Archive for Matt Kurtz
Sep
19
A whole lot of photos from the Top Gun Sprint Series race…
Posted by: | CommentsAs always, much love to Mr. Winger for the hookup on the awesome Top Gun Sprint Series photos below from Bubba Raceway Park Saturday night. Feel free to visit his website and give him your hard earned money. Race photographers are a critical part of our sport, so kindly support them when you can.
In his heat race, Gene Lasker got all out of shape on the start, then sailed it down into Turn One to say hello to his good friend Tim George...
Tyler Godwin, Gene Lasker, Tim Grubaugh and Steven Darvalics in the four wide parade lap to kick off Saturday's Top Gun Sprint Series feature.
Getting all four wheels off the ground in a sprint car can only lead to bad things...
Like tearing the fence down. Gene Lasker then threw the parts he shed off his sprint car into the stands for the fans, which was fairly entertaining for all involved.
Our Safety Guru Scotty Adema reacquainted himself with the dirt Saturday night, rolling out in his beautiful new Spike chassis. Here he is with Robbie Smith and Danny Martin Jr. to his outside.
Matt Kurtz took every chance given to him to try and wrestle the lead away from Tyler Godwin.
Our Factory Driver Flyin' Ryan Partin mixes it up with Terry Witherspoon.
Brandon Grubaugh gets it pointed the wrong way with Tony Agin.
Tyler Godwin was leading the race in the very high line, with Danny Martin Jr. right on his tail, when a lapped car moved up on him, triggering this very hard wreck.
Tyler Godwin's bad wreck continues...
The destroyed race car of Tyler Godwin finally comes to a rest. Tyler is sore today, but otherwise alright.
Robbie Smith tried to slide Matt Kurtz for second, but Kurtz held the high line and kept the position.
After Godwin's wreck, Danny Martin Jr. held off the charge of Matt Kurtz for the win.
Aug
04
Spare a thought for the Kurtz family…
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Please spare a thought/prayer for the family of Matt Kurtz.
Our Editor at Speed “The Hot Foot” Brian Penrose got word that Matt Kurtz’s father John is currently hospitalized due to a reaction to medication he was on. We won’t get into the details other than to say please keep Matt and his family in your thoughts and prayers during this difficult period. And if you’re friends with Matt, please be there to help and support him during this tough time.
Oct
04
More Breaking News – Straight From the Mouths of the Drivers.
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How cool are our Florida sprint car drivers? Two of them sent us messages from the track last night/this morning. So to answer the question – pretty damn cool.
Out in Indiana, Travelin’ Troy DeCaire was tearing it up while he laid down passes that we here in Florida know him for all too well.
Troy qualified eighth and won his feature race. So then obviously Troy started eighth in the feature… For those of you fortunate enough to see Troy at work on fast high-banked tracks (like Mobile earlier this year, as just one example, or New Smyrna during SpeedWeeks) you know that when the green drops he’ll pull passes on the outside that the general population is not accustomed to seeing.
Troy worked his way through traffic like a hot knife through butter all the way up to second place, just got up to the race leader and then the damn yellow came out. With only a few laps to go, Travelin’ Troy couldn’t get back around the leader and had to settle for second.