by Scott Lockwood

Steve Darvalics from Venice came from deep in the field to take 30-lap Sportsman feature, highlighting a night of racing action that saw several dramatic finishes  – and a school bus land on its side in the night’s final event.

Rick Reed of Punta Gorda leads from pole, but Roger Welsh grabbed the lead as the field completed the second lap. As Welsh began pulling away Chris Narramore, Brandon Morris and Steve Darvalics all battled for the second spot, with Darvalics nudging ahead of Morris on lap 7.

Darvalics needed just a couple of laps to track down Welsh and grabbed the top spot from Welsh with Morris directly in tow on lap 11. Morris and Aaron Williamson, who moved to third on lap 15, couldn’t catch Darvalics as the Venice driver used lapped cars to stretch his lead and eventually take the win. (more…)

by Scott Lockwood

At the end of the first lap Chastain got by outside polesitter for second place and took the lead from Bigley two laps later.

A caution flew for Robert St. John’s spin brought out the event’s third caution on lap 10. That set  a chain of restarts that resulted in several

spins and several laps run under caution. On the lap 20 restart Blake Haddock went from fourth to second and was

closing on Chastain when the caution flew again for a crash involving several trucks in turn three. (more…)

After a great Friday night practice where 15 Supers showed up, we knew it was going to be a great Saturday afternoon of racing if Mother Nature would cooperate. Pits opened up on Saturday and the race teams kept rolling in while it was hot and sunny. Practice got underway and car counts grew to twenty Supers for the Turner Tree & Landscape 100, it was going to be a great race with the stout filed of drivers. Another twenty drivers were also  on tap from all over for the 40 lap Mini Stock Race. The rains came after practice but Desoto Speedway did their best to dry the track and get this show in since the Supers were rained out there last trip to the track Aug 22. Track was dry and the Bombers came out for their twenty five lap feature before the Supers would qualify. Kenny Gibson of Venice jumped out to an early lead and never looked back. The battle was from second on back which ended with points leader Randy Spicer taking second and third went to Zach Briggs out of Lakeland. With the track completely dry now, the twenty supers came out to qualify to set the field for the 100 lap featured event. Halfway through qualifying the sky let loose and we were done for the night. Supers will be back on Oct 10th for the first of a three race series at Desoto called the Triple Crown.