by Dave Westerman

Race fans will once again have action aplenty Saturday night at Auburndale Speedway as the track concludes the month of March with an eight division racing program.

The Open Wheel Modifieds make their third appearance of the year along with the Modified Mini Stocks, V-8 Bombers, Mini Stocks, Scramblers, Legend Cars and Bandoleros. The Pro Challenge Cars are also slated for their season debut.

Racing has been nothing short of phenomonal in the Modified class this year. With so many competitive cars, the entire top ten in points are separated by just 25 markers going into this weeks 40 lap event.

Big Wayne Morris is expected to have a new powerplant under the hood of his #98 this week as he looks for his first feature win of the year. Morris leads the point chase by just five over Harold “Boom Boom” Cannon while Cannon is just one point ahead of third place Von Pope who, in turn, is just one digit ahead of fourth place Kevin Macy.

Another class that is showing tons of competition each week are the Mini Stocks. Chris Spring, the only driver to win twice this year in the class, holds a 14 point edge over both Chris Narramore, Sr. and Fred Harrison, Jr. who are tied for second. Donnie Guy is fourth, some eight points back of the second place duo.

Jason Rendell is two for two so far this year in the Modified Mini Stocks and is looking for a hat trick Saturday night. Consequently, Rendell tops the point battle by four right now over second place Scotty Sharpe.

Josh Borem has finished no worse than second in any of the V-8 Bomber features so far this year and that has him a solid 36 markers in front of second place Buddy Phillips, Jr.

The Scramblers return to action this week with Matt Johns holding a 28 point advantage over Kimberly Gullett.

Legend Car action has been dominated by “No Brake” Jake Perkins who has scored back-to-back victories and he leads second place drivers Gerald White, Jr. and Mason Ketterman by eight points going into racing action this week.

The Sunshine Region of the Performance Pro Challenge Series will also do battle Saturday evening. This will be the Series’ second race of the year. Ryan Rust of Port St. Lucie won the season opener at Citrus County Speedway two weeks ago over Jarrett Snowden and Paul White.

Pit gates open this Saturday at 2PM, grandtands open at 5PM and racing starts at 7PM.

Points as of March 20, 2010:

OPEN WHEEL MODIFIEDS:
1-#98 Wayne Morris 206
2-#3 Harold Cannon 201
3-#102/01 Von Pope 200
4-#19 Kevin Macy 199
5-#87 Keith Lilley 196
6-#07 Harold Crooms 193
7-#56/71 JAmes Wright III 191
8-#101 David Grogan 188
#03 Kyle Bookmiller 188
10-#75 Bobby Blake 185

MINI STOCKS:
1-#42 Chris Spring 226
2-#21 Fred Harrison, Jr. 212
#3 Chris Narramore, Sr. 212
4-#33 Donnie Guy 204
5-#46 Randy King 168
6-#5 Tony Davidson 94
7-#55 Steve Routt, Jr. 80
#155 James Pate 80
9-#88 Kevin Steadman 76
10-#40 Jason Swilley 72

MODIFIED MINI STOCKS:
1-#15 Jason Rendell 88
2-#89 Scotty Sharpe 84
3-#45 Dennis Jones 70
4-#26 Jimmy Pugh 56
5-#55 Mike Sweet 48
6-#33 Chris Allen 46
7-#38 Burt Morse 38
#44 Mike Lawhorn 38
#37 Brandon McSwain 38
10-#09 Jessica Robbins 32

SCRAMBLERS:
1-#51 Matt Johns 138
2-#28 Kimberly Gullett 110
3-#66 Brian Tyre 80
#71 Dave Canfield 80
5-#52 Gary Brown 48
#9 Ashton Hunt 48
#66 Reggie Ware 48
8-#77 Jeremy Watts 46
9-#1 Brandon Henault 40
#00 Chad Cutting 40

STREET STOCKS:
1-#5 Matt McCrary 202
2-#42 Jeff Waterman 196
3-#56 James Wright III 184
4-#4 Dave Colpritt 138
5-#16 Andy Harvard 122
6-#17 Kyle Hall 104
7-#3 Kevin O’Quinn 90
8-#396 Levi Parsons 78
9-#29 Bobby Mobley 76
10-#65 Ken Lawrence 66

V-8 BOMBERS:
1-#111 Josh Borem 212
2-#05 Buddy Phillips, Jr. 176
3-#56 James Wright, Sr. 162
4-#0 Paul Bookmiller 158
5-#96 Larry Chumney, Sr. 130
6-#14 Donnie King 96
7-#29 Brian Harbin 78
8-#17 TJ McLean 58
9-#29 Roger Blevins 48
10-#29 Matt Bozeman 42

LATE MODELS:
(These are Auburndale Points not Series points)
1-#07 Jeff Scofield 105
2-#49 Ron Lofquist 97
3-#85 Austin Kirkpatrick 92
#407 Jason Vail 92
5-#127 Kyle Maynard 84
6-#50 Perry Lovelady 81
7-#21 Kevin Ingram 80
8-#57 Joe Winchell 75
9-#70 Jeremy Gerstner 72
10-#62 John Gerstner 70

SPORTSMAN:
1-#71 Dave Dunkin 98
2-#8 Austin Carr 76
3-#51 Kyle Alford 64
4-#13 Mark Medeiros 50
5-#113 Aaron Williamson 44
#1 Bart Weatherford 44
7-#22 Fred Harrison 34
8-#89 Brett Jenkins 30
#92 Ted Head 30
10-#60 Rick Fiore 28

MINI CUPS:
1-#14 Sam Scott 50
#07 Harold Crooms 44
3-#08 Tyler Scofield 44
4-#74 John Beach 42
5-#48 Carlos Pinto 36
6-#21 Rick Ragan 32
7-#27x Dale Pulst 28
8-#22 Rick Cline, Sr. 26
9-#47 Brandon Beach 24
#20 Brady Marshall 24

LEGENDS:
1-#59 Jake Perkins 90
2-#38 Gerald White, Jr. 82
#22 Mason Ketterman 82
4-#8 Justin Brown 80
5-#07 Dave Gleason 58
#31 Lynn Wiles 58
7-#17 Mike Gleason 50
8-#21 Devon McLeod 46
9-#4R Zach Napoleon 44
10-#5 Seth Adams 36

BANDOLEROS:
1-#38 Cameron White 98
2-#13 Ryan Shattuck 46
3-#11 Coty Bibeau 44
4-#1 Mark Bibeau 34