by Dave Westerman
Once again Auburndale Speedway played host to another large group of fans who braved hot, steamy weather conditions to enjoy yet another great night of racing highlighted by the School Bus Figure 8’s.
The Street Stock class continues to easily provide some of the best competition week in and week out. The feature race took three tries to finally get a full lap in with the second attempt finding Matt McCrary into the backstretch wall. McCrary returned to the line-up after replacing a tire but had to start from the scratch position and dropped out just a few laps into the race.
Dave Colpritt out-ran heat winner Jeff Waterman into turn one and would set the pace the entire way as, once the race did get going, it ran straight through from green to checker. Colpritt did not have it easy though as James Wright III and Kyle Peters ran him hard the entire distance. On the final lap, Wright bumped Colpritt’s car and got him loose. Wright drove alongside and the pair crossed the stripe in a near dead heat with Colpritt declared the victor by a scant inch.
For Colpritt it was win number four on the year with Wright and Peters getting the place and show spots. Waterman took fourth and Josh Todd was fifth.
After Jason Rendell was sent off the track for a persistent fuel leak, heat winner Mike Sweet ran off and hid in the Modified Mini Stock feature for his second win of the year. Brandon McSwain claimed second trailed by Drew Carter, Dennis Jones and Bruce Anderson.
Best moment of the night came when Kim Gullett took the checkered flag for her first-ever win in the Scrambler division. After winning the heat, the 15-year-old high school student led all the way in the feature race holding off first a determined challenge from Richard Brown, then a late race effort from fellow lady driver Ashton Hunt as the girls would eventually scored a 1-2 finish.
Brown came home third followed by Chad Cutting and Richie Acres. Acres’ drive to fifth came after a lap five tangle with Bryan Tyre that sent Acres to the pits to change a tire. Tyre, who had climbed to within two points of point leader Gullett, lost ground as he was forced out of the event.
Fred Harrison, Jr. was back in victory lane again in the Mini Stocks as he won the heat then led every lap of the feature. The race was slowed by just one caution for debris as Harrison easily led point leader Chris Spring to the line.
Marilyn McCrary was running third coming to the checker but her engine expired and she spun in her own oil coming off turn four. Everyone else managed to snake through with Chris Narramore, Sr., Dwight Ryals, Jr. and Shawn Jenkins taking third through fifth. However, both Narramore and Jenkins were found to have too much forward weight in their FWD machines and were disqualified. That moved Ryals into third and McCrary to fourth with Scott Russ awarded the fifth spot.
The V-8 Bomber feature was a crazy one full of caution flags and crazy driving. James Wright, Sr. was leading when he had to go to the pits with a flat tire during a yellow flag on lap five. Undaunted, Wright came back to pass Gene Harrison on lap eleven, pacing the remaining laps for the win. Preston Davis came on late to secure second followed by Harrison, Kevin Barton and Willie Lacey. Wright also won the heat.
Robert Aaron zipped by early leader Buddy Kessler and held off the pack to win the School Bus Figure Eight race. Despite several close calls, the race was red-flagged just once for a brief period to remove debris from the track. Trailing Aaron to the checker was Danny Taylor while Kessler held on for third in front of Dave Ross and Gary Swing.
Heather Guy topped the Kids Club feature over Megan Gosselin and Dakota Hunt.
Next Saturday night, June 12th, the Auburndale Trucks return to action along with the Sportsman cars, Street Stocks, Mini Stocks, V-8 Bombers, Legends and Bandeleros. Races start at 7 PM. For more information call 863-551-1131 or log on to www.auburndalespeedwy.com.
OFFICIAL RESULTS – AUBURNDALE SPEEDWAY – 6/5/10:
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STREET STOCKS:
1-#4 Dave Colpritt
2-#56 James Wright III
3-#53 Kyle Peters
4-#42 Jeff Waterman
5-#891 Josh Todd
6-#52 Mike Rowland
7-#26 Mike Bruno
8-#142 Chris Spring
9-#5 Matt McCrary
10-#0 Paul Bookmiller
11-#29 Adam King
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MODIFIED MINI STOCKS:
1-#55 Mike Sweet
2-#37 Brandon McSwain
3-#85 Drew Carter
4-#45 Dennis Jones
5-#07 Bruce Anderson
6-#02 Bo Collier
7-#30 Donnie Guy
8-#15 Jason Rendell
DNS #26 Danny Lunn
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MINI STOCK:
1-#21 Fred Harrison, Jr.
2-#42 Chris Spring
3-#2 Dwight Ryals, Jr.
4-#46 Scott Russ
5-#4 Marilyn McCrary
6-#40 Jason Swilley
DQ #3 Chris Narramore, Sr.
DQ #89 Shawn Jenkins
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V-8 BOMBERS:
1-#56 James Wright, Sr.
2-#89 Preston Davis
3-#88 Gene Harrison
4-#05 Willie Lacey
5-#18 Kevin Barton
6-#105 Jeff Lacey
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SCRAMBLERS:
1-#28 Kimberly Gullett
2-#9 Ashton Hunt
3-#62 Richard Brown
4-#00 Chad Cutting
5-#8 Richie Acres
6-#26 Jerry Cutting
7-#71 Dave Canfield
8-#42 Mike Bauer
9-#77 Jeremy Watts
10-#17 Jerry Pruitt
11-#66 Brian Tyre
12-#4 Jordan Spring
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KIDS CLUB:
1-#30 Heather Guy (Senior)
2-#10 Megan Gosselin (Novice)
3-#9 Dakota Hunt (Novice)
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SCHOOL BUS FIGURE 8’s:
1-#1 Robert Aaron
2-#19 Danny Taylor
3-#13 Buddy Kessler
4-#6 Dave Ross
5-#701 Gary Swing
6-#17 Tom Carroll
7-#9 Andrew Tweedy
8-#11 Chick Whitehead
9-#007 Dustin Aaron
10-#49 Bobby Gordon
11-#10 Dallas Maynard
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