Wednesday, September 10, 2003 TBARA Sprints and Open Wheel Modified Lites featured at Citrus Saturday by Larry MacMillan Another special race card is on the schedule for Citrus County Speedway this Saturday night. The awesome speed and power of the TBARA Winged Sprints will return for their fourth and final appearance at the 3/8ths mile asphalt central Florida venue for this season. At their last outing, Wayne Reutimann Sr. unofficially clocked a 12.005 second lap and took the win over the 21 car field. Shane Butler was right on his rear nurf bar at the finish line followed by Doug Heveron, Wayne Reutimann Jr. and dirt track star Sport Allen locking down a fifth place finish in his first time out at Citrus. With these 750 horsepower rockets closing in on breaking into the 11 second bracket, track conditions and set up could put them in the first ever race car to run that fast at this 48 year old venue. The survivors of their first night at Ocala in the North Central Florida twin bill weekend will put on one heck of a show at Citrus and the fans are certainly looking forward to it. Added to the race card will be the Open Wheeled Modified Lites which may be reminiscent of the Dwarf Car series that ran at Citrus several years ago. This will be the first of two appearances for this division other than a few local cars that come to practice at the Thursday night sessions. Late Models and Sportsman will have the night off and after last week’s Sportsman Demolition Derby they need the night off just to get their cars back together. Street Stocks continue their battle for the point championship. Ernie Reed put some more cushion in his lead over Danny Cretty who slipped from the lead he had held for a couple of months just two weeks ago. Joe Viverito is closing the gap in the race for second but still trails by 190 points. Daniel Webster came back to defend his fourth place position after taking a week off and blew an engine in the feature and lost ground to Mickey Burns. Travis Nichols picked up his seventh win of the season and holds out in sixth but will not be racing this week as he is racing at another track. Mini Stock leader Chris Hooker and runner up Chris Thornton had DNF’s last week which hurt them but they still hold their top spots in the race for the championship. Phillip Joyner was the only driver in the top five who managed to close on both of them with a fourth place finish while George Neumann also went on the “Did Not Finish” List. Richie Smith continues to hold a comfortable lead over Curtis Neumann in his quest for his third Hobby Stock Crown. Dean Lawyer continues to run strong and holds out in third while Roy Perkins moved ahead of Sport Wilson who didn’t run after winning his ninth race of the season two weeks ago and slipped to fifth in the standings. Pat Quick again became the winningest driver at Citrus County Speedway after logging her tenth victory of the year last week. She only managed to pick up Snine points over runner up Lee Keller who pulled off a distant second place finish last week. Louie Cioe, Larry Triana and Tim Wilson round out the top five, showing no change in the in the standings. Grandstand gates open at 4 and the 1st heat race will take the green flag at 6. All six divisions will run heats and feature races and it is certainly a show you won’t want to miss. Have an opinion on this story? Post a message on our Message Board! <news@karnac.org>or send a letter to the editor!