You south Florida boy’s don’t like it below 70 :laugh:
You are correct. But I guess I will tough it out.
That is why we are still down here at the end of the earth.
17 late models at practice tonight, doulble digit car counts for the street stock and pure stocks also. Should be a great field of cars for Saturday nights races!
And Wayne Anderson is in Tommy’s #77 tonight, with Wayne’s son Randy in the #84.
So who’s going tonight? We just bought a 10-pack of Hot Hands from WalMart for $1.89.
It’s going to be a great night of racing, come on out and bring enough friends to sit around you to keep you warm! 17 lates last night, and 5 more that said they were coming that were not there, so we should have a full 24 car field if all goes as planned!
My son an I will be there! Looking forward to it, it will be my first time there!
Joe you will love it there as well… The fans have always been great… The drivers and people in the pits really good as well… Just your typical great short track… Quite honestly there aren’t too many tracks that I have ever been too that I couldn’t find some really great people out there…
Have a great night and be warm…
We had a great time, but it was too darn ccccold! We stayed till lap 68 of the SLM race with Herb Neumann leading. The concession food was decent and reasonable, and I liked the action on the track. It is a 2 1/4 hour ride for me, but we will be back!
A great night of racing, and some really cold temps!
Herb Neumann past Steve Dorer for the lead just before the halfway point after starting 10th and went on to win the 100 lap Super Late Model race. Darryl Shellnut set fast time and started 12th on the inversion. Shellnut raced his way to second by the checkered flag after some late race cautions shuffled the field. The last 30 laps saw multiple cautions sending the front running cars of Steve Dorer, Wayne Anderson, and Jeremy Gerstner to the rear after contact in 2 seperate incidents. Dorer managed to race his way back to 3rd by the checkers while Anderson and Gerstner’s cars were damaged from the incidents, and not able to make a charge back to the front. Scott Grossenbacher lost an engine near lap 68 which collected the 84 car of Randy Anderson, and 111 on Donnny Williams. Anderson made hard contact with the turn 3 walll after sliding in the oil on the track and retired from the race. Donny Williams also made heavy contact with Anderson after sliding in the oil which caused him to retire from the race. 18 cars took the green flag.
Jeff Stalnaker Jr won the 50 lap Street Stock feature under heavy pressure from Mike Wilson and Tom Potts. The race started out with a turn 1 demo derby when polesitter Bill Ryan made contact with outside polesitter Ernie Reed. In all, 8 cars were involved in or recieved damage from the accident. Ryan and Reed were forced to retire from the race because of the damage they suffered in the incident.All three of the front running drivers ran amazing races, none of the top three made a mistake over the last 30 laps. Some really clean, hard racing, it was fun to watch. 15 cars took the green.
Levi Roberts set fast time and rocketed to the front from his 5th starting position to run away with the Pure Stock 50 lapper. He took the lead from James Peters around lap 20 and never looked back. James Peters ran a strong second followed by Carl Peters. 19 cars took the green.
Ronnie Schrefiels mad a return to figure 8 action and took the win in the 25 lap figure 8 race driving Robert Aarons familiar yellow #6 machine. Schrefiels took off from his pole postion but then had heavy pressure from Eric Sharrone and Thomas Peet. Contact between Peet and Sharrone in the last two laps ended Sharrone’s good night with a broke axle. On the restart Schrefiels pulled away and took the victory over Peet and Larry Welter Jr in third place. 10 cars took the green.
Mike Ender took the victory in the 20 lap Outlaw Modified Mini feature, he had some early pressure from multiple time series champion Doug Hopper, but pulled away over the final few laps for a comfortable victory. Hopper came home second ahead of 3rd place Finisher Mel-Mel Braden. Braden is just making the transition from go karts and turned in an outstanding run for her first time at Citrus with the Outlaw’s.
Citrus starts out the 2011 points season on Feburary 5th with the Central Florida Wingless Sprints Series as well as our regular local divisions. Sprint car shows will be at a premium in Florida this year, so if you’re a sprint car fan, come out and support them in their season opener.
hey polesitter fyi i thought the 84 was hit by another car not the wall !
You are correct, with the amount of damage I thought he had also hit the wall, but he did indeed get it stopped before the wall and then was hit by the 111.
Did i see 16 or 18 started the race?
Was it a FAST race ?
Just asking
Don62
It was not a FAST race, just our normal Winter Spectacular late model race.
How can a 14,000 crate motor reduce the cost of racing?
Don, the race was run under the new United Track Owner rules. There were several of us with ASA cars that wanted to run with them also but the way they wrote the new rules they made our cars illegal with the swipe of a pen. It did make it easier for us to decide where we are going to run in 2011 or I guess you could say where we are not going to run in 2011. We don’t have to many options left.
It’s already hard enough for us with “legal” ASA cars to compete with supers and specs and then they (United) go and adds more weight to us and than take away some of the preformance advantage that a crate gets. It’s not even worth putting my car in the trailer.
Their rules are like Swiss cheese. I guess by their rules I could go put a 750 carb no my crate and pick up a little.
They also added weight to the supers, not just the crates. A “crate” motor set fast time and ran second in this race. A crate motor also set fast time at our last regular race of last season, and I know that one was pretty bone stock. Jeremy Gerstner ran third for most of the race before a late race accident took him out, with a crate. Rob Partelo was pushing supers around the track at our last race of the year, with a crate motor. I can be done…especially at Inverness and A-dale.
Polesitter, none of that really matters anyway because the rules were written and it made our cars illegal. We can’t run in that series.
But since you know so much about those guys crate motors was Jeremy running his Progressive? Did it have certified engine builders seals on it? Or did it have GM seals? That also goes for the other one you mentioned set fast time and ran second.
And the other one you mentioned from the last race of the regular season. You said that “you” know that that one is “pretty bone stock”. That means that it is not all the way stock? What does that mean? Just a big cam? Did you build it? Has it been opened? What kind of seals are on it?
The reason I ask is that my crate has certified engine builder seals in it. That is the only way you can just look at a crate and be sure it is legal. A certified builder puts up a $50,000 bond up and if one of their motors is ever found illegal they loss their $50,000 and their certification. They won’t build them illegal and put those seals on them.
With that being said. If a crate is out running supers and it has GM seals in it it probably ain’t legal.
The last thing I want to touch on is when you said they added weight to the supers too not just the crates. Doesn’t that sound like the stupidest thing that a track could do when they are trying to equalize the field. Add weight to all of the cars. That doesn’t help any car.
Hmmm, why would your ASA car be illegal to run in the United series?
Jacko, I don’t write the rules I just run by them. And I keep my car to the rule book. You could read the ASA rules and the United rules and figure it out. My car is ASA legal and it is not United legal.