Duel in the Dakotas Sweep!
After
racing to their third victory of the season on Friday at River Cities
Speedway, the Aggressive Hydraulics #7 team returned to the high banked,
high intensity, 3/10-mile on Saturday looking to keep the momentum
rolling in the finale of the Duel in the Dakotas.
A
strong field of sprinters assembled for battle on the hot sunny day in
North Dakota with Dollansky piloting the Big Game Treestands Maxim to
4th fastest time in qualifying among the 34 cars in the pit area.
Spectacular heat race competition would see 'The Crowd Pleaser' motor
from the fourth spot and track down Kevin Swindell to take the lead and
cruise to the victory. Winning the heat put the Karavan Trailers #7 in
the dash where Dollansky would start second and finish 2nd in the 8-lap
event.
Starting
from outside the front row of the 40-lap A-Main, Dollansky ran the
highside of the track until the first caution came on lap 10. As racing
resumed the #7 fell back to fourth momentarily until he worked the
cushion aboard the Eaton's Aeroquip Performance Products Maxim and raced
past Donny Schatz and Steve Kinser to retake second and come after
Jason Sides for the lead until another stoppage on lap 14. Following
two cautions, the intensity of the feature continued to swell as the top
four drivers went four wide exiting turn two on the restart with
Dollansky slipping back to fifth by a lap 21 caution.
The
driver from Minnesota continued to work the highside and motor up to
third by lap 24 and then executed a slide job on Joey Saldana in turn 1
to assume the runner-up position one lap later. With Sides running the
bottom and Dollansky working the cushion to perfection, the driver of
the Big Game Treestands backed sprinter slowly started to hunt down the
leader with the laps winding down. The action culminated on the final
two corners when 'The Crowd Pleaser' exploited his nickname to full
potential as he shot between Sides and the outside wall and charged to
the checkered flags to sweep the weekend and record the teams fourth
victory of the season.
"We
got a good starting spot outside the front row for the long 40 lap race
and had a few cautions that put us in double-file restarts and one
restart we got shuffled back to 5th and we had to work our way back,",
commented Dollansky. "It was an intense race and we were able to get up
to 2nd and pace ourselves in the latter part of the race, Jason was
running a good race and had a good car. At one point it looked like it
was going to be a shuffle between five cars for the win. He led every
lap but at the end of the race when we were in lapped traffic running
second I could tell he was primarily running the bottom and we got a
good run on him in the last corner and had just enough room to get
through and get the win. It was great to get back to back wins for
Aggressive Hydraulics and everyone that supports this race team."
More
bullring action continues this coming weekend as the Big Game
Treestands #7 team rides the hot streak into their hometown of
Princeton, Minnesota on Saturday. The big race day kicks off with an
open house at the racing shop from 11:00AM-1:00PM followed by an
Aggressive Hydraulics hospitality event at 4:00PM before racing gets
underway at Princeton Speedway.
