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