Allen Bragg Rides "The Crate Motor Express" to Victory
By Rick Anges
Bradenton, Fl. The “South’s Fastest Short Track” hosted seven classes of good ol’ fashioned stock car racing including a good field of the “Cars of Yesterday”.
Manatee Lumber Pure Stocks The fans were on their feet as the Pure Stock field took the green for their twenty five-lap feature. Allen Bragg started on the outside of the front row and quickly dove down to the inside to take the lead.
The field behind him swapped positions as Bragg made off with the top spot. As the laps wound down Blair Pontious closed in on the leader. Bragg and Pontious put on a show for the fans right down to the checkers and it was Bragg scoring his first ever win with the “Crate Motor Express” in the Pure Stocks.
“ I have to thank Timmy Troyer and Randy Johnson they made this car drive like a dream,” said Bragg in the winner’s circle.
Pontious scored the second spot, Robert Crisp took the “Rocket Red Express” car tO the third spot. Randy Johnson in the “Silver Bullet” was fourth and Tyler Lau was fifth.
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Pos Driver Car # 1 ALLEN BRAGG 89 2 BLAIR PONTIOUS 39 3 ROBERT CRISP 38 4 RANDY JOHNSON 73 5 TYLER LAU 1 6 JAMES CRAWFORD JR 34 7 DARRIN ELLIS 71 8 DAVID DAVIS 6X 9 TROY THIEM 18 10 GEORGE BARTIMAC 21X 11 ANTHONY EASTON 90 12 JOHN BROWN 6 13 MARK PICKLESIMER 07
Magic4’s It was Alex Patten with the dominating ride holding off the hard charging Chelsea LaJoie, Jessica Ostrovskis roared to up to the third spot, fourth went to Austin Craig and fifth Bill Leake.
Pos Driver Car # 1 ALEX PATTEN 13 2 CHELSEA LAJOIE 3 3 JESSICA OSTROVSKIS 91 4 AUSTIN CRAIG 10 5 BILL LEAKE 03 6 AUSTIN CAVEY 20 7 BRITTANY BARR 81 8 ALBERT NAIL 00
Manatee Lumber Bombers Jeff Firestine made a triumphant return to DeSoto Super Speedway dominating the twenty five-lap feature. His car owner Dean Butrum had solid run in the second spot. The “Punisher” Michael Crooks made up some ground in the points finishing in the third spot. Fourth was the “Mayor” John Stewart and fifth was points leader Scott Dawley.
Pos Driver Car # 1 JEFF FIRESTINE 93 2 DEAN BUTRUM 32 3 MICHAEL CROOKS 33 4 JOHN STEWART 02 5 SCOTT DAWLEY 74 6 LOU RUSSELL 3 7 RICK GERMONY 8 8 KENNY GIBSON 23 9 BRENT YODER 1B 10 JEFF TAYLOR 70 11 MARK FIELDS 77 12 JOSEPH "J R " WELDEN 40 13 KEN SMITH 11 14 DONNIE BATHJE 36 15 STEVE ELDER 42 16 CLINT SNYDER 15X 17 MARK BOXELL 88
Q Auto and Injury Attorneys Open Wheel Modifieds Tate Pierce and John Sarppraicone Jr. battled the entire thirty five laps with Pierce taking the win, third went to Richie Shepard who had his own war going on with Mark Nelson who was fourth. Rounding out the top five was Bruce Riggio.
Pos Driver Car # 1 TATE PIERCE 81 2 JOHN SARPPRAICONE JR 88 3 RICHARD SHEPHERD 30 4 MARK NELSON 11 5 BRUCE RIGGIO 75 6 JOSEPH SMITH 35 7 THOMAS MALIN 65
Mod-Minis Pos Driver Car # 1 GLENN KELLEY 16 2 CHRIS ZIMMERMAN 29 3 MITCHELL WEBB 6 4 JOE GAGEN 1 5 RICK PARTRIDGE 0 6 MATTHEW PERKINS 99 7 MASON LOVE 70X
International Contractors Street Stocks Pos Driver Car # 1 GREGORY KROM 35 2 JOEY BARNES 19 3 WAYNE DOVE 18 4 CHARLES "CHUCKY" RAMSEY 99 5 JAMES NANNEY 6 6 MIKE AMO 10X 7 ALEX ABBOTT 17 8 WILL ELLIOTT 4 9 CASEY HALL 11 10 SHAWN MULLET 29 11 DAVE BLANCHARD 50 12 IAN ROBB 23
