5/24/08
Knoxville Raceway
33 410s
37 360s
410s
Danny Lasoski (30th car out to time) set quick time at 15.142. Dusty Zomer (29th car out) was second quick, followed by Jack Dover (1st), Skip Jackson (31st), Davey Heskin (27th), Bronson Maeschen (12th), Jake Peters (23rd), Clint Garner (22nd), Justin Henderson (25th) and Calvin Landis (9th). The extremely wet surface seemed to yield better times to the late goers, but only 3 tenths of a second separated 1st from 20th. Knoxville received over a 1/2 inch of rain on Saturday morning, and without the work of the best track crew in the world, wouldn't have even got a show in.
Heat one (started): 1. Tony Shilling 47T (1) 2. Randy Anderson 81 (2) 3. Henderson D1 (4) 4. Wayne Johnson 14AJ (3) 5. Lasoski 5 (6) / 6. Heskin 56 (5) 7. Rager Phillips 9 (8) 8. Lynton Jeffrey 12 (9) 9. Josh Schneiderman 49 (7)
Heats were 8-lap mostly single-file affairs with any movement forward coming in the first couple of laps.
Heat two (started): 1. Travis Cram 17G (2) 2. Brian Brown 21 (1) 3. Landis 70 (4) 4. Zomer 5z (6) 5. Toni Lutar 4x (3) / 6. Ryan Anderson 71R (7) 7. Bronson Maeschen 96 (5) 8. Kaylene Verville 01 (8)
Zomer was the early mover into fourth. Cram won by over a full straightaway.
Heat three (started): 1. Brandon Wimmer 7TW (1) 2. Seth Brahmer 13v (2) 3. Brooke Tatnell 11AU (4) 4. Kaley Gharst 7K (3) 5. Peters 57x (5) 6. Jeff Mitrisin 47 (7) / 7. Dover 53 (6) 8. Scott Uttech 3K (8)
Dover got above the cushion's ledge about halfway up the track in the rough stuff and got shuffled back and out of a transfer at the start, allowing Mitrisin to be the only car to transfer from outside the invert in the heats.
Heat four (started): 1. Billy Alley 22 (2) 2. Ricky Logan 10 (1) 3. Mark Dobmeier 13 (4) 4. Dion Hindi 11D (3) 5. Garner 40 (5) / 6. Jackson 2 (6) 7. Mike Moore 69 (7) 8. Bob Weuve 19 (8)
Lap one running order, lap eight running order.
B main (started): 1. Dover (1) 2. Jackson (2) 3. Ry. Anderson (6) 4. Maeschen (4) / 5. Heskin (3) 6. Mitrisin (7) 7. Schneiderman (5) 8. Phillips (9) 9. Uttech (11) 10. Verville (10) 11. Weuve (12) 12. Moore (8) DNS - Jeffrey
Ry. Anderson got a great jump from row three into third and a transfer at the start. Jackson led until being slowed with two to go by a lapped car and surrendering the point to Dover, who rode the rim around Jackson and the lapped car for the win. Jackson turned consistent laps at 15.5 seconds.
A main (started): 1. Henderson (2) 2. Dobmeier (8) 3. Lasoski (6) 4. Landis (1) 5. Garner (3) 6. Peters (4) 7. Zomer (5) 8. Hindi (12) 9. Tatnell (7) 10. Gharst (11) 11. Cram (14) 12. Johnson (9) 13. Jackson (22) 14. Ra. Anderson (13) 15. Alley (16) 16. Lutar (10) 17. Dover (21) 18. Brown (18) 19. Wimmer (19) 20. Brahmer (15) 21. Logan (20) 22. Ry. Anderson (23) 23. Maeschen (24) 24. Shilling (17)
What looked like it could be a one-lane snooze-fest, turned into a 20-lap edge of your seat non-stop classic. Henderson shot out front with Landis tucked in behind. Soon Lasoski was into third. Dobmeier was coming quick and by the time he was in fifth, had a collapsed left side panel on the top wing. At the midway point he easily breezed by Lasoski into third. A lap later, he was under Landis and into second. He relentlessly hunted down Henderson and made several bids at the lead. Henderson did a good job of blocking until with two laps to go, Dobmeier took a brief lead by diving low in turns one and two. His momentum washed him up the track, and Henderson regrabbed the point down the backstretch. He led the rest of the way for his second win in a row, and second in his career at Knoxville. Jakcson moved up nine spots to claim hard-charger honors.
360s
Heat one (started, *qualified for feature): 1. Josh Higday 24 (2*) 2. Ryan Roberts 18 (4*) 3. Tom Lenz 8L (6*) 4. Bryan Dobesh 2 (3*) 5. Pete Crall 1 (7*) 6. Nate Mosher 22N (10) 7. Gregg Bakker 11x (9) 8. Dan Thornburg 57T (1) 9. RJ Johnson 71 (8) 10. Tim Newman 18v (5)
Newman became the only flip victim of the night before a lap could be completed. He was uninjured, but done for the night. Higday led the distance on a heavy, narrow track. Lenz used the second try at a start after Newman's flip to jump into third at the outset and hold onto it.
Heat two (started, *qualified for feature): 1. Brett Mather 54 (1*) 2. Russ Hall 29 (2*) 3. Dave Hill 51 (3*) 4. Matt Moro 2m (5*) 5. Jon Agan 4 (7) 6. John Hall 7H (4) 7. Butch Hanssen 8K (8) 8. Nate Van Haaften 3 (9) 9. Mallory Armfield 5MA (6)
Moro was an early mover by J. Hall for fourth. Agan moved up a bit too, but still too narrow for much action. Hanssen returned to spin laps before next week's Masters in his first Knoxville action in years.
Heat three (started, *qualified for feature): 1. John Kearney 86 (1*) 2. Joe Beaver 53 (8*) 3. Dustin Selvage 7 (4*) 4. Frankie Heimbaugh 04 (5*) 5. Mike Houseman Jr. Y2 (7) 6. Terry Alexander 77 (2) 7. Alan Zoutte 33 (9) 8. Tony Moro 2TM (6) 9. CJ Houseman Y5 (3)
Kearney put one lap in the books with a good lead when CJ Houseman came to a stop bringing out a caution. Beaver had hit the high side of one and two to launch around a bottleneck of cars on the bottom, grabbing second.
Heat four (started, *qualified for feature): 1. Jay Russell 76 (2*) 2. Eric Vanderploeg 10 (1*) 3. Tyler Thompson 48 (6*) 4. Nick Eastin 22x (3) 5. Natalie Sather 94s (5) 6. Jesse Giannetto D1 (9) 7. Cody Petersen 16P (4) 8. Danny Heskin 6 (8) 9. Kyle Bellm 14K (7)
Russell won a side-by-side battle with Vanderploeg on lap one to gain the win, and get a good start to a night away from Eagle Raceway, which was rained out. Thompson held off Eastin for third.
B main (started): 1. Agan (2) 2. Mosher (1) 3. Eastin (4) 4. Houseman Jr. (3) / 5. Sather (6) 6. Giannetto (5) 7. Bakker (7) 8. Zoutte (10) 9. Thornburg (14) 10. Petersen (12) 11. Hanssen (11) 12. Alexander (9) 13. Van Haaften (13) 14. Johnson (17) 15. Heskin (16) 16. Bellm (19) 17. T. Moro (15) 18. J. Hall (8) 19. Armfield (18) DNS - CJ Houseman, Newman
Agan won by more than a straightaway. The heavy conditions in the 10 lapper provided little passing, as evidenced by Giannetto, Sather and Bakker, who won the first two Knoxville A mains going nowhere.
A main (started): 1. Kearney (1) 2. Beaver (6) 3. Roberts (3) 4. Mather (2) 5. R. Hall (9) 6. Thompson (8) 7. Selvage (11) 8. Agan (17) 9. Vanderploeg (10) 10. M. Moro (13) 11. Crall (16) 12. Heimbaugh (14) 13. Lenz (7) 14. Houseman Jr. (20) 15. Mosher (18) 16. Eastin (19) 17. Dobesh (15) 18. D. Hall (12) 19. Russell (4) 20. Higday (5)
Kearney's fate in winning #22 was pretty much sealed when a feature invert of six was drawn, and he was awarded the pole. The 15-lapper had one stoppage. Russell and Higday were battling for third and fourth on lap five when the evidently made contact. Something appeared to break on Higday's car sending him out of control and into the backstretch wall, folding his front end. Russell retired at the same time. At the time, Kearney led Beaver, Mather, Roberts and Thompson back to green flag racing. The last ten laps went non-stop with Roberts working around Mather for third. and R. Hall continuing his good runs into the top five. Agan was the biggest mover in the event, and was the hard-charger.