{"id":21488,"date":"2014-04-21T16:30:08","date_gmt":"2014-04-21T16:30:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/karnac.com\/flanews\/?p=21488"},"modified":"2014-04-21T16:30:08","modified_gmt":"2014-04-21T16:30:08","slug":"korpi-tops-e-mod-50-lira-wins-in-pro-lates-at-new-smyrna-speedway","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/karnac.com\/flanews\/front-page-news\/korpi-tops-e-mod-50-lira-wins-in-pro-lates-at-new-smyrna-speedway\/","title":{"rendered":"KORPI TOPS E-MOD 50 – LIRA WINS IN PRO LATES AT NEW SMYRNA SPEEDWAY"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Photo Courtesy of Jim Jones Photography<\/p><\/div>\n

It was a nice and breezy Easter Eve at New Smyrna Speedway\u00a0Saturday\u00a0night and\u00a0along with a big Easter Egg hunt for the kids, there was plenty of great Stock\u00a0Car Racing action for both young and old alike. \u00a0The big event of the evening was a 50-lap showdown for the E-Modifieds and it\u00a0was defending track champion Jarrett Korpi of Deltona making it known early on\u00a0that his would be the car to beat as he topped the rest of the competitors in\u00a0qualifying with a lap of 19.367 seconds with Earl “Junior” Beckner his closest\u00a0challenger at 19.542.
\nThe pill draw was a two that meant Korpi and Beckner would simply swap\u00a0starting spots on the front row for the feature. \u00a0At the drop of the green,\u00a0Korpi wasted little time taking the top spot while Beckner was forced to come\u00a0from the back of the starting grid because he was late to line up on pit road. \u00a0Korpi continued to set a hot pace but Cody Blair was not far behind in second\u00a0until his car shut off on lap seven and he coasted to a stop. \u00a0Blair made it\u00a0back to the pits where his crew quickly diagnosed the problem and he returned\u00a0to the race. \u00a0Korpi maintained his advantage following the restart but Beckner was now up to\u00a0second and beginning to apply some pressure. \u00a0Roger Benton spun in turn two on\u00a0lap 16 to bring out the yellow once again. \u00a0On the restart, Beckner powered to\u00a0the front and began to pull away. \u00a0On lap 35, Beckner got loose and spun\u00a0coming off turn two but managed not to hit anything or be collected by anyone\u00a0else. \u00a0Beckner restarted from the rear of the field leaving Korpi in charge\u00a0once again. \u00a0From that point, Korpi pretty much had it in cruise control as he\u00a0claimed his third win of the new season over Blair and Matthew Green. \u00a0Beckner, battling an extremely loose race car, held on to take fourth just\u00a0ahead of Robert Glover. \u00a0Benton, Jim Higginbotham, Mike Dahm, Jon Compagnone\u00a0and George Dahm rounded out the finishing field.<\/p>\n

Michael Lira made it three winners in three races for the Pro Late Model\u00a0division as he led every lap to score a popular win. \u00a0The first few laps of\u00a0the event were pretty eventful as only one lap could be completed before\u00a0Michael Williams spun coming off turn four. \u00a0Williams kept from hitting the\u00a0inside wall and returned to action none the worse for wear. \u00a0Ricky Anderson\u00a0slowed to a stop during the fourth lap and was pushed to the pits where his\u00a0crew frantically went to work to figure out what the problem was. The green\u00a0flag flew with the young driver still sitting still on pit road but luck was\u00a0with the team as Williams spun a second time to keep the caution out with no\u00a0extra laps completed. \u00a0By the time the field took the one to go signal from\u00a0started Ralph Miller, Anderson’s car was re-fired and he rejoined the fray\u00a0only to spin out himself on lap five to bring out the final caution of the\u00a0race. \u00a0Lira had no problem leading the remaining 20 circuits to the checker as the\u00a0field stayed close, but strung out, behind him. \u00a0Tyler Audie had yet another\u00a0good showing, taking second after scoring his big 50-lap win on opening night\u00a0a few weeks back. \u00a0Third went to Alan Bruns but he was later DQ’d in tech for\u00a0a weight issue moving Will Carroll up to the show position. \u00a0Cody Blair was\u00a0fourth and Chris Brannon, running in his third different class this year,\u00a0fifth. \u00a0Completing the finishers were Daniel Miller, Zach Jarrell, Anderson,\u00a0Williams, Raul Orlandini and the ageless John Kennedy.<\/p>\n

The Mini Stock 25-lap feature marked the return of “Mr. Mini Stock,” veteran\u00a0Ted Vulpius of Mims and he led every lap after drawing the pole for the\u00a0feature. \u00a0Vulpius survived three slow-downs, two for minor spins and then a\u00a0red flag on lap 13 for a violent crash in turn one that saw the cars of Mark\u00a0Broat and Pat Wells hard into the wall but fortunately without injury to\u00a0either driver. \u00a0Tyler Simpson was also involved but was able to continue. \u00a0Vulpius had no problems at all during the event easily crossing the checker in\u00a0front of David Russell and Jamie Dixson. \u00a0Jeff White was fourth ahead of\u00a0Simpson who rebounded for fifth spot. \u00a0Rounding out the field were Levi\u00a0Hammond, Brad Blanton, Reid Christiensen, Wells, Broat and Jason Reynolds.<\/p>\n

The Super Stock 25-lapper was a fairly tame affair that saw just one lengthy\u00a0caution flag period when Mike Dahm blew an engine on lap seven and oiled the\u00a0track down in turn one. \u00a0Other than that, the race belonged to young Garrett\u00a0Hill. \u00a0Hill, who has moved up to run the Sportsman class this season, dusted\u00a0off his Super Stock and dominated the race, leading all the way. \u00a0Shannon\u00a0Kelly came from his tenth starting spot to finish second but had nothing for\u00a0the fleet Hill. \u00a0Mike Amato claimed third over Joe Gerard and Charles King who\u00a0had just moved up to the class from the Strictly Stocks. \u00a0Sixth spot went to\u00a0J. T. Tippins trailed by Jeff Cuddy, Preston Hunt, Becca Samsoe, Michael
\nBedient and Dahm. \u00a0Jimmy Barron out-ran Joshua Stilwell to win the Strictly Stock feature.<\/p>\n

This\u00a0coming Saturday\u00a0night it’s Fan Appreciation Night featuring 50-lap races\u00a0for both the full-bore Modifieds and the Super Stocks. \u00a0Mini Stocks and\u00a0Strictly Stocks will also be in action and Spectator Races are also on the\u00a0schedule along with a kids\/parents tire race. \u00a0All adult tickets for this\u00a0Saturday’s action are just $10 with kids aged 11 and under admitted free of\u00a0charge.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It was a nice and breezy Easter Eve at New Smyrna Speedway\u00a0Saturday\u00a0night and\u00a0along with a big Easter Egg hunt for the kids, there was plenty […]<\/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":[22,3,16,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21488","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-featured","category-front-page-news","category-new-smyrna-speedway","category-race-results"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/karnac.com\/flanews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21488","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=21488"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/karnac.com\/flanews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21488\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21492,"href":"https:\/\/karnac.com\/flanews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21488\/revisions\/21492"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/karnac.com\/flanews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21488"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/karnac.com\/flanews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21488"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/karnac.com\/flanews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21488"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}