2007 ORLANDO SPEEDWORLD RACE #5

2007 ORLANDO SPEEDWORLD SOUTHERN VINTAGE SERIES RACE #5--MAY 12, 2007

THINGS WENT AT ORLANDO SPEEDWORLD...WE HAD 5 MIDGETS IN THE PITS BUT ONLY STARTED THREE IN THE FEATURE...DALE MILLER #1 BEAT OUT BILL WENDT #71 AND VANCE CUNNINGHAM #9..JERRY PAQUIN'S #10 SUFFERED FUEL PUMP PROBLEMS DURING HIS HEAT AND IT WAS A SCRAMBLE TO GET HIM READY FOR THE FEATURE BUT TIME WAS AGAINST HIM...BROTHER MIKE HAD BROUGHT THE #6 TQ THAT HAD JUST BEEN REPAIRED IN DON REHM'S RIVERVIEW RACING SHOP BUT ALL WAS CONCENTRATED ON JERRY RIDE...DON BIGLOW AND DAVID JARRETT HAD THEIR SPRINTS IN THE PITS AS WELL AS SAM MORROW'S #0 EARLIER...DAVES #9 IS NOT QUITE READY TO RUN BUT HE WAS THERE TO SUPPORT OTHERS...DON WAS INVITED TO RUN HIS #14 WITH THE MIDGETS AND RAN THE HEAT BUT BOWED OUT FOR THE FEATURE...THINGS WERE QUIET WITHOUT OUR SARASOTA SPRINT TEAMS...FIVE DAARA STOCKS CARS SHOWED UP TO DISPLAY THE WIDE VARITY OF CARS WE HAVE IN THE CLUB...CORY LANE RETURNED AFTER A MONTH LONG REPAIR TO HIS #78 AND WALKED AWAY WITH THE WIN...EDDIE GRANT WAS SECOND IN HIS 8 BALL FOLLOWED BY KEITH GRANT #73, JIM KASERMAN #21, AND TONY LAYTON IN HIS #11 WITH NEW PAINT AFTER GETTING SOME TIRE MARKS ON BOTH FENDERS AT ZEPHYRHILLS...THE ONLY PROBLEM SOME OF THE DRIVERS HAD WERE THE FAMOUS FLORIDA LOVE BUGS...JIM KASERMAN AND DON BIGLOW'S TRUCKS WERE COVERED WITH THE LOVE STRUCK BUGS.....(JJ collage)

AFTER A MONTH HIATUS CORY LANE RETURNED TO ORLANDO WITH THE HELP FROM HIS DAD GARY..(JJ photo)

PHOTOGRAPHER BROOKE JONES, JIM KNAPP, BILL WENDT, AND VANCE CUNNINGHAM..(JJ photo)

DON BIGLOW AND JERRY PAQUIN REPRESENTED SOME OF OUR OPEN WHEEL CLASSES..(JJ photo)

LOVE BUGS WERE HIGH ON THE LIST AS BEING ONE OF THE MOST HATED THINGS IN FLORIDA..(JJ photo)

VANCE AND TRUDIE CUNNINGHAM CAME OVER FROM LAKELAND..(JJ photo)

NEARING COMPLETION DAVID AND ALICE JARRETT HAD THERE NEW SPRINT IN THE PITS..(JJ photo)

DAARA PRESIDENT DALE MILLER AND VANCE CUNNINGHAM EXCHANGED RACING NEWS..(JJ photo)

A NICE SELECTION OF DAARA STOCK CARS VISITED ORLANDO..(JJ photo)

JIM AND SARAH KASERMAN HAVE FUN AT ORLANDO..(JJ photo)

JERRY AND ELIANA PAQUIN..(JJ photo)

SPEEDWORLD ANNOUNCER DAVE WESTERMAN ENJOYED OUR DAARA NEWSLETTER..(JJ photo)

JOSH HARTLINE SON OF DAARA TREASURER CHYTHIA HARTLINE HELPED OUT WITH THE PUSHING CHORES FOR THE FIRST TIME..(JJ photo)

JERRY PAQUIN WAS SNAKE BIT AGAIN AT ORLANDO AS HIS FUEL PUMP DRIVE FAILED DURING THE HEAT...WE ALL PITCHED IN BUT COULDN'T GET ANY FUEL PRESSURE..(JJ photo)