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| Anderson Wins Boogie Board Race | By Jane Smith
When it has rainned as much as it has in Central Florida and you have a Super Late Model race, cars can go flying. Not flying in the air, but flying around the track as if on boogie boards. This was the case Friday night at Orlando SpeedWorld as the Racecar Engineering Sunbelt Super Late Model Series ran it's six race of the 2001 series.
Michael Williams in the South Forty Green Machine set fast time with a 13.545 but after the drawing of the pill, it was David Rogers in theTM Ranch machine on the pole at his least favorite track. Twenty one came to boogie board but only a handfull were able to beat the odds and finish the race.
Rogers took the lead from the green flag and actually lead at his least favorite track but eventually he got caught on the outside and slide backwards only to do one heck of a job coming back to take third place. He was a man on a mission, a mission to show Orlando that it could not bite him that night.
Mike Good was the best boogie boarder as he turned three times in the exact same place on the track. By the third turn, I would say he was an expert on boggie boarding. After Mike came the Penzoil car, trying his skills at boogie boarding. Barry Willoughby, in my least favorite of his two Penzoil cars, tried sliding thru the fourth turn but for Barry, it took only one try to upset the mechanical workings of his car. Water is a blessing to all of us but not to racers on a Friday night.
Eventually we would lose not only MIke and Barry but Daryl Shelnut, B.J. McLeod, Jeff Sloan, who had his Ford from hell as he says, Justin Drawdy, Morgan Hoover, Scott Bramlett, Cush Revette, Larry Osteen, and Eric Black. Some of the best racers and guys around.
Beating not only the oil on the track and the water weeping from the over abundant rain supply, it was the "King" of short track racing taking his nineteenth win out of twenty three races this year. Dick Anderson in his 92 Super Late from Wildwood, Florida, won with style and grace and addressed his many fans just the same. It is a standing joke now that if Anderson is there, the rest might as well go home because everyone knows who will win the race. But this year has been very good to Dick Anderson and he has every reason to be proud of himself and his team.
Mike Fritts did a great job trying to beat Anderson as Fritts is the only other driver who has won a Sunbelt Super Late Model race but he just could not quite catch him. David Rogers, James Powell III, Johnny Kay, Mike Bresnaehan, Jimmy Cope, Lee Collins, Jeff Emery and Bruce Lawrence were the top 10 drivers.
But it was not a Super Late model that took the best boogie boarder award for the night, it was Jim Rahman in the #5 Classic Car who went upside down on the back stretch on his roof and returned to the feature race. This was a true racer, don't let a little upside down trip stop you from running the feature race. Hands up to Jim Rahman.
Jane Smith
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