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February 10, 2011 at
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Big Game Starts 2011 in a Big Way After a long and
bitter cold winter of preparation, Craig Dollansky and the Big Game
Treestands #7 escaped to Florida for the first night of racing action
with the All Star Circuit of Champions at Volusia Speedway Park, a
track Dollansky tasted victory on opening night with the All Stars in
2008 and 2010. A field of 39
cars assembled at the semi-banked half mile oval with Dollansky
turning the 19th fastest lap in qualifying with a lap of 14.011
seconds. The top 24 from qualifying were inverted into four heats
which meant the Aggressive Hydraulics Maxim would start outside the
front row of heat three. Riding the highside of the track going into
turn one, Dollansky carried alot of momentum coming out of turn two to
shoot past Lucas Wolfe for the lead and never look back as he cruised
to victory by a margin of 5.8 seconds. With
the non-dash cars lined up by qualifying times for the A-Main, the
Aeroquip Performance Products backed sprinter started way back in
seventeenth. When the green flag dropped Dollansky started his march to
the front of the field as he ran fourteenth on lap three and motored
up to eighth by lap eight. When a caution came out with eight laps
remaining, Dollansky had made his way up to fourth but wasn't finished
there. Using a strong restart, 'The Crowd Pleaser' continued to knife
his way to the front of the pack as he worked past Dale Blaney and then
put a big slide-job on David Gravel to assume the runner-up position.
With only a handfull of laps left, Dollansky started to reel in leader,
and teammate, Sammy Swindell but ran out of laps and would finish 2nd
to pick up the Hard Charger award and make it a 1-2 finish for Big Game
Motorsports. 'This is a
great finish for Big Game Treestands and my team of DJ, Luke and Troy.
These guys work hard and to come from 17th to 2nd is not easily done
with the field of competition we have here tonight," commented
Dollansky. "I've enjoyed having Sammy as a teammate, he's a wealth of
knowledge and great driver. We've been working together to try to help
each team and this is just a great team effort. I'm fortunate to have
great guys behind me with Tod Quiring of Big Game Treestands, Paul
Johnson of Aggressive Hydraulics, Scott Boyd of Karavan Trailers, and
everybody that supports this race team. Our Morrison motor was in for
the first time tonight and it was just a great finish for everybody
involved and we're going to keep working hard at it!" The
DIRTcar Nationals continue tonight with the final night of All Star
Circuit of Champion competition before the World of Outlaws kick off
their season February 11th-13th.
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February 10, 2011 at
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This message was edited on
February 10, 2011 at
09:26:03 AM by BigGMan
Reply to:
Posted By: CDR on February 10 2011 at 07:00:21 AM
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Big Game Starts 2011 in a Big Way After a long and
bitter cold winter of preparation, Craig Dollansky and the Big Game
Treestands #7 escaped to Florida for the first night of racing action
with the All Star Circuit of Champions at Volusia Speedway Park, a
track Dollansky tasted victory on opening night with the All Stars in
2008 and 2010. A field of 39
cars assembled at the semi-banked half mile oval with Dollansky
turning the 19th fastest lap in qualifying with a lap of 14.011
seconds. The top 24 from qualifying were inverted into four heats
which meant the Aggressive Hydraulics Maxim would start outside the
front row of heat three. Riding the highside of the track going into
turn one, Dollansky carried alot of momentum coming out of turn two to
shoot past Lucas Wolfe for the lead and never look back as he cruised
to victory by a margin of 5.8 seconds. With
the non-dash cars lined up by qualifying times for the A-Main, the
Aeroquip Performance Products backed sprinter started way back in
seventeenth. When the green flag dropped Dollansky started his march to
the front of the field as he ran fourteenth on lap three and motored
up to eighth by lap eight. When a caution came out with eight laps
remaining, Dollansky had made his way up to fourth but wasn't finished
there. Using a strong restart, 'The Crowd Pleaser' continued to knife
his way to the front of the pack as he worked past Dale Blaney and then
put a big slide-job on David Gravel to assume the runner-up position.
With only a handfull of laps left, Dollansky started to reel in leader,
and teammate, Sammy Swindell but ran out of laps and would finish 2nd
to pick up the Hard Charger award and make it a 1-2 finish for Big Game
Motorsports. 'This is a
great finish for Big Game Treestands and my team of DJ, Luke and Troy.
These guys work hard and to come from 17th to 2nd is not easily done
with the field of competition we have here tonight," commented
Dollansky. "I've enjoyed having Sammy as a teammate, he's a wealth of
knowledge and great driver. We've been working together to try to help
each team and this is just a great team effort. I'm fortunate to have
great guys behind me with Tod Quiring of Big Game Treestands, Paul
Johnson of Aggressive Hydraulics, Scott Boyd of Karavan Trailers, and
everybody that supports this race team. Our Morrison motor was in for
the first time tonight and it was just a great finish for everybody
involved and we're going to keep working hard at it!" The
DIRTcar Nationals continue tonight with the final night of All Star
Circuit of Champion competition before the World of Outlaws kick off
their season February 11th-13th.
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Great run, Craig! Keep it going!
Question, if he won his heat, why wasn't he in the dash? If he had started in the top ten, he probably would have won going away! Looking at the results on the other Volusia thread, it must have been a combination of points from timing and heat finish. I see Hef was fourth in his heat and in the top ten timing, and Kraig was fourth in both.
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February 10, 2011 at
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All-Stars don't line up their dash according to heat finishes. They use the top 6 qualifiers that transfer. Outlaw rules don't come into play until Friday night.
They do need to get with the program and eliminate the lappped cars. 6 cars between 1st and 2nd on the restart took some excitement away, good thing the 7 car was fast enough to make it a show.
Bye bye, Hardhat!
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February 10, 2011 at
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Morrison Motors? What is that? What ever it was it's fast.
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February 10, 2011 at
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Posted By: outlaw_fan_7_8 on February 10 2011 at 10:26:22 AM
Morrison Motors? What is that? What ever it was it's fast.
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Surely it couldn't be half of the famous Reher-Morrison engines? They made some mountainous motors and horsepower but don't think they did spint motors..... I thought Buddy Reher had died, but, many of my brain cells are dead now....
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February 10, 2011 at
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Same Morrison motors as Lance Dewease? If so, they're coming out of Spring Grove, PA and he used to work with Garrett. Pretty sure Dollansky has bolted in a Cappetta engine (low key while the R19 was still around) and Big Game has always run Ott's, haven't they?
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February 10, 2011 at
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Brian Morrison of Morrison Racing Engines use to work for Charlie Garrett I believe. Yes, Lance Dewease races the same motors. Same motor that Kerry Madsen used last year.
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February 10, 2011 at
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Posted By: LatshPA on February 10 2011 at 04:52:00 PM
Same Morrison motors as Lance Dewease? If so, they're coming out of Spring Grove, PA and he used to work with Garrett. Pretty sure Dollansky has bolted in a Cappetta engine (low key while the R19 was still around) and Big Game has always run Ott's, haven't they?
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Sammy used a Morrison engine in practice on Tuesday.
Dollansky used Rider engines before he went to Kasey Kahne, then had Rider Engines when he hooked up with Quiring, and used Rider all last year. I don't ever remember Dollansky using a Cappetta engine.
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