Aug
31
Update on the War to Settle the Score.
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TBARA – 17 cars
CFSS – 19 cars
TBARA Winner – His Holiness Dave Steele
CFSS Winner – “The Flying Fireman” Scott Adema (We’re just not comfortable saying “Scotty 2 Hotty” on a regular basis.) Sorry Scott.
As expected the TBARA car count was down and the CFSS car count was up.
CFSS Quick Recap: Over at Citrus County, heat wins went to Brian Maddox, Scott Adema and Keith “I’m No One’s” Butler. For the feature, Scott Adema lined up on point and was never caught.The Shane Miller cars looked good as did Keith Butler and Mickey Kempgens, both of whom had their progress interrupted by spins/altercations.
TBARA Quick Recap: Down at Desoto Speedway, heat wins went to points protagonists Travelin’ Troy DeCaire and His Holiness Dave Steele. The feature got off to a rough start with some cars ending their night on the spot – Dakota Stephens, Todd Schmidt and Johnny Gilbertson. Then on the second restart Ben Fritz night came to a quick end – sucks for Ben because he just came back out after getting his engine updated. Bo Hartley took the early lead but broke a panhard bar bolt unfortunately. His Holiness Dave Steele then decimated the field, lapping all the way up to second place.
CFSS Quick Notes – Joey “The Ace” Aguilar’s night was a short one due to mechanical issues, sending him spinning into the infield. FSCF.com favorite “Double G” Gary Gimmler put in a fine workman drive to come home fourth – followed by friend of the website Amanda Ferguson. Given the depth of the field, that’s an excellent result for young Amanda. Apparently Scott Adema wants to get in the fight for “hottest driver in the state” with his second win in a row.
TBARA Quick Notes – The start of this race brings back to mind the day that CART ran opposite the “new” IRL and had that huge crash at the start of the race. The TBARA was already down on cars (no Terry DeCaire entry either) and the wrecks didn’t help. Without Travelin’ Troy’s car staying under him (same for Bo Hartley) it was all over. Still – give a shout out to Todd Schmidt for a fine second place heat run. And also give a shout out to Jim Alvis, Sr. to come home third. Good to see him rebound from the mess at the Panhandle races.
TBARA Feature
1. Steele
2. Butler
3. Alvis, Sr.
4. Heisler
5. Teate
6. Brazil
7. Mathis
8. Alvis
9. Shotsberger
10. Koss
11. B.Hartley
12. DeCaire
13. S. Hartley
14. Fritz
15. Gilbertson
16. Schmidt
17. Stephens
CFSS Feature
1) 67 Scott Adema
2) 82 Brian Maddox
3) 79 David Slawiak
4) 29 Gary Gimmler
5) 20 Amanda Ferguson
6) 51 Mark Gimmler
7) 78 Mickey Kempgens
8 ) 1 Steven Bradley
9) 22 Dustin Henderson
10) 19 Keith Butler
11) 70 Dustin Perez
12) 2 A.J. Maddox
13) 15Jr Geoff Styner
14) 69 Ric Voisey
15) 0 Sonny O’Sullivan
16) 21A Robbie Hackett
17) 55 Tommy Nichols
18) 75 Tim Holston
DNS – Joey Aguilar
the 18 impressed me,came back from 2 spins.One from Steele , expected nothing from him after 2nd spin,passed everbody else to get 2nd. next week Eastbay sprint cars again.
I’ll have to agree with Gary, the 18 was on fire that night. It is to bad that these guys at the ALL MIGHTY FLORIDA SPRINT CARS FANS.COM don’t watch the entire race. They would have had something to say about it… getting spun out twice… keeping his cool… then coming back to finish second and not getting lapped. Must we flash back to the times BL (before Lenny) where there was controversy and chaos at each race, where each race team were bickering amongst themselves over “the rules”. It was not until recently where there was a question of judgment amongst the officials. That the last 2 years have been considerably blissful???….. Where they were able to secure racing out side of the state… where they were able to secure higher purse payouts for the drivers (and did not have to wait 2 (sometimes more) hours after the feature to get paid out) No one person will ever be pleased with an outcome unless it is in their favor.. that is what we call life. It is the comments, actions, and solution focused suggestions that you take in the future that make any one a great driver/owner. I guess you can put it as your mother would say to you.. if you have nothing nice to say.. then don’t say nothing at all…
If your use of the term “almighty” is supposed to be a slam against us, I’ll remind you that no one is forcing you to come to this website.
But I’ll give you the benefit of the doubt that maybe I am misinterpreting your message. Yes – you are both right that the #18 was indeed a great drive. I was merely waiting on a report from Josh, who has been extremely busy and was working on a car during the race. The #18 was hands-down our pick for Driver of the Race. I was merely trying to get a quick update on the two races out there for people that were looking for results.
And your BL assessment is certainly accurate. There were problems with DR as there are with LP. Ultimately the TBARA is a club and as such they have to live with whoever they vote in. And if they don’t like who they vote in, it is really their own fault.
Todd