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Witherspoon Wins At Volusia Speedway Park
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 The new Top Gun Sprints, under the direction of Don Rehm, made their first appearance in the 2009 race season for their second race of the season. With twenty five in the pits, they topped the fifteen that were at Ocala back in March. Tony Knowles, Tony Agin and Terry Witherspoon took the heat wins but it was Rick Byerly who was suppose to be on the pole for their feature race but decided to start in the rear instead turning the pole position over to Terry Witherspoon. But it was a very short green as Mark Ruel, Jr. and Rocky Sullivan got together coming off four and brought out the yellow. Ruel was able to be refired and rejoin the field but the same cannot be said for Sullivan who had severe damage to the front end of his sprint. Sullivan saw his night come to an end before it even began. Once again Witherspoon took the pole position for the second start and quickly jumped to the point over Matt Kurtz, Mike Schroeder, Ryan Partin, and Tony Agin. Kurtz wasted no time taking over the number one position as Witherspoon settled for second. Kurtz was flying and quickly built a 20 car lead over Witherspoon in second when the caution came out on lap 10 for A.J. Maddox who had problems in turn 2. The field was realigned and the green was out again. Kurtz once again took the point follwed by Witherspoon, Schroeder, Partin, and Agin. Otto Scrape put the heat on Agin and took over fifth as Agin went to sixth followed by Tony Knowles, Rusty Sullivan, Gene Machuga, and T.W. Parkinson. By lap 19, Scrape had taken over fourth as Schroeder settled for fifth. Suddenly, on lap 22 while running fourth, Scrape stops dead still on the frontstretch. As the crowd watches Scrape, the man who had lead for almost the entire race retired his ride to the pits and also was done for the night. Matt Kurtz was off the track and in the pits. After leading twenty one of the twenty two laps on the books, Kurtz is out and the new leader is Terry Witherspoon. Five cars are left on the lead lap as Witherspoon takes the point followed by Ryan Partin, Tony Agin, Troy Knowles, and Mike Schroeder. Witherspoon takes the checkered and wins the first of two races at Volusia Speedway Park for the Top Gun Sprint Car Series. TOP GUN SPRINT CAR SERIES 1. #22 Terry Witherspoon 2. #14 Ryan Partin 3. #38 Tony Agin 4. #27x Troy Knowles 5. #6 Mike Schroeder 6. #43 Gene Machuga 7. #51 Rusty Sullivan 8. #56 Allen Kaluzniak 9. #04 T.W. Parkinson 10. #83A Christine Auld 11. #92 Matt Kurtz 12. #W3 Otto Scrape 13. #77 Larry Pickett 14. #0 Phillip Pettay 15. #27 Dan Pickett 16. #3X AJ Maddox 17. #00 Mike Leacock 18. #50 Rick Byerly 19. #17 Mark Chicca 20. #66 Wes Scrape 21. #47B Alexis Beagle 22. #15 Rocky Sullivan 23. #8 Rich Alexander 24. #01 Gene Lasker DNS 25. #83 Mark Ruel, Jr. DNS |