The USA Sprints Florida’s # 1 Dirt Sprintcar Organization will make their 1st ever visit to the action packed Citrus County Speedway in Inverness Florida Saturday Night April 30th. This will mark the 4th race on pavement for the 2005 Southern Thunder Tour season for the South Florida dirtcar Series.
There have been 2 different Winners thus far in 2005 with Scotty Adema, the "Fort Myers Flash", who is known as a pavement specialist, taking top honors twice. Along with Adema "Tiny" Tim George, multi time East Bay Champ, and Winner of the first race at Hialeah Speedway will make his first visit there as well. George will also take his strong point lead into Saturday the night affair at the quarter mile speedplant.
Word has it that many of the States top drivers are also planning attending CCS. Current Eastbay regulars Donnie Maxwell, the Ford driver from Tampa along with Tim Holstein and Danny Jones are expected. This weekends race will definitely have many wondering if anyone will catch the Tommy Rice owned # 67 J & J Sprinter of Adema. Rice is also rumored to have another car soon in the works for a 2 car effort. The Rice team is based out of North Fort Myers and the car is from Ohio and runs a 305 cu in power plant, which makes his performance even more astonishing.
Other USA regulars that will be expected to run up front are Dennis Misuraca who ran a great race at Hialeah until he ran out of fuel on lap 18 in 2nd place. It was said he gave up 5 gals of fuel to another competitor who was short himself. This was a hard blow for the Sanford Florida pilot. Expect Team Misuraca to return as strong as ever. Pro Challenge standout Rod Sanders who ran 2nd his only time out, will be a force as well as up and coming "Young Guns" Dakota Stevens and Michael Smith. Smith has shown brilliance thus far in his Rookie season with steady top 10’s and now sits tied in 2nd place in the Points tied with veteran campaigner RC Roper.
Among the USA newcomers this year hailing from Cape Coral are Rookie Jeff "G-Man" Styner in the 15jr and the # 63 of Dave Oblinger who returns to the seat in a Sprinter after nearly 20 years. Oblinger has Winning experience and could be a dark horse in this years point battle. Car owner Dave Link is very happy with Oblinger’s return to the seat and it showed with a fine 3rd place finish at Hialeah last time out. Bob Parrow, Sean Namor and Mike "Hollywood" Schroeder will always be in the hunt and are drivers to keep your eyes on. Be sure to make plans for this weekend’s race. Call the Track @ 352-726-9339 for more information.
