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STEELE Grabs 2nd at DeSoto |
Larry Brazil Jr. inherited the
lead on a lap 18 red flag and
was never headed in the 30 TBARA
Florida pavement sprint car
series contest at Desoto
Superspeedway on May 31. Brazil
survived a late race charge by
Dave Steele and was able
to distance Steele by
several car lengths at the
checkers.
29 cars signed in to the pits to
provide another full field of
cars for the night’s event. At
the green for the main event,
young Dakotah Stephens took
advantage of his outside front
row starting position to jump
out to an early lead in the 30
lap contest. 10 laps into the
main Stephens yielded to
pressure from Brian Gingras,
putting Gingris solidly in the
lead. Meanwhile, the trio of
Brazil Jr., Steele and
Troy Decaire were working their
way forward from their mid grid
starting positions. On lap 18
the race was red flagged when
Jim Alvis took a very hard hit
into the turn one wall.
Fortunately Alvis escaped the
incident unscathed. During the
red Gingras’ car was found to
have a leaking radiator, sending
him to the pits to effect
emergency repairs. This
relegated Gingras to the rear of
the field and gave Brazil Jr.
the lead for the restart. Inside
of 10 laps to the finish
Steele put on a two lap hard
press for the lead but Brazil
Jr. never yielded and drove home
to victory. Following Brazil Jr.
to the finish was Steele,
Decaire, Dude Teate and DJ
Hoelzle.
In heat race action, Brazil Jr.
grabbed race number 1, which
combined with his main event
win, earned him the Steele
Performance of the Night sweep
award. Heat race 2 went to
Mickey Kempgins with heat race 3
going to young Dakotah Stephens
in his first heat race win. |
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