Josh Richards is making a habit of winning the season debut for the World of Outlaws Late Model series. He did it for the fourth year in a row at Volusia County Speedway Thursday night coming all the way from the 17th starting spot to pass Earl Pearson Jr. for the lead on lap 27 of the 50 lap headliner. EPJ held on for second followed by Brady Smith and Tim McCreadie.
Dale McDowell started on the pole for the main event, but spun the car in turn one on the first lap. The Georgia native in the Clint Bowyer Racing Cheerios sponsored #17m restarted at the back of the 29-car lineup and raced his way all the way back up to sixth.
Iowans Tyler Bruening and Jill George were 7th and 10th respectively in the first consolation event.
A couple of days ago Brian Birkhofer indicated that he might chase the Outlaw series this year if he got off to a good start this week. Well, night one didn't go so well as Birky qualified 50th, pulled out of the second heat race and then did not run a consolation event.
The weather does not look too good for tonight's $10,000-to-win UMP sanctioned event at Volusia and it will be a bit on the chilly side for Saturday's WoO points race. I was pretty disappointed that I wasn't able to go to the Orange Bowl last month until I saw that it was the coldest Orange Bowl ever and I was pretty bummed about not heading down to Florida this week until I saw what the weather was like :)
How about the Duel 150's at Daytona Thursday? Great racing, cars passing each other without have to be lined up in a tight drafting formation, and two extremely close finishes. Hopefully this will translate over to Sunday and we will have a great Daytona 500!
It is nice to see that the powers that be at NASCAR felt the same way as the fans did when the Budweiser Shootout ended with a thud when the caution came out in turn three as the field was coming to the white flag. It was announced yesterday that all NASCAR events (Sprint Cup, Nationwide and Trucks) will make up to three attempts at a green-white-checkered finish with the goal to have the race leader take the white flag under green light racing conditions. Now if they would just add in the suggestion that I made a couple of days ago, they would really have this wrapped up!
Here are the Georgia Late Model points following the Super Bowl of Racing events at Golden Isles Speedway. Check back in on Monday for the Florida standings following Speedweeks.
1 Scott Bloomquist Mooresburg TN 12
2 Austin Hubbard Seaford DE 8
3 Josh Richards Shinnston WV 8
4 Dennis Erb Jr. Carpentersville IL 5
5 Brad Neat Dunville KY 4
6 Jonathan Davenport Blairsville 4
7 Dan Schlieper Sullivan WI 2
8 Jimmy Owens Newport TN 1
9 Randy Weaver Crossville TN 1
Don't forget that the delayed broadcast of the Chili Bowl will be on Speed Channel Saturday night. Have a great racing weekend!
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