The action at Sunshine was fast and safe this weekend. I must say to all the drivers, you did a good job keeping the races clean.

Time trials were fast with only nine cars coming out to qualify. Sammy Coghill in the #22 won fast time with 14.363, Billy Bechtelheimer in the #6 got second and Johnny Stanford in the #69 won third fast time.

Street Stocks had three heats this week. All of the heats went incident free. First heat seen the #57 of Mike Cole on the pole and the #40 of Ron Davis on the outside. From start to finish #40 Ron Davis lead the way, with #12 C.J. Craver in second and #4 Jason Graham in third. Second heat rolled out with the #2 of Robert Crisp on the pole and #65 Bob Patterson on the outside. #2 Robert Crisp finished where he started taking the win with #6 Ed Kidd in second and #65 Bob Patterson third. Third heat rolled out with the #94 of Scott Holly on the pole and #76 Jim Altobelli on the outside. #76 Jim Altobelli took the lead at the start and took the win with #00 Pat Grimes in second and #56 John Makula in third.

Mini Stocks had three heats also, with the first seeing the #41 Mark Moniz on the pole and the #56 of Don Dalrymple on the outside. This heat had one caution for the #25 of Randy Foote spinning in turn one after contact with the #45 of Joe Irwin. #41 Mark Moniz won the heat with #15 Doug Hopper in second and #70 Marty Neikens in third. Second heat rolled out with the #92 of Rick Beineke on the pole and the #5 of Mike Birk, Jr. on the outside. #92 Rick Beineke won with#16 Glenn Kelley in second and #20 Tim McPhail in third. Third heat rolled out with the #14 of Tina Reiner on the pole and #82 Tom Bennett on the outside. #65 Joey Catarelli won with #69 Jay Zolciak in second and #24 Chris Thornton in third.

Open Wheel Modified had two heats this week, both were incident free. First heat had #90 Mark McKnight on the pole and #1 Wayne Jefferson on the outside. The #1 of Wayne Jefferson took the win with #51 Mike Hinegardner in second and #56 Allyn Summers in third. Second heat rolled out with #25 Mike Sinclair on the pole and #17 Aaron Dreher on the outside. The #88 of Chris Robbins took the win with #5 Ron Campbell in second and #17 Aaron Dreher in third.

Features....

The Auto Trader Street Stock feature rolled onto the track with the #2 of Robert Crisp and #21 Ricky Hoffman on the front row. #2 Robert Crisp took the lead from the green and started walking for with the race. The race went caution free until lap 15 for the #3 of Todd Murphy was leaking fluid on the track. It looked like the #3 was leaking for about 4 laps before the officials caught it. The #2 took off once again at the restart. All of the battles were behind him. The last lap was a mess when the #77 of Rick Haugh and #6 Ed Kidd got to together coming out of turn two, Kidd spun into the infield while Haugh was still trying to get control going into turn three. The #77 of Rick Haugh never gained control and spun in turn three taking the #98 of Roger Welch with him. The #40 of Ron Davis got sideways trying to avoid the two cars spinning. All of the cars were running in the top 10 when all this action happened. #2 Robert Crisp won the race with #12 C.J. Craver in second, #4 Jason Graham in third, #21 Ricky Hoffman in fourth and #00 Pat Grimes in fifth. Good run to the #15 of John Lewis, Aurbundale driver. First time ever at racing at Sunshine, made the feature and finished 16th.

The Open Wheel Modified feature race had the #1 of Wayne Jefferson on the pole with the #17 of Aaron Dreher on the outside. After the green, coming out of turn two, #17 Aaron Dreher hit the #1 trying to spin him out, maybe looking for some pay back. Jefferson kept it straight and took the lead. On the second lap the #5 of Ron Campbell was spun coming out of turn two causing the a caution. Campbell's car did not withstand any damage and was able to continue. The #9 of Rob Partelo got a flat on lap 9 to bring out another caution. Partelo almost hit the turn one wall but was able to stop in time. Partelo's crew was able to get the car repaired and made it back out. The restart was clean and #1 of Wayne Jefferson won with #17 Aaron Dreher in second, #8 Randy Rhodes in third, #51 Mike Hinegardner in fourth and #88 Chris Robbins in fifth.

 One Stop Mini Stocks 20 lap feature started with #24 Chris Thornton on pole and #32 Troy Meredith outside. The #14 of Tina Reiner, #31 of Bob Costarelli, #0 of Dennis Valdez and #45 of Joe Irwin all got together in turn one after the green flag, all of them got straight and there was no caution.Scott Ingold let Dennis Valdez run the #0 car after his motor broke in the heat. #24 Thornton took the lead from #32 Meredith on lap three, after running side by side from the start. #70 Marty Neikens, who started 5th, took the lead from #24 Thornton on lap 4. 10 laps into the race the #97 of Ricky Weigel spun causing the only caution of the race. #70 Neikens restarted the race with the #69 of Jay Zolciak, coming from 12th, making it to 2nd. The battle between the #70 of Neikens and #69 of Zolciak went on for the last ten laps. #70 Marty Neikens won with alot of pressure from second #69 Jay Zolciak, #30 Tim McPhail took third with #65 Joey Catarelli in fourth and #16 Glenn Kelley in fifth.

Late Model feature started only 10 cars for the race, #23x David King started on the pole with the #18 of Andy Werden. At the start the #23x David King took the lead with the #18 of Werden in the second spot. On the 2nd lap the #23x of King seemed to have lost the handling and the #18 of Werden took the lead with the #5 of Brain Leverock going with him to second. While the #18 and #5 were battling for the lead, the #6 of Billy Bechtelheimer want the lead too., so he went around them on the outside. The #69 went by both the #18 and #5 for second on the outside. Now the #18 and #5 were battling for third. The #22 of Sammy Coghill caught both car also and passed them on the outside to take third. That is how it ended with #6 Billy Bechtelheimer taking the win. #69 Johnny Stanford took second with #22 Sammy Coghill in third, #18 Andy Werden in fourth and #5 Brain Leverock in fifth.

Q Auto and Injury Figure 8 feature rolled out with the #15 Joey Catarelli on pole, due to a low car count there was a single car start. The race started out with little to no action, but as always the action picked up towards the ended. #15 Catarelli had a 6 car length lead by lap 5 and was checking out on the field. The battle for second was between #14 Wayne Calkins and much improved driver #28 Shane Grigsby. #28 Grigsby took second from #14 Calkins. Around lap 10 the car started crossing in the intersection. #15 crossed between the #04 of Ron Veller and #08 of Dwayne Doppell for three laps, then a couple of close calls with the #31 of Donnie Thomas. The #28 of Grigsby had close calls with the #08 of Doppell from lap 18 to 20. #15 Joey Catarelli won with #28 Shane Grigsby in second, #11 Art Calkins in third, #89 Ron Davis in fourth and #14 Wayne Calkins in fifth.

Enduro's had two races, both with 19 car fields. First feature was a big mess, the #01 of Dan Rieger and #65 of Robert Towe started on the front row. From the start the wrecking began, losing two cars before the completion of the first lap. The race had to have a total restart. After the restart there was a few spins and a couple of wrecks. The race made it to lap 14 when a red came out for a four car pile up in turn four. By now there were only nine cars running. The restart was clean and the race resumed until the last lap when the #09 of Clay Lot got under the #01 in turn two for the lead, suddenly the #01 drove the #09 into the infield. As the cars were heading straight for the light pole the #09 turned a hard left and the #01 hit the light pole head on. Once everything was straighten out the #03 of Robert Herman found himself in the lead. #03 Robert Herman won the race after a crash fest.

Enduro's second race started out like the first one, with a total restart. #79 Brain Wilson and #38 Kathy Bland started on the pole. On the second start the #27 of Harold Ashley took the lead from the front runners. The race was alot cleaner then the first. The #27 of Harold Ashley won the second race.

Mike Smith