I went to New Smyrna for the Hart Memorial 100. Rich Clouser led the 17 starters to the green, and stayed up front every lap. The were some good battles back in the field. Dusty Cornelius ran a great race to come home 2nd. David Rogers came from deep in the field, up to 3rd when it appeared his car jumped out of gear, and lost several spots. Anthony Campi pounded the front stretch wall. Wayne Anderson and Jeff Scofield were early drop outs. I thought I heard that Jake Perkins set fast time, and if so, I believe that’s a first for him. He ran a smooth race to get a top 5.
The Pro Truck race was a cluster****. Only 3 started, and 2 crashed in turn 2 of the first lap. They waited a good 10-15 minutes to allow 1 of them to make repairs and run the race. It amounted to a 15 lap practice session, with ZERO excitement. Can’t remember the last Truck race that was worth watching. Super Stocks and Strictly Stocks did OK, with about a 10 car field of each.
Not a bad show, but seriously overpriced at $20 admission.
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Not that I’m a help Frass. I didn’t go anywhere this weekend. Trying to save $ to fix my bent front clip on my Sportsman. Gotta comment though. 17 SLM’s for the CLyde Hart Memorial and only 3 Trucks for an advertised 25 Lapper for the Trucks? WTF? I have heard through the grapevine that the promoters are going to sit at the table again in a few weeks. If they want to survive they need to collectively get their heads out of their ass*s. Enough with the Brighthouse Challenge, Good Year 12 Pack Series and FUPS Series. Come together already before every track is shuttered. ONE SERIES visiting ALL TRACKS. It’s all about POINTS, POINTS, POINTS. If you have ONE SERIES you will get massive fields EVERYWHERE. So what if PGS runs Good Years?If you run two races or more does it matter? Buy some freakin’ Good Years and be done with it! This FASCAR vs FUPS vs PGS crap is just hurting EVERYBODY. Let’s face it, the economy sucks and the money just isn’t there for sponsorship anymore. Everyone needs to adjust. This means running Series for the bigger dollar divisions. SLM’s, Mod’s, Sportsman and Trucks. Bring in the Series once a month and run the lower-buck guys every week. Pepper in Legends and a “novelty show” once a month with Busses, Enduros, Demo Derbys, what have you. This competition is not helping anyone. Sorry for the rant.
Went to showtime last night to watch the 1500.00 to win mod race. 25 stout cars showed up for the show,rocket man would set fast time only to cut a tire early on starting from the 12position invert, when the dust settled and several cautions it was the veteran Billy Bechteiheimer taking the win followed by the young man Devin Mcleod 2nd, and my old bud Shawn Mclaughlin 3rd.It was good to see a lot of cars there that I have not seen run there yet MOFF, COOPER, WRIGHT, MOBLEY, JUST TO NAME A FEW, ME thinks they might be getting ready for the brann race dunno, but i can tell ya one thing,put the money up and they will come out of the woods LOL
You have to remember something scott, not to get off track from frass post,it was PGS that elected to run a diff tire than the rest of the other tracks in the whole state of fla, It was also PGS that din’t want any thing to do with the track alliance gig they started 2 or 3 yrs back remember, I believe they just wanted to hang out on there own Island and do there own thing, I hope it works out for them
I helped out with the Perkins 59 SLM. Jake did set his first fast time and then drew a five for the invert. His brakes were fading bad about half way and he slapped the front stretch wall. Had no pedal last 20 laps and had to let off early because of it. Finished 6th… Good job for Jake considering…:huepfen024:
Today I put the NAPA 15 Chevy on dirt for the Tyler Morr fund raiser. Gave a lot of kiddie rides and had a blast. Tomorrow is pressure cleaning day
-JIM-
Headed to East Bay and saw one of the finest dirt shows I have seen in ages. Firstly the DAARA had a couple of features that came down to the last lap.The late models were 21 cars strong with Roger Crouse #15 winning this action packed race over the #105 of David Schmauss. The winged sprints, 30 cars strong battled for the 24 starting spots, through four heats and a B Main. The feature absolutely rocked as The Hammer #82 and Tyler #38T put on one helluva race, changing the lead several times in the last two/three laps. Wow is the only word for this battle, as #82 Danny "the Hammer’ Martin took the win with #38T Tyler Godwin picking up second. Besides Grubaugh’s flip in the feature, Billy Boyd in the #4 took a wild ride in the first heat. Amazing enough, although not competitive, he had the sprint back out for the B Main. Looked like Gene Lasker gave him much needed help getting the #4 back running. Also a wild flip in heat #1 of the 4 Cylinder Bombers. All drivers okay. Had to leave before the 4 cylinder feature for the long drive home. Plenty of action, real super racing, great crowd on hand, fantastic night at East Bay. Only $12.00 reg- $10.00 seniors, for this great show.
Not a bad show, but seriously overpriced at $20 admission.
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Refuse to pay $20 to go to NSS with the low car counts combined with the fact that they put no effort into getting a show in when weather does not cooperate,so I packed the family up and took my $ across the state to Show Time…Awesome show with 100+ cars in the pits…The track even coordinated discount room rates with a local hotel.
100% positive experience and the family loved the show!:ernaehrung004:
I took my sons kart racing on Saturday. It was my older boys first time in a regulation racing kart (he had been in a kid kart prior to this). Also, the track ran double features because of a previous rain-out. As things turned out, both boys won both of their features. 4 wins in one night for the team, and Steven extends his career undefeated streak to 13 wins in 13 starts.
Then we went to Showtime and had a great time on Sunday. In all, one fine race weekend!
Went to race at North Florida Speedway for the first time and had a great time. Car count wasn’t huge but, saw some good racing throughout the divisions. Met some great people.
