By SCOTT LOCKWOOD
Car-# Drivers Name Home Town Finish
22 Aaron Pierce Indianapolis 1
21 Jimmy Alvis Sr. Seffner 2
11 Joey Agvilar Tampa 3
5 Mickey Kempgens Tampa 4
0 Dude Teate Leesburg 5
19 Keith Butler Riverveiw 6
55 Tommy Nichols Tampa 7
41 Ty DeCaire Wesley Chapel 8
18 Shane Butler Bushnell 9
33 John Sanburn Eustis 10 (more…)
Tampa, FL – 5:00 pm – Due to the uncontrollable amount of rain over these past few days, UMP Officials, East Bay Officials, Drivers and Teams got together and held a meeting and were all in favor of racing over the next three days. East Bay Officials will continue to work on the track throughout the night to make sure that the track is in racing conditions for the next three nights here at “The Clay By The Bay”.
The new revised schedule is as follows: Sunday Grandstands will open at 11:00 am with hot laps to begin around Noon and the ACTION to begin around 1:00 pm. Tomorrow’s event will be paying $1,500 to win for 25 Laps. Monday and Tuesday will be for $1,000 to win also for 25 laps with Grandstands opening at 5:00 pm with hot laps to begin around 6:00 pm and the ACTION to begin around 7:00 pm.
SHINNSTON, W.Va. – Jan. 31, 2014 – By Andrea Cleveland/Josh Richards P.R. – Mark Richards Racing announced today that three-time World of Outlaws Late Model Series champion Josh Richards will not be in the seat of the No. 1 Valvoline Rocket Chassis house car due to medical issues for the start of the national tour’s 2014 season.
Brandon Sheppard of New Berlin, Ill., will be behind the wheel of the iconic blue No. 1 in Richards’s absence. Sheppard is a familiar face in the Rocket camp after filling in for the 25-year-old defending champion in 2012 as he ran a limited schedule in the NASCAR Nationwide Series. Sheppard also won the 33rd annual Red Buck Dirt Track World Championship at Portsmouth (Ohio) Raceway Park last October substituting for Richards.
OCALA, FL – Rain and wet track conditions all week has forced postponement of the NeSmith Chevrolet Dirt Late Model Series Bubba’s Army Winternationals Presented By Rock Auto.com until March 6, 7, and 8. In an unprecedented situation, four straight days of rain left the track conditions too wet for safe competition and all five nights of competition were rained out.
The rescheduled events for the NeSmith Chevrolet Dirt Late Model Series Bubba’s Army Winternationals Presented By Rock Auto.com will feature a 40-lap $2,000-to-win race on March 6, a 50-lap $2,500-to-win race on March 7, and a 50-lap $3,000-to-win race on March 8.
The 2014 NeSmith Chevrolet Dirt Late Model Series Touring Division season opener will now be at Golden Isles Speedway in Brunswick, GA for the Super Bowl of Racing Presented By Rock Auto.com on February 6, 7, and 8. All three races will pay $2,500-to-win. The February 6 and 7 shows will be 30 laps, and the February 8 event will be 50-laps.
Two-Time Defending UMP Modified National Champion In Search Of First-Ever Triumph At Florida’s Volusia Speedway Park
BARBERVILLE, FL – Jan. 30, 2014 – Devin Gilpin’s 2013 DIRTcar UMP Modified national championship season was downright spectacular, but it didn’t start in especially memorable fashion.
And that blemish on an otherwise impeccable campaign will serve as extra motivation for Gilpin when he returns to Volusia Speedway Park – the site of his rare ’13 struggles – from Feb. 11-18 to tackle the UMP Modified portion of the 43rd DIRTcar Nationals Presented by Summit Racing Equipment.
Yes, Gilpin, 23, of Columbus, Ind., has some unfinished business to take care of at the sprawling half-mile oval outside Daytona Beach, Fla.
“Volusia wasn’t much fun for us last year,” bottom-lined Gilpin. “We only raced two nights. We had some trouble, there were a couple rainouts and, with my grandma not doing very good (battling cancer back in Indiana), we decided to just go home (early).”
Gilpin, of course, had entered the 2013 DIRTcar Nationals by Summit with high hopes. Coming off a 2012 season that saw him record 36 feature wins en route to his first-ever UMP Modified national title – and with memories of a strong third-place finish in the ’12 DIRTcar Nationals by Summit finale at Volusia adding to his confidence – he had visions of a career-first victory in the Sunshine State dancing in his head. (more…)
The FL United Promoters Series will begin the 2014 season with the Open Wheel Mod’s and Sportsman divisions at Auburndale Speedway onSaturday February 8th. Expected to begin the quest for the champion’s spot in the OWM is reigning 2013 Champion Travis Roland, LJ Grimm, Norm Dismuke, Josh Todd, Roger Blevins, Earl Beckner, Bruce Bennett, Doc McKinney, Wayne Morris and a host of others.
WAYCROSS, GA (January 29, 2014) – Officials of the Lucas Oil Late Model Dirt Series are excited to head to the sunshine state of Florida again this year for its second stop of the 2014 season. The stars of the Lucas Oil Late Model Dirt Series will travel to East Bay Raceway Park in Tampa, Florida for the 38th Annual Winternationals at the famed “Clay by the Bay” for a week of action-packed events in early February.
Officials of East Bay Raceway park have been steady working on the facilities and the track itself in preparations for this years events. New clay has been added to the racing surface combined with a racer friendly tire rule put in place by the LOLMDS, fans are sure to see some thrilling racing all week long. The Winternationals, held at East Bay Raceway Park in Tampa, FL will consist of an open practice on Sunday, February 9th, from 6PM to 9PM and six full nights of racing, from February 10th through 15th. Each day, the Drivers Meeting will be at 5:15PM (ET), Hot Laps will begin at 6:00PM, and racing will begin at 7:00PM.
The Winternationals will offer racers over $200,000 in purse money over the six nights of events. Two additional starting positions will also be added to each night’s feature event, giving 26 drivers a chance to earn a coveted Winternationals feature win. The 25th starting position will go to the driver that fails to transfer into the feature event through the heat races or B-mains and who was the fastest in qualifying among those drivers. The 26th starting position will go to the winner of the DirtonDirt.com Strawberry Dash each night. (more…)
OCALA, FL – Inclement weather has forced postponement of the first two nights of racing for the NeSmith Chevrolet Dirt Late Model Series Touring Division Bubba’s Army Winternationals Presented By Rock Auto.com at Bubba Raceway Park. The five-race series has been rescheduled to run on Thursday through Sunday.
Racing is scheduled to resume on Thursday night with a 40-lap $2,000-to-win race, with another 40-lap $2,000-to-win race scheduled for Friday night. There will be two complete shows that will run on Saturday, with a 40-lap $2,000-to-win race on Saturday afternoon, followed by a 50-lap $3,000-to-win race on Saturday night. A 40-lap $2,000-to-win race will be run on Sunday afternoon.
On Thursday and Friday, NeSmith Chevrolet Dirt Late Model Series Pre-Race Registration will be open from 3 p.m. to 6:15 p.m. The Drivers Meeting is set for 6:15 p.m., with Hot Laps scheduled for 6:30 p.m.
On Saturday, the gates open at 9 a.m. with NeSmith Chevrolet Dirt Late Model Series Pre-Race Registration and Technical Inspection for both races from 9:30 a.m. to 11 a.m. The Drivers Meeting is set for 11 a.m., and racing is scheduled for 12 noon. At the completion of the 40-lap main event, there will be a break to clear and readmit the grandstand area, and perform track prep before the start of the 50-lap racing program. (more…)
