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| Snodgrass Takes Late Model Win, Castello Takes First Win at New Smyrna Speedway | The grandstands of New Smyrna Speedway were filled last
night with racefans for the Orange Blossom 100 which
was won by Travis Kittleson followed by Jack Cook,
David Rogers, B.J. McLeod and Barry Willoughby. But
besides the main event, there were feature races in
all divisions.
First out to run were the Open Wheel Modifieds. You
may think you were seeing double but there were two
no. 7's. One driven by regular driver Mark Vandevender
and the other by Geoff Marquand. But the side by side
action was between the #7 of Mark Vandevender and the
#2 of Skip Honaker. Both these cars touched in turn 1
as Honaker was going for the lead from Vandevender and
sent to the rear to come back up and take first and
second spot. Vandevender won in the end followed
closing by Skip Honaker, Geoff Marquand, #40, and
the #88 of Paul Duncan.
On the pole for the Mini-Stock divisoin was the #81
of James McCague who won the Race for Kids Sake Mini
Stock race. McCague had problems with the #81 and
on the restart it was the #8 of Trish Gray on the
pole. But Gray was tapped in the rear by the #9 of
Dale Casteel and before she could straighten the
car was put in the wall by the #31 of Chad Carpenter.
Then it was David Castello in his #US1 Mini Stock
taking his first win at New Smyrna Speedway. Once
Castello got to the front, there was no catching
him. Castello was followed by the #9 of Dale
Casteel, #v3 of Rex Christenson, and the #07 of
Dick Lazlo.
The Late Model division saw the #90 of Robert
Anderchek on the pole but it was the #22 of Dave
Snodgrass leading the way for the win. There
was a good battle between the #22 of Larry Osteen
and the #96 of Joe Winchell but in the end,
it was Osteen taking second and Winchell taking
third followed by #28 of Steve Smith and the
#48 of Mark Smith.
Robert Glover's #74 had the pole for the Sportsman
race but it was the #7 of Rick Johns battling to
the front and taking the win. Following Johns
was the #30 of Dale Clouser, #04 of Doug Samion,
#62 of Randy Hecker and the #74 of Robert Glover.
The Super Stocks saw the #35 of Tim Ewing and the
new #8 of Rich Clouser really having some side by
side action. Clouser did a great job with his
brand new car but it was Ewing in the end who
took the win but inches. The #2 of Ron Whaley
lead for awhile but Ewing took that spot and
Clouser passed Whaley for second. Top five
were: Tim Ewing, Rich Clouser, Ron Whaley,
Darren Gould and Mike Soukup.
Strictly Stocks saw Curtis Smith's #63 lead
for awhile but it was the hard charging
#38 of Rob Thombley taking the win. Curtis
Smith was second followed by Kelly Cauhill,
Barry Parks and Joe Whittenton.
Next up at New Smyrna Speedway is the World
Series of Asphalt Racing. See ya then.
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