IT'S TIME TO RACE!!

July 13, 2008 SCOTT BROTHERS WIN BIG In CCMP Pro 4 SWITCH OFF RACE BY Linda Jericka Punta Gorda, FL (July 13,2008) The spot light at Charlotte County Motorsports Park was on the backbone classes, who are the drivers that keep the track going with there support. The rains came before warm ups were over and things did not look good, but the drivers that continued to pull in to race put some stress on the CCMP staff to do what ever it took to not send anyone home without a chance to race. So with the radar showing a bit of clear sky's and the track dry, we went right into features. The T. Q.'s were up first and saw the 10 of Ernie Teed jr. first, Michael Belusar second, and the 1 of Jack Duffy third. The Fab 4's came out second to race with seventeen cars taking the green, this class being made up of beginner drivers is really growing every week. These cars may not have the big sounding motors or the bright shiny cars but when they pull out onto the track for their featured event, with all their family and friends in the stands, on their feet and cheering them on, they all give it everything they have to be the first to cross that line at the end, and its a shame that only the top three get the spotlight. First time out racing, saw the 69 of Tom Boddy jr., who is one of the track's Friday night kart racers, put the moves on Jimmy Wilkers to win the race, Ronald hand of Arcadia came in second, and his wife Beverly Hand was right behind him for fourth. Dwarf cars saw the 33 of Roger Richmond first, Jason Carter second, and Roger Wolfe third. The sportsman came out for their 50 lap event with some new drivers showing up to see why this 3/8 mile track in Punta Gorda is attracting great drivers and fans. The 79X of Steve Gainey, once again dominated the race with Mad Maxx Bennett trying his best to chase him down, and L.J. Grimm coming in third. The main event started with an autograph session for the 4 cylinder cars, while a slight drizzle started and once again the wind shifted and it was time to go racing. When you here people talking about the backbone class of a race track, the Pro 4 drivers are on the top of the list, with twenty six cars signed up to race a switch off race times two. Yes, fifty two drivers for this one race. If you let the rain, or nascar keep you away, you missed a fun and exciting race, which consist of new drivers, old drivers and yes even big named drivers and allot of credit for this race has to be given to the two " spokespersons of the class" Walley Smith, and Derrick Horton. Without their constant promoting of the class, and helpfulness, it would not be what it is, an affordable, fun and exciting class. The race saw allot of drivers come together to help each other out and after the second twenty five laps was over, and all the scoring was sorted out, the 1 car driven by Chris Scott won the first, and brother Cory Scot,t both out of Nakomis, won the second race, crowning them over all winners of the race. The second place team was the 16 of Walley Smith and Billy Bigley Jr out of Naples, third was Jeff Firestine and Derrick Horton and this is why they call it a family fun sport, Dylan Bigley came in fourth with Michael Rodriquez and Corey Bigley fifth with Scott Walters. Road Warriors put on great show with some different drivers making it to the winners circle, like the 77 of James Dellea first, and the 29 of Don Jericka taking the second spot off the 38 Gary McFall, who had to settle for third. In the Mini Stocks, the 97 of Todd Freed broke the winning streak of Ricky Bullard Jr, who ended up second and the 14 of Jon Bailey third. The last race of the night, Thunder Trucks, was not an easy win for of the race Randy Kile, who had to use all of his skills to win again with James Wright second and Tom Pryor third. finishes for 7-12-08 Fab 4 1) 69 - Tom Boddy Jr 2) 11 - Jimmy Walker 3) 32 - Ronald Hand 4) 13 - Beverly Hand 5) 22 - Jeremy Perkins 6) 21 - Jason Perkins 7) 20 -Billy Benoit 8) 00 - Michael Lucas 9) x7 - Mike Weinrich 10) 1 - Allen Scott 11) 86 - John Pummell Jr. 12) 8 - Sam Scott 13) 44 - Barbra Hooper 14) 4 - Rose Macho 15) 2 - Jarrett Reynolds 16) 69c - Shawn Cushing 17) 74 - Daniel Carlough TQ Midgets 1) 10 - Ernie Teed Jr. 2) 30 - Michael Belusar 3) 1 - Jack Duffy 4) 52 - Michael Elder 5) 3 - Geoff Styner 6) 17 - Jamie Barnman 7) 26 - Ted Durfee Dwarf Cars 1) 33-Roger Richmond 2) 12-Jason Carter 3) 85-Roger Wolfe 4) 82-Mike Belsar 5) 77-Larry Hubbard III 6) 56-Larry Hubbard Jr. 7) 83-J.J. Wolfe Sportsman 1) 79x - Steve Gainey - Bradenton 2) 28x - Maxx Bennett - Zephyrhills 3) 25 - L. J. Grimm - Seffner 4) 77 - Jeff McCaw - Winter Haven 5) 13 - Aaron Williamson - Mulberry 6) 35 - Greg Krom - Sarasota 7) 8 - Don Scott - Naples 8) 100 - Ron Heard - Seffner 9) 98 - Roger Welch - St. Pete 10) 38 - Jason Stifle - Winter Haven 11) 6 - Greg Gorniak - Homestead 12) 67 - James Bubose - Arcadia DNS - 36 - Chad Cushing - Largo Pro 4 Switch Off 25 laps each 1) 1 - Chris Scott - Nokomis/Cory Scott - Nokomis 2) 16 - Wally Smith - Ft Myers/Billy Bigley - Naples 3) 27 - Jeff Firestine - Venice/Derrick Horton - N Ft Myers 4) 15 - Dylan Bigley - Naples/Michael Rodriguez - Ft Myers 5) 82 - Corey Bigley - Naples/Scot Walters - Naples 6) 00 - Ryan Meiser - Ft Myers/Chris Lucas - N Ft Myers 7) 86 - Blaine Baer - Englewood/David Moore - Arcadia 8) 69 - Tom Pryor - Naples/Andy Pryor - Lehigh 9) 20 - Billy Benoit - Lehigh/Ricky Bullard Jr. - Arcadia 10) 44 - Randall LeMaster - Naples/Sean LeMaster - Naples 11) 57 - Shane Leonard - Cape Coral/Logan Leonard - Cape Coral 12) 22 - Jason Perkins - Ft Myers/Jeremy Perkins - N Ft Myers 13) 11 - Paul Graham - Naples/Jimmy Welkers - Bonita 14) 25 - John Balzarano - Naples/Troy McNabb - Naples 15) 24 - Mike Lucas - N Ft Myers/Shane Moore - N Ft Myers 16) 90 - Jacob Ingram - Lehigh/Codey Benoit - Lehigh 17) 13 - Tyler Lau - Bradenton/Alex Patten - St Pete 18) 8 - Chelsea LaJoie - Bradenton/Shane Yoder - Sarasota 19) 30 - Brandon Reichert - North Port/Suzanne George - Venice 20) 85 - Pete Amelotte - Port Charlotte/David Amelotte - North Port 21) 2 - Jarrett Reynolds - Punta Gorda/Lance Sober - Arcadia 22) 4 - Mike Macho - Ft Myers/Chris Loney - Naples 23) 32 - Ronald Hand - Arcadia/James Dubose - Arcadia 24) 28 - Shelly Walters/Jeremy Goddard 25) 74 - Daniel Carlough - Venice/Tom Carlough - Venice 26) 8j - Sam Scott/Josh Johnson DNS Road Warriors 1) 77 - James Dellea 2) 29 - Don Jericka 3) 38 - Gary McFall 4) 32 - Dean Butrum 5) 97 - Chris Scott 6) 42 - Steve Elder 7) 8 - Bob Waltz Jr. 8) 23 - Jeff Rumbold 9) 88 - Mark Boxell 10) 93 - Jeff Firestine Mini Stock 1) 97 - Todd Freed 2) 54 - Ricky Bullard 3) 14 - Jon Bailey 4) 45 - Mike Karrivan 5) 77 - Joe Rice 6) 30 - Robert Carter 7) 8 - Brent Yoder 8) 27 - Derrick Horton 9) 5 - Chris Kirby Thunder Trucks 1) 14 - Randy Kile 2) 63 - James Wright 3) 69 - Tom Pryor 4) 2 -Lance Sober 5) 9 - Ray Scott Have an opinion on this story? 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