{"id":1217,"date":"2010-04-17T15:03:41","date_gmt":"2010-04-17T15:03:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/karnac.com\/flanews\/?p=1217"},"modified":"2010-04-17T15:03:41","modified_gmt":"2010-04-17T15:03:41","slug":"colortyme-night-debuts-mods-and-sportsman-at-ocala","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/karnac.com\/flanews\/race-results\/colortyme-night-debuts-mods-and-sportsman-at-ocala\/","title":{"rendered":"Colortyme Night Debuts Mods and Sportsman at Ocala"},"content":{"rendered":"

by Ocala Speedway Media<\/p>\n

<\/strong>Ocala, FL- After losing some battles with wet weather earlier in the racing season, Colortyme Rent-To-Own Night at Ocala Speedway finally saw the Modified and Sportsman Divisions take the green flag and go racing for the first time in 2010.\u00a0 In addition, the Tee Pee Tire Hobby Stocks put on a wild show for the fans, and were\u00a0followed by the Gladiator Division which bent plenty of sheet metal and never got settled until after most fans had headed for home.<\/p>\n

After much hoopla surrounding the addition of the Sportsman Division at Ocala Speedway, things got off to a rocky start for two teams that had high hopes of making a good impression on their first night racing at Florida’s oldest track.\u00a0 As soon as the green waved and Tim Dowling hit the gas during hot laps, his brand new Sportsman erupted in a cloud of smoke and deposited oil and engine shrapnel the length of the Ocala backstretch.\u00a0 Meanwhile, Billy Costello was having persistent carburetor issues that had his 00 car stumbling again and again.\u00a0 Costello would miss his heat race and have to start on the rear of the feature race, and then climbed to 3rd place before the carb problems returned.<\/p>\n

Augie Burttram said he had something to prove by getting behind the wheel of the 58 Sportsman, and that is what he did by leading flag to flag and scoring a victory.\u00a0 Burttram dominated the race, and try as he might the second place finisher, Kevin Mills, could never catch him.\u00a0 Tim “Shaky Pudding” Powers came from Okeechobee to finish third, followed by Shane Nichols and Chad Scranton to round out the top five.<\/p>\n

Fans might have been confused by watching the Tee Pee Tire Hobby Stock race, which took on the look of a Thunder Stock event with all of the pushing, shoving, beating, and banging, that was going on.\u00a0 Jody Wells jumped out to the early lead, but was muscled out of the way on a restart by Kevin Durden, who protected his lead to the checkers.\u00a0 Dean Jarvis also had to fight to remain in contention, and came away finishing second behind Durden, while Heath Walker placed third.\u00a0 Jody Wells never really managed to recover from his earlier unseating by the top three cars and finished fourth, and Mike Eubanks climbed back into the driver’s seat at Ocala to register a fifth place finish.<\/p>\n

The Colortyme Modifieds took their first green flag of 2010 at Ocala in what was dubbed as the Annual Spring Fling.\u00a0 The 30 lap race paid $1500 to the winner, and there was quite a scramble to see who could win it.\u00a0 Roger Crouse, who came to Ocala with two victories at East Bay under his belt this season, led the field to the green in his crate engine powered 9 car, but it was Devin Dixon who took early control of the race and held off all challengers to take home the big payout.\u00a0 Dixon liked the high line around Ocala Speedway, while Jeff Mathews stuck mostly to the bottom route, but try as he might he never could do much more but briefly get under Dixon before falling back.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Dixon grabbed the win, followed by Mathews in second place.\u00a0 Kyle Owen nabbed a third place finish while Roger Crouse came home in the fourth spot.\u00a0 And arriving at the checkers in the fifth spot was Kyle Bronson.<\/p>\n

A solid field of Gladiators went after each other as the green waved and before the race ended there was quite a bit of damage done.\u00a0 Daryl Veltman smacked turn one wall on the first lap, while Kyle Morse spun on lap 4 and collected two innocent bystanders.\u00a0 Meanwhile Casey Feaster had taken over the lead and was setting the pace as Steven Cox, Devin Walker, and Ephren Souther, all squabbled over the second spot.\u00a0 Walker claimed second place, but a moment of distraction caused a meeting with the backstretch wall under caution, and when the green waved again his right front tire was quickly deflating.\u00a0 Walker would get the tire changed and return, but was unable to get back inside the top 8.<\/p>\n

By lap\u00a05 the 96 of Matt Shea had entered the top five and then overpowered Steven Cox for second place on lap 13.\u00a0 But Casey Feaster was strong and remained out of reach in the final couple of laps, so Feaster and Shea crossed the line first and second.\u00a0 Steven Cox and Ephren Souther tangled in the final turn and both plowed into the front stretch wall, further confusing the final results.<\/p>\n

After a celebration in Victory Lane, there was a date with the dreaded tech man in the pit area as both top cars were checked.\u00a0 Both the 20 of Casey Feaster and the 96 of Matt Shea were found to be outside of the rules, so both were disqualified.\u00a0 That passed the win to Steven Johnson, and moved Kody Fisher up to the second spot.\u00a0 Ephren Souther would nab the third place finish, followed by Matthew Kramer and Steven Cox.<\/p>\n

On Friday, April 23rd, Ocala Speedway presents the debut of the Pepsi Wheel of Fortune where a lucky racing division and some lucky race fans will benefit from extra cash provided by the good folks at Pepsi Cola.\u00a0 The Late Models will be back after a week off, plus fans will see exciting action from the Amsoil Synthetic Lubricants Thunder Stocks, the Mini Stocks will be back, and the Gladiators will run their third race of 2010.\u00a0 For a complete schedule of events, or for ticket prices and more, visit www.OcalaSpeedway.com<\/a>, or call the track at 352-622-9400.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Ocala Speedway Results for 4\/16\/10<\/div>\n
\nColortyme Modified<\/p>\n

1- 2D Devin Dixon
\n2- 33 Jeff Mathews
\n3- 2 Kyle Owen
\n4- 9 Roger Crouse
\n5- 40 Kyle Bronson
\n6- 1 Chip Owen
\n7- 67 Garrett Stewart
\n8- 48 Wayne Hammond
\n9- 0B John Bradley
\n10- Z Tim Zackery
\n11- 0 Richard Dickinson
\n12- 75C Charles O’Neill
\n13- Z06 Larry Mott
\n14- 0J Justin Tilton
\n15- 10X David Ponton
\n16- 09 Rob Underwood<\/p>\n

Sportsman<\/p>\n

1- 58 Augie Burttram
\n2- 01 Kevin Mills
\n3- 44 Tim Powers
\n4- 65 Shane Nichols
\n5- 17S Chad Scranton
\n6- 00 Billy Costello
\nDNS- 8 Tim Dowling<\/p>\n

Tee Pee Tire Hobby Stock<\/p><\/div>\n

1- 56 Kevin Durden
\n2- 37J Dean Jarvis
\n3- 55 Heath Walker<\/div>\n
4- 11 Jody Wells
\n5- 18E Mike Eubanks
\n6- 69 Jonathon Appleby
\n7- 9 Sean Babcock
\n8- 40J Danny James
\n9- 5W Vaughn Woodall
\n10- 08 William Edwards
\n11- 7 Paul Passamonte<\/div>\n
12- 58 Robbie Disbrow
\n13- 99 Daniel Miller Jr.
\n14- 37S Tyler Sistrunk
\n15- 81 Donald Woosley
\n16- 119 Joe Belkey Jr.<\/p>\n

Gladiator<\/p>\n

1- 81 Steven Johnson
\n2- 83 Kody Fisher
\n3- 48 Ephren Souther
\n4- 77 Matthew Kramer
\n5- 88 Steven Cox
\n6- 55JR Devin Walker
\n7- 14 Jeffrey Olive
\n8- 3 Robert Haseleu
\n9- 5 Daryl Veltman
\n10- 82 Kyle Morse
\n11- 94 Raymond Rogers Jr.
\nDNS- 00 Amber Tovet
\nDNS- 3T Tony LaPorta
\nDQ (tech) 20 Casey Feaster
\nDQ (tech) 96 Matt Shea<\/p><\/div>\n

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