Tony Stewart won the $26,000 Rayce Rudeen Foundation race at 34 Raceway Sunday
7/28/19
34 Raceway
West Burlington, IA
All Star Circuit of Ch ampions
Rayce Rudeen Foundation Event $26,000 to win
34 cars
Aaron Reutzel (3rd car out to time) set the standard in qualifying at 12.491 seconds on the 3/8-mile. Christopher Bell (10th car out) was second quick, followed by Cory Eliason (5th), Rico Abreu (23rd), Sam Hafertepe Jr. (7th), Austin McCarl (4th), Paul Nienhiser (2nd), James McFadden (21st), Tony Stewart (19th) and Brian Brown (1st). Trey Starks tipped over in turn four on his first lap and failed to get a time in. Reutzel, Bell, Abreu and Brock Zearfoss set quick time in their respective heat groups.
Heat one (started): 1. Eliason 26 (3) 2. A. McCarl 2KS (1) 3. Hafertepe Jr. 15H (2) 4. Reutzel 87 (4) 5. Brown 21 (6) / 6. Thomas Kennedy 21K (7) 7. Nienhiser 9x (5) 8. Andrew Schuerle 2AU (9) 9. Mason Daniel 33m (8)
8 lap heats took the top five to the A and the top two to the Dash. Nienhiser shot over the top of turn one on the first try at green, and restarted at the tail. A. McCarl led early over Hafertepe and Eliason. Eliason claimed second on lap two, and tracked down the leader. He would perform a slider on A. McCarl on the last lap to win it.
Heat two (started): 1. Dale Blaney 11 (2) 2. Bell 39 (4) 3. Lynton Jeffrey 83 (1) 4. Terry McCarl 4 (3) 5. Wayne Johnson 2c (5) / 6. Gerard McIntyre Jr. 07 (6) 7. Rusty Hickman A45 (8) 8. Chris Martin 44 (7) 9. Jeff Swindell 7s (9)
Blaney led the distance. Bell passed Jeffrey for second on lap two. Coming for the checkered, Hickman contacted Swindell, who broke his front end.
Heat three (started): 1. Gee 99 (1) 2. Stewart 14 (2) 3. McFadden 9 (3) 4. Abreu 24 (4) 5. Josh Schneiderman 49 (7) / 6. Greg Wilson w20 (5) 7. Marcus Dumesny 14m (6) 8. Matt Krieger 51J (8)
Gee led wire to wire. Abreu took the final transfer spot from Dumesny on lap two, before Dumesny flew over the turn one berm to bring the caution. Schneiderman used the restart to get by Wilson for the final transfer.
Heat four (started): 1. Brock Zearfoss 70 (4) 2. Shane Golobic 17w (1) 3. Justin Peck 70x (3) 4. Kerry Madsen 2m (5) 5. Parker Price-Miller 96 (2) / 6. Trey Starks 44s (8) 7. Paul McMahan 13 (6) 8. George Hobaugh Jr. 40 (7)
Golobic led Zearfoss and Peck early. Madsen took fourth from Price-Miller on lap three. Zearfoss reeled in Golobic and squeezed between him and the wall in the last corner to win.
Dash one (started): 1. Abreu (2) 2. Blaney (3) 3. Eliason (4) 4. Reutzel (1) 5. Zearfoss (5)
4-lap Dashes determined the starters in the first five rows. Reutzel led lap one and then spun in turn two. Abreu assumed the lead and won. Reutzel passed Zearfoss on the last lap for fourth.
Dash two (started): 1. Stewart (4) 2. A. McCarl (2) 3. Gee (3) 4. Golobic (1) 5. Bell (5)
McCarl led early, but Stewart was on the move, picking off Golobic for second on lap two, and then getting McCarl on the white flag lap to take the win.
B main (started): 1. Nienhiser (1) 2. Wilson (3) 3. McIntyre Jr. (4) 4. Dumesny (6) / 5. Schuerle (8) 6. Daniel (11) 7. Kennedy (2) 8. Hobaugh (9) 9. Martin (13) 10. Krieger (10) 11. Swindell (12) 12. Hickman (7) 13. Starks (5) DNS – McMahan
Starks jumped the turn one cushion and flipped a second time, ending a tough night for him. Nienhiser was the class of the field, leading the 12-lapper throughout. Hickman brought the only other caution when he stopped afer a lap was complete. Schuerle climbed to fifth and tried to track down Dumesny, but ended up one spot out.
A main (started): 1. Stewart (2) 2. Abreu (1) 3. Bell (10) 4. Reutzel (7) 5. Eliason (5) 6. McFadden (12) 7. Blaney (3) 8. Gee (6) 9. Peck (14) 10. A. McCarl (4) 11. Zearfoss (9) 12. Madsen (16) 13. Hafertepe (11) 14. Golobic (8) 15. Brown (17) 16. Price-Miller (19) 17. T. McCarl (15) 18. Nienhiser (21) 19. McMahan (25, prov.) 20. Jeffrey (13) 21. McIntyre Jr. (23) 22. Wilson (22) 23. Schneiderman (20) 24. Johnson (18) 25. Dumesny (24)
Dumesny came to a stop before a lap could be completed in the 30-lapper. Abreu shot out to the lead at the green, ahead of Blaney and Stewart. Reutzel was into fourth by lap two, and Stewart took second from Blaney on lap four. A second caution came out for Dumesny, who went pitside on lap four. Eliason jumped up to fourth on the restart. Abreu entered traffic on lap ten. The next time around, he slipped over the top of turn two, and by the time he came back on track, Stewart was by him for the lead. Reutzel was resurging, and climbed to third by lap 14. The next circuit saw Eliason move into fourth, chased by Bell, who was coming. Bell took fourth from Eliason on lap 18, and motored by Reutzel when he bobbled on lap 19, gaining third. As rubber down conditions set in, Bell and Abreu slid each other back and forth for second in a great battle, while Stewart pulled away to his second All Star feature of the year. Bell was the hard-charger.