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Mark Smith Takes Home Bear Trophy with Central PA Speedway Victory
CLEARFIELD,
PA (6-15-08) by Bryan Autullo –
All Star PR Director
The O’Reilly All Star Circuit of Champions rounded out their
three day weekend tour of Central Pennsylvania
on Father's Day with an appearance at Tim Bainey’s Central PA Speedway, also known as The Big
Track to the local fans.This was the
first appearance of winged 410 sprint cars at the speedway and only the second
event under the direction of Bainey who recently took over promotion of the
track.
A unique feature of The Big Track is the big hill along the
backstretch and turns three and four where fans line up in campers and pickup
trucks and have a great vantage point to view the race, grill some food, and
socialize with friends.
Another unique feature is the large Bear Trophy carved out of a log and
weighing in around 50 pounds. This will be a conversation piece for
all future winners at Central PA Speedway.
Paul McMahan nearly swept the night as he set the track
record in qualifying, won his heat, won the All Star dash, and led a good
portion of the A-main event before mechanical failure on lap 20 ended his
night.The Central PA demons continue to
haunt the All Star series when visiting the Keystone State.
The redraw for the top 6 positions put Mark Smith on the
pole with McMahan on the outside.Greg
Hodnett and Randy Hannagan lined up on row two.Alan Cole and Lance Dewease were lined up on row three.When the green dropped, McMahan shot out to
the lead, but the red flew on lap two for Jimmy Seger flipping off the top of
turn one.On the restart it was McMahan,
Smith, Hannagan, Hodnett, and Dewease.
McMahan would lead again until lap four when the caution
flew for Brandon Martin who spun in turn four.McMahan
got a great restart and was pulling away from the field when Fred Rahmer broke
on the backstretch ending his night.Mark Smith got around McMahan on the restart and started to run away
until he got a little too high in turn one on lap 15 giving McMahan the opportunity
to get back to the lead.
Disaster struck on lap 20 as McMahan broke while leading by several car lengths over Greg Hodnett.When
the caution flew for the slowing Rick Ferkel owned #0 car, several teams began to have tire wear
issues.Alan Cole stopped in turn four
with a flat right rear.At the same
time, All Star points leader Lance Dewease also changed a tire negating his 5th
place run.Fourth place running Greg
Wilson and Brandon Martin also pulled in with flat right rear tires.
Lining up for the restart on lap 20 was Hodnett, Mark Smith,
Hannagan, Blaney, and Stevie Smith.Mark Smith got another great restart and got by Hodnett and drove to the
checkers with Hodnett in tow and Blaney crossing the line third.Hannagan and Stevie Smith rounded out the Top
5. Smith would pull into victory lane with a flat right rear tire as well.
Heat races were won by McMahan, Rahmer, and Ellenberger.The Dash was won by McMahan followed by
Hannagan, Dewease, Hodnett, Wilson, and Rahmer.
Central PA Speedway
(6-15-08) – All Star Circuit of Champions Results
Qualifying:
1. 0 - Paul Mcmahan13.698
2. 1x - Randy Hannagan13.750
3. 22 - Greg Hodnett13.793
4. 30c - Lance Dewease13.837
5. 7m - Mark Smith13.844
6. 35 - Alan Cole13.844
7. 2 - Dale Blaney13.942
8. 19 - Stevie Smith13.946
9. 4 - Rod George14.040
10. w20 - Greg Wilson14.075
11. 51 - Fred Rahmer14.075
12. 11e - Mike Erdley14.095
13. 20e - Brian Ellenberger14.109
14. 11m - Brandon Martin14.309
15. 72 - Jimmy Seger14.393
16. 16 - Lee Stark14.604
17. 56r - Ryan Myers14.678
18. 17 - Mike Deener15.710
Heat 1:
McMahan, Wilson, Mark Smith, Erdley, Stark
Heat 2:
Rahmer, Stevie Smith, Dewease, Hannagan, Martin, Myers
Heat 3:
Ellenberger, Hodnett, George, Seger, Cole, Deener
A-main:
Mark Smith, Greg Hodnett, Dale Blaney, Randy Hannagan,
Stevie Smith, Brian Ellenberger, Lance Dewease, Brandon Martin, Rod George,
Greg Wilson, Mike Erdley, Lee Stark, Ryan Myers, Paul McMahan, Alan Cole, Mike
Deener, Fred Rahmer, Jimmy Seger
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