by Dave Westerman
Auburndale Speedway returns to action Saturday night with nine classes in action. The Auburndale Trucks return to the track and will be joined by the Sportsman, Legend Cars, Street Stocks, Mini Stocks, V-8 Bombers, Scramblers, Bandoleros and the Kids Club.
Young Tim Sozio has taken over the point lead in the Auburndale Trucks following his win on July 10th. Sozio, who hails from DeBary in Volusia County, holds a very slim three point edge on Tommy King heading into this weeks event. Jim Cowhey, Jr. is just six points behind King and Roger Blevins is only four markers behind Cowhey meaning any of the four drivers could come out of the evening atop the standings.
Dave Dunkin has a half-dozen wins so far this year in the Sportsman class but is just 28 points ahead of steady Mark Medeiros. These two will ultimately decide the 2010 Sportsman championship.
The Legend Car title for 2010 is also a two-man battle with Gerald White, Jr. coming off his eighth win of the year leading Jake Perkins by 18 points heading into action this week. Defending champion Justin Brown is in third place, but 114 points in back of Perkins.
Matt McCrary has increased his Street Stock point lead to 36 over Jeff Waterman after finishing in second place last week to Kyle Peters. Dave Colpritt is in third place and has moved to within 20 points of Waterman.
The Mini Stock class continues to be a two man show. Fred Harrison, Jr.’s win last week means that both he and point leader Chris Spring have eight wins each on the year. Spring, however, maintains the point lead by 24 over Harrison. Rookie Jason Swilley has taken over third in the points but is well behind the two frontrunners.
Point leader Josh Borem finally returned to racing in the V-8 Bombers last week and although he exploded a brake rotor in the feature race, maintained a 50 point edge over Buddy Phillips, Jr. Preston Davis has the hot hand in the class right now and has moved into third in the standings but has an uphill battle trying to catch the two drivers ahead of him.
Brian Tyre expanded his point lead over Kimberly Gullett to 16 in the Scrambler class by taking his second win of the year last week. Richard Brown has moved into third place in Scrambler points, 54 behind Gullett and ten ahead of fourth place Chad Cutting.
In the Bandoleros, Teddy Lively has won six races in a row and is 42 points ahead of Andy Metz in the Outlaw division standings. Cameron White has already wrapped up the Bandit class title.
Pit gates open Saturday afternoon at 2PM, grandstands open at 5PM and racing gets under way at 7PM. Adult admission is just $12, seniors are $10, kids 5-12 are $5 and children 4 and under are free. Family packs (two adults – two kids 5 to 12) are $25. For more information, log on to www.auburndaleracing.com powered by Palm Tree Computers.
NOTES: The Legend Cars may have had the night off from Auburndale Speedway last week but they were still in action, running a Florida Tour race at Citrus County Speedway. Devin McLeod of Zephyrhills picked up his first Legend Car win of the year in that event. Video from one of Devin’s recent races at Auburndale Speedway can be viewed by going to the Legends Cars of Florida website at www.legendscarsofflorida.com. On the website you can also find out information concerning racing either a Legend Car or Bandolero at Auburndale Spreedway.
Ryan Shattuck, who lives in Islamorada in the Florida Keys, won two Bandolero features at Auburndale Speedway earlier this year before he and his family took their show on the road to run the entire Summer Shootout at Charlotte Motor Speedway in North Carolina, is the 2010 Summer Shootout Bandolero Outlaw champion. Shattuck was very consistent over the ten weeks of competition at Charlotte and won the feature race on two occasions. Shattuck will move up to the Legend Cars next year and may make a few starts this year too. Expect him to make a few shows at Auburndale as well.
Ashton Hunt started in the Kids Club, moved up to Mini Stock last year, and is now part of the Modified Mini Stock division. Her debut went reasonably well last week and look for her to be challenging for some wins in the near future. Her old Mini Stock, now re-numbered 99, has been placed in the hands of younger sister Dakota Hunt who won the Kids Club feature last time out.
Yet another pair of bicycles will be given away to a couple of lucky youngsters this week through the courtesy of “Lindsey’s Little Racers.” The bikes will be the 19th and 20th given away this year. Their record for bikes given away in a single year is 24 and they look to be sure to break that mark before the season ends thanks to the generosity of the fans, drivers and sponsors. All kids aged ten and under will get an extra ticket as they enter the track. The boys tickets will be one color and the girls tickets a separate color as there will be one boys bike and one girls bike awarded. Two prize packs will also be given away sponsored by NASCAR legend Bobby Allison.
At the beginning of the year, the Modified Mini Stock class was treading some pretty thin ground after very low car counts late last year but track owner Rex Guy decided to give the division another chance and things seem to be coming around. The class was shy one car of splitting themselves into two heats last week and has been putting on very good races as well. the aformentioned Ashton Hunt, Danny Dobbins and Mike Bruno all made their season debut last week along with a name that we had not seen in awhile, Corbin Gibbs, who was out in a very sharp-looking Dodge. over two dozen Mod Mini drivers have competed at Auburndale so far this year. Now if we can just get all of them to show up on the same night….
AUBURNDALE SPEEDWAY – CURRENT POINT STANDINGS as of 8/7/10
LATE MODELS:
1-#07 Jeff Scofield 483 (2 wins)
2-#21 Kevin Ingram 382
3-#50 Perry Lovelady 369
4-#17 Ryan Lisak 348
5-#407 Jason Vail 339
6-#49 Ron Lofquist 332
7-#36 Tim Russell 303 (2 wins)
8-#33 Daniel Webster 301 (1 win)
9-#47 Chris Fontaine 284
10-#22 David King 277
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OPEN WHEEL MODIFIEDS:
1-#56 James Wright III 919 (1 win)
2-#75 Bobby Blake 821 (2 wins)
3-#98 Wayne Morris 820 (1 win)
4-#87 Keith Lilley 751 (1 win)
5-#01 Von Pope 740
6-#19 Kevin Macy 598 (1 win)
7-#03 Kyle Bookmiller 596 (2 wins)
8-#10 Travis Roland 585 (1 win)
9-#07 Harold Crooms 572
10-#00 Shawn Harper 526
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SPORTSMAN:
1-#71 Dave Dunkin 444 (6 wins)
2-#13 Mark Medeiros 416 (2 wins)
3-#22 Austin Carr 276 (1 win)
4-#8 Brandon Duchscherer 250 (1 win)
5-#1 Bart Weatherford 238
6-#89X Brett Jenkins 216
7-#19 Chris Lewellen 166
8-#92 Ted Head 152
9-#55 Richard Elkins, Jr. 150
10-#51 Kyle Alford 146
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MODIFIED MINI STOCKS:
1-#89 Scott Sharpe 382 (2 wins)
2-#15 Jason Rendell 370 (2 wins)
3-#44 Mike Sweet 360 (2 wins)
4-#45 Dennis Jones 254
5-#07 Bruce Anderson 218
6-#37 Brandon McSwain 190 (1 win)
7-#26 Jimmy Pugh 186
8-#38 Burt Morse 170 (2 wins)
9-#85 Drew Carter 122
10-#77 Lee Davis 118 (1 win)
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TRUCKS:
1-#16 Tim Sozio 150 (1 win)
2-#1 Tommy King 148
3-#2 Jim Cowhey, Jr. 134
4-#15 Roger Blevins 130
5-#37 Nick Hernandez 118 (1 win)
6-#99 Brent Tyler 110
7-#72 Keith Lilley 100 (2 wins)
8-#54 Zach Harris 98
9-#18 Cheyne Hammond 80
10-#13 J.R. Garcia 60
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LEGEND CARS:
1-#38 Gerald White, Jr. 712 (8 wins)
2-#59 Jake Perkins 694 (6 wins)
3-#8 Justin Brown 580 (1 win)
#71 Mason Ketterman 566
5-#07 Dave Gleason 532
6-#31 Lynn Wiles 468
7-#4R Zach Napoleon 414
8-#7 Dakota Baggette 346
9-#21 Devin McLeod 330
10-#4 Tyler Smith 320 (2 wins)
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STREET STOCKS:
1-#5 Matt McCrary 702
2-#42 Jeff Waterman 666 (3 wins)
3-#4 Dave Colpritt 646 (4 wins)
4-#56 James Wright III 502 (6 wins)
5-#17 Kyle Hall 426
6-#29 Bobby Mobley 402 (2 wins)
7-#53 Kyle Peters 358 (2 wins)
8-#25 Cody McDuffie 268 (1 win)
9-#65 Ken Lawrence 250
10-#48 Eddie Hartin 234 (1 win)
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MINI STOCKS:
1-#42 Chris Spring 908 (8 wins)
2-#21 Fred Harrison, Jr. 884 (8 wins)
3-#40 Jason Swilley 550
4-#3 Chris Narramore, Sr. 532 (3 wins)
5-#33 Donnie Guy 470
6-#4 Marilyn McCrary 382
7-#551 Mark Wells 342
8-#88 Kevin Steadman 326
9-#46 Randy King 302
10-#2 Dwight Ryals, Jr. 240
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V-8 BOMBERS:
1-#111 Josh Borem 706 (4 wins)
2-#05 Buddy Phillips, Jr. 656 (1 win)
3-#89 Preston Davis 484 (3 wins)
4-#56 James Wright, Jr. 464 (1 win)
5-#88 Gene Harrison 366 (2 wins)
6-#0 Paul Bookmiller 352
7-#96 Larry Chumney II 332 (2 wins)
8-#105 Jeff Lacey 274
9-#51 Matt Johns 208
10-#96 Larry Chumney, Sr. 204 (2 wins)
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SCRAMBLERS:
1-#66 Brian Tyre 518 (2 wins)
2-#28 Kimberly Gullett 502 (1 win)
3-#62 Richard Brown 448
4-#00 Chad Cutting 438 (1 win)
5-#71 Dave Canfield 298 (1 win)
6-#8 Richie Acres 246 (3 wins)
7-#4 Scott Russ 220
8-#51 Matt Johns 216 (1 win)
#77 Jeremy Watts 216
10-#42 Mike Bauer 198
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MINI CUPS:
1-#74 John Beach 156
2-#21 Rick Ragan 148
3-#7 Harold Crooms 134 (2 wins)
4-#07 Tyler Scofield 114 (1 win)
5-#14 Sam Scott 112 (1 win)
6-27X Dale Pulst 106
7-#22 Rick Cline, Sr. 102
8-#47 Brandon Beach 94
9-#37 Rick Cline, Jr. 74
10-#57 Brittini Huntington 70
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BANDOLEROS:
BANDITS:
1-#38 Cameron White 764 (4 wins)
2-#5 Derek Sobel 148 (2 wins)
3-#55 Michael Held 46
4-#1Jr. Dustin Turnage 44
#19 Keith Sinkula 42
4-#30 Noah Cornman 42
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OUTLAWS:
1-#96 Teddy Lively 474 (6 wins)
2-#48 Andy Metz 432 (1 win)
3-#1 Mark Bibeau 192
4-#11 Daniel Conlin, Jr. 174
5-#13 Ryan Shattuck 146 (2 wins)
6-#03 Jake Hunter 130
7-#65 Coty Bibeau 94 (1 win)
6-#16 Nick Baluch 34
6-#65 Daniel Conlin, Sr. 32
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FIGURE EIGHTS:
1-#14 Wayne Calkins 76
2-#31 Wayne Whitehead 66
3-#89 Rodney Davis 60
4-#0 Jimmy Thompson 40 (1 win)
#8 Robbie Powell 40 (1 win)
6-#4 Terry Zimmerman 36
7-#A6 J.R. Meyer 34
8-#35 James Crawford 32
9-#89 Ricky Todd 30
#0 Paul Bookmiller 30
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