2003 Knoxville Nationals Queens Contest
Photos Courtesy of Kathy Bell
Contest Coordinator: Kathy Visser
Master of Ceremonies: Tony Bokhoven
Contest Assistants: Barb O'Brien, Karen Merrill, Mahala Cox, Vicki Agan, Christy Woodruff, Kelly McCumber, Kristy Konda, Steve Again & JoAnne Cram
Judges: Sandy Cain, Val Nelson, Pat Jones, Don De Kock, David Hesmer & Brian Brown
Wednesday Night
This Nationals Section Contains Results and Photos from all 4 days, so keep paging down!
Wednesday Night Results Courtesy fo Bill Wright
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Thursday Night
Thursday Night Results Courtesy fo Bill Wright
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cars A power outage caused officials to use scoring methods other than electronic. Johnny Anderson failed to get a time in when first his car had motor problems, then while attempting one lap at the end, his left rear peeled off. Roger Crockett (motor) and Tony Menard (hood) both took one lap at the end after difficulties. Steve Kinser managed one lap before his motor let go. He changed it before the heats. Qualifications looked like this: 1. Kerry Madsen 82 15.290 (8th time spot out) 2. Stevie Smith 19 15.374 (33rd) 3. Tyler Walker 35 15.454 (2nd) 4. Kenny Jacobs 70J 15.488 (42nd) 5. Jesse Giannetto D1 15.515 (21st) 6. Daryn Pittman 21 15.557 (52nd) 7. Jeff Mitrisin 5J 15.568 (6th) 8. Steve Kinser 11 15.570 (49th) 9. Jason Johnson 22 15.592 (13th) 10. Travis Cram 92c 15.598 (22nd) 11. Terry McCarl 24 15.606 (24th) 12. Ryan Coniam 6c 15.625 (7th) 13. Brian Paulus 28 15.634 (1st) 14. Ricky Logan 17G 15.649 (16th) 15. Tim Shaffer 83 15.676 (32nd) 16. John VanDenBerg V10 15.686 (18th) 17. Roger Crockett 11c 15.689 (14th) 18. Tim Kaeding 7T 15.718 (48th) 19. Don Droud Jr. 7x 15.720 (26th) 20. Todd Hepfner 28T 15.730 (4th) 21. Byron Reed 5R 15.760 (3rd) 22. Josh Higday 24H 15.773 (39th) 23. Bob Bennett 3B 15.776 (11th) 24. Jonathan Allard 35w 15.776 (25th) 25. Wayne Johnson 12x 15.780 (15th) 26. Randy Anderson 1s 15.785 (17th) 27. Kelly Kinser 4KK 15.789 (53rd) 28. Brian Brown 6 15.803 (63rd) 29. Dennis Moore Jr. 0 15.813 (23rd) 30. Travis Rilat 29 15.825 (5th) 31. Jerrod Hull 50 15.849 (43rd) 32. Colin Northway 60 15.878 (64th) 33. Dean Jacobs 29J 15.879 (51st) 34. Jim Moughan Jr. 1mx 15.883 (55th) 35. Fred Rahmer 88H 15.893 (61st) 36. Chris Walraven 56 15.895 (54th) 37. Lynton Jeffrey 4K 15.936 (35th) 38. Jeff Shepard 92 15.981 (20th) 39. Danny Smith 4D 15.970 (45th) 40. Jac Haudenschild 4H 16.004 (50th) 41. Mike Reinke 02x 16.037 (59th) 42. Manny Rockhold 02 16.043 (29th) 43. Max Dumesny 1J 16.059 (47th) 44. Clint Garner 55 16.064 (36th) 45. Marty Perovich 17P 16.066 (30th) 46. Marty Wilcox 3 16.073 (27th) 47. John Lambertz 12L 16.081 (19th) 48. Randy Hannagan 1x 16.102 (62nd) 49. Kim Mock 1m 16.118 (37th) 50. Aaron Berryhill 97 16.135 (40th) 51. Mark Toews 16.267 (12th) 52. Mark Hurd 44m 16.295 (28th) 53. Travis Whitney 9 16.400 (56th) 54. Scott Young F22 16.447 (41st) 55. Seth Brahmer 13 16.451 (34th) 56. Kurt Davis 6K 16.469 (60th) 57. Troy Little 20AU 16.518 (44th) 58. Kurt Winker 48H 16.545 (46th) 59. Rob Tvedte 1w 16.655 (57th) 60. Tony Menard 12 16.715 (58th) 61. Robert Bell 71 17.211 (9th) 62. Steve Cushman 1c 17.421 (10th) 63. Stevie Walsh 19w 18.831 (38th) NT - Johnny Anderson 7a Last Chance Heat (started): 1. Winker (7) 2. Little (6) 3. Toews (1) 4. Brahmer (4) 5. Tvedte (8) 6. Young (3) 7. Davis (5) 8. Menard (9) / 9. Bell (10) 10. Walsh (12) 11. Cushman (11) 12. Hurd (2) DNS - Whitney Top eight finishers transferred to the back of the C. Whitney decided to cut his losses. The first try at a start saw Davis spin collecting Winker who did a 360 and kept it going. Davis rejoined at the tail. Toews jumped out early and led until Hurd flipped wildly in turn one on lap three. The restart saw Toews leading Winker, Little, Brahmer and Tvedte. Winker used the low side to get by Toews and Little followed suit. That's the way they would finish. Heat one (started): 1. Reinke (2) 2. Walraven (3) 3. Pittman (9) 4. McCarl (8) / 5. Reed (6) 6. Madsen (10) 7. Ra. Anderson (5) 8. VanDenBerg (7) / 9. Wilcox (1) 10. Hull (4) Reinke dusted the field from row one. Pittman inched his way forward in impressive fashion. McCarl gained fourth and the final transfer by mere inches at the stripe after working to try and get by Reed the final three laps. Heat two (started): 1. Jeffrey (3) 2. Rockhold (2) 3. S. Smith (10) 4. Higday (6) / 5. Crockett (7) 6. Northway (4) 7. Mitrisin (9) 8. Coniam (8) / 9. Ke. Kinser (5) 10. Lambertz (1) Lambertz and Rockhold battled side by side. Rockhold gained the lead on lap two and was passed by Jeffrey at the halfway point. He would lead the rest of the way. S. Smith was on the move and gained fourth behind Lambertz with three to go. Lambertz would come to a stop in turn four while in a transfer spot on the white flag lap. Higday snatched up the transfer when Lambertz was sidelined. Heat three (started): 1. Hannagan (1) 2. Shepard (3) 3. S. Kinser (9) 4. Dumesny (2) / 5. Kaeding (7) 6. Brown (5) 7. Paulus (8) 8. D. Jacobs (4) / 9. Bennett (6) 10. Walker (10) Walker was slicing and dicing through until he hit the wall on lap five after something broke relegating him to the C. The restart saw racelong leader Hannagan ahead of Shepard, Dumesny, D. Jacobs and S. Kinser. A good battle between Hannagan and Shepard ensued after the restart. Hannagan held on by a slim margin. Kaeding was just short of getting by Dumesny for the final transfer. Heat four (started): 1. Garner (2) 2. K. Jacobs (10) 3. D. Moore (5) 4. D. Smith (3) / 5. Allard (6) 6. Logan (8) 7. Mock (1) 8. Droud (7) / 9. Ja. Johnson (9) 10. Moughan (4) Garner led the duration, while K. Jacobs was charging through the pack. A last lap bonzai slide job past Allard got D. Moore into the A. D. Smith also made a last lap pass of Allard who was slowed by a deflating tire. Heat five (started): 1. W. Johnson (6) 2. Haudenschild (3) 3. Shaffer (8) 4. Berryhill (1) / 5. Cram (9) 6. Rahmer (4) 7. Hepfner (7) 8. Rilat (5) / 9. Giannetto (10) 10. Perovich (2) Haudenschild darted around Berryhill and Perovich for the early lead. W. Johnson was on the move, and took the point on lap seven. Shaffer used the low groove to gain his spots. Giannetto, using a Lonny Parsons motor, was the surprise of qualifications when he timed fifth quick. His success in the heat was not as good and he was relegated to the C. C main (started): 1. Walker (1) 2. Ja. Johnson (3) / 3. Hull (6) 4. Moughan (7) 5. Giannetto (2) 6. Ke. Kinser (5) 7. Wilcox (9) 8. Bennett (4) 9. Little (10) 10. Brahmer (12) 11. Tvedte (15) 12. Toews (13) 13. Winker (11) 14. Perovich (8) 15. Davis (17) 16. Menard (16) 17. Young (14) 22. DNS - Lambertz Walker and Ja. Johnson quickly led the pack and left them a half lap behind at the end. Young stopped before the checkers with motor problems. B main (started): 1. Madsen (1) 2. Mitrisin (2) 3. Droud (10) 4. Cram (3) / 5. Kaeding (9) 6. Logan (6) 7. Paulus (5) 8. Coniam (4) 9. Ja. Johnson (22) 10. Brown (15) 11. Walker (21) 12. VanDenBerg (7) 13. Rahmer (19) 14. Rilat (16) 15. Reed (12) 16. Ra. Anderson (14) 17. Mock (20) 18. Hepfner (11) 19. Allard (13) 20. D. Jacobs (18) 21. Crockett (8) 22. Northway (17) Madsen led early until Crockett spun on the second circuit, collecting Northway who had nowhere to go. Both cars were heavily damaged and couldn't continue. D. Jacobs exited shortly after. The restart saw Madsen leading Mitrisin, Cram, Coniam and Paulus. The race was again slowed on lap eight of twelve when Allard stopped on lap eight. Madsen led Mitrisin, Cram, Coniam and a surging Droud back to the cone. Droud made the pass of Coniam that gave him an A main transfer. He would also get by Cram in the final stages. A main (started): 1. S. Kinser (5) 2. Shaffer (3) 3. W. Johnson (1) 4. Shepard (10) 5. Pittman (6) 6. K. Jacobs (7) 7. Madsen (21) 8. Haudenschild (12) 9. D. Smith (13) 10. McCarl (4) 11. Hannagan (19) 12. Dumesny (17) 13. Jeffrey (11) 14. Garner (16) 15. Reinke (15) 16. Berryhill (18) 17. Droud (23) 18. S. Smith (8) 19. Higday (2) 20. Cram (22) 21. D. Moore (9) 22. Mitrisin (20) 23. Rockhold (14) 24. DNS - Walraven W. Johnson shot out to the early lead from his pole position with Shaffer and Higday in tow. On lap three, Madsen was moving through traffic when he swerved high and nailed Mitrisin, who suffered extensive damage. The race resumed after a brief visit to the 82 from Mitrisin. Lap five saw another stoppage when D. Moore suffered rear end problems. W. Johnson led Shaffer, Higday, S. Kinser and Pittman to the cone. Just two laps later, Cram who had surged from the tail to 11th, broke his birdcage and retired. Lap nine saw Jeffrey tip over gently in turn one. After a very questionable open red, W. Johnson had an open track ahead of him and led over S. Kinser, Shaffer, K. Jacobs and Pittman. S. Kinser slid in front of W. Johnson twice in turn one, only to be passed back both times in turn two. W. Johnson pulled away and started working traffic when yet another stoppage resulted from a Droud spin (blown left rear) on lap 22. A lap later, Higday who had been running strong stopped on the track and went pitside. Fifth running S. Smith ran out of fuel and was scored 18th. W. Johnson led S. Kinser, Shaffer, Pittman and now a resurgent Shepard back to the green. The restart was controversial to the majority of the capacity crowd as S. Kinser was not nose to tail coming back to the cone and looked to have a wheel beside W. Johnson as they went by it. The pass was made and was held up by officials much to the amazement of the crowd. Shaffer got by W. Johnson on the last lap for second. Madsen recharged after the last restart and ended up 7th. Top 50 in points: A Scramblers 1. Schatz 493 2. Lasoski 492 3. McMahan 487 4. Swindell 484 5. Hodnett 482 6. K. Jacobs 481 7. S. Kinser 480 8. Pittman 476 9. Madsen 473 10. Stewart 472 A main - Rows 6 - 10 11. Saldana 469 12. Shaffer 464 13. M. Kinser 463 14. S. Smith 458 15. Crocker 458 16. McCarl 453 17. Meyers 452 18. Lynch 449 19. W. Johnson 448 20. Tatnell B Scramblers 21. Kr. Kinser 441 22. Kemenah 436 23. Cram 432 24. Landis 430 25. Mitrisin 428 26. Moyle 427 27. Sides 420 28. Shepard 417 29. Dewease 416 30. Vanderploeg 415 B main - Rows 6 - 10 31. Kahne 414 32. Frey 413 33. Higday 413 34. Jackson 412 35. Droud 411 36. Campbell 405 37. Haudenschild 405 38. Jeffrey 404 39. Hockett 401 40. Walker 399 C Scramblers 41. Logan 399 42. D. Smith 399 43. Kertscher 398 44. D. Moore 398 45. Paulus 396 46. Kaeding 396 47. Ja. Johnson 394 48. Coniam 393 49. Reinke 392 50. Garner 388 |
Friday Night
Friday Night Results Courtesy fo Bill Wright
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Non-qualifiers Chris Walraven flipped in hot laps ending his night. Heat one (started): 1. Randy Hannagan 1x (1) 2. Jesse Giannetto D1 (3) 3. Byron Reed 5R (2) 4. Toni Lutar 4x (5) / 5. Adam West 20A (4) 6. Jerrod Hull 50 (8) 7. Dr. Bob Altmeyer 14 (7) 8. Marty Perovich 17P (10) / 9. Kurt Winker 48H (11) 10. Joe Bustillos 37 (6) 11. Doug Strong 43 (9) 12. Steve Cushman 1c (12) Hannagan led this single-file fest the distance which is usually customary with Friday night heat races. Heats are lined up according to points, as are the features. First four to A, second four to B, third four to C. Heat two (started): 1. Max Dumesny 1J (1) 2. Roger Crockett 11c (2) 3. Todd Hepfner 28T (3) 4. Johnny Herrera 5 (6) / 5. Randy Anderson 1s (4) 6. Chuck Swenson X (7) 7. Derek Beckman 50D (9) 8. Mike Moore 69 (5) / 9. Rob Tvedte 1w (10) 10. Eddie Leavitt Jr. 1A (8) DNS - John Lambertz 12L, Stevie Walsh 19w Another flag to flag leader, single-file affair. Herrera took fourth by getting around Randay Anderson in the first turn. Leavitt retired with a flat tire on the initial start. Heat three (started): 1. Justin Henderson R19 (1) 2. Kelly Kinser 4KK (5) 3. Jon Agan 4 (3) 4. Ty Bartz 75 (6) / 5. Matt Moro 47 (4) 6. Kurt Davis 6K (9) 7. Bobby Mincer 15m (7) 8. Mark Toews 5T (10) / 9. Brian Brown 6 (2) 10. Kim Mock 1m (8) DNS - Walraven 56 After the initial start was called back, Mock took a hellacious ride involving several flips down the frontstretch on the next try. His flip included taking out both the top and front wings on Mincer's car. Mincer would borrow a couple of wings and continue. Mock was talking to the safety team when they took him in for a checkup. Brown took the early lead when the green dropped, but dumped a motor on lap four with a good lead. Henderson assumed the lead, while Ke. Kinser made the bottom work in getting up to second. Bartz gained the final transfer from Moro after a good battle with two laps to go. Heat four (started): 1. Travis Rilat 29 (4) 2. Aaron Berryhill 97 (2) 3. John VanDenBerg V10 (1) 4. Dean Jacobs 29J (6) / 5. Colin Northway 60 (5) 6. Curt Trainer 36 (7) 7. Troy Little 20AU (10) 8. Tony Menard 12 (11) / 9. Bob Hildreth 55KC (9) 10. Jan Howard 51 (3) 11. Greg Jones 35x (8) Rilat took the early lead from Berryhill before a Trainer spin on lap two. At the same time, Jones was shown the pits after he lost his muffler. The restart saw Rilat leading Berryhill, D. Jacobs, VanDenBerg and Howard. Howard would lose sixth to Northway before coming to a stop and retiring on lap five. The restart saw VanDenBerg and D. Jacobs having a great battle for third with VanDenBerg prevailing in the end. Heat five (started): 1. Brandon Wimmer 7TW (2) 2. Fred Rahmer 88H (4) 3. Manny Rockhold 02 (1) 4. Bob Bennett 3B (6) / 5. Jonathan Allard 35w (3) 6. Jim Moughan Jr. 1mx (8) 7. Bruce Robenalt 98 (5) 8. Marty Wilcox 3 (9) / 9. Seth Brahmer 13 (10) 10. Jeff Johnson 11J (7) 11. Robert Bell 71 (11) Wimmer led the distance. Bennett stuck his nose under Rahmer about lap four to threaten the fourth position. Rahmer looked like someone was shooting at him after he saw that and quickly surged to second. Bennett managed to get under Allard for the final transfer in impressive fashion. C main (started): 1. Je. Johnson (1) 2. Bustillos (2) / 3. Leavitt (4) 4. Brahmer (8) 5. Jones (3) 6. Tvedte (10) 7. Winker (7) 8. Bell (9) 9. Strong (6) 10. Hildreth (5) 11. Cushman (11) DNS - Howard, Walraven, Mock, Lambertz, Walsh Bustillos led until the last lap when he let off the gas behind the lapped Hildreth. Je. Johnson coasted around him on the top for the win in the non-stop ten lapper. B main (started): 1. Allard (1) 2. Hull (11) 3. Moro (4) 4. Swenson (9) / 5. Moughan (12) 6. Northway (7) 7. Wilcox (15) 8. Ra. Anderson (3) 9. West (2) 10. Trainer (10) 11. Beckman (13) 12. Little (18) 13. Je. Johnson (21) 14. Davis (19) 15. Robenalt (6) 16. Toews (17) 17. Bustillos (22) 18. M. Moore (5) 19. Perovich (16) 20. Altmeyer (8) 21. Menard (20) 22. Mincer (14) Allard ran and hid. The only yellow came for a lap seven M. Moore spin. The restart saw Allard leading Moro, West, Hull, Moughan and Swenson. Hull ended up gaining nine spots from his starting spot to gain second. Swenson used the cushion to move up five spots after a spirited duel for the final transfer with Moughan who briefly held it. A main (started): 1. Herrera (16) 2. Hannagan (1) 3. VanDenBerg (3) 4. Ke. Kinser (20) 5. Rilat (12) 6. Rahmer (13) 7. Wimmer (8) 8. Giannetto (9) 9. D. Jacobs (18) 10. Dumesny (2) 11. Hull (22) 12. Henderson (11) 13. Lutar (14) 14. Swenson (24) 15. Reed (5) 16. Bennett (19) 17. Rockhold (4) 18. Bartz (17) 19. Allard (21) 20. Agan (15) 21. Berryhill (7) 22. Hepfner (10) 23. Moro (23) DQ - Crockett (6) Moro was sent in before starting with no brakes. Hannagan shot out to the early from the pole over Dumesny. The two led Crockett, VanDenBerg and Wimmer to a lap two restart for Hepfner. Hepfner had made contact with the wall after meeting Reed on the track. He retired with a broken Jacob's ladder. Crockett hunted Hannagan for seven laps before passing him on the high side. Lap eleven saw Berryhill turn over in turn two. He was done for the night. Henderson visited the work area to fix a leak problem and restarted at the tail. The restart saw Crockett leading Hannagan, Herrera, VanDenBerg and Dumesny back to the stripe. Four laps later, the action slowed again. Allard, who was up to sixth from 21st, tagged Agan. Allard fixed his flat left rear, while Agan did the same with his right front. Now Herrera was on Crockett's bumper for the restart with Hannagan, VanDenBerg and Rilat in tow. On lap sixteen, Herrera took over for good to earn the $4000 win. Unfortunately for Crockett, who crossed second, he was light at the scales and DQed. Though Herrera came from 16th to win, Ke. Kinser was the hard-charger, finishing fourth from 20th on his patented low side. C Scramble (started): 1. Tim Kaeding 7T (5) 2. Ryan Coniam 6c (3) 3. Dennis Moore Jr. 0 (7) 4. Jason Johnson 22 (4) 5. Ricky Logan 17G (10) 6. Brian Paulus 28 (6) 7. Mike Reinke 02x (2) 8. Danny Smith 4D (9) 9. Mike Kertscher 80K (8) 10. Clint Garner 55 (1) Reinke set sail and led by almost half a lap before he suffered right side flat tires after getting into the fence on lap ten of twelve. Garner who was running second at the time had his brake rotor go away and he retired. Reinke did manage to get back to seventh. On the lap 10 restart, Ja. Johnson was leading Kaeding, Coniam, D. Moore and Logan. Kaeding would streak to the lead on the restart and never look back. C main start on Saturday will be: 1. Kaeding 2. D. Moore 3. Logan 4. Coniam 5. Ja. Johnson 6. Paulus 7. D. Smith 8. Kertscher 9. Reinke 10. Garner B Scramble (started): 1. Lance Dewease 77 (2) 2. Eric Vanderploeg 57a (1) 3. Jeff Shepard 92 (3) 4. Chad Kemenah 15K (9) 5. Travis Cram 92c (8) 6. Jaymie Moyle 10 (5) 7. Kraig Kinser 11K (10) 8. Calvin Landis 70 (7) 9. Jeff Mitrisin 5J (6) 10. Jason Sides 7s (4) Vanderploeg wrestled the early lead from Dewease, before Lance would take it back for good on lap five. Cram moved up a couple spots early and was fun to watch, but Kemenah made a late charge on him to grab fourth and valuable passing points. Vanderploeg ran a steady race on the bottom for second. Saturday B main lineup: 1. Kemenah 2. Kr. Kinser 3. Cram 4. Dewease 5. Moyle 6. Landis 7. Vanderploeg 8. Shepard 9. Mitrisin 10. Sides A Scramble (started): 1. Shane Stewart 4m (1) 2. Greg Hodnett 12 (6) 3. Daryn Pittman 21 (3) 4. Donny Schatz 15 (10) 5. Kenny Jacobs 70J (5) 6. Kerry Madsen 82 (2) 7. Paul McMahan 11h (8) 8. Sammy Swindell 1 (7) 9. Danny Lasoski 20 (9) 10. Steve Kinser 11 (4) Stewart led the distance and Hodnett was quickly into second. No one had anything for them. Pittman and Schatz battled in the pack. S. Kinser was working on passing Madsen for third when he cut in front of the 82 and had his left front ripped off. Madsen continued. Jacobs was shuffled back to tenth at one point, but came back strong in the late going. Saturday A main lineup: 1. Schatz 2. Hodnett 3. McMahan 4. Lasoski 5. K. Jacobs 6. Pittman 7. Stewart 8. Swindell 9. Madsen 10. S. Kinser Kele World Challenge (started): 1. Rilat (5) 2. Logan (9) 3. Winker (2) 4. D. Smith (8) 5. Jackson (10) 6. Tatnell (11) 7. Pittman (14) 8. Schatz (15) 9. Little (3) 10. Saldana (12) 11. Madsen (13) 12. Dumesny (7) 13. Perovich (4) 14. West (6) 15. Menard (1) 16. Walsh (16) Drivers were inverted by Nationals qualifying points (excluding Walsh). Beforehand, a donation was taken for the Hutton family. The 55 was towed Australian style in front of the field and a "missing man" formation was formed. Jenny Hutton threw the green flag for the race and received a standing ovation in an emotional moment. Other pageantry included that blasted cannon and fireworks. Unfortunately, the racing did not live up to the hype. Rubber was laid about the halfway point after early leader Perovich was passed by Rilat on a restart for a spun West who was running fifth at the time. By the time Logan was within striking distance, the top three had found the rubber, including Winker who grabbed $3000 for third. Winker benefited from a last minute decision Wednesday to go back to Wisconsin and bring his car back to qualify on Thursday. Rilat earned $10,000 for his victory. |
Saturday Night
Saturday Night Results Courtesy fo Bill Wright
| 97 cars E main (started): 1. Troy Little 20AU (2) 2. Jeff Johnson 11J (1) 3. Kurt Davis 6K (4) 4. Brian Brown 6 (20) 5. Mike Moore 69 (8) / 6. Joe Bustillos 37 (5) 7. Seth Brahmer 13 (14) 8. Tony Menard 12 (7) 9. Rob Tvedte 1w (16) 10. Dr. Robert Altmeyer 14 (10) 11. Bobby Mincer 15m (12) 12. Robert Bell 71 (18) 13. Greg Jones 35x (11) 14. Eddie Leavitt Jr. 1A (9) 15. Doug Strong 43 (15) 16. Steve Cushman 1c (17) 17. Bob Hildreth 55KC (19) 18. Mark Toews 5T (6) 19. Bruce Robenalt 98 (3) 20. Kurt Winker 48H (13) DNS - Derek Beckman 50D, Marty Perovich 17P, Jan Howard 51 Little shot out to the lead on a narrow track that was building a cushion. Brown found a way through the field from the scratch position and was sitting in sixth when fourth place Toews got over the cushion and became the first driver to flip over the fence in turns three and four since Jerry Richert Jr. two years ago. Thankfully, he was uninjured. The lap seven (of ten) restart saw Little leading Je. Johnson, Davis, M. Moore and Brown to the green. Brown managed to snatch fourth from M. Moore who grabbed the final D transfer to complete his run. Winker exited on lap three, with Robenalt following him off. D main (started): 1. Jerrod Hull 50 (1) 2. Jonathan Allard 35w (3) / 3. Aaron Berryhill 97 (11) 4. Bob Bennett 3B (7) 5. Manny Rockhold 02 (8) 6. Todd Hepfner 28T (12) 7. Matt Moro 47 (13) 8. Adam West 20A (17) 9. Jim Moughan Jr. 1mx (15) 10. Curt Trainer 36 (18) 11. Davis (21) 12. Little (19) 13. Jon Agan 4 (10) 14. Marty Wilcox 3 (18) 15. Toni Lutar 4x (4) 16. Justin Henderson R19 (2) 17. Chuck Swenson X (5) 18. Je. Johnson (18) 19. M. Moore (22) 20. Brown (20) 21. Colin Northway 60 (14) 22. Ty Bartz 75 (9) DNS - Byron Reed 5R, Roger Crockett 11c, Randy Anderson 1s Somehow Allard started third when he should have started ninth. A 19th place finish in Friday's A should have put him inside row five. He benefited from the mistake. This was a race to fill the tanks. Cautions and open reds resulted in competitors running out of fuel. Most notable was Henderson who bowed out after surrendering second to Lutar on lap eight. Other apparent victims of empty tanks were Lutar who at one time held second, Swenson, Wilcox and Agan. The race started off bad as Bartz slowed against the wall, sped up and was whacked by Je. Johnson. The result was Bartz suffering a series of flips in turn two. He was uninjured. Northway made heavy contact with the wall and suffered enough damage to retire on the next try at a start. Finally, Hull took the early lead, but a lap two red for a M. Moore flip in turn four brought things to a halt. Brown suffered damage in the incident and went pitside. Je. Johnson flipped on the next attempt to go green. He too, was uninjured. Hull led Henderson, Lutar, Allard and Agan back to the cone. Lutar got under Henderson for second on lap five. Three laps later, Swenson would run dry of fuel and bring out the caution. Henderson also went trackside, and Lutar did the same on a restart that saw him second to Hull. Allard, Agan and Berryhill moved up in order. The competitors dropped like flies and Hull and Allard were the beneficiaries. C main (started): 1. Tim Kaeding 7T (1) 2. Brian Paulus 28 (6) / 3. Jason Johnson 22 (5) 4. Ricky Logan 17G (3) 5. Clint Garner 55 (10) 6. Johnny Herrera 5 (11) 7. Mike Reinke 02x (9) 8. Randy Hannagan 1x (12) 9. Fred Rahmer 88H (16) 10. Kelly Kinser 4KK (14) 11. Dean Jacobs 29J (19) 12. Danny Smith 4D (7) 13. Allard (22) 14. Hull (21) 15. John VanDenBerg V10 (13) 16. Brandon Wimmer 7TW (17) 17. Max Dumesny 1J (20) 18. Travis Rilat 29 (15) 19. Ryan Coniam 6c (4) 20. Jesse Giannetto D1 (18) 21. Mike Kertscher 80K (8) 22. Dennis Moore Jr. 0 (2) D. Moore stopped after a lap had been completed with unknown problems. He was done. In the first lap, Paulus managed to go from sixth to second, a position he would finish in. Kaeding led flag to flag. Kertscher flipped on the restart, but was uninjured. The next restart saw Giannetto get into the wall hard and go pitside. Coniam who was running third, also pulled in. Kaeding led Paulus, Logan, Garner and Ja. Johnson back to the cone. Paulus chased down and passed Kaeding on lap 11 only to have the favor returned two circuits later in a great battle for the trophy. B main (started): 1. Chad Kemenah 15K (1) 2. Kraig Kinser 11K (2) 3. Lance Dewease 77 (4) 4. Jeff Shepard 92 (6) / 5. Jeremy Campbell 10c (16) 6. Jaymie Moyle 10 (5) 7. Jeff Mitrisin 5J (9) 8. Kaeding (21) 9. Kasey Kahne 83JR (11) 10. Calvin Landis 70 (6) 11. Paulus (22) 12. Travis Cram 92c (3) 13. Jason Sides 7s (10) 14. Lynton Jeffrey 4K (18) 15. Jesse Hockett 75J (19) 16. Tyler Walker 35 (20) 17. Jac Haudenschild 4H (17) 18. Don Droud Jr. 7x (15) 19. Kevin Frey 2K (12) 20. Eric Vanderploeg 57a (7) 21. Josh Higday 24H (13) 22. Skip Jackson 21x (14) A root canal would be less painful than getting this B main completed tonight. With umpteen officials in the place, no one seemed to notice that Walker jumped every start he was a part of, which was plenty. This caused serious repercussions. The first start saw Higday and Jackson flip together down the frontstretch. Higday got some serious airtime high above the catchfence. Both drivers climbed out of their machines unscathed. Droud appeared to have bent an axel in the fray, but he tried to continue on. Haudenschild also made repairs and Walker changed a tire and restarted at the tail. He would change a tire when the next attempted start saw Jeffrey and Kaeding get together. Kaeding's front end was eliminated, but he would have time to change it when Vanderploeg brought out yet another red with his flip in turn two. Kr. Kinser led when the 22 lapper was finally under green flag conditions. Frey would stop with motor issues on lap eight. At the time, Kr. Kinser led Cram, Kemenah, Dewease and Landis. Haud and Walker dropped out on laps 15 and 17 respectively, but the race went non-stop until Hockett blew his right rear and flipped in turn three on the 19th go-around. Kr. Kinser led Kemenah, Cram, Dewease and Shepard back into green flag conditions. Cram did not make it a lap before apparently running out of fuel. When he thought the coast was clear he made a left into the pits. It wasn't clear. Jeffrey broadsided him and flipped hard down the frontstretch. He was not a happy camper. Cram bent too much in the contact to continue. The red negated Campbell's passes of both Moyle and Shepard to get into the fourth and final transfer. He would come within feet of passing Shepard at the line. Nonetheless he would watch from the infield. Kemenah's pass for the lead came on the next restart and he was joined by Kr. Kinser, Dewease and Shepard as A main transfers. A main (started): 1. Danny Lasoski 20 (4) 2. Donny Schatz 15 (1) 3. Kenny Jacobs 70J (5) 4. Sammy Swindell 1 (8) 5. Greg Hodnett 12 (2) 6. Steve Kinser 11 (10) 7. Shane Stewart 4m (7) 8. Paul McMahan 11h (3) 9. Jason Meyers 7 (17) 10. Stevie Smith 19 (13) 11. Tim Shaffer 83 (12) 12. Joey Saldana 17 (11) 13. Terry McCarl 24 (15) 14. Kemenah (21) 15. Mark Kinser 5m (16) 16. Kerry Madsen 82 (9) 17. Shepard (24) 18. Dewease (23) 19. Wayne Johnson 12x (19) 20. Kr. Kinser (22) 21. Erin Crocker 16 (14) 22. Ed Lynch Jr. 2L (18) 23. Brooke Tatnell 66 (20) 24. Daryn Pittman 21 (6) Schatz rushed out to an early lead with Lasoski in tow. Lasoski took the point on lap seven of thirty. Hodnett trailed in third for much of the race with McMahan in fourth. The race went non-stop until Pittman stopped on the front stretch on lap 28. The restart saw Lasoski (who had broken a shock) lead Schatz, K. Jacobs (who had resurged from eighth), Hodnett, S. Kinser and Swindell. Lasoski held out for his third Nationals win, while Swindell had a nice restart moving up into fourth. K. Jacobs could have benefited from a few more laps as he recorded the fastest time of anyone on the final circuit. The highest finishing local was McCarl, who spent a great deal of time in the top ten before fading. Meyers and Shepard both finished seven spots ahead of where they started for hard-charger honors. Meyer's car won best appearing, while Stewart's crew won the same honor. Crocker was the hands down Rookie of the Year. |
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