Lake City Fl. Adam Bedenbaugh started his 2013 season in pursuit of his fourth straight championship in style with a green to checkers run in the Late Model feature. David Crews Jr took the Open Wheel Modified win with Eddie Lake taking the Pure Stock checkers. In Street Stock action Grady Christian was declared the winner after first place finisher Richie Stephens failed post race tech inspection. Alvin Carter made his first NFS appearance a winning one in Sportsman. John Windham took two feature wins in Box Stock and Dave Wansley won Friday night's Limited Modified feature event.
This was the second year that Speedfest has been held at the Watermelon Capital Speedway in Cordele, Georgia. South Georgia welcomed fans and drivers alike with very agreeable weather, mostly sunny skies with the temperature in the upper 60s. That is fairly warm for this time of year. That may not be as surprising as how hot some of the drivers seemed to get as daytime turned to night.
Friday was a day of practice at Speedfest 2013. Saturday will include more practice and qualifying. 64 cars were on hand for Friday's practice. Check out some of the sights and sounds from that practice.