Knoxville Midget Nationals Results and Stories

Saturday, June 4, 2005
6/4/05

Knoxville Raceway

33 410s
44 Midgets

410s

Time trials were in the books before the tornado sirens came on and severe weather cancelled events. Ricky Logan (12th car out to time) set the standard in qualifications with a lap of 15.340 seconds. Justin Henderson (21st car out) was second fast, followed by Eric Vanderploeg (15th), Roger Rager in Kevin Frey's 2K (17th), Chris Walraven (30th), Wayne Johnson (7th), Billy Alley (1st), Matt Moro (24th), Jesse Giannetto (31st) and John Kearney in his first 410 spins since 1999 (6th).

Midgets

One heat got in the books before the night came to an end.

Heat one (started): 1. Mike Welker 12az (6) 2. Ron Kuhn 10K (9) 3. Steve Buckwalter 5x (5) 4. Jimmy Voitel 14 (2) 5. Frank Polimeda 44 (10) 6. Kenny Adams Jr. 17K (3) 7. David Shirk 2m (7) 8. Ken Dull 56 (1) 9. Matt Hummel 52 (8) 10. Tony Rossi 14R (4)

Voitel and Dull took turns at the lead the first half a lap, but Welker smoked them in turn three and led the distance. R. Kuhn ran steadily through the pack to garner second, but his powerplant went up in flames after the checkered flag as the tornado sirens wailed in the city of Knoxville. Buckwalter ran a steady third. Hummel and Rossi retired early.