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Ocala Speedway
OCALA, Fla. (April 23) - Another near perfect night of springtime Florida weather greeted the fans and racers at the historic Ocala Speedway on Friday night, as four divisions took their turns on the toughest 3/8ths mile in the southeast. And tough it was, because quite a few racers will have plenty of work to do over the next couple of weeks to get their machines back in shape for the next round of racing at Ocala. But despite many spins and quite a bit of contact, the racing was exciting and the fans got everything that they came for and more.
Both Tyler Ivey and Ivedent Lloyd had much to contend with as the Late Models hit the track. While J.O. nobles started from the front and held the early lead, Lloyd was mired in the eighth starting spot while Ivey was in a deeper hole in the eleventh spot, but both put on a show using the outside line to quickly make their way into the top five. Meanwhile Christian Augspurger was using the bottom to his advantage until something went wrong and the 35 machine was knocked out of the race. Augspurger later said that he had no idea what happened, but the car simply took off across the track and hit the wall, ending his night.
Ivedent Lloyd continued using the outside line and finally slipped past J.O. Nobles on lap 12, but that brief lead was not to last. Something went wrong with the 21 car causinging Lloyd to shut it down and head for the pits, which passed the lead to Mark Whitener who had also found a route around Nobles. Whitener would hold onto his lead while Joe Kump and Richard Ferry would tangle at least twice, first in turn one, then finally ending up in a wad in turn 4 and causing a late race caution. Neither driver was pleased with the other, and once the wrecked cars were cleared from the track the dispute continued in the pit area.
What was not in dispute was Mark Whitener's lead, and he made sure to protect it through the final laps and earned the win. J.O. Nobles would have quite a fight on his hands as Tyler Ivey would attack him from the outside, but he managed to hold Ivey off and claim second place while Ivey was third. Phillip Cobb battled hard to climb his way from 10th to a fourth place finish, and Doodle Pipken scored a fifth place finish.
Ocala Speedway Results for 4/23/10
Late Model
1- 58 Mark Whitener 2- 18JO JO Nobles 3- 47 Tyler Ivey 4- 32 Phillip Cobb 5- 51 Doodle Pipken 6- 95 Steve Mathis 7- 49 Justin Tilton 8- 23VP VP Pipken 9- 24 Dennis Williams 10- Z Tim Zackery 11- RP1 Bug Rose 12- 17 Richard Ferry 13- J17 Joe Kump 14- 21 Ivedent Lloyd Jr. 15- 23 Josh Sanford 16- 35 Christian Augspurger 17- 26 Adam Beebenbaugh
Amsoil Synthetic Lubricants V8 Thunder Stock
1- 8 Michael Stalnaker 2- 58 Augie Burttram 3- 11 Austin Kirkpatrick 4- 158 Larry Welter Jr. 5- 07 Ryan Lisak 6- 96 Eddie Lentz 7- 12B Jerrid Bennett 8- 15 Luke Sadler 9- 1 Austin Gamble 10- 28 Glenn Vincent 11- 18W Chris Watson 12- 31 Mike Tyre 13- 3W Vaughn Woodall 14- 19 Brian Shea 15- 5W Sean Babcock 16- 34 Kyle Pendarvis 17- 77 Dan Cobb 18- 47 Chris Fontaine 19- 3D Jessie Corbitt 20- 14 Frank Prouty 21- 13G Tim Gigon 22- 09 William O'Quinn 23- 76 Chris Shea 24- 29 Rick Montalvo 25- 10 Scott Mooers
Mini Stock
1- 73 Dan Kerr 2- 75 Nick Kerr 3- 11Z Johnny Zackery 4- 64 Mike Budka 5- 19C Paul Combast 6- 31 Michael Ogelsby 7- 21 Ray Ethridge 8- 3D Ron Kinsey 9- 12B Jimbo Bird DNS- 19T Keith Briggs
Gladiator
1- 20 Casey Feaster 2- 48X Harold Lewis 3- 51 Nathan Rhodes 4- 55JR Devin Walker 5- 96 Matt Shea 6- 81 Steven Johnson 7- 23 Rebecca Paugh 8- 83 Kody Fisher 9- 77 Matthew Kramer 10- 11 David Ladrie 11- 3 Brandon Haseleu DNS- 00 Amber Tovet DNS- 15 Swede Melgaard DNS- 82 Kyle Morse DNS- 10 Ryan Babcock
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