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| Scotty Adema Claims 5th in a Row in USA Sprints Racing! | The "Fort Myers Flash" Scotty Adema made it 5 in a row bye blasting his way around the Miami Speedplant in fine form. Tommy Rice, Jerry Adema and crew again had the car set-up and performing flawlessly. The was the 3rd race Win in as many races at Hialeah for Adema and the Old Castle Precast Racing Team.
Tim George # 1 & Dakota Stevens # 79 made up the front row followed by the cars of Michael Smith # 9 and Sean Namor # 10n in row 2. At the drop of the green the 2 front row cars of George and Stevens powered off of turn 4 and the field followed. The action was fast and furious as the cars were bumping and rubbing all thru turns 1 and 2.
Tim George in the # 1 darted out to a early lead from his pole position and began to up the pace as his tires were gaining heat. Young Michael Smith # 9 was in tow followed by Dakota Stevens # 79 Sean Namor # 10n and Scotty Adema # 67. Adema was again working the high side. Scotty caught the # 79 and # 9 and made a beautiful move to shoot bye the dueling pair of Rookies on lap 6.
Sean Namor was steadily working his way thru the pack as he came up on the 2 Rookie drivers who themselves battling for position. RC Roper in the # 92 who got shuffled to the back was now decisively working his way towards the front. Travis Bleimeister in the # 3b from Sarasota dropped out with brake troubles on lap 8. This was Travis’s first pavement race ever.
By Lap 9 "The Fort Myers Flash" was now in second after getting by Smith the previous lap the chase was on. George was not going to make it easy for Adema and he didn’t. Scotty applied the pressure hot and heavy and on lap 11 shot by George going into turn 1. Adema got sideways through the middle until finally squeezing by the # 1 coming out of turn 2.
Back in the pack there was an all out frenzy happening as the cars of Sean Namor # 10n and RC Roper # 92 were waging a serious side by side war. The veteran drivers ran side by side for 7 laps and never made contact. They were exchanging positions back and forth as were Michael Smith # 9 and Dakota Stevens # 79.
As the race progressed Adema # 67 showed his skills in lapped traffic as he maneuvered his machine nicely around the ¼ mile oval. Roper eventually got by Namor, chased down the 2 rookies and made the pass in 3 wide traffic. Mike "Hollywood" Schroeder # 6 was in 7th and running a very smooth and steady race all by himself.
Sean Namor challenged the two "Young Guns" of Smith and Stevens. These Rookie drivers who always seemed glued during the races. Both racers have seen hundreds of laps racing together in Go-Karts and now are doing the same in Sprint Cars. Roper caught George with 2 laps to go and had an awesome race to the flag with Timmy barely edging out RC at the finish for 2nd.
At the Checkers it was Adema # 67, George # 1, Roper # 92, Namor # 10n, and Stevens # 79 rounding out the top five. Smith # 9 was 6th was followed by Mike "Hollywood" Schroeder’s # 6, Scott Rocchio # 16, Bob Parrow # 24 and Dave Link # 63 in only his 2nd start in the former Dean Bartholomew owned Gambler came home 10th .
The next race for the USA Sprints is next weekend @ Auburndale Speedway Saturday night June 18th @ 7pm.Call the Track for details and or directions at (863) 967-3958 Also please feel free to visit our website at www.usasprints.com for all the latest news and results.
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