Jason Sides celebrates in victory lane after winning Friday night’s Lucas Oil ASCS Sprint Car Series feature at East Bay Raceway Park. Photo courtesy EBRP Media
Jason Sides led flag-to-flag Saturday night to score the win in the second round of action of the 17th annual King of the 360’s and 14th Ronald Laney Memorial for the Lucas Oil American Sprint Car Series as part of Winternationals 2015 at East Bay Raceway Park in Tampa, FL.
Drawing the pole in the night’s 25-lap feature event, the 2002 Ronald Laney Memorial winner was pressured on the highline by Mark Smith on the opening lap, but was able to keep the Pennsylvania ace at bay.
“The bottom was the place to be, but Mark had a pretty good start there,” said Sides. “I spun the tires, and may have got into him a little bit there, but that was the key to the whole race was getting a good start and not making any mistakes.”
Finding traffic by the lap 5, Sides found clear racetrack two laps later as Thomas Kennedy spun to a stop in the fourth turn. Pulling away from Smith on the restart, it didn’t take long to again find the back of the field.
Pacing around traffic, Sides didn’t lose his edge, crossing 5.204 seconds ahead of Mark Smith for his first preliminary night victory in the King of the 360’s.
Putting together a pair of podium finishes, Smith is locked into Saturday’s $10,000 to win feature event.
“I could have maybe tried a little harder to roll Jason there at the beginning on the outside because I wasn’t bad there,” Smith said. “But I just had too much to lose tomorrow, so I figured I just drop in and ride it out and hopefully we can get this track better for tomorrow.”
Improving one spot from Thursday night, Brad Loyet grabbed the final podium step, and in doing so, also put himself directly into Saturday A-Feature event.
“We’ll see what happens here,” he said. “We just need to go for it tomorrow. Being locked into the show, we’ll be in good position.”
Jeff Swindell crossed fourth with Thursday night’s winner, with Aaron Reutzel coming from 10th to fifth to earn high points between the two prelim nights.
Despite the narrow racing groove, Greg Hodnett blazed a path from 22nd to sixth. Tony Bruce, Jr. finished seventh with Wayne Johnson, Terry McCarl and Johnny Herrera completing the top ten.
Alex Bright scored the win in the Florida Mini Sprints feature Friday night. Photo courtesy EBRP Media
In other action, Alex Bright powered to the win in the Florida Mini Sprint feature Friday night.
Bright took the early lead, only to see the action interrupted for a red flag incident for Troy Wren from Bryan, Texas, who flipped in the middle of the backstretch on lap 16. Wren was not injured in the crash.
When action resumed Bright still led the way over Travis Senter and Luke Thomas. However, Thomas grabbed second following a yellow on lap 22 and the restart held the cars in single-file formation. Bright went on to win with Thomas crossing the line in second.
Winternationals 2015 action continues on Saturday night, as the ASCS Sprints and Florida Mini Sprints wrap up their portions of the event. For more info, visit EastBayRacewayPark.com.
Lucas Oil American Sprint Car Series
East Bay Raceway Park – Tampa, FL
Winternationals 2015 – Feb. 20, 2015
1. 7S-Jason Sides
2. M1-Mark Smith
3. 05-Brad Loyet
4. 94-Jeff Swindell
5. 87-Aaron Reutzel
6. 27-Greg Hodnett
7. 18-Tony Bruce, Jr.
8. 77X-Wayne Johnson
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10. 45X-Johnny Herrera
11. 45-Tim Shaffer
12. 15H-Sam Hafertepe, Jr.
13. 14K-Kyle Bellm
14. 6-Danny Lasoski
15. 59-Danny Holtgraver
16. 52-Blake Hahn
17. 3A-A.J. Maddox
18. 23-Seth Bergman
19. 20K-Thomas Kennedy
20. 10H-Chad Kemenah
21. 66-Danny Smith
22. 6S-Robbie Smith
23. 49-Shawn Dancer
24. 92K-Matt Kurtz
Florida Mini Sprints
1. 66 Alex Bright
2. 97 Luke Thomas
3. 22 Travis Senter
4. 91s Billy Paunch
5. 75x James Morris
6. 29t Gavin Thomas
7. 55 Sam Lamothe
8. 8 Eddie Moss, Jr.
9. 8y Jim Young
10. 1a Dale Arnold
11. 9r Rick Gross
12. 24x Danny Sams, Jr.
13. 75 Name Not Available
14. 13 Trevor Baker
15. 47x Dylan Westbrook
16. 68 Dirk Miller
17. Rhea Lynn Moss
18. 77x Alex Hill
19. 33 Carlie Yent
20. 67 David Hall
21. 12 Robby Hoffmann
22. 77 Robbie Smith
23. 4w Troy Wren
24. 1 Chase Baker
25. 14t Tyler Walton
26. 71 Timmy Buckwalter
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