Harli White had her best weekend of the 2017 season last week, and it came on a track she had never seen before. Making her debut at Deep South Speedway in Loxley, AL, in the American Sprint Car Series Southern Outlaw division, she finished third on Friday and was fifth on Saturday.

That was his third top five and fourth top 10 of the year. 

Both races featured obstacles for White. Finishing fifth in her heat race Friday night, she lined up 13th for the A-Main. That put her in the middle of the action once the green flag waved and might have ruined her night and weekend.

"A bunch of cars got together and crashed on the start," White said. "I spun to avoid it, so I went to the back. We had a decent race car, but that track was hard to pass on. I found a pretty good line in turns one and two toward the bottom. In turns three and four I was diamonding the corner. I found a spot where nobody was going and got a few positions here and there.

"There were a ton of cautions, which worked in our favor. It took over an hour to race that feature."

It was time well spent because White finished third, which locked her into Saturday night's A-Main. 

Timmy Thrash and Michael Miller finished first and second, respectively, in the first night of action.

"That was major," White said. "It was tough to get though the heat races, especially the way I draw. I was excited we could focus on the main. We pulled the No. 2 during the redraw to start the feature on the outside of the front row."

Starting on the front row on Saturday night might not have been as beneficial as she hoped.

"The  pole guy [Thrash] decided not to take off so they called me for jumping the start and put me back a row," White said. "That really hurts you there. Whoever got the jump was who was going to win the race. I got back up to passing the second-place guy. I slid him, and he turned me into the wall."

White crossed the finish line third in Saturday's feature but was penalized for hitting the restart cone and credited with fifth. 

Miller won the A-Main on night two. 

"It's exactly what we needed to do with the weekend," she said. "Of course, we'd have much rather won, but top fives and finishing races is a start. You have to be consistently running near the front before a win comes your way."