7/12/04
Knoxville Raceway
Knoxviklle, IA
Knoxville Nationals Night #2
66 cars
Ricky Logan suffered motor problems and did not get a qualifying lap in. Curtis Boyer spun and recorded only one lap. Tyler Houseman blew his motor after one lap was in the books. Mike Benson recorded the tenth fastest time, but scratched after time trials. As is usually the norm, drawing a low number in qualfications on Thursday was an advantage, with the exception being Terry McCarl. Time trials went this way:
1. Paul McMahan 11h 15.300 (1st car out to time) 2. Mark Kinser 83 15.346 (4th car out) 3. Kraig Kinser 11K 15.350 (9th) 4. Jesse Hockett 75 15.366 (6th) 5. Terry McCarl 24 15.444 (60th) 6. Wayne Johnson 14AJ 15.462 (22nd) 7. Kenny Jacobs 22J 15.513 (16th) 8. Danny Lasoski 20 15.530 (48th) 9. Jeff Mitrisin 17G 15.550 (39th) 10. Mike Benson 77x 15.572 (18th) 11. Troy Little 20AU 15.621 (10th) 12. Dean Jacobs 51 15.621 (30th) 13. Brian Paulus 28 15.625 (2nd) 14. Jason Meyers 14 15.625 (17th) 15. John VanDenBerg v10 15.632 (55th) 16. Jeff Shepard 8 15.643 (34th) 17. Clint Garner 40 15.645 (28th) 18. Randy Martin 14m 15.661 (24th) 19. Dennis Moore Jr. 0 15.690 (25th) 20. Rob Chaney 9x 15.697 (8th) 21. Kerry Madsen 55 15.699 (54th) 22. Travis Cram 92 15.764 (7th) 23. Max Dumesny 83m 15.768 (26th) 24. Erin Crocker 16 15.769 (62nd) 25. John Lambertz 12J 15.789 (53rd) 26. Tim St. Arnold 8s 15.793 (13th) 27. Jac Haudenschild 5 15.797 (35th) 28. Skip Jackson 2AU 15.813 (65th) 29. Mark Toews 5T 15.813 (31st) 30. Lynton Jeffrey 10 15.814 (36th) 31. Garry Lee Maier 11x 15.820 (27th) 32. Stephen Allard 18A 15.825 (32nd) 33. Blake Feese 12x 15.827 (43rd) 34. Rager Phillips 9 15.834 (3rd) 35. Jerrod Hull 12H 15.849 (20th) 36. Brian Carlson 18 15.853 (42nd) 37. Kelly Kinser 4K 15.862 (29th) 38. Tim Hunter 2H 15.864 (51st) 39. Marty Perovich 17AU 15.886 (19th) 40. Jesse Giannetto D1 15.898 (12th) 41. Manny Rockhold 02x 15.907 (61st) 42. Peter Attard 17H 15.917 (23rd) 43. Larry Pinegar II 1A 15.954 (52nd) 44. Daryn Pittman 21 15.987 (57th) 45. Jon Agan 4J 15.998 (40th) 46. Matt Wasmund 4w 16.042 (49th) 47. Ricky Stenhouse Jr. 40R 16.065 (44th) 48. Kim Mock 1m 16.088 (46th) 49. Wayne Modjeski 77m 16.123 (15th) 50. Mike Moore 69 16.207 (50th) 51. Seth Brahmer 13 16.218 (37th) 52. Cameron Dodson 37 16.241 (56th) 53. Cody Branchcomb 94 16.268 (64th) 54. Zach Chappell 50z 16.286 (45th) 55. Curtis Boyer 72x 16.298 (38th) 56. Johnny Anderson 7a 16.320 (47th) 57. Rob Tvedte 11w 16.421 (11th) 58. Eric Vanderploeg 24v 16.516 (58th) 59. Sean Walden 14s 16.702 (41st) 60. Jim Moughan Jr. 59 16.803 (59th) 61. Andy McKisson 0x 16.902 (21st) 62. Mark Hurd 44m 17.034 (63rd) 63. Robert Bell 71 18.609 (33rd) 64. Tyler Houseman 50 18.985 (14th) 65. Joe Butera 33m 19.644 (5th) 66. Ricky Logan 7x NT
Last Chance Heat (started): 1. Dodson (2) 2. Chappell (4) 3. Boyer (5) 4. Vanderploeg (8) 5. Tvedte (7) 6. Branchcomb (3) 7. J. Anderson (6) 8. Brahmer (1) / 9. Moughan (10) 10. McKisson (11) 11. Bell (13) 12. Hurd (12) 13. Butera (14) 14. Walden (9) DNS - Houseman, Logan
Those timing out of the top 50 run the last chance heat. The top eight finishers tagged the tail of the C. Dodson led falg to flag. Walden went pitside after making contact with the wall on lap two. Brahmer got sideways on the first lap, but managed to hang on to the eighth and final transfer over Moughan.
Heat one (started): 1. Rockhold (2) 2. Shepard (7) 3. W. Johnson (9) 4. St. Arnold (5) / 5. Wasmund (1) 6. Maier (4) 7. Madsen (6) 8. Carlson (3) / 9. Little (8) 10. McMahan (10)
The first lap saw a surge from the back. When W. Johnson ducked under Little in turn three on the first try at green, Little moved up the speedway into a surging McMahan who launched over the 20AU's right rear. McMahan got serious air and was taken to the hospital and transferred to Des Moines for observation though he was talking to the rescue crew. Rockhold led the distance, but it was a race of attrition in the end. Carlson exited after coming to a stop on lap two. Madsen was running fifth when he retired with motor problems on lap six. Under the caution, Maier, who was running second, went pitside with throttle problems. The remaining five cars battled it out, but Rockhold kept the lead in the end.
Heat two (started): 1. Stenhouse (1) 2. Attard (2) 3. K. Jacobs (9) 4. Ke. Kinser (3) / 5. Allard (4) 6. Cram (6) 7. D. Jacobs (8) 8. M. Kinser (10) / 9. Garner (7) 10. Haudenschild (5)
16 year old Stenhouse did a great job running away with this one. K. Jacobs was the man on the move, using the low side of the speedway to move forward six spots in the non-stop ten lapper.
Heat three (started): 1. Lasoski (9) 2. Feese (4) 3. Jackson (5) 4. Kr. Kinser (10) / 5. Dumesny (6) 6. Pinegar (2) 7. Mock (1) 8. Paulus (8) / 9. Hunter (3) 10. Martin (7)
Feese passed Mock on lap two for the lead before Paulus spun into the wall collecting Hunter, who banged hard into Paulus, and Martin, who retired for the night after heavy damage from the turn three wall. All retired to the pits. The lap three restart saw Feese leading Mock, Pinegar, Jackson and Lasoski. Lasoski put on a charge but didn't capture the point until Feese searched low in three and four on the last lap, giving him an opportunity in the last corner. Kr. Kinser also moved up nicely for the final transfer.
Heat four (started): 1. Pittman (2) 2. Meyers (8) 3. Crocker (6) 4. Hockett (10) / 5. D. Moore (7) 6. Phillips (4) 7. Mitrisin (9) 8. Perovich (3) / 9. Modjeski (1) 10. Toews (5)
Pittman led flag to flag. Toews brought out the only caution of the event when he suffered motor ills on lap seven. 16 year old Phillips was running an impressive fifth at the time in his first 410 outing. Hockett continued his good fortunes with a strong run as well.
Heat five (started): 1. Agan (2) 2. Giannetto (3) 3. McCarl (10) 4. VanDenBerg (8) / 5. Jeffrey (5) 6. Hull (4) 7. Chaney (7) 8. M. Moore (1) / 9. Lambertz (6) DNS - Benson (9)
Agan checked out on the field from the beginning. All eyes were on McCarl's impressive dicing through the field. He passed an equally impressive VanDenBerg with two to go.
C main (started): 1. Garner (2) 2. Haudenschild (3) / 3. Chappell (10) 4. Little (1) 5. Lambertz (4) 6. Dodson (5) 7. Vanderploeg (12) 8. Boyer (7) 9. Toews (6) 10. Branchcomb (14) 11. J. Anderson (11) 12. Modjeski (8) 13. Brahmer (13) 14. Tvedte (9)
Garner checked out on the rest in the non-stop 10 lapper. Haudenschild gained the final B main transfer with a lap six pass of Little. Chappell was coming on strong at the end, but ran out of time.
B main (started): 1. M. Kinser (1) 2. Mitrisin (2) 3. Madsen (7) 4. Paulus (4) / 5. D. Moore (5) 6. D. Jacobs (3) 7. Chaney (6) 8. Cram (8) 9. Dumesny (9) 10. Jeffrey (10) 11. Hull (14) 12. Allard (12) 13. Maier (11) 14. Perovich (16) 15. Pinegar (15) 16. Phillips (13) 17. Mock (17) 18. Wasmund (18) 19. M. Moore (20) 20. Garner (19) 21. Haudenschild (21) DNS - 22. Carlson
M. Kinser led Mitrisin for the duration, but there was wild stuff going on behind them. Mock spun on lap six. At the time, M. Kinser led Mitrisin, D. Jacobs, Paulus and D. Moore. Only one lap got in the books before Haudenschild got into a slowing Garner and flipped hard down the frontstretch. The "Wild Child" and Garner were o.k. but done for the night. One more lap was complete before M. Moore spun in turn three. The lap eight (of 12) restart saw M. Kinser leading Mitrisin, Paulus, D. Jacobs and a surging Madsen. Madsen burned the cushion to get around D. Jacobs and set his sights on Paulus after receiving a wicked slide job from D. Moore that did not work, but certainly got his blood boiling. M. Kinser held on, with the top four tagging the tail of the A main.
A main (started): 1. Lasoski (3) 2. Meyers (2) 3. McCarl (6) 4. K. Jacobs (4) 5. VanDenBerg (1) 6. Hockett (7) 7. Shepard (9) 8. Feese (13) 9. Madsen (23) 10. M. Kinser (21) 11. Pittman (18) 12. Crocker (10) 13. Paulus (24) 14. W. Johnson (5) 15. Jackson (12) 16. Mitrisin (22) 17. Giannetto (15) 18. Ke. Kinser (14) 19. Rockhold (16) 20. Agan (19) 21. Attard (17) 22. Stenhouse (20) 23. Kr. Kinser (8) 24. St. Arnold (11)
Before a lap could be completed, W. Johnson performed a 360 amidst the field. The incident saw St. Arnold caught flying over W. Johnson's right rear and upside down. He was done, but W. Johnson continued with a badly damaged top wing. The yellow negated a great start by McCarl, who had moved around Lasoski into third place. The complete restart saw Meyers get out to a good lead over VanDenBerg. Lasoski tracked Meyers down in heavy traffic on lap fourteen, and led the last six to pad his all-time feature wins lead at Knoxville. McCarl ran a steady race and got by Lasoski briefly at the mid-way point, but settled for a podium finish. Solid runs by VanDenBerg and Hockett set them firmly in the A lineup on Saturday as well. The hard-charger was Madsen, moving forward 14 spots.
A Scramblers:
1. Lasoski 486
2. McCarl 482
3. K. Jacobs 476
4. Hockett 475
5. Rahmer 475
6. Kemenah 475
7. Meyers 469
8. Dollansky 465
9. Schatz 461
10. M. Kinser 459
A main (rows 6-10):
11. W. Johnson 458
12. Sides 455
13. VanDenBerg 455
14. Shepard 455
15. Hodnett 452
16. Antill 450
17. Kaeding 450
18. Meyer 448
19. Hannagan 447
20. Kr. Kinser 443
B Scramblers:
21. Mitrisin 436
22. Paulus 431
23. Madsen 426
24. Crocker 426
25. Landis 424
26. Berryhill 417
27. Shaffer 416
28. Feese 415
29. Alley 414
30. Jackson 412
B main (rows 6-10):
31. Lynch 409
32. Blaney 407
33. Brown 405
34. Dewease 401
35. D. Jacobs 400
36. Stewart 400
37. Crockett 398
38. Solwold 397
39. St. Arnold 395
40. D. Moore 394
C Scramblers:
41. Pittman 394
42. Wolfe 392
43. Whitney 389
44. Giannetto 387
45. Tatnell 387
46. Ke. Kinser 385
47. S. Kinser 384
48. Rockhold 384
49. D. Smith 384
50. Chaney 382
Top ten Non-qualifiers
51. Ja. Johnson 380
52. Campbell 379
53. Cram 379
54. Dumesny 378
55. Langerud 376
56. Kertscher 375
57. Attard 375
58. Agan 374
59. Wood 371
60. Spithaler 370