68 cars signed in for Tuesday at Volusia with a few new faces

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From @WoOLateModels on twitter

68 cars are signed in for tont's UMP LM action at Volusia...new guys running tont include Coffey, Owens, Pearson, Korte & Red(not a nice word)(not a nice word)(not a nice word)(not a nice word)...

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Richard Petty Motorsports driver Aric Almirola will drive in the SLM race tonight. He'll be in Clint Smith's car. Clint will serve as his crew chief.

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From @EarlPearsonJr on twitter

Team preparing #Lucas Oil Dodge for tonight. Have over 60 cars signed in here at Volusia. http://pic.twitter.com/iNAVdMZa

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From @aric_almirola on twitter. Picture of Clint Smith's car done up as number 43.

My ride for tonight. I'm ready to go... http://pic.twitter.com/I7jFmL0Z

[latemodel28d]

little less then last night but can only take like 25 of the best for the night anyways! hoping to make the trip down for at least thurs and possibly sat also

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DIRTcar Late Model Qualifying under way here @VolusiaSpeedway

DIRTcar Late Model Group 1 Top 5: Scott Bloomquist (16.438), Rick Eckert, Billy Decker, Mason Zeigler, Justin Ratliff

DIRTcar Late Model Group 2 Top 5: Don O'Neal (16.343), Johnathan Davenport, Billy Moyer, Brian Shirley, Earl Pearson Jr.

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Halfway thru group qualifying...grp fast timers are Bloomquist, O'Neal & Lanigan.

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DIRTcar Late Model Group 3 Top 5: Darrell Lanigan (15.284), John Blankenship, Bobby Pierce, Billy Moyer Jr., Donnie Moran

DIRTcar Late Model Group 4 Top 5: Tim McCreadie (15.816), Frankie Heckenast Jr., Shannon Babb, Morgan Bagley, Brady Smith

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DIRTcar Late Model Group 5 Top 5: Dennis Erb Jr. (15.644), Jimmy Mars, Ryan Unzicker, Eric Wells, Jack Sullivan

DIRTcar Late Model Group 6 Top 5: Steve Francis (15.646), Terry Casey, Pat Doar, Jared Landers, Lance Matthees

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Top-4 inverted for the heats.

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Larry Wight barrel rolled 3 or 4 times in heat one. He is OK. Car destoyed.

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"They've got the track way too fast right now and it just dug in and went over," said Wight.

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Heat one finish:

Eckert with last lap pass to the redraw. Mason Zeigler then Bloomquist transfer.

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Heat two finish:

Moyer, sr, Davenport and O'Neal

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Heat three finish:

Lanigan, Moyer, jr and Blankenship with a last lap pass around Bobby Pierce for the final trasnfer spot.

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Shane Clanton is not racing tonight. Blew an engine last night. Changing it tonight in prep for tomorrow.

[smith19]

(wight) good thing the gypsum team is very well funded. i'd like to know how many total cars they own between the big block, small block and late model's. he also own's brewerton speedway and i think 1 other one.

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Jimmy Owens had fuel pressure issues in qualifying which will cause him to start toward rear of his heat.

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Babb in a blowout in heat four over Morgan Bagley and T-mac.

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Erb over Wells and Mars in heat five.

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First attempted start of heat six Pat Doar hard into wall. Owens spun to avoid and brushed wall. JO pitted and came back out.

Second attempt, Charlie Sander(not a nice word)(not a nice word)(not a nice word)(not a nice word) hard into wall and went airborne. He was OK.

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Francis wins heat six. Landers 2nd. Owens came from the rear to 3rd.

[blackford]

Erb has defiantly got it working!! :cool:

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Brian Shirley and Billy Decker transfer out of the first Last Chance Showdown.

Earl Pearson, Jr. and Josh Richards both failed to transfer.

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LCS-2 finish:

Heckenast, Jr and Tyler Reddck transfer.

Vic Coffey jumped cushion while running 2nd with two laps to go and fell back to 5th.

[blackford]

Thanks for the updates RTD!!

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LCS-3 finish:

Chub Frank and Jason Feger transfer.

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SLM redraw:

Francis, Moyer, Eckert, Babb, Erb and Lanigan

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Feature starting soon.

30 laps for $7000

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On the initial start of the main event, Don O’Neal spun from his 14th starting spot in turn two. Scott Bloomquist also spun in the incident along with Brian Shirley, Brandon Sheppard and Billy Decker.

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First caution on lap 18 for Shirley

Moyer, Francis, Lanigan, Babb, Eckert, Landers, Erb, Davenport

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Moyer wins over Lanigan, Francis, Eckert, Erb

[mf0521]

Thanks for the updates....................... Really nice job.

[NormP]

Really appreciate the updates RTD. I enjoy your articles too.

[HikerDan]

Thanks a bunch for taking the time to give these updates for me to read when arriving home from work tonight!

Congrats to Mr. Smooth