by Dave WestermanAuburndale Speedway returns to action this Saturday night which features a huge card of eight racing classes headed up by the Florida All Stars Tour (FAST) Late Models for the Port City Race Cars/AMF Chassis 100.

Between 25-30 FAST Tour machines are expected Saturday night with everyone looking to unseat Wildwood’s Wayne Anderson from his current hot streak. Anderson has won both Tour events held already this year at Citrus County Speedway and Orlando SpeedWorld and currently leads the FAST Tour points by 40
markers over rookie driver C.J. Calabrese.

Calabrese is just one point ahead of fellow rookie contender Austin Kirkpatrick while another rookie and the point leader’s son, Randy Anderson, is currently fourth in the standings.

Jeremy Gerstner is fifth in points headed into the event at Auburndale. Lakeland resident Steve Dorer has actually accumulated enough points to be in second place right now but he in ineligible at present because he is not a member of the FAST Tour. Dorer should be a strong contender Saturday evening
along with other heavy hitters expected to take part including Raymond and Perry Lovelady, Dalton Zehr, Alan Bruns, Todd Allen, John Gerstner, Casey Caudill, Kyle Maynard, J.R. McMickle, David King and many others.

Several Auburndale Speedway “regulars” will be making their first attempt at the FAST Tour. One of those may be 2009 Dwarf Car champion Johnathan Guy if his testing sessions are good enough this week.

The Legend Cars return after a week off for their Florida Tour event at Citrus last week. Jake Perkins is on a roll having won that race last week as well as the season-opener at Auburndale two weeks ago.

The Street Stocks have been putting on some heated action so far this year and the point race reflects it as rookie driver Matt McCrary now has the point lead by just a pair of markers over Jeff Waterman. Expect plenty more slam-bang action again this week.

Josh Borem continues to lead the V-8 Bomber points after three victories and a second place finish so far this year. Borem is now 28 points in front of second place Buddy Phillips, Jr. as disqualifications have been the rule rather than the exception this year as tech inspector Ted Head attempts to get the class “in line.”

Chris Spring has increased his lead in the Mini Stock points battle to 12 in what is still a close battle between Spring, Donnie Guy, Fred Harrison, Jr. and Chris Narramore, Sr. Only Guy has failed to win a feature so far this year.

Although Matt Johns missed the action last week, he still leads the
Scrambler points by 28 over new second place Kimberly Gullett. Brian Tyre would actually be second in points but he turned his car over to Reggie Ware last week and Ware won the feature with it.

Two classes will make their season debut this week. The Mini Cup cars will be out for their first taste of competition while the Kid’s Club also gets back into action. The Bandoleros are also on this weeks race line-up.

Friday, it’s a special practice session and all fans are invited to come out and join the drivers and teams. Only the pit gate will open starting at 10AM with practice, including the FAST Tour Late Models, starting at 2PM.

Admission is to the pit area only and is $15 per person. Practice ends at 8PM and then the fun begins. There will be plenty of free food courtesy Sonny’s Bar-B-Que, two free kegs of beer, plenty of water and soft drinks and free music provided by the Soggy Bottom Bait Shop Boys.

Fans attending the Friday practice session can bring their pit arm band to the grandstand ticket window on Saturday and get $5 off their general admission ticket. Grandstand gates open Saturday at 5PM with FAST Tour qualifying at 5:30PM and racing at 7PM.

POINT STANDINGS as of 3/13/10:

V-8 BOMBERS:
1-#111 Josh Borem 174
2-#05 Buddy Phillips, Jr. 146
3-#56 James Wright, Sr. 128
4-#0 Paul Bookmiller 120
5-#96 Larry Chumney, Sr. 88
6-#29 Brian Harbin 78
7-#14 Donnie King 70
8-#29 Matt Bozeman 42
9-#89 Preston Davis 34
#18 Kevin Barton 34
#17 TJ McLean 34

SCRAMBLERS:
1-#51 Matt Johns 138
2-#28 Kimberly Gullett 110
3-#66 Brian Tyre 80
#71 Dave Canfield 80
5-#52 Gary Brown, Jr. 48
#9 Ashton Hunt 48
#66 Reggie Ware 48
8-#77 Jeremy Watts 46
9-#1 Brandon Henault 40
#00 Chad Cutting 40

MINI STOCKS:
1-#42 Chris Spring 184
2-#33 Donnie Guy 172
3-#21 Fred Harrison, Jr. 170
4-#3 Chris Narramore, Sr. 164
5-#46 Randy King 132
6-#5 Tony Davidson 82
7-#55 Steve Routt, Jr. 80
8-#8 Jordan Spring 70
#17 Mark Nagle 70
10-#90 Danny Pearson 66

STREET STOCKS:
1-#5 Matt McCrary 168
2-#42 Jeff Waterman 166
3-#56 James Wright III 136
4-#4 Dave Colpritt 112
5-#16 Andy Harvard 94
6-#65 Ken Lawrence 66
7-#17 Kyle Hall 58
8-#3 Kevin O’Quinn 52
9-#396 Levi Parsons 48
10-#26 Brandon Duchscherer 46

SPORTSMAN:
1-#71 Dave Dunkin 98
2-#8 Austin Carr 76
3-#51 Kyle Alford 64
4-#13 Mark Medeiros 50
5-#113 Aaron Williamson 44
#1 Bart Weatherford 44
7-#22 Chuck Harrison, Jr. 34
8-#89 Brett Jenkins 30
#92 Ted Head 30
10-#60 Richard Fiore 28

MODIFIED MINI STOCKS:
1-#15 Jason Rendell 88
2-#89 Scott Sharpe 84
3-#45 Dennis Jones 70
4-#26 Jimmy Pugh 56
5-#55 Mike Sweet 48
6-#33 Chris Allen 46
7-#38 Burt Morse 38
#37 Brandon McSwain 38
#44 Mike Lawhorn 38
10-#10 Mike Birk, Jr. 32
#09 Jessica Robbins 32