Speed51.com – Showtime Speedway in Pinellas Park, Florida brought in the best racers from around the state to put on one heck of a show Saturday night with the $5,000-to-win Florida State Super Late Model Championship 100.<\/p>\n
With big names such as Florida short track ace Jesse Dutilly, young gun Michael Atwell and super team Mike Cope Racing in town, it was Aaron Williamson in only his third ever start in a Super Late Model who took the win.<\/p>\n
Williamson, who had gotten the call up to substitute for the injured Colin Allman on Thursday night, had been driving for owner Chad Allman for most of the year in the team\u2019s Sportsman car.<\/p>\n
300×250 Seekonk Speedway PPV 2017.07.12\u201cColin called me about seven o\u2019clock on Thursday night to come change the seat and drive it,\u201d Williamson told Speed51.com powered by JEGS in a post-race interview.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt was incredible. I can\u2019t thank everyone who supports us enough. Jesse, of course, has a dominant car wherever he goes. It\u2019s unbelievable to beat him, let alone pass him on the outside. I cannot believe how the season has come with the Sportsman car and now the Super Late Model here for a race. I\u2019m shaking I\u2019m so excited. It\u2019s great.\u201d<\/p>\n
When pressed to find out how he got around Dutilly on the outside for the win with only a handful of laps to go, Williamson simply said, \u201cI had a good coach on the radio\u201d.<\/p>\n
The one on the other end of the radio was none other that Colin Allman himself.<\/p>\n
\u201cColin supported me for my decision to step to the outside of him from the first turn and told me to keep digging, keep digging, that we were going to get him, and sure enough we did.\u201d<\/p>\n
Jesse Dutilly chalks up his second-place finish to handling issues his team had been struggling with all weekend.<\/p>\n
\u201cI needed to be on the top, but I couldn\u2019t get off turn four. I thought I would just be a sitting duck, so I tried the bottom and the car just wouldn\u2019t run the top,\u201d Dutilly explained. \u201cI practiced the bottom for three weeks, committed to the bottom when the grove was in the top so we could pass cars. Low and behold at the end of the race I couldn\u2019t get off the top of the race track.\u201d<\/p>\n
Devon McLeod came in third with a car that more resembled a Florida Modified than a Super Late Model in the closing laps.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe car was great. It was awesome, and then I just got caught up in someone else\u2019s mess,\u201d he said. \u201cIt was tough keeping these things down in the bumps. It\u2019s such a small track you don\u2019t think downforce means much, but when you have to hit the gas and the brake so much to get the car to roll through the center, I think if we had a nose on the car it would have been a good three-car race or they would have been chasing us. The car was that good.\u201d<\/p>\n
More information, highlights, and interviews from Saturday night\u2019s race at Showtime Speedway can be seen by visiting 51\u2019s Trackside Now.<\/p>\n
Next on the schedule at Showtime Speedway is the Racecar Engineering Wheel Man Sportsman Series 50 with support from the Pro Trucks, Mod Minis, Mini Stocks, Strictly Stocks and Street Stock divisions on July 15.<\/p>\n
-By Allick Jorgensen, Speed51.com Southeast Correspondent \u2013 Twitter: @AJorgensen24<\/p>\n
-Photo credit: Speed51.com<\/p>\n
Florida State Super Late Model Championship Official Results<\/p>\n
Showtime Speedway (FL) \u2013 July 8, 2017<\/p>\n
Pos # Driver
\n1 67 Aaron Williamson
\n2 30 Jesse Dutilly
\n3 21 Devin McLeod
\n4 03 George Gorham
\n5 5 Joe Boyd
\n6 51 Michael Atwell
\n7 20 Anthony Sergi
\n8 17 Nick Neri
\n9 12D David Green
\n10 59X Becca Monopoli
\n11 00 Anthony Cataldi
\n12 37 Michael Goodard
\n13 25 Paul White
\n14 2 Robby Lyons
\n15 32 Harold Crooms II
\n16 53 Charles Kopach
\n17 47 Chris Fontaine
\n18 128 Dylan Bigley
\n19 24 Jamie King
\n20 26 Travis Cope
\n21 23 Mike Smith
\n22 88 Justin Larson
\n23 09 Scott Grossenbacher
\n24 5K Daniel Keene Jr.
\n25 01 Robert Whitaker<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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