Citrus Winter Spectacular 2nd leg Jan 22nd!

[polesitter61]

Practice Friday night 5 till 9!

[flraceguy]

Sounds like a great night. Too bad we have the NSS banquet that weekend..

[tom77hmstd]

John latest forcast from NOAA at 9:30am Wed is high of 57 low of 29 for sat how cold is too cold? 60 is about too cold for me. What is the call? I was coming with new car but 29 I don't know. Let me and others know.Thanks Tom.

[polesitter61]

What I just looked at was a high of 60 and a low of 40 with a 10% chance of rain. We're racing as long as we don't get rained out, we called off last years race because it was going to be in the teen's, we should be good this weekend.

[tom77hmstd]

This is from National Weather Service.
http://forecast.weather.gov/MapClick...&FcstType=text
I know the government is messed up, but their weather is pretty good.

[polesitter61]

You south Florida boy's don't like it below 70

[tom77hmstd]

You are correct. But I guess I will tough it out.
That is why we are still down here at the end of the earth.

[polesitter61]

17 late models at practice tonight, doulble digit car counts for the street stock and pure stocks also. Should be a great field of cars for Saturday nights races!

[JackTripper]

And Wayne Anderson is in Tommy's #77 tonight, with Wayne's son Randy in the #84.

[oldyeller]

So who's going tonight? We just bought a 10-pack of Hot Hands from WalMart for $1.89.

[polesitter61]

It's going to be a great night of racing, come on out and bring enough friends to sit around you to keep you warm! 17 lates last night, and 5 more that said they were coming that were not there, so we should have a full 24 car field if all goes as planned!

[jacko241]

My son an I will be there! Looking forward to it, it will be my first time there!

[flraceguy]

My son an I will be there! Looking forward to it, it will be my first time there!

Joe you will love it there as well.. The fans have always been great.. The drivers and people in the pits really good as well.. Just your typical great short track.. Quite honestly there aren't too many tracks that I have ever been too that I couldn't find some really great people out there...

Have a great night and be warm...

[jacko241]

We had a great time, but it was too darn ccccold! We stayed till lap 68 of the SLM race with Herb Neumann leading. The concession food was decent and reasonable, and I liked the action on the track. It is a 2 1/4 hour ride for me, but we will be back!

[polesitter61]

A great night of racing, and some really cold temps!

Herb Neumann past Steve Dorer for the lead just before the halfway point after starting 10th and went on to win the 100 lap Super Late Model race. Darryl Shellnut set fast time and started 12th on the inversion. Shellnut raced his way to second by the checkered flag after some late race cautions shuffled the field. The last 30 laps saw multiple cautions sending the front running cars of Steve Dorer, Wayne Anderson, and Jeremy Gerstner to the rear after contact in 2 seperate incidents. Dorer managed to race his way back to 3rd by the checkers while Anderson and Gerstner's cars were damaged from the incidents, and not able to make a charge back to the front. Scott Grossenbacher lost an engine near lap 68 which collected the 84 car of Randy Anderson, and 111 on Donnny Williams. Anderson made hard contact with the turn 3 walll after sliding in the oil on the track and retired from the race. Donny Williams also made heavy contact with Anderson after sliding in the oil which caused him to retire from the race. 18 cars took the green flag.

Jeff Stalnaker Jr won the 50 lap Street Stock feature under heavy pressure from Mike Wilson and Tom Potts. The race started out with a turn 1 demo derby when polesitter Bill Ryan made contact with outside polesitter Ernie Reed. In all, 8 cars were involved in or recieved damage from the accident. Ryan and Reed were forced to retire from the race because of the damage they suffered in the incident.All three of the front running drivers ran amazing races, none of the top three made a mistake over the last 30 laps. Some really clean, hard racing, it was fun to watch. 15 cars took the green.

Levi Roberts set fast time and rocketed to the front from his 5th starting position to run away with the Pure Stock 50 lapper. He took the lead from James Peters around lap 20 and never looked back. James Peters ran a strong second followed by Carl Peters. 19 cars took the green.

Ronnie Schrefiels mad a return to figure 8 action and took the win in the 25 lap figure 8 race driving Robert Aarons familiar yellow #6 machine. Schrefiels took off from his pole postion but then had heavy pressure from Eric Sharrone and Thomas Peet. Contact between Peet and Sharrone in the last two laps ended Sharrone's good night with a broke axle. On the restart Schrefiels pulled away and took the victory over Peet and Larry Welter Jr in third place. 10 cars took the green.

Mike Ender took the victory in the 20 lap Outlaw Modified Mini feature, he had some early pressure from multiple time series champion Doug Hopper, but pulled away over the final few laps for a comfortable victory. Hopper came home second ahead of 3rd place Finisher Mel-Mel Braden. Braden is just making the transition from go karts and turned in an outstanding run for her first time at Citrus with the Outlaw's.

Citrus starts out the 2011 points season on Feburary 5th with the Central Florida Wingless Sprints Series as well as our regular local divisions. Sprint car shows will be at a premium in Florida this year, so if you're a sprint car fan, come out and support them in their season opener.