6/27/06
Muskingum County Speedway
Zanesville, OH
Ohio Speedweek Round 2
All Stars
38 cars
Dale Blaney (9th car out to time) shaved almost .4 seconds off of Joey Saldana’s seven year old track record in time trials with a lap of 12.899 seconds on the semi-banked 3/8 mile surface. Paul McMahan (25th car out) was second quick, followed by Brock Mayes (12th), Ed Lynch Jr. (20th), Rob Chaney (3rd), Brian Paulus (22nd), Ricky Stenhouse Jr. (30th), Greg Wilson (29th), Tim Hunter (36th) and Chad Blonde (1st). Sprinkles delayed the night getting underway, but the track held during time trials pretty well. Dean Jacobs motor problems forced him to scratch for the night. Chaney was in the Blaney 10 with an interesting front end on the car resembling a supermodified.
Heat one (started): 1. Jason Meyers 14 (2) 2. Blaney 2 (6) 3. Hunter 2H (4) 4. Chaney 10B (5) 5. Danny Smith 4 (7) / 6. Todd Kane 78 (8) 7. Todd King 97 (9) 8. Alex Bliesner 45x (10) 9. Barry Ruble 63 (1) 10. Andrew Palker K (3)
Palker surrendered his 3rd starting spot by getting over the berm in staging and needing a second push. Meyers shot out to an early lead in the 10 lapper. Bliesner got over the turn one berm and came to a stop bringing caution. At the time, Meyers led Hunter, Chaney, Blaney and D. Smith back to green. Palker worked his way up to sixth and challenged for a transfer until getting over the berm for a second time on lap eight.
Meyers led Hunter and Blaney who were in a battle, Chaney and D. Smith back to green. Blaney got by Hunter and challenged Meyers at the line, just coming short of the win.
Heat two (started): 1. Blonde 5B (4) 2. Ron Blair 35 (2) 3. McMahan 20 (6) 4. Neil Shepherd 4N (1) 5. Paulus 28 (5) / 6. Kevin Huntley 70 (3) 7. Ben Gregg 22B (8) 8. Chuck Waddell 22w (9) 9. David Harrison 10 (7) DNS – Dean Jacobs 29
Blair grabbed the early advantage and held it until Blonde slid under him on lap nine. Harrison exited on lap nine. Great battles between Shepherd and both McMahan and Paulus.
Heat three (started): 1. Paul May 71m (3) 2. Stenhouse 40R (5) 3. Craig Mintz 8s (2) 4. Jimmy Stinson 84 (1) 5. Mayes 11B (6) / 6. Keith Baxter 1B (7) 7. James Mosher 12m (9) 8. Brandon Martin 11 (8) 9. Brandon Wimmer 0 (4)
Mintz jumped out to the point, but was immediately under siege from May, who overtook him on lap six. Mosher spun on lap eight, bringing caution.
Blonde led Mintz, Stinson, Stenhouse and Mayes at the time. One more lap was in the books when Wimmer spun. Stenhouse worked around Stinson and then took Mintz in turn four on the last go-around in exciting fashion.
Heat four (started): 1. Jamie Martin 15m (2) 2. Kelly Kinser 4K (4) 3. Lynch 2L (6) 4. Wilson w20 (5) 5. Bobby Clark 8 (7) / 6. Nick Naber 6N (3) 7. Aaron Middaugh 91 (8) 8. Paul Tish 4c (9) 9. Scott Reilly 18 (1)
Martin led flag to flag. Naber lost a nosewing panel on lap five bringing a caution and sending him from fifth and a transfer to the rear. Martin led Kinser, Lynch, Wilson and Reilly back to green. Clark would get by the Aussie for the final transfer.
Dash (started): 1. McMahan (1) 2. Blaney (2) 3. Chaney (4) 4. Mayes (3) 5. Wilson (6) 6. Stenhouse (5)
McMahan led the four lap event for the duration. Chaney and Mayes put on the best show in a battle for third.
B main (started): 1. Huntley (3) 2. Naber (4) 3. Kane (7) 4. B. Martin
(10) / 5. Reilly (6) 6. Baxter (8) 7. Wimmer (1) 8. Ruble (5) 9. Tish (16) 10. Gregg (10) 11. Waddell (14) 12. Mosher (13) 13. Palker (2) 14. Bliesner (15) 15. Middaugh (12) 16. King (11) DNS – Harrison, Jacobs
Wimmer grabbed an early lead in the 15 lapper before Mosher slowed on lap two. Wimmer led Palker, Naber, Huntley and Reilly back to green. Reilly got over the berm on the restart surrendering fifth. Two laps later, Gregg spun bringing yellow again. Now Wimmer led Palker, Naber, Huntley and Kane. Middaugh spun on the restart. On lap six, Palker took the point and began to leave the pack behind. With just two laps to go, Palker spun by himself in turn two on the dry surface ending a great run.
Wimmer led Huntley, Naber, Kane and a surging Martin back to a green, white, checker finish. Wimmer slowed in turn three coming for the checker, allowing the four behind him to transfer, including winner, Huntley.
A main (started): 1. Blaney (6) 2. Lynch (3) 3. Mayes (4) 4. Wilson (8) 5. Paulus (1) 6. May (13) 7. Huntley (12) 8. Kinser (11) 9. Clark (22) 10. Stenhouse (7) 11. Meyers (15) 12. B. Martin (24) 13. Stinson (20) 14. Smith (21) 15. Hunter (9) 16. Shepherd (19) 17. Blair (16) 18. Kane (23) 19. J. Martin (18) 20. Mintz (17) 21. McMahan (5) 22. Chaney (2) 23. Blonde (10) 24. Naber (14)
Chaney took the point early before losing it to Lynch on lap two of the 40 lapper. Contact between Naber and another machine on lap three brought caution and sent Naber pitside with frontend problems. On the restart second running Chaney spun and collected 6th running Blonde, taking both out of the race. Now Lynch led Mayes, Paulus, Blaney and McMahan back to green. Lynch checked out in another zip code before a lap ten stoppage for a 5th running McMahan, who appeared to have rear end woes. Now Lynch’s lead came over Mayes, Paulus, Blaney and a surging Huntley. Lynch dominated the next ten circuits before J. Martin went over the turn one berm. Lynch’s lead now was over dueling Mayes and Blaney, Paulus and Wilson. The remaining half of the race went non-stop as Lynch again built what seemed to be an unbeatable advantage. Blaney thought otherwise and began to gain ground on lap 35 when Lynch approached traffic. He made his exciting winning move on lap 37 and never looked back. Through the dust clouds, Clark was spotted as the hard-charger, moving up 13 spots.