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Auburndale Speedway Hosts the 7th Annual Billy Harvey Memorial 100

This Saturday Auburndale Speedway will host the 7th Annual Billy Harvey Memorial 100, early expected entries include points leader Jonathan Guy, Jessie Dutilly, 2013 FUPS Champion Daniel Webster, Todd Brown, George Gorham, Anthony Cataldi, Steve Dorer, rookie contender Jessica Murphy, Jeff Scofield, Billy Bigley, Dylan Bigley and a host of others. Joining the nights action will be the always exciting V8 Bombers, Scramblers, Mini Stocks, Mod Mini’s and Street Stocks.

Added to the purse for the Harvey Memorial is over $4,000.00 in bonus money awarded by the “Billie Harvey Memorial Fund”. There will be open practice on Friday night 4/25 from 5-10:00pm., pits will be open for parking on Saturday at 10am, with the gates opening at 2:00pm.. Grandstands open at 5pm., qualifying at 6pm. racing starts at 7:00pm.

For more info follow us on face book or at www.floridaunitedpomotersseries.com.

By Scott|2014-04-23T15:17:31-04:00April 23rd, 2014|Auburndale Speedway, Featured, Florida United Promoters Series, Front Page News, Late Models, Upcoming Events|Comments Off

$3,000 Memorial Pro Truck Race Winner: Mica Williams

Mica ShowTime Speedway (Pinellas Park, FL) April 19, 2014 – Florida Pro Truck driver Mica Williams, captured his first Pro Truck win in the first Southern Pro Am Truck Series’ Larry Moyer Memorial 81 Lap Pro Truck Race at ShowTime Speedway. ShowTime Speedway’s packed house of racing fans and the friends and family of the late Larry Moyer endured the drizzle to watch an exciting Saturday night of Pro Truck racing. Many of Moyer’s friends were in the pits working on the Pro Trucks while some strapped on their helmets to race. Dave Pletcher and Bob Spaeth were two friends that raced in the Memorial Race. Pletcher drove the number 74 Moyer Motorsports Pro Truck, and Spaeth, who drove the number 2 Pro Truck and finished eighth, wore one of Moyer’s old racing suits.

With a light rain drizzle, fourteen Pro Truck drivers started the main feature race to not only battle each other, but also to battle wet track conditions. Mica Williams’ driving skills were showcased as he worked past local fan favorite Jay Zolciak and held off fierce competitors in Becca Monopoli and Jessica Murphy. Williams brought home $3,000, was fitted for a Championship Lug Nut Ring and he earned additional bonus money for leading at the halfway mark. An anonymous and close friend of the late Larry Moyer donated the bonus money for the halfway leader. (more…)

By Scott|2014-04-22T15:03:24-04:00April 22nd, 2014|Featured, Front Page News, Race Results, Southern Pro-Am Truck Series|Comments Off

McLeod & Smith Winners at Auburndale FUPS Races

Devin McLeod held off the challenges of 2013 FUPS OWM Champion Travis Roland for the final 25 laps of the Stanfield Mobil Home Movers 75 lap OWM race presented by Performance Plus Carts on Saturday night to take home $3,000.00 for the victory at Auburndale Speedway. McLeod rolled out the sleek shinny #21 and dominated the nights extra distance event, by setting fast time and leading 74 of the 75 laps. Following him across the strip were Roland, Bruce Bennett, Bobby Blake, and Eddie Hartin rounding out the top five.

In the companion Racecar Engineering Sportsman 50 lap event, Michael Smith in a brand new wedge bodied “Hot Rod” also dominated with setting quick time, by luck of the draw started outside front row and drove away for the win. Smith was followed by FUPS points leader Charlie Brown, Jason Rendell, Sammy Cressman, and Jessica Green to complete the top five.

The next FUPS OWM & Sportsman show will be May 10h at Auburndale. For more info follow us on face book or at www.floridaunitedpromotersseries.com.

By Scott|2014-04-22T14:56:01-04:00April 22nd, 2014|Featured, Front Page News, Open-Wheel Modifieds, Race Results, Sportsman|Comments Off

Auburndale Speedway Results from April 19, 2014

Carol Andrews – Saturday night at Auburndale Speedway, Devin McLeod from Zephyrhills held off the other twelve drivers to capture the 75 lap Open Wheel Modified race. The complete list of winners are as follows:

Open Wheel Modified

1-#21 Devin McLeod

2-#55 Travis Roland

3-#24 Bruce Bennett

4-#75 Bobby Blake

5-#5 Eddie Hartin

6-#17 Rick Coffin

7-#4 Marilyn McCrary

8-#90 Cody Johnson

9-#6 Billy Bechtelheimer

10-#1 Jimmy Castleberry

11-#99 Cody Stickler

12-#0 Josh Todd

13-#76 Jimmy Wilkins III (more…)

By Scott|2014-04-21T16:34:20-04:00April 21st, 2014|Auburndale Speedway, Featured, Front Page News, Race Results|Comments Off

KORPI TOPS E-MOD 50 – LIRA WINS IN PRO LATES AT NEW SMYRNA SPEEDWAY

Photo Courtesy of Jim Jones Photography

It was a nice and breezy Easter Eve at New Smyrna Speedway Saturday night and along with a big Easter Egg hunt for the kids, there was plenty of great Stock Car Racing action for both young and old alike. The big event of the evening was a 50-lap showdown for the E-Modifieds and it was defending track champion Jarrett Korpi of Deltona making it known early on that his would be the car to beat as he topped the rest of the competitors in qualifying with a lap of 19.367 seconds with Earl “Junior” Beckner his closest challenger at 19.542.
The pill draw was a two that meant Korpi and Beckner would simply swap starting spots on the front row for the feature. At the drop of the green, Korpi wasted little time taking the top spot while Beckner was forced to come from the back of the starting grid because he was late to line up on pit road. Korpi continued to set a hot pace but Cody Blair was not far behind in second until his car shut off on lap seven and he coasted to a stop. Blair made it back to the pits where his crew quickly diagnosed the problem and he returned to the race. Korpi maintained his advantage following the restart but Beckner was now up to second and beginning to apply some pressure. Roger Benton spun in turn two on lap 16 to bring out the yellow once again. On the restart, Beckner powered to the front and began to pull away. On lap 35, Beckner got loose and spun coming off turn two but managed not to hit anything or be collected by anyone else. Beckner restarted from the rear of the field leaving Korpi in charge once again. From that point, Korpi pretty much had it in cruise control as he claimed his third win of the new season over Blair and Matthew Green. Beckner, battling an extremely loose race car, held on to take fourth just ahead of Robert Glover. Benton, Jim Higginbotham, Mike Dahm, Jon Compagnone and George Dahm rounded out the finishing field. (more…)

By Scott|2014-04-21T16:30:08-04:00April 21st, 2014|Featured, Front Page News, New Smyrna Speedway, Race Results|Comments Off

Jack Nosbisch, Jr. Wins Late Model Feature At East Bay Raceway Park

Jack Nosbisch, Jr. was able to hold off Bryan Bernhardt to pick up first win of the 2014 Season at East Bay Raceway Park. Photo Credit: Mike Horne

Tampa, FL – It was a night kids would come out to meet the Easter Bunny and get up close with their favorite drivers as they handed out candy during intermission. Ambassador Limo, Audio Expert Car Audio and Explicit Graphics donated bicycles to be given away to 2 girls and 2 boys. Late Models, Gagel’s Open Wheel Modifieds, Outlaw Fours, Florida Old Time Modifieds and Double Features for the Motorstats.com 4 Cylinder Bombers would be on hand to battle for the wins at The Clay By The Bay.

First feature would be the make-up feature for the Motorstats.com 4 Cylinder Bombers. Richard Humfeld and Patrick Fiore, Sr. made up the front row for the feature. When the green waved Humfeld quickly grabbed the lead with Fiore, Sr. close behind him. On lap two it was Humfeld by a half car length over Fiore, Sr. with Fiore, Sr. taking over the lead on lap three and going onto to win as there were no cautions for the feature. Rounding out the top five were Richard Humfeld, Aaron Yahnke, Don R. Quinn and Gary Lucas.

Next up were the Gagel’s Open Wheel Modifieds. Winning their heats were Dale Kelley and Jerry Bruce. For the feature it was Paul Snyder and Jerry Bruce. When the green waved Snyder quickly took the lead with Bruce and Bill Howard trailing. By lap seven Snyder had a full straight away lead over now second place Reutimann. It was on lap eleven when Nate Bregenzer slowed in turn two ending his night. The green waved and for the final four laps Snyder led the rest of the way and went onto win with Buzzie Reutimann, Jerry Bruce, Bill Howard and Roger Crouse rounding out the top five. (more…)

By Scott|2014-04-21T14:42:46-04:00April 21st, 2014|East Bay Raceway Park, Featured, Front Page News, Race Results|Comments Off

Rockin’ With The Stars Returns To Smoky Mt Speedway April 26th

Smoky-Mountain-Speedway3 FAYETTEVILLE, TN—The Southern All Stars Dirt Racing Series will be making its first stop of the 2014 season Saturday night April 25^th at the Smoky Mt Speedway in Maryville, TN., for the 3^rd Annual Rocking with the Stars 40 sponsored by WIMZ for the Super Late Models paying $5,000 to win.

Riley Hickman of Ooltewah, TN., who scored the first win of the season at Boyds will be leading the Southern All Stars drivers into the third event of the season as he is currently sitting on top in the series standings, but only has a 6 point lead over Jason Hiett of Oxford, AL., third place in series points is the East Alabama winner Joe Armistead of Senoia, GA., fourth place is Chris Wilson of Crossville, TN., and fifth is Bo Shirley of Gadsden, AL., all of who are expected to be in action at Smoky Mt.

More drivers from across the southeast are expected such as Eric Cooley of Fulton, MS., Dylan Ames of Harvest, AL., Josh Putnam of Florence, AL., William Thomas of Phenix City, AL., Jason Welshan of Maryville, TN., Cale Finley of Athens, AL., Skip Arp of Georgetown, TN., Mark Gant of Savannah, TN., Davie Payne of Murphy, NC., 2011 Southern All Star Dirt Racing Series Champion Billy Ogle Jr., of Knoxville, TN., plus many more. (more…)

By Scott|2014-04-17T14:31:02-04:00April 17th, 2014|Featured, Front Page News, Southern All Stars|Comments Off

Eagle Jet Top Gun Sprints Return to Volusia Speedway Park this Saturday

Eagle Jet Top Gun Sprints after being rained out on March 29th, will try once again to race at Volusia Speedway Park, Saturday, April 19th. This will be the first of five races scheduled at the high speed ½ mile clay oval.

Shane Kreidler is leading the points after three events by six points over Gene Lasker, with Mark Ruel Jr. trailing by ten points in third place. Ken Laureno is fourth, Brandon Grubaugh in fifth, Danny Martin Jr. is in sixth place, followed by Kyle Pitts, Tony Agin, Rich Alexander Geoff Styner, A J Maddox, Sport Allen, Matt Kurtz, Tanner Witherspoon, David Slawiak, Johnny Alexander, Sean Clark, Darren Orth and Rex Howe. Other drivers expected to be making their first appearance this season with the series are Shawn Murray, Stephen Darvalics, Jimmy Ballew and Brett O’Donnell.

Joining the Eagle Jet Top Gun sprints will be VSP Mini Sprints, Hobby Stocks, Gladiators and V-8 Thunderstocks for an action dilled night of high speed racing.

The pits will open at 4:00 PM; Grandstands will open at 5:00 PM with racing at 7:30 PM.

By Scott|2014-04-17T14:21:12-04:00April 17th, 2014|Featured, Front Page News, Top Gun Sprints, Volusia Speedway Park|Comments Off

FL United Promoters Series Sportsman and OWM’s Back in Action at the ‘Dale

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This Saturday the FL United Promoters Series Sportsman and OWM will return to Auburndale Speedway for the third race of the 2014 schedule. The Open Wheel Mod’s will highlight the night’s action with the running of the Performance Plus Carts 75 presented by Stanfield Mobil Home Movers paying $3,000.00 to win. Expected to compete in the OWM division are 2013 FUPS OWM Champion Travis Roland, along with Roger Blevins, LJ Grimm, Wayne Jefferson, Josh Todd, Earl Beckner, Billy Bechtelhimer, and many more.

Also on the card for the night is the FUPS Racecar Engineering Sportsman 50. Points leader Charlie Brown and last month’s winner Jason Rendell will try for their second victory of the season, expected to join the field are last year’s champion, Brandon Morris fresh off a victory at New Smyrna Speedway, Bobby Mobley, George Gorham Jr., Matt McCrary, Shelton Bowers, Shawn Harper, Joe Dowdy and many more. V-8 Bombers, Street Stocks, Mini Stocks, Scramblers, Mini Cup, Legends, & Bando’s will fill the night’s schedule. Action starts at 7pm, grandstands open at 5pm., qualifying at 6pm., pits open at 2:00pm.. There will be open practice on Friday night from 5-10pm.

By Scott|2014-04-15T15:51:16-04:00April 15th, 2014|Auburndale Speedway, Featured, Florida United Promoters Series, Front Page News, Open-Wheel Modifieds, Sportsman|Comments Off

Paducah International Raceway Set for Final Leg of Three-Race Weekend in May for LOLMDS

WAYCROSS, GA (April 14, 2014) – The Lucas Oil Late Model Dirt Series and Paducah International Raceway are gearing up for a huge weekend of racing the first weekend of May. The stars and cars of the LOLMDS will visit the Paducah International Raceway in Paducah, KY on Saturday, May 3rd, as the final leg of a big three-race weekend in May for the “Spring Showdown”. The event is scheduled as a 50-lap feature event paying $10,000 to win and $800 to start. The single-day event will include Miller Welders Time Trials, Heat Races, B-Mains and the 50-lap feature event. Support classes running in conjunction with the LOLMDS at Paducah include Crate Late Models and the Modified divisions.

Paducah International Raceway is owned by Bob Sargent and several NASCAR Stars, including Tony Stewart, Dale Earnhardt Jr. and Kenny Schrader. Sargent recently signed an agreement to lease the track to a new operating group and will continue to run a weekly racing program in 2014. PIR is considered the premier dirt track speedway in Western Kentucky for its fast three-eighths mile track, extensive grandstands and luxury suites. Bob Sargent and the new management group are thrilled to have the LOLMDS visit PIR as part of the three-race weekend. (more…)

By Scott|2014-04-14T17:27:10-04:00April 14th, 2014|Featured, Front Page News, Lucas Oil Late Model Dirt Series, Upcoming Events|Comments Off

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