Bradenton, Fl. - As the heat rose the teams were struggling to get a handle on the green racetrack. A week of rain washed whatever rubber build up had been set down from the week before.
Steve Dorer was one of the few who had figured it out as he clipped off the only 14-second lap in qualifying for the evening’s 100-lap feature.
Three rows were inverted Shawn Icely and Justin Larson on the front row. The green dropped and it was Icely who jumped out to the lead.
Dorer rode in the top five for most of the race saving his tires until just past the ¾ mark. Larson raced Dorer hard for several laps before the point’s leader was able to make the move for the second spot.
Icely had built up a sizeable lead while Dorer had battled Larson. It took Dorer just under ten laps to catch the leader. Catching him would be one thing but getting around would be the real mission.
Icely was really struggling coming out of turn four, sawing the wheel to keep the car on a straight line and also to keep Dorer behind him. Just when it looked like the fast qualifier would have to settle for second Icley slipped up and had to get on the binders to avoid contact with wall allowing Dorer to get by.
Dorer was able to cruise on to the win, Icely finished in the second spot, third was Tate Pierce, fourth went to solid running Justin Larson and fifth Lonny Miller.
Clear Channel Bombers: In only his fifth race in a brand new race car Scott Dawley notched his second win of the season. Dawley was able to hold off the charge of Michael “the Punisher” Crooks for the win, third was Randy Johnson, fourth Larry Brannon and fifth Rick Germony.
BOMBERS - BOMB 20L Pos Driver Car # 1 SCOTT DAWLEY 74X 2 MICHAEL CROOKS 33 3 RANDY JOHNSON 73 4 LARRY BRANNON 18 5 RICK GERMONY 8 6 JAMES CRAWFORD JR 34 7 STEPHEN HUTTON-R 64 8 CLIFF MITCHELL 17 9 KENNY GIBSON 23 10 DON SLACK 57 11 TODD JACOBS 44 12 TERRY SHAVER-R 07 13 CORY SCOTT 48 14 DONNIE BATHJE 36 15 MARK BOXELL 88 16 JEFF TAYLOR 70 17 PETE BARR 81 18 CHARLES STEVENS 74 19 ROBERT SHAVER-R 10 20 TYLER JOHNSON 9 21 JAMES CASADY JR 47
COWBOY CADDYS - CC TEN OR LESS Pos Driver Car # 1 DUANE CAMPBELL 77 2 LARRY BALLARD 52 3 ANTHONY EASTON 95 4 CHRIS BETZ-R 73
LIMITED LATE MODEL - LLM 100L Pos Driver Car # 1 STEVE DORER-Maacs,llm 10 2 SHAWN ICELY-Mllm 27 3 TATE PIERCE -Mllm 81 4 JUSTIN LARSON-R-Mllm 88X 5 LONNY MILLER-Mllm 98 6 STEVE GILL-Mllm 5 7 JASON BOWSER-Mllm 52 8 BOBBY SHELTON 34 9 RICKY BULLARD JR 1 10 CHRIS HUNTOON 30X 11 NORBERT GOESTL 6 12 GARY PADULA-Mllm 36 13 KENNETH VAUGHN-Mllm 127
LIMITED LATE MODEL - QUALIFYING Pos Driver Car # 1 STEVE DORER-Maacs,llm 10 2 STEVE GILL-Mllm 5 3 TATE PIERCE -Mllm 81 4 GARY PADULA-Mllm 36 5 SHAWN ICELY-Mllm 27 6 JUSTIN LARSON-R-Mllm 88X 7 LONNY MILLER-Mllm 98 8 BOBBY SHELTON 34 9 JASON BOWSER-Mllm 52 10 RICKY BULLARD JR 1 11 KENNETH VAUGHN-Mllm 127 12 CHRIS HUNTOON 30X 13 NORBERT GOESTL 6
MINI STOCKS - MS 15 OR LESS Pos Driver Car # 1 JON BAILEY 14 2 MIKE KERRIVAN 45 3 ARLIN POPE 71 4 MATT WATTS 5 5 ROB STODGELL 15 6 KEVIN WOOD 17 7 TIMOTHY HERRINGTON 82 8 RYAN BELLAMY 9 9 STEVE DANIELS 48 10 MICHAEL PEACE 25 11 DEAN BUTRUM 32 12 EUGENE DAVIDSON 3
MODIFIED MINIS - MM 20L 19 OR LESS Pos Driver Car # 1 DUSTIN PEREZ 0 2 MARTY NEIKENS 70 3 STEVE BOOTH 15 4 SCOTT RANNEY 02X 5 MATTHEW PERKINS 99 6 BILLY CARLBERT JR 11 7 RICHARD KELLY 61 8 MARK GONZALEZ 47
PURE STOCKS - PS 20L 19 OR LESS Pos Driver Car # 1 DUANE BEST-R-ollm 67 2 JIMMIE BEST-R-ollm 35 3 TYLER LAU 1 4 JOHN BROWN 6 5 RICHIE THORBIN 30 6 DAVE CLEARY 24 7 KEVIN SHEPHERD JR 92 8 ROBERT COON 73 9 DARRIN ELLIS 71 10 CLIFF HUTTON 64
STREET STOCKS - SS 20L 19 OR LESS Pos Driver Car # 1 GREGORY KROM-Mllm 35 2 ALEX ABBOTT 17 3 JEFF PADILLA 21 4 WILLIAM SLACK 57 5 CASEY HALL 11 6 JIMMIE BEST-R-ollm 67 7 JAMES CASADY 20 8 DUANE BEST-R-ollm 3 9 CODY SHAVER 2
