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By Brian Liskai
ATTICA, Ohio — They say lapped traffic can really
hurt the leader of a race. However, it was THE LACK of lapped traffic
that may have cost Mike Linder. He led for 29 and 7/8 laps at Attica
Raceway Park Friday night. But it was Lee Jacobs who led the most
important 1/8 of a lap...the last bit of straight-away to claim the 410
sprint feature on Burns Electric Mid-Season Championship Night.
Attica
rules put lapped cars to the tail on yellow flags, so that the leaders
can battle for the top spot, thus giving fans a thrilling show. And
thrilling it was.
Linder had built up a substantial lead, but late
race cautions would take away the advantage he had of having lapped
machines between himself and his closest competitors.
Following a
restart with three laps remaining, Jacobs drove to the high side to
power around Paul McMahan and Linder in the final two turns and won the
drag race to the checkered flag.
“I knew we had the car to beat on
that yellow with seven laps to go. Then I screwed up on the restart and
drove off the race track down the back stretch and lost a couple of
positions,” said Jacobs beside his Stephen P. Mapus Productive Tool
& Equipment sponsored, Burmeister owned #16.
Jacobs ran behind
Linder, McMahan, Byron Reed and Caleb Griffith until the yellow fly on
the 27th circuit for a Chris Andrews’ spin. On the restart, while
Linder and McMahan went to the bottom of the track, Jacobs set sail up
top, driving around Griffith and Reed into the third spot. As Linder
was fighting to hold off McMahan, Jacobs drove hard into the cushion on
the final two turns and flew up beside Linder and beat him the last 10
yards to the flags.
“When that yellow came out at the end, I knew if
Mike and Paul went to the bottom I had a shot. I just concentrated and
hit my marks and the car was awesome. Hats off to John Bores and his
track prep crew...they have given us a racy track every week,” said
Jacobs of his second career Attica victory.
Behind Jacobs at the finish was Linder, McMahan, Chad Blonde and Greg Wilson to round out the top five.
With severe weather hitting all around the race track, the program was put on the fast track.
When
pole-sitter Cap Henry developed steering problems on the opening lap,
it was outside front-row starter Bobby Clark who took the advantage.
The Fremont driver led all 25 laps in his Fremont Fence, Al Davis
Carpeting #40 to record his second victory of the season at “Ohio’s
Finest Racing” speedplant. Stuart Brubaker would drive from his ninth
starting spot to finish second with Brad Haudenschild, Todd Heuerman
and Dan Hammond rounding out the top five.
It was Clark’s fifth career 305 sprint victory at the track.
In
the Service Drive Solutions UMP Attica Late Models, Bellevue’s Ryan
Missler would work his way up from his 12th starting spot to grab the
lead on the 13th lap and held off a hard charge from Mike Marteney to
claim his second win of the season at Attica and his eighth career
victory. Missler’s eighth career ARP victory came aboard his Missler
Industries, Hawk’s Auto Reconditioning, Taze DJ & Karaoke backed
late model.
Rounding out the top five were Marteney, Jamie Reed, Nate Potts and Curtis Deisenroth.
The
15-lap dirt truck main was a barn-burner, with Art Ball, Brian Arnold
and Cory Ward battling side by side throughout the race. Ward took the
lead for good on lap 10 and would hold off Ball, Arnold, Bob Dible and
Dan Henning for his second win of the year and seventh career victory
at Attica.
Ward’s victory came aboard the TJ Hosang Construction, Excuses Lounge, Precision Body and Frame backed truck.
Attica
Raceway Park will be back in action Friday, June 13 for Quality Welding
Night with the 410 sprints, 305 sprints, late models and dirt trucks in
action.
For more information log onto www.atticaracewaypark.com
Attica Raceway Park
Burns Electric Night
June 6, 2008
410 Sprints
Heat 1 - All Pro Heads (8 laps, top 5 transfer to A-Main)
1.
16-Lee Jacobs; 2. W20-Greg Wilson; 3. 11B-Brock Mayes; 4. 6-Mike Dussel
(R); 5. 15C-Chris Andrews; 6. 48S-Andy Shammo; 7. 91-Aaron Middaugh; 8.
5T-Travis Philo
Heat 2 - Ultra Shield Race Products (8 laps, top 5 transfer to A-Main)
1.
24H-Rob Chaney; 2. 312-Mike Linder; 3. O-Paul McMahan; 4. 98-Bruce
Robenalt; 5. 83-Phil Gressman; 6. X-Mark Keegan; 7. 1W-Paul Weaver; 8.
11N-Ed Neumeister; 9. 63AU-Roddy Bellbowen
Heat 3 - Bell Racing (8 laps, top 5 transfer to A-Main)
1.
5R-Byron Reed; 2. 12-Caleb Griffith; 3. 5B-Chad Blonde; 4. D7-Tony
Beaber; 5. 75-Mike Hogan; 6. 11M-Brandon Martin; 7. O9-Craig Mintz; 8.
10-David Harrison; 9. 60-Jody Keegan
B-main - Computer Man Inc.(10 laps, top 5 transfer to A-Main)
1.
X-Mark Keegan; 2. 48S-Andy Shammo; 3. 11M-Brandon Martin; 4. 10-David
Harrison; 5. 1W-Paul Weaver; 6. O9-Craig Mintz; 7. 91-Aaron Middaugh;
8. 11N-Ed Neumeister; 9. 60-Jody Keegan; 10. 63AU-Roddy Bellbowen; 11.
5T-Travis Philo
A-main Starting Position
1.
16-Lee Jacobs[6]; 2. 312-Mike Linder[1]; 3. O-Paul McMahan[3]; 4.
5B-Chad Blonde[9]; 5. W20-Greg Wilson[7]; 6. 5R-Byron Reed[5]; 7.
11B-Brock Mayes[8]; 8. 24H-Rob Chaney[10]; 9. 75-Mike Hogan[15]; 10.
12-Caleb Griffith[2]; 11. 6-Mike Dussel (R)[4]; 12. 15C-Chris
Andrews[13]; 13. 11M-Brandon Martin[18]; 14. X-Mark Keegan[16]; 15.
10-David Harrison[19]; 16. 83-Phil Gressman[14]; 17. 98-Bruce
Robenalt[12]; 18. 1W-Paul Weaver[20]; 19. 48S-Andy Shammo[17]; 20.
D7-Tony Beaber[11]
305 Sprints
Heat 1 - All Pro Heads (8 laps, top 4 transfer to A-Main)
1.
22D-Dan Hammond; 2. 40-Bobby Clark; 3. 28-Shaun Valenti (R); 4.
25P-Mark Pridemore; 5. 13-Larry Felver Jr.; 6. 71-Bill Kraylek; 7.
8K-Zack Kramer (R); 8. 29-Chris Lang
Heat 2 - Ultra Shield Race Products (8 laps, top 4 transfer to A-Main)
1.
18-Todd Heuerman; 2. O4-Cap Henry; 3. 35-Stuart Brubaker; 4. 9Z-Duane
Zablocki; 5. M28-Josh Muntz; 6. 9-Jimmy Colvin; 7. 5-Dustin Dinan; 8.
596-Zack Ames (R)
Heat 3 - Bell Racing (8 laps, top 4 transfer to A-Main)
1.
49-Coty Runion; 2. 10-Brad Haudenschild; 3. X-Dustin Stroup (R); 4.
23-Willie Keegan; 5. O2-Kevin Lee; 6. 11F-D.J. Foos (R); 7. 83X-Nate
Reeser
Heat 4 - Friendship Food Stores (8 laps, top 4 transfer to A-Main)
1.
1-Nate Dussel; 2. 3X-Brad Keckler; 3. 11-Shawn Colvin; 4. 36X-Dustin
Keegan; 5. 82-Travis Hoffbauer; 6. 67M-Matt Ferrell; 7. 65-Mark Lang
B-Main - Computer Man Inc.
1.
82-Travis Hoffbauer; 2. 5-Dustin Dinan; 3. 71-Bill Kraylek; 4. 8K-Zack
Kramer (R); 5. 9-Jimmy Colvin; 6. 65-Mark Lang; 7. 67M-Matt Ferrell; 8.
29-Chris Lang; 9. 83X-Nate Reeser; 10. 13-Larry Felver Jr.; 11.
M28-Josh Muntz; 12. O2-Kevin Lee
A-main Starting Position
1.
40-Bobby Clark[2]; 2. 35-Stuart Brubaker[9]; 3. 10-Brad
Haudenschild[3]; 4. 18-Todd Heuerman[7]; 5. 22D-Dan Hammond[4]; 6.
1-Nate Dussel[11]; 7. 9Z-Duane Zablocki[14]; 8. X-Dustin Stroup (R)[5];
9. 23-Willie Keegan[15]; 10. 82-Travis Hoffbauer[17]; 11. 25P-Mark
Pridemore[13]; 12. 49-Coty Runion[10]; 13. 36X-Dustin Keegan[16]; 14.
5-Dustin Dinan[18]; 15. 28-Shaun Valenti (R)[6]; 16. 3X-Brad
Keckler[12]; 17. 11-Shawn Colvin[8]; 18. 71-Bill Kraylek[19]; 19.
O4-Cap Henry[1]; 20. 8K-Zack Kramer (R)[20]
Service Drive Solutions Late Models
Heat 1 - Tin Lizzy Collision (8 laps)
1.
50-Ryan Missler; 2. 45-Mike Marteney; 3. 18-Jamie Reed; 4. 41-Randy
Pollock; 5. 27-Ken Hahn; 6. 83-Noah Wagner (R); 7. 77-Steve Kester; 8.
30-Nate Potts; 9. 5H-Ernie Haynes; 10. 3R-Chuck Rolle (R)
Heat 2 - Ultra Shield Race Products (8 laps)
1.
2D-Curtis Deisenroth; 2. X3-Dan Wallace; 3. 84-Tim Sabo; 4. 48-John
Bores; 5. 77C-Craig Corfman; 6. 12C-Joe Hartlaub (R); 7. 99-Steve Sabo;
8. 12H-Michael Stiltner; 9. 15B-Mike Bores
A-main Starting Position
1.
50-Ryan Missler[12]; 2. 45-Mike Marteney[1]; 3. 18-Jamie Reed[9]; 4.
30-Nate Potts[15]; 5. 2D-Curtis Deisenroth[10]; 6. X3-Dan Wallace[8];
7. 48-John Bores[5]; 8. 83-Noah Wagner (R)[2]; 9. 27-Ken Hahn[11]; 10.
3R-Chuck Rolle (R)[19]; 11. 84-Tim Sabo[4]; 12. 77-Steve Kester[13];
13. 15B-Mike Bores[18]; 14. 77C-Craig Corfman[3]; 15. 12C-Joe Hartlaub
(R)[7]; 16. 41-Randy Pollock[6]; 17. 5H-Ernie Haynes[17]; 18.
12H-Michael
Dirt Trucks
Heat 1 - Tin Lizzy Collision (8 laps)
1. 33-Brian Arnold; 2. O1-Art Ball; 3. 8-Steve Endicott; 4. 32H-Dan Hennig; 5. 88-Jim Brewer; 6. 17-Bob Dible; 7. 22-Paul Brown
Heat 2 - Ultra Shield Race Products (8 laps)
1. 18W-Cory Ward; 2. 56-Alex Wiechman; 3. 2R-Ron Kepling; 4. 30-Dave Gibbs; 5. 62-Dave Severs; 6. 4X-Brian Sorg
A-main Starting Position
1.
18W-Cory Ward[5]; 2. O1-Art Ball[2]; 3. 33-Brian Arnold[1]; 4. 17-Bob
Dible[9]; 5. 32H-Dan Hennig[8]; 6. 30-Dave Gibbs[3]; 7. 88-Jim
Brewer[7]; 8. 56-Alex Wiechman[4]; 9. 8-Steve Endicott[13]; 10.
4X-Brian Sorg[12]; 11. 62-Dave Severs[10]; 12. 2R-Ron Kepling[6]; 13.
22-Paul Brown Jr.[11]
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