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Results Courtesy of Bill Wright
Knoxville
Nationals Night #1 50
cars Cody
Darrah (42nd car out to time) set the standard in time trials at 14.547 seconds. The
track was lightning fast after a lengthy rain delay. Cale Conley (29th car out) was
second quick, followed by Donny Schatz (39th), Paul McMahan (45th), Jonathan Allard
(35th), Lee Sowell (48th), Shane Stewart (44th), Erin Crocker (3rd), Danny Lasoski (24th)
and Jason Meyers (22nd). Seth Brahmer failed to get a time in and scratched for the
night with motor problems. Jason Sides stumbled on his lap, but returned stronger in
the heat. Heat
one (started): 1. Garry Brazier 1AU (1) 2. Skip Jackson 2 (2) 3. Danny Smith 4 (3) 4. Greg
Wilson w20 (4) / 5. Randy Hannagan 1x (6) 6. Jason Sides 7s (10) 7. Sowell 51s (7) 8.
Brian Ellenberger 22N (9) / 9. Davey Heskin 56 (5) 10. Darrah 89 (8) Heskin
drifted up the track in turn two, and collected Darrah, who was trying to shoot around
above the cushion on the tacky one-lane fast track. Darrah flipped and both cars
were done for the night, though no one was injured. Brazier led a mostly single-file
affair the rest of the way. Heat
two (started): 1. Calvin Landis 70 (2) 2. Brandon Wimmer 7TW (1) 3. Johnny Herrera 2w (4)
4. Matthew Reed v92 (9) / 5. Brad Sweet 91 (5) 6. Ed Lynch Jr. 2L (6) 7. Josh Schneiderman
49 (3) 8. Stewart 57 (7) / 9. Conley 3c (8) DNS - John VanDenBerg K9 When
Lynch tried to shoot outside of Herrera to start the heat, contact was made with Lynch
breaking a front axle. The crew didn't have time to finish the job, but got it after
another lap failed to get in. Conley had hit the bottom berm in turn two and broken
something in the front end. Landis led the 10-lap distance, but Stewart was the
mover. He shot into third, but ran out of fuel on the white flag lap, handing the
final transfer to Reed. Heat
three (started): 1. Daron Clayton 92 (2) 2. Austin McCarl 17A (1) 3. Jason Johnson 41 (3)
4. Tim Shaffer 83x (4) / 5. Mark Dobmeier 13 (6) 6. Ty Bartz 46 (9) 7. Schatz 15 (8) 8.
Rob Chaney 7KX (5) / 9. Crocker 59 (7) 10. Justin Berg 67x (10) Clayton
led flag to flag. Schatz slapped the wall on the first lap, possibly breaking a
Jacob's ladder. Heat
four (started): 1. Justin Henderson G1 (2) 2. Lucas Wolfe 5w (4) 3. John Lambertz 12L (1)
4. Sam Hafertepe Jr. 15H (6) / 5. McMahan 71x (8) 6. Don Droud Jr. 47 (5) 7. Lasoski 6 (7)
8. Billy Balog 17B (3) / 9. Chris Schmelzle 57c (9) 10. Kevin Ingle 2K (10) Hafertepe
Jr. and McMahan gained their final spots on the first lap. Hafertepe was the
quickest qualifier (14th) to make it to the A through the heats. Heat
five (started): 1. Jack Dover 53 (1) 2. Greg Hall 4wa (2) 3. Craig Dollansky 19E (6) 4.
Chad Kemenah 63 (3) / 5. Meyers 14 (7) 6. Sammy Swindell 10s (4) 7. Allard 0 (8) 8. Daryn
Pittman 17 (5) / DNS - Marlon Jones 9m, Seth Brahmer 13v In
what may have been the stoutest heat, Dollansky was the prime mover. C
main (started): 1. Crocker (1) 2. Conley (2) / 3. Schmelzle (3) 4. Ingle (4) DNS - Darrah,
Heskin, Jones, VanDenBerg, Berg, Brahmer B
main (started): 1. Schatz (1) 2. McMahan (2) 3. Allard (3) 4. Stewart (5) / 5. Meyers (7)
6. Dobmeier (10) 7. Lynch Jr. (9) 8. Lasoski (6) 9. Pittman (14) 10. Droud Jr. (13) 11.
Sweet (11) 12. Sides (20) 13. Sowell (4) 14. Conley (22) 15. Balog (17) 16. Swindell (15)
17. Crocker (21) 18. Chaney (12) 19. Bartz (19) 20. Ellenberger (18) 21. Hannagan (8) 22.
Schneiderman (16) Schneiderman
spun, bringing out a caution, and contact was made under the yellow between Hannagan, who
retired, and Stewart. Schatz led until a lap four stoppage for Ellenberger.
Dobmeier and Lynch Jr. battled hard for fifth in probably the best racing of
the event. Schatz was turning 15.1 second laps up front. A
main (started): 1. Shaffer (4) 2. J. Johnson (1) 3. Hafertepe Jr. (8) 4. Kemenah (9) 5.
Wolfe (3) 6. D. Smith (2) 7. Schatz (21) 8. Wilson (6) 9. Dover (19) 10. Landis (11) 11.
Jackson (10) 12. Stewart (22) 13. Herrera (5) 14. Allard (23) 15. Henderson (13) 16.
Wimmer (16) 17. Clayton (12) 18. McMahan (20) 19. Brazier (15) 20. Reed (18) 21. Dollansky
(7) 22. A. McCarl (17) 23. Lambertz (24) 24. Hall (14) Lambertz
elected to start at the tail of the 25-lapper. Clayton came to a stop before a lap
could be completed. He rejoined the field and J. Johnson took off ahead of
Wolfe. Shaffer moved into second on lap ten, and Dollansky picked up third five laps
later. When J. Johnson slipped a bit on lap 18, Shaffer pounced into the lead.
Two laps later, Hall spun at the top of turn three. Dollansky was collected in the
mess and got upside down. The tream rallied to get him back in the race, after
another green was called back for a stalled A. McCarl. The final five laps saw
Shaffer leading J. Johnson, Hafertepe Jr., Wolfe and Kemenah back to green. Kemenah
was able to move past Wolfe for fourth, and Schatz was the hard-charger and high point man
for the night. Shaffer's win was worth $12,000.
Knoxville
Nationals Night #2 57
cars Dale
Blaney (2nd car out to time) set the standard in qualifying at 15.056 seconds. Joey
Saldana (3rd car out) was second quick, followed by Tyler Walker (4th), Stevie Smith
(23rd), Kraig Kinser (36th), Josh Higday (7th), Steve Kinser (13th), Greg Hodnett (34th),
Tim Kaeding (25th) and Jac Haudenschild (48th). It was advantageous to go out early
as the middle of the track slicked off quite a bit, while the bottom remained greasy.
Brant O'Banion failed to get a time in, and defending USAC sprint champion, Levi
Jones, had to take one lap at the end in Wade Nygaard's #9N Heat
one (started): 1. Brian Brown 21 (4) 2. Jason Solwold 6NX (6) 3. Blaney 2B (8) 4. Garry
Lee Maier 11xx (2) / 5. Lance Dewease 30c (3) 6. Jordan Goldesberry 65 (1) 7. Jesse
Hockett 13J (5) 8. Higday 81 (7) / 9. Kenny Jacobs 25 (9) 10. Greg Nikitenko 6N (10) Brown
circled the front row right away and led flag to flag in the 10-lapper. Solwold and
Blaney charged under Maier to charge into second and third. Heat
two (started): 1. Ricky Logan 10a (2) 2. Terry McCarl 24 (4) 3. Fred Rahmer 51 (3) 4.
Saldana 9 (8) / 5. Rager Phillips 10 (6) 6. Kerry Madsen 55 (5) 7. Ricky Montgomery 33 (1)
8. S. Kinser 11 (7) / 9. Dennis Moore Jr. 20 (9) 10. Eric Baldaccini B4 (10) Logan
led the duration, with McCarl nipping at his heels at the line. Saldana progressed
slowly until grabbing the final transfer from Phillips on the last lap. Heat
three (started): 1. Chad Meyer 4H (1) 2. Dusty Zomer 17G (6) 3. Walker 24T (8) 4. Ryan
Anderson 71R (2) / 5. Jesse Giannetto D1 (4) 6. Bob Weuve 19 (3) 7. Hodnett 22H (7) 8.
Travis Rilat 2m (9) / 9. Tony Bruce Jr. 18 (5) 10. Pete Crall 1PC (10) Meyer
took off, while Zomer impressed by moving into second. Walker used good moves under
Giannetto and Anderson to surge to third. Heat
four (started): 1. S. Smith 1z (8) 2. Toni Lutar 4x (1) 3. Kaeding 83 (7) 4. Billy Alley
22 (4) / 5. Clint Garner 40 (10) 6. Caleb Griffith 12c (2) 7. Joey Moughan 55B (6) 8. Ben
Gregg 22B (5) / 9. Mike Benson 77 (9) 10. Kaley Gharst 7K (3) Gharst
exited on lap two. Lutar was the early leader before S. Smith stormed to the front
on lap five, and never looked back. Kaeding passed Alley on the last lap for third. Heat
five (started): 1. Lynton Jeffrey 12 (1) 2. Dean Jacobs 97 (4) 3. Bronson Maeschen 1 (5)
4. K. Kinser 20K (8) / 5. Haudenschild R19 (7) 6. Mike Moore 69 (2) 7. Wayne Johnson 14AJ
(6) 8. Scott Winters 23w (9) / 9. Geoff Dodge 7m (10) 10. Bill Rose 6R (3) Jeffrey
wired the field, while Maeschen and K. Kinser put on entertaining charges getting by M.
Moore. C
main (started): 1. Bruce Jr. (1) 2. Gharst (2) / 3. K. Jacobs (4) 4. Moore Jr. (3) 5.
Nikitenko (5) 6. Crall (8) 7. Dodge (7) 8. Scott Uttech 3K (10) 9. Matt Wasmund 4w (11)
10. Patrick Bourke 27 (12) 11. Ryan Bickett 17RB (9) 12. Benson (6) DNS - Rose, Levi Jones
9N, Robert Bell 71, Baldaccini, Brant O'Banion 30 Bruce
Jr. and Gharst led the distance in the 10-lapper, ahead of K. Jacobs who ended up eight
car lengths behind in the non-stop event. B
main (started): 1. S. Kinser (2) 2. Hodnett (3) 3. Haudenschild (4) 4. Giannetto (11) / 5.
W. Johnson (7) 6. Dewease (12) 7. Madsen (9) 8. Hockett (8) 9. Rilat (18) 10. Phillips (5)
11. Weuve (13) 12. Winters (19) 13. Garner (20) 14. Bruce Jr. (21) 15. Gharst (22) 16.
Montgomery (17) 17. M. Moore (15) 18. Goldesberry (16) 19. Moughan (6) 20. Higday (1) 21.
Gregg (10) 22. Griffith (14) Before
a lap could be completed in teh 12-lapper, Gregg spun high in turn three, and collected
Griffith, who had to retire. On the second try, Higday edged S. Kinser on lap one,
but it was for only one lap. First Hodnett, and then Haudenschild moved by Higday,
before something went awry in the valve train on lap seven, while running fourth. W.
Johnson had just passed Moughan, who stopped on the track a lap later, for the final
transfer. Giannetto was persistent on the bottom, and when W. Johnson slid across
turns one a two a couple times in a row, he stuck the bottom and passed him for the final
transfer with two to go. A
main (started): 1. Kaeding (3) 2. K. Kinser (4) 3. Saldana (7) 4. S. Smith (5) 5. Walker
(6) 6. T. McCarl (11) 7. Zomer (1) 8. Solwold (2) 9. Blaney (8) 10. Brown (10) 11.
Maeschen (9) 12. D. Jacobs (13) 13. Hodnett (22) 14. Logan (16) 15. S. Kinser (21) 16.
Rahmer (14) 17. Haudenschild (23) 18. Jeffrey (20) 19. Ry. Anderson (17) 20. Lutar (19)
21. Maier (15) 22. Giannetto (24) 23. Meyer (18) 24. Alley (12) Alley
chose to start in the rear with some motor woes, and pulled in shortly after the finish.
Haudenschild spun before a lap could be completed, but once underway, the 25-lappe
went non-stop. Zomer jumped out to an early lead, but couldn't shake Kaeding.
In heavy lapped traffic on lap 11, Kaeding snuck under Zomer for the point, and started
mastering lapped cars. His lead was over a straightaway, when K. Kinser and Saldana
began to close after battles with S. Smith and Walker. Kaeding ended up winning by
several car lengths to claimed $12,000 and his fourth career Knoxville victory. T.
McCarl's late surge salvaged fifth, while Hodnett was the hard-charger.
Knoxville
Nationals - Friday Night Non-qualifiers Semi-Feature
one (started): 1. Daryn Pittman 17 (2) 2. Don Droud Jr. 47 (4) 3. Erin Crocker 59 (3) 4.
Matthew Reed v92 (1) 5. Josh Schneiderman 49 (9) 6. Kenny Jacobs 25 (13) 7. Rob Chaney 7KX
(7) 8. Jesse Hockett 13J (6) / 9. Caleb Griffith 12c (11) 10. Ben Gregg 22B (8) 11. Geoff
Dodge 7m (16) 12. Greg Hall 4wa (5) 13. Chris Schmelzle 57c (14) 14. Jordan Goldesberry 65
(10) 15. Patrick Bourke 27 (17) 16. Kevin Ingle 2K (15) 17. Clint Garner 40 (12) A
new Friday format looked like a winner, as three semi-features taking the top eight to the
A main were put in place of heats. The semis were 15 laps in distance
and inverted the top six in points. Pittman led the distance, with only one
stoppage. Garner couldn't get off the track with five laps down when trying to exit.
The restart saw Pittman ahead of Droud Jr., Crocker, Reed, a charging Schneiderman
and Hockett. K. Jacobs was able to get by several cars early to move into a transfer
spot. Semi-feature
two (started): 1. Tony Bruce Jr. 18 (1) 2. Randy Hannagan 1x (3) 3. Lynton Jeffrey 12 (6)
4. Toni Lutar 4x (5) 5. Austin McCarl 17A (4) 6. Jason Sides 7s (11) 7. Bill Balog 17B (8)
8. John Lambertz 12L (2) / 9. Davey Heskin 56 (9) 10. Ricky Montgomery 33 (10) 11. Bill
Rose 6R (13) 12. Ty Bartz 46 (12) 13. Bob Weuve 19 (7) 14. Pete Crall 1PC (15) 15. Scott
Uttech 3K (16) 16. Matt Wasmund 4w (17) 17. Marlon Jones 9m (14) Bartz
spun on the backstretch before a lap could be completed. Bruce Jr. led most of the
way before Hannagan stole the lead on lap 11 in traffic. The non-stop event saw
Hannagan blow the bottom out of his engine on the white flag lap. He was able to
limp home second behind Bruce. Sides was the mover, and advanced several spots late
in the going. Semi-feature
three (started): 1. Brad Sweet 91 (4) 2. Cody Darrah 89 (1) 3. Sammy Swindell 10s (7) 4.
Josh Higday 81 (2) 5. Lance Dewease 30c (3) 6. Travis Rilat 2m (8) 7. Kaley Gharst 7K (6)
8. Chad Meyer 4H (5) / 9. Scott Winters 23w (11) 10. Dennis Moore Jr. 20 (13) 11. Mike
Moore 69 (9) 12. Brian Ellenberger 22N (10) 13. Mike Benson 77 (14) 14. Greg Nikitenko 6N
(12) DNS - Joey Moughan 55B, Ryan Bickett 17RB, Robert Bell 71 Darrah
shot out to an early lead with Higday settling behind him. Sweet did well to move
into second, by lap 13 when Benson came to a stop with a detonated powerplant.
Darrah led Sweet, Higday, Swindell and Dewease back to green flag racing. Swindell
used a slider to move by Higday for third, while Sweet pegged the low side for a winning
pass with two to go. A
main (started): 1. Swindell (9) 2. Sweet (3) 3. Hannagan (5) 4. Pittman (1) 5. Droud Jr.
(4) 6. Dewease (15) 7. Darrah (6) 8. Jeffrey (8) 9. Sides (17) 10. Bruce Jr. (2) 11.
Gharst (21) 12. Lutar (11) 13. Schneiderman (13) 14. Higday (12) 15. Balog (20) 16. Chaney
(19) 17. Lambertz (23) 18. A. McCarl (14) 19. Meyer (24) 20. Hockett (22) 21. K. Jacobs
(16) 22. Reed (10) 23. Crocker (7) 24. Rilat (18) The
first try at green saw Crocker spin in turn one, collecting Rilat. Both were done.
The 20-lapper saw Pittman lead early before a stoppage for Reed, who went up in
smoke in turn two. The restart saw Pittman ahead of Sweet, Droud Jr., Bruce Jr. and
Hannagan. Sweet tried to run down Pittman and finally did in traffic on lap twelve.
Swindell was now putting on a show, pulling sliders in a drive to the front.
Sweet was his victim on lap 15. Hannagan got around Pittman on the last lap for
third. Gharst was the hard-charger, while Dewease and Sides were also fun to
watch. The win was Sammy's 42nd at Knoxville, was worth $5,000 and was sixth on the
all-time list. The top ten finishers will fill in the last five rows of Saturday's
C. C
Scramble (started): 1. Ryan Anderson 71R (1) 2. Garry Brazier 1AU (4) 3. Wayne Johnson
14AJ (6) 4. Kerry Madsen 55 (3) 5. Billy Alley 22 (10) 6. Cale Conley 3c (9) 7. Brandon
Wimmer 7TW (5) 8. Rager Phillips 10 (7) 9. Lee Sowell 51s (8) 10. Garry Lee Maier 1xx (2) Ry.
Anderson led the 12-lapper for the duration, earning $3,000. W. Johnson and Madsen
traded blows for third, while Alley gained most of his positions on lap one by snaking the
low side. 20 points are given to the leader, 18 to second, 16 to third and so on.
The drivers also get a point for each driver they pass. Those points are
added to their qualifying night points to give them their total for lineups on Saturday. B
Scramble (started): 1. Skip Jackson 2 (1) 2. Chad Kemenah 63 (5) 3. Jac Haudenschild R19
(9) 4. Dean Jacobs 97 (4) 5. Jason Johnson 41 (10) 6. Johnny Herrera 2w (3) 7. Danny
Smith 4 (6) 8. Bronson Maeschen 1 (7) 9. Greg Wilson w20 (8) 10. Calvin Landis 70 (2) Jackson
led throughout to earn $5,000. Kemenah was moving well on the bottom to get Herrera
and D. Jacobs. Haudenschild put on the best show from 9th to 3rd. A
Scramble (started): 1. Donny Schatz 15 (4) 2. Sam Hafertepe Jr. 15H (2) 3. Dale Blaney 2B
(6) 4. Tim Kaeding 83 (5) 5. Joey Saldana 9 (9) 6. Stevie Smith 1z (10) 7. Tyler Walker
24T (8) 8. Kraig Kinser 20K (7) 9. Jason Solwold 6NX (3) 10. Dusty Zomer 17G (1) Zomer's
scramble was done almost before it began after contact with another competitor bent the
Jacob's ladder. Hafertepe led after lap one, but Schatz got him on the restart for
Zomer. Saldana and S. Smith traded sliders in their moves up to fifth and sixth. DDNi
World Challenge (started): 1. Jeffrey (3) 2. Shane Stewart 57 (13) 3. Madsen (4) 4. Terry
McCarl 24 (12) 5. Brazier (5) 6. Ricky Logan 10a (7) 7. D. Smith (9) 8. W. Johnson (6) 9.
Hannagan (17) 10. Paul McMahan 71x (15) 11. J. Johnson (10) 12. Jackson (8) 13. Jonathan
Allard 0 (14) 14. Lutar (1) 15. Rose (19) 16. G. Hall (2) 17. Saldana (16) 18. Schmelzle
(18) 19. Craig Dollansky 19E (11) 20. Reed 7KX (20) Reed
did a lap after borrowing the Jessup 7KX and pulled off. Jeffrey circled the front
row and began to pull away early in the 20-lapper. Madsen was sitting in second, with
Brazier there as well. T. McCarl and W. Johnson were moving up too. The race
was slowed four laps from the end when a piece of the turn one billboard fell on the
track. Jeffrey led Madsen, T. McCarl, Brazier and Stewart to a shootout for $10,000.
He was never headed on the dry-slick surface, but the action behind him was too
good to describe. Madsen and T. McCarl began to slide each other for second, while
Stewart made quick work of Brazier. Heading into turn three on the white flag lap,
Stewart was fourth, but he shot to the high side and passed both Madsen and T. McCarl for
second. The win was Jeffrey's second career tally at Knoxville. Stewart was
also the hard-charger.
Knoxville
Nationals Final Night (not really) E
main (started): 1. Bill Rose 6R (2) 2. Geoff Dodge 7m (1) 3. Mike Moore 69 (3) 4. Bob
Weuve 19 (6) 5. Greg Hall 4wa (4) / 6. Jordan Goldesberry 65 (8) 7. Chris Schmelzle
57c (7) 8. Ty Bartz 46 (5) 9. Greg Nikitenko 6N (10) 10. Kevin Ingle 2K (11) 11. Matt
Wasmund 4w (14) 12. Scott Uttech 3K (12) 13. Marlon Jones 9m (15) 14. Robert Bell 71 (13)
15. Pete Crall 1PC (9) DNS - Patrick Bourke 27, Brian Ellenberger 22N, Mike Benson 77,
Clint Garner 40, Joey Moughan 55B, Ryan Bickett 17RB Rose
got the jump and led the 10-lapper all the way on an early night narrow track. Hall
dropped back early, but was able to get back by for the fifth and final transfer.
Bourke looked to break a rear-end in hot laps and did not start. Crall exited early. D
main (started): 1. Kaley Gharst 7K (1) 2. Toni Lutar 4x (2) 3. Josh Schneiderman 49 (3) /
4. John Lambertz 12L (7) 5. Josh Higday 81 (4) 6. Rob Chaney 7KX (6) 7. Kenny Jacobs 25
(10) 8. Bill Balog 17B (5) 9. Austin McCarl 17A (8) 10. Davey Heskin 56 (14) 11. Chad
Meyer 4H (9) 12. Caleb Griffith 12c (13) 13. Rose (16) 14. Scott Winters 23w (15) 15. M.
Moore (18) 16. Weuve (21) 17. Dodge (19) 18. Erin Crocker 59 (12) 19. Hall (20) 20. Dwight
Snodgrass 20 (22) 21. Travis Rilat 2m (11) 22. Ricky Montgomery 33 (17) Gharst
led early in the 12-lapper, before something looked to break in the Montgomery machine,
sending him straight into the wall. He complained of leg pain and was taken to the
hospital. Rain fell during the red, resulting in about an hour rain delay.
Once the track was ready for racing, it was narrow and hard to pass. Gharst led
Lutar, Schneiderman, Higday and Lambertz back to green flag racing. The last seven
laps saw only one change in the top five...Lambertz's pass of Higday. C
main (started): 1. Wayne Johnson 14AJ (2) 2. Billy Alley 22 (1) / 3. Ryan Anderson 71R (4)
4. Garry Brazier 1AU (3) 5. Rager Phillips 10 (7) 6. Kerry Madsen 55 (6) 7. Sammy Swindell
10s (11) 8. Cale Conley 3c (5) 9. Brandon Wimmer 7TW (9) 10. Lee Sowell 51s (8) 11. Daryn
Pittman 17 (12) 12. Randy Hannagan 1x (13) 13. Lance Dewease 30c (14) 14. Cody Darrah 89
(17) 15. Don Droud Jr. 47 (15) 16. Jason Sides 7s (19) 17. Gary Lee Maier 1xx (10) 18.
Lutar (21) 19. Gharst (20) 20. Tony Bruce Jr. 18 (18) 21. Schneiderman (22) 22. Lynton
Jeffrey 12 (16) W.
Johnson broke the 15-lap track record in the non-stop event. Alley followed as the
lead pari left the rest behind on a fast track that was hard to pass on. Another
big rain hit and the B and A were postponed to Sunday, starting at 7.
49th
Annual Knoxville Nationals B
main (started): 1. Jac Haudenschild R19 (1) 2. Jason Meyers 14 (11) 3. Danny Lasoski 6
(17) 4. Jason Johnson 41 (2) / 5. Bronson Maeschen 1 (5) 6. Johnny Herrera 2w (9) 7. Chad
Kemenah 63 (3) 8. Danny Smith 4 (4) 9. Dean Jacobs 97 (6) 10. Skip Jackson 2 (8) 11. Jack
Dover 53 (14) 12. Mark Dobmeier 13 (15) 13. Daron Clayton 92 (18) 14. Ed Lynch Jr. 2L (20)
15. Calvin Landis 70 (10) 16. Greg Wilson w20 (7) 17. Jesse Giannetto D1 (19) 18. Justin
Henderson G1 (16) 19. Fred Rahmer 51 (12) 20. Wayne Johnson 14AJ (21) 21. Billy Alley 22
(22) 22. Ricky Logan 10a (13) Haudenschild
led early in the 22-lapper on the dry-slick track, but it was Kemenah who slid by for the
lap two lead. Henderson spun by the pit entrance in turn four a lap later, bringing
a caution. Kemenah led Haudenschild, J. Johnson, D. Smith and Maeschen back to green
flag racing. On lap four, Haudenschild slid by Kemenah for the lead again, and
pulled away as the rest of the event went non-stop. Eyes were on Meyers and Lasoski,
who were putting on clinics from deep in the pack. By the time they got to second
and third, respectively, Haud was long gone. J. Johnson held onto the final
transfer. Clayton was the Rookie of the Nationals. A
main (started): 1. Donny Schatz 15 (6) 2. Joey Saldana 9 (2) 3. Stevie Smith 1z (1) 4. Tim
Kaeding 83 (4) 5. Shane Stewart 57 (14) 6. Kraig Kinser 20K (7) 7. Tim Shaffer 83x (11) 8.
Dale Blaney 2B (3) 9. Craig Dollansky 19E (18) 10. Haudenschild (21) 11. Lasoski (23) 12.
Steve Kinser 11 (20) 13. Dusty Zomer 17G (10) 14. Tyler Walker 24T (5) 15. Jonathan Allard
0 (13) 16. Greg Hodnett 22H (16) 17. Terry McCarl 24 (15) 18. Lucas Wolfe 5w (17) 19. J.
Johnson (24) 20. Paul McMahan 71x (12) 21. Jason Solwold 6NX (9) 22. Sam Hafertepe Jr. 15H
(8) 23. Brian Brown 21 (19) 24. Meyers (22) Saldana
and S. Smith dueled with Saldana getting the lap one lead. S. Smith came right back
to the point on lap two, but the pass was negated by a caution for Meyers, who flattened a
right front tire. Saldana took back the point ahead of S. Smith, Kaeding, Blaney and
Schatz. Saldana had a good restart, and six laps later, Meyers right rear tire
exploded. The damage was enough to sideline him. The restart saw the top five
unchanged, but S. Kinser had worked into the top ten (from 20th) in the first eight laps.
S. Kinser continued to mark forward and in a duel for seventh on lap ten, he and
Walker contacted, sending S. Kinser sideways. He was able to straighten the car and
keep going, and was further aided when Brown came to a stop in turn four. The
restart with ten laps down saw Hafertepe Jr. duck into the work area, as well. The
restart saw Saldana leading S. Smith, Kaeding, Schatz and Blaney. The next twelve
laps wnet uninterrupted. Saldana entered lapped traffic and had about an eight car
length lead, when a slowing Hafertepe Jr. (who retired) gave officials a chance to conduct
their fuel stop. The restart with 18 laps to go saw Saldana still in the lead, ahead
of S. Smith, Schatz, Kaeding and Blaney. The rest of the event went non-stop.
Schatz appeared to bide his time in third, and turned it on with seven laps to go,
shooting under S. Smith for second. He dismissed Saldana, who got a bit loose high
in turns three and four on lap 35, and pulled away for his fourth straight Nationals win.
Saldana held off a late S. Smith charge for second. Stewart completed a solid
surge in the top five, while Haudenschild and Lasoski, who ended up with hard-charger
honors had late charges. The win was the 12th in Donny's career at Knoxville and it
was worth $150,000.
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