Bradenton, Fl. The “Hoosier Cup” All American Challenge Series returned the “High Banks” of DeSoto Super Speedway for their 125 feature. David Pollen Jr. came into the night’s race a mere five points ahead of two-time champion Jeff Scofield.
Pollen has had some very good runs in the AACS staying constant and out of trouble to stay on top in the run for the $10,000 share of the points fund, but the crafty Scofield has made a serious charge back up in the points to take a stab at an unprecedented third championship.
B.J. McLeod made a triumphant return to DeSoto by taking a convincing win in the last race. He backed that up on this Saturday night by taking fast time for the event. Behind him was Justin Larson who only the week before had taken fast time at USA Speedway in the third leg of the Triple Crown. Third on the grid was Scofield, fourth was David Wilson and fifth went to “Big Daddy” Dave Pletcher.
The front row was inverted by the roll of the die putting Larson on the front row. The action started early as points leader Pollen, who qualified eleventh, got together with J.R Garcia going into turn three. Pollen clipped the wall hard ending his night before it had even begun relegating him to a nineteenth place finish and dropping him from the points lead. Garcia was able to continue finishing eleventh on the night’s action.
Up front the battle was hot and heavy as Larson was leading but Scofield was applying the heat in the second spot. Lap after lap Scofield made his prescience known, as he dropped low and high trying to get the line around Larson. Each time the leader slammed the door on him.
Scofield was able to get under Larson going into one when the two made contact sending Larson spinning in turn two. The call from the flag stand was that Larson had pinched him off in the turn sending the youngster to the rear for bringing out the caution. Larson,later, had to pit under green for a tire going down but battled back for a tenth place finish.
Scofield meanwhile, checked out and went unchallenged for the rest of the race. McLeod ran a solid second place with David Wilson taking the third spot. The race was for the fourth spot with Robert “ShowTime” Yoho taking the spot from Billy Bigley Jr.
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Finishing Order
Pos Driver Car # 1 JEFF SCOFIELD - 07 2 B.J. McLEOD - 78 3 DAVID WILSON - 83 4 ROBERT YOHO - 00 5 BILLY BIGLEY, JR - 28 6 DAVE PLETCHER - 74 7 STEVE DORER - 10 8 JIMMY COPE - 61 9 PERRY BROWN - 22B 10 JUSTIN LARSON - 88X 11 J R GARCIA III - R 0 12 JOHN SPADAVECCHIA JR - 8X 13 RONNIE SKIPPER - R 32 14 ERIC "RICK" KASE - 85 15 AARON ZARTMAN - 72 16 JOE BOYD - 5 17 MIKE FINN - 6 18 JAMES GLOVER - 70 19 DAVID POLLEN, JR - 88
Points Standings
Pos Driver Hometown Points Behind
1 JEFF SCOFIELD- PLANT CITY FL - 1440 Leader 2 DAVID POLLEN, JR- TAMPA FL - 1349 -91 3 STEVE DORER- LAKELAND FL - 1308 -132 4 RONNIE SKIPPER-R LAKELAND FL - 1164 -276 5 JOHN SPADAVECCHIA JR- COCONUT CREEK FL - 1162 -278 6 DAVE PLETCHER- NEW PORT RITCHEY FL - 1146 -294 7 ROBERT YOHO- PINELLAS PARK FL - 1118 -322 8 WAYNE JEFFERSON- PINELLAS PARK FL - 1076 -364 9 JAMES GLOVER- PINELLAS PARK FL - 947 -493 10 DAVID WILSON- SARASOTA FL - 724 –716
School Bus Figure 8
Ernest Helfrick had his handsful in the 25 lap School Bus Figure 8 feature with Veteran and former Sunshine Champion Art Calkins battling him hard for the majority of the race for the top spot. With three laps to go Calkins, who was subbing for his brother Wayne who was racing in Indy, lost a radiator hose in a cloud of steam. He still ran hard but it was Helfrick once again coming out on top. Calkins was second, third went to Brian Conrad, fourth was Greg Roberts and fifth Robert Coon.
Finishing Order
Pos Driver Car # 1. ERNEST HELFRICK - 4 2. PAT CALKINS - 14X 3. BRIAN CONRAD - 4Q 4. GREGORY ROBERTS - 1UP 5. ROBERT COON - 8UP 6. MARK JACKSON - 25 7. CHRISTOPHER DODSON - 21 8. JAMES VOLK - 76 9. BUD HOWELL - 57X 10. MICHAEL GAMACHE - 05
Manatee Lumber Bombers
Pos Driver Car # 1. SCOTT DAWLEY - 74 2. JEFF FIRESTINE-M-TKS - 93 3. RICK GERMONY - 8 4. DEAN BUTRUM - 32 5. STEVE ELDER - 42 6. JOHN STEWART - 02 7. CLIFF MITCHELL - 17 8. JEFF TAYLOR - 70 9. MICHAEL CROOKS - 33 10. JOSEPH "J R " WELDEN - 40 11. MARK BOXELL - 88 12. LOU RUSSELL - 3 13. JERRY TETTING - 39 14. SHANE YODER - 1Y 15. SAMMY COGHILL - 22 16. CLINT SNYDER-M-TKS - 15X 17. KEN SMITH - 11 18. KENNY GIBSON - 23
Mod-Minis
Pos Driver Car # 1. GLENN KELLEY - 16 2. DUSTIN PEREZ - 62 3. MASON LOVE - 70X 4. MITCHELL WEBB - 6 5. RICK PARTRIDGE - 0 6. CHRIS ZIMMERMAN - 29 7. JOE GAGEN - 1 8. THOMAS ZIMMERMAN - 29X 9. STEPHANIE MELLO - 9X Q Auto and Injury Open Wheels
Pos Driver Car # 1. WAYNE JEFFERSON - 1 2. RALPH BOWMAN - 2 3. MARK NELSON - 11 4. CHET SENOKOSSOFF - 61 5. BRUCE RIGGIO - 75 6. BARRY CARLSON - 3 7. RICHARD SHEPHERD - 30 DQ
International Contractors Street Stocks
Pos Driver Car # 1. GREGORY KROM - 35 2. ALEX ABBOTT - 17 3. JOEY BARNES - 19 4. JAMES NANNEY - 6 5. WAYNE DOVE - 18 6. JONATHAN HEIDENTHAL - 27X 7. MIKE AMO - 10X 8. DEREK LUCAS - 88 9. GUS COORSSEN - 74X 10. DENNIS WILSON - 42 11. CHARLES "CHUCKY" RAMSEY - 99
