Florida United Promoters Series Announces 2013 Schedule & Added Divisions
The Florida United Promoters Series (FUPS) on Monday released the 2013 schedule for the Super Late Models to begin their third season next March at Desoto Super Speedway for the Ice Breaker 100. The series will return to Citrus Co. , Auburndale, New Smyrna, Orlando as well as Desoto. We are very excited to be returning to New Smyrna and Orlando in 2013, it shows the dedication of these track owners working together with FUPS, stated series director Rick Williams.
The series will have a 14 race schedule that will include many of the historic races in Florida over the years such as the Marion Edwards, Clyde Hart, Powell Family, and Billie Harvey Memorial’s, the Ice Breaker and Sea Fest at Desoto will also be part of the schedule. The season will conclude with a 150 lap finale at New Smyrna in November.
The other big news from FUPS is the addition of a Sportsman, Trucks, & Open Wheel Modified Divisions to the series. We are adding the Sportsman and OWM to give them a race schedule at FUPS Tracks for 2013, they will race together for most events on nights when the Super Late Models are idle. This has been a tremendous undertaking added Williams but, we have had so much intrust in the sportsman class and there are so many cars for this class out there, we felt it was a good time to start a little series for them and we’ll see how they support it, bottom line is how many cars show up and from the response we’ve seen for a couple of races in 2012 we feel it will be successful. (more…)
By Carol Andrews – This past weekend Auburndale Speedway was the place to be to see great racing. We had a pit full of cars waiting to qualify for the race. We were able to do qualifying and heat race and one feature race on Saturday Night before the clouds opened up and the rain came. The races had to be postponed until Sunday. The Late Models had 19 cars racing for the $4,000. first place pay out. The winner in the Late Model and the other classes are as follows:
Steve Dorer captured his 5th victory of the season at Citrus Co. on Sat. night by winning the A-Able Sewer Service 125. After starting 6th he worked his way through traffic to take the top spot on lap 116 from Daniel Webster. Webster led from lap 6 to 86 as the race went caution free. Jonathan Guy started on the pole and led at the start before Webster got by, once out front the Webster from Brooksville set sail.
Series regular Jesse Dutilly finally had the complete race Saturday night and captured his first win of 2012 at Auburndale taking the Regal KIA Chevy 100. Starting outside the front row after the draw for the top eight quailifiers, Dutilly got the jump on pole setter Jake Perkins at the start, the two battled with young Perkins putting on the pressure in the early stages. As Dutilly kept all challenges from series point leader Steve Dorer after Perkins faded back.
We had eleven Late Model show up for the $3,000. first place purse. It was a good race with the #30 Jesse Dutilly coming across the finish line first, followed by the #10 of Steve Dorer, and rounding out the top three was the #42 of Jon Guy. The rest of the finishing order along with the winners in the other divisions are as follows: