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As mentioned before in an earlier topic Shaffer won, Schatz second, Dobmeier third.
Heats were actually pretty good. A bottom and top and slick in the middle. Someone has to clear up as to what exactly that series runs for during the heats. My point, if you are sixth quick and make it through your heat, you are in the dash. Not sure what the incentive is to push it in the heats...
No B main. A fair amount of good cars so no real problems in the A main as far as cars that shoudn't be there.
Cody Sytland (late model and modified ace up here) ran a Donny's experimental motor in one of Donny's back up cars. Donny ran his Shaver 410. Cody actually looked pretty good for the first time in a 410. I think a regular sprint car driver could make that motor work in a local show pretty good and if conditions were right that motor could beat much more expensive 410s.
Feature...Feature was good before it laid rubber. Shaffer and Schatz battled hard but I think Tim found the rubber about a lab sooner than Donny and that was pretty much it. Dobmeier was as quick as those two and would have had a real chance if they would have stayed in traffic but a red flag haulted action with five to go. With rubber down it was follow the leader...but I will say Donny made a real run at it and maybe have been the fastest car on the track at the end but couldn't quite make the pass for the lead. Just too much rubber on the bottom.
Tony Stewart I believe finished sixth. Make no mistake, he is the real deal. He qualified last (order wise, ended up 10th) and the line by that time was pushed just too far out. He is an awesome sprint car driver and would be a force with the WoO if he followed that trail.
Overall, hats off to Danny Schatz and his crew for the race track. WAY better than last year and if it hadn't of laid rubber with ten to go or if they would have stayed in traffic it would have been an awesome finish..woulda coulda shoulda...
Bottom line, if you are borderline about August 17, don't be. It will be an awesome show.
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