SHOWTIME SPEEDWAY ANNOUNCES STEELE 125 FRIDAY NIGHT FORMAT

February 20, 2022 – Pinellas Park, Florida – ShowtimeSpeedway promoter Robert Yoho announced details Sunday evening for the Friday night format for the “3rd annual Dave Steele World Non Wing SprintCar Championship 125” February 25-26.

All cars will qualify and then the qualifiers will be split into two 15-lap heat races. Odd numbered qualifiers will be in heat #1 and even numbered qualifiers will be in heat #2. An inversion of 0-2-4 will be used to invert the heat races. The finishing order of the heat races will determine the starting lineup for Saturday nights 125-lap $5,000 to win finale.

The resultsof heat race #1 will determine the inside row and the heat #2 results will determine the outside row for Saturday nights event. Each heat race will pay
$1,000 to the winner. Qualifying, heat race, and feature must be run on the same right rear.

There will be several bonuses up for grabs this year in addition to the base purse. Fast qualifier of the event will get a $500 bonus courtesy of Mac Steele, Carol Steele, and Lynn Bunn Steele Fisher. $500 bonuses will also be awarded to the leader of lap 33 and 66 courtesy of Showtime Speedway, Jimmy Cope, and Dayton Andrews Dodge. The purse is already the richest pavement sprint car purse in the state of Florida in 2022.

The purse for 20 cars is as follows: $5000-$1500-$750-$700-$650-$600-$575-$550-$525-$500-$475 and 12-20 $450.

Entries continue to come in and some of the brightest stars in pavement sprint car racing have already entered including Kody Swanson, Bobby Santos III, Kyle O’Gara, Shane Butler, Davey Hamilton Jr., Dude Teate, LJ Grimm, and 12-year-old Colton Bettis among others. An updated entry list with additional entries will be announced in the coming days

3rd annual "Dave Steele World Non-Wing Sprint Car Championship 125" expected entries.
(As of 2/20/22)

3 - Travis Bliemeister - Venice, FL
14 - Davey Hamilton Jr. - Tampa, FL
15 - Troy Thompson - Brooksville, FL
16 - Dude Teate - Leesburg, FL
17r - Kyle Robbins - New Castle, IN
18 - Shane Butler -Bushnell, FL
22 - Johnny Gilbertson - Tampa, FL
22a - Bobby Santos III - Franklin, MA
32 - Cody Karl - Gulfport, MS
33 - Joe Liguori - Tampa, FL
44 - Gary Wiggins - Tampa, FL
61 - Colton Bettis - Lutz, FL
67 - Kyle O’Gara - Camby, IN
77 - Kody Swanson - Kingsburg, CA
88 - LJ Grimm - Seffner, FL
99x- Tyler Porter – Pinellas Park, FL

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