(June 14, 2008) Saturday night action at Deep South Speedway in Loxley was heated up as the Vintage cars saw 12 cars take the green flag for what would turn out to be a classic show. Stuart Wilson, of Milton, Florida, was the eventual winner, powering his familiar orange #71 ½ “sawdust” sedan car to the front of the field after the early leaders had problems. Tom Lohr driving his #97 sedan tried to rout the smooth sailing of Wilson several laps, but Wilson never slipped as he took the checkers for his first win at Deep South this season. Newcomer Ansel Reed of Pace drove to a third place finish in his green #98 sedan, while Jody Beech and Billy Boothe followed in 4^th and 5^th.

The Super Hobby division saw Greg Tuberville take his red and yellow #20 to the checkered as the young and upcoming Bradley Rhodes in his #25 GTO following in a close second. The Super Hobby class started off in hot laps with fast action as Jeffrey Spann flipped his beautiful #01 Camaro entering turn 3. Spann said the car bottomed out entering the corner and turned him into the wall. He made a valiant effort to get the car back under power but because of missing body panels, tech officials would not allow the car to re-enter the race. Allan Taylor, multiple race winner at the speedway this year, ran third with no brakes followed by Randy Darby, Jr. and Travis Bonner.

The Crate late model feature saw only our second repeat winner of the season when Monte Skinner powered his #00 TNT chassis, Skinner Services, B2R Graphics sponsored machine around pole sitter Larry Cifra on lap 3 and never looked back. Skinner had several cautions to deal with and several challenges from Calvin Cook, Chris Smith, Nathan Ingersall and Ryan Little but managed to keep the TNT in the groove for his second win of the season. Points leader Ryan Little drove his blue #97 Camaro from back in the field to post a last lap challenge for the lead after sliding his car around Cook and Smith during the double file restarts to post his 6^th second place finish this year! Pace’s Ricky Haugen wrangled a third place finish in his #22G after starting in the rear of the 14-car field for an impressive run. Pole-sitter Cifra drove his Warrior #11 to the checkers in 4^th with a new motor he says started losing power during the race. Kenneth Montiel, in his familiar #007, wound up 5^th for the night.

Stinger driver Jamie Mozingo knows the way to victory lane as he won yet another Stinger feature driving his green #48M machine to yet another win at the speedway. Gary Watson has beaten Mozingo this season driving his #48G, but had to settle for another second as Mozingo held his line around the super speedway.  Spanish Fort driver Angela Hayes drover her #7 stinger to a third place finish in her debut this season, followed to the stripe by Edward Hall in his 17H machine.

Derrick Johnson won his feature in the Hobby Stock class for the second race in a row as he powered by Steven Allday through turns 3 and 4 for the lead and then the win. Allday, who had been the leader for most of the race, said he just entered the turn a little higher than the previous lap, allowing the #1 Monte Carlo of Johnson enough room to slide by for the lead. Allday followed in second place and Joseph Adams, wheeling his #22 Monte Carlo into a strong 3^rd place finish Saturday night. Adams had a 2^nd place finish two weeks ago and is a hard-charger in the division. John Boyd in the #32 car had a great heat race win and was fighting for the feature lead early but had to settle for 4^th while Chris Burger completed the top 5.

Fourteen modified cars started the feature event Saturday night and another familiar face was in victory circle as Greg Hopkins won on a slippery track. Hopkins used his smoothness to coach the Larry Shaw, Hi-Rev Performance #25 machine to victory over a hard-charging Ron Tubbs from Gulfport. Tubbs, driving the perfectly prepared Tubbs Marine sponsored Shaw car, powered through the field to 2^nd, catching Hopkins near the end of the feature but could only show him a wheel through turns 1 and 2. Randy Booker, in his white #26 modified, again saw another impressive run as he fought Hopkins and the track conditions for the early lead, but faded to finish a respectable third. Michael Booker and Buddy White rounded out the top 5. Hard luck found Bucky Lane upside down on his lid as he was passing the spinning car #141 of Justin Galbreath when Galbreath’s car speared the rear end of Lane’s car and broke the mounts, sending Lane on a wild trip upside down. Another turn of bad luck earlier in the week at the Thursday practice saw the #777 car of Buster Foley get totaled in turn 3. He made a valiant effort to get another car prepared for Saturday night and wound up 11^th.

The Limited Sportsman winner is also no stranger to victory lane as veteran driver Nathan Ingersall  took the K7 Jerry Schoen sponsored car to the stripe ahead of 2^nd place finisher Vic Dolehite of Milton. Chuck Moore of Fairhope brought his Chuck’s Transmission sponsored Warrior home in third.

The fuel injected Sprint cars, most of who travel to race their cars, were hampered by the weather and only five Sprint cars were on hand for the race. Michael Dupee set fast time around the speedway with a 15.316 lap time. The dash was inverted and Dupee made easy pickings of the field as he powered his winged sprint to the lead quickly. The track conditions made the drivers put all their skills to the test in trying to control the speeds and Dupee slipped in turns 3 and 4 allowing Shane Morgan to slide past and never look back. Dupee would recover to finish 2^nd as Todd Fayard finished 3^rd. Casey Hinds and Michael Miller were 4^th and 5^th.