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| FAN Appreciation Night at Volusia Speedway Park | It was Fan Appreciation night at the races, free to
everyone in the grandstands. The Fans appreciated every
minute of the most exciting dirt racing in the state. It
was good to be back, the grandstands were ful and the races
were great!!!
DeLand Truck Center Late Models- The race started off all
wrong as 4 of the top cars crashed on the front stretch
#4 Rick Singler, #88 Paul George, #7 Kent Corbin and #22
Brent Carlton. Carlton got together with #1 Wayne Shugart
and spun gathering up several cars.
On lap 10, #33 Bill Kopka had a tire go down and was forced
into the pits but not before the caution dropped. On the
restart #23 Lawton Michew got "tapped" and came to a stop
on the front stretch bringing out another caution. The
worst hit of the night came as #7 Kent Corbin lost it going
into one, the sound of the hit to the wall had the fans
on their feet and holding their breath until Corbin climbed
out of the car and finished 16th.
With 3 laps to go the caution fell as the #24 Scott Smith
spun in turn 2. #11 Roho Sims had the car to beat and
every caution drew the field up closer but no one had
what it took the lead from Sims as he took the win in
front of #6 Scott Singler, #07 David Clegg, #241 Greg
Ward, #23 Lawton Michew.
DeLand Truck Center Late Model Feature (1) 11 Roho Sims,
(2) 6 Scott Singler (3) 07 David Clegg (4) 241 Greg
Ward (5) 23 Lawton Minchew (6) 4 Gary Flynn (7) 89 Jeff
Choquette (8) 44 Ronny Grubbs (9) 9 Rod Burton (10) 57
Chuck Julien (11) 81 Steve Pratt (12) 38 Scott Thompson
(13) 15 Joe Grubb (14) 24 Scott Smith (15) 33 Bill Kopka
(16) 7 Kent Corbin (17) 34 Ray Price (18) 22 Brent
Carlton (19) 1 Wayne Shugert (20) 17 Joe Kump (21) 88 Paul
George (22) 4 Rick Singler (23) 20 John Trammell (24) 11
Jerry King
OB's Resturant and Lounge Hobby Stocks - A full field of 24
Hobby Stocks couldn't get past the fast race car of #46
Travis Gamble. Gamble took the lead as #01 Jimmy Heffner
had his hood come loose in the right ront, Gamble got past
Heffner and never relinquished the lead.
It was another caution filled race and Heffner was one that
suffered as he lost it on his own in turn 3 & 4 but #51
Steve Oldaker who had a competitive car got tangled up and
hit the outside wall. Heffner headed into the pits,
Oldaker tried to stay out but finally retired his damaged
race car to the pits as well.
It was a shortened race, with only two minutes left on the
restart of lap 7. #19 Joe Belkey stayed tight to the
leader #46 Travis Gamble but was unable to take the lead.
Another caution came out and it was Green/White/Checker
as time ran out. The top spots were #46 Travis Gamble,
#19 Joe Belkey, #15 Alan Peacock, #88 Dennis North and
#3 Kenny Waters.
OB's Resturant and Lounge Hobby Stocks B-Main (1) 12f Rick
Friend (2) 23 Glenn Baum (3) T.J. Morris (4)30 Nick Salerno
(5)57 Heinz Haas (6)30x Phillip Connor (7)l0j Chuck
Jackson
OB's Resturant and Lounge Hobby Stocks- Feature
(1)46 Travis Gamble (2)19b Joe Belkey (3)15 Alan Peacock
(4)88 Dennis North (5)3 Kenny Waters (6)50 Pat Taulbee
(7)91 Kirk Bush (8)19k Kory Bush (9)17 Bill Martin (10)
0 George Richards (11)26h Tim Hogan (12)12d Christina
Davidson (13)61 Ronald Soltis (14)10 Tommy Dove (15)26
George Lane (16)03 Rick Cowart (17)31 Donnie Birdwell
(18)01 Jimmy Heffner (19)51 Steve Oldaker (20)72 Lawrence
Ednie (21)38 Doug Fisher (22)7s James Strehle (23)55
Alan Sanville, Jr. DNS 13 Jack Hackney
Action Performance Street Stocks - #54 Tim Hughes took the
lead from polesitter #97 David Higgs and held for the
win. #11 Pat Varieka kept Hughes on watch as he stayed
right on his bumper through the entire 20 lap race. The
field was set by the qualifying heat races, #97 David
Higgs and #11 Pat Varieka took the wins and started inside
and outside pole.
#24 Randy Strehle crashed in the heat race and put his
crew to the test getting his car ready for the feature.
Strehle was able to make the start but had to call it
quits early and put his damaged racecar in the pits.
#74 Mike Lanich brought out the caution on lap 11 as he
slammed the front stretch wall.
Excitement grew as the white flag dropped and #23 Wray
Shaffer took third plce from #97 David Higgs and it was
#54 Tim Hughes taking a well deserved win. As the checker
flew so did the #54 of Bob Jones as he lost it and ended
up over the back retaining wall in turn 3 but Jones was
ok as he climbed from his car to see Hughes take his
Victory lap.
Action Performance Street Stocks Feature - (1)54 Tim Hughes
(2)11 Pat Varieka (3)23 Wray Shaffer (4)97 David Higgs
(5)64 Treavor Gamble (6)17 Kathy Gainey (7)27 Steve
Edmunds (8)48 Bob Jones (9)07 Landon Lungren (10)54 Terry
Hallock (11)74 Mike Lanich (12)03 Mike Snyder (13)24 Randy
Strehle (14)73 Rick Swank (15)39 Bob Shook DNS 77 Dale
Shade, 5 Kevin Zahnen, 4 James Peters
The Pure Stock feature winner #48 Deric Smith was one happy
guy after making it three in a row feature wins! With 19
cars on hand for the 1st race of the new season. Two
qualifying heats were run to set the field for the feature.
Deric Smith and #8b John Blood won their heat races putting
them on the front row for the feature and as it ended
they came across the finish line the same way.
Only one caution for two laps was thrown as #37 Steve
Buker suffered engine trouble and came to a stop in turns
3 & 4. #72 Dave Taulbee had trouble keeping his car going
the right direction but he was able to get going and never
brought out the caution.
It was #48 Deric Smith green to checker but the battle for
second was action packed as #43 Joey Froehlich fought all
the way. #8 John Blood won out in the end taking second
place. Froehlich was third and #23 Mark Reiter, #77
Shannon Cleveland rounded out the top five.
Pure Stock Feature - (1)48 Deric Smith (2)8b John Blood (3)
43 Joey Froehlich (4)23 Mark Reiter (5)77 Shannon
Cleveland (6)73 Mike Salerno (7)21 Joe Epton (8)75 Shawn
Pawlak (9)30 Rodney Alexander (10)72 Dave Taulbee (11)
8h Chris Haney (12)5 Chris Mark (13)37 Steve Buker DNS
#9 Rick Picard, 07 Craig Lungren, 21o Alli Owens, 17
Marvin Prentice, 27 Marsha Edmunds & 78 Shane O'Quinn
Mini Stocks - It was start to finish for #k9 Mike Caywood
as he took the feature win of a caution filled time limited
18 lap race. Two heat races of 9 cars each took to the
track to qualify for their feature win. #3 Ryan Vansickle
and #k9 Mike Caywood won their heats and started first and
second for the feature.
Paul Sheppard was hot as he wheeled his car three and four
wide but he was involved in a crash sending his car to
the pits. As the battle for second got heated #3 Ryan
Vanmsickle got together with #90 William Creech, was
unble to keep it together and continue in his position
but Creech spun and started in the rear for the restart.
Another caution on lap 8 was thrown as the #29 of Drew
Smith got into #9 Michael Quick sending Quick into the
pits. He was able to return to the track and finish
the race. Smith was sent to the rear for the restart.
The brothers K9 Mike Caywood and 6 Matt Caywood kept it
one and two for several laps but by lap 11 #3 Ryan
Vansickle took second from Matt. #6 Matt Caywood seemed
to have handling problems as his car pushed high and he
had to fight his way back to second by lap 15. The
top 5 were #k9 Mike Caywood, #6 Matt Caywood, #3 Ryan
Vansickle, #27 Joe Haslauer and #29 Drew Smith.
Mini Stock Feature (1)k9 Mike Caywood (2)6 Matt Caywood
(3)3 Ryan Vansickle (4)27 Joe Haslauer (5)29 Drew Smith
(6)97 Jackie Rhames (7)00 Lance Lee (8)81 Jamie McCaque
(9)54 Karla Phipps (10)69 Brad Fender (11)60 Bob Temple
(12)77 Doug White (13)90 William Creech (14)9b Michael
Quick (15)8 Paul Sheppard (16)12 Rickie Riedel (17)15b
Gary Bell (18)66 Donnie Ashford DNS 79 Ray Hunter
NEXT NIGHT OF RACING - SATURDAY, MARCH 23
STOCK CAR RACING 5 DIVISIONS. RACING GRANDSTANDS OPEN
AT 5 PM, RACING STARTS AT 7:30 PM.
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