Bradenton, Fl. With weather looming on the radar and eight classes to run the crew at DeSoto Super Speedway shifted into high gear to tray and get the show in. The night kicked off with qualifying for the “Hoosier Cup” All American Challenge Series and the DeSoto Pro Trucks.
B.J. McLeod top the field with his lap around the high-banked 3/8’s mile oval, second fast went to David Pollen Jr. who is running second in the points battle for the championship. Former Champ “Big Daddy” Dave Pletcher was third quick followed by points leader Jeff Scofield who was going for the “Hat Trick” third win in a row and Troy McNabb taking fifth.
QUALIFYING Pos Driver Car # 1 B.J. McLEOD 78 2 DAVID POLLEN, JR-Maacs 88 3 DAVE PLETCHER-Maacs 74 4 JEFF SCOFIELD-Maacs 07 5 TROY MCNABB 07X 6 JAMES GLOVER-Maacs 70 7 ANTHONY CAMPI-M-TKS 81X 8 STEVE DORER-Maacs 10 9 BILLY BIGLEY, JR 28 10 RONNIE SKIPPER-Maacs-R 32 11 JOE BOYD-Maacs 5 12 ROBERT YOHO-Maacs 00 13 SEAN LeMASTER 8 14 JOHN SPADAVECCHIA JR-Maacs 8X 15 TERRY JACKSON 81
In Qualifying for the DeSoto Pro Trucks it was once again Travis Rowland taking fast time. Rowland is in a tight battle for the point’s race with Gary Foxworth trailing by a mere eight points. Charlie Montgomery ran a solid second fast with Todd Bontrager third, fourth Gary Foxworth and fifth Bill Manfull.
QUALIFYING Pos Driver Car # 1 TRAVIS ROLAND-M-TKS 01 2 CHARLIE MONTGOMERY-R 12 3 TODD BONTRAGER 8 4 GARY FOXWORTH-M-TKS 25 5 BILL MANFULL-M-TKS 48 6 BLAKE KOCH 34 7 DANNY ANDERSON-M-TKS 50 8 STEPHEN DARVALICS 41 9 STEPHEN NASSE-M-TKS 69 10 WILLIAM CARLBERT JR 11X 11 MAXX BENNETT-M-TKS 1X 12 BRENT HUBER 64 13 KYLE MUSSELMAN-M-TKS O7 14 JASON DEATON-M-TKS 99 15 NICK KING-M-TKS 3 16 RICKY BULLARD JR 00 17 TYLER LAU 51 18 MATT COHEN-M-TKS 46 19 AL NEUMANN-M-TKS 4 20 GARY DEEMER-M-TKS 18 21 TATE LINDSAY-M-TKS 1
DeSoto Pro Trucks
The Pro Trucks rolled out just after intermission for their fifty-lap feature and with a roll of the die Bill Manfull started on the poll. Several laps into the race the rains came brining out the red, parking the trucks in the infield with just twelve laps in the books. After trying to wait out the weather the rains just increased and the races were called. With only a few weeks left in the season the drivers were given the option of running a double points double money race on the their next scheduled race or calling tonight’s race official. The vote went to the drivers and with twelve laps in the race was called official.
Pos Driver Car # 1 BILL MANFULL-M-TKS 48 2 GARY FOXWORTH-M-TKS 25 3 TODD BONTRAGER 8 4 TRAVIS ROLAND-M-TKS 01 5 CHARLIE MONTGOMERY-R 12 6 DANNY ANDERSON-M-TKS 50 7 BLAKE KOCH 34 8 STEPHEN DARVALICS 41 9 WILLIAM CARLBERT JR 11X 10 MAXX BENNETT-M-TKS 1X 11 AL NEUMANN-M-TKS 4 12 BRENT HUBER 64 13 JASON DEATON-M-TKS 99 14 KYLE MUSSELMAN-M-TKS O7 15 TYLER LAU 51 16 RICKY BULLARD JR 00 17 NICK KING-M-TKS 3 18 TATE LINDSAY-M-TKS 1 19 GARY DEEMER-M-TKS 18 20 STEPHEN NASSE-M-TKS 69 21 MATT COHEN-M-TKS 46
AACS
With one race already lost to rain this year the drivers were gathered in the tech shed for a meeting. The drivers were asked whether they wanted to run a double points double money race ($6,000 to win $800 to start) or run twin 125 races. After a discussion it was put to a vote which went dead even. Another discussion and another vote ended the same way. It then went to a flip of the coin, heads double points double money tails twin 125's the coin landed on tails. So on November 3rd the AACS will be running Twin 125 lap races with the possibility of one driver walking away with $6,000!!! In other racing before the rains came:
Manatee Lumber Bombers
Jeff Firestine took the win in the Bomber division with his teammate Kenny Gibson in second, third was “The Punisher” Michael Crooks, fourth went to Dean Butrum with Scott Dawley finishing fifth.
Pos Driver Car # 1 JEFF FIRESTINE 93 2 KENNY GIBSON 23 3 MICHAEL CROOKS 33 4 DEAN BUTRUM 32 5 SCOTT DAWLEY 74 6 STEVE ELDER 42 7 MARK FIELDS 77 8 JEFF TAYLOR 70 9 ANTHONY EASTON 90 10 JERRY TETTING 39 11 LOU RUSSELL 3 12 KEN SMITH 11 13 JOSEPH "J R " WELDEN 40 14 RICK GERMONY 8 15 MARK BOXELL 88 16 CLIFF MITCHELL 17 17 JOHN STEWART 02
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Manatee Lumber Pure Stocks
Robert Crisp recovered from last week’s mechanical problems to take the win in the twenty-five-lap Pure Stock feature. James Crawford Jr. crossed the stripe in second, third went to Darrin “Icewater” Ellis, fourth was points leader Tyler Lau and fifth Blair Pontious.
Pos Driver Car # 1 ROBERT CRISP 38 2 JAMES CRAWFORD JR 34 3 DARRIN ELLIS 71 4 TYLER LAU 1 5 BLAIR PONTIOUS 39 6 DAVID DAVIS 6X 7 RANDY JOHNSON 73 8 GEORGE BARTIMAC 21X 9 TROY MEREDITH 75 10 MARK LAU 07X 11 CHELSEA LAU 4X 12 MIKE HINEGARDNER 99 13 LEONARD McCUE 70 14 ALLEN BRAGG 89
Outlaw Modifieds
The Outlaw Modifieds always put on a great show at DeSoto and tonight would be no different as it went right down to the wire with John Parrish taking the win. The battle for second was tight as Cliff Steinmann beat Doug Hopper by a bumper at the line for second, Hopper had to settle for third, fourth was John Gilbert III and fifth William Campbell.
Pos Driver Car # 1 JOHN PARRISH 9 2 CLIFF STEINMANN 23 3 DOUG HOPPER 15 4 JOHN GILBERT III 77 5 WILLIAM CAMPBELL 11 6 MARTY NEIKENS 70 7 RAYMOND JONES 41 8 ZACHARY RUDD 2 9 RICHARD VOISEY 69 10 TOM MEYER 4 11 FRANK HURST 6 12 CRAIG SHEAR 56 13 MIKE DONOHUE 20 14 ROBERT CAMPBELL 10 15 RIC MILLS 22 16 NATHAN GIDDINGS 84
