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It was survival of the fittest in
RE/MAX Legends Car action Saturday night at Orlando
Speedworld as Sam Watts
managed to avoid trouble and sped to his second win
of the year.
Things actually started out pretty
smooth as Kory Abbott grabbed the early lead only to
be overtaken on lap three by Jeremy Colangelo. Patrick
Conrad was on the charge as well making the move to
second and putting the pressure on Colangelo while looking
to put his car into victory lane for the tenth time
this year.
The red flag flew for the first of
three times on lap seven as Doug Hall, Mike Verhaagh
and Derrick Wood got tangled up in turn one. All the
drivers were OK but only Wood was able to continue.
Colangelo set the pace with Conrad
shadowing his every move only to see the caution come
right back out for Brandon Thomson's spin in turn four.
Two laps after the green appeared,
something broke on Kory Abbott's car and the young driver
went head-on into the turn one wall. Again the red was
displayed but Kory was just fine although his car was
a mess.
As the green fell again, Colangelo,
Conrad and Watts
began to go at it tooth and nail for the lead. Going
into turn three on lap twelve, Colangelo and Conrad
touched sending both cars spinning into the wall.
Again both drivers were upset but
unharmed and only some "parental control" was needed
in the pits as both machines were brought in on the
hook.
Watts
assumed the lead and never looked back from this point.
One more caution for a Dion Hinskey/Spike Sabo tangle
slowed the pace one more time, but Watts
ran virtually unchallenged to the checker.
Wesley McLeod picked up his best career
finish as he came home second while South Florida carnival
operator Jeff Deggeller also had his best ever feature
finish in third. Bobby Byars and James Rodriguez rounded
out the top five.
Heat races went to Colangelo, Conrad
and Brandon Thomson, his first ever Legends Car win.
The Classic Auto Racing Series made
its third visit to the track this year and the story
was the same as Deland's Ben Booth won here for the
third consecutive time.
Tim Ousley won the Trophy Dash for
his first career win and then led the opening lap of
the 25 lap feature. However Booth was dialed in as usual
and took the lead on lap two. Bill Posey tracked Booth
down late in the going but had to settle for second
spot followed by Daryl Grief, Ousley and Norm Agostinho.
Jim Rahman won the Classic Car heat
but was taken out in a lap two crash with Tom Cotton.
Gerald White, Jr. was back in the
winners circle in Bandolero Bandit action taking his
seventh win of the year over Chad Akins, Ryan Rust,
Blake Eden and Donovan Ponder.
Matthew Jarrett took his first ever
Bandolero Young Guns feature win leading all the way.
Derrick Wood was second followed by Brandon Thomson,
Scott Jarrett and Nik Wesenick.
Kevin Henry scored the Bandolero Outlaw
win taking the measure of Evan Russell, Sam Gearhart
and Dave Jarrett.
Pop Honaker won his second Hurricane
feature of the year out-running Bobby Crites, Brian
Bleau, Bobby Crites, Jr. and Zach Colangelo.
There will be no racing this coming
Saturday, May 15th in order to clean up from the Crash-A-Rama
program the night before. Saturday racing action returns
on May 22nd with the RE/MAX Legends Cars, Bandoleros
and Hurricanes along with the Modified Lite and Pro
Challenge cars.
Reproduced
with permission.
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