{"id":6531,"date":"2011-05-11T12:02:24","date_gmt":"2011-05-11T12:02:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/karnac.com\/flanews\/?p=6531"},"modified":"2011-05-11T12:39:32","modified_gmt":"2011-05-11T12:39:32","slug":"the-daytona-harley-davidson-sprint-cars-return-to-vsp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/karnac.com\/flanews\/tracks\/the-daytona-harley-davidson-sprint-cars-return-to-vsp\/","title":{"rendered":"The Daytona Harley-Davidson Sprint Cars Return to VSP"},"content":{"rendered":"

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by BJ Cavin- VSP Media<\/div>\n
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BARBERVILLE, FL-\u00a0 The Daytona Harley-Davidson Sprint Cars will highlight another action packed Saturday night of racing this weekend at Volusia Speedway Park, including a Sprint Car Elimination Race that will pit the fastest of the fast against each other in head to head racing on the World’s Fastest Half Mile.\u00a0 In addition to the alcohol fueled winged fury of the sprint cars, fans will also see action from five of VSP’s other exciting racing divisions.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n


\n<\/a>Sprint car racing fans across Florida know that Danny Martin Jr. is on a literal tear, winning every race that he has entered so far in 2011.\u00a0 His only close call has came at Volusia Speedway when he got a little too close to the turn 3 wall and almost ended the streak in a spectacular crash, but managed to power himself out of that jam and continue on to another win.\u00a0 Sport Allen, Mark Ruel, AJ Maddox, and Terry Weatherspoon, have all finished in the top five at VSP this year, but none of them have gotten\u00a0very close to Martin in the end, mainly because Martin has taken advantage of long green flag runs to build his huge leads.\u00a0 But sooner or later the caution may fly late in a race, and that could set someone up to force Martin to finish second.\u00a0 The question is will it happen this Saturday night as Daytona Harley-Davidson Sprint Cars will again blister the clay on the World’s Fastest Half Mile?<\/p>\n

Danny Vogel had wrapped up two wins in a row with the Daytona Machine Shop Sportsman Division when the 11 car suddenly got on track and began stealing his thunder.\u00a0 Scott Lagasse drove the 11 to a victory two weeks ago while Aaron Barsness repeated the feat last Saturday night, and both times Vogel has wound up finishing in second place to the Lagasse\/Barsness driving tandem.\u00a0 Meanwhile Kyle Chappell has a win from earlier in the season and is running well, and could be poised to return to the Destination Daytona Victory Lane in the near future.\u00a0 And David Showers has re entered the Sportsman picture as well, and is also running strong, so Vogel and whoever is driving the 11 car might want to worry less about each other and a little more about who might be behind them.<\/p>\n

The Quality Brands Budweiser Modified Division is under the firm grip of Jeff Mathews at the moment, as repeated wins have left him high atop the points ladder at this point in the season.\u00a0 At the same time Larry Burkins continues to run well and has already gotten the better of Mathews once so far, and could easily do it again on any given Saturday.\u00a0Jared Allison gave “the Repo Man” a run for his money this past weekend but wound up second, so he is within reach of the top dog as well.\u00a0\u00a0And then Mathews sometimes can be his own worst enemy as he lets other competitors drive his backup machine, and those fellow competitors have come close to making Mathews wish that he hadn’t been so generous. So the question is who can step up and keep Mathews from winning, and when will it happen?<\/p>\n

The division with the most drama at this point of the season seems to be the Daytona Sportswear Street Stocks as the relationship between Joe Belkey and Mike Tovet has become very strained and could easily break.\u00a0 As for Belkey, he is determined to prove that he is a winner because he possesses superior skills, and\u00a0not because of anything else.\u00a0 But last Saturday Belkey’s first shot at proving his point came up short after the drive shaft broke on the 119 machine and Tovet went on to another win.\u00a0 The bad\u00a0blood seems to be reaching a boiling point in this dispute as last week’s shouting match in the Destination Daytona Victory Lane would indicate, so look for more fireworks this weekend as both racers again hit the track and take on each other.<\/p>\n

Things got kind of rough with the Amsoil Thunder Stocks last Saturday, but Donnie Birdwell outran all of the paint trading behind him and scored himself a win.\u00a0 The turnover rate in the top five in that race was constant as racer after racer either spun or hit something\u00a0and was relegated to the rear, and in the end Alan Peacock and Tom Hughes also avoided all of that mayhem and finished in the top three.\u00a0 Peacock has been tough at the controls of the 13 car and is threatening to take the car to a victory soon, while Tom Hughes is running just as well and is poised to return to the Destination Daytona Victory Lane.\u00a0 But as long as Birdwell is running as strongly as he did on Saturday, it could be a mute point.<\/p>\n

There has been a three way rivalry going with the Sparkle\u00a0N Shine Car Wash Challengers, but on Saturday night some upstarts got into the middle of the fray and more or less broke things up for the time being.\u00a0 Denica Hetznecker got the worst of the three rivals as she and Robert Graham tangled and smacked the turn one wall.\u00a0 That nasty incident left Graham with a broken leg and made a complete mess of Hetnecker’s race car, so much so that she reportedly is shopping for a new one in order to return.\u00a0 RJ Glaser also had his misfortunes as Nathan Rhodes muscled in and interrupted his rivalry with Casey Feaster, and Feaster yet again managed to rise above it all and get another win.<\/p>\n

The grandstand gate will open at 5:30PM this Saturday with racing slated to begin at 7PM.\u00a0 For more information on this Saturday’s races, or to see the complete 2011 racing schedule, visit www.TheVolusiaSpeedway.com<\/a>.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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