Little 500 Line up

[Top Gun PR]

Division 64th Pay Less Little 500

Car # Driver Lap 1 Lap 2 Lap 3 Lap 4 Total
1 56 Tony Hunt 11.325 11.251 11.230 11.207 45.013
2 7 JoJo Helberg 11.190 11.302 11.325 11.316 45.133
3 26 Aaron Pierce 11.246 11.363 11.342 11.326 45.277
4 35 Russ Gamster 11.417 11.375 11.311 11.254 45.357
5 2 Eric Gordon 11.362 11.391 11.322 11.299 45.374
6 26B Jeff Bloom 11.215 11.351 11.367 11.459 45.392
7 88 Jimmy McCune 11.413 11.333 11.342 11.362 45.450
8 77 Chet Fillip 11.338 11.318 11.379 11.423 45.458
9 4 Shane Cottle 11.335 11.400 11.344 11.393 45.472
10 20 Shane Hollingsworth 11.315 11.413 11.326 11.456 45.510
11 12 Billy Wease 11.422 11.371 11.323 11.402 45.518
12 4A Donnie Adams Jr. 11.393 11.408 11.381 11.368 45.550
13 91 Troy DeCaire 11.366 11.478 11.365 11.538 45.747
14 1 Brian Gingras 11.568 11.345 11.444 11.454 45.811
15 44 Brian Tyler 11.487 11.485 11.426 11.425 45.823
16 07L Ryan Litt 11.205 11.221 11.263 11.199 44.888
17 63 Rex Norris III 11.415 11.521 11.448 11.472 45.856
18 14 Scott Pierovich 11.544 11.415 11.484 11.480 45.923
19 5 Tony Elliott 11.561 11.417 11.469 11.536 45.983
20 26p Mickey Kempgens 11.514 11.544 11.437 11.504 45.999
21 40x Jason Cox 11.398 11.647 11.454 11.525 46.024
22 07 Jacob Wilson 11.380 11.586 11.526 11.547 46.039
23 55 Dave Baumgardner 11.412 11.499 11.553 11.592 46.056
24 1 W Chris Neuenshwander 11.448 11.467 11.553 11.686 46.154
25 15 Brandon Whited 11.614 11.470 11.477 11.625 46.186
26 8 Kyle Feeney 11.584 11.575 11.581 11.469 46.209
27 11 Denny England 11.471 11.614 11.543 11.599 46.227
28 18 S Jim Sheets 11.605 11.493 11.573 11.636 46.307
29 27 Brian Gerster 11.666 11.563 11.559 11.566 46.354
30 5H Shaune Hogg 11.663 11.673 11.583 11.531 46.450
31 19 Keith Butler 11.588 11.603 11.706 11.643 46.540
32 3 F Tim Barber 11.613 11.564 11.668 11.714 46.559
33 18 Travis Welpott 11.794 11.615 11.582 11.600 46.591

[Boneman]

4 Florida drivers!

[AB195]

Bone---why aren't you the 5th. You could be a non-winger, 1/4 high-banked, fastest on the earth racer, right there in the thick of it? I think you could!r.

[Frasson118]

A couple of tidbits about some of these other racers, and in many cases, their ties to Florida:

Polesitter Tony Hunt was once an instructor at the Richard Petty Driving Experience at Disney World Speedway.

Aaron Pierce also runs SLM's, and was here for a Governors Cup race, and returned for Speedweeks at NSS.

Russ Gamester ran the ASA Series for awhile, and ran at Lakeland I believe.

Eric Gordon has raced Silver Crown cars at both Disney & Lakeland. He is also a multi-time winner of the 500... always a threat to win this race.

Jeff Bloom... don't know the exact stats, but I'd bet money he's been in over 30 Little 500's by now.

Jimmy McCune has run at Volusia in the Midget class, and also in the Silver Crown cars at Disney. His sister, Sarah McCune might even be a better racer than Jimmy. Their father Jim McCune was a long-time USAC racer himself.

Chet Fillip is one of only a handful of racers that can claim to have raced in both a Daytona 500, and an Indy 500. Very good racer than always seems under the radar.

Shane Cottle, just a few years ago, was wheeling a UMP Modified through Florida Speedweeks. Did real well at East Bay.

Donnie Adams also ran Speedweeks at Volusia years ago, during the Asphalt era.

Brian Tyler had a dream week in Florida... he won a Silver Crown race at Disney one Sunday. On his way home, he received a call from IRL team owner, Tim Chitwood, who told him to turn around and get back to Disney... you're driving our car next week...!!!

I last saw Tony Elliot racing in the Florid 400, at Desoto, driving for long-time area Sprint car owner Jack Nowling of Quickload Trailers. I believe he ran either 2nd or 3rd behind winner David Steele.

Jason Cox was part of this years TBARA events at NSS during Speedweeks.

Brian Gerster has also run Silver Crown cars at Disney... possibly USA also, but can't recall for sure.

[Boneman]

I attended this race a few years ago and just loved it. What was amazing was how close the top cars were! There were several that went at it for hundreds of laps, and ended up close together and on the same lap. Amazing and so much more interesting than a 500 lap stock car snoozer.

[Racefan99]

Does anyone know if there is a broadcast of the race tonight? I looked around for possibly a radio station or Internet Broadcast, but couldn't find any mention.

[BOB KRUPA]

Must See Racing has Twitter updates.
They should have this race live on TV.

[Racefan99]

Must See Racing has Twitter updates.
They should have this race live on TV.

I agree. I've paid for a few online internet broadcast Lucas Oil Dirt Late Model Shows, and some World of Outlaws late model races, and I would definitely pay to watch a Little 500 live. There are Sprint Car fans around the country who follow the tradition of this race each year. Seems like they would have enough interest, even if they blacked out the Indiana area.

On another note, I wish Florida could develop one "big" traditional pavement Sprint Car race into our own tradition. I know the attempt several years back at Desoto didn't turn a profit, but I was thinking..... Now that the Sunshine/Showtime Speedway is getting ready to reopen, I think a Saturday night sprint car race there, the night before the annual St. Petersburg Gran Prix Indy Car race, would pretty much guarantee a huge turnout of fans. Would love to see the TBARA on that night every year, at the Showtime Speedway, maybe with a pumped up purse large enough to attract a few of the northern USAC/Must See teams down. With the thousands of Indy Car fans in the area that weekend, and the strong support of the TBARA in that area already, they might even have to turn away fans.