Punta Gorda, FL – Mother Nature won last week, but Punta Gorda won this week. As Mother Nature threw everything it had at PGS around 4:30PM and with a slight drizzle falling, racing began in earnest at 7PM. As Perfect Pest Control of Southwest Florida night began, the schedule line up would be changed many times to insure the track could hold the horsepower, tire combination, of the class.
Fab 4’s brought out their feature first as several heat events were shelved for features only in the wake of the drizzle. Feature winner Kerrington McFadden was speechless at his win, but mom was yelling for joy. Linda Badali ran second, with Kyle Rice third, Kim Mabbitt fourth and Jarrett Reynolds fifth.
Mod Mini’s were second up on the track with only three car present, but even with Ronnie Allen running away with the feature, John Pummel Jr and Joe Rice ran side-by-side the entire feature event and gave the crowd a great race lap, after lap. Pummel, Jr won the battle for second.
TQ Midgets went straight to feature event racing, and saw Mike Belusar take the win with Ted Durfee second, the ageless Jake Duffy third, Geoff Stutz fourth and Jamie Barnum fifth. That will mix the points up for the top 3 trio to almost even stevens.
Chris Scott of Nokomis won the Road Warriors Feature, make that four-in-a-row. Beating Rick Reed of Arcadia, second, and Logan Leonard in third. But, closer inspection in Tech saw the top-3 DQ for different infractions, leaving Chris Loney with his first win of the young season. Second would go to Jason Miller, followed by Derrick Horton third, Don Jericka over came a self inflicted head on collision with Blaine Baer to take fourth and Jesse Gargus got the finale top-5 spot.
Bandolero’s brought 4 cars out for the Young Guns seat time and in only his second race ever, Johnny Homes met with disaster as Shawn Hooven slipped up in turn 2, sending the youngster into the back stretch wall just out of the turn. Homes was OK, but the car will need a little work. In the end the winner was Shawn Hooven in Mark Green’s #14 car, followed by brother Mark Hooven second and Reese Chase in third.
Open Wheel Modifieds had the longest feature of the night scheduled at 35 laps and by the end several tempers would flare, and many meeting would be had by several pairs of drivers. Out lasting the ruckus would be the ill running L.B. Skaggs machine.
“It was down on power all night, but it held on til the finish.” stated a smiling Skaggs in Victory Lane.
Second to Skaggs would be a spectacular driver by Phil Morrison of Punta Gorda, chased by a hard charging Sean McLaughlin of Port Charlotte in third. Fourth went to Lehigh Acres’ Johnny Allen, with Sun Shine Speedway alumni Timmy Moore of St. Pete, fifth.
Mini Cups had the #99 of 9 year old Reese Chase, dusting the #99 of 8 year old Johnny Marra, as the Marra car slowly lost air pressure in the right rear.
Legends were back in action with Kevin Hendry taking the win, followed by; Mitch Verhaagh second, Mark Hooven third, Mike Fazio fourth and Carl Haag fifth.
Pro-4’s finished off the 9 class race evening with 15 cars scheduled in the 25-lap feature and Ryan Collver out classed the field for the easy win, with Stuart Vandevender (say that 3 times real fast) second, Phillip Ellis Jr, third in a newly bought replacement car for the first race blown motor car and fourth was Wally Smith, with Ken Badali salvaging fifth.
Next week, July 3 rd , Punta Gorda Speedway is CLOSED for the Daytona races and 4 th of July celebrations. Returning July 10 th with PGS Limited Late Models for 50-Laps, Sportsman for 35-Laps, and including the return of the “COWBOY CADILLACS.” Also on the schedule will be Road Warriors, Pro-4’s, Fab-4’s and the Dwarf Cars.
We’ll See You at the RACES!
Punta Gorda Speedway Results 6/26/2010
Fab 4
1. 33 Kerrington McFadden
2. 30 Linda Badali
3. 7 Kyle Rice
4. 63 Kim Mabbitt
5. 2 Jarrett Reynolds
6. 21x Jason Wille
7. 82 Robert Conant
8. 36 Crystal Love
9. 07 Shane Moore Jr
10. 87 Skyler Null
11. 30x Zac Campilonga
12. 24 Nick Callen
13. 9 James Daring
14. 27 Tammy Phillips
Mod Mini
1. 68 Ronnie Allen
2. 86 John Pummel Jr.
3. 7 Joe Rice
T.Q. Midgets
1. 30 Mike Belusar
2. 26 Ted Durfee
3. 1 Jack Duffy
4. 5 Geoff Styner
5. 7 Jamie Barnum
6. 6 Jay Stutz
7. 33 Kenny Busch
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Open Wheel Modified
1. 71 L.B. Scaggs
2. 63 Phil Morrison
3. 99 Sean McLaughlin
4. 14 Johnny Allen
5. 57 Timmy Moore
6. 03 Kyle Bookmiller
7. 14 John Garrett
8. 2 Ralph Bowman
9. 46 Doug Moff
10. 19 Scott McDaniel
11. 12 Eric Ruud
12. 2R John Rogers DNS
Road Warriors
1. 33 Chris Loney
2. 10 Jason Miller
3. 27 Derrick Horton
4. 5 Jeremy Daring
5. 29 Don Jericka
6. A1 Jesse Gargus
7. 77 Blain Bair
8. B1 Cody Allen
9. 97 Chris Scott D.Q.ed in Tech
10. 1 Rick Reed D.Q. ed in Tech
11. !8 Logan Leonard D.Q. in Tech
Pro 4
1. 04 Ryan Collver
2. 36 Stuart Vandevender
3. 29 Phillip Ellis
4. 63 Wally Smith
5. 30 Ken Badali
6. 82 Corey Bigley
7. 51 Lance Sober
8. 88 John Balzarano
9. 27 Derrick Horton
10. 24 Shane Moore
11. 21x Jason Perkins
12. 21 Jeremy Perkins
13. 87 Charles Null
14. 28 Dylan Bigley
15. 98 Cody Allen D.N.S.
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Bandoleros
1. 14 Shawn Hooven
2. 17 Mark Hooven
3. 99 Reese Chase
4. 06 Johnny Holmes
Mini Cups
1. 99C Reese Chase
2. 99 Johnny Marra
Legends
1. X6 Kevin Henry
2. 9 Mitch Verhaagh
3. 17 Mark Hooven
4. 38 Mike Fazio
5. 48fl Carl Haag
6. 55 Conrad Molter
7. 14 Brady Marshall Dns
8. 57 Taylor McKeeven Dns
9. 52 Ted Filides Dns