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6/14/08
Knoxville Raceway
26 410s
28 360s
410s
Dusty Zomer (13th car out to time) set the standard in time trials at 15.092. Calvin Landis (6th car out) was second quick, followed by Jake Peters (2nd), Brian Brown (9th), Danny Lasoski (19th), Justin Henderson (4th), Mark Dobmeier (3rd), Billy Alley (5th), Skip Jackson (15th) and Bronson Maeschen (20th). Mike Moore failed to get a time in. Zomer was using a motor from Peters stable after upsetting with the WoO at Huset's on Friday.
Heat one (started): 1. Davey Heskin 56 (1) 2. Brown 21 (5) 3. Travis Cram 17G (7) 4. Tony Shilling 47T (8) 5. Dobmeier 13 (4) 6. Maeschen 96 (3) / 7. Seth Brahmer 13v (2) 8. Kaylene Verville 01 (9) 9. Zomer 5z (6)
Brahmer shot out to an early lead in the 8-lapper. He would stall on lap three bringing a caution. All heck broke loose on the restart. Heskin had assumed the lead ahead of Dobmeier, Zomer, Maeschen and Brown. When the green fell, Dobmeier appeared to slow before the cone and Zomer shot over his right rear into the frontstretch guardrail. The incident also collected Maeschen and Verville. Zomer was done for the night, while everyone else returned after making repairs in the work area. Brown jumped to second behind Heskin on the restart, followed by Cram, Shilling, Dobmeier and Maeschen. That would be the finishing order.
Heat two (started): 1. Alley 22 (4) 2. Lasoski 5 (5) 3. Josh Schneiderman 49 (1) 4. Landis 70 (6) 5. Ricky Logan 10 (7) 6. Kaley Gharst 7K (8) / 7. Jeff Mitrisin 47 (2) 8. Brandon Wimmer 7TW (3) DNS - Mike Moore 69
Schneiderman got the jump on Mitrisin and led early. On the third lap, Mitrisin spun in turn four. Logan got on the high side to avoid and Wimmer ran out of room between Logan and the wall in which he smacked, losing his driveline as well. He would make repairs just in time for the B. Schneiderman led Alley, Lasoski, Landis and Logan back to green flag racing. Alley would pull a slidejob to grab the point on lap five. Lasoski and Schneiderman battled before the former grabbed second.
Heat three (started): 1. Jackson 2 (4) 2. Dion Hindi 11D (1) 3. Rager Phillips 9 (2) 4. Lynton Jeffrey 12 (3) 5. Peters 57x (6) 6. Henderson D1 (5) / 7. Ryan Anderson 71R (7) 8. Paul Jeffrey 12PJ (8)
Hindi led early. Jackson worked his way around the veteran on lap three and never looked back in teh non-stop affair.
B main (started): 1. Wimmer (1) 2. Brahmer (2) 3. Ry. Anderson (4) 4. P. Jeffrey (3) 5. Verville (5) / DNS - Mitrisin, Moore, Zomer
All starters transferred and Wimmer won the 6-lap race for points and starting position in the A.
A main (started): 1. Dobmeier (7) 2. Lasoski (9) 3. L. Jeffrey (3) 4. Alley (6) 5. Cram (15) 6. Heskin (1) 7. Landis (12) 8. Jackson (5) 9. Hindi (14) 10. Peters (11) 11. Gharst (18) 12. Wimmer (19) 13. Logan (16) 14. Maeschen (4) 15. Shilling (17) 16. Schneiderman (13) 17. Ry. Anderson (21) 18. Brahmer (20) 19. Verville (23) 20. Phillips (2) 21. Brown (10) 22. Henderson (8) 23. P. Jeffrey (22)
Heskin jumped out to an early lead in the 20-lapper on the high side. Lasoski made quick work of several cars and settled into thrid behind Heskin and Jeffrey. On lap six, he passed both to take the lead in turns one and two. Four laps later, P. Jeffrey slowed things when he stopped in turn one. Lasoski led Jeffrey, Heskin, Dobmeier, Alley and Brown back to green flag racing. Dobmeier worked past Heskin on the restart, and Jeffrey a lap later. He reeled in Lasoski when the leader stalled a bit behind traffic. On lap 18, he hit the high side of turns three and four and squeezed between the leader and the wall. In exciting fashion, he put a pair of lapped cars between himself and second, but on the white flag lap, Henderson stopped in turns three and four, and Brown in turn one. Phillips also exited at the time. That set up a green, white, checker finish and put Lasoski on Dobmeier's tail ahead of Alley, Cram up from 15th, Jeffrey and Heskin. Lasoski took a slider at Dobmeier, but the leader held his ground on the cushion and pulled away for his third career victory here. L. Jeffrey used the restart to pass Cram and Alley on the low side to garner a podium finish. Cram earned hard-charger honors.
360s
Heat one (started, *qualified for feature): 1. Jon Agan 4 (5*) 2. Tyler Thompson 48 (1*) 3. Nate Mosher 22N (3*) 4. Gregg Bakker 11x (7*) 5. Eric Vanderploeg 10 (4*) 6. Tom Lenz 8L (8*) 7. John Kearney 86 (10) 8. Danny Heskin 6 (6) 9. Dan Thornburg 57T (2) DNS - Russ Hall 29 (9)
Agan had the lead by turn two from his third row starting spot and dominated the 7-lapper. The best racing came from Mosher, Bakker and Vanderploeg in a battle for third, fourth and fifth.
Heat two (started, *qualified for feature): 1. Randy Smith D1 (2*) 2. Josh Higday 24 (6*) 3. Rick Ideus 5 (1*) 4. Joe Beaver 53 (8*) 5. Dustin Selvage 7 (5*) 6. Natalie Sather 94s (7) 7. Nate Van Haaften 3 (9) 8. Ricky Montgomery 9m (3) DNS - Cody Petersen 16P (4)
Smith led flag to flag. The veteran replaced Jesse Giannetto, who was hampered in getting to the track by floodwaters. Higday and Beaver were the movers and shakers.
Heat three (started, *qualified for feature): 1. Matt Moro 2m (2*) 2. Wayne Johnson 94 (5*) 3. Dave Hall 51 (1*) 4. Mike Houseman Jr. Y2 (3*) 5. Brett Mather 54 (4*) 6. Ryan Roberts 18 (8) 7. RJ Johnson 71 (9) 8. Rod Richards 12 (7) DNS - Alan Zoutte 33 (6)
Moro ran away, while W. Johnson picked his way forward using the bottom of the track and suffering from an oil leak.
B main (started): 1. Kearney (2) 2. Roberts (3) 3. Sather (1) 4. Van Haaften (4) 5. R. Hall (10) 6. RJ Johnson (5) / 7. Heskin (6) 8. Montgomery (7) 9. Thornburg (9) 10. Richards (8) DNS - Petersen, Zoutte
Kearney won a duel with Sather on lap one and led the distance in the non-stop 10-lapper. Roberts also won a battle with Sather for second. R. Hall charged from the back to gain fifth, which he thought would be one spot out of a transfer.
A main (started): 1. W. Johnson (9) 2. Beaver (3) 3. Agan (12) 4. D. Hall (2) 5. Bakker (6) 6. Moro (10) 7. Houseman Jr. (1) 8. Ideus (4) 9. R. Smith (11) 10. Thompson (7) 11. Selvage (15) 12. Mather (16) 13. Higday (8) 14. Roberts (17) 15. Lenz (14) 16. Van Haaften (18) 17. Vanderploeg (13) 18. R. Hall (19) 19. Mosher (5) 20. RJ Johnson (20) DNS - Kearney, Sather
Kearney had motor woes, and Sather a loose fuel cap that doused her in the cockpit and neither started the main event. R. Hall and RJ Johnson snapped up alternate spots that reward no points, but money. D. Hall jumped out early in the 20-lapper. Things slowed with a lap in the books when a caution was declared for debris. D. Hall led Beaver, Houseman Jr., Bakker and Ideus back to green. Beaver used the restart to slide by D. Hall for the point and took off. Five laps later, Higday stopped in turn three while running seventh. He would restart. Now Beaver led D. Hall, a charging W. Johnson, Bakker and Houseman Jr. RJ Johnson came to a stop on lap ten bringing another caution. W. Johnson had gotten by D. Hall for second, but had looked to have nothing for Beaver, who was pulling away. Mosher came to rest before another lap could be completed. W. Johnson used the second restart to power by Beaver with a slider. He led the final five laps to win his fourth straight in the #94, 2nd straight at Knoxville, 6th in the 360 class, and 11th overall here. Agan was a cannon late, gaining three spots in the final five laps, garnering third and hard-charger honors.
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