Desoto results & story from 4-23

Dutilly honors Lindley with dominating victory
By SCOTT LOCKWOOD

Desoto Speedway

Not even six months away from Desoto Speedway could slow down Jesse Dutilly.

Dutilly, who won several Super Late Model starts over the course of the
2015 season at Desoto, took the lead on a restart just prior to the halfway
point and drove off to the victory in the Sunoco Challenge Series’
Remembering Butch Lindley 115. Lindley was a former NASCAR competitor who
was severely injured in an accident in an All-Pro Series Race at Desoto
Speedway in 1985.

A four-car inversion put Jonathan Guy on the pole and fast-qualifier Joe
Boyd on the outside of the front row for the 115-lap main event. Winchell
and Guy battled for the top spot for the opening laps, with Winchell
grabbing the top spot at the end of the ninth lap.

Dutilly got by Guy for second on lap 12 and began cutting down on
Winchell’s lead. He caught Winchell at the 20-lap mark and spent the next
27 laps stalking the leader around the 3/8-mile oval. Boyd joined the lead
battle and right behind the lead duo when the caution flew for Mike
Franklin’s spin on lap 48.

Dutilly used the outside line to his advantage and took the lead from
Winchell on the lap 52 restart.

“That was my chance,” Dutilly said. “Joe was racing me awful hard – which
he should have been since he was in the lead. I thought I had him a couple
of times before, but he just shut the door on me. That’s good, hard short
track racing.”

“It’s an honor to lead these races and when you get someone like Jesse
behind you, you don’t want to roll over for them,” Winchell added. “I
wanted to make him work for it…and I did.”

The Bradenton driver was over a mile per hour faster than the rest of the
field and had built nearly a straightaway lead before another caution flew
for an accident involving Richie Anderson and Tyler Scofield on lap 65.

Boyd moved to the outside for what would be the final restart on lap 68,
but Dutilly got away at the flag and used lapped traffic to pull away from
Boyd over the final, caution-free 47 laps on his way to the win.

“The car was just awesome tonight,” Dutilly said in victory lane. “We
couldn’t be more excited. These guys are getting faster and closing the
gap.”

Winchell, Guy and Devin McLeod rounded out the top five.

The Desoto/Auburndale Sportsman Series was also on hand for its first
appearance of the season in the No Drama, Just Fast 50-lap feature. Just
three laps into the event, Mike Smith and Earl Beckner got together just
behind leader Brooke Storer and triggered a major crash on the front
stretch that involved at least half a dozen cars, including fast qualifiers
George Gorham and Jason Rendell. All drivers involved escaped injury.

Patrick Thomas got by Storer on the restart and was quickly joined at the
front of the field by Colin Allman. The pair ran side-by-side in a battle
for the lead for a couple of laps before Allman cleared Thomas for the top
spot on lap 12.

Allman survived a couple of restarts and led the rest of the way on his way
to the win. Thomas was second, while Storer held off Roger Welsh and
Roberth Kuhn in a battle for third.

In other action Saturday night, Jeff Firestine led from green to checker on
his way to the win in the 25-lap Take Aim Gun Range Street Stock feature;
Kenny Gibson helps off a late charge from Carl Thompson to win the 25-lap
Bomber feature; and Blaine Baer took the victory in the 25-lap LKQ
Pick-Your-Part Pure Stock feature.

Desoto Speedway is closed next weekend and will return to action on May 7
with the twin 50-lap features for the ADMO Open Wheel Modifieds along with
40-lap features for the Street Stocks, Pure Stocks, Modified Minis, Mini
Stocks and Outlaw Modifieds.

04-23- 2016
DESOTO SPEEDWAY
RACE RESULTS

Super Late Model

  1. 30 Jessie Dutilly
  2. 5 Joe Boyd Fast time
  3. 15 Joe Winchell
  4. 42 Johnathan Guy
  5. 21 Devon McLeod
  6. 128 Dylan Bigley
  7. 51 Michael Atwell
  8. 20 Anthony Sergi
  9. 8 D.J. Hoezle
  10. 25 Paul White
  11. 15l Sean Lamaster
  12. 57 John Coffman
  13. 07 Tyler Scoffield
  14. 51r Richie Anderson
  15. 12D Mike Franklin
  16. 56 Robert Ford
  17. 28 Billy Bigley
  18. 13 Scott Walter D.N.S.
  19. 14 Martin Maresca D.N.S.
  20. 67 Colin Allman D.N.S.
  21. 38 Shane Sawyer D.N.S.
  22. 4 Cody Martell DNS
    Sportsman
  23. 67 Colin Allman
  24. 111 Patrick Thomas
  25. 9 Brooke Storer
  26. 98 Roger Welch
  27. 78 Robert Kuhn
  28. 16 Tim Sozio
  29. 111b Josh Borem
  30. 172 Joey Sims
  31. 71 Earl Beckner
  32. 4 Rick Reed
  33. 45 Mike Kerrivan
  34. 25 Timothy Todd
  35. 10 Jeff Firestine
  36. 28 Mike Smith
  37. 157 Jason Rendell
  38. 03 George Gorham

Street Stock

  1. 10 Jeff Firestine
  2. 7 Danny Caylor
  3. 11 Travis Barfield
  4. 91 Ander Jackson
  5. 93 Kenny Gibson
  6. 4m Matt McCreary
  7. 74 Bobby Huffstutler
  8. 01 Bobby Diester
  9. 4p Donnie Powers
  10. 20 Claudio Reyes
  11. 75 Garrett Thompson
  12. 51m Scott McKay
  13. 92 Ted Head
  14. 88 Brandon Duchscher
  15. 51c Jarrett Cornell
    16, 40 Scott Finch
  16. 12 Jimmy Frazer
  17. 63 Kyle Best
  18. 23Todd Brown
  19. 27 Chris Oliver D.N.S.
    Pure Stock
  20. 7b Blaine Baer
    2.17 Ryan Meiser
  21. 3 Sherry Best
  22. 72 Roger Dufrense
  23. 42 Bill Osborne
  24. 57 Aaron Holmes
  25. 38 Jeff Gustafson
  26. 7x Josh Todd
  27. 57L Logan Leonard
    10 67 Jimmie Best
  28. 51 Scott McKay D.Q.
  29. 9 Bronson Lawson DNS

Bombers

  1. 23 Kenny Gibson
  2. 75 Carl Thompson
  3. 42 Bill Osborne
  4. 382 Zach Briggs
  5. 88 Jamie Castleberry
  6. 14 Adam Briggs
  7. 22 Ann Marie Ricardi
  8. 05 Buddy Phillips
  9. 38 Bobby Mobley
  10. 57 Aaron Holmes
  11. 63 Kris Bridges
  12. 7TJosh Todd

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Congratulations to Jessie Dutilly and Colin Allman, and congratulations to Desoto on great car counts all the way around.

Could not make it last night, congrats also to Patrick Thomas and the #111 Sportsman Team for a great finish and for not folding it up!

Good car counts and sounds like a great show!

The other thing that stood out was saying that Butch was “severely injured”, i get that it is technically accurate. But it just seemed odd to me.

Bubba,

Indeed and agreed.

But, like the inevitable mortality in each of our own cases, it is not something we like to dwell on.

And overall, it was a tribute to Butch, who I followed back in the day.

No need for “Mommy, what happened to that man…?”

True enough, i was happy to see a memorial race for him. He was one of my favorites.

Tires

The place was packed with fans, for sure. My only concern the whole night was the lack of outside passes in the super late class. The leaders were even having trouble passing lapped cars on the outside. I talked to a few drivers in the pits after the race, and like I had surmised, the new tire is throwing them some curve balls with its lack of grip.

Management seems to have a grip around getting people in the stands, and the show ran pretty smooth for the most part.

Just really think the super race would have seen more side by side racing, had they stayed on the Hoosier tire. I also believe the car count would have been even better by 3-4 cars, if Desoto was on the Hoosier also. Lot of guys can’t afford to run on two different brand tires.

This is all just my opinion. Vince P.

I too was glad to have the track honor Butch! I think he won more short track races than anyone except maybe Dick Trickle! I still have the video from that day Butch wrecked at Desoto! I put some parts of it on last weeks Promo!

Agreed on the fact that the car counts were up over any time I was there last year. I don’t agree so much on the statement that the stands were packed. Good crowd to be sure but far from being packed. The supposed alliance with auburndale did result in several of their regulars being in attendance. But,despite the repeatedly announced information that desoto would be dark next week because of the bradenton parade not once did I hear it announced that the sunoco challenge series moves on next week to auburndale speedway, the very track desoto is supposed to be working with. Now what is up with that? Great way to promote a series guys. Not to mention it truly shows a great spirit of cooperation by not acknowledging the other track even exists. Wtf? Overall a good show and got a chance to walk down on the track and see some people,good luck moving ahead Sean lemaster it was good to meet up with your dad,and sorry billy bigley for giving you the kiss of death before the race started. Hopefully you will both make it to adale next week.

Was semi-impressed with the show of cars… it’s growing, but has a bit of room for improvements.
Sure would like management to walk up the isles (if they dare)… some of those boards are scary as hell…some sag…some don’t line up with other boards… it’s a risky trip…you would think that would be a priority for customers safety…I see a lot of senior fans (perhaps not as old as I am…but even Tom B. is getting up there a bit - but he doesn’t use the stairs…)…OSF

[QUOTE=turnleft;169298]The place was packed with fans, for sure. My only concern the whole night was the lack of outside passes in the super late class. The leaders were even having trouble passing lapped cars on the outside. I talked to a few drivers in the pits after the race, and like I had surmised, the new tire is throwing them some curve balls with its lack of grip.

Management seems to have a grip around getting people in the stands, and the show ran pretty smooth for the most part.

Just really think the super race would have seen more side by side racing, had they stayed on the Hoosier tire. I also believe the car count would have been even better by 3-4 cars, if Desoto was on the Hoosier also. Lot of guys can’t afford to run on two different brand tires.

This is all just my opinion. Vince P.[/QUOTE]

Not sure what race you were watching but I saw side by side racing. We also know the tire has a little less grip but that’s what we wanted pp,puts it back in the drivers seat. The American Racer is a excellent tire and we impound tires so it doesn’t cost the racer anymore and they are less expensive per set. We are drawing just as many cars as other series at the present time.

How much less are they ? Just spent $624 for a set of hoosier 10" slicks mounted. They have not proven to be a better tire…And they are dividing the classes with two types of tires. Ricky you do know that 1 set of rules and 1 type of tire will help the central florida tracks ? It just makes good sence. I also have been told from some of the guys who promote the grooved tires that the american 8" grooved suck.

Doug is right. Would be very helpful if all tracks switched to American Racers.

Aii tracks to

Hoosiers !!!

Doug, what are you bolting the 10" Hoosiers on?

I have

Been running a late model a little

Yeah well, that isn’t in every tracks best interest in spite of what you may want.

Hey Doug, I agree with you The Hoosiers are the way to go.

American racer groves tires have been nothing short of great! They hold up great and are cheaper. Sounds like whoever your speaking about didn’t give the American racers a fair shake. It does take a little adjustment to get the car right on them, but I ran 102 laps on a set, then a month and a half later went and ran 3 10 lap practices and a 30 lap feature and finished second. That’s good enough for me.

Exactly. But, Doug “heard”. SMH.

After 2 races on this American Racer tire I have to say it’s pretty good, and seems to repeat pretty well. I put on 3 tires at Desoto after putting on 4 at Auburndale the week before, I only picked up 14 hundredths in qualifying at Desoto from my practice tires which I raced a 50 lapper at Auburndale the week before. If you were at Desoto you could see how bad my car was handling last Saturday, waaaaaaayyyyyyy loose. But every restart I jumped up to the outside and still had plenty of tire to look respectable up there.

I’m not saying I liked them when I went from being really fast on Hoosiers, to all over the place and bad on the American Racers at Auburndale. But after several changes and a toe in issue was discovered the car stuck just like the old Hoosiers, with less drop off of speed.

Plus they are cheaper.

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