The Tampa Bay Area Racing Association Winged Sprints returned for their fifth of seven scheduled races for 2007 with a field of twenty five of the methenol burning, crowd pleasing machines.
Dave Steele and crew in Winners Circle
Points leader Troy DeCaire was the winner in the first of three heat races. Second went to Larry J. Brazil Jr.,third to Brian Gingras, fourth Tommy Nichols and fifth Stan Butler.
Heat race number two winner was Keith Butler. Following him across the stripe was “Superman” Dave Steele. Third went to Brian Maddox, fourth to Gary Gimmler and fifth to Danny Martin Jr.
The final heat before the feature saw Wendy Mathis with a solid run take the win, Dude Teate was in the second spot, third D.J.Hoelzle, fourth Shane Butler and fifth Micheal Smith.
Wendy Mathis who started on the front row built up a good lead early in the thirty lap feature. Steele who started eleventh in the field methodically made his way through the pack and with a sling shot move, roared by Mathis to take over the top spot.
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Troy DeCaire who is having a great season made his way to the second spot. Lapped traffic became his undoing as he was unable to clear the 14 car of Shane Butler allowing Steele to go unchallenged and build up a big lead.
When the checkers fell Steele was just inches from lapping the fifth place car. “First off I have to thank my crew, we have been struggling a little bit this year but the really stepped up to give me a great car” said Steele in the winners circle.
DeCaire took the second spot, third was Brian Gingras, fourth went to Wendy Mathis and fifth Keith Butler.
1) 91 David Steele 2) 68 Troy DeCaire 3) 99 Brian Gingras 4) 80 Wendy Mathis 5) 19 Keith Butler 6) 21B Larry J Brazil Jr 7) 55 Tommy Nichols 8) 66 Kipp Beard 9) 52 Joey Aguilar 10) 51 Mark Gimmler 11) 18 Stan Butler 12) 32 Stephen Darvalies 13) 5W Randy Woodall 14) 9X Michael Smith 15) 3Y Sonny Hartley 16) 00M Danny Martin Jr. (DNF) 17) 29 Gary Gimmler (DNF) 18) 15 D.J. Hoelzle (DNF) 19) 0 Dude Teate (DNF) 20) 60 Steve Heisler (DNF) 21) 41 Bo Hartley (DNF) 22) 1B Brian Maddox (DNF)
The #33 driven by Mickey Kempgens was unable to start the feature race and the #14 of Shane Butler was disqualified.
HEAT 1 1) 68 Troy DeCaire 2) 21B Larry Brazil Jr. 3) 99 Brian Gingras 4) 55 Tommy Nichols 5) 18 Stan Butler 6) 5W Randy Woodall 7) 52 Joey Aguilar 8) 60 Steve Heisler
HEAT 2 1) 19 Keith Butler 2) 91 David Steele 3) 1B Brain Maddox 4) 29 Gary Gimmler 5) 00M Danny Martin Jr. 6) 33 Mickey Kempgens 7) 51 Mark Gimmler 8) 32 Stephen Darvalies
DeSoto Pro Trucks Pos Driver Car # 1 TRAVIS ROLAND-M-TKS 01 2 BLAKE KOCH 33 3 ANTHONY CAMPI-M-TKS 81 4 CHARLIE MONTGOMERY-R 12 5 JASON DEATON-M-TKS 99 6 DANNY ANDERSON-M-TKS 50 7 GARY FOXWORTH-M-TKS 25 8 KYLE MUSSELMAN-M-TKS O7 9 PAT MAHONEY-M-TKS 84 10 TOMMY CAVENEY 26 11 BRENT HUBER 64 12 JIM REPPI SR-M-TKS 57 13 AL NEUMANN-M-TKS 4 14 CLINT SNYDER-M-TKS 95 15 BILL MANFULL-M-TKS 48 16 TATE LINDSAY-M-TKS 1 17 MAXX BENNETT-M-TKS 1X 18 STEPHEN DARVALICS 41 19 MIKE CHAFFEE JR 54 20 STEPHEN NASSE-M-TKS 69 21 JOHN LINDSAY 17 22 TYLER LAU 51 23 NICK KING-M-TKS 3 24 ANDREW "ANDY" MEGRONIGLE 94 25 WILLIAM CARLBERT JR 11X
DS TRUCKS - QUALIFYING Pos Driver Car # 1 TRAVIS ROLAND 01 2 BLAKE KOCH 33 3 CHARLIE MONTGOMERY 12 4 ANTHONY CAMPI 81 5 GARY FOXWORTH 25 6 JASON DEATON 99 7 STEPHEN NASSE 69 8 PAT MAHONEY 84 9 ANDREW "ANDY" MEGRONIGLE 94 10 AL NEUMANN 4 11 TOMMY CAVENEY 26 12 BILL MANFULL 48 13 BRENT HUBER 64 14 NICK KING 3 15 TYLER LAU 51 16 JIM REPPI SR 57 17 TATE LINDSAY 1 18 DANNY ANDERSON 50 19 CLINT SNYDER 95 20 KYLE MUSSELMAN O7 21 STEPHEN DARVALICS 41 22 JOHN LINDSAY 17 23 MAXX BENNETT 1X 24 MIKE CHAFFEE JR 54 25 WILLIAM CARLBERT JR 11X
Magis 4’s Pos Driver Car # 1 ALEX PATTEN 13 2 CHELSEA LAJOIE 3 3 DYLAN BIGLEY 28 4 ANDREW PRATT 31 5 JESSICA OSTROVSKIS 91 6 AUSTIN CAVEY 20 7 COREY BIGLEY 25 8 BILL LEAKE 03 9 BRITTANY BARR 81 10 TYLER ANDRIES 26 11 ALBERT NAIL 00 12 AUSTIN CRAIG 10
Modified Mini’s Pos Driver Car # 1 DUSTIN PEREZ 62 2 GLENN KELLEY 16 3 RICK PARTRIDGE 0 4 MASON LOVE 70X 5 THOMAS ZIMMERMAN 29 6 THOMAS ZIMMERMAN 29X 7 THOMAS RANDY FOOTE 35 8 MITCHELL WEBB 6 9 DAVID-BUDDY TRAYLOR 54 10 JOE GAGEN 1 11 BRAD STEGER 65 12 MIKE KERRIVAN 45
Manatee Lumber Bombers Pos Driver Car # 1 SCOTT DAWLEY 74 2 RICK GERMONY 8 3 MICHAEL CROOKS 33 4 JOHN STEWART 02 5 PETE BARR 81 6 SHANE YODER 1Y 7 MARK BOXELL 88 8 STEVE ELDER 42
Manatee Lumber Pure Stocks Pos Driver Car # 1 TYLER LAU 1 2 GEORGE BARTIMAC 21X 3 RANDY JOHNSON 73 4 TROY THIEM 18 5 BLAIR PONTIOUS 39 6 JAMES CRAWFORD JR 34 7 DARRIN ELLIS 71 8 RICHARD SCHIBLER 75XX 9 TIMMY TROYER 73X 10 JAMES "WILL" WILBERT 62 11 JOHN BROWN 6 12 ROBERT CRISP 38 13 ALLEN BRAGG 89
International Contractors Street Stocks Pos Driver Car # 1 GREGORY KROM 35 2 DENNIS WILSON 42 3 CASEY HALL 11 4 CHARLES "CHUCKY" RAMSEY 99 5 JOEY BARNES 19 6 BRIAN TEETERS 44 7 JAMES NANNEY 6 8 MIKE AMO 10X 9 SHAWN MULLET 29 10 WILL ELLIOTT 4 11 WAYNE DOVE 18 12 ALEX ABBOTT 17
