Allen Rules Southern National: Flowers Takes Championship in Season Finale

Lucama, NC — Luke Logan Allen put on a clinic at Southern National Speedway, dominating the 100-lap feature to secure his second victory of the season in the BRL Bushtalk Radio Super Late Model Series finale. While the kid checked out at the front, Louis Flowers drove a smart, calculated race to officially lock down the 2026 Season 27 championship.

The title fight was practically decided before the engines even fired. Flowers entered the night holding a comfortable 19-point cushion over Jeffery Hardin and Allen. With a compact 15-car grid and Hardin sidelined by a faulty video card, Flowers merely needed to take the green flag to secure the crown. John Wilson started on the pole flanked by Chris Hazlip, while the champion-to-be lined up deep in the field in 11th.

Drama exploded the moment the green flag dropped. As Flowers officially clinched the title at the line, a chaotic multi-car melee erupted further back involving Chris Davis, James Lowe, and Tom Hilbert. In a bizarre twist, the race director held the yellow flag, forcing the field to dodge stranded cars at full racing speed. The race’s first official caution finally flew moments later when “The Chief” spun into the wall after getting loose on the treacherous turn-two banking transition. This gave early victims like Lowe and Davis a lifeline to catch the pack.

On the lap 10 restart, Allen launched a breathtaking outside maneuver to snatch the lead from Wilson. Commentators worried he was burning up his tires too early, but Allen silenced the critics by gapping the field by over six seconds. Behind him, Todd Liston was on an absolute tear, slicing forward 10 positions in the opening laps. The field slowed for a second and final time when early leader Wilson suffered a solo spin coming off the notorious turn-four “hump.”

The second half of the race settled into a grueling long-run rhythm. Flowers showed his championship pedigree by engaging in a fierce, wheel-to-wheel battle for fourth with Joe Sagala, eventually clearing him and forcing Sagala to slide back to seventh. Meanwhile, Ruben Altice, who had been a podium regular all night, suffered a handling “free fall” after brushing the wall, leaving him defenseless as Flowers and Lowe sailed past.

In the final 20 laps, Lowe experimented with a tricky high line—which he later described as feeling like “complete glass”—to muscle past Flowers for third. Davis completed a heroic, caution-free recovery to work his way back into fifth. Liston laid down the fastest laps of the race to hunt down the leader, but he ran out of time. Allen cruised across the line, celebrating his dominant victory with a smoky set of donuts between turns one and two.