It started for me on cool night at Sunshine I was proud to present a plaque not only to Kim Scheffler-Hays but was also was part of the emotional cermonies for "Wild" Bill Revard as I was able to present his Mother Maryellen his plaque for KARNAC "Driver of the Month" ....Then I was witness to the most awesome School bus figure8 race I think has ever been run, as not only did Bonnie Hendry lay her bus on its side, Frank"Up on Two Wheels" Hill flipped his and drove away!!!Also Art Calkins took an emotinal win in the "Wild Bill Revard" memorial figure 8 race
Then it was on to EastBay Raceway for the King of the 360 Sprints. Freezin our Butts off!!! My son Joe and I were witness to some great Sprint Car action as Gary Wright had won the features Thursday and Friday and was the defending King from last year, it looked like it would be hard to dethrone him, but a hard charging Ron Laney came by on the last lap to take a well earned victory!!!
DeSoto Speedway was the next stop for some great Pro Late Model action as 25 of some of the states best drivers dueled it out on the high banks. B.J.McCleod, Darryl Shellnut and Jimmy Cope saw hard luck early in the greuling 150 lap race. Just when it looked like another walk away victory fo #00 Dickie Anderson a patch of oil and the back stretch wall ended his afternoon as a hard charging Pete Orr in the "Race Car College" car went on for the victory.

The it was on to a chilly Wednesday night to watch Rick Eckert
class the field and complete the "Hat Trick" by winning all three "Hav-a-Tampa" feature races, Saturday Night saw #53 Cook take the 100 lap feature to end 6 hard run nights of Late Model Action
Back again to EastBay and the "Big Boys" in the 410 Sprints and their final night of racing and the end of sixteen straight days of racing at EastBay Raceway saw some action packed excitement as Tony Stewart showed up to help the team he owned. The #20 Danny Lasoki took the feature win after hardcharging Terry McCarl #24 earned my hard luck award after being tangled up with a grinding three car wreck down the front strectch ending his bid but opening the door for Lasoski's 7 of 8 wins in Florida racing action.

My Speedweeks ended at Disney Speedworld to drive a Winston Cup car for 8 laps in the "Richard Petty" driving experience averaging a 125 mph lap time on my last lap it literally was one of the greatest thrills of my life!!
After being to 4 different race tracks my racing season has really started but now all the local tracks shows are firing up across the state and we are all preparing to do what we love most... RACE!!! So good luck to all the competitors,officials and everyone else involved with the show and to all the fans support your local drivers, cheer as loud as you can for them because you know what?? It doesnt get any better then this.....From KARNAC.com....Rick Anges