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Strong Second for Steele |
From TBARA: TBARA
point leader Troy DeCaire
notched his second consecutive
victory at DeSoto Super Speedway
Saturday night as he copped the
30 lap main event for the winged
sprint cars.
Starting 12th in the 25 car
field, DeCaire quickly blasted
from his outside row starting
position using his now familiar
three wide passes to move to
fifth on the first lap before
the yellow waved for a crash by
Joey Aguilar. Aguilar was
uninjured but his car was
finished for the night.
On the restart it was Ben Fritz
in his bright red No. 16 on the
point with Brad Davis, Sonny
Hartley and Kipp Beard in tow.
DeCaire once again jumped to the
outside on the banked 3/8 oval
quickly picking off cars one by
one until he motored by Fritz
for the lead on lap 10.
With DeCaire comfortably in
front, all eyes turned to the
black No. 14 of Dave Steele and
he sliced and diced his way into
the top five and began to close
in on the fleet DeCaire. With no
further yellow flags to bunch
the field, Steele ran out of
laps and settled for runner-up
money over Shane Butler, Fritz
and Beard. Completing the top 10
were Blaze Martin, Bo Hartley,
Mickey Kempgens, Dakotah
Stephens, and Davis.
The Tampa Bay ground pounders
return to DeSoto on Saturday,
April 11. A recent schedule
change will postpone a visit to
South Georgia Motorsports Park
from April 25 until August.
First heat ( 8 laps) - 1. Mickey
Kempgens, 2. Joey Aguilar, 3.
Ben Fritz, 4. Jim Alvis, 5. Dave
Shotsberger, 6. Bryan Eckley, 7.
Nick Manikis, 8. Ric Voisey. 55
Tommy Nichols DNS and 20 Larry
Brazil, Jr. DNS.
Second heat ( 8 laps) - 1. Kipp
Beard, 2. Dave Steele, 3.
Brad Davis, 4. Dustin Perez, 5.
Dakotah Stephens, 6. Bobby Rose,
7. David Slawiak, 8. Bill
Pettijohn, 9. Frank Hurst.
Third heat ( 8 laps) - 1. Shane
Butler, 2. Troy DeCaire, 3.
Sonny Hartley, 4. Dude Teate, 5.
Blaze Martin, 6. Bo Hartley, 7.
John Gilbert, 8. Frankie Hurst,
9. Brian Maddox.
Feature ( 30 laps) - 1. DeCaire,
2. Steele, 3. Butler, 4.
Fritz, 5. Beard, 6. Martin, 7.
B. Hartley, 8. Kempgens, 9.
Stephens, 10. Davis, 11. S.
Hartley, 12. Perez, 13.
Shotsberger, 14. Alvis, 15.
Gilbert, 16. Slawiak, 17.Eckley,
18. Pettijohn, 19. Voisey, 20.
Teate, 21. Maddox, 22. Frankie
Hurst, 23. Frank Hurst, 24.
Rose, 25. Aguilar. Manikis,
Nichols and Brazil, Jr. all DNS.
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