IT'S TIME TO RACE!!

June 29, 2008 Joey Aguilar First in TBARA at Citrus By Marty Little INVERNESS, Fla. - The thunder and lightning in the sky nearby was no match for the ground pounding TBARA sprint cars Saturday night at Citrus County Speedway. Veteran Joey Aguilar out ran a 21 car field to score a popular victory in the 30 lap main event. An infrequent competitor this season, Augilar had his Doro Racing 52 working to perfection this night as he started fifth and quickly made his presence known as young Dakotah Stephens easily set the early pace in his Ford powered mount. The yellow waved for a spin by Dude Teate on lap four but it was back to green with Stephens leading Todd Schmidt, Brad Davis and Aguilar as everyone jockeyed for position. With a dozen laps down it was Davis looping his mount to bring out the second yellow of the event. Yellow fever hit again as Mark Gimmler lost the handle and spun on lap 17 to keep the field closed up tight on the 3/8 mile oval. Second running Aguilar continued to track Stephens but on lap 25 the youngster had fuel problems and Aguilar took the top spot and it was an apparent dash to checkers, but with two laps remaining the potent Ford of Michael Smith lost an oil filter and the red flag waved for track clean up. It was all Aguilar on the restart as he hustled to the checkers ahead of Shane Butler, point leader Troy DeCaire, Bo Hartley and Dude Teate. First heat (8 laps) 1. Todd Schmidt 2. Joey Aguilar 3. Tommy Nichols 4. Shane Butler, 5. David Retzlaff 6. Bobby Rose 7. Curtis Sutton 8. Bo Hartley Second heat (8 laps) 1. Dakotah Stephens 2. Larry Brazil Dude Teate 3. Wendy Mathis 4. Mickey Kempgens 5. Brian Maddox Third heat (8 laps) 1. Brad Davis 2. Michael Smith 3. Sonny Hartley 4. D.J. Hoelzle 5. Troy DeCaire 6. Mark Gimmler 7. Steve Hiesler Feature (30 laps) 1. Joey Aguilar 2. Shane Butler 3. Troy DeCaire 4. Bo Hartley 5. Dude Teate 6. Larry Brazil 7. Dakotah Stephens 8. Todd Schmidt 9. Mickey Kempgens 10. Mark Gimmler 11. Wendy Mathis 12. Sonny Hartley 13. David Retzlaff 14. Steve Hiesler 15. D.J. Hoelzle 16. Michael Smith 17. Brad Davis 18. Tommy Nichols 19. Bobby Rose 20. Curtis Sutton 21. Brian Maddox Have an opinion on this story? Post a message on our Message Board! or Email KARNACto send a letter to the editor!