Spencer Davis Scores Fourth in Cracker 200
Experience Gained Against Top-Level Competition
Fourteen-year-old Spencer Davis knows how to get around the high banks of Florida’s New Smyrna Speedway.  After all, the Dawsonville, Georgia teenager turned somewhere around 1,500 laps during the 47th annual World Series of Asphalt Stock Car Racing during Florida Speedweeks in February.

So even with starting on the inside of the sixth
row in the 200-lap Cracker 200 Saturday at New
Smyrna, Davis knew that he had a long race
ahead of him with plenty of time to pass cars. 
He also knew that patience would be the key
due to perhaps a driver or two not being patient
enough. 

After getting into the top 10 right away, Davis slowly but surely picked off competitors one by  one and was in the top five by lap 47.

As he continued to work his way through the field, he got to as high as second place behind race leader at the time, Travis Cope.  Eventual Winner, Augie Grill was able to slip by with 67 laps to go and then Davis just missed a podium finish after a late race battle with the eventual third place driver of Rich Clouser.  Davis crossed beneath the checkered flag after 200 laps with a fourth-place showing.

“Overall we had a good car,” said Davis.  “We had one restart that really messed us up a little bit.  Someone missed a shift or something.  We got a little too tight after the pit stop for the two tires.  Then the battery died due to the alternator breaking, but overall, we had a really good car despite all of that.  We just try to get a little better every time we get in the car.”

There’s no rest for Davis as far as the 2013 schedule goes as the Peach State driver will head to Hickory Motor Speedway in Hickory, North Carolina for the Easter Bunny 150 on Saturday, March 30th. 

For more information on Spencer Davis, visit www.spencer-davis.net or contact Matt Kentfield at 51 Sports, matt@51sports.net.  Follow Spencer Davis on Twitter, @SpencerDavis_29 and like his Facebook page by searching Spencer Davis Racing.