Josh Williams wins Al Neumann Memorial

KARNAC Media

A solid field of 20 Pro Trucks took the green flag at Punta Gorda Speedway Saturday night in a memorial race for ‘Big’ Al Neumann.  Al was a fixture in Florida truck racing for many years in the familiar #4 .   Todd Blevins of St Petersburg drove the #4 in the race won by Josh Williams of Port Charlotte.  Steven Darvalics set fast time in qualifying for the truck race.

Al Neumann was one of the original Florida truck racers, moving from DeSoto Late Models to run with Bobby Diehl’s Fastruck Series.  Al had a second place at Charlotte County in 2007 and then won the feature in October 2007 at DeSoto Speedway.

Neumann appeared many times on KARNAC’s Racin Talk Radio and Real Racing USA shows. He did his last interview on Real Racin USA on October, 8, 2007 on the heels of his DeSoto win.   That interview is available at this link.

Randy Kile was back in the winners circle in the Road Warrior divisions, while Tim Simmons took the Champ Kart feature.

John Bailey out ran Dwarf Car newcomer Rob Kohler to take the feature.

Punta Gorda Speedway Results 11/13/2010

Pro Trucks
1. 6 Josh Williams Port Charlotte
2. 10 Ricky Bullard Arcadia
3. 24 Bruce Bennett Orlando
4. 64 Brent Hubbard Venice
5. 5 Jimmy Gill Sarasota
6. 50 Danny Anderson Bradenton
7. 4 Todd Blevins St Pete
8. 2 Gerald Campbell Sebring
9. 36 Ralph Chastain Alva
10. 30 Eric Pierce
11. 14S Sam Scott Naples
12. 21 Martin Maesca Sebring
13. 20 Tom Carlough Venice
14. 63 Phil Morrison Punta Gorda
15. 47 Travis Gossard Naples
16. 23 Mike Smith Aurburndale
17. 15B Roger Blevins Haines City
18. 41 Steven Darvalics Fast time 16.214
19. 14 Michael Burns Port Charlotte
20. 15 Jeff Dulaney Naples

Road Warrior
1. 14. Randy Kile
2. 9 Nic Ortega
3. 1 Rick Reed
4. 27 Derrick Horton
5. 80 Richard Nelson
6. 51 Jarrett Cornell
7. 97 Chris Scott
8. 96 Joey Morales
9. 10 Jason Miller Fast time 18.297
10. 03 Paul Bookmiller
11. 5 Jeremy Daring
12. 90 Chris Stockton
13. 74 Billy Benoit
14. 33 Chris Loney D.Q.

Champ Karts
1. 14 Tim Simmons
2. 37 Alan McKinney
3. 61 P.J. Letourneau
4. 33 Mitchell Stevens
5. 8 Doug Schmidt
6. 16 Paul Letourneau
7. 47 Wesley Walker
8. 57 Brian Scherer
9. 26 Eric Garey
10. 99 J.D. Gorden
11. 79 Vincent Crawford
12. 3 Joey Coaxum
13. 68 N.N.
14. 77 Phil Harp
15. 93 Ryan Walters

Dwarf
1. 17 John Bailey
2. 82 Rob Kohler
3. 69 Tom Pryor
4. 98 Chris McClellan
5. 33 Roger Richmand
6. 1A John Atherton
7. 4 Jimmy Wilkerson
8. 25 John Bass
9. 2 Paul Corauam

Mini Stock
1. 52 Gary Brown
2. 55 James Pate
3. 1 Bill Bell
4. 2 Dwight Ryals Jr.
5. 86 John Pummel
6. 7 Joe Rice
7. 30 Robert Carter
8. 21 Fred Harrison
9. 551 Mark Wells D.N.S.

T.Q. Midgets
1. 30 Mike Balazar
2. 1 Ernie Teed Jr.
3. 7 Jamie Barnum
4. 17 Steven Maier
5. 58 Stu Chamberlain

Rookie Trucks
1. 36 Chad Chastain
2. 4 Kelli Burns
3. 21 Randy Leonard
4. 99 Cody Martell