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Good morning!
We're in the middle of the 60th annual World Series of Asphalt Stock Car Racing presented by Orlando Longwood Auto Auction. (Actually, the last Late Model action scheduled for this February at New Smyrna Speedway is tonight, as the final two nights are headlined by modifieds.)
In this Thursday Throwback special, we're looking back at two drivers who scored their only Florida Speedweeks Pro Late Model victories on Abraham Lincoln's birthday. In 2007, the first year of the crate-engine class at Speedweeks, Dalton Zehr won on the fourth night of that nine-day grind. Zehr went on to make a bigger name for himself in the upper Midwest a few years later (inset image from last fall's Oktoberfest from T.J. Harron Photography).
Two years later, Ohio veteran David Wagner pulled off his first win at the World Series, after trying for most of that decade. Wagner was in his heyday in Ohio at the time, and he still competes in e-modifieds to this day.
Click on the large-type underlined links below to see these Thursday Throwback stories! Then please look back here in your email boxes tomorrow for the final few articles profiling rookie-of-the-year honorees from last season.
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