Dirt Racing’s Winning Moment: Archer, Fla.’s Patrick Williams unexpectedly went higher than any driver on the racetrack, made it stick and drove past Ronnie Newsome with 15 laps to go to win the inaugural Swamp Cabbage 100 at Hendry County Motorsports Park Saturday night (Feb. 25).
That pass, ultimately proved all for naught, with both Williams and second-place finisher Kevin Durden disqualified post-race, handing the huge $20,000 payday to Newsome.
Dirt Racing’s Dramatic Moment: Even before two DQs radically altered the finishing order of Saturday’s Swamp Cabbage 100, the starting lineup itself found itself in controversy after a heat race situation arose Friday where the final transfer spot was in question; the transponders on the rear axles of the cars showed one finisher as the final transferee, while the track’s start/finish line camera showed the exact opposite. In the end, the track promoter opted to start both Ron Adams and Jason Floyd in Saturday’s Swamp Cabbage 100.
What Dirt Racing Fans’ll Be Group Chatting About This Morning
It’s really sad to see what may end up being the biggest payday for “thunder” stocks in all of 2023 be decided off the racetrack, but it’s hardly unexpected. The rulebook had been a subject of discussion since Hendry County Motorsports Park announced the Swamp Cabbage 100 last fall, and with the track opting to use a rulebook that allowed drivers to show up with racecars built to the rules of their home tracks, confusion was sure to follow. A five-figure payday is too much to leave to bring your own rules with you, as was referred to on the Hendry County Facebook page multiple times.
Also, take a note. Notice how when describing the DQ situation and the race winner that I included a link to a driver’s post rather than the racetrack’s? That’s because as of this writing in the wee hours of Monday morning, the Hendry County Motorsports Park website and Facebook page have not made any posting announcing disqualifications or a new race winner. Two words to describe that: amateur hour. There is no place for such a lack of transparency or communication in five-figure race promotion.
The Swamp Cabbage 100 weekend at Hendry County was certainly marketed well, as the grandstands were visibly packed, with fans reporting having to park on the actual highway at the track as opposed to the parking lots or…
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