{"id":18036,"date":"2013-05-14T14:21:57","date_gmt":"2013-05-14T14:21:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/karnac.com\/flanews\/?p=18036"},"modified":"2013-05-14T14:22:32","modified_gmt":"2013-05-14T14:22:32","slug":"try-it-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/karnac.com\/flanews\/front-page-news\/try-it-again\/","title":{"rendered":"Try It Again"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-large wp-image-9094\" alt=\"Bubba Raceway Park Logo copy\" src=\"https:\/\/karnac.com\/flanews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/Bubba-Raceway-Park-Logo-copy2-450x243.jpg\" width=\"395\" height=\"213\" \/>Jim Rouse, \u00a0Ocala, FL &#8211; After a wash-out on May 11th, Bubba made the call to re-schedule the race for this up-coming week-end and he&#8217;s added an extra division! The NeSmith Crate Late Models, Scorpion Racing Products UMP DirtCar Modifieds, Bubba Army Hobby Stocks, Rent-N-Roll Gladiators, and now the 1-800-ASK GARY Thunder Stocks will take to the 3\/8 mile for some action. The Bigwheel Race will also be run at Intermission. Don&#8217;t miss\u00a0this big show!<\/div>\n<div>Versailes, Indiana&#8217;s Bryan Bernhardt leads Dover, Florida&#8217;s &#8220;The Repo Man&#8221; Jeff Mathews in a tight battle in the Crate Late Models. St.Petersburg, Florida&#8217;s rising son, Tyler Clem, is third and could leave as the youngest points leader- and youngest NeSmith sanctioned event winner- with a slip-up by the front two. Lakeland&#8217;s Kenny Monohan and Dade City&#8217;s Shan Smith round out the top five. Plenty of others will join them as they chase victory in this impressive division.<\/div>\n<div>The age jokes are getting quite old in the Scorpion Racing Products UMP DirtCar Modifieds. Now aged seventy-two, Zephyrhills, Florida&#8217;s Buzzie Reutimann holds a lead over Belleview&#8217;s Charlie O&#8217;Neill.<!--more--> Behind them is a two-time winner this season and a four-time division champion in Jeff Mathews. Mathews missed the opening race but has made up a huge chunk of points with his victories. Ocala&#8217;s Ronnie Soltis sits in fourth with a car that is quick but unreliable. Soltis may have a win in the cards, and the same goes for Bryan Bernhardt. Bernhardt, driving a second Mathews Motorsports car, sits in the top five in all three divisions he has run this season- an incredible feat! It&#8217;s wide open and anyone could take the win!<\/div>\n<div>Devin Walker, &#8220;The Mayo Missile,&#8221; leads fellow teenager Hunter Gustafson by two points in an exciting championship battle. Gustafson, the Howey-In-The-Hills driver, has two wins to Walker&#8217;s one. Placed in third is Dunnellon&#8217;s Matt Kramer, but just three points behind him is Ocala&#8217;s Brian Shea. Shea, the 2011 Thunder Stock champion, has work to do, however, if he&#8217;s to hold off Gainesville&#8217;s William Edwards in the title fight. New winners and a new champion are on the horizon in the Bubba Army Hobby Stocks!<\/div>\n<div>With eight drivers within one race of each other for the championship, the 1-800-ASK GARY Thunder Stocks are on it. Tony Campbell, a Mt. Dora native, leads Summerfield&#8217;s William Gillam by just two points in a championship just as tight as the Bubba Army Hobby Stocks. In third is Anthony, Florida&#8217;s Brandon Elwood who is already a first-time winner in 2013. Placed in fourth is Citra&#8217;s James Erickson, but he may skip the race to focus on his Hobby Stock. Brandon Tillander, the Ocala driver, wouldn&#8217;t mind that as he constantly improves and chases the front two for a title and a first craeer win.<\/div>\n<div>The Rent-N-Roll Gladiators top three is in a flip-flopped position. Winless challenger Josh Fincher is the points leader over one-time winner Jerry Taylor. In third, coming off of three consecutive wins, is &#8220;The British Bulldog&#8221; Stephen Frankland who knows he&#8217;s chasing history and a championship. Rookie drivers Bill Southard and Tom Sheehan continue to improve and are hoping to jump into Coors Light Winner&#8217;s Circle by season&#8217;s end.<\/div>\n<div>Pits open at 4, grandstands at 5, and racing starts at 7. It&#8217;s going to be a great night of racing that you won&#8217;t want to miss! For more information, please visit<a href=\"http:\/\/www.bubbaracewaypark.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">www.bubbaracewaypark.com<\/a>\u00a0or call us at 352-622-9400!<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jim Rouse, \u00a0Ocala, FL &#8211; After a wash-out on May 11th, Bubba made the call to re-schedule the race for this up-coming week-end and he&#8217;s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","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":[17,22,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18036","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ocala-speedway","category-featured","category-front-page-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/karnac.com\/flanews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18036","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\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/karnac.com\/flanews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18036"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/karnac.com\/flanews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18036\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18041,"href":"https:\/\/karnac.com\/flanews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18036\/revisions\/18041"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/karnac.com\/flanews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18036"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/karnac.com\/flanews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18036"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/karnac.com\/flanews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18036"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}