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BOBBY BLAKE ZIPS TO MODIFIED WIN ON OPENING NIGHT AT AUBURNDALE SPEEDWAY

by Dave Westerman

Auburndale, FL (February 23, 2010) There was a bit of a chill in the air but plenty of red-hot racing to keep a great crowd of race fans on the edge of their seats as Auburndale Speedway kicked off the 2010 racing season Saturday night.

Fifteen Open-Wheel Modifieds signed in to do battle with heat winners Keith Lilley and Von Pope leading the field to green for their first 40 lap contest of the year.

Lilley grabbed the early advantage with Big Wayne Morris in tow. Pope had slipped to fifth spot behind Bobby Blake and Harold “Boom-Boom” Cannon when he got into Cannon sending the latter into a spin. That brought out the first caution on lap ten with Pope indicating that the incident was his fault allowing Cannon to have his spot back in the running order. (more…)

Bobby Blake tops Modifieds on Opening Night at Auburndale Speedway

By Carol Andrews

Open Night of the 2010 Racing Season at Auburndale Speedway was very successful. We had several new drivers show up to race. The winners in each division are as follows:

Open Wheel Modified

1-#75 Bobby Blake

2-#3 Harold Cannon

3-#101 David Grogan

4-#19 Kevin Macy

5-#07 Harold Crooms

6-#98 Wayne Morris

7-#102 Von Pope

8-#6 Billy Bechtelheimer

9-#71 James Wright III

10-#87 Keith Lilley

11-#9 Ron Armillei

12-#29 Kyle Bookmiller

13-#35 Ron Abney

DNS#76 James Wilkins

Modified Mini

1-#15 Jason Rendell

2-#38 Burt Morse

3-#33 Chris Allen

4-#89 Scott Sharpe

5-#10 Mike Birk Jr

6-#44 Mike Lawhorn

7-#37 Brandon McSwain

8-#26 Jimmy Pugh

9-#45 Dennis Jones

Mini Stocks

1-#3 Chris Narramore Sr

2-#21 Fred Harrison Jr

3-#33 Donnie Guy

4-#155 James Pate

5-#42 Chris Spring

6-#46 Randy King

7-#88 Kevin Steadman

8-#55 Steve Routt Jr

9-#53 Sonny Miles

10-#2 Dwight Ryals

11-#17 Mark Nagle

12-#5 Tony Davidson

13-#25 Robert Gullett

14-#8 Scott Russ

V-8 Bombers

1-#111 Josh Borem

2-#29 Brian Harbin

3-#0 Paul Bookmiller

4-#89 Preston Davis

5-#05 Buddy Phillips Jr

6-#14 Donnie King

7-#56 James Wright Sr

DNS#12 Dustin Strott

DNS#5 Sonny Miles

DQ#96 Larry Chumney

Street Stocks

1-#56 James Wright III

2-#396 Levi Parsons

3-#42 Jeff Waterman

4-#5 Matt McCrary

5-#29 Bobby Mobley

6-#65 Ken Lawrence

7-#16 Andy Harvard

8-#26 Dave Colpritt

9-#89 Austin Jenkins

10-#3 Kevin O’Quinn

11-#17 Kyle Hall

Scramblers

1-#52 Gary Brown

2-#00 Chad Cutting

3-#51 Matt Johns

4-#66 Brian Tyre

5-#28 Kimberly Gullett

6-#48 Chase Pointer

7-#10 George Gorham

DNS#8 Richie Acres

Next week February 27 will be the return of the School Bus Figure 8’s along with the Street Stocks, Mini Stocks, V-8 Bombers, Scramblers and Sportsman. Racing starts at 7 PM. For more information call 863-551-1131 or log on to www.auburndaleracing.com