Barberville, FL (Sun. Feb. 7, 2010) - I made my first ever visit to the Volusia Speedway Park in Barberville, FL on Sunday night and was instantly amazed on how the speedway was set up. All the big haulers were pitted on the outside of turns one and two, with mostly the smaller enclosed trailers in the infield. Even with the haulers in the infield you could see all the way around the super fast 1/2 mile speedway.
The World of Outlaw Sprints and the UMP Modifieds were on hand this night, with 33 Sprints and 37 Modifieds signing in to do due battle. Even though is was a cold night, the racing made up for it!
Jason Sides started the night off by setting fast time in the World of Outlaw Sprints, with a lap of 13.303 seconds. Up next was the four heat races, with the top 5 in each heat going to the A Main and the top 2 going to the Dash. Sam Hafertepe Jr., Bronson Maeschen, Mark Smith and Joey Saldana would top the heat races. Tim Kaeding would hold of "The King" Steve Kinser to claim the Dash, which set the first five rows of the 30 lap A Main. Cale Conley would go on to win the B Main, with the top 4 out of that race going to the A. Brian Ellenberger would get a World of Outlaw provisional to set the 25 car starting field for the A Main.
Kaeding and Steve Kinser would lead the field to the drop of the green flag in the 30 lap A Main, with Kaeding grabbing the lead over Kinser on lap 1. Kaeding would hold on to the top spot, when they came up on lapped traffic on lap 5. Kinser would close in on Kaeding as a result and then worked to the top of the speedway. Kinser would take over the lead on lap 12, with Kaeding trying to battle back. The first of two cautions would come out on lap 14, when Doug Esh came to a stop in turn three. Kinser was leading Kaeding, with Saldana coming from 8th to 3rd, Craig Dollansky was 4th, with Donny Schatz running 5th for the restart. Kinser would move back out front on the restart, with Saldana and Kaeding battling for second. Kinser would jump to the bottom of the speedway, with Kaeding moving to the top. Kaeding would take command on lap 16, but would only hold it for two laps, as Kinser would come back to lead lap 18. With the two battling side-by-side, Saldana would move in to make it a three car battle for the lead as they entered lap traffic on lap 22. The second and final caution of the event came out on lap 23 for Hafertepe Jr. coming to a stop on the backstretch. Kinser was leading Saldana, Kaeding, Danny Lasoski, who started 14th, and Dollansky. On the restart, Kinser quickly moved out front with Saldana and Lasoski battling for second. Kinser would go on to lead the final 7 laps to pick up his first win of 2010 in the Tony Stweart owned Sprint Car. Saldana held on for second, Lasoski would claim the hard charger award after starting 14th and coming home in 3rd, Schatz would recover to finish in 4th, with Kaeding holding on for a 5th place finish.
Jason Hughes would start out the UMP Modifieds portion of the program by setting fast time, with a lap of 18.680 seconds. J.E Stalder, Austin Dillon, Denny Schwartz and Clint Bowyer would claim the heat race wins, with the top 5 in each heat going to the A Main. Jeff Babcock and David Wietholder took home the B Main wins, with the top 2 in each of those events moving into the A Main.
Stalder and Dillon would lead the field of 24 starters to the drop of the green flag in the 20 lap A Main. Dillon would jump out into the lead on lap 1, but a caution after the completion of the lap would slow the event. Peyton Taylor would stop on the track with a right rear tire flat. On the restart, Dillon would grab the lead once again, but now had to work to hold off Schwartz. Schwartz would work on Dillon for the lead when a caution would appear on lap 4 for Schuyler Nahre who stopped in turn four. Dillon again jumped out into the lead on the restart, with Schwartz giving chase. Dillon was starting to pull away when another caution came out on lap 8 for a spin in turn two by Todd Neiheiser. Once again Dillon grabbed the top spot on the restart and was starting to put some distance over second place running Schwartz, when the caution would come out again on lap 12. This time it was for a collision by Jon Henry, Tommy Seets, Randle Sweeney and Ty Dillon in turn three. On the restart Dillon jumped back out into the lead, but this time was slowed on lap 13 for another spin in turn two by Neiheiser. The final caution of the 20 lap race would come out on lap 16 when Jason Hughes, USMTS regular, got into the back of Buzzie Reutimann, with Reutimann spinning down the backstretch. This would set up a four lap dash to the finish, with Dillon grabbing the advantage on the final restart. Dillon would pull away to pick up the win. Schwartz would settle for 2nd, Kenny Wallace came from 10th to finish in 3rd, Jason Schill was 4th after starting 9th, with Jacob Hawkins charging from 24th to round out the top five. The rest of the top 10 drivers who locked themselves into Monday night "Gator Championship" feature was Stephen Schnapf who came from 23rd to finish in 6th, Bob Broking was 7th, Kenny Schrader was 8th, Jesse Stovall was 9th, with Jeff Babcock coming home 10th after starting in 21st.
Notes From Sun: Jason Meyers came from 13th and passed 7 cars to finish 6th in the Sprint A Main....Terry McCarl also passed 7 cars, started 15th, to finish in 8th....Brad Sweet came from 19th and passed 8 cars to finish 11th. Sweet was behind the wheel of the #91 Sprint car owned by Kasey Kahne, after Cody Darrah suffered a broken leg in a traffic accident earlier in the day... Lance Dewease also passed 11 cars, after starting 23rd, and finishing in 12th....Kraig Kinser finished 13th after starting in 22nd....Jac Haudenschild came from 21st and passed 7 cars to come home in 14th......The 74 UMP Modifieds were split into two groups after Friday nights events, with half competing on Saturday and half on Sunday. The top 10 in both nights A Main events would be locked into Monday nights "Gator Championship" paying $5,000 to the winner....Local driver David Wietholder, who competes weekly at Quincy Raceways in Quincy, IL, made the trip down to Florida to compete this year. He would start the A Main 22nd after winning the second B Main and then stayed out of troubles to pass 9 cars to come home 13th. He would miss locking himself into Mondays main by 3 spots....Buzzie Reutimann would finish 14th and Jason Hughes, 17th, after making contact back on lap 16 battling for the 5th spot....Ty Dillon would finish 18th after suffering front end damage in the lap 12 wreck. He was running in the third spot after starting 8th.
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