5/21/09
Hagerstown Speedway
Hagerstown, MD
Keystone Cup Night #2
30 cars
Stevie Smith (2nd car out to time) set quick time on the half-mile at 15.253 seconds, about three-tenths off Mark Kinser's ten year old record. Brian Leppo (5th car out) was second quick, followed by Keith Kauffman (4th), Todd Shaffer (17th), Cody Darrah (8th), whose motor stumbled and required a change before the heat, Fred Rahmer (18th), Brooke Tatnell (13th), Mike Wagner (21st), Daryn Pittman (29th) and Mark Smith (12th). The track went away a couple of tenths by the end of qualifying.
Heat one (started): 1. Doug Esh 39 (1) 2. Adam Wilt 15 (2) 3. Tatnell 21AU (4) 4. S. Smith 1 (6) 5. M. Smith 7m (3) 6. Shaffer 88 (5) / 7. Alan Krimes 87 (7) 8. Cale Grubb 19 (8) 9. Craig Robinson 16 (9) DNS - Mike Heckman 8H
Esh led flag to flag in the 10-lapper. S. Smith made the only pass of the event, getting by M. Smith at the halfway point. Krimes pulled a half a car length from the final transfer in the late stages.
Heat two (started): 1. Aaron Ott 25o (2) 2. Lance Dewease 30c (1) 3. Greg Hodnett 22 (3) 4. Darrah 89 (5) 5. Leppo 71 (6) 6. Chad Layton 55L (7) / 7. Adam Lawrence 5 (8) 8. Bob Howard 49 (9) 9. Pat Cooper 26 (10) 10. Mike Wagner 55 (4)
Dewease took off with Ott in tow. Wagner was running third on the second lap when he lost power and pulled in. Ott measured Dewease late and roared around him coming out of turn two on the last lap for the win.
Heat three (started): 1. Pittman 25 (4) 2. Mike Erdley 11 (1) 3. Justin Henderson 22z (3) 4. Pat Cannon 17 (2) 5. Rahmer 51 (5) 6. Kauffman 7 (6) / 7. Brent Marks 19m (9) 8. TJ Winegardner Jr. 11T (7) 9. Joey Hershey 44 (8) 10. Brian Ehrenzeller 33 (10)
Erdley jumped out early on the bottom of the track, but Pittman was fast on the high side, taking the lead on lap seven. Henderson held off Rahmer at the halfway point for fourth and then snuck under Cannon for third. Kauffman lost the last transfer with a tough start, but regained it.
B main (started): 1. Krimes (2) 2. Marks (5) 3. Grubb (4) 4. Winegardner (1) 5. Lawrence (3) 6. Wagner (11) / 7. Hershey (6) 8. Howard (8) 9. Cooper (7) 10. Robinson (10) 11. Ehrenzeller (9)
Krimes: He Gone. Meanwhile, Wagner was late to staging for the 10-lapper after mechanical work from the heat and had to start at the rear instead of the pole.
A main (started): 1. S. Smith (4) 2. Rahmer (6) 3. Darrah (5) 4. Pittman (8) 5. Shaffer (1) 6. Leppo (3) 7. Krimes (18) 8. Dewease (16) 9. Kauffman (2) 10. Hodnett (10) 11. Erdley (17) 12. M. Smith (9) 13. Tatnell (7) 14. Wagner (24) 15. Henderson (11) 16. Layton (19) 17. Cannon (14) 18. Lawrence (23) 19. Marks (21) 20. Wilt (12) 21. Ott (13) 22. Esh (15) 23. Grubb (20) 24. Winegardner (22)
Kauffman shot out to the early lead in the 30-lapper. S. Smith tracked him down and took the point by lap 7. On lap 12, Rahmer was on the move, rolling into second. On the same lap, Darrah passed Shaffer for fourth. Darrah would move by Kauffman into third on lap seven. Rahmer followed the leader as the two pulled away from the pack in traffic. On lap 23, Rahmer made a pass on the high side after he and S. Smith dueled for several laps. By lap 26, Rahmer had two lapped cars between himself and second when red flag conditions brought the only stoppage. An incident involving Ott, who had been fast early, and Esh, who ended up tipped over, stopped things. After a closed red, Rahmer had a two-car buffer between himself and S. Smith with two to go, but couldn't hold it. Smith found his way by on lap 27 to garner the $5,000 win. Pittman was a late mover, moving from seventh to fourth after the restart. Krimes was the hard-charger, moving up 11 spots.