Sloan wins First Leg of Triple Crown in the Jeff, Jeff, Jeff Show
By Rick Anges
One of the proudest moments of Jeff Sloan's racing career came in the opening round of the 2006 Triple Crown
With over 100 cars in the pits the fans on hand were in for a great Friday night of stock car racing. Headlining the evenings racing action was the first leg of the “Triple Crown”.
Three nights of super late model racing at three distinctly different racetracks. DeSoto hosting the first leg with its high banks would be the fastest of the three. The Bull Ring of Bronson Motor Speedway hosted race number two and on to the “D” shaped 3/8 mile of Ocala Speedway for race number three. Crews, drivers, and fans were in for a long racing weekend.
Triple Crown Qualifying saw AACS points leader Chris Fontaine taking the fast time over twenty two of Florida’s finest Late Model racers. Following Fontaine the top five qualifiers were Jeff Sloan, Jeff Scofield (back in the Guaranteed Concrete machine), Travis Cope (in his debut in the Super Late Model), and Mike Bresnahan rounding out the top five.
The die roll came up a five on the front stretch inverting the top five drivers in the field. Mike Bresnahan was the lucky one starting on the pole and leading the early laps in one of the quickest 125 lap Super Late Model races ever run in the history of DeSoto. At 35 minutes and 28 seconds from the drop of the green to the checkers with only three caution flags the pace was non-stop.
Bresnahan led the first fifty laps but right after the last caution Jeff Sloan made his presence felt as he made it look easy passing the leader to take over the top spot. Behind him the racing was intense as Scofield had made his way into the second spot and Jeff Choquette moving into third after a very rough run in qualifying starting in the eleventh spot.
The final fifty laps are what Super Late Model racing is all about. Two rivals going at side by side for position. The two have a history at racetracks all over the state.
Tonight it would come down to just plain old fashioned racing. Just when it would look like Choquette would take the spot Scofield would dig out just a little bit more horsepower to take back the spot.
Sloan would go on to win the biggest race of his 30 + year racing career taking the first leg of the 2006 Triple Crown.
Scofield would hold on for a well fought for second spot, Choquette would take third “ We really had to work on this car to get it here, before the race we changed all four shocks” he said in his post race interview. Fontaine helped his points run with a fourth place run and Perry Brown had a good showing in the fifth spot.
Pos Driver Car # 1 JEFF SLOAN-31 2 JEFF SCOFIELD-07 3 JEFF CHOQUETTE-70X 4 CHRIS FONTAINE-47 5 PERRY BROWN- 22B 6 MIKE BRESNAHAN- 3 7 SEAN LeMASTER- 8 8 BILLY BIGLEY, JR- 28 9 WAYNE JEFFERSON-94 10 TRAVIS COPE 10X 11 JAMES GLOVER 70 12 CHRIS STAGGS-56 13 STEPHEN WEAVER-12 14 DAVID WILSON-83 15 JOE BOYD-5 16 JESSE DUTILLY-74 17 SCOT WALTERS-55 18 TIM RUSSELL-36 19 ROBERT YOHO-00 20 JOHN SPADAVECCHIA-8x
DeSoto West Coast Pro Trucks: “The Rocketman” Wayne Jefferson added another notch to his safety belt as he bulldogged his way to the front to take his first ever win in the trucks piloting the Pat Mohney ride.
This was Wayne's first time in a truck in 12 years.
Jefferson took the win over a field of eighteen trucks in the action packed twenty-five lap feature.
DeSoto points leader Jeff Firestine took the second spot, third went to Tennessee racer Pete Lancelotti, Dwayne Barrus was fourth and fifth went to Al Nueman.
Outlaw Modifieds:
The thirty-five lap feature was marred by several hard wrecks but when the smoke cleared it was Cliff Steinmann holding the checkers, Doug Hopper was second, third was Robbie Bean, fourth across the stripe was early race leader Tom Meyer and fifth Robert Campbell.
The final fifty laps are what Super Late Model racing is all about. Two rivals going at side by side for position. The two have a history at racetracks all over the state. 
VIDEO:Jeff Sloan - A proud Winner.
