Bradenton, Fl: Another sultry night was in the mix for a “hot” night of racing action at the “South’s Fastest Short Track”. The feature races of the night were the DeSoto Pro Truck series and the Turner Tree and Landscape Limited Late Models.
Turner Tree and Landscape Limited Late Models:
Qualifying for the Turner Tree and Landscape Limited Late Models, Tate Pierce took the fast time for the evening’s 100-lap feature event. “ Of all the years of racing I have under my belt this is the first “Fast Time” I have ever had so this is just as good as a win for me tonight” said Pierce in the post qualifying interview. Following Pierce was ASA standout Cody Pitts second fastest, third was Jessie Dutilly, fourth was Steve Gill and fifth, Steve Dorer.
A two on the die inverted the front two cars putting Pitts on the pole with Pierce on the outside. On the drop of the green though, it was the fast qualifier jumping out to the lead. The field ran nose to tail for most of the race. Towards the end of the race Steve Dorer started making his way towards the front and eventually caught the leader. For the last forty-seven laps Dorer was on Pierce’s back bumper.
The battle was also hot and heavy for the third spot. Cody Pitts had a rearview mirror full of point’s leader Jessie Dutilly. As first and second pulled away Dutilly and Pitts went after it lap after lap. It went right down to the wire with Pierce taking the win, Dorer came up just short for the second spot. Cody Pitts took the third spot in a warm up for October’s ASA race at DeSoto. Dutilly increased hid point’s lead finishing fourth and fifth across the stripe was Earl Beckner.
Finishing Order Pos Driver Car # 1 TATE PIERCE 81 2 STEVE DORER 10 3 CODY PITTS 11X 4 JESSE DUTILLY 30 5 EARL BECKNER 36 6 DUSTIN CHISHOLM 7 7 GUS COORSSEN 41 8 ALAN MCKINNEY 96 9 TIM GROGAN 63 10 A J ISBISTER 81X 11 STEVE GILL 5 12 DALLAS WARD 15X 13 LONNY MILLER 98
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DeSoto Pro Trucks:
Todd Bontrager returned to the “Truck Wars” sporting his new sponsor “Monster Energy Drinks”. And he put his new sponsor on the front stretch right out of the shoot taking fast time for the fifty-lap event. Bontrager held the lead early, but a tire going down did him in and he finished in the twelfth spot on the night.
It was point’s leader Travis Roland showing the way once again to take another impressive win. Young Max Bennett moved into fifth in points battle with a solid second place run, third went to Nick King, fourth to Danny Anderson and fifth to Brent Huber.
Finishing Order Pos Driver Car # 1 TRAVIS ROLAND 01 2 MAXX BENNETT 1X 3 NICK KING 3 4 DANNY ANDERSON 50 5 BRENT HUBER 64 6 PAT MAHONEY 84 7 GARY FOXWORTH 25 8 BILL MANFULL 48 9 JIM REPPI SR 57 10 GARY DEEMER 18 11 MATT COHEN 46 12 TODD BONTRAGER 8 13 WILLIAM CARLBERT JR 11X 14 AL NEUMANN 4 15 STEPHEN DARVALICS 41 16 KYLE MUSSELMAN O7 17 STEPHEN NASSE 69
Manatee Lumber Pure Stocks:
Allen Bragg notched another win for the “Crate Motor Express” holding off a hard charging “Silver Bullet” Randy Johnson. Third went to George Bartimac, fourth to Robert Crisp and fifth to Tyler Lau.
Pos Driver Car # 1 ALLEN BRAGG 89 2 RANDY JOHNSON 73 3 GEORGE BARTIMAC 21X 4 ROBERT CRISP 38 5 TYLER LAU 1 6 DARRIN ELLIS 71 7 TROY THIEM 18 8 DAVID DAVIS 6X 9 BLAIR PONTIOUS 39 10 ANTHONY EASTON 90 11 JAMES CRAWFORD JR 34 12 TROY MEREDITH 75
Clear Channel Magic 4’s
Pos Driver Car # 1 ALEX PATTEN 13 2 CHELSEA LAJOIE 3 3 DYLAN BIGLEY 28 4 JESSICA OSTROVSKIS 91 5 ALBERT NAIL 00 6 AUSTIN CAVEY 20 7 BRITTANY BARR 81 8 AUSTIN CRAIG 10 9 COREY BIGLEY 25 10 BILL LEAKE 03
Mod-Mini’s
Pos Driver Car # 1 GLENN KELLEY 16 2 RICK PARTRIDGE 0 3 MIKE BIRK JR 10 4 MITCHELL WEBB 6 5 MASON LOVE 70X 6 CHRIS ZIMMERMAN 29 7 JOE GAGEN 1 8 BRAD STEGER 65 9 THOMAS ZIMMERMAN 29X
International Contractor’s Street Stocks
Pos Driver Car # 1 JOEY BARNES 19 2 DENNIS WILSON 42 3 CHARLES "CHUCKY" RAMSEY 99 4 ROGER WELCH 98 5 ALEX ABBOTT 17 6 MIKE AMO 10X 7 WAYNE DOVE 18 8 DEREK LUCAS 88 9 CASEY HALL 11 10 DAVE BLANCHARD 50 11 PAT DENT 6X
