Florida Racefest at New Smyrna?

[Frasson118]

As seen on Speed51.com...

At the Greensville-Pickens Speedway this weekend, the PASS South officials said they have booked a date at New Smyrna Speedway for January 29th & 30th, 2010.

This could be a pretty big deal, but haven't heard anything come out of the track as far as details, etc...

This could bring in a lot of out-of-state racers, like the old Speedfest did at Lakeland.

Keep us informed of any new developements!

[flraceguy]

THis would be a great thing for both PASS as well as NSS... Hope to hear that this comes true very shortly...

[racnphotos68]

I also thought I saw mention that that on April 17th NSS is hosting the USAR series. Lots of good racing heading our way in 2010 it appears.

[Frasson118]

Press release seen on Speed51:

Pro All Stars Series President Tom Mayberry has announced that the short track touring series will sanction, officiate and promote a non-points Super Late Model race at New Smyrna (FL) Speedway on Friday and Saturday, January 29 and 30 2010. The event marks the first visit to Florida for the ten year old short track sanctioning body that currently sanctions and promotes five touring series in nine states and Canada.



“We’re excited to have reached an agreement with New Smyrna to put on the inaugural PASS Florida Winterfest at their great facility, “said Mayberry in announcing the event. “ New Smyrna is synonymous with winter short track racing, and I know that there is interest throughout the Super Late Model ranks for an extra distance mid-winter event. We expect to see the best of the best from across the country at PASS Florida Winterfest.”



PASS Florida Winterfest will utilize PASS rules and race procedures, including the fan friendly feature format that restarts the field double file and offers up the advertised distance under the green flag. Tentative plans call for the Super Late Models to go 150 green flag laps, with a lap 100 break to make adjustments and change two right side tires if desired.



Supporting divisions will be announced shortly. For marketing and media questions, contact Norm Desjardins at (603) 539-3368 or normdesjardins@roadrunner.com. Technical questions should be addressed to Scott Reed at 207-625-3230.



Click on www.racewithpass.com or www.proallstarsseries.com for updates on PASS Florida Winterfest as well as the latest Pro All Stars Series news. A downloadable entry form will be posted on both web sites shortly.

[Frasson118]

This is the part I like the most:

"PASS Florida Winterfest will utilize PASS rules and race procedures, including the fan friendly feature format that restarts the field double file and offers up the advertised distance under the green flag.

They are right... both of these ideas are "Fan Friendly". Looking forward to more news, pre-entries, etc... This could be a real good show!

[Frasson118]

These 99 drivers competed in at least 1 PASS South race in 2009. That is a LOT of cars that are legal for this upcoming race, and doesn't even include most of the popular Florida racers that I'm sure will also be there.

Final Season Points
PASS SOUTH - 2009 STANDINGS / STATS

Driver

Ben Rowe... comes all the way from Maine

Ryan Blaney... son of Dave

Preston Peltier

Justin Wakefield

Jay Fogleman... ran NSS in a Hooters cup car

Heath Hindman

John Batten

Alex Fleming

Devin Jones

Bradley McCaskill

Mark Gibson... former NSS star in the early 80's

Corey Williams

Tayla Orleans

Clay Jones

Tim Nooner... formerly of Live Oak. Lots of laps at NSS

Trey Mitchell

Jeff Fultz... raced in Hooters Cup

Michael Pope... drives for Bob Dilner of Speed Channel & Speed51.com

Jimmy Weller... former Sprint car guy. comes to Speedweeks with a Crate car

Spencer Wauters... son of Richie Wauters, who always brings a mega-team to the Derby

Johnny Clark... Bad-ass racer from Maine

Hal Goodson... former All-Pro series champ and Hooters driver

Lonnie Sommerville

Jim Kelley... Big Jim has run Asphalt & Dirt for many years now. Seen him at Volusia, but never at NSS

Jeff Bolen

Duane Linville

Joey Coulter... runs a majority of ARCA races

John Stancill

David Pollen Jr.... Tampa kid, runs both Dirt & Asphalt

Dean Clattenburg... from Nova Scotia, if I remember right

Clete Caywood

Brad Bischoff... South Florida racer

Johanna Long... setting the LM world on fire. best female racers in years

Ryan Moore... son of Kelly Moore, of Busch North & ACT fame

Jimmy Doyle

Rick Frenette

Bill Pearce

Jeff Choquette... Has to be one of the pre-race favorites

Jimmy Garmon

Gene Kirila III

Tim Pinion

Bryce Walker

James Edwards

Keeton Hanks

Chase Elliott... son of "Awesome Bill"... amazingly fast learner. Several wins, in several classes in his Rookie year

DJ Shaw... son of Dale Shaw, also from the Busch North & ACT circuits

Shelton Mcnair.... same story as Big Jim Kelley

Allen Kearns

Billy Leslie... son of Tracy Leslie, former ARCA champ

Joe Winchell... what HASN'T Joe driven. has a ton of laps at NSS

Brandon Ward

Alex Hasse

Scott Patton

Adam Bates

Randy Porter... All-Pro, Hooters Busch GN... winner in all of them

Jeremy Frankoski

Steven Legendre

Chris Bowers

Alex Yontz

Mart Nesbitt... another former Hooters guy

Randy Gentry... former All-Pro racer. Was seen at USA a few times

CJ Faison

Jordan Napier

Jake Crum

Brian Ickler... seems to be best buds with Kyle Busch. Don't be surprised if they show up with 2 cars, and Rowdy drives one of them

Mike Rowe... father of Ben, also hauls down from Maine, has hundreds of wins in his career

Aric Almirola... Tampa racer, turned Nascar guy. Has a few laps at NSS in both a LM & a Mod

Andy Loden... his father owned cars at Spencer Speedway when i was just a kid.

Bubba Pollard... hottest racer on the East Coast in 2009. This kid SHOULD be picked up by a big team!

David Clark

David Flynn

Corey Gibson

Ralph Carnes

Joe Hiegl

Ray Peele

Lee Tissott... son of Randy Tissott, formerly a South Florida hot shoe. lee is also a Hooters Cup guy

Samantha Vannoy

Chris Whorton

Bobby East... son of Bob East (Beast Chassis), has a Ford developement deal, spent some time in ARCA, and USAC

Ed Surrette

Fred Moore

Tom Stokes

Perry Brown... Riverview racer. Hauls right past all of the Florida tracks to race with these guys

Joey Doiron

Austin Nothcutt

Terry Horok

Louie Mechalides... Louie has a bunch of Speedweek wins at NSS. If Louie does well, look for the party to be at his trailer

Shannon Mines

Matt McCall

Zach Stroupe... another Bob Dilner protege'

Jeremie Whorff

JR Norris

Jerrod Foley

Logan Dernoshek

Tom Schuette

David Macomber

Tom Buzze

Trevor Mckinley

Mark Reedy

[Frasson118]

A little more research shows that the PASS-North division had 94 cars entered into a race in 2009. Sveral are cars that show up in both series, but there's still about 150 cars that are legal in this series.

BRING IT ON!!!!!!

[flraceguy]

Now that would be something that would be a great thing to see... A huge race at NSS... I remember racing from years past when all of the races were busy... And it would be so neat to see it again at every event...

Have a great day all...

I can hear the party started already... Right Jerry and Roger and Jim and all the rest of the gang....

[Jimmy McKinley]

Ahhh...memories...

World Series bringin' down TONS of great cars and drivers from up north...

The Cracker 200...the last year I can remember was when Sprague came down in Hamke's car and killed 'em. Probably about '88. That was a great field of cars there.

Maybe if these guys come down for the PASS race, they might stick around for the World Series unless the rules are radically different.

[flraceguy]

Ahh Mr. McKinley... What a good thought... Now that does seem like someone was thinking when they did the scheduling for that... But one must also check PASS's other races to make sure that nothing of theirs is scheduled...

But it would sure be great thing to see....