by Dave Westerman
November 13th will be a lucky evening for Veterans and Active Military personnel as Auburndale Speedway will let all of them in absolutely free this week in honor of Veterans Day to enjoy a big eight division racing program.
The Auburndale Trucks make their final run of the season and will be joined by the Sportsman cars for their final race of 2010. Also on the card are the Legend Cars, Street Stocks, V-8 Bombers, Mini Stocks, Bandoleros and the Kids Club.
The battle to see who will be the 2010 Truck champion comes down to the final race this weekend as young Tim Sozio of DeBary leads Valrico’s Jim Cowhey, Jr. by just four points headed into this week’s action. Brent Tyler is still mathematically in the hunt sitting in third spot just 20 points in back of Cowhey.
Veteran driver Dave Dunkin is close to adding a Sportsman championship to his long list of accomplishments at Auburndale Speedway. Dunkin, who has been racing since the invention of the wheel, holds a 34 point advantage over Mark Medeiros headed into their final race for the class this week.
With just two races remaining, the fight for the 2010 Legend Car title is a close one too. Gerald White, Jr. has closed to within 20 points of leader Jake Perkins placing a lot of pressure on these two youngsters as they hit the track this week. 2009 champion Justin Brown is third in points but some 98 behind White.
Jeff Waterman had a very bad week last week, not only ending up with a battered racecar but losing quite a bit of ground to point leader Matt McCrary in the Street Stock points battle. Although McCrary is up by 36 points, anything can still happen with two races left on the schedule including a
40-lap $500 to win season finale next week.
Both Kimberly Gullett (Scramblers) and Josh Borem (V-8 Bombers) wrapped up their 2010 championships last week. Gullett will have the week off this week but expect Borem to go for his sixth win of the season.
Mini Stock points wrapped up on October 9th but since then the hottest driver in the class has been Marilyn McCrary. She dropped out of the race after building up a healthly lead three weeks ago, but the last two events have seen her become a dominant force. She’ll go for a hat trick this week.
Pit gates open at 2PM Saturday and grandstand gates open at 5PM with racing beginning at 7PM. Adult admission is just $12 and seniors are $10. Kids aged
5-12 are $5 and all children aged 4 and under are free. Family four-packs (two adults and two kids aged 5-12) are $25. Once again, all veterans and current Military personnel with ID will be admitted free in honor of Veterans Day. For more information log on to www.auburndaleracing.com powered by Palm Tree Computers.
NOTES:
“Lindsey’s Little Racers” will give away bicycles number 31 and 32 to a pair of lucky kids this week. One of the bikes was purchased by Truck racer Jim Cowhey, Jr. and his wife Lauri who run All Compressor & Equipment in Tampa. Both Prize Packs this week will contain, among other things, an autographed photo of NASCAR Sprint Cup driver David Ragan. All kids aged ten and under will get a special ticket as they enter the speedway that will make them eligible to win the bikes and prize packs.
The season finale for the Modified Mini Stocks on November 20th will see the class going for 50 laps and $750 to win. Expect a nice-sized field to go at it for the extra cash on the line.
Plans are still being finalized for the big Crash N’ Bash on December 11th. Among the craziness will be the Florida State School Bus Figure 8 Championship and all Bus pilots are being challenged by the “locals” to come out and see iof they can beat them. The race already pays a nice $1,000 to win but more sponsors are being sought to make this an even bigger event. Contact the track if you are interested in a sponsorship for the biggest bus race of the year.
Points as of November 6, 2010:
LATE MODELS (FINAL):
1-#07 Jeff Scofield 586 (3 wins) 2010 CHAMPION
2-#50 Perry Lovelady 505
3-#36 Tim Russell 501 (3 wins)
4-#17 Ryan Lisak 493
5-#407 Jason Vail 477
6-#49 Ron Lofquist 444
#22 David King 444
8-#33 Daniel Webster 418 (1 win)
9-#5 Joe Boyd 401
10-#21 Kevin Ingram 382
OPEN WHEEL MODIFIEDS (FINAL):
1-#56 James Wright III 1347 (2 wins) 2010 CHAMPION
2-#75 Bobby Blake 1218 (2 wins)
3-#87 Keith Lilley 1170 (3 wins)
4-#98 Wayne Morris 1118 (1 win)
5-#01 Von Pope 825
6-#10 Travis Roland 690 (1 win)
7-#00 Shawn Harper 614
8-#19 Kevin Macy 598 (1 win)
9-#03 Kyle Bookmiller 596 (2 wins)
10-#07 Harold Crooms 572
SPORTSMAN:
1-#71 Dave Dunkin 674 (7 wins)
2-#13 Mark Medeiros 640 (2 wins)
3-#22 Brandon Duchscherer 360 (2 wins)
4-#77 Lance Daubach 316 (4 wins)
#55 Richard Elkins, Jr. 316
6-#18 Austin Carr 310 (1 win)
7-#60 Richard Fiore, Jr. 298
8-#89 Brett Jenkins 252
9-#8 Chuck Harrison, Jr. 244
10-#1 Bart Weatherford 238
MODIFIED MINI STOCKS:
1-#89 Scotty Sharpe 596 (2 wins)
2-#55 Mike Sweet 574 (4 wins)
3-#15 Jason Rendell 558 (3 wins)
4-#45 Dennis Jones 342
5-#02 Bo Collier 246
6-#85 Drew Carter 238
7-#07 Bruce Anderson 218
8-#37 Brandon McSwain 190 (1 win)
9-#26 Jimmy Pugh 186
10-#38 Burt Morse 170 (2 wins)
TRUCKS:
1-#16 Tim Sozio 246 (1 win)
2-#2 Jim Cowhey, Jr. 242
3-#99 Brent Tyler 220
4-#37 Nick Hernandez 202 (1 win)
5-#87 Keith Lilley 170 (3 wins)
6-#15 Roger Blevins 160
7-#18 Cheyne Hammond 156
8-#23 Mike Smith 124
9-#54 Zach Harris 122
10-#25 David Hartin 110
LEGEND CARS:
1-#59 Jake Perkins 938 (7 wins)
2-#38 Gerald White, Jr. 918 (8 wins)
3-#8 Justin Brown 820 (1 win)
4-#71 Mason Ketterman 744
5-#07 Dave Gleason 732
6-#31 Lynn Wiles 704
7-#7 Dakota Baggette 534
8-#4 Tyler Smith 496 (5 wins)
9-#4R Zach Napoleon 492
10-#21 Devin McLeod 442
STREET STOCKS:
1-#5 Matt McCrary 1082
2-#42 Jeff Waterman 1046 (4 wins)
3-#4 Dave Colpritt 860 (4 wins)
4-#56 James Wright III 768 (8 wins)
5-#53 Kyle Peters 714 (5 wins)
6-#29 Bobby Mobley 680 (5 wins)
7-#25 Cody McDuffie 592 (1 win)
8-#17 Kyle Hall 520
9-#142 Chris Spring 444
10-#65 Ken Lawrence 350
MINI STOCKS: (FINAL as of Oct 9)
1-#42 Chris Spring 1152 (9 wins) 2010 CHAMPION
2-#21 Fred Harrison, Jr. 1078 (10 wins)
3-#40 Jason Swilley 700
4-Chris Narramore, Sr. 532 (3 Wins)
5-#3 Donnie Guy 520 (1 win/non -point)
6-#4 Marilyn McCrary 462 (2 wins/non-point)
7-#551 Mark Wells 432
8-#88 Kevin Steadman 326
9-#46 Randy King 302
10-#55 James Pate 258
V-8 BOMBERS:
1-#111 Josh Borem 1110 (5 wins) 2010 CHAMPION
2-#05 Buddy Phillips, Jr. 968 (1 win)
3-#89 Preston Davis 876 (7 wins)
4-#51 Matt Johns 584
5-#56 James Wright, Jr. 580 (2 wins)
6-#96 Larry Chumney II 548 (3 wins)
7-#88 Gene Harrison 478 (2 wins)
8-#96 Larry Chumney, Sr. 354
9-#0 Paul Bookmiller 352
10-#18 Kevin Barton 324
SCRAMBLERS:
1-#28 Kimberly Gullett 946 (6 wins) 2010 CHAMPION
2-#66 Brian Tyre 834 (4 wins)
3-#62 Richard Brown 826
4-#00 Chad Cutting 500 (1 win)
5-#71 Dave Canfield 496 (1 win)
6-#8 Richie Acres 328 (4 wins)
7-#17 Jerry Pruitt 286
#77 Jeremy Watts 286
9-#42 Mike Bauer 246
10-#01 George Gorham, Jr. 244 (1 win)
MINI CUPS: (FINAL)
1-#74 John Beach 242 (1 win) 2010 CHAMPION
2-#21 Rick Ragan 234 (1 win)
3-#7 Harold Crooms 180 (2 wins)
4-#47 Brandon Beach 160
5-#2 Skip Baird 150
6-#07 Tyler Scofield 114 (1 win)
7-#14 Sam Scott 112 (1 win)
#46 Frank Beach 112
9-#22 Rick Cline, Sr. 102
10-#27X Dale Pulst 82
BANDOLEROS:
BANDITS:
1-#38 Cameron White 1080 (5 wins) 2010 CHAMPION
2-#5 Derek Sobel 148 (2 wins)
3-#30 Noah Cornman 130
#55 Michael Held 130
5-#1Jr Dustin Turnage 44
4-#19 Keith Sinkula 42
OUTLAWS:
1-#96 Teddy Lively 724 (8 wins)
2-#48 Andy Metz 624 (2 wins)
3-#11 Daniel Conlin, Jr. 342
4-#13 Ryan Shattuck 276 (5 wins)
5-#1 Mark Bibeau 238
6-#03 Jake Hunter 228
7-#65 Coty Bibeau 164 (1 win)
8-#16 Nick Baluch 86
9-#83 Joey Padgett 76
10-#65 Daniel Conlin, Sr. 28
FIGURE EIGHTS: (FINAL)
1-#14 Wayne Calkins 114 2010 CHAMPION
2-#31 Wayne Whitehead 98
3-#03 Paul Bokmiller 66
4-#27 John Baranauskas 62
5-#89 Rodney Davis 60
6-#25 Ronnie Powell 40 (1 win)
#0 Jimmy Thompson 40 (1 win)
8-#4 Terry Zimmerman 36
9-#A6 J.R. Meyer 34
#89X William Hindman 34
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