Leads Green to Checkers in Wild Super Late Model Victory
By Rick Anges
Bradenton, Fl. The thunderstorms were all around the “High-Banks” of DeSoto Super Speedway but not a drop fell as a good field of Super Late Models rolled out for qualifying for their 125-lap feature event.
David Wilson who has had a tough time of it this season running in the ASA clicked off the fastest time of the nineteen-car field, Scot Walters was making his debut in the number 94 machine recently vacated by Wayne Jefferson was second fast on the clock. Brad Bischoff was third fast followed by B.J. McLeod and Jeff Scofield.
Scofield a two time champion in the “Hoosier Cup” All American Challenge Series came into this race tied for the lead in the points with David Pollen Jr. Pollen has run consistently through out the season keeping his car near the front and out trouble to stay at the top in the points.
The field was inverted by four cars putting McLeod and Walters on the front row. The green dropped and McLeod was off and running. Dave Pletcher dropped off early with mechanical problems.
Coming out of turn two the back end of Bischoff’s car started to come around, as he tried to correct he made contact with Walters sending himself and the 94 hard into the back stretch wall. Cars were sliding everywhere. Joe Boyd who was debuting a brand new car slammed into the pack that was halted on the backstretch ending his night. Cars that were taken out were Bischoff, Walters, and Boyd. Robert Yoho was able to return many laps down. Scofield was able to get on the binders and avoid the mess.
Scofield dove into the pits just before the drop of the green flag. The crew jacked the car up and made sure everything was still in its place. He returned to the speedway at the tail of the field as the green dropped.
McLeod was out like a rocket on the restart but second place Wayne Anderson had his handsful with fast qualifier David Wilson, lap after lap Wilson would challenge the cagey veteran. A little bump-n-go move allowed Wilson to make the move and slide up into the second spot. Anderson meanwhile would fade and eventually park his ride in the infield with an apparent flat rear tire. Anderson would finish fifteenth on the night.
Scofield meanwhile had done some heavy driving to make his way up to the third spot. McLeod, Wilson and Scofield pulled away from the rest of the field and the top three had quite a battle going for the top spot until McLeod was able to pull away. Scofield spent several laps trying to get around Wilson but used up his tires on his charge to the front and began to fade.
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As the laps wound down Steve Dorer made his way to Scofield driving him hard and eventually taking over the third spot. On the last lap David Pollen was able to get by Scofield to take the fourth spot and a five-point advantage in the run for the end of season $10,000 share of the championship.
The story though was B.J. McLeod’s dominance. His last win at DeSoto coming in the 2003 Ice Breaker. “I am so glad we decided to come back” Said McLeod in the winners circle “ Jeff Scofield really helped me out with the setup on this car, that’s an 07 setup underneath this thing, I also have to thank Don Wilson for giving me the motor, it was strong all night long”.
David Wilson took the second spot, Dorer was third, Pollen Fourth and Scofield dropped to fifth. Pos Driver Car # 1 B.J. McLEOD 78 2 DAVID WILSON 83 3 STEVE DORER 10 4 DAVID POLLEN, JR 88 5 JEFF SCOFIELD 07 6 RONNIE SKIPPER 32 7 JAMES GLOVER 70 8 JOHN SPADAVECCHIA JR 8X 9 TROY MCNABB 07X 10 AARON ZARTMAN 72 11 TERRY JACKSON 81 12 ERIC "RICK" KASE 85 13 MIKE FINN 02 14 ROBERT YOHO 00 15 WAYNE ANDERSON 84 16 BRAD BISCHOFF 53 17 JOE BOYD 5 18 SCOT WALTERS 94 19 DAVE PLETCHER 74
AACS Points Pos Driver Car # Points 1 DAVID POLLEN, JR 88 1255 2 JEFF SCOFIELD 07 1250 3 STEVE DORER 10 1163 4 WAYNE JEFFERSON 94 1076 5 RONNIE SKIPPER 32 1041 6 JOHN SPADAVECCHIA JR 8X 1040 7 DAVE PLETCHER 74 996 8 ROBERT YOHO 00 958 9 JAMES GLOVER 70 849 10 JEFF CHOQUETTE 70X 672
Magic 4’s Pos Driver Car # 1 CHELSEA LAJOIE 3 2 DYLAN BIGLEY 28 3 ALBERT NAIL 00 4 AUSTIN CRAIG 10 5 JESSICA OSTROVSKIS 91 6 ALEX PATTEN 13 7 AUSTIN CAVEY 20 8 COREY BIGLEY 25 9 BRITTANY BARR 81 10 BILL LEAKE 03
Q Auto and Injury Open Wheel Modifieds Pos Driver Car # 1 MARK NELSON 11 2 BRYAN ROGERS 77 3 BRUCE RIGGIO 75 4 RICHARD SHEPHERD 30 5 DAVE RIDDER 81X
Outlaw Modifieds Pos Driver Car # 1 JOHN PARRISH 9 2 ROBERT CAMPBELL 10 3 CHARLES LEE 33 4 WILLIAM CAMPBELL 11 5 TOM MEYER 4 6 JOHN GILBERT III 77 7 RICHARD VOISEY 69 8 FRANK HURST 6 9 KOOT SAPP 44 10 MIKE BEAN 12 11 RIC MILLS 22 12 ZACHARY RUDD 2 13 ROY CAMPBELL 91 14 JOHN GILBERT III 83 15 DOUG HOPPER 15 16 CLIFF STEINMANN 23 17 MARTY NEIKENS 70 18 ROBBIE BEAN 28 19 ANTONIO GONZALEZ 52 20 STEVE QUICK 1
Manatee Lumber Pure Stocks Pos Driver Car # 1 TYLER LAU 1 2 ROBERT CRISP 38 3 DARRIN ELLIS 71 4 BLAIR PONTIOUS 39 5 RANDY JOHNSON 73 6 JAMES CRAWFORD JR 34 7 GEORGE BARTIMAC 21X 8 RICK GERMONY 80 9 ALLEN BRAGG 89 10 TROY MEREDITH 75 DQ
International Contractors Street Stocks Pos Driver Car # 1 DENNIS WILSON 42 2 CHARLES "CHUCKY" RAMSEY 99 3 GREGORY KROM 35 4 SHAWN MULLET 29 5 JOEY BARNES 19 6 WAYNE DOVE 18 7 DEREK LUCAS 88 8 ALEX ABBOTT 17 9 BRIAN TEETERS 44 10 CASEY HALL 11
