Bradenton, Fl. Twenty-four cars lined up for the second show of the season for the Outlaw Street Stock fifty lapper and from the drop of the green flag there was action all over the track.
Mike LaPlant led the early stages of the race but it didn’t take long for Robert Crisp to power the “Rocket Red Motorsports” machine to the front of the pack. Crisp had won the last race for the OSS’s at Charlotte the week before and was looking for two in a row.
DeSoto Pure Stock point’s leader Tyler Lau surprised everyone as he made his way up into the second spot. Earlier in the evening Lau lost a tire in the Pure Stock feature. As the tire flew over the fence and into the pits Lau made contact with the backstretch wall. Parts and gear lube were strewn across the track ending his run for the feature. But some heavy thrashing in the pit brought him out for the Outlaw race and up into the second spot.
Crisp kept his line as Lau sized him up for a pass but each time Crisp was able to foil the run. As the two crossed the stripe for the white flag Lau slung his car on the outside of the leader. Pulling him down the backstretch the two held their lines going into three. Coming out of four they touched and with the fans cheering and on their feet they were almost a dead heat at the line.
As the two pulled into the winners circle neither was sure who had won. “I don’t care who won that was a great race,” said Lau. The finish had to be determined by the video in the tower and by a bumper Crisp was declared the winner in an exciting finish. *note-official results were not available at the time of article.
DeSoto Pro Trucks Todd Bontrager showed the way in his “Monster Energy Drink” truck in qualifying and the fifty lap Pro Truck feature taking the checkered flag. Stephen Nasse had a solid run for the second spot, third went to Travis Roland, and fourth was Gary Foxworth and fifth Nick King.
Pos Driver Car # 1 TODD BONTRAGER 8 2 STEPHEN NASSE 69 3 TRAVIS ROLAND 01 4 GARY FOXWORTH 25 5 NICK KING-M-TKS 3 6 MAXX BENNETT 1X 7 BILL MANFULL 48 8 MARK LAU 51 9 KYLE MUSSELMAN O7 10 BLAKE KOCH 34 11 RICKY BULLARD JR 00 12 JIM REPPI SR 57 13 CHARLIE MONTGOMERY-R 12 14 GARY DEEMER 18 15 AL NEUMANN 4 16 WILLIAM CARLBERT JR 11X 17 DANNY ANDERSON 50 18 ANDREW GIPSON 64X
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Manatee Lumber Bombers Scott Dawley added another notch to his belt taking the win in the Bomber feature. Jerome “Slideways” Watland was going for his third win in a row but heavy contact with the backstretch wall ended that run. Second across the stripe was Bobby Frisch, third went to Rick Germony, fourth spot was John Stewart and fifth Steve Elder.
Pos Driver Car # 1 SCOTT DAWLEY 74 2 BOBBY FRISCH 92 3 RICK GERMONY 8 4 JOHN STEWART 02 5 STEVE ELDER 42 6 JEFF TAYLOR 70 7 MARK FIELDS 77 8 MARK FRANSEN 5 9 MARK BOXELL 88 10 MICHAEL CROOKS 33 11 CLIFF MITCHELL 17 12 JEROME WATLAND 31 13 LOU RUSSELL 3
Q-Auto and Injury Attorneys OWM “The Rocketman” Wayne Jefferson led green to checkers for the win in the seventy-five lap feature. Early in the race John Sarppraicone Jr. broke something in the power steering sending fluid out on the track ending his night. Second place went to Timmy Moore, third was points leader Mark Nelson, fourth was Richie Shepard and in fifth Bobby Baldwin.
Pos Driver Car # 1 WAYNE JEFFERSON 1 2 TIMMY MOORE 57 3 MARK NELSON 11 4 RICHARD SHEPHERD 30 5 BOBBY BALDWIN 4 6 SCOTT McDANIEL 19 7 CHET SENOKOSSOFF 61 8 RALPH BOWMAN 2 9 BRUCE RIGGIO 75 10 SAMMY COGHILL SR 22 11 JOHN SARPPRAICONE JR 88
Mod-Minis Pos Driver Car # 1 MARTY NEIKENS 70 2 DUSTIN PEREZ 62 3 THOMAS ZIMMERMAN 29 4 MITCHELL WEBB 6 5 CHRIS THORNTON 24 6 BRYAN WAGNER 4 7 RICK PARTRIDGE 0 8 CHRIS ZIMMERMAN 29X 9 ROBERT CARTER 30 10 STEPHANIE MELLO 9X
Manatee Lumber Pure Stocks Pos Driver Car # 1 RANDY JOHNSON 73 2 TROY MEREDITH 75 3 DARRIN ELLIS 71 4 ROBERT CRISP 38 5 GEORGE BARTIMAC 21X 6 JAMES CRAWFORD JR 34 7 MATT THORNTON 39X 8 ALLEN BRAGG 89 9 TYLER LAU 1 10 CHELSEA LAU 4X 11 DAVID DAVIS 6X 12 MARK PICKLESIMER 07
International Contractors Street Stocks 1 DENNIS WILSON 42 2 JOEY BARNES 19 3 WAYNE LEWIS 28X 4 GREGORY KROM 35 5 ALEX ABBOTT 17 6 MIKE AMO 10X 7 JAMES NANNEY 6 8 GUS COORSSEN 81 9 BRIAN TEETERS 44 10 JONATHAN HEIDENTHAL 27X 11 CASEY HALL 11 12 DAVE BLANCHARD 50 13 JAMES BRENNER 57 14 MAXX BENNETT-M-TKS 18 15 CHARLES "CHUCKY" RAMSEY 99 16 DEREK LUCAS 88
