10/29/10
I-30 Speedway
Little Rock, AR
Short Track Nationals Night #2
70 cars
Heat one (started): 1. Tim Crawley 88 (6) 2. Justin Sturch 9 (4) 3. Lane Whittington 9w (3) 4. Brandon Corn 30 (7) 5. Tyler Blank 75 (8) 6. Chris Morgan 7HX (1) 7. Brad Bowden 17BB (2) 8. Wade Human 7w (5)
Human flipped off of turn two at the drop of the green in the 10-lapper and was done for the night. Morgan shot out to an early lead before Bowden got over the berm on turn two. The restart saw Morgan ahead of Sturch, Crawley, Whittington and Corn. Crawley shot from third to the lead on the restart, and two laps later, Whittington did a wheelie in turn one and landed on the back of the Morgan machine. Morgan would restart, but get over the berm on the last lap.
Heat two (started): 1. Randy Hannagan 22H (2) 2. Ricky Stenhouse Jr. 141 (6) 3. Chris Sweeney 93s (1) 4. Danny Lasoski 01 (8) 5. Mark Shirshekan 3m (5) 6. Jon Stinson 26s (3) 7. Kent Buckley 87B (4) 8. Rick Pringle 38 (7)
After Hannagan took the lead, Shirshekan did a 360 spin and stopped with a lap in the books. Hannagan led Sweeney, Buckley, Stenhouse and Lasoski on the restart. Stenhouse made quick work of Sweeney, but Hannagan won it going away.
Heat three (started): 1. Zach Pringle 8z (1) 2. Chad Kemenah 6K (5) 3. Taylor Velasquez 21V (3) 4. Shane Stewart 57 (7) 5. Kyle Larson 75L (8) 6. Andrew Marshala 87A (2) 7. Mark Huddleston 33 (6) 8. Donnie Ray Crawford 55c (4)
Pringle led the distance. The only caution came when Crawford went over the top of turn two to avoid a Stewart slider in a battle for fourth.
Heat four (started): 1. Danny Wood 94 (1) 2. Jason Sides 7s (5) 3. Brian Brown 21 (6) 4. Ricky Logan 10a (3) 5. Lee Sowell 51s (4) 6. Casey Rowland c4 (2) 7. Zach Chappell 50z (8) 8. Marty Stanford 59 (7)
Wood shot into the lead as Brown made a move around Logan and Sowell for second. A Chappell spin on lap seven set up a restart that saw Wood leading Brown, Sides, Logan and Sowell. Sides used the restart to shoot under Brown for second.
Heat five (started): 1. Justin Carver 24 (5) 2. Wade Oliver 58 (4) 3. Robbie Standridge 22s (1) 4. Sheldon Barksdale 20s (8) 5. Brandon Schure 21TX (2) 6. Brad Welborn 17w (3) 7. Jimmy Brooks 17G (7) 8. Dave Glennon 5 (6)
Standridge led Oliver early before a lap three spin by Welborn. Carver restarted third, and had the lead by lap five in a three-wide battle with Standridge and Oliver.
Heat six (started): 1. Ernie Ainsworth 40 (1) 2. Jerry Bell 85 (3) 3. Kyle Bellm 14K (5) 4. Jessica Zemken 14 (8) 5. Aaron Berryhill 97B (7) 6. Klint Angelette 19 (2) 7. AG Rains 3 (4) 8. Darren Long 3G (6)
Before a lap could be completed, three cars were eliminated when Angelette spun in front of Rains and Long, who sustained damage. Ainsworth led when the green fell and won by a comfortable margin.
Heat seven (started): 1. Matt Covington 95 (2) 2. Jeff Swindell 90 (4) 3. Cody Gardner 1G (6) 4. Garry Lee Maier 11x (3) 5. Tommy Bryant 14E (7) 6. Jack Dover 53 (5) 7. Junior Jenkins 40J (1) DNS - Charles Tankersley 53T
Coving led before Maier spun while running fourth on lap three. Bryant was charging before a 360 spin and contact with Jenkins sent him to the back. Gardner came on strong to finish third at the checkers.
Heat eight (started): 1. Nic Jenkins 1H (1) 2. Jason Solwold 55s (2) 3. Brandon Wimmer 7TW (6) 4. Dustin Morgan 93 (7) 5. Miranda Arnold 5m (4) 6. Gary Floyd 58F (3) 7. Ryan Bickett 17B (5)
13 year old Jenkins held of Solwold and Wimmer in a tight battle in the non-stop heat.
Heat nine (started): 1. Brooke Tatnell 3x (1) 2. Brad Sweet 49 (5) 3. Tim Kaeding 29 (7) 4. Eric Sandage 60 (4) 5. Ben Wagoner 84 (6) 6. Andy Huston 40H (2) 7. Chad Corken 11xx (3)
Tatnell led the distance. When Huston stopped on lap three after going over the berm, Tatnell led Sandage, Sweet, Kaeding and Wagoner back to green. Sweet and Kaeding shot by for second and third.
Qualifier one (started, *qualified for feature): 1. Lasoski (2*) 2. Sweet (5*) 3. Z. Pringle (3*) 4. Crawley (6*) 5. Dover (10) 6. Berryhill (8) 7. Bowden (13) 8. Glennon (14) 9. Larson (7) 10. Huddleston (12) 11. Oliver (4) 12. Corn (1) 13. Wagoner (9) 14. Marshala (11)
Heat points were combined with those from the Qualifiers which inverted the top six in heat points to form the 20-car field for the A main. Corn spun in front of the field to start this one, collecting Marshala and Wagoner who suffered front end damage. Lasoski shot out to a lead after inheriting the pole and never looked back. Sweet did well to move up, as did Larson, who was challenging Crawley for fourth on the white flag lap when he went over the top of turn two.
Qualifier two (started, *qualified for feature): 1. Wood (3*) 2. Kaeding (5*) 3. J. Swindell (4*) 4. Carver (6*) 5. S. Stewart (1) 6. Shirshekan (9) 7. Bryant (8) 8. Chappell (10) 9. Barksdale (2) 10. Whittington (7) 11. R. Pringle (13) 12. Rowland (11) 13. Bickett (12) 14. Long (14)
Barksdale contacted pole-sitter, S. Stewart before the green, sending the 57 sideways. Whittington got sideways in one in an incident that collected R. Pringle, Rowland, and Bickett, who was done. Wood shot out to the lead when the race finally went green. Bryant spun on lap two bringing caution. Wood led Kaeding, Barksdale, J. Swindell and Carver on the restart. J. Swindell and Carver moved into third and fourth to secure A main spots with the last lap going green with Rowland sideways in turn four.
Qualifier three (started, *qualified for feature): 1. Brown (4*) 2. Morgan (1*) 3. Sandage (8*) 4. Zemken (2) 5. Stenhouse Jr. (6*) 6. Hannagan (5) 7. Ainsworth (3) 8. Sowell (9) 9. Stinson (10) 10. Buckley (12) 11. Stanford (13) 12. Angelette (11) 13. Velasquez (7) DNS - Human
Morgan led lap one, but Brown shot around on the high side of four to complete lap two and won going away. An Angelette spin on lap two was the only thing to slow the event. Sandage moved up nicely from row four to earn an A main transfer.
Qualifier four (started, *qualified for feature): 1. Solwold (1*) 2. Kemenah (6*) 3. Logan (8*) 4. Gardner (4*) 5. Bell (2) 6. Rains (12) 7. Covington (5) 8. Welborn (10) 9. M. Arnold (9) 10. Crawford (14) 11. Sweeney (7) 12. Huston (11) 13. Brooks (13) 14. N. Jenkins (3)
Solwold led an event that went non-stop until N. Jenkins spun with two to go. Gardner tested a tough cushion on both ends to hold down fourth. Logan took advantage of the late caution to get by Bell for third and earn a transfer spot.
Qualifier five (started, qualified for feature): 1. Wimmer (4*) 2. Bellm (2*) 3. Tatnell (1*) 4. Sides (6*) 5. Standridge (5) 6. Sturch (3) 7. Schure (7) 8. Maier (8) 9. C. Morgan (9) 10. Floyd (10) 11. Corken (12) 12. J. Jenkins (11) DNS - Blank, Charles Tankersley
Bellm led early with Wimmer getting by Tatnell for second. J. Jenkins went over the turn four berm on lap four with Bellm leading Wimmer, Tatnell, Sides and Sturch. Wimmer dogged Bellm until taking the lead on lap 10.
A main (started): 1. Sweet (2) 2. Wimmer (4) 3. Kemenah (1) / 4. Crawley (5) 5. Sides (10) 6. Carver (8) 7. Lasoski (9) 8. Brown (3) 9. Wood (7) 10. Kaeding (6) 11. Logan (16) 12. Solwold (12) 13. J. Swindell (11) 14. Stenhouse Jr. (14) 15. Sandage (13) 16. Bellm (15) 17. Z. Pringle (17) 18. Tatnell (19) 19. Morgan (18) 20. Gardner (20)
Sweet shot out to an early lead ahead of Kemenah and Wimmer in the non-stop 25-lapper. Sweet and Wimmer worked a line through the middle that developed rubber. Wimmer raced hard with Kemenah before getting by him around the halfway point and pursuing Sweet. Crawley came on late to challenge Kemenah and got by him for the third transfer spot. Kemenah came back to take the spot and the two swapped it again the last few laps before Kemenah shut the door on the white flag lap, giving the top six spots in Saturday's finale to 410 regulars.