Stickler sweeps ADMO doubleheader at Desoto
Cody Stickler has made Desoto Speedway his personal playground in J.D. Byrider Open Wheel Modified action so far in 2016.
No one could touch Stickler in Saturday night’s Auburndale-Desoto Modified twin 50-lap doubleheader. The Pinellas County driver set fast time in qualifying and led every lap on his way to dominant wins in both feature races.
Sticker got the wholeshot from the outside pole in the first 50-lap race to take the lead from Josh Todd at the start. In the first couple of laps, Doug Moff was caught in two separate spins and was eliminated when he hit the wall coming out of turn two in the second incident.
Stickler and Todd pulled away from third place Brad Bowman on the restart and were comfortably ahead of the rest of the pack when Chad Rutherford spun just in front of the leaders in turn three to bring out the yellow just before the halfway point. (more…)
Heading into Saturday night’s Sportsman King of the Blacktop 100 at Desoto
It’s all Wings and Wedges at Desoto Speedway this Saturday Night March 5th, as the Southern Sprintcar Shootout Series makes a stop at the Florida’s fastest 3/8-mile-high banked oval. The sprint cars always put on a show and will have you sitting on the edge of your seat.
The long awaited regular season opener at Desoto Speedway saw a packed house treated to an action packed night of racing that saw Scott Hogan claim the Pro Truck “King of the Blacktop” title and Devin McLeod take the Florida Modified Invitational 100.
Randy “Hondo” Fox was a Florida hot shoe in the Sportsman and Late Models around the southeast. All short track racers knew him well, you either loved him or hated him but he meant business. Randy was not just a rough, tough and rugged kind of guy he had a huge heart for helping other drivers.
by Scott Lockwood
by Scott Lockwood
After a great Friday night practice where 15 Supers showed up, we knew it was going to be a great Saturday afternoon of racing if Mother Nature would cooperate. Pits opened up on Saturday and the race teams kept rolling in while it was hot and sunny. Practice got underway and car counts grew to twenty Supers for the Turner Tree & Landscape 100, it was going to be a great race with the stout filed of drivers. Another twenty drivers were also on tap from all over for the 40 lap Mini Stock Race. The rains came after practice but Desoto Speedway did their best to dry the track and get this show in since the Supers were rained out there last trip to the track Aug 22. Track was dry and the Bombers came out for their twenty five lap feature before the Supers would qualify. Kenny Gibson of Venice jumped out to an early lead and never looked back. The battle was from second on back which ended with points leader Randy Spicer taking second and third went to Zach Briggs out of Lakeland. With the track completely dry now, the twenty supers came out to qualify to set the field for the 100 lap featured event. Halfway through qualifying the sky let loose and we were done for the night. Supers will be back on Oct 10th for the first of a three race series at Desoto called the Triple Crown.