Five Fast Nights of Fun Awaits Sim Racers at SUPRS Florida Speedweeks

January 30, 2021 – Goshen, IN…Five fast nights of supermodified sim racing fun await the competitors of the Supermodified Ultimate Pavement Racing Series, (SUPRS), at the 2021 SUPRS Florida Speedweeks beginning Monday February 1 and running through Friday, February 5. The week-long trek through the Sunshine State visits five tracks in five nights with points adding up all week long while drivers aim for the SUPRS Florida Speedweeks crown.

Desoto Super Speedway Added to Schedule

The one change to SUPRS Florida Speedweeks for this year from the last four, is that SUPRS has dropped New Smyrna Speedway, and added Desoto Speedway in Bradenton, FL to kick off Speedweeks on February 1. This exciting development has nearly all of the SUPRS competitors looking forward to this date. “This is a multi-groove track that should give us a great race,” said SUPRS Lifetime Member Steve Callahan. “I’ll tell you what, this is going to be a darned good show,” exclaimed Carl Becker who is over 75 years old and has over 500 SUPRS starts.

The rest of the schedule for the week remains the same, and with all five tracks being unique and different from each other, fans and competitors alike should be able to find something that suits everyone’s taste. The variations of track sizes, banking, surface and two different sim racing platforms always makes for great racing and unpredictable finishes all week long.

Many to Make First Speedweeks

For many of the drivers from seven of the United States and Canada that are expected for the 2021 SUPRS Florida Speedweeks, they’ll be competing in their first Speedweeks, and at each track for the first time.

71 year old Danny Ray of Goshen, IN is one of those drivers. He isn’t planning on doing anything different than normal to get ready for SUPRS Florida Speedweeks, but he is concerned about equipment working all week long. “I figure if I can get my wheel fixed up a little better, I may do OK, but I’m having a lot of issues with it right now,” he explained. “The steering changes throughout a race and that’s why I just drop to the back. It makes it awful hard to be consistent, and I don’t want to screw anyone’s race up,” said the driver of the Smokie Bones’ Downhome Kitchen #08. Ray has very little sim racing experience prior to joining SUPRS in April of 2020, but rarely misses an opportunity to “have some fun with the guys” each week.

SUPRS 2020 Gold Crest Icings on Top Non-Wing Supermodified Rookie of the Year Erich Becker, is another driver that will make his first SUPRS Florida Speedweeks starts. Becker won’t be able to make all five nights of SUPRS Florida Speedweeks, however there is one track in particular that he’s eyeballing.

“I’m hoping to make two of the five, Monday and Friday, due to kids sports conflicts,” he said from his home in Shelby Township, MI. “But I’m most looking forward to 5 Flags, (on Friday). It’s a nice, wide, two groove track, so that should make for some fun passing and good speeds.”

Chisago City, MN racer Dick Schuler has two simple goals for SUPRS 2021 Florida Speedweeks: make the shows and finishes the races. “I would like to run all the nights and finish each race,” said the Gooby Beer sponsored racer. “I’m hoping for top ten finishes,” he added.

Watch Five Fast Nights from Florida for Free

Fans can watch all five fast fun nights from Florida for free. See drivers like Carl Becker, Danny Ray, Erich Becker, the first back to back Florida Speedweeks Champion Keith Powell, defending Speedweeks Champion Rob Warren, current SUPRS Gold Crest Wing Championship points leader Dave Ohh and many more. Just tune in to watch SUPRS 2021 Florida Speedweeks on SUPRS LIVE! and Twitch beginning at 9pm each night.

Watch the SUPRS racers as they race through Florida with timing, scoring, track telemetry and, of course, our outstanding live streaming video when we go “Live @ 9pm est via the SUPRS LIVE! page.

****SUPRS 2021 Florida Speedweeks Schedule****

Sunday 01/31/2021

Open Practice All Speedweeks Tracks: 8:00pm

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Monday 02/01/2021

SUPRS Florida Speedweeks Race 1

• Desoto Super Speedway-50 laps-3/8 Mile
• 8:00pm Practice
• 8:15pm Drivers Meeting
• 8:30pm Time Trials
• 9:05pm Racing
• Current Track Record: N/A
• Defending Race Winner: Rob Warren (New Smyrna Speedway-2020)
• rFactor platform SUPRS W v7.3 mod

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Tuesday 02/02/2021

SUPRS Florida Speedweeks Race 2

• Black Creek Raceway-25 laps-3/4 Mile
• 8:00pm Practice
• 8:15pm Drivers Meeting
• 8:30pm Time Trials
• 9:05pm Racing
• Current Track Record: Ray Sand, Jr.; 17.016 sec. Set: 02/10/2009 (NH)
• Defending Race Winner: Dave Ohh
• NASCAR Heat platform SUPRS W v6 mod

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Wednesday 02/03/2021

SUPRS Florida Speedweeks Race 3

• Dodge Raceway Stadium-50 laps-0.375 Miles
• 8:00pm Practice
• 8:15pm Drivers Meeting
• 8:30pm Time Trials
• 9:05pm Racing
• Current Track Record: Dave Ohh; 10.850; Set: 02/05/20(rF)
• Defending Race Winner: Dave Ohh
• rFactor platform SUPRS W v7.3 mod

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Thursday 02/04/2021

SUPRS Florida Speedweeks Race 4

• USA International Speedway-25 laps-3/4 Mile
• 8:00pm Practice
• 8:15pm Drivers Meeting
• 8:30pm Time Trials
• 9:05pm Racing
• Current Track Record: Joe Achzet; 14:707 sec. Set: 02/10/2016 (rF)
• Defending Race Winner: Keith Powell
• rFactor platform SUPRS W v7.3 mod

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Friday 02/05/2021

SUPRS Florida Speedweeks Race 5

• 5 Flags Speedway-50 laps-½ Mile
• 8:00pm Practice
• 8:15pm Drivers Meeting
• 8:30pm Time Trials
• 9:00pm Racing
• Current Track Record: Dave Ohh – 13.833 – 2/7/2020 (rF)
• Defending Race Winner: Brad Keysor
• rFactor platform SUPRS W v7.3 mod

SUPRS FLORIDA SPEEDWEEKS STATISTICS

There have been seven Florida Speedweeks Champions in 13 years. Myles Maxon and Ray Sand, Jr. each have three. Rob Warren and Keith Powell have two and are the only drivers to win Speedweeks in consecutive years.

Just three states are represented in the Champions column. New York dominates with nine total while Keith Powell’s Championships account for Ohio’s two. Florida has just one-Kris Heveron.

Florida Speedweeks Champions:

• 2005 Florida Speedweeks Champion: AJ Truax – NY
• 2006 Florida Speedweeks Champion: Sean O’Kane – NY
• 2007 Florida Speedweeks Champion: Ray Sand, Jr. – NY
• 2008 Florida Speedweeks Champion: Myles Maxon – NY
• 2009 Florida Speedweeks Champion: Kris Heveron – FL
• 2010 Florida Speedweeks Champion: Myles Maxon – NY
• 2011-2013: No Races
• 2014 Florida Speedweeks Champion: Ray Sand, Jr. – NY
• 2015 Florida Speedweeks Champion: Myles Maxon – NY
• 2016 Florida Speedweeks Champion: Ray Sand, Jr. – NY
• 2017 Florida Speedweeks Champion: Keith Powell – OH
• 2018 Florida Speedweeks Champion: Keith Powell – OH
• 2019 Florida Speedweeks Champion: Rob Warren – NY
• 2020 Florida Speedweeks Champion: Rob Warren – NY

10 different stats are represneted in the SUPRS Florida Speedweeks All-Time Win List with New York being the state with the most wins Ontario, Canada has had one driver win.

SUPRS Florida Speedweeks All-Time Win List by State/Province

• New York: 29
• Ohio: 10
• California: 5
• Indiana: 5
• Florida: 4
• Connecticut: 3
• Massachusetts: 3
• Michigan: 3
• Alabama: 1
• Missouri: 1

Canadian Provinces:

• Ontario: 1

There have been 27 different drivers win a SUPRS Florida Speedweeks feature. Of those, six drivers, (Larry Russell, Adam Roper, Dave Brigandi, Kevin Timmins, Kyle Clark, and Nelson Rodrigues), won their first SUPRS feature during Speedweeks.

SUPRS Florida Speedweeks All-Time Win List:

• Ray Sand, Jr. : 9
• Rob Warren: 7
• John Davidson: 5
• Bob Gangwer: 5
• Kris Heveron: 4
• Myles Maxon, Dave Biro III, Nelson Rodrigues, Keith Powell, Dave Ohh: 3
• Sean O’Kane, Chris Meyers, Kyle Clark, Steve Callahan: 2
• Chris Lucas, Larry Russell, Adam Roper, AJ Truax, Gary Waldron, Jamie Hartley, Carl Becker, Joe Achzet, Dave Brigandi, Kevin Timmins, Chad Phelps, Brad Keysor: 1

In all, 11 different tracks have been used to contest a SUPRS Florida Speedweeks race. Of them, only Black Creek Raceway and USA International Speedway have been on the schedule every time Speedweeks has been run. And of those two, Black Creek is the only track that’s hosted only NASCAR Heat events.

SUPRS Florida Speedweeks All-Time Track List:

1. Black Creek Raceway (NASCAR Heat): 13
2. USA International Speedway (NASCAR Heat & rFactor): 13
3. Sunrise Raceway (NASCAR Heat: 7 (first race 2005, last race 2016)
4. New Smyrna Speedway (NASCAR Heat & rFactor): 7 (first race in 2014, most recent race in 2020)
5. Rebel Raceway (NASCAR Heat): 6 (first race in 2005, most recent 2010)
6. Orlando Speedworld (NASCAR Heat): 6 (first race in 2006, most recent 2017)
7. Dodge Raceway Stadium (rFactor) 4 (first race in 2017)
8. Budville Speedway (NASCAR Heat): 3 (first race in 2008, most recent in 2010)
9. 5 Flags Speedway (rFactor): 3 (first race in 2018)
10. Ocala Speedway (NASCAR Heat): 2 (first race in 2005, most recent in 2010)
11. Paradise Speedway (NASCAR Heat) 1 (first race in 2006, most recent in 2018)

Of all those tracks, only five have had repeat winners:

• USA Speedway (Ray Sand, Jr. 2014, 2015, 2016 and John Davidson 2006, 2009)
• Black Creek Raceway (Bob Gangwer 2010, 2011, 2016), (Rob Warren: 2018, 2019)
• Rebel Raceway (Ray Sand, Jr. 2008, 2010)
• Dodge Raceway Stadium (Nelson Rodrigues 2017-2019)
• Sunrise Raceway (Rob Warren 2015, 2016)

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