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LUCAMA, N.C. :: Louis White picked up his second win in as many weeks Saturday night at Southern National Motorsports Park, taking the checkered flag in the second twin-40 feature of the evening.

White started the second Late Model Stock race of the evening on the outside pole, alongside T.J. Barron. The field was set based on an invert of the top seven finishers from the first race.

White passed Barron on the opening lap and would not relinquish the lead, but it was not without a fight. Tyler Hughes, who won the first 40-lapper, charged from seventh place to second but ultimately did not have enough to challenge White for the victory.

White, a veteran from Plymouth, North Carolina, acknowledged that starting near the front of the second feature played a large role in his victory.  White qualified 11th out of 19 cars for the first feature, leaving him out of contention for that win.

As a result, White chose to save his equipment for the second race, a decision which was rewarded when his sixth-place finish turned into a front row starting spot.

“It helps when you start out front,” White said about the win. “I screwed up qualifying, started further back than what the car really was in practice. Started the first race, I knew we weren’t going to win. So I just pretty much tried to save tires. The car was tight, too. We made a couple of adjustments on the car, and it come to life in the second race. Starting on the outside pole didn’t hurt none.”

As for White’s recent run of success, he can point to a change made last week after rebuilding his race car. Following the multi-car incident which sidelined fellow competitor and friend Bradley McCaskill, White made a decision to return to his more familiar setups from previous seasons as part of the rebuild.

“We started out, you know, this year they let us run these bump-stop deals,” White explained. “We had been running it up until last week. We wrecked this car, completely destroyed it. We went over there [to East Carolina] to practice after we got it back together, we still had bump stops. And I said, ‘Screw this, we’re going back to last year’s setup.'”

“So we went back home, changed everything, put last year’s setup back in the car that we won so many races on,” White continued. “Then we won last week with it, and turned around and won with it again tonight, with the regular setup, no bump stops.”

With two wins in his last four races, don’t expect Louis White to mess with the old setup magic in the near future.

Zach Evans is in his second season covering short track racing, A 2012 graduate of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Evans is a proud alumnus of The Daily Tar Heel, the school's award-winning independent student newspaper.

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