by Marty Little/Tom Blakeley

 BRADENTON, Fla. – Bo Hartley notched his second 30 lap TBARA feature victory during the four race winter tour on a bitterly cold Saturday night at DeSoto Super Speedway.

Hartley started the main event fourth in the 23 car field while outside front row starter D.J.Hoelzle powered his self-built mount into the lead at the drop of the green with a snarling field on their heels. The action on the track was anything but cold as the winged speedsters worked the high banked oval with close action throughout.

As the laps wound down Hoelzle had Hartley hot on his tail with Joey Aguilar, up from seventh, a close third. With six laps to go Hartley made his move on Hoelzle to wrestle away the top spot. Hoelzle stayed on the hammer to maintain second in front of Aguilar and they crossed the strip in close formation ahead of Shane Butler and Dude Teate in the caution free run.

Heat race wins fell to Tommy Nichols, Bo Hartley and Aguilar. For winning his heat race and the main event Hartley collected the Steele Performance Parts Sweep award, the first time it’s been done this season.

Feature (30 laps) – 1. Bo Hartley, 2. D.J. Hoelzle, 3. Joey Aguilar, 4. Shane Butler, 5. Dude Teate, 6. Tommy Nichols, 7. Troy DeCaire, 8. Brian Gringas, 9. Ben Fritz, 10. Ryan Litt, 11. Sonny Hartley, 12. Dakotah Stephens, 13. Stephen Bradley, 14. Craig Skene, 15. Larry Brazil, 16. Frankie Hurst, 17. Todd Donaldson, 18. Skeeter Faulconer, 19. Johnny Gilbertson, 20. Bill Pettijohn, 21. Larry J. Brazil, 22. Billy Riddle, 23. Wendy Mathis.

As the cold winds continued the ASA Sanctioned Desoto Super Speedway classes warmed up the action with the following feature race results.

Magic 4’s The Magic 4’s kicked off the season opener with lots of action.  The newest driver in this class is Kimberly Clark whose sister is Shanna Clark.  Kimberly was sitting behind the wheel for the very first time and also trying to learn how to drive a stick shift at the same time.  She got lots of advice over the scanner from the flagman and did a great job.  The results of the feature Magic 4 race were:

1.         Kyle Best                    #3

2.         Amy Gamache            #85

3.         Zac Campilonga          #30

4.         Joann Danielson          #38

5.         Dallas Troyer               #01

6.         Kimberly Clark           #K44

7          Shanna Clark               #44

8          Justine Carlbert           #11

Pure Stocks it was a night for blown motors and lots of rubbing, but the action was jam packed as usual.  The feature results were:

1.         Duane Best                 #3

2.         David Davis                #6

3.         Joshua Todd                #89X

4.         Jimmie Best                 #67

5.         Billy Carlbert JR         #47

6.         Troy Meredith             #00

7.         Darrin Ellis                  #71

8.         Andrew Moon                        #31

9.         Chelsea Lau                #13

10.       Clint Roberts               #95

11.       Jon Prescott                 #49

12.       Robert Crisp                #30      DQed

Rockem-Sockem Bombers  And then it was Rockem-Sockem time.  The love just flowed from car to car and so did the paint.  The Bombers seem to be getting faster each year and more exciting too.  Look at these feature results!

1.         Codey Benoit              #B1

2.         Randy Spicer              #83

3.         John Stewart               #02

4.         Michael Crooks           #33X

5.         Steve Elder                 #42

6.         Todd Jacobs                #44

7.         Logan Leonard           #18

8.         Jeff Firestine               #93

9.         Dennis Wilson             #4

10.       Tom Blakeley              #96

11.       Richard Nelson           #80 DNS

Flyin 4’s   Well they were flyin tonight for sure.  The field was full and the action was awesome.  This class is a crowd favorite.  The feature results are as follows:

1.         Randy Johnson           #73

2.         Rick Germony             #8X

3.         Paul Richards              #61

4.         Brittany Barr               #81

5.         Todd Morey                #36

6.         Kyle Rice                    #7

7.         Michael Gamache       #85

8.         Joshua Piller                #11B

9.         Billy Carlbert Jr.          #11

10.       Troy Ditebrand           #222

11.       Brad Steger                 #17

12.       Arthur Danielson        #38

13.       Richie Acres                #8

14.       Craig Jackson              #53

15.       Bobby Blackrick         #2

School Bus Figure 8’s.  The craziest guys in town gather every so often and do this crazy little thing called figure 8 racing but they do it in School Buses which is really wild.  This class gets and deserves lots of respect.  Here are the results of the 25 lap feature race tonight.

1.         Michael Gamache       #0

2.         Earnest Helfrick          #4

3.         Billy Carlbert Jr.          #11X

4.         Mark Jackson              #25

5.         Jay Seykora                 #85

6.         Larry Saffold              #88

7.         Peter Bohn                  #11

8.         Christopher Dodson    #21

9.         Craig Jackson              #22

10.       Eugene Helfrick          #44

11.       Robert Latinka            #47

The entire staff of the ASA Sanctioned Desoto Super Speedway wants to thank the loyal fans that braved the weather and stayed for the entire show tonight.  Next week will be another house rocking event with the Super Late Model Icebreaker 100.   Check us out at www.desotosuperspeedway.com or give us a call at 941-748-3171.  We are located 9 short miles East from I-75 on SR 64.  Our gates open at 5 PM and racing starts at 7 PM sharp.