Tyler Ivey sails past #99 Shan Smith en route to his
$5,000 win at Bubba Raceway Park (formerly Ocala Speedway) last Friday
night. (Rick
Warren)
Ocala Reopens Under "Bubba"; Ivey Rolls to "Mike Peters Open" Victory BRP Media OCALA, Fla. - May 13. With a capacity crowd appearing for the reopening of Ocala Speedway as Bubba Raceway Park, "Bubba the Love Sponge" saw the love and support of fans and racers as the late model division competed for $5000 to win in the inaugural "Mike Peters Open". Tyler Ivey earned the big payday after coming from mid-pack and taking a late lead.
Ivedent Lloyd ominated much of the event until cutting down a tire, with help from a lapped car. (Rick Warren) The track dispensed with the B-Main and allowed all 28 entries to race the 30-lap main event, with Phillip Cobb drawing pole position. Before Cobb could make use of it, hwever, he found his car sideways on the start, along with Keith Nosbisch, Jason Davis, and Jim Cryer, while 24 others tried to take evasive action. With Ivedent Lloyd leading, on lap two, Chuck Chitty got loose, and Johnny Collins and Dillon Wood spun to bring out the yellow. As the green came out for the restart, Christian Augspurger pulled into the pit area for the night.
Keith Nosbisch joined Tyler Ivey in advanceing from midfield to complete the 30-lap event in second. (Rick Warren) While Lloyd dominated, Ivey and Nosbisch worked their way up from the middle of the pack before Wood, Brandon DeWitt, and Shan Smith had a meeting in turn one. As leader Lloyd passed them, contact was made with the left rear of Lloyd's #21, cutting the tire. Lloyd would stay out for the green-white-checkered finish, Ivey smelled blood and took the lead from Lloyd and raced to the win in the "Mike Peters Open". Nosbisch took second, while Dillon Wood beat Lloyd by a nose for third.
Bo Allen races toward a sixth place showing at BRP. (Rick Warren)
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Scott James battles #13 Barry Doss in heat race action at Florence (Ky.) Speedway, but in the $2,000-to-win feature, the only thing anyone saw was the tail end of James' #81 car. (Roy Walker)
After plenty of trash-talking via the electronic media between Jeff Matthews and Ivedent Lloyd last week, it was #21 Lloyd who got the final word as he reeled in #33 Matthews to win Friday's LM feature at Oclala, Fla.'s Bubba Raceway Park. (R.E. Wing)
Fans at Markleysburg, Pa.'s Roaring Knob Motorsports Comlex were treated to dual LM features Saturday - one a makeup from a May 5th rainout. (Above) Tim Senic challenges eventual regular feature winner Chuck Harper, while Jared Hawkins (below) claimed the makeup race. (Tommy Micheals)
Henley, Missouri's Jason Russell leads the way to Victory Lane in the ULMS Late Model feature at Lucas Oil Speedway Saturday. (Chris Bork)
Some fierce racing action at Lucas Oil speedway. (Chris Bork)
Dalton, Ga.'s Craig Reece returned to Dixie Speedway Saturday and led all the way to win the Crate LM victory. (Steve Hixson)
Ray Guss Jr. races last week's Quad City Speedway winner, Mike Murphy, Jr. This time, it was advantage Guss. (Chris Damitz)
With a strong motor back into his mount, Veteran Lamar Scoggins claimed last Friday's Crate LM victory at Boyd's Speedway. (Steve Hixson)
Veteran racer Lance Matthees navigates Spring Lake, Minnesota's Deer Creek Speedway before taking Saturday's WISSOTA Late Model checkers. (Jason Durst)
Racing hard at mid-pack, it's the dueling 55s of Cory Mahder (inside) and Greg Nippoldt at Deer Creek. (Jason Durst)
Ryan King (above and below) swept both the Ltd. Late Model and Crate Late Model features Saturday at 411 Motor Speedway in Seymour, Tenn. (Chad Wells)
Still riding his wave in Iowa, Mike Murphy, Jr. in early action before taking the main event win at Davenport last Friday. (Chris Damitz)
Jason Jameson ran a gauntlet to finally capture another win Friday night at Moler
Raceway Park (see main page). (Roy
Walker)
After holding back a charge from Alex Ferree, Chub Frank drove home with a Friday night win at Lernerville Speedway in Sarver, Pa. (John Stivason)
Bobby Pierce, Brett Sievert, and Mike Glynn race in a tight pack in Kankakee (Ill.) Speedway's "Crosstown Cup", but (below) it was ultimately Shawn Toczek (42) here racing the high side of Mike Provenzano, who sailed to the win. (Dan Simpson)
A-Team Leaders from 1997-2011 (Click on link for complete rundown)
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