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Runner-Up at Tulare
The early season West Coast swing continued with another weekend in
California for the Big Game Treestands #7 team as Craig Dollansky and
the rest of the World of Outlaws prepared to battle Thunderbowl Raceway
and Mother Nature.
Signing in for his 14th appearance at the
1/3-mile track, ‘The Crowd Pleaser’ began the night by motoring to the
3rd fastest lap in qualifying upon the 25 cars. With twelve cars
inverted into three heats the MobileStar sponsored #7 started fourth in
heat #3 and gained one position to earn a spot in the dash. An
inversion of eight for the 6-lap dash pitted Dollansky outside of row
three where he finished 6th.
In the 35-lap A-Main the Aggressive
Hydraulics Maxim started outside of row three and used an excellent
start to take fifth exiting turn two and then fourth on the next
go-around. After a caution on lap 10 and a red flag two laps later, the
ensuing restart saw Terry McCarl battled Dollansky for 3rd but the #7
maintaining the spot. ‘The Crowd Pleaser’ then closed in on runner-up
Jason Sides and assuming the position but a caution before lap 25 was
complete negated the move. Following another red and yellow, Mother
Nature decided to join in on the action as the feature went into a rain
delay.
“The first half of the race I was trying to conserve
tearoffs,” commented the Elk River, Minnesota native. “In the latter
part the brakes went away but we got into 3rd and it seemed like every
time we got to lapped traffic the yellow or red flag came out.”
Once
the rain dissipated and racing continued Dollansky held third when the
caution flag flew with five laps remaining. A great restart saw the
Eaton’s Aeroquip Performance Products Maxim rocket past Sides and race
to a runner-up finish behind Tim Kaeding when the checkered flag flew.
“Tim
had a good car and knows his way around Tulare,” said Dollansky who
recorded his 3rd top-five in just the sixth event of the World of
Outlaws season. “Once we got into 2nd we could run with him and I was
hoping we would get into lapped traffic again but ran out of laps. All
in all it was a solid run from 6th for everyone from Big Game
Treestands, Aggressive Hydraulics, MobileStar, and Aeroquip on a track
that was hard to pass. There were twenty people from a MobileStar
customer at the race so we had a chance to meet them and glad they were
able to make the event.”
Action was supposed to continue tonight
at Thunderbowl Raceway but with heavy rain already in the area tonight’s
program has been cancelled. World of Outlaws officials are working on a
makeup date.
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