The short-track season continues this weekend at New Smyrna Speedway.
The half-mile banked oval is the destination for Super Late Model drivers from across the country as it hosts the 55th Annual Halifax Health Race to Stop Suicide Florida Governor’s Cup Weekend presented by Solar Fit. Both days of racing will stream live on TrackPass on NBC Gold.
Wisconsin’s Ty Majeski is a three-time winner of the Governor’s Cup and will return for a shot at No. 4. Majeski won the Orange Blossom 100 at New Smyrna in February. North Carolina’s Matt Craig is the defending race winner.
Race season isn’t over yet.
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Brad May and Bubba Pollard will look to bring home the trophy that has eluded them.
May won his fourth Super Late Model division championship and fourth NASCAR Advance Auto Parts Weekly Series Florida championship this year. He also won the week-long World Series of Asphalt Stock Car Racing title for the first time earlier this year. Pollard, who has piled up big event wins across the country, won the World Series title in 2019. The field is also expected to include ARCA Menards Series driver Kris Wright, 2019 Pro Late Model champion at New Smyrna Daniel Dye, and former New Smyrna Super Late Model champion Anthony Sergi.
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The Florida Governor’s Cup was first run in November of 1965 at Golden Gate Speedway in Tampa, and was won by Wayne Reutimann over runner-up Bobby Allison. The event was held at Golden Gate or Showtime Speedway in Pinellas Park through 1987, before moving permanently to New Smyrna.
More recently, Erik Jones won the event in 2011 as a 15-year-old, beating David Rogers and Ben Kennedy. Harrison Burton was third in 2014 and ’17, while Tyler Ankrum (fifth) and Derek Kraus (sixth) made runs in 2015, and Raphael Lessard was third in 2018.