Wow! What a show the Super Late Models put on last night in their 50 lap feature at Citrus County Speedway. A strong field, by today’s standards, of 20 cars featuring the best of the best SLM drivers in the Sunshine State graced the pits.
The fastest qualifier in time trial qualifying was Nick Neri who received an additional $100 from United Speed World of Tampa for his accomplishment. Additionally United Speed World provided a bonus of $100 to the winner of the SLM feature and $50 to the winner of the feature in the other divisions if the car displayed a United Speed World sticker. If the car did not have a sticker the money would go to the midfield finisher.
The SLM feature boiled down to a tremendous duel between Neri and George Gorham, Jr. who raced side by side for many laps of the race much to the pleasure of the fans in attendance who were just eating it up. The lead changed hands several times between the twosome before Neri finally took control late in the race and went on to take the checkers. Gorham settled for 2nd with Daniel Keene, Jr; Patrick Staropoli; and John Gerstner rounding out the top five. The quality of racing was intense with position battles throughout the field before it was all said and done prompting many fans to comment it was some of the best racing they’ve seen in years.
Not to be outdone all of the support divisions kept the fans at the edge of there seats with plenty of three wide action and bold moves with each race going right down to the last lap before a winner was determined.
Here are the official results:
Super Late Model Feature: 50 laps
- 17N Nick Neri
- 03 George Gorham, Jr.
- 5K Daniel Keene, Jr.
- 64 Patrick Staropoli
- 62 John Gerstner
- 85 Ricky Anderson
- 5 Eric Willis
- 17 Mike Bell
- 84 Wayne Anderson
- 25 Paul White
- 22 David King
- 82 Joe Winchell
- 94 Keith Roggen
- 78 Rob Kuhn
- 20 Anthony Sergi
- 67 Colin Allman
- 07 Ricky Coffin
- 29 Kendall Anderson
- 4 Al Larson
- 12D David Green
Modified Mini Stock ? 25 laps
- 7 Clint Foley
- 34 Kevin Harrod
- 47 Richard Kuhn
- 24 Phil Edwards
- 41 Ricky Kuhn
- 96 Dustin Dinkens
- 711 Wayne Heater
- 77 Rachelle Rudolph
- 55 Ron Williams
- 29 Chris Snow
- 15 Doug Hopper
Pure Stock Feature ? 25 laps
- 94 Sport Wilson
- 85 Larry Welter, Sr.
- 5 James Peters
- 45 James Johnston
- 14 Jesse Veltman
- 112 BK Williams
- 09 Bubba Martone
- 75 Mike Gilkerson III
- T5 Wes Wilson
- 1 Wayne Jefferson
- 58 Larry Welter, Jr.
- 20 Lane Wilson
- 6 Brian Millar
- 15 Tyler Prenesti
- 65 Happy Florian
- 50 DJ Morse
Outlaw Street Stocks ? 25 laps
- 58 Larry Welter, Jr.
- 32 Dillon Sivils
- 51 Shannon Kennedy
- 69A Jonathan Appleby
- 44 Charles Seroki
- 69 Bubba Martone
- 82 Danny Maddox
- 52 Tommy Stokes
- 74 Dwight Benson
Mini Stocks ? 25 laps
- 48 Jamie Brown
- 32 Mike Autenrieth
- 22 Nick Richardson
- 22F Lindsey Kelton
- 44 Zachary Stultz