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| WAYNE REUTIMANN WINS CRASH SHORTENED DESOTO FEATURE | On the 23 lap of a great Desoto Feature Matt Mercer who had lead the race for many laps and was now running fourth evidently had a throttle hang going into turn one and crashed hard straight into the wall. The car with Mercer unconscious continued sliding against the wall into turn two where it burst into flames.
With the fire out they worked on getting him out of the car. After evaluation by the paramedics on scene it was decided to airflight him to Bay Front Hospital in St Petersburg. Since all equipment had to be cleared for the chopper it was decided the race was Official with Reutimann being declared the winner from his tenth starting position.
HEAT ONE
1.Shane Butler, 2.Bobby Rose, 3.Jim Childers, 4.Matt Mercer, 5.Doug
Hevern, 6.Keith Butler, 7.Wayne Reutimann Jr, 8.Wendy Mathis
HEAT TWO
1.Paul Madden, 2.Dude Teate, 3.Wayne Reutimann, 4.Bo Hartley, 5.Skeeter
Faulconer, 6.Paulie Milum, 7.Troy Lowery, 8.Ben Fritz
HEAT THREE
1.Shane Miller, 2.Gary Gimmler, 3.Kevin Cahill, 4.Stan Butler, 5.Jeff
Daneau, 6.Sonny Hartley, 7.Lee Cipray
FEATURE
1.Wayne Reutimann #22, 2.Dude Teate #0, 3.Kevin Cahill #87, 4.Shane
Butler #18, 5.Stan Butler #68, 6.Doug Heveron #48, 7.Bo Hartley #3x,
8.Keith Butler #19, 9.Jim Childers #111, 10.Wayne Reutimann Jr #00,
11.Gary Gimmler #29, 12.Sonny Hartley #32, 13.Matt Mercer #10, 14.Paulie
Milum #42 15.Troy Lowery #63t, 16.Skeeter Faulconer #6, 17.Wendy Mathis
#80, 18.Jeff Daneau #4j, 19.Lee Cipray #9, 20.Shane Miller #78, 21.Bobby
Rose #56, 22.Ben Fritz #16, 23.Paul Madden #76
TOP TEN TBARA DRIVER POINTS
1.Wayne Reutimann 812
2.Keith Butler 804
3.Dude Teate 791
4.Kevin Cahill 718
5.Shane Butler 703
6.Dave Pletcher 682
7.Matt Mercer 574
8.Stan Butler 570
9.Doug Heveron 527
10.Sonny Hartley 518
The next race for the TBARA Pavement Pounders is October 13 at Citrus
County Speedway.
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