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Sam took 2nd place in the Fastruck race Saturday night. He qualified 9th fastest but because of the field inversion he started outside pole. He led the race for 12 laps but got caught behind back markers and was overtaken. He stayed in 2nd position for the rest of the race and came home a very happy 2nd place. Kevin Williams, the car owner, was overjoyed. Sam will only be able to be Hotshot one more time. Please continue checking samwatts.com for news updates.

FASTKIDS and FASTRUCK Open with Exciting Show at Auburndale

C.A.R.S. Motorsports & Racer Marketing

from karnac.com, 3/6/05

Orlando FL. - A beautiful day fell into night as the opening race for the FASTKIDS and FASTRUCK series for 2005 became reality. The season was underway with an exciting battle in both divisions.

Qualifying would be the first Order of business, as the FASTKIDS would trip the clock first and it would be David Wilson grabbing the fast qualifier award. New this year for the youngsters is an inversion, with seven trucks in the event a 0 or 3 was placed in the draw and the three was pulled by Wilson.

The FASTRUCK qualifying was up next and it would be James Wright III who would take the fast qualifier award. He was then sent to draw for his inversion. A 0, 6, 8 and 10 were put in the bottom of cups with soda in the cups. James selected a cup drank the soda and it reviled a number for inversion, He was not that excited when he reached the bottom of his cup because it was the dreaded 10. That would place Billy Barstow on the pole for the 50 Lap main event.

The FASTKIDS would be first for there 25 lap affair. Levi Hobbs would start from the pole and lead early laps before David Wilson would make a great inside pass to take the top spot and never looked back. Only a couple minor spins slowed the event as the youngsters ran a good race. A couple new first time drivers gained experience and showed they will be ready to challenge for wins later in the season. Wilson would take the checkered ahead of Levi Hobbs and Spencer Taylor.

After several local features 25 FASTRUCK Pro division trucks would take to the track for a 50 Lap battle. Billy Barstow and Sam Watts would start on the front row. On the battle into turn one Sam Watts would grab the lead. The opening 12 laps would go green before the races first caution, and lapped traffic came into play for the leader. Watts trying to move thru the lapped traffic got hung up and that allowed George Gorham Jr. to make a move by him and grab the lead from his third place starting spot.

It would remain Gorham Jr., Watts with Gary Foxworth, Sean Bass and George Morales rounding out the top five. Several cautions for spins and fluid on the track when Tommy King fell out with a transmission problem would slow the event.

Several spotters reported fluid leaking from the leaders truck. FASTRUCK officials pulled and checked him twice for fluid and none was found. The final caution would come out on lap 47 to set up a three lap dash. Watts tried all he had to make a move but could not get by Gorham Jr. who would take the series opening win. Watts, Foxworth, Morales who earlier was able to get by Bass, and Bass rounded out the top five finishers.

"We changed a transmission today, had motor problems and then to get the win, this is just cool" stated Gorham Jr. In victory lane.

"I want to thank all the drivers tonight, they really did a good job out there. This place is tight and pretty much everyone drove patient and clean. I think for the opening show on this tight bullring things went pretty well and we had a real good show for the fans" remarked race director Rick Bristol.

"We look forward to next Sunday's race at Charlotte County Speedway with the Sprint Challenge and the FASTRUCK series. Race #2 can only get better from here" he added.

The series does move on to Charlotte Next Sunday afternoon with racing at 2 p.m. The series then heads to Hialeah the following week Saturday March 19th, before a couple of weeks off.

You can check the full results and points standings at fastruckseries.com to keep up with Florida's premier truck series.

Reproduced with permission.