The Super Late Models and the Tampa Bay Area Racing Association Winged Sprints were the highlight of this night of racing at the newly paved New Smyrna Speedway. The half-mile near Daytona now boasts one of the fastest half-mile asphalt circuits in the country and seeing the open wheel cars on the pavement was just simply spectacular.
Twenty-two Super Late Model cars took the green flag with New Smyrna veteran ace Mike Fritts on the pole. As often happens when Fritts starts in the lead, he is very tough to beat, especially in the shorter races such as this 30 lap affair. B.J. McLeod (#78) started outside Fritts, and once the field got up to speed Fritts had a good lead with the contenders quickly shaking out to be McLeod, Jay Middleton (#74) and Ryan Sieg (#39).
Jeff Choquette tangled with a lapped car, bringing out the caution on lap 8 and ending the Florida drivers night with two wreckers needed to get his #70 off the track.
After the mess was cleaned up, and #3 Russ Shaw was sent off the track with leaking race car, Fritts roared to a huge lead over Sieg while McLeod and Middleton both seemed ready to contest for the second spot, while the rest of the field was involved in a whole different race.
Ryan Sieg has a mirror full of McLeod and Middleton
McLeod grabbed the third spot from Middleton at lap 20 and looked like he would challenge Sieg very quickly, but a lap later the 78 machine was forced to pit due to mechanical failure.
Mike Fritts in a familiar setting
A caution near the end of the race gave Sieg one shot to catch Fritts. Not much of a chance though, as Fritts stormed home for a wire to wire win so familiar to FASCAR faithful.
The TBARA Winged Sprints gave the fans a little extra tonight, needing a B Main to set the field for the feature.
Rookie TBARA racer D.J. Hoelzle, driving the David Steele machine of 2006, won the B Main, but his thrill was to be short lived, to say the least.
After enjoying a visit with the New Smyrna fans to sign a few autographs fired up their bad machines, did their four wide salute and then thundered into action, vapor trails off some of the wings. Amazing stuff. No matter how many times we see these cars in action, it never ceases to amaze how talented this group of drivers are.
The tires for the winged sprints were not holding up so good on the new pavement and made things a little trickier than usual for this bunch. When these cars get wound up at New Smyrna, it can be a breathtaking experience, especially from the vantage of the pits or the turn three stands.
The turn three fans got a close up encounter on the first lap as Hoelzle wacked the wall hard enough to twist his black number 15 and bring out the red flag for about 15 minutes. D.J. was unhurt, the car not so lucky.
On the restart pole sitter Wendy Mathis took the green but as on the first try the John Gilbert, Jr number 7 was out front with (#0) Dude Teate in hot pursuit. By lap 15 Troy DeCaire was able to scream by Gilbert for the lead and then DeCaire pulled away from the field.
One official pointed out that five more laps and DeCaire's tire would have been gone. The race was cut to 20 laps due to the tire wear issue on the TBARA Sprints.
The TBARA Sprints race again Monday night at New Smyrna Speedway and will appear at DeSoto Super Speedway in Bradenton, Fl. on February 17th.
Kevin Ingram was a solid winner in the 25 lap Late Model feature easily outgunning #26 Jason Boyd and #88 Justin Larson. Ingram's two second place finishes on the first two nights of the World Series of Asphalt Stock Car Racing gives him a solid 40 point lead AJ Curreli in the early going of the nine days of racing at New Smyrna Speedway.
The modifieds were also in action Sunday night along with the Pro Challenge Cars.
For World Series of Asphalt Stock Car Racing schedules and more race results go to www.newsmyrnaspeedway.org
World Series Night 3 Results TBARA: 1. 68 Troy DeCaire 2. 7 John Gilbert, Jr 3. 91 Dave Steele 4. 0 Dude Teate 5. 19t Matt Tiffany 6. 19 Keith Butler 7. 41 Shane Butler 8. 80 Wendy Mathis 9. 21 Jin Alvis 10. 7a Doug Elliott 11. 29 Gary Gimmler 12. 99 Cameron Dodoson 13. 9x Michael Smith 14. 55 Tommy Nichols 15. 98f Kevin Feeney 16. 55r Doug Berryman 17. 51 Mark Gimmler 18. 39 Charlie Ladner 19. 14 Hurryin’ Hank Lower 20. 1B Brian Maddox 21. 96 Ray Bolin 22. 15 D.J. Hoelzle 23. 5w Randy Woodall 24. 66 Kipp Beard
Super Late Models:
1. 27 Mike Fritts 2. 39 Ryan Sieg 3. 74 Jay Middleton 4. 07 Jeff Scofield 5. 01 Brian Scott 6. 41 Jesus Hernandez 7. 47 Louie Mechalides 8. 12a Michael Annett 9. 10 Jack Landis 10. 36x Jonathan Beason 11. 11 David Rogers 12. 25 Sierra Jackson 13. 12x Steve Weaver, Jr. 14. 141 Doc McKinney 15. 78 B.J. McLeod 16. 116 Gary Passer 17. 112 Jimmy Winks 18. 70 Jeff Choquette 19. 18 Bruce Gowland 20. 3 Russ Shaw 21. 68 Frank Alverson 22. 119 J.R. McMickle
Late Models:
1. 54 Kevin Ingram 2. 26 Jason Boyd 3. 88 Justin Larson 4. 2 A.J. Curreli 5. 119 Allen Seymour 6. 08 Drew Brannon 7. 00 John Ripley 8. 21 Jordan Richardson 9. 72 Jason Cochran 10. 86 Johnny Brown 11. 3 Tom Teixeira 12. 87 Tracy Ouellette 13. 88x William Bernard 14. 16 Tyler Monroe 15. 81 Tate Pierce
Modifieds:
1. 66 Jerry Symons 2. 89 Lee Collins 3. 00 Woody Pitkat 4. 4B Alan Bruns 5. 3 Jeff Colburn 6. 31 Doc McKinney 7. 36 Rodney Brooks 8. 99 A.J. Winstead 9. 9 Art Kunzeman 10. 96 Matt Wheeler 11. 4x Thomas Stinson 12. 54 David Hite 13. 14 Marty Hanbury 14. 55 Shain Held 15. 12 Chad Poole 16. 57 Jim Flynn 17. 95 Harold Crooms 2x Jimmy Winks DQ
Pro Challenge:
1. 51 Zach Stroupe 2. 12 Rusty McClain 3. 02 Dennis Thomson 4. 71 Terry Mathis 5. 2 Jason Burchard 6. 99 Ken Nicholson 7. 9 Dean McIntyre 8. 28 Terry Horack 9. 31 Jason Treschl 10. 37 Trevor Cauble 11. 85 Kevin Cowhurst 12. 33 Duke Furr 13. 18 Ryan Rust 14. 46 Steve Strandlund 15. 23 Ken Ellefson 16. 40 J.L. Snowden
The tires for the winged sprints were not holding up so good on the new pavement and made things a little trickier than usual for this bunch. When these cars get wound up at New Smyrna, it can be a breathtaking experience, especially from the vantage of the pits or the turn three stands. 
On the restart pole sitter Wendy Mathis took the green but as on the first try the John Gilbert, Jr number 7 was out front with (#0) Dude Teate in hot pursuit. By lap 15 Troy DeCaire was able to scream by Gilbert for the lead and then DeCaire pulled away from the field. 
Kevin Ingram was a solid winner in the 25 lap Late Model feature easily outgunning #26 Jason Boyd and #88 Justin Larson. Ingram's two second place finishes on the first two nights of the World Series of Asphalt Stock Car Racing gives him a solid 40 point lead AJ Curreli in the early going of the nine days of racing at New Smyrna Speedway.