by Dave Westerman

Davie, Florida driver Bobby Beauchemin kept his cool and took the measure of an impressive field to win the combined US93.1 Country/SARA Late Model 100 at New Smyrna Speedway. Beauchemin out-timed the 35-car field with a lap of 18.979, the only driver to get into the 18 second bracket.

Starting from the pole, Beauchemin quickly grabbed the lead as Jason Boyd came from third spot to run second. On lap 14, Chris Fontaine blew a tire and spun in front of the leaders but was able to keep going. Anticipating a caution, Beauchemin backed off the gas and Boyd swept around into the lead. Two laps later the caution did fly for the first time as Randy Dye spun in turn four.

Boyd continued to lead on the restart only to see caution out again on lap 20 when Tim Harrington hit the inside wall.

Rain started to fall at this point and the red flag was brought out at lap 25. Once racing resumed, Beauchemin was all over Boyd using every trick in his arsenal to get by. Fontaine blew another tire and spun in turn two on lap 41 to bring out the caution. Boyd continued to lead by Beauchemin was on his bumper and it was just a matter of time as Boyd slipped high on lap 63 giving Beauchemin all the room he needed to reclaim the lead.

Only a lap 77 caution slowed Beauchemin as he sped off to an easy victory over Boyd. Jason Crossey drove an excellent race passing Mike McCrary, Jr. for third on the last lap with Michael Williams following to get fourth and McCrary fifth. Rounding out the top ten were Tony Amico, Scott Bramlett, Michael Faulk, Edward Howell and David Logan.

It was Beauchemin's third SARA win of the season and he remains on top of the SARA point standings while Michael Williams leads the US93.1 Country point chase.

In other action, Mike Fritts passed Ricky Wood on the last lap to take the modified win in a real thriller. David Rogers was a close third followed by Wayne Parker and Wayne Southard.

Marty Pierce made a steady charge through the field to take the Mini-Stock 15-lapper ahead of Charlie Staats, Timmie Hunley, Ron Dubeau and J. D. Duncan.

Despite a smoking car, Robert Andrecheck held off Doug Samion for the Sportsman win. Rounding out the top five were Steve "Pontiac Excitement" Redditt, Ron Lufcy and Russ Antonucci.

Jim Winterstein's Oldsmobile dominated the Super Stock run as he won easily over Tim Ewing, Homer Gordon, Charlie Merz and Mike Soukup.

Brent Brown came back from an early crash to take the Strickly Stock feature over Rod Moss.

Roger Favreau driving the "ONo Sportsman" won the 1st Annual "Mattress Race" with 6 mattress', while the DEMO Derby was a tie between Chuck "Junkyard Dog" Rush and "Mo" Knauer.

SUPER LATE MODELS DID NOT RUN

LATE MODELS COUNTRY 93.1/SARA LATE MODEL 100 FINISHING POSITION CAR NUMBER DRIVER 1 161 BOBBY BEAUCHEMIN 2 15 JASON BOYD 3 17 JASON CROSSEY 4 19 MICHAEL WILLIAMS 5 8 MIKE MCCRARY, JR. 6 77 TONY AMICO 7 26X SCOTT BRAMLETT 8 36 MICHAEL FAULK 9 3 EDWARD HOWELL 10 1 DAVID LOGAN 11 79 CLINT SLAGGY 12 9 BRENT O'NEILL 13 40 EDDIE MILLER 14 57 CHAD PIERCE 15 96 MICHAEL KING 16 27X RICHARD BAER 17 18 STEVE TREGEAR 18 07 JEFF SCOFIELD 19 45 SONNY HUGHES 20 5 JOE BOYD 21 16X BRUCE LAWRENCE 22 43 RANDY DYE 23 56 WAYNE MORRIS 24 86 KEVIN INGRAM 25 47 CHRIS FONTAINE 26 63 CHRIS LAWRENCE 27 72 TIM HARRINGTON 28 29 BILL INGRAM 29 61X ROGER WREN 30 17X PHILLIP BESSETTE

MODIFIED FINISHING POSITION CAR NUMBER DRIVER 1 112 MIKE FRITTS 2 81 RICKY WOOD 3 31 DAVID ROGERS 4 3 WAYNE PARKER 5 00 WAYNE SOUTHARD 6 92 RON MCCEARY 7 7 MARK VANDEVENDER 8 7b STEVE THORNBRUGH 9 16 JUSTIN HENDERSON 10 71 JOE MIDDLETON 11 22 TIM DYSON 12 23 WAYNE WELLS 13 77 TIM WALLACE 14 540 BRAD BASCOM 15 75 BOBBY BLAKE 16 10 GEORGE KELLY 17 70 DAVE SAVICKI 18 09 ART KUNZEMAN

SPORTSMAN FINISHING POSITION CAR NUMBER DRIVER 1 90 ROBERT ANDRECHECK 2 04 DOUG SAMION 3 1 STEVE REDDITT 4 07 RON LUFCY 5 46 RUSS ANTONUCCI 6 41 MICHAEL CARR 7 70 JOHN NUSBAUM 8 ONO JEFF MILLER 9 33 KENNY CARTER 10 8 DAVID MYER 11 5 DAVID ROWE

MINI STOCK FINISHING POSITION CAR NUMBER DRIVER 1 75 MARTY PIERCE 2 9AR CHARLIE STAATS 3 03 TIMMIE HUNLEY 4 94 RON DUBEAU 5 37 J. D. DUNCAN 6 V3 REX CHRISTENSEN 7 1 TRAVIS STAATS 8 31K BARRY KNIGHT 9 8 JAMIE MCCAGUE 10 31 CHAD CARPENTER 11 66 JOE WALDRON 12 38 ERIC POWELL 13 06 DON STROSAHL, JR.

SUPER STOCK FINISHING POSITION CAR NUMBER DRIVER 1 13 JIM WINTERSTEIN 2 35 TIM EWING 3 22 HOMER GORDON 4 57 CHARLIE MERZ 5 45 MIKE SOUKUP 6 55 JIM SNYDER 7 71 MIKE HENDRIX 8 61 TED HELMES 9 14 KEVIN SCHULTZ 10 28 CHRIS PELUDATS 11 27 JOE WOODBURY 12 21 BECKY DYSON 13 8 PAUL LENTZ

STRICKLY STOCK FINISHING POSTION CAR NUMBER DRIVER 1 57 BRENT BROWN 2 35 ROD MOSS 3 1 STEPHAN DEMBINSKY 4 76 JIM HENDERSON 5 04 RUSS RINALDI 6 11X KERRY PAYNE 7 7 STEVE SANDILLO 8 27 JOSHUA WRYKOWSKI 9 3 RICHARD BOULTON 10 5X JAMES DYAL



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