Joe Boyd has made many laps around the high banks of DeSoto Speedway over the years taking several big wins at the track, but one win has eluded him and that was a checkered flag in the All American Challenge Series.
Boyd has been close several times but either had mechanical woes or was in the wrong place at the wrong time that kept him from the winners circle.
Most drivers would have given up and moved on to something else but not this quiet man from Riverview Florida. Smokin Joe's dedication and persistence paid off dominating race #3 of the young AACS season.
Jeff Scofield was the fast qualifier over the field of 19 Super Late Models. The roll of the die inverted the first 4 rows putting Boyd on the point with James Glover on the outside. When the green dropped it was Glover who jumped out to the early lead. Boyd stayed in Glovers tire tracks during the early part of the race running conservatively and saving his tires and brakes for the later stages of the event.
Behind the leaders Scofield and Dave Pletcher made their way through the pack settling into third and fourth. Boyd was eventually able to get under Glover and take the lead, which he never would relinquish. Glover meanwhile was stuck in the high groove and clipped the wall. Glover eventually had to retire his ride.
Boyds machine just got better and better on long green flag runs. On several restarts after cautions Scofield tried to get under the leader but Boyds mount was just to strong. Pletcher was running a strong third but began smoking in the later stages of the race and was black-flagged into the pits. Repairs were made to the veterans car and the points leader was able to salvage a 7th place finish.
But it was Joe Boyds night and he cruised to his first win in AACS. Following Boyd across the stripe in second was Scofield. Third went to Chad Allman, fourth was Johnny Jackson and fifth went to Billy Bigley Jr.
AACS SUPER LATE MODELS - 125 LAP FEATURE Pos Driver Car
1 JOE BOYD - M 5 2 JEFF SCOFIELD - M 07 3 CHAD ALLMAN - M 01 4 JOHN JACKSON - M 1 5 BILLY BIGLEY, JR. 33 6 JEFF SLOAN - M 31 7 DAVE PLETCHER - M 75 8 JAMES GLOVER - M 70 9 SCOT WALTERS - M 2 10 CHRIS TURNER - M 94 11 CHRIS FONTAINE - M 47 12 RITCHIE ANDERSON - M 21 13 KENNY VAUGHN 127 14 ROBERT YOHO - M 00 15 RICHARD TILL - M 02 16 PERRY BROWN - M 22 17 MIKE HINEGARDNER 15 18 ERSKINE FILLINGAME - M 35 19 JIM SMITH 12
AACS SUPER LATE MODELS - QUALIFYING Pos Driver Car 1 JEFF SCOFIELD - M 07 2 DAVE PLETCHER - M 75 3 PERRY BROWN - M 22 4 JOHN JACKSON - M 1 5 CHRIS FONTAINE - M 47 6 RICHARD TILL - M 02 7 JAMES GLOVER - M 70 8 JOE BOYD - M 5 9 CHRIS TURNER - M 94 10 ROBERT YOHO - M 00 11 JIM SMITH 12 12 JEFF SLOAN - M 31 13 BILLY BIGLEY, JR. 33 14 CHAD ALLMAN - M 01 15 SCOT WALTERS - M 2 16 MIKE HINEGARDNER 15 17 ERSKINE FILLINGAME - M 35 18 RITCHIE ANDERSON - M 21 19 KENNY VAUGHN 127
COWBOY CADILLAC - 15 LAP FEATURE Pos Driver Car 1 DON VanACKER 33 2 CLINT ROBERTS 95 3 JOHN SARPPRAICONE 2 4 LINCOLN HAY, JR. 12 5 MIKE AMO 10
LEGENDS - 25 LAP 20 OR MORE Pos Driver Car 1 PATRICK CONRAD 2 2 JEFF JOHNSON 99 3 JOSEPH FLANAGAN 29 4 JAMES RODRIGUEZ 19 5 BRUCE SASSER 23 6 MITCH VERHAAGH 9 7 JASON REISMAN 25 8 DOC RICHARDSON 0 9 SAM WATTS 73 10 BRETT MONTGOMERY 64 11 JOHNNY SABO X 12 GREGORY MONTGOMERY 88 13 ROBERT WILSON 27W 14 WESLEY McLEOD 22 15 JARRED CAWLEY 31 16 MICHAEL VERHAAGH 7 17 KENNY WYATT 6 18 NICK MANFULL 84 19 TERRY STRAUSSER 3 20 JORDAN RICHARDSON 00 21 RAY SASSER 8 22 ANTHONY CAMPI 1
MINI STOCKS - 20 LAP FEATURE Pos Driver Car 1 MIKE GAYLE 23 2 STEVE BOOTH 15 3 JOHN WILSON 05 4 TODD FREED, JR. 97 5 JOE GAGEN 1 6 JON BAILEY 14 7 LAWRENCE ZINN 89 8 STEVEN GLOVER 8 9 MIKE KERRIVAN 45 10 WENDY SHURTLEFF 55 11 TIM MILLER, JR. 11X 12 SYNDEE BROWN 17 13 ED JASPER 9 14 NEAL MARTIN 81
OPEN WHEEL MODIFIED - 35 LAP FEATURE Pos Driver Car 1 DENNIS WILSON, JR. 42 2 ROBBY McAULIFFE 56 3 ANDREW DYNDUL* 59 4 MARK CHAPMAN* 40 5 JAY COLEMAN 12 6 MATTHEW FETTERHOFF 71 7 ROBIN EAKER - M 74 8 JOHN SHIELDS* 72 9 MIKE JOHNSON 65
PURE STOCKS - 20 LAP FEATURE Pos Driver Car 1 JIMMIE BEST 67 2 JODY COLLINS 18 3 ROB TAYLOR 8 4 RICK HURLEY 50 5 ROY ANDERSON 39 6 DAVEN QUERY 44 7 THOMAS MORGAN 28 8 DANIEL BRUCE 81 9 DALE SHELTON 51 10 DUAWE CAMPBELL 02 11 KEITH THORBIN 48
SPORTSMAN - 25 LAP 11 OR LESS Pos Driver Car 1 JAMES CASADY 7 2 BRETT BULTEMEIER 2 3 STEVE BLACK 8 4 JESSE DUTILLY 30 5 MARK PETERSON 73 6 KEITH NEFF 69 7 JOHNNY CASADY 3 8 JIMMY CARTER 21
STREET STOCKS - 20 LAP FEATURE Pos Driver Car 1 JIMMIE BEST 1 2 DAN HALL 12 3 TOMMY HUFFSTUTLER 4 4 JAMIE CASSIDY 8 5 BRAD PRICE 21 6 WILLIAM SLACK 57 7 GREGORY KROM 35 8 CASEY HALL 11 9 CLAUDIO REYES 20 10 DUANE BEST 3 11 JONATHAN HEIDENTHAL 27 12 GARY McFALL 68
