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| Kay ends Andersons Win Streak at Hialeah Fla Pro Race | HIALEAH, Fla. - Using home track advantage and a front row starting spot, Jonny Kay led all 100 circuits to win Saturday night's Florida Pro Series 100 lap late model event at Hialeah Speedway. Series rookie David Logan and Kay began paced the 24 car field on the table flat oval but it took a trio of starts to finally get the show underway. Kay had his familiar No. 48 working to perfection as he quickly put some distance on Logan as Darryl Shelnut and Dick Anderson fell in formation in third and fourth respectively as things began to settle down. Shelnut, driving for Mark Cowheard on a one time basis, put his mount under Logan for second on lap 23 with several others following. The red flag flew on lap 57 for a three car tangle involving Mario Capone, Todd Anglani and Shane Sawyer. By lap 75 it appeared that Kay had begun to slow a bit but was aware that Anderson was using every trick in his big book to figure a way past Shelnut and didn't want to abuse the tires. "I knew sooner or later it was going to be Dickie (Anderson) in my mirror," explained Kay. "When he got there I wanted to have enough left to give him a battle." As the laps quickly ticked off it appeared that Anderson's patient battle was going for naught but on lap 97 Shelnut bumped the wall off turn four then veered hard right into the concrete near turn one in a violent incident. Shaken but unhurt, Shelnut crawled from his mount, finished for the evening. On the restart it was now Anderson in Kay's mirror, but the race-long leader would pay him little attention as they ran to the checkers in the same fashion with defending series champion Rick Carlton third over newcomer Mike Bresnahan and Jeff Scofield.
In local division action it was Steve Godlewski the Street Stock victor for the first time this season ahead of Bob Hogan and Rick Lutz while Buddy Sizemore was the best of the Mini Stocks over David Russell and Tommy Dittmer in the 25 lap events. Youngster Chad Orth inherited his first career win in the 25 lap Cyclone run over Robert Sark and Tony Crowder.
COMPLETE FINISH OF FLORIDA PRO SERIES 100 SHOWING POSITION, DRIVER AND NUMBER
OF LAPS COMPLETED.
1. Jonny Kay 100 laps;
2. Dick Anderson 100;
3. Rick Carlton 100;
4. Mike Bresnahan 100;
5. Jeff Scofield 100;
6. Jeff Emery 100;
7 Keith Zavrel 100;
8. Ray Derry 98;
9. Darryl Shelnut 96;
10. Justin Drawdy 90;
11. David Logan 86;
12. Mike Toemmes 68;
13. John Carter, Jr. 64;
14. Scott Grossenbacher 58;
15. Shane Sawyer 57;
16. Todd Anglani 56;
17. Steve Weaver, Jr. 52;
18. Mario Capone 44;
19. Steve Lamb 41;
20. Jim McCoy 36;
21. Eddie Hamby 26;
22. Mario Maresca 19;
23. Mac Johnson 16;
24. David Russell 10.
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