By- Jim Rouse

Top Gun Sprint Cars, Scorpion Racing Products Modifieds, Hobby Stocks, 1-800-ASK GARY Thunderstocks, Barfield Law Group Mini Stocks, and Rent-N-Roll Gladiators battled for points and cash on Night Of A Thousands.

Hobby Stocks started the night off with a 20 lap battle. Devin Walker spun to avoid Trevor Gamble’s rare spin as Howard O’Steen, Mark Maresca, and Don Woosley led the field. Just 1 lap later Kyle Morse got loose and after contact with Ronnie Whitley he smacked the wall ending driver #82’s night. As the laps wound down it looked as if O’Steen had it but with just 4 to go the 88H broke ending the strongest run of his career. Rodney Wright took the win as Darran Jackson, Chad Scranton, Mike Stalnaker, and Mark Maresca completed a solid top 5.

The Scorpion Racing Products Modifieds were 2nd and a good show it was. Larry Mott spun on lap 1 from 2nd and took Scott Mooers, Kyle Bronson, Chuck Gustafson, Jr., Ronald Soltis, Mark Whitener, Jim Passino, Jeff Mathews, and Garret Stewart with him. The damages for Stewart, and Gustafson were terminal. However, Dalton Lanich was leading with Passino and Tyler Clem giving chase. Lanich started to pull away but slowly making ground was Buzzie Reutimann. On lap 11 Scott Mooers took the 10 around in turn 3 giving Reutimann and Ivedent Lloyd, Jr. the position to make the move on Lanich. With 5 to go the yellow flew for Jeff Bagent setting Reutimann up with the lead as Lanich and Lloyd gave chase. Those 3 stayed that way while Ronald Soltis edged Rich Pratt out for 4th.

Just as Dave Slaviak had the Top Gun Sprints up to speed Brandon Grubaugh had troubles in the G6 and brought the caution out. Terry Witherspoon tried to make a move on the leader and ran him over. Matt Kurtz inherited the lead while Witherspoon got P2 back and Mean Gene Lasker was 3rd. Rich Alexander lost the left rear wheel on lap 10 and he took Scott Anderson with him. Kurtz, AJ Maddox, and Witherspoon restarted in that order. With 5 laps to go Tony Agin put the 38 in the wall ending his night; Kurtz, Maddox, and Danny Martin, Jr. ran 1-2-3 as time ran out setting up a 2 lap thriller. Terry Witherspoon violently flipped on the backstretch as the race ended with Kurtz the winner over Martin. The race went back to lap 21 as the wreck stopped most of the field. Witherspoon climbed from the 99 as soon as they put it back on all 4 wheels. AJ Maddox took 3rd, Mark Ruel, Jr. 4th, and Colin Cabre 5th.

Rent-N-Roll Gladiators were 4th out and Brandon Haseleu took the early lead; it would not last however as he spun on lap 3. The lap 13 caution saw Jim Shaw hit the wall as Billy Holmes, Tony LaPorta, and Reid Christensen battled for P1. LaPorta fell to 3rd as Christensen beat him to 2nd while Holmes won. Ray Hunter and Steve Cox completed the top 5.

The first 9 were green in the 1-800-ASK GARY Thunderstocks but Alan Lane changed that when he spun out of turn 4. He also helped bring out a lap 11 caution. As Jonathan Appleby led Shane Nichols and Chad Scranton fought to beat him. Mark Trexler lost the left rear with 2 to go setting up the Green White Checkered. Appleby made it 2-for-2 while Scranton beat Nichols for 2nd. Brian Mullins and James Sullivan, III completed the top 5.

On lap 9 Nick Kerr went around after a tough battle with the Staats family. Meanwhile Shirlene Hammond was on another continent up front. The final 2 lap dash was set up when Cody Kinsey found himself around in turn 1. No one could stop Shirlene Hammond as she easily won over Charlie and Travis Staats, Reid Christensen, and Nick Kerr.

Next Saturday will officially end the first third of the 2012 season as the RaceCar Engineering Late Models get 1 last warm-up before the Powell Memorial. Buddy’s Home Furnishings Limited Late Models join them as do the 1-800-ASK GARY Thunderstocks in a Double feature event! For more information check out www.bubbaracewaypark.com or call the Speedway at 352-622-9400.

 

Bubba Raceway Park Results (5/19)

 

Top Gun Sprint Car Series

1- 92 Matt Kurtz

2- 82 Danny Martin, Jr.

3- 3A AJ Maddox

4- 83 Mark Ruel, Jr.

5- 12 Colin Cabre

6- 5 Tim Grubaugh

7- 14 Ryan Partin

8- 0L Brandon Lineberger

9- 88 Andrew Griffin

10- 13 Coty Smith

11- 99 Terry Witherspoon

12- 38 Tony Agin

13- 8 Rich Alexander

14- 47 Scott Anderson

15- 02 Gene Lasker

16- 79 Dave Slawiak

17- 6S Robbie Smith

18- G6 Brandon Grubaugh

DNS- 1 Dave Thomas

 

Scorpion Racing Products Modifieds

1- 00 Buzzie Reutimann

2- 77 Dalton Lanich

3- 33L Ivedent Lloyd, Jr.

4- 61 Ronald Soltis

5- 78 Rich Pratt

6- 33 Jeff Mathews

7- 34 Jim Passino

8- 14 Tyler Clem

9- 41 Gary Sexton

10- 10 Scott Mooers

11- 40B Kyle Bronson

12- 10C Jeff Bagent

13- 00D Shaun Daugharty

14- Z06 Larry Mott

15- 58 Mark Whitener

16- 2 Garret Stewart

17- 11 Chuck Gustafson, Jr.

DNS- 66H Wayne Hammond

 

Hobby Stocks

1- 99 Rodney Wright

2- 80J Darran Jackson

3- 7 Chad Scranton

4- 9 Mike Stalnaker

5- 77M Mark Maresca

6- 21 Sean Monaghan

7- 12 Trevor Gamble

8- 81 Don Woosley

9- 55JR Devin Walker

10- 15 Hunter Gustafson

11- 43 Glenn Baum

12- 88H Howard O’Steen

13- 19 Brian Shea

14- 84 Ronnie Whitley

15- 77 Matt Kramer

16- 08 Duane Palmer

17- 82 Kyle Morse

DNS- 4C Richard Calmes, Jr.

 

1-800-ASK GARY Thunderstocks

1- 69A Jonathan Appleby

2- 27 Chad Scranton

3- 65 Shane Nichols

4- 28 Brian Mullins

5- 14 James Sullivan, III

6- 8 Mike Stalnaker

7- 1 Davey Kinsey

8- 28E Brandon Elwood

9- 83 Joe Boyd

10- X Justin Dean

11- 12 Justin Durbin

12- 21M David Miller, Jr.

13- 3 Jeff Baer

14- 114 John Thorpe

15- 51 Eddie Lentz

16- 5W Eddie Kilbury

17- 39 Jason Blackmer

18- 47 Daniel Keene

19- 93 Marco Reyes

20- 34 Mark Trexler

21- 31 Josh Sanford

22- 05 Alan Lane

23- 21 Jason Gamble

24- 15 Mike Valdez

 

Barfield Law Group Mini Stocks

1- 22 Shirlene Hammond

2- 9AR Charlie Staats

3- 1AR Travis Staats

4- 30 Reid Christensen

5- 75 Nick Kerr

6- 11 Cody Kinsey

7- 09 Tommy Sanders

 

Rent-N-Roll Gladiators

1- 26 Billy Holmes

2- 17D Reid Christensen

3- 3T Tony LaPorta

4- 79 Ray Hunter

5- P38 Steve Cox

6- 34 Shane Guessford

7- 8 Joey Brinson

8- 68 Jordan McMillon

9- 48 Deric Smith

10- 87 John Johnson

11- 9 Brandon Hunter

12- 43 Billy Newberg

13- 3H Brandon Haseleu

14- 126 Robert Graham

15- 26X Dennis Sanderson

16- 23 Jim Shaw

17- 81 Steve Johnson

18- 1 Ray Vann

19- 12 Randy Harless

20- 65 John Windham

DNS- 8B Robert Brinson

DNS- 131 George Ingram