Scofield Triumphant in “LeRoy Porter Icebreaker 125”
“Rocketman”, Anderson win Open Wheels and Trucks
By Rick Anges
Jeff Scofield with LeRoy Porter in the Winners Circle on Sunday.
A sunny Sunday afternoon greeted the fans and competitors to the Souths Fastest Short Track for the second annual running of the LeRoy Porter Icebreaker 125.
Although the Icebreaker has been a tradition at DeSoto for many years this was the second year the race was dedicated to one of the top Late Model aces, LeRoy Porter. Porter was severely injured in turn three during a practice run when his car crashed and was engulfed in flames while he was trapped in his car ending a brilliant carrier. Porter was a previous winner of the event.
The field of twenty-three of the states top Super Late Model drivers rolled out for qualifying including the return of Big Daddy Dave Pletcher. The racers who came out early had a hard time hooking up to the track but as more made the trip around the 3/8s mile track the faster the times were. The Rocketman Wayne Jefferson, who won the event last year, took the fast time beating out Pletcher, David Wilson, Billy Bigley Jr. and last years champion Jeff Choquette.
Six cars were inverted with the roll of the die putting Steve Dorer the 07 Limited Late Model champ and owner of Racecar Engineering on the point with Jeff Choquette on the outside of row one.
Dangerous Dan Toler formerly of the Allman Brothers Band was the Grand Marshall and after giving the command of "Gentlemen Start Your Engines" and then climbed into the flag stand to drop the race.
Choquette jumped out to the early lead with Dorer on his tail in the second spot. Fourteen caution flags marred the race one of which was a solid lick into the front stretch wall by Robert "Showtime" Yoho wiping out the entire right side of the machine.
Scofield who started in the seventh spot was coming off a disappointing run at Citrus County Speedway the night before. After leading the majority of the race a broken rotor dropped him to second in the finish. Scofield made his way up to the second spot and once again the Jeff and Jeff show was on.
The duo has had many battles at the High Banks Scofield was able to get the nose up on Choquette and make the pass. Scofield would dominate the rest of the race at one point having almost a 4.5 second lead. This is one I hadn't one yet This a blast winning the LeRoy Porter race we just won the Pete Orr Memorial so this means a lot Said Scofield in the winners circle.
Steve Dorer the 2007 Limited Late Model champion finished a solid second, third went to Billy Bigley Jr., and fourth across the stripe was Jimmy Cope and fifth Jeff Choquette.
Pos Driver Car # 1 JEFF SCOFIELD 07 2 STEVE DORER 10 3 BILLY BIGLEY, JR 28 4 JIMMY COPE 61 5 JEFF CHOQUETTE 70X 6 BRAD BISCHOFF-R 53 7 RICHIE ANDERSON 51 8 TROY MCNABB 07X 9 DAVID POLLEN, JR 88 10 WAYNE JEFFERSON 94 11 DAVE PLETCHER 74 12 JOHN SPADAVECCHIA JR 8X 13 JOE BOYD 5 14 J R GARCIA III 0 15 MIKE FINN 02 16 RONNIE SKIPPER 32 17 JAMES GLOVER 70 18 ROBERT YOHO 00 19 SCOT WALTERS 59 20 SEAN LeMASTER 8 21 DAVID WILSON 83 22 CHRIS STAGGS 56 23 LEONARD McCUE 00X
Gulf Coast Modifieds “The Rocketman” Wayne Jefferson had problems during qualifying and was unable to take a lap. This did not hold back this hot shoe as he put on a clinic coming from the back of the pack to take race number one of the Gulf Coast Modified Series.
Running in a solid second spot was John Sarppraicone Jr., third went Lee Collins who led the early stages of the race. Fourth was Sean McLaughlin and fifth Robbie Cooper.
1 1 Wayne Jefferson 2 88 John Sarppraicone JR. 3 89 Lee Collins 4 99 Sean McLaughlin 5 98 Robbie Cooper 6 12 Eric Rudd 7 61 Chet Senokossoff 8 4 Bobby Baldwin 9 6 Dwayne Dempsey. 10 01 Curtis Neumann 11 11 Mark Nelson 12 9 Danny Partelo 13 32 Alan McCafferty 14 8 Chris Escott 15 83 Andrew Alderman 16 2 John E. Rogers 17 35 Robby McAuliffe 18 08 David Davis 19 75 Bruce Riggio
Pro Truck Challenge The Pro Truck Challenge kicked off with twenty five trucks. Danny Anderson would dominate the fifty lap feature taking race number one, Travis Roland took second, third was Gary Foxworth, fourth across the stripe Danny Foster and Corey Choquette was fifth.
Pos Driver Car # 1 DANNY ANDERSON 50 2 TRAVIS ROLAND 01 3 GARY FOXWORTH 25 4 DANNY FOSTER 99X 5 COREY CHOQUETTE 89X 6 MAXX BENNETT 1X 7 NICK KING 3X 8 BILL MANFULL 48 9 MATT COHEN 46 10 JASON CARR 37X 11 JASON VAIL 10X 12 JIM REPPI SR 57 13 BILL HOFFMAN 7 14 CODY CARLBERT 06 15 MIKE CHAFFEE JR 54 16 CLINT SNYDER 95 17 TYLER LAU 51 18 GARY DEEMER 18 19 STEPHEN NASSE 69 20 PAT MAHONEY 84 21 CHARLIE MONTGOMERY 12 22 AL NEUMANN 4X 23 GRAHAM McCORVEY 11 24 VERNON HART JR 48X 25 JEFF FIRESTINE 93
Manatee Lumber Bombers Pos Driver Car # 1 SCOTT DAWLEY 74 2 MICHAEL CROOKS 33 3 BOBBY FRISCH 92 4 RICK GERMONY 8 5 PETE BARR 81
Mod-Minis Pos Driver Car # 1 DUSTIN PEREZ 62 2 DUSTY ROBINSON 38 3 RICK PARTRIDGE 0 4 GLENN KELLEY 16 5 CHRIS ZIMMERMAN 29
Manatee Limber Pure Stocks Pos Driver Car # 1 DUANE BEST 3 2 TYLER LAU 1 3 DARRIN ELLIS 71 4 ALLEN BRAGG 89 5 RANDY JOHNSON 73
Street Stocks Pos Driver Car # 1 DENNIS WILSON 42 2 JIMMIE BEST 67 3 BUBBA THOMPSON 75B 4 JOEY BARNES 19 5 WAYNE LEWIS 28
Dangerous Dan Toler formerly of the Allman Brothers Band was the Grand Marshall and after giving the command of "Gentlemen Start Your Engines" and then climbed into the flag stand to drop the race. 
Scofield who started in the seventh spot was coming off a disappointing run at Citrus County Speedway the night before. After leading the majority of the race a broken rotor dropped him to second in the finish. Scofield made his way up to the second spot and once again the Jeff and Jeff show was on. 
“The Rocketman” Wayne Jefferson had problems during