8/30/08
Knoxville Raceway
26 410s
32 360s
410s
Bronson Maeschen (8th car out to time) posted the quick time of the night at 14.924 seconds. Dusty Zomer (1st car out) was second quick, followed by Billy Alley (7th), Danny Lasoski (25th), Davey Heskin (2nd), Mark Dobmeier (24th), Justin Henderson (12th), Don Droud Jr. (14th), Ryan Anderson (4th) and Dion Hindi (5th).
Heat one (started): 1. Calvin Landis 70 (2) 2. Henderson 17G (4) 3. Seth Brahmer 13v (1) 4. Lasoski 33 (5) 5. Hindi 11D (3) 6. Maeschen 96 (6) 7. Jake Peters 57x (8) 8. Tony Shilling 47T (7) DNS - Wayne Johnson 14AJ
Landis and Brahmer raced side by side for the first two laps before Landis took command for good in the 8-lapper. Henderson ran strong and grabbed second with two to go.
Heat two (started): 1. Josh Schneiderman 49 (2) 2. Droud Jr. 47 (4) 3. Lynton Jeffrey 12 (1) 4. Zomer 5z (6) 5. Skip Jackson 2 (3) 6. Heskin 56 (5) 7. Ricky Logan 10 (7) 8. Bob Weuve 19 (8) 9. John VanDenBerg 1 (9)
Schneiderman led a mostly single-file affair from flag to flag.
Heat three (started): 1. Kaley Gharst 81 (1) 2. Brian Brown 21 (2) 3. Alley 22 (6) 4. Brooke Tatnell 5 (3) 5. Dobmeier 13 (5) 6. Justin Zimmerman 7K (7) 7. Anderson 71R (4) 8. Rager Phillips 9 (8)
Brown grabbed the lead on lap one, but Gharst came back on the bottom on turn two and slid in front to lead the rest of the way. Alley was the prime mover.
A main (started): 1. Dobmeier (1) 2. Lasoski (3) 3. Zomer (5) 4. Droud Jr. (8) 5. Hindi (9) 6. Maeschen (6) 7. Brown (14) 8. Tatnell (11) 9. Zimmerman (18) 10. Gharst (17) 11. Landis (12) 12. Schneiderman (13) 13. Jackson (10) 14. Phillips (22) 15. Peters (20) 16. Brahmer (15) 17. Weuve (21) 18. Alley (4) 19. Henderson (7) 20. Jeffrey (16) 21. Logan (19) 22. Heskin (2) 23. Shilling (23) 24. VanDenBerg (24) DNS - Johnson, Anderson
Dobmeier snagged the early lead in the 25 lapper. Alley worked by Heskin into second and the lead pair headed for traffic. Dobmeier had over a straightaway lead by the time he hit traffic. At the halfway point, he was slowed in lapping Phillips, and Alley closed in. Alley was three car lengths behind on lap 17 when Heskin, who was running a strong third, broke and headed straight into the turn one fence, flipping end over end. He was unhurt. Dobmeier led Alley, Zomer, Lasoski and Droud Jr. back to green flag racing on the restart. With clean air in front of him, Dobmeier took off again. Alley was still in second on lap 23, when a left rear appeared to blow sending him into the turn one wall. He was uninjured. In spinning sideways to avoid Alley, Henderson tipped over and was done. The three lap dash saw Dobmeier leading Zomer, Lasoski, Droud Jr. and Hindi back to green flag racing. Lasoski found his way by Zomer for second on the restart, but had nothing for Dobmeier, who won his fourth feature in a row, 20th of the season, 2nd of the season at Knoxville and fifth overall, and $4,000. Zimmerman was the hard-charger. Lasoski won his 8th track championship, with Guy Forbrook earning his 9th owners' championship with his #5.
360s
Heat one (started, *qualified for feature): 1. Mike Houseman Jr. Y2 (1*) 2. Brett Mather 54 (3*) 3. Josh Higday 10H (8*) 4. Josh Padellford 34 (6*) 5. Pete Crall 1 (4) 6. Alan Zoutte 33 (7) 7. Dan Thornburg 57T (2) 8. Chad Huston 7c (5)
Houseman Jr. led the 7-lap distance. Higday was the prime mover, moving up nicely to third. Padellford ran well to qualify for his first career feature.
Heat two (started, *qualified for feature): 1. Dennis Moore Jr. 2 (1*) 2. Dave Hall 51 (2*) 3. Jesse Giannetto D1 (3*) 4. Russ Hall 29 (4*) 5. Jon Agan 4 (6) 6. Larry Pinegar II 11L (8) 7. Matt Moro 2m (7) 8. Tyler Thompson 48 (5)
Moore Jr. looked flawless in his first 2008 action of any kind. This heat was stout from front to back, resulting in not much movement forward. Moro mired himself back in the B, and would have to go to work to ensure a 360 title.
Heat three (started, *qualified for feature): 1. John Kearney 86 (2*) 2. Natalie Sather 94s (1*) 3. Clint Garner 40 (8*) 4. Rick Ideus 5 (4*) 5. Joe Beaver 53 (5) 6. Dustin Selvage 7 (7) 7. Ricky Montgomery 9m (3) 8. RJ Johnson 71 (6)
Kearney grabbed the early lead from a determined Sather and pulled away the rest of the way. Garner moved from 8th to 3rd in a nice run. Beaver dogged Ideus the last few laps, but came up short of what would be a feature transfer.
Heat four (started, *qualified for feature): 1. Tom Lenz 8L (1*) 2. Tasker Phillips 7P (3*) 3. Gregg Bakker 11x (8*) 4. Jeff Mitrisiin 10 (6*) 5. John Hall 7H (4) 6. Danny Heskin 6 (2) 7. Nate Van Haaften 3 (7) 8. Rod Richards 12 (5)
Lenz led the distance. Bakker was the prime mover, becoming the third driver to surge from 8th to 3rd in the heats.
B main (started): 1. Agan (1) 2. Pinegar II (3) 3. Beaver (4) 4. Moro (10) / 5. Crall (2) 6. Selvage (7) 7. Montgomery (11) 8. Van Haaften (12) 9. Zoutte (6) 10. Thompson (14) 11. Thornburg (9) 12. Johnson (13) 13. Heskin (12) 14. Richards (15) 15. J. Hall (5) DNS - Huston
Agan led the non-stop 10-lapper for the distance, but all eyes were on Moro. He needed to secure an A main spot. At the halfway mark, he was in sixth, but needed to more spots. He was fifth with three to go, and reeling in Crall. On the last lap, he shot on the bottom of turns one and two to take the spot, and held on for the final transfer.
A main (started): 1. Kearney (5) 2. Giannetto (13) 3. Higday (6) 4. Moore Jr. (1) 5. Beaver (19) 6. Mather (8) 7. Mitrisin (14) 8. Moro (20) 9. R. Hall (15) 10. Sather (11) 11. Ideus (16) 12. Houseman Jr. (2) 13. Garner (4) 14. Agan (17) 15. Phillips (9) 16. Pinegar II (18) 17. D. Hall (10) 18. Padellford (12) 19. Bakker (3) 20. Lenz (7)
Moore Jr. took the early lead in a 20-lapper that saw its share of carnage. Garner rode the high side in pursuit and took his first turn at the point on lap three. Moro needed at least a twelfth place finish to clinch the track championship and began his pursuit. Bakker, who entered the night 2nd in points, made that a moot point on lap seven, when it appeared he shredded a left rear tire and backed hard into the turn one wall. He bounced off and collected Lenz, who got upside down. They were done, but unhurt. Garner led Higday, Moore Jr., Kearney and Houseman Jr. back to green flag racing. Higday shot to the point, and only one lap was put in the books before contact between Phillips and Pinegar II shot the latter hard into the frontstretch wall, causing damage to the catchfence. The incident also collected Padellford and D. Hall who got upside down. No one was seriously injured. Agan had surged to sixth for the restart, but spun in turn two, collecting R. Hall. Agan got upside down, ending his good run. R. Hall restarted. Higday led Garner, Moore Jr., Kearney and Houseman Jr. back to green and the race settled in a bit. Higday built a straightaway lead, but Garner was stronger as the race went on. On lap 17, he passed Higday back for the lead. Exactly one lap later, smoke appeared and he coasted to a stop in turn two. Now Higday assumed the lead ahead of Kearney, Giannetto, Moore Jr. and Houseman Jr. Houseman Jr. coasted to the pits shortly thereafter, ending a good run. Kearney took the lead roaring around the cushion of turns one and two on the restart and never looked back to win for his 23rd (and last according to him) win of his career at Knoxville (2nd all-time). Moro was the hard-charger, and won his first track title. Unofficially, Giannetto won the owners' championship by a mere one point with his second place effort!