Apparently it was a pretty strong field at the Red Eye

[zerofor]

I have been following the Speed 51 coverage of tonight's Red Eye at New Smyrna.Twenty Superlates started with Jeff Choquette coming home the (unofficial)winner.Bubba Pollard and Travis Cope were early DNFs.Daniel Keene,Michael Atwell,Anthony Sergi,Ricky Anderson and David Rogers were in the field as well as Arca's Gus Dean and Ernie Irvan's son Jarod.L.B.Skaggs took home the modified win in what sounded like a wild finish.I wish I would have went except I didn't feel up to becoming a popsicle tonight.

[bubba]

Yea stout field for sure. They kept the progeam moving and we were home to Delabd around 930 (left after slms). Was impressed w rogers, after a crappy qualifying run, he started 19th. Worked steadily w few cautions and ended up 5th.

Something broke on parkers mod, he was checvked out and in the last ten laps, something broke causing him to skid through corners w sparks flying. On lastblap it got real bad and 2nd place dove into the hole on the bottom, they thouchedout of 4 and got up in the air. Landed mashed the gas and drag raced to the line..coool finish

[ancrdave]

Pretty good field for this race but Choquette was in a class by himself... Rogers was the show and did much of the passing although Derek Griffith was pretty impressive too and Gus Dean ran the best I've ever seen him run at NSS... Nasse, Sergi and Keene were out to lunch and Brad May ran good early but fell back... was an OK race with just one caution flag!

Mod finish was pretty crazy... nice to see L. B. get the win...

Hung out with my friend (and boss) Butch Herdegen for awhile before the races - heck, they had a heated trailer and Publix fried chicken - then Butch went out and won the Super Stock race after a good battle with Doug Howard... Nice to see that Doug finally has his car running really good...

Left after the SLM as there were only 4 Mod Minis and 4 Bombers... not worth being out in the cold for... Al in all a pretty decent evening that was run off quickly for as cold as it was...

[Boneman]

Is it just me, or is the passing lane moving back to the bottom groove? For the last several years, the high groove was the place to be, at least in the faster classes. In the Red Eye, most of the passing was done on the bottom.

On the race's only restart, Jeff Choquette blasted into the lead by starting on the outside, but he was so fast anyway.