{"id":1223,"date":"2010-04-18T17:52:42","date_gmt":"2010-04-18T17:52:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/karnac.com\/flanews\/?p=1223"},"modified":"2010-04-18T17:52:42","modified_gmt":"2010-04-18T17:52:42","slug":"sonny-hartley-tops-tbara-at-desoto-super-speedway","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/karnac.com\/flanews\/race-results\/sonny-hartley-tops-tbara-at-desoto-super-speedway\/","title":{"rendered":"Sonny Hartley tops TBARA at Desoto Super Speedway"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><strong>by Marty Little<\/strong><\/div>\n<div>BRADENTON, Fla. &#8211; Veteran Sonny Hartley\u00a0drove around Tommy Nichols on lap 16 and sped to his first TBARA feature victory in several season Saturday night&#8217;s 30\u00a0lap sprint car headliner\u00a0at DeSoto Super Speedway.<\/div>\n<div>\u00a0<\/div>\n<div>Things got off to a rough start in the feature when outside front row starter Dakotah Stephens broke an axle and spun in front of the field\u00a0on the first lap. The ensuing melee took out point leader\u00a0Shane Butler, Dude Teate, Troy DeCaire and Stephens.<\/div>\n<div>\u00a0<\/div>\n<div>When the green waved following the clean up it was pole sitter Steve Heisler out front with Hartley,\u00a0Tommy Nichols and Johnny Gilbertson in tow. Nichols quickly worked around Hartley for second\u00a0but a caution waved on lap five when leader Heisler looped his mount to put Nichols in front over Hartley.<\/div>\n<div>\u00a0<\/div>\n<div>The field reformed and it was Nichols the point man but Hartley was on his game this night and kept the pressure on before making a pass for the lead on lap 16. Once in front it was no contest as Hartley motored away until a yellow waved for debris on lap 28. The offending trash was removed from the racing surface and Hartley never looked back, taking his No. 27 to the checkers ahead of Nichols, Larry Brazil, Jr., Bo Hartley and Ben Fritz.<\/div>\n<div>\u00a0<\/div>\n<div>Heat race victories went to DeCaire\u00a0and Gilbertson.<\/div>\n<div>\u00a0<\/div>\n<div>Feature finish (30 laps) &#8211; 1. Sonny Hartley, 2. Tommy Nichols, 3. Larry Brazil, Jr. 4. Bo Hartley, 5. Ben Fritz, 6.\u00a0Johnny Gilbertson, 7.David Retzlaff, 8.\u00a0Steve Heisler, 9.\u00a0Larry Brazil, 10.\u00a0D.J. Hoelzle, 11.\u00a0Dakotah Stephens, 12.Troy DeCaire, 13. Dude Teate, 14. Shane Butler, 15. Joey Aguilar DNS.\u00a0<\/div>\n<div>\u00a0<\/div>\n<div>\u00a0<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by Marty Little BRADENTON, Fla. &#8211; Veteran Sonny Hartley\u00a0drove around Tommy Nichols on lap 16 and sped to his first TBARA feature victory in several [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"publish_to_discourse":"","publish_post_category":"","wpdc_auto_publish_overridden":"","wpdc_topic_tags":"","wpdc_pin_topic":"","wpdc_pin_until":"","discourse_post_id":"","discourse_permalink":"","wpdc_publishing_response":"","wpdc_publishing_error":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[11,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1223","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-desoto-speedway","category-race-results"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/karnac.com\/flanews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1223","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/karnac.com\/flanews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/karnac.com\/flanews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/karnac.com\/flanews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/karnac.com\/flanews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1223"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/karnac.com\/flanews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1223\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1224,"href":"https:\/\/karnac.com\/flanews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1223\/revisions\/1224"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/karnac.com\/flanews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1223"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/karnac.com\/flanews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1223"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/karnac.com\/flanews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1223"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}