Qualifying Night 8 at New Smyrna Speedway

[Jane]

SK Qualifying Results
1 Jimmy Blewett 17.454
2 Glen Griswold 17.514
3 Eric Goodale 17.574
4 Josh Sylvester 17.644
5 Brad VanHouten 17.737
6 Jimmy Zacharrias 17.773
7 Butch Perry 17.890
8 Barry Callavini 18.018
9 Kevin Shea 18.223
10 Russ Savoy 18.291
11 Chris Jenson 18.369
12 Shelly Perry 18.891
13 Don King Jr. 19.182
14 Jason Migonia 22.109

Tour Modified Qualifying
1 Eric Beers 16.638
2 Jimmy Blewett 16.701
3 Ted Christopher 16.718
4 Bobby Grigas III 16.755
5 Ryan Preece 16.771
6 Chuck Hossfeld 16.771
7 Charlie Pasteryak 16.781
8 Andy Seuss 16.831
9 Kevin Goodale 16.853
10 Buck Catalano 16.893
11 Ronnie Silk 16.894
12 James Civali 16.932
13 Jon McKennedy 16.984
14 Billy Pauch Jr 16.987
15 Rowan Pennick 17.028
16 JR Bertuccio 17.133
17 Butch Perry 17.538

Crate Late Model Qualifying
1 Will Thomas 17.734
2 Steven Brooks 17.751
3 Jimmy Lang 17.782
4 Jimmy Weller 17.786
5 Brandon Johnson 17.788
6 Logan Ruffin 17.898
7 Joey Pole 17.958
8 Brett Moffitt 17.993
9 Griffin McGrath 18.141
10 David Wagner 18.173
11 Casey Caudill 18.225
12 Blake Koch 18.334
13 Thor Anderson 18.368
14 Kyle Maynard 18.456
15 David Rigan 18.489
16 Rusty Ebersole 18.528
17 AJ Fulgenzi 18.563
18 Eric Chase 18.585
19 Nick Glaze 18.653
20 Cody Pitts 18.681
21 Car #407 18.847
22 Donald Williams 19.007
23 Earl Beckner 19.056
24 Mark Stevenson 19.148
25 Chazz Anderson 19.663
26 Austin Kirpatrick 20.255
27 Phillip Myburgh 22.001

Super Late Model Qualifying
1 Jeff Choquette 16.984
2 Justin Drawdy 17.148
3 David Rogers 17.241
4 Scotty Crockett 17.246
5 Trevor Sanborn 17.421
6 Jack Landis 17.426
7 Louis Mechalides 17.459
8 Travis Kittleson 17.477
9 Bruce Gowland 17.726
10 Jerry Symons 17.760
11 Jeff Scofield 17.841
12 Chris Staggs 17.988
13 Kurt Jett 18.014
14 Darrell Midgley 18.024
15 Kevin Bayless 18.047
16 Gary Terry 18.125
17 Jeremy Gerster 18.212
18 Derrick Wood 18.433
19 Steve Weaver Jr. 19.066
20 Frank Alberson 19.229
21 John Coffman 21.101
22 Ryan Sieg No Time
23 Tim Russell No Time
24 BJ McLeod No Time
25 Justin Larson No Time
26 Ricky Carmichael No Time
27 Patrick Conrad No Time

[backrow]

On the track, Jeff Choquette was the man to beat, once again. And it came to no one's surprise. He was just a bit quicker than Justin Drawdy, David Rogers and Scotty Crockett.

From speed51:

However, the biggest story invovled something that didn't even happen on the track... sort of. Point leader Tim Russell, Ryan Sieg, Ricky Charmichael, BJ McLeod, Patrick Conrad and Justin Larson were all sitting on the hill, having missed the cutoff time to make it down to pit road before qualifying started. Officials told all the drivers they would be allowed to qualify, but would get only one lap, and the track would not be blown off before they started... a penalty for being late.



When the six cars pulled out onto the track though, all six drove around the track, weaving to warm up their tires instead of pulling straight down onto pit road, giving them an advantage over the rest of the field. Officials decided to DQ all six cars right away, and give them no time.

[OLD STYLE RACER 2]

If that's what happened, then GOOD. They are no better than anyone else. Glad to see the track stand up and enforce the rules.

[revlimit]

Jeez, why so harsh? Why not just make them start in the rear?

[Todd McCreary]

Jeez, why so harsh? Why not just make them start in the rear?

you ain't heard nuthin yet. wait till you hear about the idiocy that went on in the last 10 laps of the truck race.

i'll wait to comment until either the race results are posted or by noon Saturday. it's possible they'll try and fix it.

i will say this: Gary Palmer, the owner/promoter of Accord Speedway was at NSS tonight. he left before the Tour Mods ran, he couldn't take any more. if he had stayed to see the truck race he would have lost his mind.

Masshole Bob was also there tonight. he saw the truck race and i doubt he'll ever bother coming back unless Ron is running something there.

[Mark Keeler]

Jeez, why so harsh? Why not just make them start in the rear?

The SLM's were DQed from Qualifying... they were given the opportunity to start in the rear of the Feature.

[backrow]

Lunacy. Let them race for it. The starter now decides the outcome?

From Speed 51-
Friday 10:55pm ET - Kevin Henry looked like he was going to win the Pro Truck race. Nope.



Scott Bishop looked like he was going to win the Pro Truck race. Nope.



Ricky Moxley looked like he was going to win the Pro Truck race. Nope.



In what was a wild race, the fourth-place Pro Truck of Logan Brodeau won the caution-filled (and black-flag filled) 25-lap Pro Truck feature event.



The race dominator of Henry was black-flaged late in the race for jumping the start, handing the lead to Bishop. Bishop was then black-flagged next for the same infractoin, handing the lead to Moxley. Moxley was then black-flagged on the one-lap dash to the finish for bringing the field down to the start too slowly, stacking the field up behind him.

[Todd McCreary]

Moxley was then black-flagged on the one-lap dash to the finish for bringing the field down to the start too slowly, stacking the field up behind him.

and wouldn't you be gunshy after watching the leader of the race get DQ'd twice for perfectly good starts?

[derf]

The pace truck played a role in all this mess on starts and restarts.The late model race on night nine was an absolute joke of a start.The photographer had better clicked off some great shots of that start.Good thing there was not a tomato give away,we would have had a real mess.Oh well that is in the past now.

[Boneman]

How can the pace car cause a wreck? It is up to the drivers on the front row to maintain some distance behind the pace car. They have to get it right by the time they get to turn 3, or they have a mess like the LM start on night 9.

[Todd McCreary]

How can the pace car cause a wreck?

if it slows down heading to the green flag. and don't say it can't happen, for whatever reason the FASCAR pace vehicle doesn't do a very good job of maintaining a constant speed.

i've seen this myself from the front of the field at Orlando. it usually isn't a problem for the start though.




The pace truck played a role in all this mess on starts and restarts.

the pace truck speeding up heading down the back stretch doesn't "contribute to the mess" unless you've got an idiot in the tower who doesn't know anything about racing or starts.

the pace truck should gain 10mph or more, so it can get off of turn 4 before the field comes through. the fact that it gained on the leader down the back stretch gives no indication on whether or not the leader is, in fact, speeding up or slowing down. you watch the field as a whole.

but none of that matters anyways.

the pole sitter leads the field to the start. the pace HE decides on is the pace that the field will start at. this massive retardation about trying to tell the leader when he can and cannot fire isn't really anything but a way the Narone's try to determine who the winner will be in the tower instead of on the track.

the embarrassing thing isn't that the rule exists.

the embarrassing thing isn't that it was so stupidly administered.

the embarrassing thing is that FASCAR made no effort to correct it even after the race when it was so clear that they had screwed the pooch.

they were thinking about it. i checked the posted results when i got home at 2am Saturday and they were showing Moxley as 4th place ( they kept their 'decided' winner ) evidently having bumped #1-3 all down one position.

that's not the way it showed Sat afternoon though. and it wouldn't have been the correct fix even if they had followed through on that. but it would have been something.