Rookie Bass Looking Ahead
Published: Jun 28, 2007
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Moving quickly from the Fast Trucks to Fast Late Models and then to the American Speed Association (ASA) South Series, Sean Bass has learned to keep looking ahead.
The 19-year-old Auburndale resident finds himself leading the points for both the overall South Series championship and Rookie of the Year honors, but he is not just setting his sights there.
"I'm looking to use the ASA as a stepping stone, just like I did the Fast Trucks and Fast Late Models," said the driver of the Rinaldi's Air Service No. 28 Dodge. "Hopefully we can get someone's attention and move toward the ARCA or maybe the Hooters Pro Cup events for 2008."
Bass started racing as a 10-year-old with the Racing For Kids Club based at Auburndale Speedway. He moved quickly, driving Modified Mini Stocks at Orlando Speed World at 14 before moving on to the Fast Truck Series in 2004. In 2005, Bass won the Fast Truck Pro Series championship and the Orlando Speedway Modified Mini Stock title in the same year.
The team has shown its resolve through the Fast Series and now into the ASA ranks. In the first three ASA events in 2007 for the South Series, car owner Jeff Moyer and crew chief Dewayne Zdrodowski have Bass positioned to make a run at the ASA rookie and overall titles. They already have become the first Dodge team in the five-year history of ASA to lead the points.
"The ASA has offered a consistent series, a great organization that seems to be more about the drivers and crews," Bass said. "No one team is going to out-money anyone in this series."
The next outing for Bass will be the Crimson 125 at Birmingham (Ala.) International Raceway on July 14.
EAST BAY RACEWAY PARK: Gene Lasker extended his 2007 Limited Sprint Car points lead with his fourth win of the season. Lasker is one of the most successful veteran sprint car drivers in Florida.
CITRUS COUNTY SPEEDWAY: Florida legend Wayne Anderson was back in Victory Lane. Joining him in his winning ways in the Pro Truck event was 54-year-old "Big" Al Newman of Bradenton. Newman has been racing trucks since the American race truck series was introduced into Florida in the early 1980s.
DESOTO SUPER SPEEDWAY: The return of the Tampa Bay Area Racing Association winged sprints last week was highlighted by driver Brian Gingras getting tangled up in a crash and finishing in a disappointing 17th place. The event was won by north Tampa driver Troy DeCaire and extended his points lead against the field. The DeSoto Limited Late Model event went to Dade City's Joe Winchell, followed by Bradenton's Jesse Dutilly and Miami 14-year-old Drew Brannon.
