure Stock Division and a 20-lap race for the Dollar General Hornets Division.

Advance adult tickets for the Danville Toyota Race Day event are priced at $12. Tickets at the gate on race day will be $15 each. Suite tickets are available for $40 each. Seniors ages 65 and older, military, healthcare workers, and students (with ID) can purchase tickets for $12 each at the gate only on the day of the event.

Saturday’s race day schedule has registration and pit gates opening at 8:30 a.m. Frontstretch spectator gates will open at 10:30 a.m. and practice starts at 10:30 a.m. Group qualifying begins at 1 p.m. and the first race of the day will get the green flag at 2 p.m.

The latest news and updates about the Danville Toyota Race Day event and all of South Boston Speedway events can be found on the speedway’s website, www.southbostonspeedway.com, by calling the speedway office at 434-572-4947 or toll free at 1-877-440-1540 during regular business hours, and through the track’s social media channels.