IT'S TIME TO RACE!!

October 24, 2004 FSCR Williams Tops Super Lates at Orlando SpeedWorld by Dave Westerman Veteran driver Michael Williams, driving his new car sponsored by his new business Volusia County Racecars, sped off with a convincing win in the 25 lap Super Late Model feature Friday night at Orlando Speedworld. Point leader Ricky Wood led at the drop of the green, but caution was out at the end of the first lap for a spinning Ron DiCandio. Williams slipped into second spot on the restart and made a bold outside move on Wood two laps later to snare the lead. From that point Williams was the class of the field with the only other slowdown coming on lap 15 when DiCandio spun again and Rich Bates hit the turn two wall at the same time. Williams quickly pulled away on the restart and won easily. Wood was holding off a slew of other competitors when he came upon the slower car of Russ Shaw coming down for the checker. Wood shoved Shaw's car out of the way as the field crossed the start-finish line to take second, but the ensuing melee behind him as cars checked up, saw several go into wild spins with Bobby Fleckinger taking a hard lick into the wall severely damaging his race car. The official order of finish was Williams, Wood, Rich Clouser, Jared Allison and Ronnie Roach as the top five. Wood and Clouser won the heats. Wood, who is also leading the Modified points chase, led flag to flag in an uninterrupted 15 lap dash for the open wheelers. Mark Emberson was a close second trailed by Hoot Flynn, John Foerg, and Corey Freed. Ricky Wood also won the Modified heat race. A lap three red flag was needed in the Sportsman feature as Danny Shearer had an engine problem in turn three and spun, getting hit by both Bill Hall and Dusty Cornelius. All three cars were done for the night but none of the drivers were hurt. Bobby Joe Woodley took the lead from Jeff Wright on lap two and sped to an apparent victory but the win was taken away in tech after improper valve springs were found in his engine. Patrick Thomas, making only his second start of the year, inherited the Sportsman win followed by Charlie Vest, Rich Hight, Spencer Lemmerman and Bruce Gayton. Woodley and Earl Beckner were the Sportsman heat winners. Josh Hermann dominated a green to checker run for the Mini Stocks leading wire to wire for his fourth win of the year. Keith Lilley made a late charge to second with point leader Chad Ashley third over R.J. Arnone and Dick Laszlo. Roger Benton led the first half of the Super Stock feature, but point leader Ted Head was not to be denied as he took the lead following a lengthy red flag period on lap eight. Following a restart after Bob Starr's spin, James Frisbee spun in turn one. At the same time, Brandon Evans got loose on the backstretch and came across the front end of John Castro's car. That contact spun Evans backwards into the concrete pit divider. The water barrels placed at the barrier literally exploded from the impact showering backstretch flagman Butch Pierce and several other bystanders with water as Evans' car came to a halt a few feet away. After a few anxious moments, Evans emerged from the car nursing only a sore shoulder, but his car was a total loss. Following the clean-up, Head led the way to the checker despite some late pressure from Bomber Bill Loomis who had to eventually settle for second. Jason Foster, Roger Benton and John Castro completed the top five. Super Stock heats were won by Head and Loomis. Richie Laszlo was back to winning form in the Strictly Stocks, passing a determined William Hindman on lap ten and driving away to the win. Hindman kept his Mustang in second at the finish followed by Brandon Thomson, Gary Lehman and Bob Snyder OFFICIAL RESULTS ORLANDO SPEEDWORLD - OCTOBER 22 SUPER LATE MODEL 1. #32 Michael Williams 2. #33 Ricky Wood 3. #34x Rich Clouser 4. #18 Jared Allison 5. #14 Ronnie Roach 6. #9R Patrick Conard 7. #34 Bobby Fleckinger 8. #2 Brad May 9. #20 Ron Dicandio 10. #59 Andy Dyndul 11. #44 Greg Brooke 12. #68 Russ Shaw 13. #12 Scott McKinley 14. #1 Earl Beckner 15. #41 Scott Bramlett 16. #4 Rick Bates OPEN WHEEL MODIFIED 1. #81 Ricky Wood 2. #30 Mark Emberson 3. #57 Jim "Hoot" Flynn 4. #34 John Foerg 5. #12 Corey Freed 6. #20 Lynn Dicandio 7. #5 Jon Compagnone 8. #131 Rusty Purdue 9. #08 Terri Bryant 10. #31 Doc McKinney SPORTSMAN 1. #25 Patrick Thomas 2. #44 Charlie Vest 3. #23 Richard Hight 4. #6 Spencer Lemmerman 5. #93 Bruce Gayton 6. #50w Jeff Wright 7. #721 John Bennett 8. #3 Earl Beckner 9. #8 Glenn Castro 10. #77 Danny Shearer 11. #2 Dusty Cornelius 12. #56 Bill Hall 13. #98 Bobby Joe Woodley DQ'D SUPER STOCK 1. #92 Ted Head 2. #22 Bill Loomis 3. #49 Jason Foster 4. #14 Roger Benton 5. #5 John Castro 6. #99 Brett Woodley 7. #28 Ron Edwards 8. #316 Ray Mullis 9. #3 James Fresbie 10. #05 Bob Starr 11. #54 Brian Lynch 12. #65 Dave Wright 13. #7 Brandon Evans 14. #118 Donald Springer MINI STOCK 1. #98 Josh Hermann 2. #99 Keith Lilley 3. #87 Chad Ashley 4. #30 R.J. Arnone 5. #07 Dick Laszlo 6. #77 Randy Blakeslee 7. #24 John Cook 8. #61 Rick Gamache DNS 9. #23 Mark Wells DNS STRICTLY STOCKS 1. #07 Richie Laszlo 2. #89 William Hindman 3. #54 Brandon Thompson 4. #11 Gary Lehman 5. #16 Bob Snyder 6. #97 Bob Cherry Have an opinion on this story? Post a message on our Message Board! news@karnac.org or send a letter to the editor!