So who won at Volusia?

[flvideo]

Who won, who was ther , how many, and so on need a report..... Bob...

[Rick Anges]

Finish Start Car# Driver Hometown
1 1 07 Ivedent Lloyd Ocala , Fl
2 3 5 Johnny Collins Jacksonville , Fl
3 9 26W Dillon Wood New Symrna, Fl
4 19 00 Russell Brown, Jr.
5 17 17 Richard Ferry Macclenny , Fl
6 8 47 Tyler Ivey Tallahassee , Fl
7 7 7 Jason Fitzgerald Middleburg , Fl
8 20 J17 Mark Whitener Middleburg , Fl
9 15 53 John Rankin Ocala , Fl
10 10 2D Brandon Dewitt Marven , Ga
11 21 16 Wayne Shugert St Augustine, Fl
12 4 41K John Kellum Jacksonville , Fl
13 25 32P Jeff Phipps Longwood , Fl
14 12 25 Donnie Chappell Jacksonville , Fl
15 14 32C Phillip Cobb
16 18 16M Gary Spivey
17 23 6 Clay Bedenbaugh Lake City, Fl
18 2 17SS Shan Smith Dade City, Fl
19 13 46P Darell Padgett Jacksonville , Fl
20 5 71A Bo Allen
21 16 58 Shane Williams Deland , Fl
22 22 79 Jason Kimball Brooksville , Fl
23 24 26 Adam Bedenbaugh Lake City, Fl
24 11 23 Lawton Minchew Deleon Springs, Fl
25 6 145 Jason Davis Hawthorne , Fl

[Jane]

Ivedent did a great job leading from the green to the checkered. Someone told me if he had the pole, you might as well give him the money since he is hard to beat. Just sorry about all the mass pile-ups, that was a mess. But it was a good race and Dillon came in third. Was really hoping he could make it two in a row and he definitely tried but Lloyd proved to have the machine to beat.

[flvideo]

Sounds like a good race. I wish I could have been there too but gotta work. Good field of cars. Guess that'll calm the nasayers that think the series is doomed. HUH! Bob...

[Jane]

32 showed, 25 raced. Story on the front page.

[Frasson118]

with Ivedent Lloyd leading all the way, it sounds as if wasn't such a good race... but couldn't be further from the truth.

Mark Whitener, in a borrowed car (from Joe Kump) started deep in the field, and charged all the way to 2nd before fading back. Collins, Fitzgerald, and Wood changed spots nearly every lap. Richard Ferry also started deep, and commited himself to the bottom (everyone else ran high), chugged along past most of the field, got all the way to 4th. Russell Brown Jr took that spot away on the last corner of the last lap. Shan Smith looked real good early... even blew past Lloyd at one point, but the lap didn't get completed, putting him back to 2nd. With the "Delaware-style" restarts, that left Lloyd alone on the front row, nobody starting on the 2nd row ever had a shot at him.

This makes 4 tracks in 3 weeks, and never saw a bad show at any of them. The UDLMCS may have it's troubles, but Dirt LM racing is alive and WELL here in Florida/South GA.

[Jane]

I didn't really see any of the shows last year Jerry but what I have seen this year, they pull good car counts everytime at Volusia. I was told that if Lloyd had the pole, you might as well give him the money and trophy but it does not always work that way. I am sorry that Keith Nosbisch was not able to race since he did qualify 4th fastest but his car broke and he tried to borrow one but everyone needed their cars. Mark did a great job in Joe Kump's car but Joe does a good job also in his car. But so far this year they have had 30+ cars at each of their races at Volusia.

As we both know, all series go up and down over the years and this year has been a struggle for alot of people to race. But all in all, I think this is a great series and I really enjoy watching them and writing about them. And I think they have alot of guys, unlike some series, that could win any race and you really don't know who will win until the checkered is thrown.

Most all of them are super stars in their own way and hopefully my new website will introduce them to the racing world in Florida and people will get to know them like they do Wayne Anderson, Tim Russell, Jermey Colangelo, and Jeff Choquette who came from dirt.

www.floridadirttracknews.com will showcase all our GREAT dirt drivers from the lowest class to the highest class. Watch us grow.