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6/28/08

Knoxville Raceway

Mid-Season Championship

26 410s

31 360s

410s

Brandon Wimmer (4th car out to time) set quick time at 14.933 on a tacky track. Ricky Logan (2nd car out) was second quick, followed by Calvin Landis (6th), Davey Heskin (12th), Danny Lasoski (20th), Seth Brahmer (3rd), Mark Dobmeier (21st), Billy Alley (8th), Dion Hindi (25th) and Skip Jackson (26th). John VanDenBerg and the Jordan Brothers scratched after hot laps in their first appearance of 2008, and Dusty Zomer didn't get a time in after mechanical ills in practice.

Heat one (started): 1. Justin Henderson D1 (1) 2. Jackson 2 (3) 3. Dobmeier 13 (4) 4. Lynton Jeffrey 12 (2) 5. Wimmer 7TW (6) 6. Heskin 56 (5) 7. Ryan Anderson 71R (8) 8. Dusty Zomer 5z (9) 9. Ryan Zimmerman 7K (7)

Henderson and Jackson exchanged the lead on lap one before Henderson kept it for good in the 8-lapper. Zimmerman spun on the white flag lap. The track started tacky but was widening and slicking in turns one and two after a steady wind all day. All cars transferred to the A, so the heats were about points.

Heat two (started): 1. Brian Brown 21 (1) 2. Jake Peters 57x (2) 3. Alley 22 (4) 4. Lasoski 5 (5) 5. Don Droud Jr. 47 (3) 6. Logan 10 (6) 7. Tony Shilling 47T (7) 8. Kaylene Verville 01 (8) DNS - John VanDenBerg 1

Brown led flag to flag. Peters and Alley battled early, and Lasoski and Droud battled late, with Lasoski gaining fourth with two to go.

Heat three (started): 1. Josh Schneiderman 49 (2) 2. Travis Cram 17G (1) 3. Hindi 11D (4) 4. Landis 70 (6) 5. Brahmer 13v (5) 6. Bronson Maeschen 96 (3) 7. Mike Moore 69 (8) 8. Rager Phillips 9 (7)

Phillips stopped before a lap could be completed. Cram had taken the initial lead, but given a restart, Schneiderman took to the high side and led wire to wire.

A main (started): 1. Alley (5) 2. Brown (15) 3. Lasoski (8) 4. Dobmeier (6) 5. Landis (10) 6. Henderson (16) 7. Peters (14) 8. Wimmer (12) 9. Ry. Anderson (22) 10. Heskin (9) 11. Moore (24) 12. Jeffrey (13) 13. Zimmerman (17) 14. Zomer (23) 15. Phillips (19) 16. Hindi (4) 17. Brahmer (7) 18. Droud Jr. (2) 19. Verville (21) 20. Cram (18) 21. Jackson (3) 22. Logan (11) 23. Maeschen (1) 24. Shilling (20) DNS - Schneiderman, VanDenBerg

Schneiderman had trouble and couldn't start. The 25-lapper took five green flag attempts to get started. Droud Jr. spun on the first attempt, suffering a flat left rear tire. He replaced it and started from the tail. On the next try, Lasoski jumped from outside row three, was given the black flag, and was sent to the tail. The third try was not a charm as Hindi slid into Maeschen going into turn two. Maeschen spun, collecting Shilling, who got upside down. Both were done. The fourth try saw Logan draw contact and get upside down in turn one. When the green finally was put out for good, Hindi grabbed the point from outside row one. Alley worked by Dobmeier into second, before Skip Jackson broke an axle coming down the frontstretch while battling Alley for second and flipped in turn one. He was unhurt. The restart saw Hindi ahead of Alley, Dobmeier, Landis and Wimmer. Hindi rode the cushion all the way around the half-mile, while Brown and Lasoski moved up into sixth and seventh by lap 11, when Zimmerman and Droud contacted, resulting in Droud folding the front end. The race went the next twelve laps non-stop. Hindi had a nice lead when he entered lap traffic six laps later. On lap nineteen, he took the low side in turns three and four to lap traffic. Alley gained by staying on the cushion, and then slid in front to take the lead in turns one and two on lap twenty. He too was approaching two-wide lapped traffic when a cuation came out on lap 23 for Hindi. Hindi was running fourth when the left rear wheel broke off, ending his fine run. Alley now led Dobmeier, a charging Lasoski who had put a hard slider on fourth running Brown and Wimmer. Alley led the final two laps, while Brown pulled a slider for life on both Dobmeier and Lasoski to gain the second spot at the stripe. Landis ran a steady fifth, while Henderson moved from ninth to sixth in the final two circuits. Brown was the hard-charger and earned $3000 for second. Alley earned $3500 for his second win of the year, and fifth career 410 feature win at Knoxville.

360s

Heat one (started, *qualified for feature): 1. Mike Houseman Jr. Y2 (2*) 2. Clint Garner 40 (6*) 3. Brett Mather 54 (10*) 4. Gregg Bakker 11x (11*) 5. RJ Johnson 71 (5*) 6. Jeff Mitrisin 10 (3*) 7. Jon Agan 4 (9) 8. Tom Lenz (7) 9. Dan Thornburg 57T (1) 10. Rod Richards 12 (8) 11. Alan Zoutte 33 (4)

Zoutte overturned in a four-wide try at turn one in the first turn. He was done for the night and uninjured. Garner moved up a row on the restart and took the point before a lap could be completed. He pulled away, while Mather and Bakker were moving up through the pack from the rear. Garner slowed in turn three on the last lap, allowing Houseman Jr. to get by him for the win.

Heat two (started, *qualified for feature): 1. Josh Higday 24 (2*) 2. Natalie Sather 94s (1*) 3. Dustin Selvage 7 (3*) 4. John Hall 7H (4*) 5. Dave Hall 51 (10*) 6. Joe Beaver 53 (6) 7. Jesse Giannetto D1 (9) 8. Rick Ideus 5 (5) 9. Pete Crall 1 (7) 10. Russ Hall 29 (8)

Sather jumped out to an early lead in the 7-lapper. Higday made a bid for the point on lap four, but Sather slammed the door on him by taking the low line in turn three. Higday came back and gained the point on lap five, with the two almost making contact. Sather held off Selvage for second. D. Hall was the mover from 10th to 5th.

Heat three (started, *qualified for feature): 1. Matt Moro 2m (1*) 2. Nate Van Haaften 3 (2*) 3. Ryan Roberts 18 (4*) 4. Randy Martin 14 (8*) 5. Nate Mosher 22N (3*) 6. Danny Heskin 6 (6) 7. Tyler Thompson 48 (7) 8. Ricky Montgomery 9m (9) 9. Cody Peterson 16P (5) DNS - CJ Houseman Y5 (10)

Moro led the duration of a mostly single-file affair, save Martin's early run from 8th to 4th.

B main (started): 1. Agan (1) 2. Giannetto (3) 3. Beaver (2) 4. Ideus (8) / 5. Lenz (7) 6. Thompson (5) 7. Heskin (4) 8. Crall (10) 9. Montgomery (6) 10. Thornburg (9) 11. Richards (12) 12. Petersen (11) DNS - R. Hall, Zoutte, CJ Houseman

Montgomery jumped the initial start and was sent to the back. Thornburg spun on the next try. Agan led when the 10-lapper finally got underway. Ideus moved by Heskin for the final transfer and after a lap eight caution for a stopped Petersen, Agan led Giannetto, Beaver and Ideus. Those four would be your transfers.

A main (started): 1. Selvage (1) 2. Garner (11) 3. Roberts (2) 4. Martin (4) 5. Giannetto (18) 6. D. Hall (3) 7. Sather (6) 8. Mather (12) 9. Higday (8) 10. Agan (17) 11. Moro (7) 12. Beaver (19) 13. Mitrisin (16) 14. Ideus (20) 15. Johnson (14) 16. Van Haaften (5) 17. Bakker (9) 18. J. Hall (13) 19. Houseman Jr. (10) 20. Mosher (15)

The initial start was a mess. Bakker got turned around, setting off a chain reaction that collected Houseman Jr. and Mosher, who got upside down. Also involved were Moro, Higday, Agan and Mitrisin. All would restart but Hosueman Jr. and Mosher. Fourteen of 20 laps were laid down before another caution would fly. Selvage was in control, as Garner moved his way up to third behind Roberts. Van Haaften went up in smoke on lap 14 slowing things. Selvage led Roberts, Garner, Martin, D. Hall and Giannetto (from 18th) back to green. Just two laps later, Beaver stopped, but the lead six hadn't changed. Four more laps of green flag racing saw Selvage hold his advantage, Garner sliding by Roberts for second, and Giannetto completing hard-charger honors by moving into the top five. The win was Selvage's second career triumph and paid him $1500.

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Fun times.

Brown starts 15th, finish 2nd; and beats Uncle Starts 8th, finish 3rd.

Good run for Brown from back. Isn't his Uncle the better car with more driver and crew experience?

Maybe this year at nationals it will be Brian loaning the Engine.

Having fun. Don't get your panties in a twist.

Good racing.

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"On the next try, Lasoski jumped from outside row three, was given the black flag, and was sent to the tail."

Lasoski was black flagged for jumping the start and was sent to the back and came back to third.

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It sure helps getting 2nd when 6 cars that start in front of you wreck/drop out and one car in front of you gets sent to the tail. If you figure that up, it's like starting 8th instead of 15th.

Passing 13 cars must not been that big of a deal last night. Ryan Anderson & Mike Moore also passed 13 cars and then you had Danny going to the tail and passing 21 cars.

To me, this takes quite a bit away from Brian passing 13 cars and getting the hard charger award.

Billy Alley would have probably passed 13 or more cars last night, as fast as he was, if he would have started behind that many cars and had all 6 or 7 cars in front of him drop out. Billy would have probably passed them if they wouldn't have dropped out.

can we expect another family feud fiasco at the nationals?

i will kick in an extrra $5 for the added entertainment value.

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Eldora 2287 ft/.43mile T3=135MPH
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Good show both classes this time. Lasoski's jump was pretty "iffy" from where we were sitting. But, coulda, shoulda, woulda. Another great track by feature time ... kudos to the prep crew. Brown seems to forgotten how to time trial ( jk ) this year... but, he is just killing himself missing the feature invert week after week.

R.A.

S.H.S.

From my view, Lasoski's jump was very obvious. I called it right away.

After getting sent to the back, I told everyone around me they better watch the dud because it wouldn't suprise me to see him win it.

 I've said it on here before.  Watching the Dud in the 5 car when it was the  Jackpot Junction, someplace in Missouri, come from the back to win it.  I was like 10 years old and they sent him to the back for driving through the work area even though everyone did it all night.  He climb the flagstand and grabbed the flagman.  Entertaining, I swear by the restart he had passed maybe 6 cars in turn 1 and 2,  passed 4 cars on the back stretch and maybe 5 cars in turns 3 and 4.  That race 15 years ago was on hell of a race he won burned in my memory.

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Jackhole 22 I also remember that race! I think after Dude went up the flag stand, he then went up to the scoring stand. The race was at Moberly, Mo. It was a hell of a race though!

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whats with higday not racing sather cleanly?he's been after her all season

-Austin Rankin

You must have missed Sather pushing Higday to the fence the previous two laps.

Natalie had that coming.

Our family watched those two last night. Josh had a faster car and Natalie used the whole track for about 3 laps, doing everything she could to keep from getting passed. My daughter made the comment that it looked like Higday was very patient with her.

Nights like that are burned into memories. Was it Moberly? I suppose if I asked my dad he would know. Even as a little kid a good race NEVER leaves the Brain.

Now if when i was in College they could make it as easy as racing!!....I might have gotten a 4.0.

What makes me sad is that the Dud is now in 2 big memories of mine, That one and 'Family feud Nationals.'

God bless good old pissed off at the officials, to the front, win it or wear it racing!

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Jackhole, how is the cleanup going in CR? Good to see you could make it back to some racin! You gonna make it to Husets on Thursday?

Fenders are like vacuums... they both suck.

Well, the clean up for me is going good. IE US economy. More than 60% of our bars are out of business til September. I am lucky enough to work at one of the working ones making triple business. plus with customers from Service Master and FEMA.

They condemed 20% of the houses.

And when I say "clean up for me" I say it with a tear! Making money off people who lost all they have is hard....It's hard.

typing this made me see I am not doing enough. I have made up for my June savings plan and then into Auguest/sept. I hate you racin rebel for making me give back tomorrow. I think my savings plan can wait.

***Edit Thursday no, I still need to buy my new/used car before i travel very far. The car I was going to buy is gone down th river. and buying a car in a flood town makes you not trust ANY dealer. You don't know what car was flooded. Thinking I need to travel away to get my car to make sure it is not full of once cedar river Sh*T

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Billy was fast saturday night, but you won't see hem comin from as deep as Dude or Brown, he's jus not that good in traffic. You sure went to a lot of trouble tryin to convince yourself Brian's run was a fluke, it wasn't to anyone who attended.....

Who is this Ryan Zimmerman kid and where did he come from?

smoke,

Where in my post did I say that Brian's run was a fluke?

You must be one of those that put words in everyone else's mouth.

I stated facts and yes, I was there and watched the whole thing.

The only opinion that I stated was about Billy Alley.

Apparently I can't have my own opinion.

did you miss last friday on the start of the Bmain? i think thats what sparked her actions for this week. either way he has not raced her cleanly much this year since she has become competitive.

-Austin Rankin