{"id":5396,"date":"2011-03-03T18:45:20","date_gmt":"2011-03-03T18:45:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/karnac.com\/flanews\/?p=5396"},"modified":"2011-03-03T18:45:20","modified_gmt":"2011-03-03T18:45:20","slug":"season-openers-for-modifieds-legends-and-bandoleros-saturday-night-at-auburndale-speedway-8","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/karnac.com\/flanews\/front-page-news\/season-openers-for-modifieds-legends-and-bandoleros-saturday-night-at-auburndale-speedway-8\/","title":{"rendered":"SEASON-OPENERS FOR MODIFIEDS, LEGENDS AND BANDOLEROS SATURDAY NIGHT AT AUBURNDALE SPEEDWAY"},"content":{"rendered":"
By Dave Westerman<\/span><\/span>\r\n\r\nThe month of March kicks off at Auburndale Speedway Saturday night with eight <\/span><\/span>\r\nclasses in action including the Open Wheel Modifieds, Legend Cars, Sportsman, <\/span><\/span>\r\nStreet Stocks, V-8 Bombers, Scramblers, Mini Stocks and the Bandoleros.<\/span><\/span>\r\n\r\nThe Open Wheel Modifieds will be running their first races of the season and<\/span><\/span>\r\nwill be led out the gate by defending track champion James Wright III.  Some<\/span><\/span>\r\nnew cars are expected and a lot of old favorites will be on hand including<\/span><\/span>\r\nKeith Lilley, Bobby Blake, Big Wayne Morris, Von Pope, Travis Roland and <\/span><\/span>\r\nmany<\/span><\/span> more.<\/span><\/span>\r\n\r\nIt looks like the Legend Cars will be the class to beat this year when it comes <\/span><\/span>\r\nto car count as over 35 are now registered with Legend Cars of Florida with <\/span><\/span>\r\na number of new drivers expected to begin participating in the near future. <\/span><\/span>\r\nIt's not yet clear whether defending champion Jake Perkins of Ocala will do <\/span><\/span>\r\nmuch Legend Car racing this year as his team rolled out a new Late Model <\/span><\/span>\r\nlast week for the season-opening Florida United Promoters Tour race at <\/span><\/span>\r\nDeSoto Super Speedway.  The 14-year-old had an impressive day in the <\/span><\/span>\r\n\"Icebreaker,\" coming from 19th on the starting grid to finish eighth.<\/span><\/span>\r\nIt looks like there will be quite a few new drivers in the Bandolero class this <\/span><\/span>\r\nyear, especially in the 8-10 year old Bandit division.<\/span><\/span>\r\n\r\nLance Daubach looks to be the driver to beat in the Sportsman class this year <\/span><\/span>\r\nif his dominance of last weeks racing is any indication.  Another driver who <\/span><\/span>\r\nalso looked very good last week was Brandon Duchscherer as his new ride <\/span><\/span>\r\nout of the Chuck Harrison stable was very stout.<\/span><\/span>\r\n\r\nThe best surprise of the opening week of racing at Auburndale Speedway <\/span><\/span>\r\nhad to be the number of new Scrambler cars that were in action.  However, <\/span><\/span>\r\nRichie Acres found a way to make his Saturn run \"rings\" around the <\/span><\/span>\r\ncompetition last week and the action in the tech shed was almost as <\/span><\/span>\r\ninteresting as the racing on the track.<\/span><\/span>\r\n\r\nSome new V-8 Bombers made an appearance last week including a really <\/span><\/span>\r\nnice new car for local veteran Matt Bozeman and a really sharp new Mopar <\/span><\/span>\r\nfor Greg King.  John Smith, a former hot shoe at Orlando Speedworld before <\/span><\/span>\r\nmoving to the Lakeland area, also brought out a new car last week and was <\/span><\/span>\r\nrunning third when his engine started to sour late in the going.<\/span><\/span>\r\nPit gates open Saturday at 2PM and grandstand gates open at 5PM with <\/span><\/span>\r\nracing at 7PM. Adult admission is $12, seniors are $10, kids 5-12 are $5 <\/span><\/span>\r\nand kids under 4 are free.  A family \"four pack\" for two adults and two kids <\/span><\/span>\r\naged 5-12 is $25.<\/span><\/span>\r\n\r\nGirl Scout cookies will be available Saturday afternoon in the pit area and <\/span><\/span>\r\non the grandstand side from 6-8PM thanks to Auburndale Daisy Troop 95. <\/span><\/span>\r\nCookies are just $3.50 a box.<\/span><\/span>\r\n\r\n For more information log on to www.auburndaleracing.com<\/a> <\/span><\/span>\r\n<\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
By Dave Westerman The month of March kicks off at Auburndale Speedway Saturday night with eight classes in action including the Open Wheel Modifieds, Legend […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"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":[6,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5396","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-auburndale-speedway","category-front-page-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/karnac.com\/flanews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5396","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\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/karnac.com\/flanews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5396"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/karnac.com\/flanews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5396\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5398,"href":"https:\/\/karnac.com\/flanews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5396\/revisions\/5398"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/karnac.com\/flanews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5396"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/karnac.com\/flanews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5396"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/karnac.com\/flanews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5396"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}