by Dave Westerman

After a week off for the July 4th Independence Day holiday weekend, Auburndale Speedway returns to action Saturday night with nine classes of racing set to do battle.

The Auburndale Trucks return to racing along with the Sportsman cars, Street Stocks, Mini Stocks, Legend Cars, V-8 Bombers and Bandoleros. Joining the track’s regular classes will be a pair of traveling groups, the Outlaw Modifieds and the Southeast Champ Kart Series.

The Trucks make their fourth appearance of the year as their field continues to grow. Jim Cowhey, Jr. and Tommy King are tied for the point lead headed into action this week while just ten points separate the lead duo from Roger Blevins, Tim Sozio and Keith Lilley who are third through fifth in the standings.

Dave Dunkin padded his Sportsman point lead just a bit two weeks ago with another win but Mark Medeiros is still within striking distance just 22 markers behind Dunkin. Austin Carr has dropped well behind the front pair but still sits third in Sportsman points despite missing the last two races.

The Street Stock point battle continues to see-saw back and forth between current leader Matt McCrary and Jeff Waterman. McCrary holds a slim six point edge over Waterman while third place Dave Colpritt trails by 62 tallies.

Chris Spring has opened up a 32 point edge over Fred Harrison, Jr. in the Mini Stock point standings and it will be these two who will ultimately decide the season championship. Meanwhile, Josh Borem all but has the V-8 Bomber title wrapped up already, currently leading the standings by a whopping 160 points over Buddy Phillips, Jr.

Things have gotten very interesting in the Legend Car class as Jake Perkins has caught Gerald White, Jr. and the two are now tied for the point lead in this very competitive division. Defending Legend Car champion Justin Brown sits 38 points behind the two front-runners.

The Outlaw Modifieds have been inactive for awhile thanks to weather-related issues, but make their second appearance of the year at Auburndale Speedway this week. Tom Meyer of Pinellas Park leads the Outlaw Modified points and has three wins on the season already. Steady Ric Mills trails Meyer by 18 in the point chase while the winner here back on May 1st, Doug Hopper, is third in points followed by Craig Sherar and Mike Endee.

The Southeast Champ Kart Series (SECKS) are set for their third run of the year at Auburndale. Phil Harp was the most recent winner here while Dennis Mace copped the win at the most recent SECKS show held at Citrus County Speedway.

Saturday, pit gates open at 2PM, grandstand gates open at 5PM and racing begins at 7PM. For more information just log on to www.auburndaleracing.com powered by Palm Tree Computers.

CURRENT POINT STANDINGS AS OF 6/26/10:

LATE MODELS:

1-#07 Jeff Scofield 399

2-#21 Kevin Ingram 338

3-#50 Perry Lovelady 309

4-#17 Ryan Lisak 276

5-#49 Ron Lofquist 270

6-#407 Jason Vail 260

7-#22 David King 225

8-#47 Chris Fontaine 202

#33 Daniel Webster 202

10-#36 Tim Russell 198

OPEN WHEEL MODIFIEDS:

1-#98 Wayne Morris 715

2-#56 James Wright III 703

3-#75 Bobby Blake 640

4-#19 Kevin Macy 598

5-#01 Von Pope 548

6-#87 Keith Lilley 542

7-#00 Shawn Harper 526

8-#03 Kyle Bookmiller 499

9-#35 Ron Abney, Jr. 406

10-#10 Travis Roland 397

SPORTSMAN:

1-#71 Dave Dunkin 372

2-#13 Mark Medeiros 350

3-#22 Austin Carr 276

4-#1 Bart Weatherford 204

5-#8 Brandon Duchscherer 174

6-#92 Ted Head 152

7-#51 Kyle Alford 146

8-#89 Brett Jenkins 140

9-#19 Chris Lewellen 132

10-#60 Richard Fiore, Jr. 114

MODIFIED MINI STOCKS:

1-#89 Scott Sharpe 294

2-#15 Jason Rendell 292

#55 Mike Sweet 292

4-#45 Dennis Jones 210

5-#07 Bruce Anderson 190

6-#38 Burt Morse 170

7-#26 Jimmy Pugh 162

8-#37 Brandon McSwain 156

9-#85 Drew Carter 90

10-#09 Jessica Robbins 82

TRUCKS:

1-#1 Tommy King 110

#2 Jim Cowhey, Jr. 110

3-#15 Roger Blevins 104

4-#16 Tim Sozio 102

5-#72 Keith Lilley 100

6-#37 Nick Hernandez 84

7-#99 Brent Tyler 74

8-#13 J.R. Garcia 60

9-#54 Zach Harris 56

10-#18 Cheyne Hammond 50

LEGEND CARS:

1-#38 Gerald White, Jr. 538

#59 Jake Perkins 538

3-#8 Justin Brown 500

4-#07 Dave Gleason 448

5-#71 Mason Ketterman 446

6-#31 Lynn Wiles 356

7-#4R Zach Napoleon 310

8-#7 Dakota Baggette 280

9-#51 Roger Englund 210

10-83 Danielle Stratton 194

STREET STOCKS:

1-#5 Matt McCrary 552

2-#42 Jeff Waterman 546

3-#4 Dave Colpritt 484

4-#56 James Wright III 436

5-#17 Kyle Hall 316

6-#29 Bobby Mobley 286

7-#48 Eddie Hartin 234

8-#65 Ken Lawrence 226

#53 Kyle Peters 226

10-#52 Mike Rowland 204

MINI STOCKS:

1-#42 Chris Spring 732

2-#21 Fred Harrison, Jr. 702

3-#3 Chris Narramore, Sr. 532

4-#33 Donnie Guy 470

5-#40 Jason Swilley 392

6-#88 Kevin Steadman 326

7-#4 Marilyn McCrary 316

8-#46 Randy King 302

9-#551 Mark Wells 250

10 #55 Steve Routt, Jr. 180

V-8 BOMBERS:

1-#111 Josh Borem 670

2-#05 Buddy Phillips, Jr. 510

3-#56 James Wright, Sr. 394

4-#0 Paul Bookmiller 352

5-#89 Preston Davis 268

6-#96 Larry Chumney II 248

7-#88 Gene Harrison 226

8-#42 Brandon Duchscherer 178

9-#96 Larry Chumney, Sr. 168

10-#51 Matt Johns 162

SCRAMBLERS:

1-#28 Kimberly Gullett 428

2-#66 Brian Tyre 396

3-#00 Chad Cutting 364

4-#62 Richard Brown 338

5-#71 Dave Canfield 242

6-#4 Scott Russ 220

7-#51 Matt Johns 216

8-#42 Mike Bauer 198

9-#9 Ashton Hunt 194

10-#8 Richie Acres 160

MINI CUPS:

1-#7 Harold Crooms 155

2-#21 Rick Ragan 152

3-#07 Tyler Scofield 138

4-#74 John Beach 118

5-#14 Sam Scott 112

6-27X Dale Pulst 106

7-#2 Skip Baird 82

8-#22 Rick Cline, Sr. 78

9-#9 Cole Partelo 72

#05 Cindarae Irish 72

BANDOLEROS:

BANDITS:

1-#38 Cameron White 614

2-#5 Derek Sobel 148

3-#11 Coty Bibeau 94

4-#30 Noah Cornman 42

OUTLAWS:

1-#96 Teddy Lively 326

2-#48 Andy Metz 306

3-#13 Ryan Shattuck 146

4-#1 Mark Bibeau 130

5-#11 Daniel Conlin, Jr. 112

6-#16 Nick Baluch 34

FIGURE EIGHTS:

1-#0 Jimmy Thompson 40

2-#14 Wayne Calkins 38

3-#89 Rodney Davis 36

4-#31 Wayne Whitehead 34

5-#34 James Crawford 32

6-#891 Ricky Todd 30

7-#35 James Newton 28

8-#A6 Justin Meyer 26

9-#89X Josh Hall 24

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