5/29/2016
Freedom Factory
No Bones about the Florida State Bomber Champion!
No Bones about the Florida State Bomber Champion!
Saturday, 28th, 2016_ - Desoto Speedway set the mood for some action packed racing along with the crowning of the Florida State Bomber Champion. Fans were treated to a 22 car field of bombers from all over the state. After qualifying it was #57 Carl Thompson atop the leader board at 18.645, the top seven were all in the eighteen second bracket. Thompson would draw the 8 pill inverting 8 rows thus putting his potent Chevy Nova in the 16th spot for the 50 lap shootout. The fans were treated to a grandstand driver introduction and all were applauded by the packed house. #21 Josh Hall led the field to the green and a few laps later #38 Nicholas Malverty rocketed to the top spot and looked to be the class of the field. Malverty seemed to have lost power and turned over the top spot to #56 James Wright who then set the pace. Charging through the field were Thompson, Brandon “Bones” Duchscherer, Aaron Holmes and Brian Harbin. Thompson’s night would end with mechanical problems leaving the latter to duke it out. Duchscherer would opt to the outside of Wright on the front row and motor to the lead and never look back to win the Inaugural Florida State Bomber Championship. Duchscherer pocketed a cool $1000 cash along with a mystery donation from a fan of $100. Buddy Griffin’s Specialty Cooling Products also provided a way to keep his machine cool awarding him a brand new radiator. “I could really use that as my car was overheating at 300 degrees at the checkered” said Bones. Rounding out the top five were James Wright, Brian Harbin, Aaron Holmes and Jamie Castleberry.
The enduro saw 9 cars take the green flag for their 25 lap race. Josh Bridges would steal the show with only one incident between the 72 of Matt McCrary and #41 of Tony Meeks which collected the 42 of Anne Osbourne, #3 James Prochaska and #14 of Michael Meeks. The red flag was displayed and all but the #41 of Tony Meeks and Osbourne were able to continue. The #55 of Steve Majors took chase on Josh Bridges but came up short at the checkers. Bridges was your winner followed by #55 Majors, #72 McCrary, #07Trevor Appling and #14 Michael Meeks rounded out the top five.
The quad racers made their 15 lap event look easy with a few of our regulars attempted to show their quad racing talent. Brandon Martin and Matt McCrary would finish 4th and 5th respectively at their first attempt. Ted Braun would prove to be the baddest of them all capturing the win. Tony Edwards, Jonathan Gray would round out the top three.
Our novelty events claimed to be exciting, #02 Josh Bridges once again would show that he was the best of show in the Road Course event. #55 Steve Majors, #07 Trevor Appling, #14 Michael Meeks and #72 Matt McCrary would all give chase but came up short.
The flagpole race sure was a crowd pleaser as #42 Bill Osbourne set out as the early leader and watched as the small but yet potent 4 cylinders tracked his every move. #02 Josh Bridges looked as though he was going to make it a three peat along came the #07 Shawn Senokossoff who made the inside slide move on bridges to claim the win.
05-28-2016
DESOTO SPEEDWAY RACE RESULTS
Enduro
- 02 Josh Bridges
- 55 Steve Majors
- 72 Matt McCreery
- 07 Trevor Appling
- 14 Michael Meeks
- 3 James Prochaska
- 41 Tony Meeks
- 42 Anne Osborne
- 367 Kyle Best D.N.S.
Bombers
- 78 Brandon Duchscherer
- 56 James Wright
- 18 Brian Harbin
- 57 Aaron Holmes
- 88 Jamie Castleberry
- 22x Randy Spicer
- 24 Jeff Pacheo
- 382 Zach Briggs
- 38 Nick Malverty
- 6 Danny Burchfield
- 81 Mark Gill
- 21 Josh Hall
- 138 Mike Hubbard
- 02 Glen Keller
- 153 Kyle Peters
- 36 Edward Schultz
- 14 Adam Briggs
- 10Tristin Collins
- 75 Carl Thompson
- 12 Doug Radley
- 53 Brandon Martin
- 23 Kenny Gibson
Quad Racing
1 Ted Braun
2. Tony Edwards
3. Johnathan Gray
4. Brandon Martin
5. Matt McCreary
6. Zach Briggs
Road Course
- 02 Josh Bridges
- 55 Steve Majors
- 07 Trevor Appling
- 14 Michael Meeks
- 72 Matt McCreery
Flag Pole
- 07 Shawn Senokosoff
- 02 Josh Bridges
- 55 Steve Majors
- 14 Michael Meeks
- 42 Bill Osborne
- 3 James Prochaska
- 72 Carl Thompson
School Bus
- 6 Shawn Senokossoff
- 16 David Smith
- 61 Bobby Gordon
- 4 James Volk
- 31 Duane Campbell
- 25 Glenn Keller
- 76 Amy Jones
- Flag Gator Volk
- 99 Trevor Appling
The race of the night is always the School Bus Figure 8’s as they never fail to entertain. #76 Amy Jones would lead them to the green and hold the lead for several laps. Jones would watch as #61 Bobby Gordon, #6 Shawn Senokossoff maneuvered around the other buses. Gordon would take over the lead for several laps and look to have it in the bag and from out of no where came Senokossoff who took the top spot from Gordon and never looked back. Senokossoff would make his second trip to victory lane of the evening. #16 David Smith would pass Gordon for second with only a couple laps left and set chase for Senokossoff only to come up short. Gordon would end up third, #4 James Volk fourth and #31 Duane Campbell would round out the top five.
Submitted By: Linda Jericka
