8/13/04
Knoxville Raceway
Knoxville, IA
Knoxville Nationals - Non-qualifiers night
Heat one (started): 1. Jeremy Campbell 10c (1) 2. Sammy Swindell 1 (5) 3. Peter Attard 17H (2) 4. Kevin Frey 2K (3) / 5. Curtis Boyer 72x (9) 6. Chad Hill 44 (7) 7. Jerrel Slinkard 15s (11) 8. Bill Rose 6B (8) / 9. Stephen Allard 18A (4) 10. Larry Pinegar II 1A (6) 11. Jeff Johnson 11J (10)
Je. Johnson launched over the left front tire of Pinegar in turn one on the start. Johnson flipped the 11J and was done for the night. Pinegar went pitside, but returned for the B. Campbell led the distance, holding off Swindell at the end. Boyer was impressive in moving up and just missing the final transfer, cruising on Frey's nerf bar. Allard exited while running fourth on lap three. Rose retired on lap six.
Heat two (started): 1. Travis Cram 92 (1) 2. Ricky Stenhouse Jr. 40R (3) 3. Cameron Dodson 37 (9) 4. Jon Agan 4J (2) / 5. Garry Lee Maier 11x (4) 6. Brian Carlson 18 (11) 7. Kim Mock 1m (7) 8. Rager Phillips 9 (5) / 9. Eric Vanderploeg 24v (10) 10. John Lambertz 12J (6) 11. John Sernett 91 (8)
Sernett had to take evasive maneuvers to avoid another competitor and crunched the wall on the initial start. He was done for the night. While Cram was leading early, Lambertz moved up into fourth, slid sideways and went airborne and upside down on lap two. He would return for the B. Cram led Agan, Stenhouse, Maier and a charging Dodson back to green flag racing. Two more laps were in the books when Phillips brought out another caution when he made contact with the wall and changed a left front tire. Now Cram led Stenhouse, who got around Agan, Agan, Maier and Dodson. Dodson worked hard around Maier and Agan to finish third behind fellow 16 year old Stenhouse. Maier came within an eyelash of grabbing the final transfer from Agan at the line.
Heat three (started): 1. Lynton Jeffrey 10 (3) 2. Max Dumesny 83m (1) 3. Joey Saldana 2 (8) 4. Colin Northway 60 (6) / 5. Troy Little 20AU (4) 6. Travis Rilat 29 (5) 7. Zach Chappell 50z (9) 8. Cody Branchcomb 94 (10) / 9. Mike Moore 69 (7) 10. Danny Wood 35A (2)
Dumesny took the early lead, while Wood pulled it in for the night on lap two. Jeffrey found the bottom side tacky and moved by Dumesny for good on lap four. Northway grabbed the final transfer from Little in turn four of the final go-around. The mover of the race was Saldana, moving up five spots.
Heat four (started): 1. Loren Langerud 56L (1) 2. Brandon Wimmer 7TW (4) 3. Chris Walraven 56 (3) 4. Josh Higday 24J (7) / 5. Mike Reinke 02 (5) 6. Ralph Spithaler Jr. 56x (2) 7. Roger Rager 6R (8) 8. Mike Lutz 98 (10) / 9. Matt Wasmund 4w (6) 10. Wayne Modjeski 77m (9)
Langerud led flag to flag. Higday was the man on the move, and he passed Reinke with two to go for the final transfer.
Heat five (started): 1. Mark Smith 1z (2) 2. Clint Garner 40 (3) 3. Mike Kertscher 80K (1) 4. Ryan Anderson 71R (8) / 5. Jerrod Hull 12H (4) 6. Marty Perovich 17AU (5) 7. Jaymie Moyle 1s (6) 8. Bobby Mincer 15x (10) / 9. Mark Toews 5T (7) 10. Matt Moro (9)
Kertscher took the early lead, before Smith took the point from him on lap two. Moro retired on lap four. Garner looked strong and stayed on the nerf bar of the Zemco machine until the end. Ry. Anderson did well to move up four spots and grab a transfer.
C main (started): 1. Vanderploeg (2) 2. Wasmund (4) 3. Toews (3) / 4. Pinegar (6) 5. M. Moore (1) 6. Lambertz (5) 7. Modjeski (7) DNS - Allard, Wood, Moro, Je. Johnson, Sernett
Vanderploeg led the distance in the mostly single-file affair after grabbing the early advantage from Wasmund. Modjeski retired before the green could fall. Lambertz dropped out on lap three.
B main (started): 1. Maier (2) 2. Little (3) 3. Rilat (6) 4. Reinke (4) / 5. Boyer (1) 6. Chappell (13) 7. Perovich (8) 8. Carlson (7) 9. Moyle (15) 10. Lutz (19) 11. Mock (10) 12. Rose (14) 13. Branchcomb (16) 14. Mincer (18) 15. Toews (22) 16. Vanderploeg (21) 17. Wasmund (20) 18. Slinkard (11) 19. Phillips (17) 20. Hull (5) 21. Rager (12) 22. Spithaler (9) DNS - Hill
Maier led the distance in the 12 lapper. Spithaler and Rager exited before a lap could be completed. Phillips brought out a caution on lap three. Maier led a strong looking Boyer, Little, Reinke and Rilat back to green. Rilat worked over Reinke and got under him after the green flag fell after a good battle. Hull banged the wall on lap four and pulled it in. Little and Boyer went at it for second. With two to go Boyer got sideways and was lucky not to flip. He did recover but lost a transfer and finished fifth.
A main (started): 1. Cram (2) 2. Swindell (6) 3. Campbell (1) 4. Saldana (13) 5. M. Smith (5) 6. Dumesny (8) 7. Langerud (4) 8. Wimmer (9) 9. Maier (21) 10. Garner (10) 11. Dodson (12) 12. Rilat (23) 13. Kertscher (15) 14. Little (22) 15. Reinke (24) 16. Walraven (14) 17. Agan (17) 18. Higday (19) 19. Ry. Anderson (20) 20. Stenhouse (7) 21. Attard (11) 22. Frey (16) 23. Jeffrey (3) 24. Northway (18)
Northway dropped out on lap one of twenty, while Campbell took the early lead from his pole position. He led Cram, Langerud, M. Smith and Swindell back to green flag racing on lap two after Jeffrey slowed. Reinke who had moved up six spots, was forced to the work area at the time to secure a fuel cap. On lap three, Cram slid Campbell for the lead and proceeded to run the cushion to victory. Swindell put serious pressure on with seven to go in heavy lapped traffic, but Cram never wavered and earned $4000 for the win. Saldana moved up nine spots for fourth, while Maier earned a spot in Saturday's C with a hard-charger effort. Jeffrey and Frey ducked out early.
C main scramble (started): 1. Steve Kinser 11 (4) 2. Rob Chaney 9x (1) 3. Danny Smith 4 (2) 4. Brooke Tatnell 66 (6) 5. Jesse Giannetto D1 (7) 6. Daryn Pittman 21 (10) 7. Travis Whitney 9T (8) 8. Kelly Kinser 4K (5) 9. Lucas Wolfe 5w (9) 10. Manny Rockhold 02x (3)
Chaney rode the cushion to the early lead battling side by side with D. Smith in the twelve lapper. D. Smith took his turn at the point on lap three, before giving it back to Chaney on lap five. S. Kinser had seen enough and passed Chaney on lap seven. Tatnell was one of the stronger cars and came just short of passing D. Smith for third at the line.
C main lineup for Saturday: 1. Pittman 408 2. S. Kinser 407 3. Tatnell 403 4. Giannetto 401 5. Chaney 400 6. D. Smith 400 7. Whitney 398 8. Wolfe 396 9. Ke. Kinser 391 10. Rockhold 386
B main scramble (started): 1. Skip Jackson 2AU (1) 2. Tim Shaffer 6 (4) 3. Kerry Madsen 55 (8) 4. Brian Paulus 28 (9) 5. Billy Alley 22 (2) 6. Calvin Landis 70 (6) 7. Blake Feese 12x (3) 8. Jeff Mitrisin 17G (10) 9. Erin Crocker 16 (7) 10. Aaron Berryhill 97 (5)
Jackson checked out after early resistance from Shaffer and led flag to flag. Paulus came on late and came just short of getting Madsen for third. Both Madsen and Paulus helped themselves the most in the scramble.
B main lineup for Saturday: 1. Paulus 450 2. Madsen 447 3. Mitrisin 444 4. Shaffer 436 5. Landis 434 6. Jackson 432 7. Crocker 430 8. Feese 427 9. Alley 426 10. Berryhill 419
A main scramble (started): 1. Donny Schatz 15 (2) 2. Mark Kinser 83 (1) 3. Jason Meyers 14 (4) 4. Chad Kemenah 15k (5) 5. Kenny Jacobs 22J (8) 6. Craig Dollansky 7 (3) 7. Terry McCarl 24 (9) 8. Jesse Hockett 75 (7) 9. Fred Rahmer 88H (6) DQ - 10. Danny Lasoski 20 (10)
M. Kinser led early in a nice race with Schatz, who took the advantage a few laps later. McCarl and Lasoski raced hard early until Lasoski got under on the low side and moved forward. McCarl also traded spots with K. Jacobs in a nice duel for sixth and seventh. Lasoski crossed the line fifth, and would have earned Saturday's pole position, though he forgot to go to the scales and was disqualified. This put McCarl and Jacobs in front on Saturday.
A main lineup for Saturday: 1. McCarl 492 2. K. Jacobs 491 3. Kemenah 490 4. Lasoski 488 5. Meyers 486 6. Schatz 482 7. Hockett 481 8. Rahmer 479 9. M. Kinser 477 10. Dollansky 475
Kele World Challenge (started): 1. Pittman (10) 2. Tatnell (9) 3. Saldana (2) 4. Brent Antill 1J (14) 5. Moyle (3) 6. Dumesny (6) 7. Madsen (15) 8. Crocker (12) 9. Little (4) 10. Jeffrey (7) 11. Ricky Logan 2K (16) 12. Jackson (10) 13. Stevie Walsh 20s (1) 14. Alley (13) 15. Perovich (5) 16. Shane Stewart 4m (11) DNS - Rilat
Saldana jumped out to a huge lead in the 20 lapper from the front row. Pittman was hooked and slicing through the field. On lap four he started reeling in Saldana and passed him in traffic on lap nine. The Challenge inverts by the week's points and plenty of charging was going on. The only caution came out when Alley spun in turn one on lap 17. Pittman led Saldana, Tatnell, Moyle and a charging Antill back to green for the last three laps. Tatnell worked over Saldana, while Antill moved into fourth and came up just short of third at the line to earn hard-charger honors. Pittman earned $10,000 for his win.