Kevin Macy tops Mods at Auburndale
By Carol Andrews
Sean Bass Wins Sunoco National Tour at New Smyrna Speedway
SUNOCO NATIONAL TOUR
SOUTHERN SALUTE 200
OFFICIAL RESULTS – 03.27.10
SUNOCO NATIONAL TOUR – SOUTHERN SALUTE 2001. #128 Sean Bass
2. #25 Brent Downey
3. #40 Bryan Ortiz
4. #08 Joey Gase
5. #17 Tanner Berryhill
6. #76 AJ Henricksen
7. #28 Terry Horak
8. #31 Brian Blum
9. #85 Austin Kirkpatrick
10. #9 Chase Elliott
11. #33 Casey Caudill
12. #5 Cameron Hagin
13. #76 Bob VarneyPRO-TRUCKS1. #20 Anthony Sergi
2. #11 Robert Strader Jr
3. #20x Sam WattsSUPER STOCKS1. #21D Mike Dahm
2. #1 Dale Sorrensen
3. #21M Maureen Dahm
Crouse Extends Career Record at East Bay
By: Larry Jewett
3/27/2010
There are plenty of drivers who would be happy with 26 feature wins in a career, but imagine winning features in 26 consecutive seasons. For Roger Crouse, it’s a reality as Crouse picked up the Gagel’s Auto Parts Open Wheel Modified main to add to his personal streak.
Crouse had to make his way past Austin Sanders to grab the lead for the prestigious win. The pass came late after Crouse slipped past for second just before the halfway mark. Three laps later, Crouse made his move and pulled away from the field. With the win coming so early in the season, the pressure is off to keep the streak alive. Sanders kept second ahead of Bruce Harvey who rebounded from an early race incident. John Bradley and Shane Burrows collected top five finishes. Heats went to Buzzie Reutimann and Bradley.
“We put a hard tire on the left rear tonight,” said Crouse. “We don’t usually do that and the track was coming in for us.”
The Outlaw 4s started the night with heats going to Amanda Rogers and Billy Howard. Bo Howard had the early lead, but spun in turn two to jam up the crowd. The race had trouble getting going with few laps completed after 15 minutes, due to several cautions. Billy Howard caught the lead, but saw Matt Haynes blast by on lap 8. A lap later, Billy Howard was back in front. Haynes and Rogers tangled on the frontstretch, slipping Rogers back to fourth. Billy Howard picked up his first win of the year, ahead of Haynes, Brian Danforth, Rogers and Travis Staats. “I wish my dad had been here to see this,” said the winner. “ I want to thank the 2 for racing me clean.”
James Hook, Thomas Pratt and Buck Woodhouse won heats in the Street stocks, who saw wild action in their 15-lap feature. A 21-car feature saw Jarod Gay grab the early lead and hold off Donnie Reed, the division point leader. Deeper in the field, Mike Wilson and Gary Sheffield made contact on the frontstretch with Sheffield ending up on his roof. The driver was not injured. On the restart, Reed managed to slip past Gay. Defending feature winner Thomas Pratt was the car on the move in the late stages, but Pratt ran out of laps. Reed picked up his second feature win of the year, ahead of Pratt, Gay, Buck Woodhouse and Ed Hill
In the Racecar Engineering Late Models, the Peacock name stayed in Victory Lane, but this time it was Wallace Peacock. Two-time feature winner Josh Peacock could do no better than second. Bryan Bernhardt charged to third after a visit to the tail. Fourth went to Travis Varnadore while Jimmy Waldrop claimed fifth. Bernhardt, Steve Mathis and Jack Nosbisch Jr. won preliminaries.
The Limited Late Models saw Forrest Gough and J.R. Prather Jr. as heat winners. Only one caution permeated the 15-lap main. John Bradley shot to the lead to go wire-to-wire for his first feature win of the season. The defending champ of the division was chased to the line by Phillip Cobb, who matched his second place from last week. Gough, Jason Pope and Tommy Evonosky completed the top five.
The Florida Old Time Modifieds heat was taken by Lars Amundsen with the feature going to Tommy Zwally.
ASA sanctioned racing returns to East Bay Raceway Park on Saturday, April 3, 2010. The Racecar Engineering Late Models, East Bay Sprints, Street Stocks, Outlaw 4s and motorstats.com 4 Cylinder Bombers are in action. To commemorate Easter, fans aged 12 and under will take part in an Easter candy giveaway. For more information go to www.eastbayracewaypark.com or call the track office.
Ocala Speedway Rained Out
by BJ Cavin
Due to heavy rains that swept across Florida during the overnight hours, Ocala Speedway will unfortunately be forced to cancel racing for tonight, Friday, March 26th. After a valiant effort by the track crew to get the clay into racing shape, it became apparent by 2:45 this afternoon that there was no way that racing could happen, so the decision was made to cancel tonight’s events.
The irony of the situation does not sit well with Mike Peters, who knows that tonight would have provided almost perfect weather for a night of racing action. He offers his apologies to the racers and fans, and hopes that they understand the circumstances that led to the cancellation.
Anthony Sergi tops Pro Trucks at Orlando SpeedWorld
OFFICIAL RESULTS – 3.26.10
PRO-TRUCKS1. #20 Anthony Sergi
2. #00 Whitney Poole
3. #121 Andy Leserra
4. #63 Zach Curtis
5. #99 Brent Tyler
6. #17 Ken Lilley
7. #54 Zach Harris
8. #18 Jason Rosarius
DNS #03 Wayne SkinnerE-MODIFIEDS1. #12 John Zidek
2. #93 Bruce Gayton
DNS #15 Bruce PackerSPORTSMAN1. #20 Justin Reynolds
2. #66 Andy Nicholls
3. #57 Eddie Furtak
4. #60 Richard Fiore
5. #45A Adam SoukupMINI-STOCKS1. #3 Steve Griffin
2. #92 Pedie Allison
3. #85 Rex Hollinger
4. #97s Scott Jarrett
5. #15 Casey LoefflerSUPER STOCKS1. #16 David Gould
2. #77 Justin Reynolds
3. #23 Shannon Kelly
4. #316 Joe Bandur
5. #35 Ray Mullis
DQ #721 John BennettLEGENDS CARS1. #2 Jimmy Norman
2. #12 Critter Saille
3. #6 Jim Rix
4. #8 Donovan PonderSTRICTLY STOCKS
1. #0 Bill Loomis
2. #19 Ricky Solomon Jr
3. #8x Luis Guillen Jr
4. #30 Shane Sutorus
5. #27 Dan Binda
6. #26 Joe Ponder
7. #51 Wes Railing
8. #27x Scott TylerBANDOLEROS – YOUNG GUNS1. #27 Shawn Hooven
2. #17 Mark HoovenBANDOLEROS – BANDITS1. #14 Matthew Green
2. #30 Noah Cornman
Alldredge tops Pure Stocks at Columbia
SPORTSMAN
1. #8 Wesley Keller
2. #16 Brian Hull
3. #44 Charles Seroki
4. #14 Oral Tanner
5. #06 Josh Wise
6. #11 John Mitchell
7. #21 Sean Monaghan
8. #20 Tony Kuhr
9. #13 Marty Wood
10. #121 Gordon Cade
DNS #1M Matt Walker
PURE STOCK
1. #39 Tim Alldredge
2. #7K Jason Kight
3. #22 Randy O’Neal
4. #18 John Roling
5. #96 Don Cruce
6. #7P Tim Parrott
DNS #15 Justin Ellison
V-8 BOMBERS
1. #22 Stan Lang
2. #10 Alex Lang
3. #27 Nathan Huffingham
4. #15 Derek Davis
5. #8 John DeSotle
6. #7 Shawn DeSotle
7. #16 Mike Parsell
8. #23 Beverly Harry
DQ #54 Eric Hoffman
DNS #02 Mark Chinell
HORNETS
1. #2 Brad Daugherty
2. #1 Donald Davis
3. #99 John Windham
4. #1 Mike Parsell
5. #09 Ed Petrow
6. #44 Carl Taylor
DNS #4 A.J. Mikesell
SCOFIELD CLEANS UP IN WILD F.A.S.T LATE MODEL RACE AT AUBURNDALE SPEEDWAY
by Dave Westerman
It was the biggest night of the year Saturday evening at Auburndale Speedway. The weather was great, the stands were packed and the pit area was jammed with 116 cars set to do battle.
Twenty-four Late Model teams signed in for the first-ever Florida All Stars Tour race at Auburndale and Plant City’s Jeff Scofield quickly made everyone take notice as he blistered the track with a lap of 13.37 seconds in qualifying. Young Jason Vail of Clermont was second quick at 13.46 with FAST Tour point leader Wayne Anderson third quick at 13.50 followed by Kevin Ingram at 13.53. Ron Lofquist and Tyler Laing tied for fifth quick time at 13.60.
Time Trials were red flagged near the mid point for a violent crash involving local favorite David King. King had just taken the green flag for his qualifying attempt when the throttle apparently hung wide open and he smashed into the turn one wall. The top-notch construction of his racer was evident as King quickly scampered out unscathed although the front end of his machine was shoved in a couple of feet. (more…)
Gamble and Barsness Make It Two In a Row at Volusia Speedway Park
Barberville, FL (March 21, 2010) It was a perfect Saturday evening at Volusia Speedway Park as the second race night of the 2010 season took place. Fans and racers welcomed spring and the warmer temps.
Heat races were run with Jason Davis and Darell Padgett taking the Daytona Dodge Chrysler Jeep Late Model wins. Aaron Barsness and Corey Holley take the Taylor Racing Products Sportsman heat wins. The Budweiser (Quality Brands) Modifieds saw Jeff Matthews and Larry Burkins take the heat wins. The Daytona Sportswear Street Stocks saw Mike Eubanks and Trevor Gamble take those heat wins.
Intermission was especially fun for the kids as two basketball goals were towed onto the track for the kids vs. the drivers. Kids participating in Volusia’s March Madness were Cameron Brevveman 10 years old, Dusty Adkins 9 years old, Brandon Sutterfield 9 years old, Samuel Baistow 10 years old, Jacob Inabrett 9 years old, William Inabrett 10 years old, Anthony Troy 10 years old, Olivia Floyd 9 years old, Mia Schell 9 years old, and Jenna Kleinman 9 years old.
For the drivers’ side it was Shaun Daugharty, David Clegg, Jason Davis, Rob Underwood, and Larry Burkins. Two sessions were thrown with the kids beating out the Volusia drivers each time.
Taylor Racing Products Sportsman took to the track for their 20 lap feature with Matt McGillivrary on the pole and Paul Shead on the outside pole. Paul Shead took the early lead but it was a short green as the caution came out on lap 2 for Marc Kinley who had spun in turns 1 and 2. Restart saw Shead on the outside and McGillivray on the inside with Shead taking the point once again over Aaron Barsness, Matt McGillivrary, Cory Holley and Shaun Daugharty.
Multiple cautions occurred throughout this event and in the final laps, the caution comes out again on lap 17 for Holley who has spun in turn 4. With three laps left to go Barsness has the point on the restart followed by Daugharty, Paul Shead, McGillivrary, and Drew Smith. Daugharty puts the heat on Barsness and tries to take over but Barsness quickly shuts the door. Justin Merry spins in turn 4 as the field goes to the checkered with Aaron Barsness taking his third straight win over Shaun Daugharty, Paul Shead, Matt McGillivrary, and Drew Smith.
The Budweiser (Quality Brands) Modifieds saw Wayne Hammond on the pole and Dale Murray on the outside pole. Two attempts at starting this raced resulted in multiple car disturbances in turns 1 and 2.
The third time is the charm with Jamie Carter on the inside and Rob Underwood on the outside to finally start the 20 lap contest. Carter takes the point over Matthews, Underwood, Hammond and Corbin.
Cautions continue to plague the Budweiser Modifieds, and finally Carter builds up a significant lead over Hammond with almost every modified on the track having some kind of damage from the night.Jamie Carter takes the win for his first feature win of 2010 over Wayne Hammond, Jeff Matthews, Rob Underwood and James Smith.
Kevin Durden had the pole for the Daytona Dodge Chyrsler Jeep Late Model feature with David Clegg on the outside pole. The race goes green as Clegg takes the point over Durden, Wood, Davis and Chappell. Dillon Wood finds his way to the front and exchanged places with Clegg several times during this event. In the end experience wins out with the “Sod Father” taking the checkered for his first feature win in 2010 followed by Dillon Wood, Donnie Chappell, Darell Padgett, and Jason Davis.
Last but never least, it is the Daytona Sportswear Street Stocks with Tim Hughes on the pole and Jody Wells on the outside pole. The green is out as Hughes takes the point. Gamble puts the heat on Hughes and takes over the point followed by Hughes, Jody Wells, Steve Oldaker, and Mark Maresca.
Gamble builds up a strong advantage over the field as he looks for his second straight win of the season. Gamble is followed by Hughes coasting comfortably in second, while the real action takes place for third, fourth and fifth. Oldaker, Wells, Maresca and Mike Eubanks exchange places several times before Gamble takes the checkered for his second straight win of the 2010 season over Tim Hughes, Steve Oldaker, Jody Wells, and Mark Maresca.
OFFICIAL RESULTS, VOLUSIA SPEEDWAY PARK, MARCH 20, 2010
DAYTONA DODGE CHRYSLER JEEP LATE MODELS
1. #07 David Clegg
2. #26W Dillon Wood
3. #25 Donnie Chappell
4. #46P Darell Padgett
5. #145 Jason Davis
6. #56 Kevin Durden
7. #32P Jeff Phipps
8. #J17 Joe Kump
9. #16 Shane Williams
10. #3 Billy Boyd, Jr.
11. #41 Barry Sheffield
12. #33 Jeff Matthews DNS
BUDWEISER (QUALITY BRANDS) OPEN WHEEL MODIFIEDS
1. #15 Jamie Carter
2. #48 Wayne Hammond
3. #33 Jeff Matthews
4. #09 Rob Underwood
5. #40 James Smith
6. #40K Kyle Bronson
7. #91 Trever Boettcher
8. #66 Dale Murray
9. #75C Scott Mooers
10. #90 Mark Buie
11. #OK Kent Corbin
12. #54 Larry Burkins
13. #67 Garret Stewart
14. #410 P.J. Wiggins DNS
15. #41D Darron Smith DNS
16. #96 Randy Hecker DNS
TAYLOR RACING PRODUCTS SPORTSMAN
1. #11 Aaron Barsness
2. #00 Shaun Daugharty
3. #80 Paul Shead
4. #95 Matt McGillivrary
5. #29S Drew Smith
6. #46 Richard Wells, Jr.
7. #10 Steve Shead
8. #17K Marc Kinley
9. #38 Collin Wright
10. #17H Blaise Hetznecker
11. #18 Justin Merry
12. #11c Corey Holley
13. #57 Karl Haas
14. #05 Dan Lane, Sr. DNS
15. #56C Scott Sansom DNS
DAYTONA SPORTSWEAR STREET STOCKS
1. #64 Trevor Gamble
2. #54 Tim Hughes
3. #51 Steve Oldaker
4. #11W Jody Wells
5. #77M Mark Maresca
6. #18E Mike Eubanks
7 #2S Mick Kulak
8. #11S James Smith
9. #66V Greg Vandergriff
10. #13 Phil Brown
Joey Aguilar tops TBARA at Five Flags Speedway
by Marty LittlePENSCAOLA, Fla. – The Tampa Bay Area Racing Ass’n. made their first of two planned visits this season to the fast half mile of Five Flags Speedway Friday night and it was Joey Aguilar the victor in the 30 lap sprint car feature after a wire to wire run from the pole position.
Aguilar paced the 21 car field at the drop of the green flag over fellow front row starter Ben Fritz and Bo Hartley. The man on the move was Shane Butler as he worked through traffic from his eighth starting slot. Always fast Troy DeCaire in the Rudolph 68 brought out a yellow flag on lap 13 when the left front wheel departed and he pounded the concrete. DeCaire was unhurt but the same can’t be said for his car.
When the green flew once again it was Aguilar over Butler and Hartley as they clicked off laps in the 14 second bracket like clockwork. It was a yo-yo deal among the front trio as Butler could run down Aguilar before Joey would stretch it out on Shane with Hartley only a few car lengths back. The pace slowed somewhat in the close laps as Hartley ran down both Aguilar and Butler but all three were mindful of the rough track surface and the condition of their tires due to the rough track surface.
When the checkers flew it was Aguilar for his first victory in Doc Miller’s 78 ahead of Butler, Hartley, Dude Teate and D.J. Hoelzle.The second five consisted of Larry Brazil, Fritz, Michael Miller, Tommy Nichols and fast qualifier Brian Gingras.
Heat race victories fell to Aguilar, Hartley and Fritz.
The next event is set for March 27 at DeSoto Super Speedway in Bradneton, Fla.
Feature finish (30 laps) – 1. Joey Aguilar, 2. Shane Butler, 3. Bo Hartley, 4. Dude Teate, 5. D.J. Hoelzle, 6. Larry Brazil, 7. Ben Fritz, 8. Michael Miller, 9. Tommy Nichols, 10. Brian Gingras, 11. Mickey Kempgens, 12. Sonny Hartley, 13. Johnny Gilbertson, 14. David Retzlaff, 15. Willy Stauffer, 16. Dakotah Stephens, 17. Troy DeCaire, 18. Matt Mercer, 19. Larry Brazil, Jr., 20. Steve Heisler, 21. Johnny Newsome. DNS Todd Fayard.
