by Dave Westerman
Action continues to heat up at Auburndale Speedway as the Open Wheel Modifieds return for the first of back-to-back racing weekends for the popular class.
The Modified Mini Stocks will also be on the slate along with the Street Stocks, Legend Cars, Mini Stocks, V-8 Bombers, Scramblers and Bandoleros.
Three Open Wheel Modified races are in the books so far this year and there have been three different winners. Kevin Macy, who won the last race, is on top of the current point standings but by just four points over steady Wayne Morris. Morris is only two markers ahead of third place Harold Cannon and Cannon has just a one point edge over fourth place Keith Lilley. In fact, the top eight drivers are separated by only 30 points right now.
Despite winning the last two races, Burt Morse is in third spot in the Modified Mini Stock points, 48 behind leader Jason Rendell as Morse missed being part of the action during the division’s second week of competition. Rendell has just a two point advantage over Scotty Sharpe heading into this weeks race.
On the heels of back-to-back feature wins, Gerald White, Jr. has taken over the lead in Legend Car points by 22 over Jake Perkins and Justin Brown who are tied for second. Dave Gleason is fifth in the overall standings but heads the Master’s Division for drivers age 40 and over.
As the Street Stocks get back in the swing of things this week it’s Jeff Waterman now with a bit of “breathing room” at the top of the points list. Waterman is 24 markers in front of Matt McCrary while McCrary has a 38 point bulge over third place Dave Colpritt.
Fred Harrison, Jr. has been on a roll in the Mini Stocks and has seen his point lead swell to 16 over second place Chris Spring as he tries to defend his 2009 class championship. Chris Narramore, Sr. is in third six points back of Spring.
Josh Borem continues to put together solid finishes each week in the V-8 Bombers as he continues to hold a comfortable 54 point edge over his nearest rival, Buddy Phillips, Jr.
Kim Gullett continues to stay on top of the Scrambler point chase but has seen Brian Tyre close to within eight tallies. Solid finishes over the past few weeks, including a win, have propelled Chad Cutting up to third in Scrambler points.
In the Bandoleros, Cameron White has a huge advantage in the Bandit class while it’s much closer in the Outlaws with Ryan Shattuck now just four points in front of Teddy Lively.
Saturday pit gates open at 2PM, grandstand gates open at 5PM and racing gets under way at 7PM.
NOTES:
Due to a scheduling conflict, Auburndale Speedway has moved the next Late Model race originally scheduled for May 15th to the following Saturday, May
22nd. The AMF Chassis/Chassis Works 100 is expected to be even bigger than this past weeks outstanding event that saw Longwood’s Tim Russell take home the $3000 top prize.
Auburndale Speedway saw its biggest crowd in quite some time last week as the fans came out in droves to see some outstanding racing. One lucky lady carried home a record 50/50 raffle take of $549.50!!! Also thanks to Hurricane Bar & Grill in Winter Haven for donating ten $25 gift certificates as raffle prizes.
As the kids came through the breezeway last Saturday, they were surprised to see not two, but four bicycles that were to be given away as part of the “Lindsey’s Little Racers” program. Ronnie Simms of Becton/Simms Racing stepped up to the plate and bought two more bikes on Saturday afternoon. Enough money was raised during the weekly Linsey’s Little Racers raffle to buy two more bikes. The next bike giveaway will be on May 1st.
Speaking of Ronnie Simms, he put up an extra $150 to Mini Cup driver Sam Scott if Scott (the fast qualifier) could start at the tail end of the Mini Cup field and win the race. Simms just barely held on to his cash as Scott ended up finishing second to Harold Crooms in a caution-plagued race that saw the time limit expire. We can only speculate if Scott could have taken home the victory if the entire 25 laps could have been completed.
Mini Stock point leader Fred Harrison, Jr. could be earning himself a nickname as the “Ice Cream Man.” Every time Harrison has put up the money for the free ice cream prizes for the kids through Lindsey’s Little Racers, he’s won the Mini Stock feature!!
Make your plans to come to the race track early on May 1st as there will be a car show at the track from 1-5PM in support of the Fallen Firefighter Survivors Association. The event is part of “The Worlds Largest Poker Run”
presented by the Red Knights Motorcycle Club. All types of cars from Classics to Antiques to Muscle Cars are welcome. The cost is just $10 to enter and best of show prizes will be awarded. For more info contact redknightsfl10@msn.com.
To clarify the new classes for the Bandolero cars… There are now just two divisions based on the age of the driver. “Bandits” are age 8-12 and “Outlaws” are age 13 and above. For prospective Bandolero drivers (and their parents), test drives and racing schools are scheduled from time to time at Auburndale Speedway. For more information, contact Russ Thomson at (407) 873-0546.
CURRENT AUBURNDALE SPEEDWAY POINTS AS OF $/17/10:
OPEN WHEEL MODIFIEDS:
1-#19 Kevin Macy 309
2-#98 Wayne Morris 305
3-#3 Harold Cannon 303
4-#87 Keith Lilley 302
5-#56 James Wright III 298
6-#102 Von Pope 286
7-#29 Kyle Bookmiller 285
8-#75 Bobby Blake 279
9-#35 Ron Abney 240
10-#07 Harold Crooms 193
LEGEND CARS:
1-#38 Gerald White, Jr. 266
2-#59 Jake Perkins 244
#8 Justin Brown 244
4-#71 Mason Ketterman 222
5-#07 Dave Gleason 206
6-#31 Lynn Wiles 154
7-#4R Zach Napoleon 130
8-#7 Dakota Baggette 114
9-#83 Danielle Stratton 108
10-#51 Roger Englund 98
MODIFIED MINI STOCKS:
1-#15 Jason Rendell 176
2-#89 Scott Sharpe 174
3-#38 Burt Morse 128
4-#55 Mike Sweet 124
5-#45 Dennis Jones 122
6-#26 Jimmy Pugh 108
7-#09 Jessica Robbins 80
8-#07 Bruce Anderson 60
9-#33 Chris Allen 46
10-#44 Mike Lawhorn 40
STREET STOCKS:
1-#42 Jeff Waterman 290
2-#5 Matt McCrary 266
3-#4 Dave Colpritt 228
4-#56 James Wright III 184
5-#17 Kyle Hall 182
6-#65 Ken Lawrence 130
7-#16 Andy Harvard 122
#29 Bobby Mobley 122
9-#3 Kevin O’Quinn 116
10-#48 Eddie Hartin 90
MINI STOCKS:
1-#21 Fred Harrison, Jr. 396
2-#42 Chris Spring 380
3-#3 Chris Narramore, Sr. 374
4-#33 Donnie Guy 348
5-#46 Randy King 246
6-#88 Kevin Steadman 200
7-#40 Jason Swilley 138
8-#55 Steve Routt, Jr. 126
#4 Marilyn McCrary 126
10-#155 James Pate 112
SCRAMBLERS:
1-#28 Kimberly Gullett 238
2-#66 Brian Tyre 230
3-#00 Chad Cutting 188
4-#51 Matt Johns 176
5-#62 Richard Brown 140
6-#52 Gary Brown, Jr. 138
7-#71 Dave Canfield 132
8-#4 Scott Russ 124
9-#9 Ashton Hunt 96
10-#77 Jeremy Watts 78
V-8 BOMBERS:
1-#111 Josh Borem 354
2-#05 Buddy Phillips, Jr. 300
3-#56 James Wright, Sr. 272
4-#0 Paul Bookmiller 266
5-#42 Brandon Duchscherer 178
6-#96 Larry Chumney, Sr. 128
7-#14 Donnie King 124
8-#29 Brian Harbin 118
9-#60 Greg Valdez 92
10-#96 Larry Chumney II 90
LATE MODELS:
1-#07 Jeff Scofield 201
2-#407 Jason Vail 167
3-#21 Kevin Ingram 165
4-#50 Perry Lovelady 156
5-#49 Ron Lofquist 153
6-#54 Ryan Lisak 132
7-#82 Danny Maddox 122
8-#39 Tyler Laing 120
9-#36 Tim Russell 103
10-#27 Cody Lane 100
SPORTSMAN:
1-#71 Dave Dunkin 176
2-#8 Austin Carr 146
3-#13 Mark Medeiros 134
4-#51 Kyle Alford 122
5-#60 Richard Fiore 84
6-#1 Bart Weatherford 82
7-#8 Brandon Duchscherer 66
#47 Bobby Mobley 66
9-#92 Ted Head 56
10-#19 Chris Lewellen 34
MINI CUPS:
1-#14 Sam Scott 88
2-#07 Harold Crooms 84
3-#74 John Beach 76
4-#1 Rick Ragan 68
5-#08 Tyler Scofield 56
#47 Brandon Beach 56
7-#27x Dale Pulst 54
#37 Rick Cline, Sr. 54
9-#48 Carlos Pinto 52
10-#24 Mike Holt 42
BANDOLEROS:
BANDITS:
1-#38 Cameron White 294
2-#5 Derek Sobel 50
3-#11 Coty Bibeau 44
4-#30 Noah Cornman 42
OUTLAWS:
1-#13 Ryan Shattuck 146
2-#96 Teddy Lively 142
3-#48 Andy Metz 138
4-#1 Mark Bibeau 34
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