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| Thursday, February 14, 2008
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Troy DeCaire Wins His First Race for 2008
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TBARA News Release
(February 10) - Twenty one of the TBARA Pavement Pounders made the trip to the fast ˝ mile in Samsula Florida with defending 2007 champion Troy DeCaire besting the field in the 30 lap feature. DeCaire, driving the familiar George Rudolph 68, took the early lead and was never headed. In victory circle Troy said,” George had the car handling better than ever and it was showing 800 RPM higher through the corners than we normally see!” Dave Steele placed second with Teate, Hartley, and rookie Blaze Martin rounding out the top five
In heat race action, Steele, looking for a repeat of Saturday’s win, was turning laps in the mid 15 second range for an average speed of 116 MPH and a top speed of 140+ down the long New Smyrna straightaways as he won the first heat. Dude Teate and Bo Hartley also had their cars up to the task as they took the 2nd and 3rd heats, respectively.
The 3rd heat was marred by a savage crash involving a stuck throttle on the Rod Anderson 35. Anderson was unconscious for several minutes as rescue personnel removed him from his destroyed racer. Thankfully, he regained consciousness on the trip to the hospital and was released 2 days later with a concussion and a fracture of the #4 vertebra.
Feature: 1. 68 Troy DeCaire; 2. 91 Dave Steele; 3. 0 Dude Teate; 4. 3X Bo Hartley; 5. 5 Blaze Martin; 6. 16 Ben Fritz; 7. Mark Gimmler; 8. 88 Frank Neill; 9. 21B Larry Jay Brazil, Jr.; 10. 9 Michael Smith; 11. 27 Sonny Hartley; 12. 99X Tim Buchanan; 13. 41 Steve Heisler; 14. Dakota Stevens; 15. 00jr Wayne Reutimann, Jr.; 16. 47 Richard Waddell; 17. 21 Jim Alvis; 18 0z Joe Liguori; 19. DJ Hoezle; 20. 1B Brian Maddox
Heat races. 1st 1. Steele 2. Alvis 3. Fritz 4. Liguori 5. Buchanan 6. Stevens 7. Martin.
2nd 1. Teate 2. Gimmler 3. Neill 4. Heisler 5. Maddox 6. S Hartley 7. Waddell
3rd 1. B Hartley 2. Hoezle 3. Smith 4. DeCaire 5. Brazil 6. Reutimann, Jr. 7. Anderson
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