All Star Circuit of Champions (32 Cars)

A-Main  (40 Laps) 1. 2-Dale Blaney[2]; 2. 93-Sheldon Haudenschild[9]; 3. 66-Randy Hannagan[6]; 4.\83-Tim Shaffer[1]; 5. O9-Craig Mintz[16]; 6. 4-Danny Smith[7]; 7. 40-Caleb Helms[3]; 8. 9X-Brandon Martin[20]; 9. 7K-Chad Blonde[23]; 10. 29-Cole Duncan[11]; 11. 24H-Bryan Sebetto[18]; 12. 5R-Byron Reed[13]; 13. 40G-Caleb Griffith[22]; 14. O-Justin Henderson[17]; 15. 45-Danny Holtgraver[15]; 16. 35-Stuart Brubaker[5]; 17. 2M-Dustin Daggett[10]; 18. 55-Brad Bowman[24]; 19. 99-Brady Bacon[12]; 20. 54-Cap Henry[4]; 21. 5T-Travis Philo[19]; 22. 9Z-Duane Zablocki[21]; 23. 9B-Jamie Barnes[14]; 24. 97-Phil Gressman[8]

Qualifying - Kistler Engines
1. 54-Cap Henry, 12.705; 2. 35-Stuart Brubaker, 12.908; 3. 2-Dale Blaney, 12.942; 4. 66-Randy Hannagan, 12.962; 5. 83-Tim Shaffer, 12.974; 6. 29-Cole Duncan, 12.992; 7. 40-Caleb Helms, 12.996; 8. 99-Brady Bacon, 13.023; 9. 4-Danny Smith, 13.082; 10. 97-Phil Gressman, 13.083; 11. 93-Sheldon Haudenschild, 13.103; 12. 2M-Dustin Daggett, 13.108; 13. 5R-Byron Reed, 13.141; 14. 9B-Jamie Barnes, 13.165; 15. 53-D.J. Foos, 13.219; 16. 45-Danny Holtgraver, 13.259; 17. O9-Craig Mintz, 13.274; 18. 94-Jack Sodeman Jr., 13.353; 19. O-Justin Henderson, 13.372; 20. 24H-Bryan Sebetto, 13.381; 21. 57X-Andrew Palker, 13.381; 22. 5T-Travis Philo, 13.403; 23. 9X-Brandon Martin, 13.429; 24. 9Z-Duane Zablocki, 13.446; 25. 27P-Paige Polyak, 13.467; 26. 40G-Caleb Griffith, 13.483; 27. 7K-Chad Blonde, 13.493; 28. 55-Brad Bowman, 13.539; 29. 80-Trey Gustin, 13.581; 30. 46AU-Stuart Williams, 13.630; 31. 16-Chris Andrews, 13.674; 32. 7-Troy Kigan, 99.999
 
Heat 1 -(10 Laps - Top 5 finishers transfer to the A-feature) 1. O9-Craig Mintz[2]; 2. 54-Cap Henry[6] ; 3. 83-Tim Shaffer[5] ; 4. 4-Danny Smith[4] ; 5. 5R-Byron Reed[3] ; 6. 80-Trey Gustin[8] ; 7. 27P-Paige Polyak[7] ; 8. 57X-Andrew Palker[1]
 
Heat 2 -1. 9B-Jamie Barnes[3] ; 2. 97-Phil Gressman[4] ; 3. 40G-Caleb Griffith[7];4. 35-Stuart Brubaker[6] ; 5. 5T-Travis Philo[1] ; 6. 46AU-Stuart Williams[8] ; 7. 29-Cole Duncan[5] ; 8. 94-Jack Sodeman Jr.[2]
 
Heat 3 - 1. O-Justin Henderson[2] ; 2. 93-Sheldon Haudenschild[4] ; 3. 2-Dale Blaney[6] ; 4. 7K-Chad Blonde[7] ; 5. 40-Caleb Helms[5] ; 6. 16-Chris Andrews[8] ; 7. 9X-Brandon Martin[1] ; 8. 53-D.J. Foos[3]
 
Heat 4 - 1. 24H-Bryan Sebetto[2] ; 2. 9Z-Duane Zablocki[1] ; 3. 66-Randy Hannagan[6]; 4. 2M-Dustin Daggett[4] ; 5. 55-Brad Bowman[7] ; 6. 45-Danny Holtgraver[3] ; 7. 99-Brady Bacon[5] ; 8. 7-Troy Kigan[8]
 
Dash - (6 Laps, finishing order determined
First 6 starting positions of A-feature 1. 83-Tim Shaffer[1] ; 2. 2-Dale Blaney[3] ; 3. 40-Caleb Helms[4] ; 4. 54-Cap Henry[5] ; 5. 35-Stuart Brubaker[2] ; 6. 66-Randy Hannagan[6]
 
B-Main - (12 Laps - Top 4 finishers transfer to the A-feature) 1. 99-Brady Bacon[2] ; 2. 29-Cole Duncan[1] ; 3. 45-Danny Holtgraver[4] ; 4. 9X-Brandon Martin[7] ; 5. 27P-Paige Polyak[8] ; 6. 53-D.J. Foos[3] ; 7. 94-Jack Sodeman Jr.[5] ; 8. 16-Chris Andrews[11] ; 9. 46AU-Stuart Williams[10] ; 10. 80-Trey Gustin[9] ; 11. 57X-Andrew Palker[6] ; 12. 7-Troy Kigan[12]
 
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Knoxville Raceway Announces the 2013 Junior Fan Club and Free Kids Nights

KNOXVILLE, Iowa (March 8, 2013) – Knoxville Raceway announces the 2013 Junior Fan Club, a free program providing kids ages 5-12 a free t-shirt, opportunities to win prizes and access to exclusive areas of the raceway, attend an annual pizza party, and more. Knoxville Raceway also features many races throughout the year that are free for kids and teenagers (see dates below).

Knoxville Raceway is committed to providing an affordable night of entertainment and excitement for the entire family. With races nearly every weekend from April – September, fans of all ages can immerse themselves in the most exhilarating and intense dirt track in the world.

Knoxville Raceway Junior Fan Club Details

● Kids can sign up for the Junior Fan Club at the season opener on Saturday, April 20 at 6:00 PM under the grandstand at the Junior Fan Club booth. Sign up is also available on any of the Junior Fan Club Race Nights

● Junior Fan Club Race Nights: April 20, April 27, May 4, May 18, May 25, June 1, June 8, June 22, June 29, July 13, July 20, July 27, August 24.

● All Junior Fan Club members receive a free t-shirt when they sign up. All kids are encouraged to wear their Junior Fan Club t-shirt to the races.

● Each week one lucky Junior Fan Club member will have the chance to be the Junior Fan of the Week. This member will receive a Trophy, an 8x10 color photo with their favorite local driver, visit the press box, and watch track announcers announce a Heat Race. The Junior Fan of the Week is chosen at random and announced after Time Trials.

● Kids should sign in every time they come to the race at the Junior Fan Club booth underneath the grandstand to be eligible for that evening’s prizes.

● A free Annual Pizza Party will be held for all Junior Fan Club members on August 24. A Junior Fan Club Member of the Year will be selected at the Pizza Party at random from all the members that attended every Junior Fan Club race night and wore their shirts every time they attended. The winning member and their immediate family will be invited to attend the Annual Championship Banquet on November 16.

Knoxville Raceway Free Nights for Kids and Teens

● Kids ages 6-12 and teenagers 13-19 receive free admission on the following dates: April 20, May 4, June 1, June 21, June 13.

● Kids under 6 always receive free admission.

Knoxville Raceway is a destination for all open wheel and dirt track fans to experience a sensory overload of excitement. From the loud roar of the engines and sights of incredible slide jobs through the turns to the drivers skill and finesse as cars accelerate down the track, all while being surrounded by thousands of fans.

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Night # 1 of Attica Spring Nationals Cancelled

(3-28-13) 7:10 P.M. Due to inclement weather conditions, the races for Friday – March 29th at Attica Raceway Park have been cancelled.

According to Attica Raceway Park Officials, they were unable to bring the track into racing condition therefore cancelling Friday’s event with the hope of having a great race track on Saturday.

Pit Gates will open at 3:00 P.M. with racing getting underway at 7:00 P.M. For more information stay tuned to www.atticaracewaypark.com or www.allstarsprint.com. 

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Spring Nationals next up for All Stars

ATTICA, Ohio - The stars of the University of Northwestern Ohio (UNOH) All Star Circuit of Champion Sprint Car Series will duke it out with the tough weekly competitors of Attica Raceway Park during the 22nd Annual HD Supply Spring Nationals on Friday and Saturday, March 29 and 30.

The event kicks off the UNOH All Star's "northern tour" and the Ohio Region of the series and has drawn some of the top stars in racing including three time NASCAR Sprint Cup Champion Tony Stewart and NASCAR star Kasey Kahne. Several Pennsylvania teams and World of Outlaw teams have shown up for the Spring Nationals as well.

"Attica Raceway Park is one of the most exciting tracks the All Stars compete at. With the level of competition that races there every week, and the loyal, intelligent fans that come there, coupled with is its history and proximity to other hot beds of racing....the Spring Nationals has become a 'must see' event in the Midwest region," said Guy Webb, President of the UNOH All Stars. "It's early enough in the season you just don't know who will show up. And from what we are hearing, the Ohio Region of the All Stars could be one of the most competitive and exciting in the history of the series."

After two UNOH All Star events have been completed in 2013 at Bubba Raceway Park in Ocala, Florida, three time series champion and 2012 Ohio Region champion Dale "The Low Rider" Blaney of Hartford, Ohio, leads the UNOH All Star point standings. Blaney, who has 93 career All Star wins, just five away from tying hall-of-famer Kenny Jacobs for most wins in series history, opened the 2012 Spring Nationals with a last lap win and sits fifth on Attica's all-time with list with 16 victories. Blaney also have five victories in Spring Nationals competition.

Watertown, Connecticut's David Gravel, who has been filling in for the injured Bill Rose along the World of Outlaws trail as of late, recording solid top 10 runs, is currently second in the All Stars national points. Tim "The Steel City Outlaw Shaffer of Aliquippa, Pa., comes into the Spring Nationals third in the series points. Shaffer has won the last four straight All Star championships, a feat only accomplished by Jacobs and Chad Kemenah. Shaffer does have a 360 sprint win in 2013. Shaffer, who sits sixth on the All Stars' all-time win list with 51 victories, has 10 career wins at "Ohio's Finest Racing" speedplant. Pennsylvania's Lance Dewease, in a new ride for 2013, sits fourth the All Star points, and claimed the series' eastern region champion in 2011 and has one career win at Attica. Rounding out the series top five is four series and Attica rookie of the year Cap Henry from nearby Bellevue, Ohio. Henry had a break-out season with the All Stars in 2012, nearly claiming several wins, including a speedweek event at Attica.

Round out the All Stars' top 10 in points are Paul McMahan, Logan Schuchart, Danny Dietrich, Danny Holtgraver and Steve Buckwalter. Holtgraver scored his first UNOH All Star win at Attica to open the Ohio Speedweek in 2012, and went on to record 3 series wins in 2013.

And while the Attica Spring Nationals has drawn some of the biggest names in racing, it's the tough weekly competition that makes the event so exciting. In the 2012 spring nationals, Blaney opened with a last lap pass of Attica's 2012 champion Craig Mintz for the win. On the second night, Mintz, who has 8 career wins at Attica, executed a last lap pass of Stevie Smith, a 2005 Spring Nationals winner, for his first ever All Star win.

Then throw in six-time Attica champion Byron Reed, who has two Spring National wins, Greg Wilson, a two-time All Star champion and three-time Spring Nationals winner with 19 career victories at Attica, 2011 and 2012 FAST (Fremont Attica Sprint Title) Bryan Sebetto who has 7 career wins at Attica, former track champion Dean Jacobs and a host of other tough weekly and regional competitors and you have a recipe for excitement.

For gate times, admission prices and more for the 22nd Annual HD Supply Spring Nationals at Attica Raceway Park, go to www.atticaracewaypark.com

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NATIONAL SPRINT CAR MUSEUM COMES TO LIFE  IN APRIL, MAY & EARLY JUNE

KNOXVILLE, IOWA (March 14, 2013) - The National Sprint Car Museum in Knoxville comes to life in April, May and early June as the fifteenth annual International Reel Wheel Film Festival on April 5-7 and the twenty-fourth annual National Sprint Car Hall of Fame (NSCHoF) Induction Banquet on May 31-June 1 take center stage.

This year’s featured films at the world’s longest-running festival celebrating the automobile and motorsports in film are Sean Buckley’s “Follow the Corn 3: (Jesse) Hockett Memorial Weekend,” Michael Hamm’s & Kerrie Long’s “The Greatest Auto Race on Earth,” John Greene’s and Jennifer Jordan’s “Boys of Bonneville: Racing on a Ribbon of Salt,” and Mike Thompson’s “Faded Thunder: The Clarence ‘Mutt’ Anderson Story” and “Faded Thunder: The Amazing Mr. (Jim) Welty.”  All five are racing-oriented documentaries.

Saturday, April 13, is also the traditional Practice Night for all three weekly divisions of winged sprint cars at Knoxville Raceway.  The rest of April and May brings weekly winged sprint car racing to the half-mile Knoxville dirt track, plus special events for four International Motor Contest Association (IMCA-type) classes on April 28 and the always-popular World of Outlaws (WoO) sprint cars on May 11.

The climax of the spring 2013 museum season takes place on May 31-June 1 as the twenty-fourth annual National Sprint Car Hall of Fame (NSCHoF) induction weekend takes place on the Marion County Fairgrounds.  This year’s honorees at the Saturday afternoon banquet include Charles “Dutch” Baumann, Art Bisch (Sr.), Andy Linden, Brad Noffsinger, Lou Blaney, Jeff Bloom, C.W. Van Ranst, Harold “Red” Lempelius, Richard Hoffman, E.A. “Ernie” Moross, Edd Sheppard and Jean Lynch.  Plus, Friday night will include a fun and informal special reception for past inductees on the museum’s second floor.

The cost for each day of the International Reel Wheel Film Festival is just the price of a museum admission (i.e. – four dollars per adult), while Practice Night at Knoxville Raceway features free admission in the grandstands.  Those individuals interested in the fifteenth annual International Reel Wheel Film Festival are encouraged to visit the museum’s web site at www.sprintcarhof.com.  The non-profit museum, which is open seven days a week, year-round, can also be reached at 1-800-874-4488.

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"SPRINT CAR 101: WHAT'S NEW AT KNOXVILLE RACEWAY IN 2013"? - POSTPONED UNTIL MARCH 21, 2013

Knoxville, Iowa (February 18, 2013) - The National Sprint Car Hall of Fame & Museum's 'Sprint Car 101' program, "What's New at Knoxville Raceway in 2013" is being postponed until Thursday, March 21, 2013, due to the forecasted blizzard, which is on target for the greater Knoxville area this Thursday.

Bob Baker, Executive Director of the museum stated, "With the forecast calling for blizzard-like conditions for both this coming Thursday and Thursday evening, we thought it would be in the best interest of everyone involved to reschedule this 'Sprint Car 101' for next month". Scheduled to appear are the new management team for Knoxville Raceway, headed up by general manager Brian Stickel, race director John McCoy, human resources director Gary Schumacher, and members of the
Marion County Fairboard's Race Committee, who will all be on hand next month to talk about the changes at Knoxville Raceway in 2013.

"We were really looking forward to a good crowd of race fans coming up to our second-floor this Thursday night, but with all of the  snow we are scheduled to see this Thursday, it will just work out safer for everyone to be with us next month on Mach 21st, when hopefully the weather will be more accommodating", Baker noted. As in the past, this 'Sprint Car 101' is made available to race fans and the general public at no charge, as part of the museum's initiative to 'promote the future of sprint car racing, and preserve the sport's past'.

Those looking to find out more about "Sprint Car 101" programs at the National Sprint Car Hall of Fame & Museum, can visit the  museum's website at www.sprintcarhof.com , or reach the museum directly by calling 1-800-874-4488.

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2013 Knoxville Championship Cup Series to Award Nearly $800,000

KNOXVILLE, Iowa (February 15, 2013) – Knoxville Raceway announces the Lucas Oil Knoxville Championship Cup Series will award nearly $800,000 in 2013, with more than $30,000 for the weekly races and over $250,000 in cash and merchandise for the points payout. The Knoxville Championship Cup Series is the premier weekly 410, 360 and 305 sprint car series. The 18 race series runs from April-August, with the season opener set for Saturday, April 20.

The Knoxville Championship Cup Series leads the industry in weekly and point purse payouts, making it one of the most competitive and exciting dirt track racing series in the world. Many of the top drivers in the sport have raced in the Knoxville Championship Cup Series including Al Unser Jr., Jeff Gordon and Doug Wolfgang.

The weekly races bring fans of all ages together to immerse themselves in a sensory overload of excitement. From the loud roar of the engines and sights of incredible slide jobs through the turns to the drivers skill and finesse as cars accelerate down the track. Look for upcoming news and events surrounding the 2013 series, including free kids nights, driver autograph sessions, simulator car rides, and much more.

View the Knoxville Champion Cup Series schedule at http://www.knoxvilleraceway.com/Schedule.aspx. 

Weekly Payout

410 Class A Feature – 1: $3,000, 2: $2,200, 3: $2,000, 4: $1,500, 5: $1,000, 6: $800, 7: $775, 8: $750, 9: $725, 10: $700, 11: $675, 12: $650, 13: $625, 14: $600, 15: $600, 16: $600, 17: $600, 18: $600, 19: $600, 20: $600, 21: $500, 22: $450, 23: $400, 24: $350. Total = $21,300

410 Class B Feature – 1-6: $0, 7: $300, 8: $200, 9: $150, 10: $100, 11: $100, 12: $100. Total = $950

360 Class A Feature – 1: $1,250, 2: $1,000, 3: $700, 4: $550, 5: $425, 6: $350, 7: $300, 8: $275, 9: $250, 10: $225, 11: $200, 12: $175, 13: $170, 14: $170, 15: $160, 16: $160, 17: $155, 18: $155, 19: $150, 20: $150, 21: $150, 22: $150, 23: $150, 24: $150. Total = $7,570

360 Class B Feature – 1-6: $0, 7: $150, 8: $125, 9: $100, 10: $90, 11: $80, 12: $70, 13: $60, 14: $50, 15: $50, 16: $50, 17: $50, 18: $50, 19: $50, 20: $50. Total = $1,025

305 Class A Feature – 1: $400, 2: $300, 3: $250, 4: $200, 5: $175, 6: $150, 7: $125, 8: $100, 9: $90, 10: $80, 11: $75, 12: $70, 13: $65, 14: $60, 15: $60, 16: $60, 17: $60, 18: $60, 19: $60, 20: $60, 21: $50, 22: $50, 23: $50, 24: $50. Total = $2,700

305 Class B Feature – 1-6: $0, 7: $50, 8: $50, 9: $50, 10: $50, 11: $50, 12: $50. Total = $300

Total Weekly Payout - $33,845 per week

Points Payout

410 Class – Owner and Driver both receive: 1: $10,000, 2: $7,500, 3: $6,000, 4: $5,000, 5: $4,000, 6: $3,500, 7: $3,000, 8: $2,500, 9: $2,250, 10: $2,000, 11: $1,750, 12: $1,500, 13: $1,250, 14: $1,000, 15: $750, 16: $500, 17: $500, 18: $500, 19: $500, 20: $500. Total 410 = $109,000

360 Class – Owner and Driver both receive: 1: $4,000, 2: $3,000, 3: $2,500, 4: $2,000, 5: $1,500, 6: $1,250, 7: $1,000, 8: $875, 9: $750, 10: $700, 11: $650, 12: $600, 13: $550, 14: $500, 16: $400, 17: $375, 18: $350, 19: $325, 20: $300. Total 360 = $44,150

305 Class – Owner and Driver both receive: 1: $500, 2: $350, 3: $300, 4: $175, 5: $125, 6: $87.50, 7: $75, 8: $62.50, 9: $57.50, 10: $50, 11: $50, 12: $50, 13: $50, 14: $50, 15: $50. Total 305 = $2,032.50

Total Points Payouts - $157,215, plus $100,000 of merchandise for the teams

Twin Features Purses

New for 2013: Purse adjustments made for the Twin Features nights on June 29th for 360’s and July 6th for 410’s. Both of the A Features on these nights will be a full purse.

410 Class A Feature #1 – 1: $3,000, 2: $2,200, 3: $2,000, 4: $1,500, 5: $1,000, 6: $800, 7: $775, 8: $750, 9: $725, 10: $700, 11: $675, 12: $650, 13: $625, 14: $600, 15: $600, 16: $600, 17: $600, 18: $600, 19: $600, 20: $600, 21: $500, 22: $450, 23: $400, 24: $350. Total = $21,300

410 Class A Feature #2 – 1: $3,000, 2: $2,200, 3: $2,000, 4: $1,500, 5: $1,000, 6: $800, 7: $775, 8: $750, 9: $725, 10: $700, 11: $675, 12: $650, 13: $625, 14: $600, 15: $600, 16: $600, 17: $600, 18: $600, 19: $600, 20: $600, 21: $500, 22: $450, 23: $400, 24: $350. Total = $21,300

360 Class A Feature #1 – 1: $1,250, 2: $1,000, 3: $700, 4: $550, 5: $425, 6: $350, 7: $300, 8: $275, 9: $250, 10: $225, 11: $200, 12: $175, 13: $170, 14: $170, 15: $160, 16: $160, 17: $155, 18: $155, 19: $150, 20: $150, 21: $150, 22: $150, 23: $150, 24: $150. Total = $7,570

360 Class A Feature #2 – 1: $1,250, 2: $1,000, 3: $700, 4: $550, 5: $425, 6: $350, 7: $300, 8: $275, 9: $250, 10: $225, 11: $200, 12: $175, 13: $170, 14: $170, 15: $160, 16: $160, 17: $155, 18: $155, 19: $150, 20: $150, 21: $150, 22: $150, 23: $150, 24: $150. Total = $7,570

360 Class B Feature – 1: $50, 2: $50, 3: $50, 4: $50, 5: $150, 6: $125, 7: $100, 8: $90, 9: $80, 10: $70, 11: $60, 12: $50, 13: $50, 14: $50, 16: $50, 17: $50, 18: $50, 19: $50, 20: $50. Total = $1,325.

Total Twin Features = $34,630

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MUSEUM TO HOST “SPRINT CAR 101:  WHAT’S NEW AT KNOXVILLE RACEWAY IN 2013?” ON THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 21, AT 7 P.M.

KNOXVILLE, IOWA (February 13, 2013) - The National Sprint Car Museum’s “Sprint Car 101” Third Thursday Series continues on Thursday, February 21, with “What’s New at Knoxville Raceway in 2013?”  The free and open-to-the-public program will be held on the museum’s second floor, starting at 7 p.m.

According to museum executive director Bob Baker, “We are excited about having the new management team of general manager Brian Stickel, race director John McCoy and human resources director Gary Schumacher, and members of the Marion County Fairboard’s Race Committee, on-hand to talk about the changes at Knoxville Raceway this year.  It will be a unique opportunity for race fans and race teams to come together to hear behind-the-scenes details about the new technical rules and promotional programs that are in place at the ‘Sprint Car Capital of the World’ for 2013.”

Those seeking more information on the “Sprint Car 101” Third Thursday Series can visit www.sprintcarhof.com.  Also, the museum can be reached at 641-842-6176. 

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Schatz Sweeps UNOH All Stars at Bubba Raceway Park

OCALA, FLA. (Saturday, Feb. 9, 2013) By Brian Liskai– On many nights in racing, it’s all about taking advantage of opportunities when they present themselves. For the second night in a row Donny Schatz did just that as he took the win against the University of Northwest Ohio All Star Circuit of Champions Saturday at Bubba Raceway Park.
 
When Steve Kinser suffered a flat tire with 10 laps to go Saturday, it caused race leader Dale Blaney, who was locked in a battle with four time UNOH All Star champion Tim Shaffer, to slow ever so slightly and Schatz was there to pounce. Schatz, a five time and defending World of Outlaws champion, drove into the lead in his Tony Stewart Racing/STP/Armor All backed machine. Shaffer regrouped and was able to apply pressure to Schatz as they raced into lapped traffic late in the race. However, Shaffer couldn’t make the pass as Schatz drove to his 11th career UNOH All Star victory.
 
“What a great weekend. The guys got all the cars and motors running fantastic and it’s a lot of fun. This is what’s fun about racing. I was able to maneuver around and take advantage when Dale and Tim got to racing and they left a spot open for me,” said Schatz. “These new Hoosier tires aren’t like the tires we ran eight years ago, but they have a little forgiveness to them. I can do things in the race car that I haven’t been able to do in while. I can maneuver the car again…it’s exciting to see.”
 
After being involved in tangle on the opening night, a second place finish was just what Shaffer and his Aaron Call/Janet Holbrook Motorsports team needed.
 
“This is a tough place to pass. We had a couple of shots at Donny, but he got the breaks and things went his way. After the first night, this is a shot in the arm for us,” said Shaffer, who has won the last four consecutive UNOH All Star championships.
 
“We know we can compete with these guys. I’m excited to get to Volusia. It won’t be easy there. It’s like Knoxville…everyone has their best stuff and the competition is the best,” added Shaffer.
 
Blaney and Shaffer would bring the field to the green, with Blaney grabbing the lead with Shaffer remaining within striking distance. Meanwhile Schatz and three-time NASCAR Sprint Cup Series champion Tony Stewart were battling for third with two-time All Star champion Greg Wilson in fifth. As they raced into traffic, Shaffer was able to grab the lead on lap 8, but it was short-lived as Blaney used the same traffic to regain the lead a lap later.
 
Just past the half-way point, Kinser, who had worked his way from 24th to 13th, had a right rear tire going down. With 10 laps to go as Kinser tried to exit the track, it hindered Blaney and Shaffer, allowing Schatz to drive into the lead with Shaffer in second and Blaney falling back to third. A lap later and Stewart, aboard his Chevy Performance/Mobil 1 #14, would take third from Blaney with Wilson continuing to round out the top five. Shaffer would get to Schatz with less than a handful of laps left, but couldn’t make the pass.
 
Schatz would drive to the victory over Shaffer, Stewart and Blaney while Daryn Pittman would slip past Wilson with four laps to go to round out the top five finishers.

Bubba Raceway Park  - 2/9/2013
All Star Circuit of Champions (32 Cars)
[#]-Starting Position

A-Main - University of Northwestern Ohio (30 Laps) 1. 15-Donny Schatz[3]; 2. 83-Tim Shaffer[2]; 3. 14-Tony Stewart[4]; 4. 2-Dale Blaney[1]; 5. 9-Daryn Pittman[8]; 6. 89G-David Gravel[5]; 7. W20-Greg Wilson[7]; 8. 51-Paul McMahan[6]; 9. 7S-Jason Sides[13]; 10. 27-Lance Dewease[12]; 11. 48-Danny Dietrich[9]; 12. 4D-Cody Darrah[11]; 13. 17B-Steve Buckwalter[17]; 14. 54-Cap Henry[10]; 15. 45-Danny Holtgraver[18]; 16. 11K-Kraig Kinser[16]; 17. 15H-Sam Hafertepe Jr.[20]; 18. 4-Danny Smith[24]; 19. 40-Caleb Helms[19]; 20. 94-Jack Sodeman Jr.[22]; 21. 11-Steve Kinser[23]; 22. 59-Jac Haudenschild[21]; 23. 1-Danny Lasoski[14]; 24. 1S-Logan Schuchart[15]

Hard Charger: 4-Danny Smith[+6]

Qualifying - Kistler Engines
1. 15-Donny Schatz, 11.982; 2. 14-Tony Stewart, 12.118; 3. 2-Dale Blaney, 12.216; 4. 51-Paul McMahan, 12.235; 5. 4D-Cody Darrah, 12.251; 6. 83-Tim Shaffer, 12.286; 7. 89G-David Gravel, 12.291; 8. 27-Lance Dewease, 12.309; 9. W20-Greg Wilson, 12.315; 10. 9-Daryn Pittman, 12.376; 11. 48-Danny
Dietrich, 12.385; 12. 54-Cap Henry, 12.456; 13. 7S-Jason Sides, 12.470; 14. 1-Danny Lasoski, 12.492; 15. 1S-Logan Schuchart, 12.526; 16. 11K-Kraig Kinser, 12.565; 17. 17B-Steve Buckwalter, 12.600; 18. 45-Danny Holtgraver, 12.609; 19. 40-Caleb Helms, 12.654; 20. 80-Trey Gustin, 12.669; 21. 15H-Sam
Hafertepe Jr., 12.670; 22. O-Justin Henderson, 12.677; 23. 59-Jac Haudenschild, 12.717; 24. 94-Jack Sodeman Jr., 12.732; 25. 11-Steve Kinser, 12.798; 26. 13-Jason Leffler, 12.819; 27. 9B-Jamie Barnes, 12.830; 28. 4-Danny Smith, 12.944; 29. O7-Mark Coldren, 12.992; 30. 40I-Mark Imler, 13.366; 31. 5-Glendon Forsythe, 13.383; 32. 18L-Shawn Lawler, 14.141

Heat 1 - Kears Speed Shop (8 Laps - Top 5 finishers transfer to the A-feature) 1. 15-Donny Schatz[6] ; 2. 17B-Steve Buckwalter[2] ; 3. 7S-Jason Sides[3] ; 4. 15H-Sam Hafertepe Jr.[1] ; 5. W20-Greg Wilson[4] ; 6. 4D-Cody Darrah[5] ; 7. 11-Steve Kinser[7] ; 8. O7-Mark Coldren[8]

Heat 2 - All Pro Aluminum Heads (8 Laps - Top 5 finishers transfer to the A-feature) 1. 1-Danny Lasoski[3] ; 2. 83-Tim Shaffer[5] ; 3. 9-Daryn Pittman[4] ; 4. 45-Danny Holtgraver[2] ; 5. 14-Tony Stewart[6] ; 6. 13-Jason Leffler[7] ; 7. 40I-Mark Imler[8]

Heat 3 - Dragon Race Fuel (8 Laps - Top 5 finishers transfer to the A-feature) 1. 59-Jac Haudenschild[1] ; 2. 2-Dale Blaney[6] ; 3. 48-Danny Dietrich[4] ; 4. 89G-David Gravel[5] ; 5. 40-Caleb Helms[2] ; 6. 1S-Logan Schuchart[3] ; 7. 9B-Jamie Barnes[7] ; 8. 5-Glendon Forsythe[8]

Heat 4 - Kinsler Fuel Injection (8 Laps - Top 5 finishers transfer to the A-feature) 1. 11K-Kraig Kinser[3] ; 2. 54-Cap Henry[4] ; 3. 94-Jack Sodeman Jr.[1] ; 4. 51-Paul McMahan[6] ; 5. 4-Danny Smith[7] ; 6. 80-Trey Gustin[2] ; 7. 18L-Shawn Lawler[8] ; 8. 27-Lance Dewease[5]

Dash - Outerwears Performance Products (6 Laps, finishing order determined first 6 starting positions of A-feature 1. 2-Dale Blaney[1] ; 2. 83-Tim Shaffer[2] ; 3. 15-Donny Schatz[5] ; 4. 14-Tony Stewart[6] ; 5. 89G-David Gravel[3] ; 6. 51-Paul McMahan[4]

B-Main - MSD Ignition (12 Laps - Top 4 finishers transfer to the A-feature) 1. 4D-Cody Darrah[1] ; 2. 27-Lance Dewease[2] ; 3. 1S-Logan Schuchart[3] ; 4. 11-Steve Kinser[6] ; 5. 9B-Jamie Barnes[8] ; 6. 80-Trey Gustin[4] ; 7. O-Justin Henderson[5] ; 8. 13-Jason Leffler[7] ; 9. 40I-Mark Imler[10] ; 10. O7-Mark Coldren[9] ; 11. 18L-Shawn Lawler[12] ; 12. 5-Glendon Forsythe[11]

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Schatz Opens UNOH All Star Season with Win at Bubba Raceway Park

Schatz, a five time World of Outlaws champion, passed 2012 UNOH All Star Eastern Region champion Daryn Pittman on the 11th lap and then held off Pittman in traffic to claim his 10th career UNOH All Star victory.

“There’s just nothing like winning. I think the media picking me to win the World of Outlaws title this year takes some of the pressure off. To know the media recognizes how good of a team we have helps us,” said Schatz. “Bubba has worked very hard on this track trying to make it two grooves and it paid off tonight. The track was as good as I’ve ever seen Ocala.”

Three time UNOH All Star champion Dale Blaney and Pittman would bring the field to the green with Pittman grabbing the lead aboard his new Kasey Kahne Racing ride. Schatz, who drove around Blaney on the second lap to take the runner-up spot, would slip past Pittman for the lead on the 11th lap.

Things really got interesting after Schatz took the lead, as Kerry Madsen put his machine on its side, bringing out the red. On the restart, Schatz would pull away slightly from Pittman as Hanover, Pennsylvania’s Logan Schuchart slid around Blaney for third with Bellevue, Ohio’s Cap Henry getting around David Gravel for fifth.

Schatz’ lead would evaporate in lapped traffic as Pittman closed to within three car lengths. The battle for the fifth spot would heat back up with five laps to go, with Henry, Gravel and Cody Darrah battled.

Schatz would hold off Pittman at the checkers with Schuchart taking third with Blaney and Gravel rounding out the top five.

“There were some lapped cars that give us some problems. I just had to pull out all the stops and puss the issue a little with some of them. Once I did that we were good,” said Schatz.

For Pittman, his debut in the Great Clips/Sage Fruit machine couldn’t have gone much better.

“I’m very pleased with how we ran tonight. It was a bit disappointing to watch Donny go by, but in the same token he didn’t pull away. I was able to hang with him and I think the last five laps I was quicker than he was and I had a shot at him in traffic. I think it helped me to be behind him. I was able to see where I was losing ground to him and where I needed to change my line. I learned a lot following him,” said Pittman.

For Schuchart, it was another good start to a racing season.

“Last year we started strong at Screven but struggled at Ocala. But tonight….I don’t know if it’s the new Hoosier tires or we found something with the car, but I felt good in the car. I could run with the fast guys and that felt really good,” said Schuchart .

“It was hard to pass tonight. When Blaney and Madsen got together, I was right there with them so on the restart I knew I could race with them. I was able to get to third and I knew I was fast up top. I can’t wait to race tomorrow,” added Schuchart.

Bubba Raceway Park  - 2/8/2013
UNOH Night
 All Star Circuit of Champions (34 Cars)
[#]-Starting Position

A-Main - University of Northwestern Ohio (30 Laps) 1. 15-Donny Schatz[3]; 2. 9-Daryn Pittman[2]; 3. 1S-Logan Schuchart[6]; 4. 2-Dale Blaney[1]; 5. 89G-David Gravel[9]; 6. 4D-Cody Darrah[11]; 7. 54-Cap Henry[8]; 8. 7S-Jason Sides[14]; 9. 27-Lance Dewease[18]; 10. 14-Tony Stewart[16]; 11. 1-Danny Lasoski[15]; 12. 45-Danny Holtgraver[19]; 13. 17B-Steve Buckwalter[12]; 14. 40-Caleb Helms[22]; 15. 51-Paul McMahan[20]; 16. 48-Danny Dietrich[21]; 17. 11-Steve Kinser[24]; 18. 4-Danny Smith[10]; 19. 29-Kerry Madsen[7]; 20. W20-Greg Wilson[23]; 21. O7-Mark Coldren[13]; 22. 11K-Kraig Kinser[17]; 23. 59-Jac Haudenschild[4]; 24. 83-Tim Shaffer[5]
Hard Charger: 27-Lance Dewease[+9]
 
Qualifying - Kistler Engines
1. 9-Daryn Pittman, 11.840; 2. 83-Tim Shaffer, 11.980; 3. 15-Donny Schatz, 12.028; 4. 2-Dale Blaney, 12.039; 5. 4D-Cody Darrah, 12.044; 6. 59-Jac Haudenschild, 12.065; 7. 1S-Logan Schuchart, 12.088; 8. 29-Kerry Madsen, 12.096; 9. 54-Cap Henry, 12.118; 10. 89G-David Gravel, 12.119; 11. 17B-Steve Buckwalter, 12.156; 12. 13-Jason Leffler, 12.221; 13. 4-Danny Smith, 12.258; 14. O7-Mark Coldren, 12.292; 15. 7S-Jason Sides, 12.314; 16. 1-Danny Lasoski, 12.321; 17. 14-Tony Stewart, 12.360; 18. 11K-Kraig Kinser, 12.367; 19. 27-Lance Dewease, 12.381; 20. 45-Danny Holtgraver, 12.401; 21. 51-Paul McMahan, 12.408; 22. 48-Danny Dietrich, 12.486; 23. 40-Caleb Helms, 12.486; 24. W20-Greg Wilson, 12.508; 25. 94-Jack Sodeman Jr., 12.527; 26. O-Justin Henderson, 12.594; 27. 9B-Jamie Barnes, 12.607; 28. 11-Steve Kinser, 12.656; 29. 15H-Sam Hafertepe Jr., 12.714; 30. 40I-Mark Imler, 12.879; 31. 80-Trey Gustin, 12.926; 32. 5-Glendon Forsythe, 13.199; 33. 18L-Shawn Lawler, 14.374; 34. 1A-Jacob Allen, 99.999
 
Heat 1 - Kears Speed Shop (8 Laps - Top 5 finishers transfer to the A-feature)
1. 14-Tony Stewart[2] ; 2. 51-Paul McMahan[1] ; 3. 54-Cap Henry[4] ; 4. 4-Danny Smith[3] ; 5. 9-Daryn Pittman[6] ; 6. 94-Jack Sodeman Jr.[7] ; 7. 4D-Cody Darrah[5] ; 8. 18L-Shawn Lawler[9] ; 9. 15H-Sam Hafertepe Jr.[8]
 
Heat 2 - All Pro Aluminum Heads (8 Laps - Top 5 finishers transfer to the A-feature)
1. 48-Danny Dietrich[1] ; 2. 11K-Kraig Kinser[2] ; 3. 89G-David Gravel[4] ; 4. 83-Tim Shaffer[6] ; 5. 59-Jac Haudenschild[5] ; 6. O7-Mark Coldren[3] ; 7. O-Justin Henderson[7] ; 8. 40I-Mark Imler[8]
 
Heat 3 - Dragon Race Fuel (8 Laps - Top 5 finishers transfer to the A-feature)
1. 27-Lance Dewease[2] ; 2. 15-Donny Schatz[6] ; 3. 40-Caleb Helms[1] ; 4. 7S-Jason Sides[3] ; 5. 1S-Logan Schuchart[5] ; 6. 17B-Steve Buckwalter[4] ; 7. 80-Trey Gustin[8] ; 8. 9B-Jamie Barnes[7]
 
Heat 4 - Kinsler Fuel Injection (8 Laps - Top 5 finishers transfer to the A-feature)
1. 45-Danny Holtgraver[2] ; 2. W20-Greg Wilson[1] ; 3. 1-Danny Lasoski[3] ; 4. 2-Dale Blaney[6] ; 5. 29-Kerry Madsen[5] ; 6. 11-Steve Kinser[7] ; 7. 13-Jason Leffler[4] ; 8. 5-Glendon Forsythe[8]
 
Dash - Outerwears Performance Products (6 Laps, finishing order determined first 6 starting positions of A-feature
1. 2-Dale Blaney[2] ; 2. 9-Daryn Pittman[3] ; 3. 15-Donny Schatz[5] ; 4. 59-Jac Haudenschild[4] ; 5. 83-Tim Shaffer[1] ; 6. 1S-Logan Schuchart[6]
 
B-Main - MSD Ignition (12 Laps - Top 4 finishers transfer to the A-feature)
1. 17B-Steve Buckwalter[2] ; 2. 4D-Cody Darrah[1] ; 3. O7-Mark Coldren[4] ; 4. 11-Steve Kinser[8] ; 5. 94-Jack Sodeman Jr.[5] ; 6. 40I-Mark Imler[10] ; 7. 13-Jason Leffler[3] ; 8. 80-Trey Gustin[11] ; 9. 5-Glendon Forsythe[12] ; 10. 18L-Shawn Lawler[13] ; 11. 9B-Jamie Barnes[7]
 
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Rain stops opening night for All Stars

Sylvania, GA (2-7-13)- Racing action for tonight at Screven Motor Speedway has been canclled due to rain. This event has no reschedule date. Please be sure to follow the All Stars as they head to Bubba Raceway Park in Ocala, FL on Friday, February 8th. For more information please visit
www.allstarsprint.com

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UNOH All Star Circuit of Champions bring excitement to 10 states in 2013

ImageCAMARGO, IL (2-7-13) By Brian Liskai –  The University of Northwestern Ohio All Star Circuit of Champions Sprint Cars will live up to their moniker “America’s Series” in 2013. The touring series will entertain fans in 10 states over at least 45 events this season, which kicks off this week with the traditional “southern swing” in Georgia and Florida.

“Our regional concept has created a lot of excitement all over the Midwest. More drivers are participating in All Star events and that has brought a level of competition to tracks that has attracted more fans. This season will continue our mantra ‘you never know who will win’ when the UNOH All Stars come to town,” said Guy Webb, UNOH All Star CEO.

In 2012, the UNOH All Stars sanctioned 43 races with 22 different winners. Aliquippa, Pennsylvania’s Tim Shaffer scored his fourth consecutive national UNOH All Star championship and picked up six wins along the way. Three-time series champion Dale Blaney took the Ohio Region title for the series, winning a series’ best nine times to run his career total to 93, just five behind hall-of-famer Kenny Jacobs for the most All Star wins. Daryn Pittman scored the UNOH All Stars Eastern Region championship with three series wins in 2012.

The UNOH All Stars have 45 races on the 2013 schedule. Highlights include five visits to Attica Raceway Park to help celebrate the track’s 25th anniversary; six stops at Fremont Speedway as “The Track That Action Built” celebrates its 63rd season of racing; taking on the PA Posse at the historic Williams Grove Speedway, Port Royal Speedway and Lincoln Speedway; the 31st Annual Ohio Sprint Speedway week which currently features eight nights of racing over nine days; and two stops at Tony Stewart’s Eldora Speedway. There’s also the annual swing into New York and the Thunder Through the Plains.

Besides Shaffer and Blaney, the UNOH All Stars will continue to show case the young up-and-coming stars like Danny Holtgraver, Cap Henry, David Gravel, Justin Henderson and Caleb Helms.

“When you throw in the local talent in the regions, our events will continue to bring excitement to race fans all over the Midwest,” added Webb.

For more information and the complete schedule go to www.allstarsprint.com

2013 UNOH All Star Circuit of Champions Schedule
2/7 Screven Motor Speedway Sylvania, GA East
2/8 Bubba Raceway Park Ocala, FL East
2/9 Bubba Raceway Park Ocala, FL East
2/13 Volusia Speedway Park Barberville, FL East
2/14 Volusia Speedway Park Barberville, FL East

3/29 Attica Raceway Park Attica, OH Ohio
3/30 Attica Raceway Park Attica, OH Ohio

4/26 Williams Grove Speedway Mechanicsburg, PA East
4/27 Port Royal Speedway Port Royal, PA East

5/10 Lernerville Speedway Sarver, PA Ohio
5/11 Mercer Raceway Park Mercer, PA Ohio
5/18 I-77 Raceway Park Ripley, WV Ohio
5/25 Fremont Speedway Fremont, OH Ohio
5/26 Fremont Speedway Fremont, OH Ohio

6/8 Butler Motor Speedway Quincy, MI Ohio
6/11 Canandaigua Motorsports Park Canandaigua, NY East
6/14 Williams Grove Speedway Mechanicsburg, PA East
6/15 Lincoln Speedway Abbottstown, PA East

OHIO SPRINT SPEEDWEEK
6/21 Attica Raceway Park Attica, OH Ohio
6/22 Eldora Speedway Rossburg, OH Ohio
6/23 Waynesfield Raceway Park Waynesfield, OH Ohio
6/24 Wayne County Speedway Orville, OH Ohio
6/25 Sharon Speedway Hartford, OH Ohio
6/26 T.B.A. Ohio Ohio
6/27 Fremont Speedway Fremont, OH Ohio
6/28 Limaland Motorsports Park Lima, OH Ohio
6/29 Fremont Speedway Fremont, OH Ohio
 
7/3 West Virginia Motor Speedway Mineral Wells, WV Ohio
7/17 Fulton Speedway Fulton, NY East
7/18 Fonda Speedway Fonda, NY East

THUNDER THROUGH THE PLAINS
7/20 Wilmot Raceway Wilmot, WI Great Plains
7/21 Husets Speedway Brandon, SD Great Plains
7/23 T.B.A. Minnesota Great Plains
7/27 Jackson Speedway Jackson, MN Great Plains
7/28 Buffalo River Raceway Park Glyndon, MN Great Plains

8/4 T.B.A. Iowa Great Plains
8/11 Husets Speedway Brandon, SD Great Plains
8/16 T.B.A. Michigan Ohio
8/17 Butler Motor Speedway Quincy, MI Ohio
8/24 Mercer Raceway Park Mercer, PA Ohio
8/30 Attica Raceway Park Attica, OH Ohio
8/31 Attica Raceway Park Attica, OH Ohio

9/1 Wayne County Speedway Orville, OH Ohio
9/6 Port Royal Speedway Port Royal, PA East
9/7 Port Royal Speedway Port Royal, PA East
9/13 Fremont Speedway Fremont, OH Ohio
9/14 Fremont Speedway Fremont, OH Ohio

10/12 Eldora Speedway Rossburg, OH Ohio

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Knoxville Raceway Announces 2013 Schedule

KNOXVILLE, Iowa (January 29, 2013) – Knoxville Raceway announces the official 2013 schedule featuring more than 30 races from April – September at the Sprint Car Capital of the World in Knoxville, Iowa. The top drivers in dirt track racing will compete for prestigious titles throughout the season in events like the Knoxville Nationals, Knoxville Championship Cup Series and the Late Model Knoxville Nationals. More than 200,000 open wheel and dirt track fans from across the world immerse themselves at Knoxville Raceway every year for the most exhilarating and intense dirt track racing in the world.

2013 Knoxville Raceway Schedule

April
- Saturday, April 13 - Practice Night

- Saturday, April 20 - Lucas Oil Knoxville Championship Cup Series Season Opener KCCS #1 plus 305’s Pella Motors Race For Your School Night/Lion’s Club Night

- Saturday, April 27 - Lucas Oil Knoxville Championship Cup Series KCCS #2 plus 305’s

- Sunday, April 28 - 2nd Annual Hobby Stock, Sport Mod, Modified and Stock Car Shootout

May
- Saturday, May 4 - Lucas Oil Knoxville Championship Cup Series KCCS #3 plus 305’s – Slideways Karting Center/Pella Printing Night

- Saturday, May 11 - World of Outlaws Mediacom Shootout Sprint Cars plus 360’s KCCS #4

- Saturday, May 18 - Lucas Oil Knoxville Championship Cup Series KCCS #5 plus 305’s – McKay Insurance/Allied Insurance Night

- Saturday, May 25 - Lucas Oil Knoxville Championship Cup Series KCCS #6 plus 305’s

June
- Saturday, June 1 - Lucas Oil Knoxville Championship Cup Series KCCS #7 plus 305’s – Pella Corp & JDRF are Racing to a Cure for Diabetes Night, National Sprint Car Hall of Fame Induction Banquet

- Saturday, June 8 - Lucas Oil Knoxville Championship Cup Series KCCS #8 plus 305’s – Pizza Hut Night

- Saturday, June 15 - World of Outlaws Mediacom Shootout plus 360’s KCCS #9

- Friday, June 21 - Nostalgia at Knoxville

- Saturday, June 22 - Lucas Oil Knoxville Championship Cup Series KCCS #10 Mid Season Championships plus 305’s – Farm Bureau Night, Knoxville Raceway Hall of Fame Induction Banquet

- Saturday, June 29 - Lucas Oil Knoxville Championship Cup Series KCCS #11 – Marion County Cattlemen, Corn and Soybean Growers Night, 360 Twin Features Night

July

- Saturday, July 6 - Lucas Oil Knoxville Championship Cup Series KCCS #12 & #13, Town Crier 410 Twin Features, Fill the Stands for Hospice Night

- Friday, July 12 - Marion Co. Fair Entertainment – Hairball in Concert

- Saturday, July 13 - Lucas Oil Knoxville Championship Cup Series KCCS #14 plus 305’s HyVee Night, Marion County Fair

- Tuesday, July 16 - Marion Co. Fair Entertainment – Full Blown Rodeo

- Thursday, July 18 - Harris Clash – Modifieds and Sport Mod’s

- Saturday, July 20 - Lucas Oil Knoxville Championship Cup Series KCCS #15 plus 305’s – 3M Night

- Saturday, July 27 - Lucas Oil Knoxville Championship Cup Series KCCS #16 plus 305’s – Candi’s Flowers Night
  
August

- Thursday, August 1 - 23rd Annual Arnold Motor Supply 360 Knoxville Nationals

- Friday, August 2 - 23rd Annual Arnold Motor Supply 360 Knoxville Nationals

- Saturday, August 3 - 23rd Annual Arnold Motor Supply 360 Knoxville Nationals plus 305’s

- Sunday, August 4 - Knoxville Championship Cup Series Capitani Classic 410’s KCCS #17

- Wednesday, August 7 - 53rd Annual Knoxville Nationals – RacingJunk.com Qualifying

- Thursday, August 8 - 53rd Annual Knoxville Nationals – Qualifying Night

- Friday, August 9 - 53rd Annual Knoxville Nationals plus Speed Sport Knoxville World Challenge Pella Motors Night

- Saturday, August 10 - 53rd Annual Knoxville Nationals – Finals

- Friday, August 16 – Monster Trucks - Tentative

- Saturday, August 17 - Monster Trucks - Tentative

- Saturday, August 24 - Lucas Oil Knoxville Championship Cup Series KCCS Finals #18 plus 305’s – Walmart Night

September           
- Saturday, September 7 - Knoxville Extreme Enduro           

- Thursday, September 26 - 10th Annual Lucas Oil Late Model Knoxville Nationals presented by Casey’s General Store

- Friday, September 27 - 10th Annual Lucas Oil Late Model Knoxville Nationals presented by Casey’s General Store – Ideal Ready Mix Qualifying Night

- Saturday, September 28 - 10th Annual Lucas Oil Late Model Knoxville Nationals presented by Casey’s General Store – Finals

Tickets
Advance tickets to the Knoxville Nationals and World of Outlaws Shootout are currently on sale at http://knoxvilleraceway.com/tickets and at the Knoxville Raceway box office. Tickets to weekly races are available the day of the event or in advance at the Knoxville Raceway box office. Get pricing information at http://www.knoxvilleraceway.com/Schedule.aspx.

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Final 2013 SPEED SPORT Knoxville World Challenge International Qualifier, the Grand Annual Sprintcar Classic, to feature a record 102 entrants, including 18 Americans

KNOXVILLE, Iowa (January 17, 2013) - The final international qualifier for the 2013 SPEED SPORT Knoxville World Challenge will take place on January 26-27, at the Premier Speedway in Warrnambool, Victoria, Australia. There are a record 102 entrants, including a record 18 Americans.

The 41st Lucas Oil Grand Annual Sprintcar Classic (GASC), which will pay $30,000 to the winner, will feature the following ‘Yanks’: Rico Abreu, Tim Shaffer, Danny Dietrich, Jack Dover, David Gravel, Caleb Griffith, Kyle Hirst, Jason Johnson, Wayne Johnson, Tim Kaeding, Kody Kinser, Terry McCarl, Daryn Pittman, Bill Rose, Jason Sides, Danny Smith, Kevin Swindell and Shane Stewart.

Of course, the rich and prestigious event will also feature an equally talented squad of Aussies, including Brooke Tatnell, Ian Madsen, James McFadden, Jamie Veal, Luke Dillon, Max Dumesny, Steven Lines, Todd Wanless, Trevor Green, Danny Reidy, David Murcott, Garry Brazier, Robbie Farr, Stephen Bell, Bryan Mann, Jason Kendrick, Cameron Gessner and Grant Anderson amongst others.

Opening with the $6,000-to-win preliminary night Australia/America Challenge Cup, presented by Oval Express, this year’s Grand Annual Sprintcar Classic appears that it will be the largest ever, quite an accomplishment for Australia’s version of the Knoxville Nationals.

Knoxville Raceway general manager Brian Stickel said today, “Our hats are off to Warrnambool general manager David Mills and the entire Premier Speedway Club for organizing such a great GASC this year. The quantity and quality of Americans entered means that this year’s twentieth annual SPEED SPORT Knoxville World Challenge on August 9 will be one of our biggest, too, especially when you realize that Donny Schatz, Ricky Logan and Jonathan Allard have already qualified in New Zealand.”

For more information on the Knoxville Raceway and its 20th Annual Knoxville World Challenge during the 53rd Knoxville Nationals, visit www.knoxvilleraceway.com. For news on the January 26-27 Grand Annual Sprintcar Classic, visit Premier Speedway at http://www.premierspeedway.com.au/.

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King of the West Sprint Car Series announces updates to 2013 schedule including a return engagement to Petaluma Speedway

By Gary Thomas

Rio Vista, CA – January 15, 2013…Since the original release of the King of the West Sprint Car Series schedule there have been a couple of exciting modifications to detail, highlighted by the Winged 410 Sprint Car return to Petaluma Speedway on Saturday May 11.

The event at Petaluma Speedway will be billed as the “Tribute to Baylands Raceway Park” and marks the first Winged 410 Sprint Car race at the sticky three-eighths mile since 2010. Fans and teams alike have been hoping to see the King of the West Sprint Car Series back on the hooked up Petaluma gumbo and now they have their wish.

From Bobby Gerould’s Baylands Raceway Park page: "Baylands was a hot spot for great sprint car racing during a much too short-lived time in the 1980's. Located in Fremont, CA, in the heart of the thriving Bay Area, Baylands ran weekly winged sprints, as well as special World of Outlaws, CRA, BCRA, Golden State Challenge, and NARC shows. Opening in August, 1981 and racing until November, 1988, Baylands played a vital role in the booming sprint car scene in Northern California.”

To commemorate the evening on May 11 many names and faces from the days gone by at Baylands Raceway Park are expected to be on hand for autographs and interviews. The two most recent Winged 410 events at the Petaluma Speedway in 2010 were captured by reigning KWS champion Jonathan Allard in his familiar Williams Motorsports No. 0 sprinter.

“We are very excited to be back at the Petaluma Speedway in 2013 and want to thank Rick Faeth and John Soares for making it possible,” said KWS Operations Manager & former Baylands Raceway Park Announcer George Hague. “I have a lot of memories of Baylands from my days as an announcer there and we think it will be great to hold an event to relive the history of the track.”

To open up the date for Petaluma the King of the West Sprint Car Series and Merced promoter John Soares have moved the previous date for Merced Speedway to Saturday June 1. The quarter-mile bullring has played host to the World of Outlaws the last couple years, but in 2013 the KWS Series will be the only Winged 410 show at the facility.

Additional updates to the schedule include the annual “Chris & Brian Faria Memorial” being added to the Sunday May 26 date at Thunderbowl Raceway. The event is part of a King of the West Series double-header during Memorial Day weekend at the Tulare, California oval on Saturday & Sunday May 25 & 26. The “Faria Memorial” has been a mainstay on the schedule for a number of years.

The Saturday September 21 date at Thunderbowl Raceway will also be tabbed as the “John Anthony Sharp Memorial” and features the USAC West Coast Wingless Sprinters running alongside KWS to make for a great combo night of racing. Drivers such as Bud Kaeding and Peter Murphy are sure to pull double duty during the event at the blazing fast one-third mile clay oval.

More information on the traveling King of the West Sprint Car Series can be found online at http://www.kwssprints.com

Be sure to like us on the KWS Facebook Page at http://www.facebook.com/kingofthewestsprints and become a member of our Twitter community at https://twitter.com/KwsSprintRacing along with subscribing to us on You Tube by checking out http://www.youtube.com/user/kingofthewestsprints?feature=mhee

You can also follow us on Instagram by searching “kwssprints” and contact us via phone at the King of the West office (707) 374-2222. For questions or comments please don’t be hesitate to shoot us an email at kwsseries@yahoo.com

From an earlier release:

The 2013 racing season kicks off on Saturday April 20 with the traditional KWS opener at John Soares’ Antioch Speedway located on the Contra Costa County Fairgrounds. Quickly gaining a reputation as one of the raciest tracks in the West; the one-third mile clay oval will also host the King of the West 410 Sprints on Saturday July 20.

The high-banked quarter-mile bullring of Placerville Speedway will host the King of the West Series on two occasions once again this season. The first of those will be Saturday April 27 and the second is slated for Saturday June 29. The lightning fast track is a favorite among fans for its distinctive red clay and close action. The all-time KWS track record at Placerville is a blistering 9.913 shared by Tim Kaeding & Evan Suggs.

The always exciting Tulare Thunderbowl Raceway will play host to three nights of action in 2013, which will be anchored by a double header outing during Memorial Day weekend on Saturday & Sunday May 25 & 26. The King of the West 410’s will then return to the lightning fast one-third mile clay oval for a single night showing on Saturday September 21. The Sunday May 26 event will be the annual “Chris & Brian Faria Memorial” and the September 21 race will be tabbed as the “John Anthony Sharp Memorial.”

The famed Silver Dollar Speedway in Chico will hold one King of the West event this season and it happens to be the 23rd annual “Dave Bradway Jr. Memorial” on Saturday May 4. The event has been a cornerstone for the series and always features extra money and awards packed into the night. Expect a huge show as fans will get to see the KWS Series at SDS one time only in 2013, so don’t miss out on what is sure to be a definite special event on Saturday May 4.

Also hosting single events this season will be the Ocean Speedway in Watsonville on Saturday July 13, the new Stockton 99 Dirt Track on Saturday August 3, a return to the Santa Maria Speedway on Saturday July 27 and the 28th annual “Cotton Classic” at Kings Speedway in Hanford on Saturday October 12.

The event at Ocean Speedway on July 13 is the third annual “Howard Kaeding Classic,” which has become a very big event over the past two years at the Santa Cruz County Fairgrounds bullring. The “HK Classic” is part of an exciting two night weekend that also features USAC Sprints & Midgets during the Friday portion.

The Santa Maria Speedway visit on July 27 will mark the first KWS appearance at the track since 2011 and the Stockton event on August 3 will be the inaugural appearance for the series at the San Joaquin County Fairgrounds track. The prestigious “Cotton Classic” on October 12 will mark the lone 2013 appearance at Hanford’s Kings Speedway and will be a huge event as always, with the USAC West Coast Wingless Sprints also competing that night.

Friday & Saturday May 17 & 18 will be the first of five weekends of competition at the newly refurbished Reno Tahoe Fernley Speedway in Fernley, Nevada. During the off-season KWS Managing Director Dan Simpson became promoter of the track known as “Racings Field of Dreams” and is bringing 410 Sprint Car racing back to it for the first time since 2006.

In addition to May 17 & 18 the King of the West 410 Sprints will also invade the three-eighths mile oval on July 5 & 6 for the “Cherry Bomb Classic,” August 9 & 10 (during Hot August Nights in Reno), September 13 & 14 (during the Reno Air Races) and for the KWS season-finale on Friday & Saturday October 25 & 26. Stay tuned for all the exciting plans that are being put in place for RTF Speedway.

Another track located in Northern Nevada that joins the mix in 2013 is Rattlesnake Raceway in Fallon, hosting a pair of events with the first occurring on Friday & Saturday June 7 & 8. The two-night show is part of the town’s annual “Octane Fest” that features drag racing, monster trucks, tuff trucks and more. KWS will then return to Rattlesnake on Saturday & Sunday August 31 & September 1 during the “Cantaloupe Festival” in Fallon.

The amount of money on the line for teams this year with the King of the West Series during the Northern Nevada dates will be inflated as well, with each event at Reno Tahoe Fernley Speedway & Rattlesnake Raceway paying $3,500 to win the A-main and a very stout $1,000-to-start. The purses are focused on paying down solidly to make sure all teams in competition have a piece of the pie.

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2013 Knoxville Raceway Rules Changes and Amendments

KNOXVILLE, Iowa (January 15, 2013) - On Monday, January 7th the Knoxville Raceway Race Committee along with Race Director John McCoy met to review and approve recommended rule changes for the Knoxville Raceway 2013 season. A complete version of the 2013 Knoxville Raceway Rules may be found at http://www.knoxvilleraceway.com/files/rules.

John McCoy stated that most of the rules in all three classes would remain the same. Minor changes to the rulebook regarding standards for belts and helmets and other items have been updated.

Changes in the 410 class are highlighted by the move to Hoosier tires in 2013. The 16” wide tire will be used on the right rear. This tire is similar to the tire already used by the 360 and 205 sprint cars. Two new softer compounds will be introduced for use in the 410 class. Other possible left rear combinations are still being studied for use in the 410 class. At this time the new H12, H15, and H20 left rears will be allowed in all classes.

Pending further review and in following along with rule amendments coming out of the World of Outlaws, no carbon fiber fuel injectors will be allowed, for at least the 2013 season.

There are no significant changes in the 360 class at Knoxville this year.

In the 305 class the block rule has been amended to allow any cast iron 305 block. No extensive block lightning will be allowed.

305 wing rules have been amended to allow a maximum 2” rudder underneath the wing, same as the 360 wing rules.

The 305 class may run whatever tire is legal in either the 410 or 360 class.

The courtesy lap rule has been amended to allow a courtesy lap in all events for flat tires only.

Drivers must declare what class they are running for the point championship in at the beginning of the season. Drivers may compete in both the 360 and 410 classes from the beginning of the year. They cannot compete in the 305 class. 305 drivers may move up in class.

Other items discussed and approved:  Presenting the Legends Cars 4th Annual Fallen Officers Memorial Race on August 7th and 8th to benefit Officers families who have served and fallen in the line of duty.

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410 SPRINTS COMING TO ROARING KNOB ON SUNDAY, MAY 5; 1ST EVER SPRINT SHOW IN TRACK’S 15-YEAR HISTORY TO PAY $4,000
By Mike Leone

January 15, 2013 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

(Markleysburg, PA)…Sprint Car enthusiasts throughout the Northeast, Mid-Atlantic, and Mid-Ohio Valley regions will want to mark Sunday, May 5 on their calendars. History will be made as the “410” Sprint Cars will make their first ever appearance at the Roaring Knob Motorsports Complex located off historic US Route 40 in Markleysburg, Pa. The scenic area in Fayette County is about 70 miles southeast of Pittsburgh and just minutes from the West Virginia and Maryland borders.

The “410 Showdown in the Laurel Highlands” won’t be just any Sprint Car race, but will boast a healthy purse featuring $4,000 to the winner, a strong $350 to take the green flag of the feature, and $100 to any non-qualifier. The payout will be higher than any weekly event throughout the Commonwealth, and is expected to be the richest non-sanctioned event in 2013 in western Pennsylvania!

With its location, strong payout, and neutral grounds, the event is expected to draw cars from western and central Pennsylvania, northeastern Ohio, and the Mid-Ohio Valley.

“Going to Roaring Knob over the years, I always thought it would be a great place to see the Sprint Cars,” stated Mike Leone. “It’s kind of the best of both worlds as it’s still somewhat of small track at 3/8-mile, but it’s wide sweeping turns gives it that big track feel. It’s a great place to watch the races with no obstructions whether it’s from the grandstands, hillside grass seating or drive-in parking. Plus it’s always fun to see Sprints at a new place and The Knob’s location should draw an interesting field of cars!”

Roaring Knob is one of the relative new tracks in Pennsylvania as it opened its gates for the first time in 1998. Over the years, Roaring Knob has contested events for most every division in the region, while holding steadfast to its headlining Super Late Models.

Current owner/promoter Rick Jones took over “The Knob” in 2010. Today, Roaring Knob continues to be one to the top Super Late Model tracks in Pennsylvania. This season, Roaring Knob will again host the nationally-known Lucas Oil Late Model Dirt Series as well as regional groups like the Three State Flyers and the Appalachian Speedweek. Roaring Knob has also become prominent in the Crate Late Model world with strong weekly car counts and big touring events under the RUSH Dirt Late Model Series banner.

“I’ve always enjoyed the Sprint Cars,” acknowledged Jones. “I haven’t been in 410 Sprint Car country with the tracks that I’ve promoted over the years, but always wanted to try a show. I talked to Mike about it, and we came up with a good payoff that should give incentive to racers from all over the region to come. The other key was finding a date that didn’t conflict with anyone else, which wasn’t as easy it sounds. We wanted to get this announced early so people can make plans to be part of this historic, can’t miss event!”

From its early days of growing out of the old Super Modifieds in the 1960s, the Sprint Cars quickly became one of the most popular divisions in the Keystone State. In years gone by, tracks like Motordrome 70, Morgantown, Jennerstown, and Bedford would have been the closest to Roaring Knob to hold weekly Sprint Car racing. Today, the Pennsylvania tracks of Williams Grove, Lincoln, Port Royal, Lernerville, and Mercer continue to run them on a weekly basis. Also, not too far is the Ohio Valley Sprint Car Association that hosts weekly action at Ohio’s Skyline Speedway and other speedways in southern Ohio and West Virginia.

Stay tuned for more information as the event draws near. Mike Leone can be contacted at 724-967-2363, mikeleone@zoominternet.net, or on Twitter @mikevleone.

Roaring Knob Motorsports Complex is a 3/8-mile clay oval located near Markleysburg, Pa. just off of scenic Route 40 at 380 Fearer Road (look for the road sign) just seven miles east of Nemacolin Woodlands on the right, one mile west of Yough Lake on the left. Check out the website at www.roaringknob.com or call 410-857-3821 (office) or 724-329-0306 on race day.

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King of the West 410 Sprint Car Series 2013 Schedule

Saturday April 20: Antioch Speedway                           

Saturday April 27: Placerville Speedway              

Saturday May 4: Silver Dollar Speedway (23rd annual Dave Bradway Jr. Memorial)      

Saturday May 11: Petaluma Speedway (A Tribute to Baylands)                            

Friday May 17: Reno Tahoe Fernley Speedway   
Saturday May 18: Reno Tahoe Fernley Speedway

Saturday May 25: Tulare Thunderbowl Raceway
Sunday May 26: Tulare Thunderbowl Raceway (Chris & Brian Faria Memorial)

Saturday June 1: Merced Speedway

Friday June 7: Rattlesnake Raceway (Octane Fest Fallon, NV)
Saturday June 8: Rattlesnake Raceway (Octane Fest Fallon, NV)

Saturday June 29: Placerville Speedway               

Friday July 5: Reno Tahoe Fernley Speedway (Cherry Bomb Classic)
Saturday July 6: Reno Tahoe Fernley Speedway (Cherry Bomb Classic)

Saturday July 13: Ocean Speedway (3rd annual Howard Kaeding Classic)

Saturday July 20: Antioch Speedway         ­                 

Saturday July 27: Santa Maria Speedway            ­

Saturday August 3: Stockton 99 Dirt Track          

Friday August 9: Reno Tahoe Fernley Speedway
Saturday August 10: Reno Tahoe Fernley Speedway

Saturday August 31: Rattlesnake Raceway (Fallon Cantaloupe Festival)
Sunday September 1: Rattlesnake Raceway (Fallon Cantaloupe Festival)

Friday September 13: Reno Tahoe Fernley Speedway (Reno Air Races)
Saturday September 14: Reno Tahoe Fernley Speedway (Reno Air Races)

Saturday September 21: Tulare Thunderbowl Raceway (John Anthony Sharp Memorial)

Saturday October 12: Kings Speedway (28th annual Cotton Classic)

Friday October 25: Reno Tahoe Fernley Speedway (Championship Weekend)
Saturday October 26: Reno Tahoe Fernley Speedway (Championship Weekend)

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K-C/Atomic Speedway For Sale
 
CHILLICOTHE, OHIO- The historic Atomic Speedway, most recently Schrader's K-C Raceway, near Chillicothe, Ohio is "for sale" according to Jim Nier, Sr. and the Nier family, owners of the nationally known racing landmark. The speedway, known as "Ohio's fastest 3/8 mile high banked dirt track", did not operate in 2012, ending the 2011 season with another successful Dirt Track World Championship and a November Invitational.

From 2009 through 2011 the speedway was owned and operated by Jeff and Vicki Schrader. The ownership of the speedway reverted back to the Nier's in February 2012. The previous seven years, the Nier family operated the speedway and transformed the facility from a local Saturday night dirt track to a first-class, nationally recognized racing operation.  Many national events and nationally recognized sanctioning bodies including the World of Outlaws sprints and late models, Lucas Oil Late Models, AMA Motorcycles, United States Auto Club, and All-Star Circuit of Champions were among those making stops at the track during this time.

During the past year, the speedway has undergone a facelift and according to Jim Nier, Sr. is "Race Ready and a total turn-key operation with the exception of a part we have yet to replace on the grader. We want to see this place open in 2013.  We have put a lot of time and money into restoring this place to a first class operation. All we need is a buyer. I WANT to see the track open in  2013."

Nier added, "There is a lot of history here.  This place needs to be open.  We haven't just let it sit.  We've repaired what needed repaired, and made additional upgrades.  All someone will have to do is sign a check and go racing. If it was warmer and drier, you could open tomorrow."

Over 500 tons of new clay has been put on the track and another several hundred ton will be onsite for the new owner within the next few weeks.  The asking price is $750,000 'negotiable'."

"The land is worth a large chunk of that, not counting all the buildings, the track, the two kitchens, buildings, and all the equipment. Yes, there have been rumors of buyers, but it's just that--rumors.  We have had some interest, but no one has come up with the money."

Last February, Jimmy Nier said, "The track is again 100 percent mine. And the whole operation is up for sale.  If I keep it, the track will not open.  At this point in my life I want to dedicate my time to my racing and my family."

Nier is a talented Sprint car driver in the Midwest and is a two-time K-C Champion as well as winning a "Night the Stars Come Out" championship and posting wins with the All-Star Circuit of Champions.  Most recently, Nier has been one of the top guns in the Ohio Valley Sprint Car circuit.

Among the features at the speedway are a spacious state-of-the-art Press Box with inside stadium seating for 75 sponsors, guests, or other suitors; a first-class sound system, computer scoring system, new kitchens in the main grandstand area and pit area, quality restrooms, a Musco sports-lighting system, two ponds, and numerous acreage for camping and the hosting of large events.

The seating capacity for the facility is 7,500, which was filled at nearly every big event including the Dirt Track World Championship, Carl Short's Crown Jewell.

An added positive is the upturn in the economy which saw the Jackson County Speedway reopen in 2011 and the Legendary Hilltop Speedway and Wayne County Speedway reopen with successful reviews this past year.

In 1953, a group of Chillicothe businessmen realized a plan that had been in the making for several years. The group, which consisted of racing fans, drivers, and car owners, sought to provide a premier racing facility for the rapidly growing sport they knew as Stock Car Racing. It was a sport they lived and loved. It was the vision of this particular group of men--the Chillicothe Stock Car Racing Association-- that led to the construction of Atomic Speedway, which became known nationwide as K-C Raceway in 1985. As of October 14, 2011 K-C Raceway once again became Atomic Speedway in a move the Schrader's hoped would help bring prosperity back to the track.

Nier noted that the track "was a money maker and once again can be a money maker". 

For more information about Atomic Speedway, please contact Jim Nier at 340 Bailey Chapel Rd, Piketon, OH 45661-9673 or call  1-740-289-2629 or  (740) 289-3925.  Serious inquiries only!

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TWELVE (12) INDUCTEES ANNOUNCED AS “CLASS OF  2013” FOR NATIONAL SPRINT CAR HALL OF FAME

KNOXVILLE, IOWA (January 8, 2013) - The National Sprint Car Hall of Fame is pleased to announce the names of its twelve inductees for 2013.  Those that will be inducted into the National Sprint Car Hall of Fame on Saturday, June 1, during the twenty-fourth annual ceremonies in Knoxville, Iowa, are:

Drivers:  Charles “Dutch” Baumann, Art Bisch (Sr.), Andy Linden, Brad Noffsinger, Lou Blaney, Jeff Bloom.

Owners-Mechanics-Builders-Manufacturers-Car Sponsors:  C.W. Van Ranst, Harold “Red” Lempelius, Richard Hoffman.

Promoters-Officials-Media Members-Event/Series Sponsors:  E.A. “Ernie” Moross, Edd Sheppard, Jean Lynch.

According to National Sprint Car Hall of Fame & Museum Foundation executive director Bob Baker, “We are very proud of the work done by our 72-member National Induction Committee each and every year, and this year is no exception.  We have already received verbal commitments from Brad Noffsinger of North Carolina, Jeff Bloom of Michigan, Dick Hoffman of Ohio and Jean Lynch of Pennsylvania that they will be with us in Knoxville on June 1 to receive their awards.”

Baker, in making the announcement during the Lucas Oil Chili Bowl Midget Nationals, continued, “By the same token, it is unfortunate we will also have eight posthumous inductions to make this year.  However, we know that it is our mission to educate the current fans of sprint car racing on the many accomplishments of people like Dutch Baumann, Art Bisch, Andy Linden, Lou Blaney, Cornelius Van Ranst, Red Lempelius, Ernie Moross, and Edd Sheppard.  Their lives and careers will never be forgotten at the National Sprint Car Hall of Fame in Knoxville, Iowa!”

Those seeking more information on the National Sprint Car Hall of Fame can visit www.sprintcarhof.com.  Also, the museum can be reached at 641-842-6176.

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MUSEUM TO HOST “SPRINT CAR 101:  AN EVENING WITH MIKE THOMAS & BOBBY THOMPSON” ON THURSDAY, JANUARY 17, AT 7 P.M.

KNOXVILLE, IOWA (January 7, 2013) - The National Sprint Car Museum’s “Sprint Car 101” Third Thursday Series resumes on Thursday, January 17, with “An Evening with Mike Thomas & Bobby Thompson”  The free and open-to-the-public program will be held on the museum’s second floor and it will begin at 7 p.m.

According to museum curator Tom Schmeh, “I don’t think people realize what diverse careers these two central Iowa drivers have had.  For example, in 1982, Mike Thomas finished seventeenth in World of Outlaws (WoO) season points.  Finishing ‘top twenty’ in WoO final points is a heck of an accomplishment for any sprint car driver in any year.  He also finished nineteenth in Knoxville Raceway track points and ran the United States Auto Club (USAC) feature at Knoxville that year.  ‘Booby’ Thompson came from a racing family and is probably equally recognized as both a sprint car driver and a chassis builder with American Challenge in Des Moines.  This should be an entertaining and educational night about the lives and careers of two sprint car racing veterans.”

Those seeking more information on the “Sprint Car 101” Third Thursday Series can visit www.sprintcarhof.com.  Also, the museum can be reached at 641-842-6176. 

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Lernerville 410 Sprints back on Hoosier Tires!

Compounds and prices announced for 2013 season

Need a last minute gift idea . . . 2013 Lernerville tickets!

Sarver, PA (December 20, 2012) Lernerville Speedway is proud to announce that the 410 DIRTcar Sprints will be back on Hoosier Racing Tires for the 2013 season.  This four-corner Hoosier tire rule is a five-year deal between the Lernerville Speedway and Hoosier Tire Mid-Atlantic that will also apply the Don Martin Memorial Silver Cup and Commonwealth Clash sanctioned by the World of Outlaws, the All Star Circuit of Champions sanctioned races at the speedway, as well as the season ending DIRTcar Round Up Steel City Stampede.

Of the new deal, Lernerville Speedway General Manager Gary Risch Jr. stated, “We’re thrilled to extend our ongoing relationship with Hoosier Racing Tires and Hoosier Tire Mid-Atlantic to include the Sprints once again.  We’d like to thank the folks at Goodyear Racing Tires and Big Daddy’s Speed Shop for all their help and support the last three year.”

Hoosier Tire-Mid-Atlantic/Precise Racing Products General Manager has released detailed compound, wheel size and pricing information as listed below.

Front Tires

Map pricing $165.00 each

Part #31-131 85/8.0-15 D12

Part #31-132 85/8.0-15 D15, D20

*Same as current front tires

Left Rear Tires

Map pricing $198.00 each

Part #38-137 15.0/90-15 H12

Part #38-147 15.0/92-15 H12, H15

Part #38-157 15.0/94-15 (SH) H12

*94” left will be offered in a short and tall*

Part #38-159 15.0/94-15 H12, H15

Part #38-167 15.0/96-15 H12, H15

Right Rear Tires

Map Pricing $198.00 each

Part #38-221 105/16.0-15 H15, H20, Medium

*The 105/16-15 right rear can be utilized on current 16”, 17”and18” wide wheels.

*Factory development on the 105/16-15 has been conducted on a 17” wide wheel so the recommended wheel width is 17”.

* The minimum recommend width is 16” and maximum is 18”.

Part #38-231 105/18.0-15 Hard (Emergency Tire)

With Christmas now less than a week away, if you’re still trying to find that last minute, perfect gift for the racing fan on your list, we highly recommend Lernerville tickets as the ultimate gift or stocking stuffer.  Tickets for the Firecracker 100 presented by GottaRace.com, Don Martin Memorial Silver Cup Twin 30s and Commonwealth Clash are available 24/7 at Lernerville.com or by calling the speedway office at (724) 353-1511.  Office hours this week are 10:00AM-4:30PM through Friday. Another gift option is Fab Four Racing tickets.  The popular Pic5 and Pic10 ticket packages are the perfect choice for the Fab Four Racing fanatic on your list.  The Pic5 package gets you six tickets for the price of five and the Pic10 gets your 12 tickets for the price of 10!  You can also purchase season passes for the pits and tickets for the Annual Awards Banquet by calling the speedway office.

The Annual Awards Banquet is scheduled for Saturday, March 16 and will be held at the Willow Tree/Comfort Inn & Suites in RIDC Park along Route 28 South.  A select preview of the 2013 Lernerville Speedway schedule – including marquee event dates – is posted at Lernerville.com under the Schedule tab.

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AREA FOOD PANTRIES STRENGTHENED THROUGH SUPPORT OF ELDORA STAFF

Eldora Concession Manager Todd Stucky (R) presents Pastor Tim Clutter of CALL Food Pantry with proceeds from Pack the Pantry

Over $7000 in Cash and Truck Load of Non-Perishable Items Benefit Darke & Mercer Counties

ROSSBURG, OH (Dec. 12) – It was a classic tale of the celebration of two seasons recently at Eldora Speedway.  Speedway staff members and vendors gathered Saturday evening (Dec. 8) to celebrate the completion of a successful 2012 racing season at the venerable .500-mile clay oval speed plant; and in the spirit of the Christmas season, the theme was ‘Pack the Pantry.’

Collectively, the attendees collected enough non-perishable goods to overflow Eldora’s Chevrolet Silverado pace truck and raised nearly $7,000 in cash through an auction of donated items from area businesses and race teams.  Benefitting from that generosity will be two area food banks – CALL (Community Action Life Line) Food Pantry of Mercer County and Fish Choice Pantry of Darke County.

Organizing the event was Eldora Concession Manager Todd Stucky.  “We are truly honored and moved by the support of our Eldora racing family and their desire to help the less fortunate during this time of the year,” commented Stucky.

The donated supplies, and additional goods purchased through the cash donation, will be distributed to families in need throughout those counties as identified by the pantry directors.

Saturday’s event complemented Eldora’s Feed The Children Prelude to the Dream held this past June.   Proceeds of the event’s pay-per-view broadcast and the “Night with the Kenny’s,” featuring NASCAR stars Kenny Schrader, Kenny Wallace and a surprise appearance by track owner and three-time NASCAR Sprint Cup Champion Tony Stewart were used to purchase multiple semi-truck loads of non-perishable items that were distributed to numerous food pantries throughout the United States, including one semi load that was split between the local CALL and Fish units.   That distribution was enjoyed by 200 families in each county.

Fueled by the tremendous success of 2012, the staff reviewed the exciting 2013 Eldora major event schedule which includes not only the recently announced Inaugural Midsummer Classic for the NASCAR Camping World Truck Series (July 24), but additions to the traditional Dirt Late Model Dream (June 6-7-8) and World 100 (Sept. 5-6-7) weekends, along with the pomp and circumstance that surrounds the Kings Royal (July 12 & 13) Weekend.  

Seats and campsites for the Dream, Kings Royal and World 100 weekends are on sale now through the track’s website www.EldoraSpeedway.com or by calling the track office at (937)338-3815.   The NASCAR Camping World Truck Series event tickets and campsites will go on sale January 5.   Fans can also follow Eldora Speedway on Facebook and Twitter.

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ALPHABET OF SPRINT CAR SANCTIONING BODIES RETURNS TO ELDORA IN 2013

Special Event Slate Includes WoO, ASCoC, USAC and NRA

ROSSBURG, OH (Dec. 6) – Eldora Speedway’s 60th consecutive year of racing will again have a strong open wheel flavor, as the alphabet soup of sanctioned Sprint Car racing that Eldora has come to be known for, continues into 2013.   The mix includes World of Outlaw STP Sprint Car Series (WoO), UNOH All Star Circuit of Champions (ASCoC), United States Auto Club (USAC) and National Racing Alliance (NRA).

Leading the 2013 WoO invasion into Eldora, and their five sanctioned events will be the 30th annual Kings Royal weekend; complete with the ceremonial crowning and the traditional $50,000 payday, July 12 and 13.  The coast-to-coast touring group will also make Eldora stops on May 3 & 4 and then again for crown number one of the 32nd annual Four Crown Nationals on September 20.

Exciting news on the All Star front is the return of Eldora into the storied Ohio Sprint Speedweek on June 22, a stop that has been absent since 2009.   The Midwest based troupe will close out their season, along with Eldora’s, as part the UNOH Sprintacular on October 12.

Joining the Sprintacular will be the NRA Sprint Invaders in their fourth 2013 appearance.  Dates prior to that include the Johnny Appleseed Classic on May 26 as well as the Kings Royal weekend, July 12 and 13.

For the traditionalists, USAC and their non-winged style of Sprint Car racing will return as a component of the 2013 slate.  Considered to be the ‘elder statesman’ of Sprint Car racing on the high-banks of Eldora with their rich 51-year history, the USAC National Sprint tour will be featured on April 20 and again during the Four Crown Nationals on September 21 when they join their brethren USAC Midget and Silver Crown divisions for an all open-wheel weekend. 

The variety of Sprint Car sanctioning bodies continues to be a key component into the venerable speed plant’s reputation as a special event facility catering to a multitude of race fans’ favored divisions.

Finishing touches are being put on the complete 2013 bill of fare and will be released shortly on the track’s website www.EldoraSpeedway.com, along with Facebook and Twitter. Fans can order seats and campsites to the majority of Eldora’s events, including the Kings Royal, Dirt Late Model Dream and World 100, from the comfort of their home via the website, or by calling the speedway office at (937) 338-3815.  Tickets for the Inaugural Mudsummer Classic featuring the NASCAR Camping World Truck Series (July 24) will go on sale, in the same manner, at 10 a.m. on January 5, 2013.

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West Coast Meets Midwest: Randy Hannagan Joins Amati Racing for 2013 Season

They may come from different parts of the country, but next year two racers with family roots deep in sprint car racing will be joining forces to run a limited World of Outlaw schedule. When the 2013 season takes the checkered flag, California will clash with Illinois as Randy Hannagan will be joining Shane Wade’s Amati Racing in the No. 66 Marion Underground Construction/Shane Wade Enterprises/J&J Chassis.

“I am very excited to join forces with Shane Wade and the Amati team for the 2013 season,” Hannagan stated. “I look forward to getting to run more 410 shows than I have in the past few years. I am really enthusiastic about getting back to World of Outlaw racing as well.”

Hannagan joins Amati Racing after a successful 2012 season which saw him in both his own 410 and Dennis Yokam’s 360. The California native ran with the NRA Sprint Invaders winning eight of the 15 scheduled races at three different tracks and picking up his second consecutive title with the series.

“Randy will be an exciting addition to Amati Racing for 2013,” stated team owner Shane Wade. “I'm looking forward to running an expanded schedule that includes more World of Outlaw races. Having a driver of Randy's Caliber will definitely help us run with those guys and achieve our goal of growing into a full time team.”

Amati Racing is owned by Shane Wade whose team was founded by his legendary grandfather Chuck Amati The team has competed in the Midwest with the All Star Circuit of Champions and World of Outlaws this past season and looks to expand their schedule in 2013. A full schedule will be released at a later time.

“I am really looking forward to working with the team Shane is putting together,” Hannagan explained. “Derek Holmwood has moved from Washington to work with us. I’m looking forward to meeting this kid and I don’t think it will take the racing world long to see how sharp he is.”

“The Hurricane” also plans to run Dennis Yokam’s 360 Sprint Car as his schedule allows in 2013.

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MUSEUM-BENEFIT EAGLE/OTT RAFFLE CAR IN INDIANAPOLIS FOR FINAL STOP PRIOR TO DECEMBER 21 GRAND PRIZE DRAWING

KNOXVILLE, IOWA (December 5, 2012) – The National Sprint Car Museum-benefit Eagle/Ott raffle sprint car is now at its final appearance prior to being awarded to one lucky grand prize winner on Friday, December 21.  The Eagle Motorsports sprinter with its state-of-the-art 410-cubic-inch Don Ott Racing Engines powerplant will be on display in booth 635 at the International Motorsports Industry Show (IMIS) in Indianapolis on December 6-8.

Museum executive director Bob Baker said today, “We would like to take this time to thank builders Eagle Motorsports and Don Ott Racing Engines, in addition to participating manufacturers Goodyear, Dan Olson Racing Products, T&D Machine Products, Moose Blocks, Del West Engineering, Engler Machine & Tool, Barnes, TelTac, Longacre, HRP Wings, Weld Wheels, Schroeder, Winters Performance, FK Rod Ends, Pro Shocks, Wilwood Brakes, KSE, Fuel Safe, Simpson, Astro Titanium, AutoMeter, Brodix, Callies, Dyer's Top Rods, All-Pro, Shaver/Wesmar Gear Drives, MSD Ignition, Total Seal Piston Rings, Schoenfeld, GS Products, ButlerBuilt Seats, Waterman Racing Components, Brown & Miller Racing Solutions, RJR Components, P-Ayr, Sweet Manufacturing, C&R Racing, PAC Racing Springs, OTR Filters and Mahle.  All of these companies deserve a tremendous amount of appreciation from sprint car fans everywhere for supporting our ninth 18-month, museum-benefit raffle.”

Tickets can be purchased at Indianapolis (booth #635), by visiting the museum in Iowa, or by calling the museum at 1-800-874-4488.  Those seeking more information on the museum-benefit raffle car can visit the www.sprintcarhof.com web site.

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OVSCA BANQUET DECEMBER 15

Dickson Honored as 2012 Champion

By Scott Wolfe

STEWART, OHIO- The Ohio Valley Sprint Car Association will hold its third annual awards banquet and dinner Saturday, December 15 at the Comfort Inn Mineral Wells, West Virginia from 6 p.m. - 11 p.m. The top 15 drivers in Ohio Valley Sprint Car Association points (OVSCA) will be honored, along with the championship team of driver Dave Dickson, Marietta, Ohio and long-timeowner Doug Abbott.

The event will be held in conjunction with the 4th annual Skyline Speedway banquet.

Due to a scheduling conflict the banquet was moved to the Comfort Inn in Mineral Wells, West Virginia just off I-77 at the West Virginia Motor Speedway exit.  Because this venue is a smaller facility, the top 15 teams in OVSCA points will have first chance at banquet reservations. Phone and e-mail invitations are being prepared now, however; teams can expedite reservations by making the contacts below to ensure a seat.  Likewise, the top five drivers and teams in all three Skyline Speedway classes--410 Sprints, AMRA Modifieds, and AMRA Late Models--will have first chances at banquet seating. Minimal problems should arise from the change of venue, since the facility is only 20 seats smaller than the previous location. Fans should get reservations in ASAP, however.

The OVSCA and Skyline Speedway and staff apologizes for any inconveniences this may cause.  Some drivers and fans may need to revise motel reservations as well.  All other OVSCA guests will be guaranteed a reservation on a first-come, first-served basis, so everyone should get their reservation in immediately.  

The OVSCA banquet is free to all fans, drivers, crews, owners, and sponsors, however; attendees must have a reservation RSVP on or by December 7. This has been OVSCA President Billy Jarrell's way of rewarding all those who help make racing a huge success in the Mid-Ohio Valley.

The banquet will begin with Happy Hour at 6:00 and dinner at 6:30 p.m.  Dinner will tentatively consist of Pasta Bar, Salad, Water and Ice Tea plus 'Cash Bar'.   Awards and door prizes will follow.

Three years ago (2010) area race track promoters in Southeast Ohio and West Virginia in association with Hoosier Tire- Ohio Valley joined forces to form a new 410 winged sprint car series-- the Ohio Valley Sprint Car Association (OVSCA).  At the time, Hoosier Racing Tire -Sprint Product manager Neil Cowman said, "This series will give the drivers and team owners the option of being able to continue to race on America's most competitive sprint tire."

With the signing of Hoosier Tire to other sanctioning bodies for the 2013 season, Hoosier Tire Ohio Valley executive Todd Frye said, "This should give the OVSCA more options, and make it easier for the series to expand.  Having the drivers race multiple venues on quality Hoosier tires is a great thing for sprint car racing in general.  I see this as a win-win for local drivers and for the growth of our series."

"I would like to congratulate all of our drivers and especially our champion Dave Dickson.  Thanks to everyone who participated throughout the season."

The first two years of the OVSCA saw Jimmy Stinson, Vandalia, Ohio bring home the championship.

In 2012 racing veteran Dave Dickson, Marietta, of the racing Dickson family, claimed his first series championship.  Of the 27 races in the series in 2012, Dickson had ten top five's and 16 top-ten finishes, including numerous second place finishes.  Dickson edged Stinson, 1653 to 1620 in a points' battle that went down to the very last race of the season.

Dickson, a veteran of 31 years, claimed the championship aboard Doug Abbott's #7A Schnee Chassis, powered by an Abbott 410 Aluminum Engine. Not only did Dickson attend all 27 races, but incredibly finished every single feature race.  That accomplishment came from the diligent work and maintenance schedule set by car-owner Abbott.

Dickson has been involved in the racing community since his childhood, growing up watching his uncle, 'Lightning Larry' Dickson; compete in USAC and several Indy 500s. This inspired him to get into racing, where he began driving in 1983 alongside brother Steve Dickson. Always a great driver over time, and winning 100's of heat races and three career features, Dickson is noted amicably as "Fine Wine" for getting better with age.

Although all drivers and teams are welcome, the top fifteen only will be receiving awards.

Rounding out the top ten behind champion Dickson and Stinson were Josh Davis, Greg Mitchell, Kory Crabtree, Nathan Skaggs, Danny Smith, Bob Tucker, Andre Layfield, Brian Benson, Eric Martin, Wayne McPeek, Jesse McCreary, Ryan Broughton, and Lance Webb. A separate release for Skyline was submitted earlier this week.

Smith led the charge in victories with ten wins, Stinson had five, Cole Duncan three, Andre Layfield and Nathan Skaggs two each, and Kody Kinser, Greg Mitchell, Kory Crabtree, and Ryan Broughton one apiece. Mitchell, Broughton, and Skaggs were first-time winners.  *Totals reflect OVSCA wins only.

For RSVP or to submit door prize donations, please contact Katie Dickson at kdickson9@gmail.com or by calling 740-525-2500, 304-539-4410. There will be NO FOOD for anyone NOT RSVP'ing to Ms. Dickson "on or before Friday Dec 7".  Please confirm your reservation ASAP.

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Saturday Marks Opening of Public Sales to Eldora Traditional Marquee Events

Seats and Campsites for Dirt Late Model Dream, Kings Royal and World 100 Available Beginning 10 a.m.

ROSSBURG, OH (Nov. 30) – As is tradition at Eldora Speedway, the first Saturday of December marks the annual public sale date of event tickets and campsites for the legendary facility’s marquee events, Dirt Late Model Dream Week (June 6, 7 & 8), Kings Royal Weekend (July 12 & 13) and World 100 Week (September 5, 6 & 7).  Beginning at 10 a.m., race fans will be able to secure their seats and campsites for these celebrated events during Eldora’s 60th consecutive season of racing by going online to www.EldoraSpeedway.com or by calling the speedway office (937) 338-3815.

“Going online to our website to make these purchases is easy, thanks to the TicketForce prepared design, and it is a race fan’s best bet due to the volume of orders it can process simultaneously,” stated Eldora Ticket Manager Tess Thwaits.  “We will have a full staff ready to answer the phones tomorrow from 10 a.m. through 3 p.m. and the box office will be open for walk-in orders.”

An unprecedented sense of anticipation accompanies tomorrow’s public sale date.  Eldora’s theme of “Aggressive Expansion” for its 60th year will see both the Dirt Late Model Dream and World 100 expand to multiple-day racing programs for the first-time in their history.  Thursday and Friday nights of those race weeks will now both feature complete qualifying, Heat Race, B-Feature and Twin 25 Feature race programs before the traditional Saturday night events.  The move has proven popular with competitors and fans alike.  Drivers are excited about the opportunity to have more laps on the treacherous high-banks to dial-in for Saturday’s “Crown Jewels” and the posted awards approaching $600,000 while race fans have been clamoring to renew their ticket and campsite orders.

Not to be outdone by their full-fendered brethren, the stars of the World of Outlaws and winged Sprint Car fans have the 30th Annual Kings Royal Weekend on pace for another record weekend.  Following Sammy Swindell’s popular triumph that featured some of the best racing witnessed all season – including 14 exchanges of the lead in the 40-lap A-Feature – ticket renewals are at an all-time high for the July classic and the kickoff to the Outlaws’ “Month of Money.” 

Tickets and campsites for the recently announced NASCAR Camping World Truck Series Mudsummer Classic will go on public sale Saturday, January 5, 2013 at 10 a.m.  However, advance ticket holders to the 2012 Prelude to the Dream are being offered the exclusive opportunity to purchase their same seats for the historic Wednesday, July 24 running of NASCAR’s first national series event on dirt since 1970.  They may begin taking advantage of this opportunity beginning tomorrow at 10 a.m. through the deadline of January 2, 2013.

The complete 2013 Eldora Speedway calendar, including more new racing and family shows plus the expansion of a longtime traditional event, will be announced in the coming weeks.

Complete event and ordering information, along with seating and campground schematics, may be found at www.EldoraSpeedway.com.

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WORLD OF OUTLAWS SPRINT CARS RETURN TO PERRIS AUTO SPEEDWAY ON APRIL 13, 2013!

(Perris, CA, November 21, 2012)  The legendary World of Outlaw Sprint Car Series will be returning to "Southern California's Home of Major League Sprint Car Racing," Perris Auto Speedway, for the second year in a row on Saturday, April 13, 2013 for the "Southern California Showdown." 

The highly anticipated race will be the only chance for fans to see the likes of sprint car racing superstars Steve & Kraig Kinser, Donny Schatz, Joey Saldana, Craig Dollansky, Sammy Swindell and the rest of Outlaws in the greater Los Angeles area in 2013.

Tickets for the race are the same prices as 2012.  Fans who attended the "Greatest Show On Dirt" at The PAS in 2012 can buy tickets now.  For those who did not attend the thrilling 2012 race, tickets will go on sale this weekend.  They may be purchased online at: http://www.worldofoutlaws.com/.  Premium seats are $65.00 and include a free fan pit pass.  Reserved seats are $50.00 and also include a free fan pit pass.  General admission tickets are $45.00 for adults and $10.00 for kids 12 and under. 

The April 13th race will be the last one on the Outlaws early season western swing.  Last March, when the Outlaws made their first appearance at The PAS in five years, Saldana beat multi-time World of Outlaw champions Jason Meyers and Steve Kinser to the checkered flag in a crowd pleasing main event.  Chad Kemenah dazzled the crowd with a sizzling qualifying lap of 14:532 to set fast time.

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First 2013 SPEED SPORT Knoxville World Challenge Qualifier is this Saturday at Western Springs with 3 Americans, 1 Australian & Many New Zealanders
 
KNOXVILLE, IOWA  (November 21, 2012)  -  The Western Springs Speedway in Auckland, New Zealand, will host the first 2013 SPEED SPORT Knoxville World Challenge international qualifier this Saturday, November 24, with the World Sprint Car Classic.  Amongst the early entrants are Americans Donny Schatz of North Dakota, Ricky Logan of Arkansas, and Jonathan Allard of California; Australian Peter Murphy of Queensland; and a whole host of talented New Zealanders.  The thirty-lap feature will pay $5,000 to win, with all competitors qualifying for the $10,000-to-win SPEED SPORT Knoxville World Challenge on Friday, August 9, during the 53rd annual Knoxville Nationals at Knoxville Raceway.

Amongst the New Zealanders that are expected to be present for the inaugural round of Western Springs’ two-race International Sprint Car Series are Ryan O’Connor, Dean Brindle, Jamie Duff, Jamie McDonald, Allan Woods, Daniel Rogers, Greg Pickerill, Dion Kendall, Rob Corscadden, Scott Fountain and Rob Allen.

Said Knoxville general manager Brian Stickel this week, “We are very excited about hosting the twentieth annual World Challenge on Friday, August 9, during the Knoxville Nationals.  And there is no better way than to kick-off the international qualifiers than with defending SPEED SPORT World Challenge champion Donny Schatz becoming eligible for our August event by competing at Western Springs Speedway in New Zealand this weekend.”

For more information on the Knoxville Raceway and its twentieth  annual SPEED SPORT Knoxville World Challenge, fans are urged to visit www.knoxvilleraceway.com.

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UNOH All Star Circuit of Champions sign deal with Hoosier Tire

ImageCAMARGO, IL (11-15-12)By Brian Liskai – The University of Northwestern Ohio All Star Circuit of Champions and Hoosier Racing Tire Corporation have entered into a five-year agreement making the Indiana-based tire brand the series’ tire supplier beginning in the 2013 season.
 
The UNOH All Stars, which annually completes 40 to 50 winged 410 sprint car events, will use Hoosiers in all four positions.
 
The UNOH All Stars join the World of Outlaws and many tracks throughout the country to have signed an agreement with Hoosier Racing Tire.
 
“We look forward to working with Hoosier Tire and feel they will provide the best tire that will insure good racing and hopefully save our teams money in the long-run,” said Guy Webb, CEO of the UNOH All Stars. “
 
For more information about the UNOH All Star Circuit of Champions visit their website at www.allstarsprint.com. More information is also available at www.hoosiertire.com

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UNOH All Stars set to begin season "down south"

CAMARGO, IL (11-14-12)
By Brian Liskai.

The University of Northwestern Ohio (UNOH) All Star Circuit of Champion Sprint Cars will blast open the 2013 racing season with five big events “down south” beginning with the Third Annual Winter Freeze Thursday, Feb. 7 at Screven Motor Speedway. The UNOH All Stars will then head to Bubba Raceway Park on Friday and Saturday, Feb. 8 and 9 and the wrap up their southern swing at Volusia Speedway Park Wednesday and Thursday Feb. 13 and 14.
 
“We consolidated our events in the south this year. It will save the fans and race teams some money as our races are being held over two weeks,” said Guy Webb, President/CEO of the UNOH All Stars.
 
Screven Motor Speedway – also known as “The Action Track of the South” – is located on Georgia Highway 21 between the towns of Newington, Ga. and Sylvania, Ga. It is a 3/8th mile clay track that began operations in 2997.
 
Action begins at Screven on Feb. 6 for the Third Annual Winter Freeze and runs through Feb. 9. The UNOH All Stars will battle on Thursday, Feb. 7 for a $5,000-to-win affair to kick off the touring group’s season. During the Winter Freeze, Screven will also host the World of Outlaw Late Models, national late models, the Florida mini-sprints and possibly a non-sanctioned winged sprint car even during the four-day Winter Freeze.
 
“We’re excited to have the All Stars down here. We normally run fendered cars so this will be a real treat for our fans,” said Screven Motor Speedway Owner James “Red” Griffin.” “We only have one night for the sprints this year, but it’s a better deal for those teams as they go to Ocala the following two nights and then to Volusia the next week. Hopefully putting the events closer together will entice more of the northern sprint car teams to come down here and give our fans a thrill.”
 
Last year at Screven, Pittsboro, Indiana’s Daryn Pittman opened the UNOH All Star season by holding off UNOH All Star regular David Gravel and young charger Logan Schuchart for the win. Pittman would go on to pick up the UNOH All Star’s Eastern Region Championship in 2012, and will now pilot one of Kasey Kahne’s machine’s in 2013.
 
On the second night of competition, 3-time NASCAR Sprint Cup Champion Tony Stewart would drive to the high side of a frozen track – where no one else dared to go – and passed Jason Sides on the last lap to pick up his first ever UNOH All Star sprint car win.
 
For more information about Screven Motor Speedway go to www.screvenmotorspeedway.com
 
The UNOH All Stars then travel a little further south to Ocala, Florida to Bubba Raceway Park for a two night stand, Friday and Saturday, Feb. 8 and 9.
 
Bubba Raceway Park is a unique, 3/8th mile D-shaped, semi-banked clay track. It began operations in 1952, making it the oldest track in the State of Florida.
 
Nationally syndicated shock jock Bubba “The Love Sponge” Clem – a lifelong race enthusiast – purchased the former Ocala Speedway in 2011. A race car driver himself, Clem, 46, hosts his five-day-per-week, talk-only radio show out of FM 102.5 in Tampa. He has made several improvements to the track since taking ownership.
 
The 2013 Bubba Army Winternationals will take place Jan. 28-Feb. 23 and not only features the UNOH All Stars, but the World of Outlaw Late Models, UMP Open Wheel Modifieds, winged 360 sprints, and the USAC AMSOIL National Sprint Cars.
 
In 2012, Bubba Raceway Park hosted the UNOH All Stars for three nights of racing. On the first night, Danny “The Dude” Lasoski, a multi-time Knoxville Raceway champion and Knoxville Nationals winner, scored the win over Dale Blaney, who would put together a nine-win UNOH All Star season in 2012, securing the Ohio Region Championship along the way. Tim Shaffer, who would go on to record his fourth consecutive UNOH All Star Circuit of Champions national title, would come home third.
 
On the second night of competition, Blaney, who sits second on the UNOH All Star Circuit of Champion’s all-time win list with 93 victories – just five shy of tying National Sprint Car Hall of Fame member Kenny Jacobs – would take the win over Pittman and Sam Hafertepe Jr.
 
Lasoski, who calls Ocala home during the winter months, would wrap up the three-day affair at Bubba Raceway Park, with another victory over Aaron Ott and young UNOH All Star charger Danny Holtgraver.
 
For more information about Bubba Raceway Park, go to www.bubbaracewaypark.com
 
Once again, the UNOH All Star Circuit of Champions will be a part of the 42nd Annual UNOH DIRTcar Nationals Presented by Summit Racing Equipment at Volusia Speedway Park in Barberville, Fla. The UNOH DIRTcar Nationals will take place Feb. 12-23 with the UNOH All Stars competing Wednesday and Thursday, Feb. 13 and 14. The Nationals include the World of Outlaw Sprint Cars and World of Outlaw Late Models, Super DIRTcar Series Big-Block Modifieds, UMP Modifieds and DIRTcar Late Models.
 
Every night is a double-header during the UNOH DIRTcar Nationals and there are free fan pit passes with every ticket purchase every night. Gates will open nightly at 5 p.m. with heat races beginning at 7:30 p.m.
 
Last year at Volusia, Lasoski would open the UNOH DIRTcar Nationals with the UNOH All Star win over Kraig Kinser and Shaffer. It was Lasoski’s 18th career win at the track as he leads all other drivers in victories at Volusia.
 
On night #2 for the UNOH All Stars, “The Crowd Pleaser” Craig Dollansky – who would finish second in the World of Outlaws points in 2012 – came home the winner over Pittman and Lasoski.
 
For more information on Volusia Speedway Park – one of the world’s fastest half-mile dirt ovals – go to www.volusiaspeedwaypark.com. For more information about the 42nd Annual UNOH DIRTcar Nationals Presented by Summit Racing Equipment, go to www.dirtcarnationals.com
 
The five races for the UNOH All Stars – Feb. 7 at Screven, Feb. 8 and 9 at Bubba Raceway Park, and Feb. 13 and 14 at Volusia – are Eastern Region Point events. The champion of the Eastern Region at the end of 2013 will earn $20,000.
 
For more information about the UNOH All Star Circuit of Champions go to www.allstarsprint.com

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King of the West 410 Sprint Car Series hands out over $160,000 in cash & awards during the 2012 championship banquet this past Saturday at the Jackson Rancheria Casino Resort

By Gary Thomas

Jackson, CA – November 14, 2012…The King of the West 410 Sprint Car Series presented its annual championship awards banquet on Saturday November 10 at the Jackson Rancheria Casino Resort, where driving champion Jonathan Allard, owner titlist Roth Motorsports and others were honored for their achievements this past season.

During the banquet on Saturday the largest cash point fund in the history of California Sprint Car racing was given out and totaled $121,500 for the top-14 “Members in Good Standing,” who didn’t miss more than two races this season. The championship awards banquet was part of a three day weekend at Jackson Rancheria that featured a fan kickoff party on Friday evening, a car show & model car show on Saturday afternoon and a general business meeting on Sunday morning.

The KWS driving title for Allard was the third of his career with the traveling 410 Sprint Car Series. Although he was unable to attend due to being in New Zealand, car owner Morrie Williams accepted the honor. Allard and Williams walked away with $17,500 from the cash point fund and spoke highly of the teams that compete with KWS and all the people that make it happen.

”This has been such a great year and tough at times, but it sure puts things in perspective,” Allard said in a previously typed speech. “I'm very fortunate to be a part of such a great team. We push so hard to win every time we race and to win championships. I have been given an opportunity to do both, but there is so much more than that with this team. Katie and Morrie Williams have given me the ability to grow as a leader inside the car and out.”

Winning the King of the West Series owner championship for the second year in a row, Roth Motorsports was well represented at the awards banquet on Saturday and took home $20,000 from the cash point fund. One of the biggest rounds of applause during the night came when it was announced that Dennis Roth would be donating out of his championship winnings $5000 to the Northern Auto Racing Club Benevolent Fund and $5000 to the Tyler Wolf Memorial Fund.

Roth Motorsports this past season utilized Tim Kaeding and Kyle Hirst for the 17-race schedule and as a team totaled seven main event victories, along with scoring five BR Motorsports Fast Time Awards. “I really want to thank Tim Kaeding & Kyle Hirst for doing a great job with Roth Motorsports this year,” said Dennis Roth. “I also have to thank our whole team, my wife Teresa and Dan Simpson for giving us a great series to run in California.”

For the first time the teams that ranked 15 through 35 in the standings, who missed the cut for the main point fund, were also honored and brought up on stage. They received plaques in appreciation of their support and took part in a secondary point fund. Those on hand included Cody Lamar, Jeff Griffin, Golobic Motorsports, Richard Brace Jr. and Kenny Allen. Along with Peter Murphy, who was representing Scott Parker & Dean Brindle, and Brent Kaeding who was representing BK Racing & Brian Matherly.

The 2012 King of the West 410 Sprint Car Series Rookie of the Year Chad Compton of Fair Oaks was also honored during the night and received a custom plaque from Tim Grant of Grant’s Fine Art, along with certificates from Auto Meter Products Inc., KSE Racing, Winters Racing, Racing Optics, Pro Shocks and Red Devil Brakes. He also went home with a $200 concert package courtesy Jackson Rancheria Casino Resort. Compton stated that he’s never had more fun in racing than he had this year with KWS.

The KWS Hard Luck Award this year went to Rio Linda’s Cody Lamar, who suffered through various tough luck all season long. Driving the famed Tri-C No. 3c sprint car Lamar made all but five events this year and as a team they missed just four races with the series. For the award Lamar took home a very unique trophy made by Bob Carter, a $250 detail at Carters Detailing in Chico, along with a certificate for Auto Meter Products Inc. and A.R.T. Manufactured Products in Sacramento.

Each of the top-14 teams also received a custom Bob Olson painted die cast replica of their own sprint car, along with a unique steering wheel trophy. Tim Kaeding and Willie Croft earned the fast time award this season by setting the most BR Motorsports Quick Time efforts in 2012. “TK” and “Double Down” each set three fast times this year and were awarded with custom plaques by Grant’s Fine Art that depicted the honor. Williams Motorsports crew chief Ashley Smith received the crew chief of the year award that featured a custom spark plug trophy. Smith also earned a standing ovation from the packed room.

King of the West 410 Sprint Car Series partner Kaeding Performance gathered some great items for this year’s “Royal Court Drawing,” which saw the top-14 teams/drivers that didn’t miss more than two events during the season take part. Those included Roth Motorsports, Williams Motorsports, Evan Suggs, Brent Kaeding, Peter Murphy, Bobby McMahan (Danielle Simpson filled in for Bobby, who couldn’t attend due to work), Jason Statler, Willie Croft, Andy Gregg, Craig Stidham, Chad Compton, Doug Gandy and Pat Harvey. Prizes in the “Royal Court Drawing” totaled to $15,000.

The major items in the drawing included a Maxim Chassis & Body donated by Kaeding Performance that was powder coated by Hot Coats Powder Coating, in addition to a Red Devil Inboard Brake Kit, a Butler Built seat, a Vortex Wing & Ben Cook Racing Products Wing Tree, a Brown & Miller Racing Solutions Cockpit Hose Kit, a set of four Pro Shocks, a set of SCI Racing Products arms and Pittman Arm, a Maxim set of arms, two sets of FK Rod Ends, a KSE Racing Products Steering Pump, a set of Schoenfeld Headers & Mufflers, an Astro Titanium Nut Stud Kit, a MPD 8x3 Wheel Bead Lock and a Kwik Change Econo Bleeder Kit.

More companies taking part in the drawing included fellow year-long KWS partners Auto Meter Products Inc., Winters Racing, Weld Racing, Flowmaster Muffler, Conroy Control and MPD Racing Products.

The “Royal Court Drawing” utilized the envelope draw that is seen during the KWS Dash at each series event, where the drivers/teams could trade one another at their discretion. Everyone had some fun with it, but when it came down to the last person that got a chance to trade, Dennis Roth’s young grandson Cole decided to swap envelopes with Peter Murphy. As it turned out that was a wise choice & Roth Motorsports claimed the Maxim Chassis & Body donated by Kaeding Performance.

Other giveaways during the night also included those from Van De Pol Distributors; Allied Washoe Petroleum; Western Central Petroleum; Summit Racing Equipment; the Grand Sierra Resort in Reno, Nevada; Pioneer Crossing Casino in Fernley, Nevada; multiple cases of Pennzoil racing motor oil and Jackson Rancheria Casino Resort goodie bags.

King of the West Series sponsors, officials and staff were also recognized during the night for their support of the KWS season. Other highlights at the banquet included a tribute portion of the night paying respect to Tyler Wolf, Duke McMillen and David Tarter. The event was emceed by George Hague and Gary Thomas, with live entertainment by the Sterling Silver Band on stage. Series Managing Director Dan Simpson spoke highly of all the teams, officials, sponsors and fans on hand, thanking them for their contributions during the King of the West season.

Northern Auto Racing Club Benevolent Fund coordinators Ashley Smith and Brent Kaeding put on a terrific silent and live auction that saw nearly $20,000 collected for the benevolent fund. The Northern Auto Racing Club Benevolent Fund uses 100% of the funds raised to support the families of drivers, crew members and officials running 410 Sprint Car Series’ in California. We’d like to thank everyone for their support of the auction and give big thanks to Ashley Smith and Brent Kaeding.

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2012 King of the West 410 Sprint Car Series Cash Point Fund Payout

1st place owner- Roth Motorsports $20,000

1st place driver/ 2nd place owner- Jonathan Allard & Williams Motorsports $17,500

2nd place driver/3rd place owner- Evan Suggs $13,500

3rd place/4th place owner- Brent Kaeding $11,000

4th place driver/5th place owner- Peter Murphy $9,500

5th place driver/6th place owner- Bobby McMahan $8,500

6th place driver/7th place owner- Jason Statler $7,500

7th place driver/8th place owner- Willie Croft $6,500

8th place driver/9th place owner- Andy Gregg $5,800

9th place driver/10th place owner- Craig Stidham $5,400

10th place driver/11th place owner- Chad Compton $4,875

11th place driver/12th place owner- Doug Gandy $4,250

12th place driver/14th place owner- Pat Harvey $3,625

13th place driver/13th place owner- Danielle Simpson $3,500
 
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Knoxville Raceway Implements Management Team

For Immediate Release
November 6, 2012

Knoxville, Iowa – The Marion County Fair Board selected a management team to oversee the day to day operation of the Knoxville Raceway and Marion County Fair last night at their regular meeting. Brian Stickel has been promoted to General Manager and will also direct the marketing and sales efforts at the track. Gary Schumacher has been named Director of Human Resources and will take over the Office Manager duties in addition to his accounting responsibilities and John McCoy will remain Race Director for all Knoxville Raceway events.

“I am very excited about this new opportunity at the greatest dirt track in the world.” Stated Stickel. “We are looking forward to a great season in 2013 with our many partners and fans that make this track the best place to be on Saturday night.”

Knoxville Raceway hosts 33 events from April through September each year. Premier events include the 53rd Knoxville Nationals August 7-10, the Arnold Motor Supply 360 Knoxville Nationals August 1-3, the Lucas Oil Late Model Knoxville Nationals September 26-28 and the Lucas Oil Knoxville Championship Cup Series.

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PEAK World Finals Presented by NAPA at The Dirt Track at Charlotte Draws International Attention
 
CONCORD, N.C. (Oct. 26, 2012) - In its first five years, the PEAK Motor Oil World of Outlaws World Finals Presented by NAPA Auto Parts has developed a reputation as a unique racing experience, attracting fans and competitors from across the United States.

The popularity of the season-ending event for the World of Outlaws Sprint Car Series, World of Outlaws Late Models Series and Super DIRTcar Series isn’t limited to domestic fans however. Drivers and racing enthusiasts from around the world will converge on The Dirt Track at Charlotte during the first weekend in November. Fans from 47 different states, the District of Columbia, five Canadian provinces, the Netherlands, Sweden and the United Kingdom will be attending the PEAK World Finals.

Peter Britten, a native of Brisbane, Australia, will wrap up his second full season racing a Big-Block Modified in the Super DIRTcar Series at the PEAK World Finals. To Britten, the PEAK World Finals is one of the biggest races on the Super DIRTcar schedule for not only the drivers, but the fans.

“Along with Syracuse, this is our biggest race of the year,” said Britten. “Syracuse is all about modifieds, whereas the World Finals have the sprint cars, late models and Big-Block Modifieds. From a fan’s point of view, it’s a great format and they get to see three really good divisions ending their seasons and a couple of championships going down to the wire. The facility is one of the best we race at all year. It’s very enjoyable to come down there and hopefully we’ll give it a good shot.”

For fellow Aussie and World of Outlaws Sprint Car Series competitor Kerry Madsen, the location of the lightning-fast, four-tenths-mile clay oval is a big plus.

“You always look forward to going there,” said Madsen. “It’s the last event and Charlotte is a mecca for motor racing in general. The crowd has been fantastic the last few years and it’s got a good atmosphere, so it’s a race you have penciled in on the calendar to do well at.”

Madsen, who has five wins in the World of Outlaws Sprint Car Series in 2012, had an eventful World Finals a year ago. He finished in seventh place on the final night after leading the first 21 laps of the 30-lap feature race. On a lap 22 restart, Madsen was passed by eventual winner Donny Schatz and shuffled back in the field.

“We led for awhile and got caught out on the wrong part of the racetrack at the end of it,” said Madsen. “It’s definitely in the memory bank and you hope that you can get in the same position again and not make the same mistake and have a better strategy at the end of the race. The track is going to be somewhat similar, so you hope you can get in that position again and have another shot.”

The drivers are not the only ones who travel far and wide to take part in the spectacle that World Finals weekend has become. For the second year in a row, Jos Sanders is making the trek all the way from the Netherlands to enjoy the atmosphere that only The Dirt Track at Charlotte can offer.

“It is a treat if you are an international visitor,” said Sanders. “If visitors come from abroad, they are treated like family and that’s fun. People make you feel welcome.”

Sanders is from Cuijk, a town in the southern part of the Netherlands that is home to a few dirt tracks as well, but he says that the environment at The Dirt Track at Charlotte is special.

“I like the access to the drivers,” said Sanders. “You can go in the pits and people talk to you and that’s an additional treat on top of great races.”

Ken Catteau, a dirt-track fanatic who lives in Fergus, Ontario, is making his third trip to the World Finals and sixth trip overall to The Dirt Track at Charlotte. Catteau admits that there are numerous dirt tracks closer to his home, but he makes the 14-hour drive because he loves the competition in Charlotte.

“They do a tremendous job with the facility and preparing the track so the racing is good,” said Catteau. “It’s a great facility and the competitors with the World of Outlaws are the best.”

Spectator gates open at 4 p.m. on Thursday for qualifying with opening ceremonies scheduled for 6 p.m. Feature racing will take place on Friday and Saturday with gates opening at 3 p.m. and opening ceremonies at 4:45 p.m. each day.

Last year's event was standing-room-only and tickets for this year are going fast. Three-day ticket packages start at just $69 for adults and $24 for kids 13 and under. Single-day tickets are also available. Fans can upgrade their ticket to include a pit pass for $15 per day or purchase only a three-day pit pass for $85.

For more information or to purchase tickets, call the speedway ticket office at 1-800-455-FANS (3267) or go online at www.charlottemotorspeedway.com.

Connect with The Dirt Track at Charlotte and stay up to speed on all the action at the clay oval on Facebook at www.facebook.com/TheDirtTrackatCharlotte and by following on Twitter at www.twitter.com/thedirttrack.

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Fans Travel Across the Globe for Sixth Annual PEAK Motor Oil World of Outlaws World Finals Presented by NAPA Auto Parts
 
For Immediate Release
 
CONCORD, N.C. (Oct. 18, 2012) – In just two weeks, fans from around the globe will pack the stands for “The Greatest Show on Dirt,” the PEAK Motor Oil World of Outlaws World Finals presented by NAPA Auto Parts, Nov. 1-3, at The Dirt Track at Charlotte.

Fans from 47 states, the District of Columbia, five Canadian provinces, the Netherlands, Sweden and the United Kingdom will come together to witness three nights of racing, culminating with champions crowned in dirt racing’s three premier divisions. The World of Outlaws Sprint Car and Late Model Series will end their seasons for the sixth consecutive year at the lightning-fast, four-tenths-mile clay oval and returning for the third year will be the Big-Block Modifieds of the Super DIRTcar Series.

Donny Schatz enters the PEAK World Finals leading the points in the Sprint Car Series. The Tony Stewart Racing driver is going for his fifth championship. Schatz has six wins at The Dirt Track at Charlotte.

In the World of Outlaws Late Model Series, Darrell Lanigan is hoping to clinch his second title. Lanigan has 15 wins this season, but has never won at The Dirt Track at Charlotte.

Matt Sheppard is currently leading the points in the Super DIRTcar Series. If he wins the Big-Block Modified title, it will be his third consecutive championship.

The PEAK World Finals begins Thursday with qualifying, continues Friday with a full slate of feature races and concludes Saturday with the season finales broadcast live, nationally on SPEED.

All three series will practice and qualify on Thursday. The sprint cars and late models will each have two time trial sessions, with the first round determining lineups for Friday night and the second round setting the Saturday night card. The Big-Block Modifieds will set heat race lineups with timed hot laps. Thursday night’s heat races will determine Friday and Saturday A-Feature lineups.

The event is highlighted by $10,000-to-win main events for both the sprint cars and late models and $6,000-to-win main events for the Big-Block Modifieds.

Spectator gates open at 4 p.m. on Thursday, with opening ceremonies scheduled for 6 p.m. Friday and Saturday, gates open at 3 p.m. with opening ceremonies at 4:45 p.m. each day.

Last year's event was standing room only and tickets for this year are going fast. Three-day ticket packages start at just $69 for adults and $24 for kids 13 and under. Single day tickets are also available. Fans can also upgrade their ticket to include a pit pass for $15 per day or purchase only a three-day pit pass for $85.

For more information or to purchase tickets, call the speedway ticket office at 1-800-455-FANS (3267) or go online at www.charlottemotorspeedway.com.

Connect with The Dirt Track at Charlotte and stay up to speed on all the action at the clay oval on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/TheDirtTrackatCharlotte and by following on Twitter at www.twitter.com/thedirttrack.
 
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MOTHER NATURE MOVES IN TO CAPTURE UNOH SPRINTACULAR

Tripleheader Program Falls Victim to Rain; Craig Captures Stock Car Title

ROSSBURG, OH (Oct. 13) – Persistent rain showers and the threat of additional precipitation in the immediate area forced the cancellation of the UNOH (University of Northwestern Ohio) Sprintacular on Saturday. The show featuring the All Star Sprints, NRA (National Racing Alliance) Sprint Invaders and the Eldora Stock Cars in a triple-header program will not be rescheduled.

Guests who purchased tickets or pit passes may use the full value toward a ticket or pit pass for the Blue Collar Bash on Oct. 26-28. For guests unable to return for that event, they are asked to return their full ticket or full pit pass wristband and a self-addressed, self-stamped envelope by November 12 to: Eldora Speedway, 13929 State Route 118, New Weston OH 45348, ATTN: Sprintacular.

A refund of the ticket or pit pass will be issued via the same method it was purchased within 30 days. Tickets purchased by credit card will have credit re-issued to that card. Tickets purchased by cash will be refunded by check.

Fans who purchased the streaming pay-per-view broadcast of the event will receive credit via the same method of payment.

The Eldora Stocks points championship was to be decided at the Sprintacular. With the cancellation, Barney Craig won his fourth track title with a six-point victory over Shawn Phillipi, 322 to 316. Earnie Woodard (305), Rob Trent (293) and Dean Pitts (292) rounded out the top five. The points are unofficial until an official audit Eldora Speedway concludes the 2012 season with the Blue Collar Bash on Oct. 26-28, offering 16 different divisions of racing during the three-day event. Complete event and advance ticket information is available online at www.EldoraSpeedway.com or by calling the track office (937) 338-3815 during normal business hours.

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UNOH All Stars wrap up 2012 with visit to Big E

CAMARGO, IL - The University of Northwestern Ohio All Star Circuit of Champion Sprint Cars will wrap up their 2012 season Saturday, Oct. 13 at Tony Stewart's Eldora Speedway. The "Big E" seems the appropriate place to conclude the season for the UNOH All Stars - no other track in the country has hosted more of the series' races than Eldora. The Oct. 13 appearance will be the 132nd of the UNOH All Stars at the famous half-mile.
 
Going into the UNOH Sprintacular at Eldora, Aliquippa, Pennsylvania's Tim Shaffer has all but locked up the national title for the series. Shaffer will become only the third driver in UNOH All Star history to win four straight series' titles, joining Kenny Jacobs and Chad Kemenah. Shaffer is looking or his first series win at Eldora.
 
Also locking up the $20,000 top prize for winning the UNOH All Stars' Ohio Region championship will be Hartford, Ohio's Dale Blaney. Blaney, who leads the series with 9 wins in 2012, was the victor last October when the UNOH All Stars wrapped up their season. Blaney has six career All Star wins at Eldora, just part of his career total of 93 as he is within five of tying Jacobs for the series' all-time feature wins. Ironically, Jacobs has the most career UNOH All Star wins at the "Big E," with 21 victories.
 
Watertown, Connecticut's David Gravel will lock up another third place showing in the All Star's national standings, with Bellevue, Ohio's Cap Henry picking up fourth and Paul McMahan in fifth. Besides Blaney and Shaffer sitting atop the Ohio region points, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania's Danny Holtgraver looks to cap off a highly successful 2012 campaign as he has 9 wins including 3 series wins and sits third in the Ohio region points. Henry is fourth, McMahan, fifth and Gravel sixth in the region.
 
Look for Stevie Smith, Greg Wilson, Bryan Sebetto, and a host of other competitors from throughout the Midwest - as many local tracks and other
series have wrapped up their seasons - to take one last shot at the "Big E."
 
For more information go to www.eldoraspeedway.com or www.allstarsprint.com

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Western Springs, Palmerston North & Warrnambool set Dates for Their 2013 Knoxville World Challenge International Qualifiers
 
KNOXVILLE, IOWA  (October 3, 2012)  -  The Western Springs Speedway in Auckland, New Zealand, the Robertson Holden International Speedway in Palmerston North, New Zealand, and the Premier Speedway in Warrnambool, Victoria, Australia, have all set the dates of their international qualifiers for the 2013 SPEED SPORT Knoxville World Challenge, to be held Friday, August 9, at the Knoxville Raceway.

 The first international qualifier will be held on Saturday, November 24, at the Western Springs Speedway in suburban Auckland, New Zealand.  Several Americans are expected to be in the field for the World Sprintcar Classic at Western Springs, including three-time and defending World Challenge winner and six-time and defending Knoxville Nationals champion Donny Schatz.

The Robertson Holden International Speedway in Palmerston North, New Zealand, will host the second qualifier on Saturday, December 8.  It is expected that several Americans will be competing in the International Sprintcars event.

The final international qualifier will take place on January 26-27, 2013, as the Premier Speedway in Warrnambool, Victoria, Australia, hosts the 41st annual Lucas Oil Grand Annual Sprintcar Classic (GASC), which will pay $30,000 to the winner.  Combined with the $6,000-to-win preliminary night Australia/America Challenge Cup, presented by Oval Express, a large contingent of Americans are expected to converge on this popular seaside city for Australia’s version of the Knoxville Nationals.  In fact, World of Outlaws (WoO) veteran Joey Saldana has already indicated his intentions to compete in the GASC. 

Knoxville Raceway director of marketing Brian Stickel said today, “This is the earliest that we’ve ever been able to announce the dates of our international qualifying events, so we really appreciate the efforts of Lewis Dawson at Western Springs, Bruce Robertson at Palmerston North, and David Mills at Warrnambool.  Obviously the earlier that we can let American drivers know the dates and venues for our ‘Down Under’ qualifiers, the greater the chances are of them finding rides and qualifying for our Speed Sport Knoxville World Challenge race next August.  This year we set a record with 23 drivers competing in our World Challenge race and we hope to even better than number for our twentieth annual edition in 2013.”  

For more information on the Knoxville Raceway and its twentieth annual Knoxville World Challenge during the 53rd Knoxville Nationals, fans are urged to visit www.knoxvilleraceway.com.  For news on the three international qualifiers, they can visit:

Western Springs Speedway - http://springsspeedway.com/

Robertson Holden International Speedway – http://www.pnspeedway.co.nz/

Premier Speedway - http://www.premierspeedway.com.au/

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Hoosier Tire Selected at Knoxville Raceway

For Immediate Release
October 3, 2012

Knoxville, Iowa – Knoxville Raceway has signed an agreement with Hoosier Tires to be the official tire supplier for all Knoxville Raceway events including the Knoxville Nationals, 360 Knoxville Nationals and the Knoxville Championship Cup Series. All three sprint car classes, 410, 360, and 305 will run Hoosiers on all four corners.

“After very careful consideration and testing, we selected Hoosier .” Stated John McCoy, Knoxville’s Race Director. “We have tried to strike a balance between what is best for the racer, the track and the fans. We feel Hoosier’s commitment to the sport and to good competitive racing is the best for everyone involved.”

Knoxville Raceway joins the IRA, Attica Raceway Park (Ohio), Freemont Speedway (Ohio) and many other tracks across the country who will all be running the Hoosier brand in 2013.

“Knoxville’s Hoosier Tire agreement is a 5 year commitment that will help provide fast, competitive and exciting racing every night. We are very happy to be working with a premier company like Hoosier whose commitment to racers and the race tracks has been unsurpassed over the years.” Said Knoxville’s Marketing Director Brian Stickel.

Knoxville Raceway hosts 32 events annually from April to October and draws over 80,000 spectators from around the world to the Knoxville National events in August each year. More information about Knoxville Raceway events, history and drivers can be found at www.knoxvilleraceway.com.

Hoosier is the largest race tire manufacturer in the world, and all Hoosier race tires are still proudly "Made in the USA." The company continues to be privately owned and operated by the Newton family. Hoosier has grown to be one of the largest employers in Plymouth, Indiana, and produces over 1000 different types of race tires. For more information on Hoosier Tire go to www.hoosiertire.com.

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Points Champions Declared at Mercer Raceway Park

Mercer, PA (September 12, 2012): The September 8 racing program, lost to rain, will not be made up, so the 2012 points chase at Mercer Raceway Park is over. Congratulations to the six divisional champions: Eric Williams (Sprint Cars); Rob Curtis (358 Modifieds); Joe McEwen (Outlaw Sprint Warriors); Rusty Moore (Stock Cars); Mark Marcucci (Modified Lites); and Steve Longwell, Jr. (Mini Stocks).

Nonetheless, action will resume on the oval September 21-22, with the 13th Annual Little Guy Nationals. Five of the six regular divisions will be in competition that weekend. There will be no 410 Luxaire Heating & Cooling Sprint Cars. Taking their place will be the popular Micro Sprints.

Racers can get the discounted advance registration forms by clicking on the link for the event on the track website, www.mercerracewaypark.com, or by calling the track office.
 
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UNOH All Stars to wrap up Eastern Region with double-header at Port Royal

CAMARGO, IL. (9-5-12) By Brian Liskai – This weekend could be a rich one for Daryn Pittman.

The native of Owasso, Okla. could take home over $30,000 when the University of Northwestern Ohio All Star Circuit of Champion Sprint Car series heads to Port Royal Speedway in Port Royal, Pa. Friday and Saturday for the running of the 45th Annual AB Auto Glass Tuscarora 50.

On Friday, Sept. 7, the UNOH All Stars will compete in the All Star Night Before The 50 along with the late models before racing in the prestigious Tuscarora 50 on Saturday, Sept. 8.

Pittman comes into the event with a 41-point advantage in the series’ Eastern Region over three time national UNOH All Star champion Tim Shaffer, who hails from Aliquippa, Pa. The champion of the UNOH All Star Circuit of Champions Eastern Region will earn $20,000.

Shaffer, who won the UNOH All Stars’ Western Region championship a month ago, leads the series’ national points as he tries to become only the third driver in series history to win four straight championships. “The Steel City Outlaw” has 5 UNOH All Star wins in 2012.

An adopted member of the PA Posse, Pittman has picked up six wins in 2012, including three UNOH All Star victories.

“Dangerous” David Gravel, Watertown, Conn., will look to solidify his third place UNOH All Star Eastern Region standing. And, don’t count out three time series champion Dale Blaney, who has eight series wins in 2012 and leads the UNOH All Stars Ohio Region points. Blaney currently sits sixth in the series’ Eastern Region points.

Other contenders for the win include Gregg Hodnett, who took the Bob Weikert Memorial victory at Port Royal when the UNOH All Stars last visited in April. Hodnett has seven wins at the track in 2011 and sits fourth in the UNOH All Stars’ Eastern Region Points.

Nashville, Tennessee resident Paul McMahan has had a solid season with the UNOH All Stars, sitting fourth in the national points; fifth in the Ohio Region; and fifth in the Eastern Region. Bellevue, Ohio’s Cap Henry has also had a very good season and is fifth in the series’ national points; fourth in the Ohio region; and 7th in the Eastern Region.

Winners in 2012 at Port Royal include: Sept. 2 - Frank Cozze; Aug. 26 – Chad Layton; Aug. 19 – Blane Heimbach; Aug. 12 – Davey Sammons; Aug. 5 – Blane Heimbach; July 29 – Greg Hodnett; July 15 – Chad Layton; July 8 – Tyler Walker; June 24 – Greg Hodnett; June 17 – Chad Layton; June 3 – Lance Dewease; May 25 – Greg Hodnett; May 20 – Greg Hodnett; May 6 – Rick Lafferty; April 29 – Greg Hodnett; April 8 – Greg Hodnett and Lance Dewease; and March 18 – Greg Hodnett.

Layton leads Port Royal’s points over 2011 track champion Mike Wagner, Lafferty, Mike Erdley, Hodnett, Heimbach, Keith Kauffman, Nate Snyder, Joey Hershey and Dewease. Dewease is the reining UNOH All Star’s Eastern Region champion.

Friday’s All Star Night Before the 50 feature will go 30 laps and pay $5,000 to win. Saturday’s AB Auto Glass 45th Annual Tuscarora 50 will go 50 laps with at least $11,000 going to the feature winner.

And with laps paying $25 each to lead, more than $1,200 in lap money is also on the line. Plus, a $200 bonus has been posted for the leader at the half-way point.

Adult admission for Friday’s event is $20 with Saturday’s price for adults set at $25. Students ages 12-18 will be admitted for just $5 both nights.

For more information go to www.allstarsprint.com or www.portroyalspeedway.com

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Holtgraver caps off fantastic weekend with UNOH All Star win at Wayne County
 
ORRVILLE, Ohio (Sunday, Sept. 2, 2012)By Brian Liskai – What a weekend Danny Holtgraver had – two University of Northwestern Ohio All Star Circuit of Champion Sprint Car wins and a runner-up finish. The Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania resident scored his third career UNOH All Star win Sunday at the NAPA Auto Parts Wayne County Speedway to wrap up the Labor Day weekend, after a close second the previous night at Attica and on Friday taking the win at Lernerville.
 
Holtgraver, just 22 years of age, drove from his 16th starting spot around Byron Reed with five laps to go to take the lead and his ninth overall win of the season.
 
“What an unbelievable weekend…what an unbelievable night. I watched the B-main and the dash and it was pretty much no passing and a little dusty. Then we go out for the feature and the track just got awesome. To come from 16tth with just one yellow…I still can’t believe the car was that good,” said Holtgraver beside his Kargo Quality Cars and Trucks/Alternative Power Sources/Spinneweber Auto Sales, VRP Shocks backed #D4.
 
“It definitely helps having Brian Kemenah (five time All Star mechanic of the year) setting this thing up. I know when I get in the car it’s going to be good. Brian gives me the confidence to just go out there and drive the wheels off the thing. I’ll be in the #98 car next weekend, but Brian has taught me what to do to the car and if I have any questions he’s only a phone call away,” added Holtgraver.
 
Dean Jacobs and David Gravel would bring the field to the green for the 30-lap feature with Jacobs, from nearby Wooster, Ohio, jumping into the lead with Gravel, Byron Reed and Tim Shaffer in tow. Holtgraver would grab four positions on the first lap.
 
On the second circuit, Jacobs, who the previous night led the first 36 laps before running out of fuel, would hit a slick spot on the track and blast into the pit area nearly full speed, handing the lead to Reed, with Grave, Shaffer, Dale Blaney and Sheldon Haudenschild in tow. Meanwhile Holtgraver had worked his way up to sixth by lap 7.
 
Shaffer would drive around Gravel into the runner-up spot on lap eight with Haudenschild taking fourth from Blaney. Holtgraver would drive around Blaney on lap 10 to move into the top five. Holtgraver would move around Haudenschild for fourth on lap 13 and passed Gravel for third a lap later. He would take the runner-up spot at the half-way point.
 
Quickly, the 10 car length lead Reed had evaporated as Holtgraver closed. And with just a handful of laps remaining, Holtgraver worked the inside of Reed but to no avail. With five laps to go, Holtgraver slipped past Reed on the high side and drove away for the win. Reed would come home second with Gravel third. Broken Arrow, Oklahoma’s Stevie Smith would score his third straight fourth place finish, with Shaffer rounding out the top five.
 
Shaffer’s run would increase his lead in the UNOH All Star point standings as he looks to become only the third driver in series history to win four straight championships. He also is closing in on Ohio Region point leader Dale Blaney.
 
There’s just something about the NAPA Auto Parts Wayne County Speedway that brings out the best in Reed.
 
“For some reason we always run good here. We qualified well and that really helps,” said Reed beside his Crown Battery/Reebar Diecasting backed #5. “When I looked at the scoreboard and saw that #4 there…I knew he had come from a ways back. Then, when I saw his nose wing I knew I was in trouble. I thought when we got to a bunch of lapped cars and they were all running the bottom and I could get around them up top that I could pin him down there, but he got around them as good as I did. But, we will take second…it’s something positive to build on for the rest of the season.”
 
For Gravel, his third place finish – his ninth top five of the season - was just what the team needed.
 
“We’re getting better. To be honest we weren’t very good at Mercer, Lernerville or Attica. We made some changes to the car and it felt a lot better. I’m sick of these finishes though…we need a win,” said Gravel beside his P&M Transportation/Musco Fuel and Heating/Modelcraft/IGA Hometown Wheels backed #89G. “Hats off to Danny…he and Brian are working well together. He was just so much better than the rest of us.”
 
Smith was somewhat dejected with his third straight fourth place finish.
 
“I would say we probably had a second place car,” said Smith. “I don’t say things like that much, but I really felt as if our car was that good. We’ve just been stuck in fourth position. We certainly got a lot better towards the end of the race and I found our race car’s best line around the top of the track. It was a good night but we really need to get over the hump and win another race. We’ll head out to Pennsylvania for the Tuscarora 50 and try to get win number three out there.”

A-Main - University of Northwestern Ohio (30 Laps) 1. D4-Danny Holtgraver[16]; 2. 5R-Byron Reed[3]; 3. 89G-David Gravel[2]; 4. 19-Stevie Smith[6]; 5. 83-Tim Shaffer[4]; 6. 29-Rob Chaney[8]; 7. 2-Dale Blaney[5]; 8. 4-Danny Smith[18]; 9. 45-Paul McMahan[7]; 10. 93-Sheldon Haudenschild[9]; 11. 38K-Lee Jacobs[10]; 12. 23JR-Jack Sodeman Jr.[13]; 13. 83M-Broc Martin[12]; 14. 3L-Mike Linder[11]; 15. 16-Danny Mumaw[19]; 16. 54-Cap Henry[23]; 17. 22-Brandon Spithaler[21]; 18. 15H-Mitch Harble[22]; 19. 40-Caleb Helms[17]; 20. 25-Chris Myers[14]; 21. 11D-Bryce Dickson[15]; 22. W20-Greg Wilson[20]; 23. 23P-Nick Patterson[24]; 24. 97-Dean Jacobs[1]
 
Qualifying - 1. 83-Tim Shaffer, 14.975; 2. 89G-David Gravel, 14.988; 3. 5R-Byron Reed, 15.082; 4. 97-Dean Jacobs, 15.126; 5. 2-Dale Blaney, 15.252; 6. 19-Stevie Smith, 15.322; 7. 45-Paul McMahan, 15.394; 8. 3L-Mike Linder, 15.460; 9. 83M-Broc Martin, 15.507; 10. 29-Rob Chaney, 15.523; 11. 93-Sheldon Haudenschild, 15.524; 12. 38K-Lee Jacobs, 15.563; 13. 23JR-Jack Sodeman Jr., 15.584; 14. 25-Chris Myers, 15.598; 15. 11D-Bryce Dickson, 15.713; 16. D4-Danny Holtgraver, 15.725; 17. 40-Caleb Helms, 15.777; 18. 4-Danny Smith, 15.782; 19. 16-Danny Mumaw, 15.815; 20. W20-Greg Wilson, 15.902; 21. 22-Brandon Spithaler, 15.906; 22. 15H-Mitch Harble, 15.961; 23. 54-Cap Henry, 15.983; 24. 23P-Nick Patterson, 16.238; 25. 4AU-Jack Lee, 16.267; 26. 41-Jimmy Pooler, 16.674; 27. 70-Pete Grove, 17.012
 
Heat 1 - Kears Speed Shop (8 Laps - Top 6 finishers transfer to the A-feature) 1. 23JR-Jack Sodeman Jr.[2] ; 2. D4-Danny Holtgraver[1] ; 3. 45-Paul McMahan[4] ; 4. 97-Dean Jacobs[5] ; 5. 83-Tim Shaffer[6] ; 6. 29-Rob Chaney[3] ; 7. 16-Danny Mumaw[7] ; 8. 15H-Mitch Harble[8] ; 9. 4AU-Jack Lee[9]
 
Heat 2 - All Pro Aluminum Heads (8 Laps - Top 6 finishers transfer to the A-feature) 1. 40-Caleb Helms[1] ; 2. 25-Chris Myers[2] ; 3. 89G-David Gravel[6] ; 4. 93-Sheldon Haudenschild[3] ; 5. 2-Dale Blaney[5] ; 6. 54-Cap Henry[8] ; 7. W20-Greg Wilson[7] ; 8. 3L-Mike Linder[4] ; 9. 41-Jimmy Pooler[9]
 
Heat 3 - Dragon Race Fuel (8 Laps - Top 6 finishers transfer to the A-feature) 1. 4-Danny Smith[1] ; 2. 11D-Bryce Dickson[2] ; 3. 5R-Byron Reed[6] ; 4. 19-Stevie Smith[5] ; 5. 38K-Lee Jacobs[3] ; 6. 22-Brandon Spithaler[7] ; 7. 83M-Broc Martin[4] ; 8. 23P-Nick Patterson[8] ; 9. 70-Pete Grove[9]
 
Dash - Outerwears Performance Products (6 Laps, finishing order determined first 6 starting positions of A-feature 1. 97-Dean Jacobs[2] ; 2. 89G-David Gravel[1] ; 3. 5R-Byron Reed[4] ; 4. 83-Tim Shaffer[3] ; 5. 2-Dale Blaney[5] ; 6. 19-Stevie Smith[6]
 
B-Main - MSD Ignition (12 Laps - Top 6 finishers transfer to the A-feature) 1. 3L-Mike Linder[1] ; 2. 83M-Broc Martin[2] ; 3. 16-Danny Mumaw[3] ; 4. W20-Greg Wilson[4] ; 5. 23P-Nick Patterson[6] ; 6. 15H-Mitch Harble[5] ; 7. 4AU-Jack Lee[7] ; 8. 70-Pete Grove[9] ; 9. 41-Jimmy Pooler[8]
 
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Gressman survives wild UNOH All Star event to tame Attica

ImageATTICA, OH (9-1-12) By Brian Liskai – It was a wild and wacky finish to the 2012 season at Attica Raceway Park Saturday. And when the rain started falling it was Fremont, Ohio’s Phil Gressman who was standing in victory lane for his fifth career University of Northwestern Ohio All Star Circuit of Champions Sprint Car win.
 
The night started with a two hour rain delay. As officials pushed the show rapidly along, it appeared the 40-lap feature on Baumann Auto Group Night would be exciting. It turned into an event-filled race with five red flags and four cautions. And just when it looked like Dean Jacobs would earn the victory after leading the first 36 laps, he either ran out of fuel or suffered some other mechanical woe, handing the lead to Gressman. Gressman had to fend off Danny Holtgraver the final four circuits to score his 7th career Attica victory.
 
For Gressman, who destroyed a car a few weeks ago battling up front at Attica, it was his first win of the season. The UNOH All Star win is his first since 2004, with all five of his career series victories coming at different tracks.
 
“We will take them any way we can get them. I thought I had a pretty good car…I was just kind of bidding my time. I thought later in the race we would be better. I felt like before that tangle between Sebetto (Brian), Chaney (Rob) and Dale (Blaney) that I was closing in on them and I felt pretty good. Forty laps is a long time…we hung in there and here we are,” said Gressman beside his Ludwig Propane, Kear’s Speed Shop, Level Performance backed #53.
 
“I feel like I can still race with these guys…it’s just putting it all together. Marilyn Genzman has stuck behind us through thick and thin…without her this would be impossible and we greatly appreciate what she does. It’s a lot of hard work Monday through Friday…I don’t know why we had to wait until the last race of the year to get this win,” added Gressman.
 
Coming off his second UNOH All Star win of the season the previous night, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania’s Danny Holtgraver would score a runner-up finish. Holtgraver earned his first ever series win at Attica in June.
 
“Everything has been going good. We struggled in our heat race but there wasn’t much passing going on. We didn’t make it through and had to run the B and made it. We really got lucky…we were pretty good but I couldn’t really run around the top like I probably needed to. A lot of good cars in front of us got wrecked but we’ll take it. I tried for it at the end but I knew I wouldn’t clear him so I didn’t try to take him all the way to the fence and take out a home town guy. I have to thank everyone, my dad, Brian (Kemenah), Pup, Chris…just everyone that helps us out,” said Holtgraver beside his Kargo Quality Cars/Alternative Power Sources/DKW Transport backed machine.
 
For the second straight night, Bellevue, Ohio’s Cap Henry made a charge from mid-pack to the front. The former UNOH All Star rookie of the year charged from his 14th starting position to a third place finish.
 
“We had a really good car. With that last red on the restart when Phil threw that big slider on me something broke in the bakes and I had no brakes. And then, with two to go something broke in the rear end and it was dragging the left rear frame rail. So I’ll take third,” said Henry beside his Lucas Oil/FK Rod Ends/Fragola Performance Systems/GME Nields Steering backed #54.
 
Because of the threatening weather, qualifying was cut to just one lap, and the dash was cancelled and replaced with a pill draw for the top six starting positions. Rob Chaney and Jacobs would bring the field to the green with Jacobs grabbing the lead over Chaney, Bryan Sebetto, Dale Blaney, Paul McMahan, Greg Wilson and Gressman. Sheldon Haudenschild would spin after the opening lap for the first caution.
 
On the restart Jacobs would pull away from a tremendous battle for second between Chaney and Sebetto with Blaney, McMahan, Wilson and Gressman in tow. Just as Jacobs was about to encounter heavy lapped traffic – racing three wide in front of him, Duane Zablocki would tumble in turn four.
 
UNOH All Star officials would open the red flag for crews to add fuel and check tire pressures.
 
Now, with a clear track in front of him, Jacobs would pull away slightly from that fantastic battle for second between Sebetto and Chaney with Blaney within striking distance while McMahan, Gressman, Wilson and Cole Duncan locked in a good fight for fifth.
 
Sebetto would take the runner-up spot on lap eight and was soon closing on Jacobs who again was getting close to heavy lapped traffic. Haudenschild would spin again on lap 14, again handing Jacobs a clear track.
 
On the restart Jacobs would have his hands full with Sebetto and Chaney. But after completing the 15th circuit, Sebetto would slip off the high side of turn two, and rocket back onto the track into Chaney with Blaney being collected and ending up on his side.
 
Now the restart order was Jacobs, Gressman, Duncan, McMahan, Wilson, Holtgraver and Henry. Again Jacobs would rocket away from the field on the restart with Duncan pressuring Gressman for second. And once again, just as Jacobs was going to have to figure out a way through heavy lapped traffic on lap 22, the red would fly when Andrew Palker tumbled off turn one.
 
The restart order was Jacobs, Duncan, Gressman, McMahan, Wilson, Henry, Holtgraver, Stevie Smith (up from his 19th starting spot), David Gravel and Danny Smith. This time Jacobs wouldn’t be able to run away when the green flew as Duncan stuck to his rear bumper. With 10 laps to go, Jacobs was about to hit lapped traffic again. But, on lap 32, Chris Andrews and Blaney made contact right in front of the leaders, with Jacobs narrowly getting by. Duncan wasn’t as lucky as he plowed into Andrews, flipping his mount.
 
That would put Gressman into second with Henry third followed by Holtgraver and Smith. When the green came back out it appeared Jacobs had the race in control, as he pulled away from the exciting battle for second between Gressman and Henry. Henry would take the runner-up spot on lap 35, but as they raced to complete the 36th circuit, the caution flew for a stalled Randy Hannagan.
 
On the restart, Jacobs would coast to a stop on the back stretch, handing the lead to Gressman with Holtgraver, Henry, Smith, McMahan and Haudenschild in tow. Gressman and Holtgraver would battle side-by-side over the remaining four laps with Gressman taking the checkered by half a car length over Holtgraver. Henry, Smith and McMahan would round out the top five.
 
The event closed the season for Attica Raceway Park. It was the 97th appearance of the UNOH All Stars at the track since 1988.

All Star Circuit of Champions (38 Cars)
[#]-Starting Position

A-Main - University of Northwestern Ohio (40 Laps) 1. 53-Phil Gressman[5]; 2. D4-Danny Holtgraver[11]; 3. 54-Cap Henry[14]; 4. 19-Stevie Smith[19]; 5. 45-Paul McMahan[6]; 6. 93-Sheldon Haudenschild[12]; 7. W20-Greg Wilson[8]; 8. 89G-David Gravel[9]; 9. 83-Tim Shaffer[20]; 10. 9X-Brandon Martin[23]; 11. 4-Danny Smith[13]; 12. O9-Craig Mintz[16]; 13. 3L-Mike Linder[15]; 14. 2-Dale Blaney[3]; 15. 97-Dean Jacobs[2]; 16. 1X-Randy Hannagan[24]; 17. 22-Cole Duncan[7]; 18. 16-Chris Andrews[18]; 19. 2M-Dallas Hewitt[22]; 20. 57X-Andrew Palker[10]; 21. 24H-Bryan Sebetto[4]; 22. 29-Rob Chaney[1]; 23. O-Christopher Bell[17]; 24. 9Z-Duane Zablocki[21]
 
Qualifying - Kistler Engines
1. 24H-Bryan Sebetto, 12.187; 2. D4-Danny Holtgraver, 12.271; 3. 29-Rob Chaney, 12.395; 4. 93-Sheldon Haudenschild, 12.445; 5. 40-Caleb Helms, 12.478; 6. 2-Dale Blaney, 12.553; 7. 45-Paul McMahan, 12.570; 8. 53-Phil Gressman, 12.609; 9. 97-Dean Jacobs, 12.622; 10. 22-Cole Duncan, 12.629; 11. W20-Greg Wilson, 12.632; 12. 89G-David Gravel, 12.647; 13. 57X-Andrew Palker, 12.661; 14. 4-Danny Smith, 12.663; 15. 54-Cap Henry, 12.664; 16. 3L-Mike Linder, 12.672; 17. O9-Craig Mintz, 12.679; 18. O-Christopher Bell, 12.688; 19. 16-Chris Andrews, 12.690; 20. 19-Stevie Smith, 12.696; 21. 83-Tim Shaffer, 12.699; 22. 9Z-Duane Zablocki, 12.702; 23. 2M-Dallas Hewitt, 12.738; 24. 9X-Brandon Martin, 12.760; 25. 1X-Randy Hannagan, 12.796; 26. 11N-Ed Neumeister, 12.827; 27. 55-Brad Bowman, 12.857; 28. 5T-Travis Philo, 12.871; 29. 5R-Byron Reed, 12.896; 30. 15H-Mitch Harble, 13.112; 31. 11F-D.J. Foos, 13.207; 32. 60C-Kory Crabtree, 13.290; 33. 4K-Kody Kinser, 13.373; 34. 22B-Ryan Broughton, 13.381; 35. 4AU-Jack Lee, 13.495; 36. 70-Pete Grove, 14.139; 37. 9W-Lance Webb, 14.226; 38. 35-Stuart Brubaker, 99.999
 
Heat 1 - Kears Speed Shop (10 Laps - Top 5 finishers transfer to the A-feature) 1. O9-Craig Mintz[2] ; 2. 83-Tim Shaffer[1] ; 3. 57X-Andrew Palker[3] ; 4. 97-Dean Jacobs[4] ; 5. 24H-Bryan Sebetto[6] ; 6. 1X-Randy Hannagan[7] ; 7. 40-Caleb Helms[5] ; 8. 4K-Kody Kinser[9] ; 9. 5R-Byron Reed[8] ; 10. 9W-Lance Webb[10]
 
Heat 2 - All Pro Aluminum Heads (10 Laps - Top 5 finishers transfer to the A-feature) 1. O-Christopher Bell[2] ; 2. 9Z-Duane Zablocki[1] ; 3. 22-Cole Duncan[4] ; 4. 2-Dale Blaney[5] ; 5. 4-Danny Smith[3] ; 6. D4-Danny Holtgraver[6] ; 7. 22B-Ryan Broughton[9] ; 8. 11N-Ed Neumeister[7] ; 9. 15H-Mitch Harble[8]
 
Heat 3 - Dragon Race Fuel (10 Laps - Top 5 finishers transfer to the A-feature) 1. 16-Chris Andrews[2] ; 2. 2M-Dallas Hewitt[1] ; 3. W20-Greg Wilson[4] ; 4. 45-Paul McMahan[5] ; 5. 29-Rob Chaney[6] ; 6. 54-Cap Henry[3] ; 7. 55-Brad Bowman[7] ; 8. 11F-D.J. Foos[8] ; 9. 4AU-Jack Lee[9]
 
Heat 4 - Kinsler Fuel Injection (10 Laps - Top 5 finishers transfer to the A-feature) 1. 19-Stevie Smith[2] ; 2. 9X-Brandon Martin[1] ; 3. 3L-Mike Linder[3] ; 4. 53-Phil Gressman[5] ; 5. 89G-David Gravel[4] ; 6. 5T-Travis Philo[7] ; 7. 93-Sheldon Haudenschild[6] ; 8. 60C-Kory Crabtree[8] ; 9. 70-Pete Grove[9]
 
Dash - Outerwears Performance Products (6 Laps, finishing order determined first 6 starting positions of A-feature 1. 29-Rob Chaney[1] ; 2. 97-Dean Jacobs[2] ; 3. 2-Dale Blaney[3] ; 4. 24H-Bryan Sebetto[4] ; 5. 53-Phil Gressman[5] ; 6. 45-Paul McMahan[6]
 
B-Main - MSD Ignition (12 Laps - Top 4 finishers transfer to the A-feature) 1. 1X-Randy Hannagan[5] ; 2. 93-Sheldon Haudenschild[2] ; 3. D4-Danny Holtgraver[1] ; 4. 54-Cap Henry[4] ; 5. 55-Brad Bowman[7] ; 6. 11F-D.J. Foos[11] ; 7. 5R-Byron Reed[9] ; 8. 4K-Kody Kinser[13] ; 9. 4AU-Jack Lee[15] ; 10. 70-Pete Grove[16] ; 11. 5T-Travis Philo[8] ; 12. 15H-Mitch Harble[10] ; 13. 11N-Ed Neumeister[6] ; 14. 22B-Ryan Broughton[14] ; 15. 40-Caleb Helms[3] ; 16. 9W-Lance Webb[17]
 
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Holtgraver likes 'home cookin' at Lernerville...takes UNOH All Star win

http://ascoc.allstarsprint.com/images/stories/DannyHoltgraver.JPGSARVER, PA (Friday, Aug. 31, 2012) By Brian Liskai– Danny Holtgraver circled this weekend on his calendar two months ago. The Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania resident couldn’t wait for the University of Northwestern Ohio All Star Circuit of Champions’ event at Lernerville Speedway.
 
Holtgraver, a 2010 track champion at Lernerville, passed early leader Brian Ellenberger on lap 10 and survived a couple of late race restarts to score his second career UNOH All Star win Friday at “Savertown.” It marks the second consecutive win at Lernerville for Holtgraver and his fourth of the season at the track. He now had eight feature wins in 2012.
 
“I was so excited about this weekend. We’ve run well at Lernerville, so I knew we had a good shot at winning. And then we’re going to Attica (Saturday) where I got my first All Star win. The guys had the car awesome tonight. Everything went our way. We got tangled up in our heat and did some damage to the car (shock, jacob’s ladder) but was able to finish and transfer to the dash and that helped us start up front. We got through lapped traffic well,” said Holtgraver beside his Kargo Quality Cars & Trucks/Alternative Power Sources/Spinneweber Auto Sales/VRP Shocks backed machine.
 
Another former Lernerville champion – and three time UNOH All Star Champion – Tim Shaffer would score another runner-up finish aboard his Aaron Call/Janet Holbrook owned, Kistler Engines backed #83.
 
“Give all the credit to Danny and his guys. He was just better than ALL of us tonight. I guess I’ll have to quit helping him out so much,” joked Shaffer, who leads the UNOH All Star national points and is closing in on Dale Blaney for the series’ Ohio Region points lead. “I don’t think I’ve ever complained so much about finishing second and third in a season. It’s just been one of those years. We’ll just keep trying…my guys are working hard and I’m not going to give up…they deserve some wins.”
 
For the second UNOH All Star event in a row, Cap Henry would pass a lot of cars – from his eight place starting spot – to score a third place finish.
 
“I guess I need to qualify better. I have to thank Paul Kistler…our engines are running well and we’re finally able to show how good our team is. A.J. (Havens) and Andrew (Barman) have been busting their butts,” said Henry beside his Lucas Oil/FK Rod Ends/Fragola Performance Systems/GME Nields Steering backed #54. “We are definitely getting better. I feel like a win or two are just around the corner.”
 
Ellenberger and Shaffer would bring the field to the green for the 30-lap feature with Ellenberger grabbing the lead over Shaffer, Holtgraver, Stevie Smith, David Gravel, Bryan Sebetto, Henry, Ed Lynch Jr., Jared Ridge and Pete Miller. Ellenberger would set a quick pace and hit lapped traffic by the sixth circuit.
 
Holtgraver would use the traffic to drive by Shaffer for second on lap six while Henry would use the bottom groove to drive into fifth. By lap 10, the leaders were in heavy traffic and Holtgraver used it to his advantage as he drove into the lead.
 
At the half-way point the running order was Holtgraver, Ellenberger, Shaffer, Henry, Smith, Lynch, Gravel, Sebetto, Caleb Helms and 17th place starter Danny Smith. A lap later Shaffer would get by Ellenberger for second. Henry would continue his charge to the front by taking third on lap 19.
 
With seven laps to go, the car on the move was 16th starter Dale Blaney, another former Lernerville champion, who had worked his way up to eighth. With five laps to go, Holtgraver led Shaffer, Henry, Ellenberger, Smith, Lynch, Gravel, Blaney, Smith and Carl Bowser.
 
There were a couple of late race cautions that would put Shaffer right on Holtgraver’s rear bumper, but the youngster, whom Shaffer has mentored over the past couple of years, was able to pull away for the win. Shaffer, Henry, Smith and Ellenberger would round out the top five.

A-Main - University of Northwestern Ohio (30 Laps) 1. D4-Danny Holtgraver[4]; 2. 83-Tim Shaffer[1]; 3. 54-Cap Henry[8]; 4. 19-Stevie Smith[5]; 5. 20E-Brian Ellenberger[2]; 6. 2L-Ed Lynch Jr.[11]; 7. 89G-David Gravel[7]; 8. 2-Dale Blaney[16]; 9. 4-Danny Smith[17]; 10. 10-Carl Bowser[15]; 11. 40-Caleb Helms[12]; 12. 45-Paul McMahan[3]; 13. O-Christopher Bell[14]; 14. CIII-Rod George[10]; 15. 23JR-Jack Sodeman Jr.[18]; 16. 3-Pete Miller III[13]; 17. 22S-Brandon Spithaler[24]; 18. 7-Eric Williams[21]; 19. 35-Stuart Brubaker[22]; 20. 24H-Bryan Sebetto[6]; 21. 12-Jared Ridge[9]; 22. 5T-Travis Philo[23]; 23. 22-Cole Duncan[19]; 24. 13-Brandon Matus[20]

Qualifying - Kistler Engines
1. 19-Stevie Smith, 12.991; 2. D4-Danny Holtgraver, 13.014; 3. 83-Tim Shaffer, 13.072; 4. 45-Paul McMahan, 13.115; 5. 20E-Brian Ellenberger, 13.116; 6. 24H-Bryan Sebetto, 13.132; 7. 89G-David Gravel, 13.135; 8. 2L-Ed Lynch Jr., 13.216; 9. 54-Cap Henry, 13.220; 10. 40-Caleb Helms, 13.226; 11. 12-Jared Ridge, 13.244; 12. CIII-Rod George, 13.255; 13. 3-Pete Miller III, 13.288; 14. O-Christopher Bell, 13.291; 15. 10-Carl Bowser, 13.313; 16. 2-Dale Blaney, 13.329; 17. 4-Danny Smith, 13.398; 18. 23JR-Jack Sodeman Jr., 13.441; 19. 22-Cole Duncan, 13.456; 20. 13-Brandon Matus, 13.487; 21. 7-Eric Williams, 13.525; 22. 35-Stuart Brubaker, 13.536; 23. 5T-Travis Philo, 13.554; 24. 4AU-Jack Lee, 13.581; 25. 5K-Adam Kekich, 13.600; 26. 22S-Brandon Spithaler, 13.645; 27. O8-Dan Kuriger, 13.656; 28. 9-Kevin Schaeffer, 13.677; 29. 11-Scott Priester, 13.693; 30. 21N-Andy Priester, 13.864; 31. 33-Brent Matus, 13.886
 
Heat 1 - Kears Speed Shop (8 Laps - Top 6 finishers transfer to the A-feature) 1. 2-Dale Blaney[1] ; 2. 89G-David Gravel[4] ; 3. 3-Pete Miller III[2] ; 4. 45-Paul McMahan[5] ; 5. 19-Stevie Smith[6] ; 6. 22-Cole Duncan[7] ; 7. 35-Stuart Brubaker[8] ; 8. 40-Caleb Helms[3] ; 9. 5K-Adam Kekich[9] ; 10. 9-Kevin Schaeffer[10] ; 11. 33-Brent Matus[11]
 
Heat 2 - All Pro Aluminum Heads (8 Laps - Top 6 finishers transfer to the A-feature) 1. O-Christopher Bell[2] ; 2. 20E-Brian Ellenberger[5] ; 3. 4-Danny Smith[1] ; 4. D4-Danny Holtgraver[6] ; 5. 22S-Brandon Spithaler[9] ; 6. 12-Jared Ridge[3] ; 7. 13-Brandon Matus[7] ; 8. 5T-Travis Philo[8] ; 9. 2L-Ed Lynch Jr.[4] ; 10. 11-Scott Priester[10]
 
Heat 3 - Dragon Race Fuel (8 Laps - Top 6 finishers transfer to the A-feature) 1. 23JR-Jack Sodeman Jr.[1] ; 2. 54-Cap Henry[4] ; 3. CIII-Rod George[3] ; 4. 83-Tim Shaffer[6] ; 5. 10-Carl Bowser[2] ; 6. 24H-Bryan Sebetto[5] ; 7. 7-Eric Williams[7] ; 8. 4AU-Jack Lee[8] ; 9. O8-Dan Kuriger[9] ; 10. 21N-Andy Priester[10]
 
Dash - Outerwears Performance Products (6 Laps, finishing order determined first 6 starting positions of A-feature 1. 83-Tim Shaffer[1] ; 2. 20E-Brian Ellenberger[2] ; 3. 45-Paul McMahan[4] ; 4. D4-Danny Holtgraver[6] ; 5. 19-Stevie Smith[3] ; 6. 24H-Bryan Sebetto[5]
 
B-Main - MSD Ignition (12 Laps - Top 6 finishers transfer to the A-feature) 1. 2L-Ed Lynch Jr.[1] ; 2. 13-Brandon Matus[3] ; 3. 7-Eric Williams[4] ; 4. 40-Caleb Helms[2] ; 5. 5T-Travis Philo[6] ; 6. 35-Stuart Brubaker[5] ; 7. O8-Dan Kuriger[9] ; 8. 4AU-Jack Lee[7] ; 9. 33-Brent Matus[13] ; 10. 9-Kevin Schaeffer[10] ; 11. 5K-Adam Kekich[8]
 
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Pittman Western PA Sprint Champion
 
Mercer, PA (August 25, 2012): Daryn Pittman led wire-to wire to capture the 23rd Western Pennsylvania Championship sanctioned by the UNOH All Stars Circuit of Champions.
 
Jimmy Morris romped home with the Ti22 Performance Outlaw Sprint Warrior feature, while invader Tommy Fox dropped in to take the Open Stock tune-up for the season-ending Little Guys Nationals, coming up on September 21-22. Steve Longwell, Sr. scored the Mini Stock win.
 
"We've been struggling in Central PA, so it's just good to come out here and get a win," said Pittman. He was ready to get to victory lane a little sooner than the officials would allow, however. He had miscounted the laps and was surprised to see 28 on the scoreboard when he thought the checkers should have fallen.
 
It took three attempts to get the 30 lapper under way. The initial start was nullified by a flip by Dr. Steve Collins in turn four. The second was set aside because Brandon Matus came to a halt on the backstretch.
 
When the green flag waived for good, Pittman bolted into the lead form his pole position. Tim Shaffer, the durrent series points leader, slipped into second, with Rod George, Danny Holtgraver, Dale Blaney and David Gravel in hot pursuit. Behind them, there was a three-wide battle for positions just outside the top ten, involving Jack Sodeman, Jr., Scott Priester and Paul McMahan.
 
Pittman held a slim margin over Shaffer as the leaders entered lapped traffic with nine laps down. It took Pittman a lap or so to get by Bobby Howard, but Pittman did not get the relief he was seeking, Shaffer remained close, and Holtgraver was nipping on his heels, too.
 
Blaney worked his way past George just before the halfway mark, and he started to close on Holtgraver, who was holding down the third position. A caution on lap 16 for debris was the final stoppage of the race. The former champ was now within striking distance of the leaders.
 
The restart had Pittman on the point, with Shaffer, Holtgraver, Blaney and George right behind. At the drop of the green, Shaffer ducked to the inside of Pittman as they raced into turn one. Pittman had the momentum and he rode the cushion through the corners to pull ahead of his challenger.
 
Over the next ten laps, Pittman started to open up a lead, and the others in the top five also began to achieve some separation. However, with five laps to go, Pittman was in lapped traffic again, and Shaffer closed to his rear bumper. Holtgraver followed suit, reaching Shaffer's tail.
 
Pittman drove by the slower machine and got some much needed breathing room with just two laps top go.
 
"I wasn't getting around the lapped cars as good as I would have liked at the end, so when you'r behind a lapped car, you kinda figure that somebody must be coming behind you," Pittman explained.
 
However, it was Shaffer, who was not so fortunate. A lapped car slowed his charge, allowing Holtgraver to take the second spot away on the final lap.
 
"I was kinda lucky, Shaff got behind that lapped car, but you gotta take what you can get," Hotgraver observed. Holtgraver was aware of Pittman's difficulty getting past lapped machines, too, "but I don't know, even if we had a few more laps, if I could have gotten by him, he's pretty tough to pass, but at least we would have had a shot at him."
 
"It's been one of those years," a disheartened Shaffer noted. "It just don't seem to be working out."
Still, he was able to pad his points lead a bit, as he did finish a notch ahead of Blaney.
 
Rod George completed the top five, driving a car he's borrowed from Steve Lucas to finish out the year.
 
Brandon Spithaler held his own throughout the race, crossing in sixth. David Gravel was seventh and Paulie Mac in eighth. Cap Henry drove a remarkable race, passing twelve cars on his way to the ninth spot. Jack Sodeman, Jr., the new dad, completed the top ten.
 
There were 27 UNOH All Stars on hand. The fastest of the bunch was Danny Holtgraver, at 13.875. Erin Crocker still holds the track record, which she set in 2003.
 
Heat race wins were chalked up by Jack Sodeman, Jr., Paul McMahan, and Brandon Matus.
 
Eric Williams was victorious in the MSD Ignitions B Main.
 
The Outerwears Performance Products Dash winner was Daryn Pittman.
 
Goodyear provided tire certificates to Rod George, Eric Williams, Dan Kuriger, Brandon Spithaler and Scott Priester.
 
In the Ti22 Performance Outlaw Sprint Warriors, Jimmy Morris grabbed the lead at the start and never looked back. The race was slowed on a pair of occasions for Justin Whitesel, with the second one being terminal due to front suspension damage. Michael Bauer rode second throughout the contest, with Chris Mathews in third. Jacob Lagastee held fourth at the start, but faded as the race wore on. Rob Felix climbed to fourth, and Dennis Wagner copped the fifth spot.
 
Andy Feil, Jason Scoville, Dalton Daniels, Lagastee and Jeffrey Goodman, Jr., were sixth through tenth. Points leader Joe McEwen fell out of the event with just five laps in.
 
The pair of heats went to Scoville and Bauer. There were 20 cars in the event.
 
Next week, there will be the Patriot Sprint Tour 360s, along with five other classes. Come out to get your racing fix over the long Labor Day holiday weekend!Mercer Raceway Park  - 8/25/2012
UNOH Night
All Star Circuit of Champions (27 Cars)
[#]-Starting Position
Qualifying - Kistler Engines
1. D4-Danny Holtgraver, 13.875
2. 83-Tim Shaffer, 14.028
3. 27-Daryn Pittman, 14.032
4. 2-Dale Blaney, 14.068
5. CIII-Rod George, 14.089
6. 22-Brandon Spithaler, 14.223
7. 15-Scott Priester, 14.228
8. 10-Carl Bowser, 14.238
9. 89G-David Gravel, 14.255
10. 23JR-Jack Sodeman Jr., 14.256
11. 45-Paul McMahan, 14.279
12. 40-Caleb Helms, 14.384
13. O8-Dan Kurriger, 14.395
14. 8-Mike Lutz, 14.398
15. 3-Pete Miller III, 14.417
16. 66-Chris Best, 14.447
17. 5K-Adam Kekich, 14.468
18. 13-Brandon Matus, 14.487
19. 7-Eric Williams, 14.509
20. 4-Danny Smith, 14.510
21. 56-Ralph Spithaler, 14.517
22. 54-Cap Henry, 14.628
23. 67-Steve Collins, 14.902
24. 4AU-Jack Lee, 15.021
25. 49-Bob Howard, 15.204
26. 33-Brent Matus, 15.222
27. 2S-Francis Sesco, 15.530
 
Heat 1 - Kears Speed Shop (8 Laps - Top 6 finishers transfer to the A-feature)
1. 23JR-Jack Sodeman Jr.[3] ; 2. 2-Dale Blaney[5] ; 3. D4-Danny Holtgraver[6] ; 4. 54-Cap Henry[8] ; 5. O8-Dan Kurriger[2] ; 6. 15-Scott Priester[4] ; 7. 7-Eric Williams[7] ; 8. 49-Bob Howard[9]
 
Heat 2 - All Pro Aluminum Heads (8 Laps - Top 6 finishers transfer to the A-feature)
1. 45-Paul McMahan[3] ; 2. CIII-Rod George[5] ; 3. 83-Tim Shaffer[6] ; 4. 4-Danny Smith[7] ; 5. 10-Carl Bowser[4] ; 6. 67-Steve Collins[8] ; 7. 8-Mike Lutz[2] ; 8. 33-Brent Matus[9] ; 9. 5K-Adam Kekich[1]
 
Heat 3 - Dragon Race Fuel (8 Laps - Top 6 finishers transfer to the A-feature)
1. 13-Brandon Matus[1] ; 2. 3-Pete Miller III[2] ; 3. 40-Caleb Helms[3] ; 4. 89G-David Gravel[4] ; 5. 27-Daryn Pittman[6] ; 6. 22-Brandon Spithaler[5] ; 7. 56-Ralph Spithaler[7] ; 8. 4AU-Jack Lee[8] ; 9. 2S-Francis Sesco[9]
 
Dash - Outerwears Performance Products (6 Laps, finishing order determined first 6 starting positions of A-feature 1. 27-Daryn Pittman[1] ; 2. CIII-Rod George[2] ; 3. 83-Tim Shaffer[4] ; 4. D4-Danny Holtgraver[6] ; 5. 2-Dale Blaney[3] ; 6. 22-Brandon Spithaler[5]
 
B-Main - MSD Ignition (12 Laps - Top 6 finishers transfer to the A-feature)
1. 7-Eric Williams[4] ; 2. 8-Mike Lutz[1] ; 3. 5K-Adam Kekich[3] ; 4. 56-Ralph Spithaler[5] ; 5. 4AU-Jack Lee[6] ; 6. 49-Bob Howard[7] ; 7. 33-Brent Matus[8] ; 8. 2S-Francis Sesco[9]
 
UNOH All Stars A-Main - University of Northwestern Ohio (30 Laps):  1. 27-Daryn Pittman[1]; 2. D4-Danny Holtgraver[4]; 3. 83-Tim Shaffer[3]; 4. 2-Dale Blaney[5]; 5. CIII-Rod George[2]; 6. 22-Brandon Spithaler[6]; 7. 89G-David Gravel[9]; 8. 45-Paul McMahan[11]; 9. 54-Cap Henry[21]; 10. 23JR-Jack Sodeman Jr.[10]; 11. 8-Mike Lutz[14]; 12. 15-Scott Priester[7]; 13. 7-Eric Williams[18]; 14. 4-Danny Smith[19]; 15. 10-Carl Bowser[8]; 16. 3-Pete Miller III[15]; 17. 40-Caleb Helms[12]; 18. 13-Brandon Matus[17]; 19. O8-Dan Kurriger[13]; 20. 4AU-Jack Lee[23]; 21. 5K-Adam Kekich[16]; 22. 49-Bob Howard[24]; 23. 56-Ralph Spithaler[20]; 24. 67-Steve Collins[22]
Hard Charger: 54-Cap Henry[+12]
 
Ti22 Performance Outlaw Sprint Warriors: Jimmy Morris, Michael Bauer, Chris Mathews, Rob Felix, Dennis Wagner, Andy Feil, Jason Scoville, Dalton Daniels, Jacob Lagastee, Jeffrey Goodman, Jr., Mike Miller, Gale Ruth, Sr., C.J. Jones, Bob McMillin, Tom Sanders, Joe Siembida, Harold Braden, Jr., Joe McEwen, Justin Whitesell, Walt Tutak, Jr.

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Williams Grove Speedway
410 points
1. Greg Hodnett 4435
2. Lance Dewease 4020
3. Danny Dietrich 3990
4. Fred Rahmer 3915
5. Brian Montieth 3800
6. Chad Layton 3555
7. Daryn Pittman 3525
8. Alan Krimes 3085
9. Brent Marks 3040
10. Adam Wilt 2850

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DARYN PITTMAN & JIMMY HORTON SHARE VICTORY LANE SPOTLIGHT TUESDAY NIGHT AT NEW EGYPT SPEEDWAY

A big crowd was on hand for the  second annual running of the Jersey Rush 2 on Tuesday night at the New Egypt Speedway.   With $5,000 on the line, Daryn Pittman of Owasso, MO  took the lead with just three laps remaining to score the victory in the 30 lap feature for the 410 sprints.   In the 30 lap modified feature, veteran driver Jimmy Horton held off a late race challenge from Ryan Godown to score the victory and collect the $3,000 first place prize.   The well groomed New Egypt Speedway provided a track surface that allowed eleven different drivers to break the track record with  Daryn Pittman establishing fast time of the night, stopping the clock with a time of 13.734.  Pittman collected an additional $100 from CmB Mushrooms for setting time.  

In the 30 lap Jersey Rush 2 for the 410 sprints, pole sitter Frank Cozze  remained the pace setter with Ryan Smith and Logan Schuchart in the chase.   All eyes were on Daryn Pittman who was on his way to the front of the pack.   On several occasions,  Smith challenged Cozze for the lead, but the former New Egypt Speedway modified champion held on to the top spot.

At the halfway mark, Cozze was still the race leader followed by Ryan Smith, Schuchart, Pittman and Aaron Ott.  

On lap seventeen, Cozze, Smith and Pittman were now in a three car battle for the lead.   Just one lap later, the yellow was displayed for Ryan Bohlke who stopped in turn two.   The restart saw Cozze in control with Smith and Pittman just a car length behind.  

Lap twenty-one saw Smith move to the front of the pack with Cozze not looking for a way to regain the lead.

The only red flag of the feature was displayed on lap twenty-seven when Greg Hodnett  took a wild flip exiting turn four.   Hodnett walked away uninjured.

The turning point of the entire race took place on the restart.  At the drop of the green flag, race leader Ryan Smith developed motor problems and fell off  the pace.  Cozze took the spot for just a short time as Daryn Pittman took the high groove and the lead exiting turn two.  Logan Schuchart followed Pittman and took over second with Cozze now in third.   For the remaining two laps,  Pittman set the pace to score the win with Schuchart  second with local favorite Frank Cozze third followed by Mark Smith and Aaron Ott.

The thirty lap modified feature was equally exciting.   David Van Horn led the first lap before mechanical problems sidelined him before the completion of lap two.   Jimmy Horton took over the lead spot at the time followed by Sam Martz and Sammy Piazza.   The restart saw Horton waltz away from the rest of the field as Ryan Godown and Billy Pauch were heading to the front of the pack.   Horton, Martz and Piazza held down the top three spots through the halfway point of the race with Godown and Mike Iles making up the top five.  

On lap nineteen, Ryan Godown moved into third and set his sights on the front runners.   Godown moved into second on lap twenty-six and now had to catch and pass Horton for the win.    With just two lap remaining, Godown pulled alongside of Horton but didn’t make the pass.   The veteran Horton pulled out all the stops and kept Godown chasing his rear bumper to the checker flag.     Horton took the win followed by Ryan Godown, Sam Martz, Sammy Piazza and Billy Pauch.

Sprint car heat winners were Greg Hodnett,  Ryan Smith and Robbie Stillwaggon.    In the modifieds, David Van Horn, Rick Laubach and  Dominick  Buffalino were heat race winners as Tommy Scheetz won the consolation.

JERSEY RUSH 2  FEATURE FINISH 30 LAPS:  1. Daryn Pittman; 2. Logan Schuchart; 3. Frank Cozze; 4. Mark Smith; 5. Aaron Ott; 6. Fred Rahmer; 7. Lance Dewease; 8. Danny Dietrich; 9. Davey Sammons; 10. Robbie Stillwaggon; 11. Davie Franek; 12. Ryan Taylor; 13. Mark Bitner; 14. Niki Young; 15. Kyle Reinhardt; 16. Rick Lafferty; 17. Tim Tanner Jr.; 18. Jeff Fithian; 19. Ryan Smith; 20. Greg Hodnett; 21. Ryan Bohlke; 22. Dan Shetler;  23. Jonathan Swanson

MODIFIED FEATURE FINISH 30 LAPS: 1. Jimmy Horton; 2. Ryan Godown; 3. Sam Martz; 4. Sammy Piazza; 5. Billy Pauch; 6. Dominick Buffalino; 7. Mike Iles; 8. Rick Laubach; 9. Jeff Strunk; 10. Ron John Koczon; 11. Neil Williams; 12. Dave Witte; 13. John Stangle; 14. Tom Carberry Jr.; 15. Tommy Scheetz; 16. Tommy Farrell; 17. Johnny Gaurino; 18. Eric Kormann; 19. John McClelland; 20. Gary Butler; 21. Danny Bouc; 22. Dave Hunt; 23. Randy Laird; 24. David Van Horn.  DNQ- - Richie Pratt, John Wilman,  Darren McCaughey, Brad Freeman, Chris Grbac,  Scott  VanGorder.

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All Stars in for Western PA Sprint Championship August 25

Mercer, PA (August 20, 2012):  One of the region's most historic Sprint Car races will return to Mercer Raceway Park this Saturday, August 25. The 23rd Annual Western Pennsylvania Sprint Championship will be sanctioned by the All Stars Circuit of Champions, assuring that some of the nation's top talent will be on hand. And, with several weeks of inactivity, the Luxaire Heating & Cooling Sprint Car stars will be itching for a good fight! This race, which will pay a hefty $5,000 to the winner, is presented by Hovis Auto & Truck Supply.

Leading the invaders, of course, will be two of Western Pennsylvania's favorite sons. Current All Stars points leader, and defending champion, Tim Shaffer, will be looking for another win at the track close to his Aliquippa home. His arch rival, Dale Blaney, hails from Fowler, OH, and he's just as familiar with the tricky oval. What is more, Blaney is also a former champion with the traveling troupe.

The return of the All Stars also means that Pittsburgh's Danny Holtgraver and Port Vue's Pete Miller, III will be in action. They both have victories to their credit in weekly action at the Park, and they would like to take it up a notch in front of familiar faces.

It will be tough for any of them to pull off the win, as the show will also attract veteran drivers like Danny Smith, Greg Wilson, Brian Ellenberger, Ed Lynch, Jr., Rod George, Mike Lutz, and Scott Priester, among others.

Eric Williams is currently leading the way in track points, and he wants to put an exclamation point on his breakout season. An All Stars win would do just that.
 
And, who can forget Mercer's young guns: Brandon Matus and Adam Kekich? Matus upset the All Stars at another area speedway, and Kekich just grabbed his first career win at the Park!
 
Joining the Sprints will be the Ti22 Performance Outlaw Sprint Warriors. C.J. Jones took the checkers the last time out, but Chris Matthews was nipping on his heels. Over a dozen other drivers will challenge for the win in this competitive class.
 
Also on the card will be the Precise Racing Products Stock Cars, but they will be operating under Mercer's Open Stock rules. Curtis J. Bish has been tough to beat under the Open Stock format. Last, but not least, the Mini Stocks will be in action. Steve Longwell, Jr. took the win on Saturday after a battle with his father.
 
The Western PA Sprint Championship will have special event pricing in effect. Adults will be admitted for $23, seniors for $21, and students for $9. Children aged 8 and under are free, as always. The economical family pass will be $48, and that will be good for two adults and up to four minors, of any age. Pit passes will be $35.
 
Gates will open at 4 p.m., and racing will start at 7 p.m.

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Shaffer holds off Blaney for 50th UNOH All Star win

Quincy, MI (Saturday, Aug. 18, 2012) By Brian Liskai– Tim Shaffer, fresh off his University of Northwestern Ohio All Star Circuit of Champions Great Plains Regional Championship, held off season-long challenger Dale Blaney to earn his 50th career series win at the Butler Battlegrounds Speedway Saturday night.
 
The win is Shaffer’s fifth of the season with the UNOH All Stars and moves him just three victories away from tying Frankie Kerr for sixth on the series’ all-time win list. It also takes him one step closer to winning his fourth consecutive UNOH All Star championship, which has only been accomplished twice before – Kenny Jacobs (1998, 1999, 2000 and 2001) and Chad Kemenah (2002, 2003, 2004 and 2005). Shaffer was also able to nip into Blaney’s lead for the $20,000-to-win UNOH All Star Ohio Regional championship.
 
“The CH Motorsports team has been up and down and we’ve had a lot of seconds this year and we’re just trying to get some wins. We have Dave Lawrence on board now with James Chambers and we have some new guys on the crew and I think we’re really starting to gel and it’s a lot of fun,” said Shaffer beside his Aaron Call/Janet Holbrook owned, Kistler Engines, J&J Auto Racing, VRP Shocks backed #83. “It was hard on tires tonight. I was getting a little worried there with that green, white checkered that guys would keep blowing their tires but luckily we got the race over
 
For Blaney, a three time UNOH All Star Champion, another top three keeps him on pace to take the Ohio Region championship with just seven points races left.
 
“We were good all night. We qualified well and put ourselves in a good position. We just got single file there 10 laps into it and couldn’t do much after that. That’s the way racing goes some times,” said Blaney beside his Ti22 Performance backed machine. “On those restarts, Tim wasn’t pushing it too hard and was trying to be easy on his tires and I was trying to be easy on mine…if there was a way I could sneak by him there when he was running easy…he would have picked up the pace if he would have saw me…he saw me once and picked up the pace. I was just trying to make him run a little bit harder but it didn’t work out.”
 
Track conditions caused a lot of frustration for third place finisher Randy Hannagan. It was the second straight year “The Hurricane” would finish third at Butler.
 
“The yellow flags killed us. We should have just left those race cars on the track there the first couple of yellows because we left them there the last two laps…the one down there in three and the one down there in one. I don’t know what the yellows were for previously…the cars were stopped so we could have raced around them like we did there,” said a frustrated Hannagan beside his FK Rod Ends, Integra Shocks, Brown E. Miller Racing Solutions backed #1x.
 
All Star Circuit of Champions (29 Cars)
[#]-Starting Position

A-Main - University of Northwestern Ohio (30 Laps)
1. 83-Tim Shaffer[3]; 2. 2-Dale Blaney[4]; 3. 1X-Randy Hannagan[7]; 4. 4-Danny Smith[11]; 5. 4K-Kody Kinser[8]; 6. 40-Caleb Helms[1]; 7. 25M-Ken Mackey[17]; 8. 96M-Josh Mohr[22]; 9. 14-Chad Wilson[21]; 10. 27-Shelby Bilton[20]; 11. 45-Paul McMahan[12]; 12. 89G-David Gravel[2]; 13. D4-Danny Holtgraver[10]; 14. 3W-Chris Jones[16]; 15. 7-Nick Rogers[15]; 16. 17-Jared Horstman[14]; 17. 50B-Mike Burns[23]; 18. 22-Cole Duncan[5]; 19. 9E-Tim Evilsizer[19]; 20. 54-Cap Henry[6]; 21. 19-Doug Zimmerman[9]; 22. 48-Scott Hull[13]; 23. 4T-Josh Turner[18]; 24. 27K-Ryan Kirkendall[24]

Qualifying - Kistler Engines
1. 2-Dale Blaney, 11.971; 2. 89G-David Gravel, 12.018; 3. 83-Tim Shaffer, 12.045; 4. 40-Caleb Helms, 12.056; 5. 54-Cap Henry, 12.116; 6. 22-Cole Duncan, 12.137; 7. 1X-Randy Hannagan, 12.389; 8. 4K-Kody Kinser, 12.505; 9. 19-Doug Zimmerman, 12.506; 10. D4-Danny Holtgraver, 12.537; 11. 4-Danny Smith, 12.601; 12. 45-Paul McMahan, 12.914; 13. 48-Scott Hull, 13.005; 14. 17-Jared Horstman, 13.119; 15. 7-Nick Rogers, 13.139; 16. 3W-Chris Jones, 13.263; 17. 25M-Ken Mackey, 13.272; 18. 4T-Josh Turner, 13.323; 19. 9E-Tim Evilsizer, 13.351; 20. 27-Shelby Bilton, 13.403; 21. 14-Chad Wilson, 13.631; 22. 27B-Brad Lamberson, 13.641; 23. 96M-Josh Mohr, 14.005; 24. 50B-Mike Burns, 14.129; 25. 27K-Ryan Kirkendall, 14.208; 26. 8-Aaron Huff, 14.327; 27. 10J-Chris Jones, 14.495; 28. 91-James Cochran, 16.492; 29. 12B-Mike Baker, 99.999
 
Heat 1 - Kears Speed Shop (8 Laps - Top 6 finishers transfer to the A-feature)
1. 1X-Randy Hannagan[4] ; 2. 2-Dale Blaney[6] ; 3. 3W-Chris Jones[1] ; 4. D4-Danny Holtgraver[3] ; 5. 40-Caleb Helms[5] ; 6. 9E-Tim Evilsizer[7] ; 7. 48-Scott Hull[2] ; 8. 27B-Brad Lamberson[8] ; 9. 27K-Ryan Kirkendall[9] ; 10. 91-James Cochran[10]
 
Heat 2 - All Pro Aluminum Heads (8 Laps - Top 6 finishers transfer to the A-feature)
1. 17-Jared Horstman[2] ; 2. 25M-Ken Mackey[1] ; 3. 4-Danny Smith[3] ; 4. 4K-Kody Kinser[4] ; 5. 89G-David Gravel[6] ; 6. 54-Cap Henry[5] ; 7. 27-Shelby Bilton[7] ; 8. 8-Aaron Huff[9] ; 9. 96M-Josh Mohr[8] ; 10. 12B-Mike Baker[10]
 
Heat 3 - Dragon Race Fuel (8 Laps - Top 6 finishers transfer to the A-feature)
1. 7-Nick Rogers[2] ; 2. 45-Paul McMahan[3] ; 3. 4T-Josh Turner[1] ; 4. 22-Cole Duncan[5] ; 5. 19-Doug Zimmerman[4] ; 6. 83-Tim Shaffer[6] ; 7. 14-Chad Wilson[7] ; 8. 10J-Chris Jones[9] ; 9. 50B-Mike Burns[8]
 
Dash - Outerwears Performance Products (6 Laps, finishing order determined first 6 starting positions of A-feature
1. 40-Caleb Helms[2] ; 2. 89G-David Gravel[1] ; 3. 83-Tim Shaffer[4] ; 4. 2-Dale Blaney[3] ; 5. 22-Cole Duncan[6] ; 6. 54-Cap Henry[5]
 
B-Main - MSD Ignition (12 Laps - Top 6 finishers transfer to the A-feature)
1. 27-Shelby Bilton[2] ; 2. 14-Chad Wilson[3] ; 3. 50B-Mike Burns[6] ; 4. 48-Scott Hull[1] ; 5. 96M-Josh Mohr[5] ; 6. 27K-Ryan Kirkendall[7] ; 7. 27B-Brad Lamberson[4] ; 8. 10J-Chris Jones[9] ; 9. 8-Aaron Huff[8]
 
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LOGAN SCHUCHART ENTERS THE RUSH, PLUS COZZE & TANNER, TRACK RECORD AT RISK TUESDAY NIGHT, AUGUST 21

Anticipation is building for the “ultimate rush”,  as the JERSEY RUSH 2 returns to New Egypt Speedway Tuesday night, August 21.   

The top 410 sprint car drivers in the country will make their one and only  appearance at New Egypt Speedway in a huge double-header joined by the modifieds on Tuesday night, August 21.    The most recent entry is twenty year old Logan Schuchart of  Hanover, PA.   Schuchart, the grandson of the “Original Outlaw” Bobby Allan  has been racing for three years and has accumulated over ten wins and three championships.   Schuchart would like nothing more then to add a JERSEY RUSH 2  victory to his list of accomplishments.  Frank Cozze, a former New Egypt Speedway modified champion turned 410 sprint car driver a few years back and would be thrilled to score his first 410 sprint win with the home track crowd looking on.   Tim Tanner, currently racing  modifieds has his eye on sprint car competition and will also strap into a powerful 410 sprinter on Tuesday night at  New Egypt.   A new one lap track record is expected to be established as the 410 sprints take part in the  CnB Mushrooms Time Trials offering a $100 cash bonus to fast time of the night.   The existing one lap track record is 14.193 established by Lance Dewease in the Jersey Rush 1 on August 30, 2011.

On  Tuesday night, August 21 at the New Egypt Speedway, the CnB Time Trials will open the program for the 410 sprints at 7:30 PM.  Qualifying events will follow for both the 410 sprints and modifieds leading up to the 30 lap $5,000 to win 410 Sprint feature and the 30 lap $3,000 to win Modified feature.

Gates will open at 5 PM and a free to spectators FESTFEST will take place in the pit area from 5 to 6 PM.   Spectators may enter the pit side FANFEST by entering  behind  victory lane and the fourth turn grandstands.  Many of the 410 sprint drivers will arrive early so you may participate in the Meet & Greet.   Warm-ups will take place at 6:45 PM with qualifying getting underway at 7:30 PM.   In the event of rain, Wednesday night, August 22 with a 7:30 PM starting time.

Along with Logan Schuchart,   nationally known  410 sprint drivers planning to participate in the Jersey Rush 2 include Fred Rahmer, Greg Hodnett, Ryan Smith, Lance Dewease, Mark Smith, Aaron Ott, Danny Dietrich, Daryn Pittman,  Brent Marks, Davey Sammons, Niki Young, Mark Bitner, Bobby Howard, Frank Cozze, Ryan Taylor, Rick Lafferty, Ryan Bohlke, Davie Franek, Tim Tanner,  and Robbie Stillwaggon  are just a few of the pre-entries for the sprint cars. 

Entries on the modified roster include  Billy Pauch,  Stewart Friesen, David VanHorn, Ryan Godown,  Billy Pauch Jr., Rick Laubach, Jimmy Horton, Randy Laird, Willie Osmun,  Ron John Koczon, Sammy Martz and Dominic Buffalino.  

Order of Events for August 21, 2012

3:30 PM - Pit gate opens

4:00 PM – Advance tickets may be picked up in the office

5:00 PM – Main Gates open

5:00 – 6 PM  – FANFEST  Fans Meet & Greet the Drivers in the Pits

6:15 PM – Drivers Meeting

6:30 PM – Heat in Motors 410 Sprints

6:45 PM – Modified Warm-ups/410 Sprint Warm-ups  (No work to the Track)

Invocation & National Anthem- - Kristen Sowers

7:30 PM   410 Sprint Time Trials  ($100)

(Current One Lap Track Record: 14.193 Lance Dewease 8/30/2012)                           

Modified Heats – 10 laps

410 Sprint Heats  - 10 laps

Modified Consolation – 10 laps

410 Sprint “B” Main – 10 laps 

Intermission

Modified Warm-up

30 Lap Jersey Rush 2  410 sprints   $5,000 To Win

30 Lap Jersey Rush 2 Modifieds  $3,000 To Win

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Haudenschild finds Red River to his liking

W. FARGO, N.D. (Wednesday, Aug. 15, 2012)By Brian Liskai - Jac Haudenschild might have to change his nickname from "The Wild Child" to "The Rough Rider," the moniker of North Dakota, where the Wooster, Ohio native dominated the University of Northwestern Ohio All Star Circuit of Champions event at Red River Valley Speedway Wednesday.

The win is Haudenschild's first with the UNOH All Stars since 2006 and is his 23rd overall with the series, moving him into 24th on the all-time win list just one way away from tying Sammy Swindell and Keith Kauffman. Haudenschild becomes the 19th different UNOH All Star winner in 2012 with his first series win of 2012.

"I have to thank Tom Liedig for putting me in this car," said Haudenschild beside the Auto Electric Jupiter/Motter Equipment/Dan and Ruth Motter backed Maxim. "The car was really quick tonight on an awesome race track. I didn't know if Paul (McMahan) or anyone was coming, so I just ran it as hard as I could and we ended up on top."

It was a wild night at Red River valley, as the evening began with a quick rain shower that delayed the start of the program. However, the rain, along with several recent improvements to the facility, provided a lightning quick surface on the 3/8th mile dirt oval. McMahan established a new track record before a second rain shower halted qualifying two-thirds of the way through the order. When the shower passed, the cars returned to the track for a quick session of hot laps, followed with a single lap of qualifying. McMahan once again set the standard in the Tom Buch owned machine with a new track record of 12.045 seconds.

McMahan would continue his strong night by leading all six laps of the Outerwears Performance Parts Dash, holding off a strong challenge from Haudenschild for the win to earn the pole position of the feature.

But, when the green flew for the 30-lap feature, it was Haudenschild who seized command with McMahan trying to keep pace with Cap Henry and "The Hammer" David Gravel in pursuit. The race came to a halt on lap four when Henry slowed going down the backstretch. Local standout Mark Dobmeier couldn't avoid Henry and flipped the Lunstra/Dobmeier #13L.

On the restart Haudenschild once again pulled away and hometown favorite Donny Schatz - fresh off his sixth Knoxville Nationals win - took over third in the family-owned #15 powered by the Alternative 410 Motor Program engine. Unfortunately, his night would come to an end just three laps later when a mechanical failure forced him pitside.

Another red flag stopped brought the field back to Haudenschild, but when the green reappeared, he continued to set a blistering pace. At one point, Haudenschild jumped the cushion in turn three and still maintained a sizable advantage.

At the half-way point the running order was Haudenschild, McMahan, Gravel, Stevie Smith and Jason Sides.

When Haudenschild was racing through lapped traffic, Gravel worked his P&M Transportation #89G up to challenge McMahan for second, grabbing the position on lap 22. Smith started the CL Motorsports #19 eighth and took third from McMahan a lap later.

The final stoppage of the race came on lap 23 when disaster struck Gravel. He was trying to work through lapped traffic when contact resulted in a broken front axle. This started a chain reaction accident and brought out the third and final red flag.

Haudenschild had no problems the final seven laps with a clear track, while Smith and McMahan completed the podium.

"Fargo used to be the big half-mile track and now they've got it quite a bit smaller. I enjoy those too," added Haudenschild. "They had the track really nice tonight...good and heavy. So I think starting up front played to our advantage. I'd say it was our first heavy track all season. It was a great race track tonight and just goes to show you what can happen when a rack works on them a little bit."

For Smith, the 2009 and 2012 Ohio Sprint Speedweek champion, a second place run continued his recent consistent finished.

"We're still getting very consistent results and that is absolutely key," said Smith of his DDNi/CJB Motorsports/Spectro Oils/KPC machine. "When we look at our finishes, it's really good to see long streaks of great finishes because that's what wins you championships. We're not running for a season long title this year, but 2013 is a whole different animal."

"We got a little bit behind in time trials but we still made the dash," continued Smith, who has 34 top10's so far in 2012. "Time Trials continue to be the most important part of the night. Where you get slotted in at has a lot to do with the amount of success you'll have at the track."

"My hat goes off to the Schatz family. They worked hard to give us a good place to race tonight. They were looking at trying to give us a great surface to race on and then Mother Nature added just a little bit more. We all had to race on the same surface and I hope the fans enjoyed it. It seemed like a heck of a race," added Smith. "The surface here was a lot like Chico (Silver Dollar Speedway) in that it was very wet and tacky. I think the rain ended up helping the surface a lot because the wind was fierce all day long and it kept that moisture locked in for a long time. Our car going until about 10 laps in...we didn't seem to take off well.  But, after a few laps, we were one of the fastest cars on the track. I don't think we had anything for Jac because he was in his own zipcode. We did have some great battles with David Gravel and Paul McMahan."

McMahan was also pleased with his third place run.

"All in all it was a good night and I really want to thank Tom Buch for letting me bring his car out here," said McMahan. "The track was in terrific shape. We were fast early and set the track record twice on a night when I earned my first fast qualifier award of the year. If you had your race car right, this was one of the best tracks we've had all year. We were good, but just got bottled up there with some lapped traffic and lost second."

Sides, who won his first UNOH All Star feature two weeks earlier, would come home fourth ahead of three time UNOH All Star Champion Tim Shaffer, who started 13th. Shaffer would clinch the UNOH All Stars' Great Plains Region championship and its $10,000 prize.
 
Red River Valley Speedway   - 8/15/2012
All Star Circuit of Champions (25 Cars)
[#]-Starting Position
 
A-Main - University of Northwestern Ohio (30 Laps)
1. 59-Jac Haudenschild[2]
2. 19-Stevie Smith[8]
3. 45-Paul McMahan[1]
4. 7S-Jason Sides[11]
5. 83-Tim Shaffer[13]
6. 2-Dale Blaney[7]
7. 89G-David Gravel[6]
8. W20-Greg Wilson [10]
9. 5-David Glennon[16]
10. 82-Justin Henderson [12]
11. 54-Cap Henry[4]
12. 4-Danny Smith[19]
13. 20A-Jordan Adams [23]
14. 13G-Cody Hahn[17]
15. 2A-Austin Pierce[21]
16. 19W-Ryan Wilson [24]
17. 8-Casey Mack[9]
18. 99-Jordan Graham[22]
19. 40-Caleb Helms[3]
20. 15-Donny Schatz[14]
21. 1-Chris Shirek[20]
22. 10TRB-Bob Martin[15]
23. 13-Mark Dobmeier[5]
24. 22-Tanner Wisk[25]
Hard Charger: 20A-Jordan Adams [+10]

Qualifying - Kistler Engines
1. 45-Paul McMahan, 12.045
2. 54-Cap Henry, 12.106
3. 13-Mark Dobmeier, 12.116
4. 59-Jac Haudenschild, 12.156
5. 40-Caleb Helms, 12.186
6. 89G-David Gravel, 12.191
7. 2-Dale Blaney, 12.223
8. 19-Stevie Smith, 12.224
9. 8-Casey Mack, 12.241
10. W20-Greg Wilson , 12.296
11. 7S-Jason Sides, 12.310
12. 82-Justin Henderson , 12.361
13. 83-Tim Shaffer, 12.436
14. 15-Donny Schatz, 12.564
15. 10TRB-Bob Martin, 12.739
16. 5-David Glennon, 12.747
17. 13G-Cody Hahn, 12.820
18. 9N-Wade Nygard, 12.950
19. 4-Danny Smith, 13.072
20. 1-Chris Shirek, 13.098
21. 2A-Austin Pierce, 13.129
22. 99-Jordan Graham, 13.149
23. 20A-Jordan Adams , 13.661
24. 19W-Ryan Wilson , 13.811
25. 22-Tanner Wisk, 14.302
 
Heat 1 - Kears Speed Shop (8 Laps - Top 9 finishers transfer to the
A-feature)
1. 83-Tim Shaffer[2]
2. 2-Dale Blaney[4]
3. W20-Greg Wilson [3]
4. 59-Jac Haudenschild[5]
5. 45-Paul McMahan[6]
6. 5-David Glennon[1]
7. 4-Danny Smith[7]
8. 99-Jordan Graham[8]
9. 22-Tanner Wisk[9]
 
Heat 2 - All Pro Aluminum Heads (8 Laps - Top 9 finishers transfer to the
A-feature)
1. 7S-Jason Sides[3]
2. 15-Donny Schatz[2]
3. 19-Stevie Smith[4]
4. 54-Cap Henry[6]
5. 13G-Cody Hahn[1]
6. 40-Caleb Helms[5]
7. 1-Chris Shirek[7]
8. 20A-Jordan Adams [8]
 
Heat 3 - Dragon Race Fuel (8 Laps - Top 9 finishers transfer to the
A-feature)
1. 82-Justin Henderson [3]
2. 13-Mark Dobmeier[6]
3. 9N-Wade Nygard[1]
4. 10TRB-Bob Martin[2]
5. 89G-David Gravel[5]
6. 8-Casey Mack[4]
7. 2A-Austin Pierce[7]
8. 19W-Ryan Wilson [8]
 
Dash - Outerwears Performance Products (6 Laps, finishing order determined
first 6 starting positions of A-feature
1. 45-Paul McMahan[1]
2. 59-Jac Haudenschild[3]
3. 40-Caleb Helms[2]
4. 54-Cap Henry[4]
5. 13-Mark Dobmeier[5]
6. 89G-David Gravel[6]

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DRIVING SENSATION RYAN SMITH LASTEST ENTRY IN TUESDAY, AUGUST 21 JERSEY RUSH 2 AT NEW EGYPT

One of the brightest up-and-coming sprint car drivers, Ryan Smith of Kunkletown, PA  is the latest entry for the "The Ultimate Rush", the JERSEY RUSH 2 that will take place at the New Egypt Speedway on Tuesday night, August 21.  Smith will compete in this high profile 410 sprint car event and he will be driving the familiar Don Kreitz Jr. #69, sponsored by Todd Lieto.   Legendary Don Kreitz Jr will be on hand to personally set-up the car and assist Smith during the night.  

Smith, at age 24  has over one-hundred and seventy-five career feature wins in various divisions of racing on both dirt and asphalt.  Ryan Smith owns five championships and he has diversified his talents among micro sprints, midgets, indoor TQ-style cars all the way to a full blown 410 sprint car, and Ryan continues to build a stout resume.  He would like nothing more then to add a 410 Sprint Car victory in Jersey Rush to his long list of accomplishments. He has experience at New Egypt in ARDC Midgets and 305 Sprint Cars.  Key sponsors for Ryan Smith include Kreitz Oval Track, Tri-State Roofing (Randy Sherlock), Schannauer Plumbing of Sinking Spring, PA

Joining Smith in the Jersey Rush 2 roster is Greg Hodnett, Lance Dewease, Mark Smith, Aaron Ott, Danny Dietrich, Daryn Pittman, Fred Rahmer,  Brent Marks, Davey Sammons, Niki Young, Mark Bitner, Bobby Howard, Frank Cozze, Ryan Taylor, Rick Lafferty, Ryan Bohlke, Davie Franek and Brent Marks are just a few of the pre-entries for the sprint cars.     Danny Dietrich was the recent winner of the Sterner Memorial at the Lincoln Speedway and Ryan Taylor, winner of Saturday's  feature event at the Port Royal Speedway.

The Jersey Rush 2 will showcase the 410 sprints and modifieds in a spectacular double-header on Tuesday night, August 21.   Gates will open at 5 PM with qualifying taking the green flag at 7:30 PM.      In the event of rain, Wednesday night,  August 22 will be the rain date and carry a 7:30 PM starting time.

Driver & Crew Meet & Greet is being planned  for fans to get an up close look at the drivers, crews and cars.   The Meet & Greet will take place from 5-6 PM.   The gate from Victory Lane (behind the turn four seating) to the pit area will open to allow spectators to go pit side for one hour prior to the start of the show.

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“MR. SPRINT CAR” KYLE LARSON LEADS BRIAN BROWN AND TIM KAEDING IN FINAL 2012 COX DESIGN IOWA SPEED WEEK POINTS

KNOXVILLE, IOWA (August 11, 2012) – 2012 “Mr. Sprint Car” titlist Kyle Larson of Elk Grove, California, finished this year’s Cox Design Iowa Speed Week with a record number of points – 350.  Following him on the Speed Week podium after ten nights of sprint car races were Brian Brown and Tim Kaeding, respectively.  Donny Schatz, winner of the Speed Sport Knoxville World Challenge on Friday night, came back to win his sixth Knoxville Nationals title on Saturday night.

The top ten in the 2012 Cox Design Iowa Speed Week points after thirteen mains in ten nights is as follows:  1., Kyle Larson, 350 points; 2., Brian Brown, 276 points; 3., Tim Kaeding, 268 points; 4., Shane Stewart, 253 points; 5., Tim Shaffer, 246 points; 6., Jason Meyers, 242 points; 7., Daryn Pittman, 227 points; 8., Jason Johnson, 222 points; 9., Brady Bacon, 221 points; 10., Paul McMahan, 216 points.

The Cox Design & Metal Fabrication Iowa Speedweek includes ten straight nights of sprint car racing between Knoxville Raceway and the Southern Iowa Speedway.  The top three places pay $2,500, $1,000, and $500, respectively, with the winner declared the Jesse Hockett “Mr. Sprint Car” titlist.  Past “Mr. Sprint Car” titlists include Ricky Logan (2002) of Arkansas, Shane Stewart (2003, ’04) of Oklahoma, Billy Alley (2005) of Nebraska, Jason Johnson (2006) of Louisiana, Wayne Johnson (2007, ‘08) of Oklahoma, Terry McCarl (2009) of Iowa, Sammy Swindell (2010, ‘11) of Tennessee, and now Kyle Larson (2012) of California.

The history of the Cox Design & Metal Fabrication Iowa Speed Week, awarding the Jesse Hockett “Mr. Sprint Car” title, is as follows:

2012 - 1., Kyle Larson, California, 350 points ($2,500); 2., Brian Brown, Missouri, 276 points ($1,000); 3., Tim Kaeding, California, 268 points ($500); 4., Shane Stewart, Oklahoma, 253 points; 5., Tim Shaffer, Pennsylvania, 246 points.

2011 - 1., Sammy Swindell, Tennessee, 321 points ($2,500); 2., Shane Stewart, Oklahoma, 291 points ($1,000); 3., Jason Johnson, Louisiana, 259 points ($500); 4., Daryn Pittman, Oklahoma, 237 points; 5., Tim Shaffer, Pennsylvania, 227 points.

2010 – 1., Sammy Swindell, Tennessee, 276 points ($2,500); 2., Brooke Tatnell, New South Wales, Australia, 229 ($1,000); 3., Jason Johnson, Louisiana, 219 ($500); 4., Bronson Maeschen, Iowa, 215; 5., Brian Brown, Missouri, 207.

2009 - 1., Terry McCarl, Iowa, 276 points ($2,500); 2., Brian Brown, Missouri, 253 ($1,000); 3., Johnny Herrera, New Mexico, 239 ($500); 4., Shane Stewart, Oklahoma, 224; 5., Wayne Johnson, Oklahoma, 213.

2008 - 1., Wayne Johnson, Oklahoma, 314 points ($2,500); 2., Billy Alley, Nebraska, 274  ($1,000); 3., Brooke Tatnell, New South Wales, Australia, 271 ($500); 4., Tyler Walker, California, 261; 5., Jason Johnson, Louisiana, 233.

2007 – 1., Wayne Johnson, Oklahoma, 266 points ($2,500); 2., Kaley Gharst, Illinois, 252 ($1,000); 3., Brian Brown, Missouri, 249 ($500); 4., Shane Stewart, Oklahoma, 192; 5., Jonathan Allard, California, 182.

2006 – 1., Jason Johnson, Louisiana, 309 points ($2,500); 2., Billy Alley, Nebraska, 247 ($1,000); 3., Brian Brown, Missouri, 227 ($500); 4., Don Droud, Jr., Nebraska, 201; 5., Gary Wright, Texas, 187.

2005 – 1., Billy Alley, Nebraska, 303 points ($2,500); 2., Kerry Madsen, New South Wales, Australia, 258 ($1,000); 3., Daryn Pittman, Oklahoma, 235; 4., Jesse Hockett, Missouri, 227; 5., Jesse Giannetto, Iowa, 214.

2004 - 1., Shane Stewart, Oklahoma, 217 points ($3,000); 2., Kerry Madsen, New South Wales, Australia, 183; 3., Zach Chappell, Oklahoma, 182; 4., Tim Kaeding, California, 165; 5., Wayne Johnson, Oklahoma, 160.

2003 – 1., Shane Stewart, Oklahoma, 238 points ($2,500); 2., Erin Crocker, Massachusetts, 186; 3., Travis Rilat, Texas, 183; 4., Kerry Madsen, New South Wales, Australia, 177; 5., Terry McCarl, Iowa, 175.

2002 – 1., Ricky Logan, Arkansas, 202 points ($1,500); 2., Jason Johnson, Louisiana, 186; 3., Daryn Pittman, Oklahoma, 171; 4., Brad Furr, California, 170; 5., Kasey Kahne, Washington, 160.

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Star-Studded Field Set For Tonight’s SPEED SPORT Knoxville World Challenge

KNOXVILLE, IOWA (August 10, 2012) – A star-studded 24-car field is set to take the green flag tonight for the nineteenth annual SPEED SPORT Knoxville World Challenge.  The line-up for the 20-lap $10,000-to-win finale, based upon a 12-car inversion of qualifying night points for the eligible drivers, is as follows:

Row 1:             Sammy Swindell           USA                Jason Johnson              USA
Row 2:             Paul McMahan             USA                Daryn Pittman               USA
Row 3:             Shane Stewart              USA                Kyle Larson                 USA
Row 4:             Ian Madsen                  AUS                Lucas Wolfe                 USA
Row 5:             Jason Meyers               USA                Donny Schatz               USA
Row 6:             Jonathan Allard             USA                Craig Dollansky            USA
Row 7:             Tim Shaffer                   USA                Brooke Tatnell              AUS
Row 8:             Kerry Madsen              AUS                Jamie Veal                    AUS
Row 9:             James McFadden         AUS                David Gravel                USA
Row 10:           Glen Saville                  AUS                Lynton Jeffrey               AUS
Row 11:           Trevor Reynolds           AUS                Domain Ramsay           AUS
Row 12:           Danny Smith                 USA                Marty Perovich             AUS

 According to Tom Schmeh, who co-founded the World Challenge back in 1994 with Jon Evans, Ralph Capitani and the late Ian Sheppard, “This certainly has been a different year, with no Canadians and no New Zealanders competing in the Knoxville Nationals.  Then, this spring, after taking Premier Speedway’s David Mills’ advice into consideration, we decided to lower the starting inversion from 16 to 12, based on qualifying night points.  Well, as it turns out, we have 11 Americans in the first 12 positions, with Ian Madsen being the lone Aussie.  And we have Sammy Swindell starting on the pole position.  I am not sure that anyone could have predicted that on Tuesday.”

The SPEED SPORT Knoxville World Challenge is a points-paying round of the Cox Design & Metal Fabrication Iowa Speed Week, August 2-11, which awards the Jesse Hockett “Mr. Sprint Car” title.  Those seeking more information on the Speed Sport Knoxville World Challenge or the World of Outlaws-sanctioned 52nd Goodyear Knoxville Nationals are encouraged to visit the Knoxville Raceway web site at www.knoxvilleraceway.com. 

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KYLE LARSON CONTINUES TO LEAD COX DESIGN IOWA SPEED WEEK POINTS ON HIS WAY TO JESSE HOCKETT “MR. SPRINT CAR” TITLE

KNOXVILLE, IOWA (August 9, 2012) – Winged and non-winged sprint car hotshoe Kyle Larson of Elk Grove, California, continues to lead the Cox Design & Metal Fabrication Iowa Speed Week point championship, which awards $2,500 and the Jesse Hockett “Mr. Sprint Car” title, after night number eight.  Jason Meyers won the Thursday night preliminary feature for the Goodyear Knoxville Nationals.

Night number nine of ten straight nights of sprint car racing between the Oskaloosa and Knoxville dirt tracks is Friday night at Knoxville Raceway with the third preliminary night of the Knoxville Nationals for the winged ‘410’ sprint cars.  The Iowa Speed Week points-paying feature on Friday night, though, is the Speed Sport World Challenge, which will feature ten Australians and fourteen Americans in a 20-lap feature.  The participating Americans qualified for the World Challenge in one of three qualifiers held in Australia and New Zealand last winter.  Amongst the twenty-four Speed Sport Knoxville World Challenge participants will be such versatile racers as Kyle Larson, Tim Shaffer, Shane Stewart, Jason Johnson, Brooke Tatnell, Paul McMahan, Daryn Pittman and Jason Meyers.

The unofficial top fifteen in the 2012 Cox Design Iowa Speed Week points after eleven mains in eight nights is as follows:  1., Kyle Larson, 287 points; 2., Brian Brown, 227 points; 3., Tim Kaeding, 226 points; 4., Brady Bacon, 211 points; 5., Tim Shaffer, 190 points; 6., Shane Stewart, 179 points; 7., Jason Johnson, 168 points; 8., Danny Lasoski, Brooke Tatnell, 165 points (tied); 10., Brad Sweet, 162 points; 11., Paul McMahan, 156 points; 12., Daryn Pittman, 149 points; 13., Jason Meyers, 148 points; 14., Wayne Johnson, 146 points; 15., Dusty Zomer, 133 points.

The Cox Design & Metal Fabrication Iowa Speedweek includes ten straight nights of sprint car racing between Knoxville Raceway and the Southern Iowa Speedway.  The top three places pay $2,500, $1,000, and $500, respectively, with the winner declared the Jesse Hockett “Mr. Sprint Car” titlist.  Past “Mr. Sprint Car” titlists include Ricky Logan (2002) of Arkansas, Shane Stewart (2003, ’04) of Oklahoma, Billy Alley (2005) of Nebraska, Jason Johnson (2006) of Louisiana, Wayne Johnson (2007, ‘08) of Oklahoma, Terry McCarl (2009) of Iowa, and Sammy Swindell (2010, ‘11) of Tennessee.

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AFTER NINE MAINS IN SIX NIGHTS, KYLE LARSON WIDENS LEAD  IN THE COX DESIGN IOWA SPEED WEEK POINTS

KNOXVILLE, IOWA (August 8, 2012)  -  Following nine mains in six nights, Kyle Larson of Elk Grove, California, also known as “Young Money,” has widened his lead in the 2012 Cox Design & Metal Fabrication Iowa Speed Week points.  Kyle won Tuesday night’s $15,000-to-win United States Auto Club (USAC) Ultimate Challenge finale at the Southern Iowa Speedway in Oskaloosa.  Mike Van Haaften also won last night’s winged 305-cubic-inch sprint car feature.  Night number seven of ten straight nights of sprint car racing is Wednesday night back at Knoxville Raceway with the first preliminary night of the Knoxville Nationals for the winged ‘410’ sprint cars.

The unofficial top twenty in the 2012 Cox Design Iowa Speed Week points after nine mains in six nights is as follows:  1., Kyle Larson, 237 points; 2., Brady Bacon, 201 points; 3., Brian Brown, 185 points; 4.,  Tim Kaeding, 183 points; 5., Brad Sweet, 152 points; 6., Tim Shaffer, 141 points; 7., Danny Lasoski, 136 points; 8., Shane Stewart, 135 points; 9., Jason Johnson, 124 points; 10., Kaley Gharst, 121 points; 11., Brooke Tatnell, 120 points; 12., Paul McMahan, 119 points; 13., Alan Ambers, 115 points; 14., Wayne Johnson, 114 points; 15., Daryn Pittman, 110 points; 16., Rager Phillips, 109 points; 17., Kevin Swindell, 107 points, 18., Justin Henderson, 106 points; 19., Roger Crockett, Dusty Zomer, 103 points (tied).

The Cox Design & Metal Fabrication Iowa Speedweek includes ten straight nights of sprint car racing between Knoxville Raceway and the Southern Iowa Speedway.  The top three places pay $2,500, $1,000, and $500, respectively, with the winner declared the Jesse Hockett “Mr. Sprint Car” titlist.  Past “Mr. Sprint Car” titlists include Ricky Logan (2002) of Arkansas, Shane Stewart (2003, ’04) of Oklahoma, Billy Alley (2005) of Nebraska, Jason Johnson (2006) of Louisiana, Wayne Johnson (2007, ‘08) of Oklahoma, Terry McCarl (2009) of Iowa, and Sammy Swindell (2010, ‘11) of Tennessee.

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Pittman dominates Front Row Challenge for UNOH All Star win

OSKALOOSA, Iowa – It’s been a tough year for Daryn Pittman. But the Front Row Challenge at Southern Iowa Speedway provided just the rest medicine for him and his team.
 
The Owasso, Oklahoma native led all 25 laps to earn his 7th career University of Northwestern Ohio All Star Circuit of Champions victory and second series win of 2012. Pittman leads the UNOH All Star’s Eastern Region points,
 
“This belt just saved my job. My car owner (Mike Heffner) is adamant about trophies and after the year we’ve had I really wanted to get this for him,” said Pittman of his Lelands.com, Pasquariello’s, Danny’s Auto Salvage backed #27. “I pulled probably the biggest bone head moves of the season at the 360 nationals and killed a brand new car. But, my crew worked their butts off to build this car. They have worked hard all year and this is the best medicine for this team.”
 
Grain Valley, Missouri’s Brian Brown tried to hunt down Pittman the entire race, but just couldn’t catch him.
 
“Congratulations to Daryn, his team made the right changes and he was just better than us. I thought I would be better at the beginning of the race, but he was just too strong,” said Brown beside his Casey’s General Store, FVP, Searsboro Telephone Co. backed #21. “After the bangs and bruises that team has had this week…they deserved that.”
 
It was a very good night for Elk Grove, California’s Kyle Larson. He won the USAC non-wing preliminary feature and then charged from his 12th starting spot to finish third in the Front Row Challenge.
 
“The top was so fast and once we got to traffic I was able to pick off some guys. I was hoping for a caution late…that could have made it interesting, but we didn’t get it. This is a big momentum boost for us heading into the (Knoxville) Nationals,” said Larson beside his Abreau Vineyards, Stadelhofer Construction backed #1k.
 
Pittman and Brown would bring the field to the green for the 25-lap UNOH All Star feature by virtue of topping the “King of the Hill” match races. Both would also turn down the chance to go to the tail to try and claim the $50,000 bonus.
 
Pittman would lead the first lap with Brown, Mark Dobmeier, Jonathan Allard, Ryan Bunton, Bryan Sebetto and Tim Kaeding in tow. The caution would fly for a crash in turn two involving Brad Sweet, Sheldon Haudenschild and Jason Meyers, with Sweet going pit side. On the ensuing restart, Caleb Helms would spin. When the green came back out, something would break on Dobmeier’s car, as he made contact with the turn three fence.
 
When the green flew again, the race would go the remaining 24 laps caution-free.
 
Pittman would pull away from Brown, as Allard, Bunton, Kaeding and Larson battled for third. Pittman would catch lapped traffic by the fifth circuit, but Brown could not close. Allard would exit the track on lap seven, moving Bunton into third with Kaeding, Larson and David Gravel in pursuit. As Pittman and Brown ran away, Kaeding would take third on lap 15 with Larson into fourth. Larson would take third on lap 16, and started to close the game on the two front runners.
 
Once clear of traffic, Pittman would pull away for the win with Brown, Larson, Kaeding and Bunton rounding out the top five.
 
A-main (25 laps, starting spot [x] 1. 27-Daryn Pittman [1]; 2. 21-Brian Brown [2]; 3. 1k-Kyle Larson [12]; 4. 83jr.-Tim Kaeding [9]; 5. 6r-Ryan Bunton [4]; 6. 89g-David Gravel [13]; 7. 6x-Kaley Gharst [17]; 8. 55xm-James McFadden [11]; 9. 7taz-Tasker Phillips [15]; 10. 45-Paul McMahan [7]; 11. 55t-Trey Starks [22]; 12. 10-Sheldon Haudenschild [18]; 13. 40-Caleb Helms [8]; 14. 7-Critter Malone [21]; 15. 21m-Jason Meyers [10]; 16. w20-Greg Wilson [20]; 17. 54-Cap Henry [19]; 18. 1s-Logan Schuchart [16]; 19. 0-Jonathan Allard [5]; 20. 19-Lee Grosz [23]; 21. 24h-Bryan Sebetto [6]; 22. 13-Mark Dobmeier [3]; 23. 49-Brad Sweet [14]
 
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AFTER SEVEN MAINS IN FIVE NIGHTS, KYLE LARSON TAKES LEAD IN THE COX DESIGN IOWA SPEED WEEK POINTS

KNOXVILLE, IOWA (August 7, 2012)  -  Following seven mains in five nights, versatile and talented Kyle Larson of Elk Grove, California, has taken the lead in the 2012 Cox Design & Metal Fabrication Iowa Speed Week points.  Kyle won Monday night’s United States Auto Club (USAC) Ultimate Challenge preliminary main for non-winged sprint cars and finished third in the All Star Circuit of Champions (ASCoC) Front Row Challenge for winged 410-cubic-inch sprint cars at the Southern Iowa Speedway in Oskaloosa.  Night number six of ten straight nights of sprint car racing is Tuesday night at Oskaloosa with the USAC Ultimate Challenge and a full program for the winged ‘305’ sprint cars.

The unofficial top sixteen in the 2012 Cox Design Iowa Speed Week points after seven mains in five nights is as follows:  1., Kyle Larson, 187 points; 2., Brian Brown, 185 points; 3.,  Tim Kaeding, 183 points; 4., Brady Bacon, 167 points; 5., Brad Sweet, 152 points; 6., Tim Shaffer, 141 points; 7., Danny Lasoski, 136 points; 8., Shane Stewart, 135 points; 9., Jason Johnson, 124 points; 10., Kaley Gharst, 121 points; 11., Brooke Tatnell, 120 points; 12., Paul McMahan, 119 points; 13., Wayne Johnson, 114 points; 14., Daryn Pittman, 110 points; 15., Rager Phillips, 109 points; 16., Kevin Swindell, 107 points.

The Cox Design & Metal Fabrication Iowa Speedweek includes ten straight nights of sprint car racing between Knoxville Raceway and the Southern Iowa Speedway.  The top three places pay $2,500, $1,000, and $500, respectively, with the winner declared the Jesse Hockett “Mr. Sprint Car” titlist.  Past “Mr. Sprint Car” titlists include Ricky Logan (2002) of Arkansas, Shane Stewart (2003, ’04) of Oklahoma, Billy Alley (2005) of Nebraska, Jason Johnson (2006) of Louisiana, Wayne Johnson (2007, ‘08) of Oklahoma, Terry McCarl (2009) of Iowa, and Sammy Swindell (2010, ‘11) of Tennessee.

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AFTER FIVE MAINS IN FOUR NIGHTS, BROWN, KAEDING & LASOSKI TIED FOR LEAD IN THE COX DESIGN IOWA SPEED WEEK POINTS

KNOXVILLE, IOWA (August 5, 2012)  -  Following five mains in four nights, Brian Brown, Tim Kaeding and Danny Lasoski are all tied for the lead in the 2012 Cox Design & Metal Fabrication Iowa Speed Week points with 136.  Just one point back is Shane Stewart, while Tim Shaffer is just five points back of the leaders.  Track regular Bronson Maeschen won the inaugural Capitani Classic at Knoxville Raceway on Sunday evening.  Night number five is Monday, August 6, at the Southern Iowa Speedway in nearby Oskaloosa with the All Star Circuit of Champions (ASCoC) Front Row Challenge for winged 410-cubic-inch sprint cars and the United States Auto Club (USAC) Ultimate Challenge non-winged sprint car preliminary night program.

The unofficial top twenty in the 2012 Cox Design Iowa Speed Week points after five mains in four nights is as follows:  1., Brian Brown, Tim Kaeding, Danny Lasoski, 136 points (tied); 4., Shane Stewart, 135 points; 5., Tim Shaffer, 131 points; 6., Jason Johnson, Brad Sweet, 124 points (tied); 8., Brady Bacon, Brooke Tatnell, 120 points (tied); 10., Wayne Johnson, 114 points; 11., Rager Phillips, 109 points; 12., Kevin Swindell, 107 points; 13., Justin Henderson, 106 points; 14., Roger Crockett, Dusty Zomer, 103 points (tied); 16., Jack Dover, 94 points; 17., Kyle Larson, 89 points; 18., Paul McMahan, 78 points; 19., Kaley Gharst, 77 points; 20., Clint Garner, 76 points.

The Cox Design & Metal Fabrication Iowa Speedweek includes ten straight nights of sprint car racing between Knoxville Raceway and the Southern Iowa Speedway.  The top three places pay $2,500, $1,000, and $500, respectively, with the winner declared the Jesse Hockett “Mr. Sprint Car” titlist.  Past “Mr. Sprint Car” titlists include Ricky Logan (2002) of Arkansas, Shane Stewart (2003, ’04) of Oklahoma, Billy Alley (2005) of Nebraska, Jason Johnson (2006) of Louisiana, Wayne Johnson (2007, ‘08) of Oklahoma, Terry McCarl (2009) of Iowa, and Sammy Swindell (2010, ‘11) of Tennessee.

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COUNTDOWN CONTINUES TO THE JERSEY RUSH 2

410 SPRINTS & MODIFIEDS  GEAR UP FOR HUGE DOUBLEHEADER  AT NEW EGYPT SPEEDWAY, TUESDAY, AUGUST 21

Get ready, the JERSEY RUSH 2  is returning  to the New Egypt Speedway.   

It only happens once a year and Tuesday night, August 21 will mark the return of the 410 Sprints and Modifieds in a spectacular double-header.  The talent will be plentiful for this event as the stars of the 410 sprints return to the New Egypt Speedway.    Greg Hodnett, Lance Dewease, Fred Rahmer,  Daryn Pittman, Niki Young, Brent Marks are just some of big name 410 sprint drivers already entered.  Local New Jersey 410 sprint drivers also planning to take part include Frank Cozze, Davey Sammons, Tim Tanner,  Mark Bitner and URC point leader Robbie Stillwaggon.  Modified entries include Ryan Godown, Willie Osmun, Ron John  Koczon, Sammy Martz, Billy Pauch, Billy Pauch Jr, Rick Laubach, Jimmy Horton, Neal Williams and Dominick Buffalino just to name a few.

If pre-entered, the winner of the 30 lap Jersey Rush 2 for 410 sprints will earn $5,000.  For the modifieds, $3,000 will go to the winner of their 30 lap feature event.    In the event of rain, Wednesday night, August 22 will be the rain date for the Jersey Rush 2  with gates opening at 5 PM and race time set for 7:30 PM.

Time trials will open the racing program at 7:30 PM followed by heat race qualifying for both the 410 sprints and modifieds along with a last chance qualifier if needed.  The  30 lap 410 Sprint feature and the 30 lap Modified feature will highlight the racing program. Followed.

The sprint payoff will attract the best 410 sprint drivers with the $5,000 first place prize, $1,000 for tenth, $515 for 15th and $400 will be paid just to take the green flag.   Drivers are encouraged to pre-enter.  The entry fee is $50 and that includes three pit passes.  For an entry form, please call Bob Miller at 443 513 4456.

Race fans that would like advance tickets should call Donna Miller at 443 513 4456 and be sure to leave your name and the number of tickets you need.  You may pay for and pick-up your tickets on race night any time after 4 PM.  Adult admission tickets are $30, Children 6-11 $10, Children five and under Free.  The pit fee is $35 and a license is not required.

Also returning as part of the Jersey Rush 2 will be the Pre-Race FanFest, when race fans are welcome to enter the pit area (5 PM to 6 PM) to view the cars and meet their favorite 410 sprint drivers  and modified drivers.

The Jersey Rush 2 is a co-promotion between Lenny, Danny and Davey Sammons and special events organizer Bob Miller.

NEW EGYPT SPEEDWAY EVENT  FACTS:

WHEN:   Tuesday, August 21   Gates Open 5:00 PM    7:30 PM Starting Time  (Rain Date: Wednesday, August 22  7:30 PM)

WHERE: New Egypt Speedway  720 Pinehurst Road  New Egypt, NJ  08522  (On Route 539)

WHAT:   2nd Annual JERSEY RUSH  410 Sprints & Big Block Modifieds

ADMISSION:  Adults $30, Children 6-11  $10, Children 5 and under Free.  Pit Fee is $35 and a license is not required.

TRACK PHONE:  609-758-1900

WEBSITE:  www.newegyptspeedway.net

FOR MORE INFORMATION:   CALL 443 513 4456   BOB MILLER

A Driver & Crew Meet & Greet is being planned by race organizers for fans to get an up close look at the drivers, crews and cars.   The Meet & Greet will take place from 5-6 PM.   The gate from Victory Lane (behind the turn four seating) to the pit area will open to allow spectators to go pit side for one hour prior to the start of the show.

Past 410 Feature Winners at New Egypt
2012       Bryan Clauson   USAC Non-Wing 410 Sprints
2011       JJ Grasso- - 1st Annual Jersey RUSH
2011       Hunter Schurenberg  USAC Non-Wing 410 Sprints
2010       Levi Jones USAC Non-Wing 410 Sprints
2007       Donny Schatz
2003       PJ Chesson
2001       Donny Schatz
2000       Tyler Walker
1999       Billy Pauch

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AFTER FOUR MAINS IN THREE NIGHTS COMPLETE, KEVIN SWINDELL TAKES LEAD IN THE COX DESIGN IOWA SPEED WEEK POINTS

KNOXVILLE, IOWA (August 4, 2012)  -  With his second place finish in the Arnold Motor Supply 360-cubic-inch Knoxville Nationals on Saturday at the Knoxville Raceway, Kevin Swindell of Tennessee has taken the lead in the 2012 Cox Design & Metal Fabrication Iowa Speed Week points.  Night number four is Sunday, August 5, with the inaugural Capitani Classic for the winged 410-cubic-inch sprint cars at Knoxville Raceway.  Shane Stewart won the ‘360’ Nationals, while Casey Friedrichsen won the Iowa Speed Week points-paying round for ‘305’ sprint cars on Saturday night on the Marion County Fairgrounds half-mile dirt oval.

The unofficial top sixteen in the 2012 Cox Design Iowa Speed Week points after four mains in three nights is as follows:  1., Kevin Swindell, 97 points; 2., Jack Dover, Danny Lasoski, Shane Stewart, 94 points (tied); 5., Roger Crockett, Dusty Zomer, 93 points (tied); 7., Brady Bacon, Brian Brown, 92 points (tied); 9., Tim Kaeding, 90 points; 10., Brooke Tatnell, 89 points; 11., Wayne Johnson, 85 points; 12., Tim Shaffer, 82 points; 13., Jason Johnson, 81 points; 14., Brad Sweet, 79 points; 15., Paul McMahan, 78 points.

The Cox Design & Metal Fabrication Iowa Speedweek includes ten straight nights of sprint car racing between Knoxville Raceway and the Southern Iowa Speedway.  The top three places pay $2,500, $1,000, and $500, respectively, with the winner declared the Jesse Hockett “Mr. Sprint Car” titlist.  Past “Mr. Sprint Car” titlists include Ricky Logan (2002) of Arkansas, Shane Stewart (2003, ’04) of Oklahoma, Billy Alley (2005) of Nebraska, Jason Johnson (2006) of Louisiana, Wayne Johnson (2007, ‘08) of Oklahoma, Terry McCarl (2009) of Iowa, and Sammy Swindell (2010, ‘11) of Tennessee.

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AFTER NIGHT TWO, DANNY LASOSKI AND BROOKE TATNELL SHARE LEAD IN THE COX DESIGN IOWA SPEED WEEK POINT STANDINGS

KNOXVILLE, IOWA (August 3, 2012)  -  With his win in the second preliminary main of the Arnold Motor Supply 360-cubic-inch Knoxville Nationals on Friday at the Knoxville Raceway, Brooke Tatnell of New South Wales, Australia, has tied Thursday night winner Danny Lasoski of Missouri for the lead in the 2012 Cox Design & Metal Fabrication Iowa Speed Week point standings.  Night number three is Saturday, August 4, with the finale of the Arnold Motor Supply 360 Knoxville Nationals and the winged 305-cubic-inch sprint car main.  The ‘360’ Nationals are sanctioned by the American Sprint Car Series (ASCS).

The unofficial top sixteen in the 2012 Cox Design Iowa Speed Week points after two nights is as follows:  1., Danny Lasoski, Brooke Tatnell 50 points; 3., Brian Brown, Tim Kaeding 49 points; 5., Kevin Swindell, Dusty Zomer 48 points; 7., Jack Dover, Roger Crockett 47 points; 9., Jonathan Cornell, Rager Phillips 46 points; 11., Brad Sweet, Tim Shaffer 45 points; 13., Brady Bacon, Shane Stewart 44 points; 15., Paul McMahan, Wayne Johnson 43 points.

The Cox Design & Metal Fabrication Iowa Speedweek includes ten straight nights of sprint car racing between Knoxville Raceway and the Southern Iowa Speedway.  The top three places pay $2,500, $1,000, and $500, respectively, with the winner declared the Jesse Hockett “Mr. Sprint Car” titlist.  Past “Mr. Sprint Car” titlists include Ricky Logan (2002) of Arkansas, Shane Stewart (2003, ’04) of Oklahoma, Billy Alley (2005) of Nebraska, Jason Johnson (2006) of Louisiana, Wayne Johnson (2007, ‘08) of Oklahoma, Terry McCarl (2009) of Iowa, and Sammy Swindell (2010, ‘11) of Tennessee.

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Mercer Dark on August 4; Midgets and More August 11!
 
Mercer, PA (August 1, 2012): Racers, fans and staff at Mercer Raceway Park will take a weekend off to enjoy some summer fun, but racing will return on Saturday, August 11, with a blockbuster event. The ARDC Midgets will be back to make up their rained out program. Joining them on the racing card will be all six divisions in the Saturday Night Live! line-up.
 
What is more, August 11 will be the special promotion for the American Cancer Society! All cancer survivors will be admitted free.
 
The ARDC MIdgets put on a thrilling display during their recent race. There was a three-wide battle for the lead in the closing laps, and intense action throughout the pack all race long. Steve Drevicki came away with the big win, his first of the season. He'll be back looking for the double, but there will be more than twenty other drivers wanting their share of the glory. Among them will be Brandon Matus, one of Mercer's leading drivers in the Luxaire Heating & Cooling Sprint Cars. Matus logged a top ten in his first ride in the small cars.
 
In addition to all of the racing action on the oval, there will be bicycle races on the frontstretch for the children, courtesy of Ray's Racing Collectibles and Approved Toilet Rentals. Remember that all children must have helmets to be able to participate.
 
Special event ticket pricing will be in effect for the August 11 show. That means that adults will pay just $13 for all that raing excitement! Seniors will be admitted for $13 and students for $7. Children ages 8 and under are free, as usual. The economical Family Pass will cost $32, which will admit two adults and up to four minors. Pit Passes will be the usual $25.
 
Last week's Meet Your Heroes Night has been re-set for Saturday, September 8. The event, made possible by Herr's, will allow all fans to go onto the speedway surface to meet and greet all of the racers before the feature events. Fans young and old alike can get autographs and pictures with their favorite drivers!Although there will be no racing at the Park this weekend, the track will be open from 5 p.m. until dusk for practice.
 
Although there will be no racing at the Park this weekend, the track will be open from 5 p.m. until dusk for practice.
 
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Lasoski gets UNOH All Star win in wild Huset's finish

BRANDON, SD (July 29, 2012)By Brian Liskai – When Danny Lasoski executed a 360 degree spin with just two laps remaining in Sunday night’s feature at Huset’s Speedway, he thought his chances of winning were over. But, as he gathered his car back up and raced down the back stretch in fourth, luck would be on his side.
 
When the caution flew for a stalled car, new race leader Mark Dobmeier’s right rear tire lost air pressure and second place Lynton Jeffrey went pit side with mechanical problems. That handed the lead to Tim Shaffer, who had started 21st, as the field readied for a green, white, checkered finish. When the green came back out, Lasoski blasted around Shaffer and went on to score the University of Northwestern Ohio All Star Circuit of Champions victory.
 
It marked Lasoski’s fourth UNOH All Star win of 2012 and the 37th of his career, placing him in a tie with Doug Wolfgang for 12 on the series’ all-time win list. For Lasoski, a three time Huset’s Speedway champion, it was his 41st victory at the track.
 
“That was a wild one. We went out and set the pace and I felt the rubber get down and I was just taking it easy and taking it easy. Then it started shaking real bad when I got behind a lapped car and Dobmeier ran over the front end there and turned me around and what ever happened and then he blew a tire and Timmy (Shaffer) got the lead. I waited until the last lap and I decided to go for broke and I got around the outside of him,” said Lasoski beside his Triple X Chassis, Kistler Engines, Klein Motors and RV’s, Creason Construction backed #33.
 
“I want to thank my guys, Triple X Chassis and Rich and my buddy Chris Straight. We have just a two man band and he works his tail off and we couldn’t do it without him. I want to thank Kistler Engines and the Michael Ross Foundation and Todd Creason…they make it possible for us to be here, added Lasoski.
 
“Probably from about lap 15 on I didn’t even push the gas. I was just babying it and when I got behind lapped cars it got real tight. Sometimes it’s just better to be running second. I’m just glad to be back home here,” concluded Lasoski.
 
For Shaffer, a three time UNOH All Star champion and current series point leader, it was another podium finish.
 
“I took it a little too easy trying to save tires and Danny snuck by. You know, 21st to second…we’ll take it,” said Shaffer beside his VRP Shocks, Kistler Engines backed, Aaron Call/Janet Holbrook owned #83. “It’s getting tougher and tougher…everyone seems to be getting better and better.”
 
Watertown, Connecticut’s David Gravel would also continue his good runs with a third place finish.
 
“My tire was really bald. My crew guys told me to take it easy and I did…I took it too easy throughout the whole race,” said Gravel of his P&M Transportation, Model Craft, Musco Fuels backed #89G. “But we finished and we finished on the podium and I can’t complain about that. I love this place, you have to be aggressive and up on the wheel and the fans are great.

 Lasoski and Ian Madsen would bring the field to the green, but a multi-car pileup would halt the action. When the green came back out, Lasoski would grab the lead over Dobmeier, Gravel, Justin Henderson and Terry McCarl. Thanks to the opening lap crash, Shaffer, who started 21st, would be 12th after the first lap and would drive into 10th a lap later.
 
Lasoski, Dobmeier and Gravel would continue to hold down the top three positions while 15th place starter Lynton Jeffrey moved into fourth by lap four. Jeffrey would drive around Gravel for third on lap 14 while Shaffer had worked his way up to fifth. Shaffer would grab fourth from Gravel on lap 17.
 
With three laps to go, Lasoski and Dobmeier would begin battling for the lead, and when they got together in turns one and two, Lasoski executed a 360 degree spin, falling back to fourth and handing the lead to Dobmeier. A stalled car would bring out the caution to set up a green, white, checkered over-time finish. But, during the caution, Dobmeier’s right rear tire lost air pressure and new leader Jeffrey would suffer mechanical problems. That put Shaffer, who had been sitting in fourth on lap 28, into the lead with Lasoski now second, Gravel third, McCarl fourth and Henderson fifth.
 
Shaffer would lead the field to the white and as they hit turns three and four on the last lap, Lasoski drove around “The Steel City Outlaw” to take the checkered. Gravel would hold on to third with McCarl and Henderson rounding out the top five.

All Star Circuit of Champions (33 Cars)
[#]-Starting Position

A-Main - University of Northwestern Ohio (30 Laps) 1. 33-Danny Lasoski[1]; 2. 83-Tim Shaffer[21]; 3. 89G-David Gravel[5]; 4. 24-Terry McCarl[11]; 5. 82-Justin Henderson[6]; 6. 2-Dale Blaney[8]; 7. 7K-Jac Haudenschild[10]; 8. 83K-Tim Kaeding[7]; 9. 4K-Paul Jeffrey[13]; 10. 17J-Jayme Barnes[22]; 11. 54-Cap Henry[19]; 12. 40-Caleb Helms[18]; 13. 45-Paul McMahan[17]; 14. 6-Kaley Gharst[9]; 15. 14-Jody Rosenboom[24]; 16. 19-Lee Grosz[20]; 17. 49-Brad Sweet[16]; 18. 13-Mark Dobmeier[3]; 19. 12-Lynton Jeffrey[15]; 20. 35AU-Jamie Veal[23]; 21. 55-Ian Madsen[2]; 22. 11X-Gregg Bakker[4]; 23. 91-Dusty Zomer[12]; 24. 16-Travis Whitney[14]
Hard Charger: 83-Tim Shaffer[+19]
 
Qualifying - Kistler Engines
1. 33-Danny Lasoski, 10.771; 2. 24-Terry McCarl, 10.816; 3. 55-Ian Madsen, 10.862; 4. 11X-Gregg Bakker, 10.864; 5. 91-Dusty Zomer, 10.902; 6. 82-Justin Henderson, 10.944; 7. 25-Dylan Peterson, 10.980; 8. 89G-David Gravel, 10.991; 9. 13-Mark Dobmeier, 11.014; 10. 83K-Tim Kaeding, 11.018; 11. 4K-Paul Jeffrey, 11.021; 12. 2-Dale Blaney, 11.027; 13. 6-Kaley Gharst, 11.101; 14. 7K-Jac Haudenschild, 11.106; 15. 16-Travis Whitney, 11.109; 16. 12-Lynton Jeffrey, 11.119; 17. 49-Brad Sweet, 11.129; 18. 45-Paul McMahan, 11.131; 19. 40-Caleb Helms, 11.159; 20. 17-Marty Perovich, 11.173; 21. 54-Cap Henry, 11.174; 22. 19-Lee Grosz, 11.205; 23. 83-Tim Shaffer, 11.257; 24. 17J-Jayme Barnes, 11.316; 25. 35AU-Jamie Veal, 11.327; 26. 2D-Dusty Ballenger, 11.374; 27. 14-Jody Rosenboom, 11.413; 28. 17B-Ryan Bickett, 11.454; 29. 9M-Donovan Peterson, 11.469; 30. 101-Chuck McGillivray, 11.594; 31. 4X-Eric Schulz, 11.634; 32. 13JM-Jordan Martens, 11.717; 33. 51-MJ Ziebarth, 12.862
 
Heat 1 - Kears Speed Shop (8 Laps - Top 5 finishers transfer to the A-feature)
1. 54-Cap Henry[1] ; 2. 49-Brad Sweet[2] ; 3. 13-Mark Dobmeier[4] ; 4. 6-Kaley Gharst[3] ; 5. 33-Danny Lasoski[6] ; 6. 91-Dusty Zomer[5] ; 7. 35AU-Jamie Veal[7] ; 8. 9M-Donovan Peterson[8] ; 9. 51-MJ Ziebarth[9]
 
Heat 2 - All Pro Aluminum Heads (8 Laps - Top 5 finishers transfer to the A-feature)
1. 45-Paul McMahan[2] ; 2. 83K-Tim Kaeding[4] ; 3. 7K-Jac Haudenschild[3] ; 4. 82-Justin Henderson[5] ; 5. 19-Lee Grosz[1] ; 6. 24-Terry McCarl[6] ; 7. 2D-Dusty Ballenger[7] ; 8. 101-Chuck McGillivray[8]
 
Heat 3 - Dragon Race Fuel (8 Laps - Top 5 finishers transfer to the A-feature)
1. 83-Tim Shaffer[1] ; 2. 40-Caleb Helms[2] ; 3. 16-Travis Whitney[3] ; 4. 14-Jody Rosenboom[7] ; 5. 55-Ian Madsen[6] ; 6. 4X-Eric Schulz[8] ; 7. 4K-Paul Jeffrey[4] ; 8. 25-Dylan Peterson[5]
 
Heat 4 - Kinsler Fuel Injection (8 Laps - Top 5 finishers transfer to the A-feature)
1. 2-Dale Blaney[4] ; 2. 12-Lynton Jeffrey[3] ; 3. 17J-Jayme Barnes[1] ; 4. 89G-David Gravel[5] ; 5. 11X-Gregg Bakker[6] ; 6. 17B-Ryan Bickett[7] ; 7. 13JM-Jordan Martens[8] ; 8. 17-Marty Perovich[2]
 
Dash - Outerwears Performance Products (6 Laps, finishing order determined first 6 starting positions of A-feature
1. 33-Danny Lasoski[1] ; 2. 55-Ian Madsen[3] ; 3. 13-Mark Dobmeier[4] ; 4. 11X-Gregg Bakker[2] ; 5. 89G-David Gravel[6] ; 6. 82-Justin Henderson[5]
 
B-Main - MSD Ignition (12 Laps - Top 4 finishers transfer to the A-feature)
1. 91-Dusty Zomer[2] ; 2. 24-Terry McCarl[1] ; 3. 35AU-Jamie Veal[6] ; 4. 4K-Paul Jeffrey[4] ; 5. 25-Dylan Peterson[3] ; 6. 17-Marty Perovich[5] ; 7. 9M-Donovan Peterson[9] ; 8. 17B-Ryan Bickett[8] ; 9. 2D-Dusty Ballenger[7] ; 10. 101-Chuck McGillivray[10] ; 11. 13JM-Jordan Martens[12] ; 12. 4X-Eric Schulz[11] ; 13. 51-MJ Ziebarth[13]
 
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Jackson Speedway
7/27/2012
All Star Circuit of Champions (22 Cars)
A-Main - (30 Laps)
1. 7S-Jason Sides[4]
2. 33-Danny Lasoski[1]
3. 83-Tim Shaffer[6]
4. 13-Mark Dobmeier[8]
5. 49-Brad Sweet[11]
6. 89G-David Gravel[2]
7. 40-Caleb Helms[3]
8. 45-Paul McMahan[7]
9. 35AU-Jamie Veal[13]
10. 2D-Dusty Ballenger[15]
11. 54-Cap Henry[9]
12. 35-Skylar Prochaska[5]
13. 81-Austin Johnson[18]
14. 29-Nat Eakin[14]
15. 16-Travis Whitney[10]
16. 2-Dale Blaney[21]
17. 75C-Casey Heser[16]
18. 4W-Matt Wasmund[20]
19. 93-Derrik Lusk[17]
20. 2H-Jason Eckard[19]
21. 14-Jody Rosenboom [22]
22. 17-Marty Perovich[12]

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Gravel continues hot streak with UNOH All Star victory

WINNIPEG, MANITOBA, CANADA (July 26, 2012) By Brian Liskai- David Gravel is getting hot at just the right time. The Watertown, Connecticut driver scored his second career University of Northwestern Ohio All Star Circuit of Champions Thursday at the Red River Co-Op Speedway.
 
Gravel benefited from cautions that fell at just the right time to keep him out of heavy lapped traffic. He led all 30  laps to continue his impressive runs as of late. Earlier last week he had back-to-back runner-up finishes with the UNOH All Stars.
 
"The monkey is finally off my back. It's been awhile since we won...late last year against the Outlaws," said Gravel beside his P&M Transportation, Musco Fuels, Model Crafted backed #89G. "I got through traffic well...when  they came to me it was in the right spot on the track to get by."
 
Former UNOH All Star rookie of the year Cap Henry, from Bellevue, Ohio, also continued his strong runs, as he would come home second after finishing third two nights earlier. The runner-up finish moves Henry into the lead of the $10,000-to-win Great Plains points and into fourth in the UNOH All Stars' national points.
 
"The cautions fell perfect for David...he ran a great race. I got to him once when two lapped cars were racing, but the rest of the time he would have just one lapped car and it was easy for him to get by. But, A.J. (Havens), Andrew (Barman) and everyone has been working hard and it's good to reward them with another top three," said Henry beside his FK Rod Ends, GME Nields Steering, Lucas Oil, K&N Filters backed machine.
 
Three time and defending UNOH All Star champion Tim Shaffer would run third the entire race. He too is getting hot when it counts, having scored two UNOH All Star wins, a pair of second place finishes, a third and a seventh in the last six races.
 
"That red flag didn't help us. There was too much loose crap up top in three and four so everyone had to run the bottom and everyone ran the top of one and two. We will take another top three and go on from here," said Shaffer beside his Aaron Call/Janet Holbrook Motorsports, Kistler Engines, VRP Shocks backed #83.
 
Gravel and Henry would bring the field to the green of the 30-lap feature. Gravel would fly into the lead with Gravel, fourth-starter Shaffer, fifth starter Blaney and third starter Lou Kennedy in tow. Roger Darge would flip violently off turn two on lap 11, necessitating a lengthy open red while repairs were made to the fencing. A lap later, Cory Mack would also take a nasty flip down the back stretch.
 
When the green reappeared, the top five would stay Gravel, Henry, Shaffer, Blaney and Kennedy. With nine laps remaining, eighth place running Paul McMahan would stop on the front stretch with mechanical problems, ending his run.
 
When the green came back out, the race would not see another stoppage. On the restart, Mark Dobmeier would get around  Kennedy for fifth. When the checkered flew, it was Gravel, Henry, Shaffer, Blaney, Dobmieier, Kennedy, Casey Mack, Lee Grosz, Thomas Kennedy and Austin Pierce completing the top 10.

A-Main (40 Laps) 1. 89G-David Gravel[1]; 2. 54-Cap Henry[2]; 3. 83-Tim Shaffer[4]; 4. 2-Dale Blaney[5]; 5. 13-Mark Dobmeier[8]; 6. 21K-Lou Kennedy[3]; 7. 8-Casey Mack[6]; 8. 19-Lee Grosz[9]; 9. 20K-Thomas Kennedy[13]; 10. 2A-Austin Pierce[15]; 11. 40-Caleb Helms[14]; 12. 5-David Glennon[10]; 13. 92-Mitch Mack[17]; 14. 13G-Cody Hahn[16]; 15. 99-Jordan Graham[11]; 16. 45-Paul McMahan[7]; 17. 25-Cory Mack[12]; 18. 17-Roger Darge[18]

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Mumaw, Conley, winners at NAPA Auto Parts Wayne County Speedway

By Ryan Pearson

Orrville, Ohio (July 27, 2012) On NAPA night at NAPA Auto Parts Wayne County Speedway race fans were treated to an action packed night full of great door handle to door handle dirt slinging action.

In the Fisher Performance 410 Sprint s Wooster Ohio’s Danny Mumaw jumped out to the early lead just ahead of Broc Martin, Andrew Palker, Bryce Dickson, Chris Myers, Aaron Middaugh and Cole Duncan. Mumaw lead was short lived as Martin dove under Mumaw to snag the lead. Martin found the inside lane to his liking as he held the point. Mumaw running the extreme high side was his preferred way around the track. On lap eight the lapped car of Ron Lute spun coming to rest near the guardrail. This caused Mumaw to take evasive action to narrowly miss Lute. When the racing resumed Martin powered ahead to hold a comfortable lead but as the laps clicked down Mumaw began a late race charge. Mumaw and Martin traded slide jobs and on lap eighteen Mumaw and Martin made contact and Mumaw took the lead. At the checkered flag it was Mumaw who held on to win ahead of Martin, Palker, Duncan and Jamie Myers. Winning heat races were Palker and Mumaw.

In the Lias Tire Super Late Models belam ensued on the opening lap as the leaders of George Lee, Cory Conley, Ryan Markham and Shane McLoughlin were racing hard two and three wide and resulted in Conley spinning in front of the field. This cause massive pile up that resulted in Damon Haught to spin and strike tire and go air born, Haught was ok but he would retire for the night. When the green flag dropped again Lee jumped to the lead. Lee pulled away from the pack but on lap fourteen Conley pulled up on the rear bumper of Lee and began stalking him waiting for a mistake. Lee held the lead until the last lap and Conley pulled alongside Lee as the raced down the back stretch with Conley holding the inside line. Lee attempted to make the highside work but to no avail as the checkered flag waved it was Conley coming home victorious over Lee, McLoughlin, Charlie Duncan, Wayne Maffet Jr and sixteenth starting JR Gentry. McLoughlin and Conley won heat races.

For additional information contact Jason or Kristin Flory at: 330-465-2365, or email at kristinu2@yahoo.com. For news, updates and schedule visit the Wayne County Speedway website at www.waynecountyspeedway.com. Wayne County Speedway is located nine miles east of Wooster, or 15 miles west of Massillon on US Rt. 30, then one mile north on Carr Road.

410 Sprint Feature: 1. Danny Mumaw 2. Broc Martin 3. Andrew Palker 4. Cole Duncan 5. Jamie Myers 6. Bryce Dickson 7. Aaron Middaugh 8. Chris Myers 9. Shawn Hubler 10. Nick Patterson (23) 11. Jimmy Pooler 12. Rick Lutes 13. Jared Feller

Super Late Models Feature: 1. Cory Conley 2. George Lee 3. Shane McLoughlin 4. Charlie Duncan 5. Wayne Maffett Jr. 6. JR Gentry 7. Rick Bond 8. Curtis Deisenroth 9. Blaine Aber 10. Larry Bellman 11. Hiram Bachman 12. Don Conley 13. Weston Hutchinson 14. Ryan Markham 15. Steve White 16. Chester Elliot 17. George Delaney 18. Larry Baldwin 19. Damon Haught

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Inaugural $5,000-to-Win, $500-to-Start “Capitani Classic”

For Winged 410 c.i. Sprint Cars Set For Sunday, August 5 at Knoxville

KNOXVILLE, IOWA (July 24, 2012)  -  The inaugural “Capitani Classic” for winged 410-cubic-inch sprint cars, will take place on Sunday, August 5, at the Knoxville Raceway as part of the eleventh annual Cox Design & Metal Fabrication Iowa Speed Week.  The 25-lap, 24-car ‘A’ main will pay $5000 to win and $500 to start, and will be a points-paying round for the Lucas Oil Knoxville Championship Cup Series.

According to Knoxville Raceway general manager Toby Kruse, “We are very excited to be honoring Ralph ‘Cappy’ Capitani in this way for his decades of service to Knoxville Raceway and the Marion County Fair Association.  We think this is going to be a great new tradition at the ‘Sprint Car Capital of the World’ and we look forward to crowning its first champion on Sunday, August 5.  The ‘410’ sprint cars will be the only division on the card, the format will be the same as our standard Saturday night show, and grandstand tickets are only twenty dollars each for adults.  With it being the final tune-up for the 52nd annual Goodyear Knoxville Nationals, August 8-11, you never know who will be in attendance to claim ‘the Cappy’!”

Those seeking more information on the Sunday, August 5 “Capitani Classic” are encouraged to visit www.knoxvilleraceway.com.

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Blaney earns 92nd All Star win by dominating at Hibbing

HIBBING, MN. (July 24, 2012) By Brian Liskai - Dale Blaney was in the right place at the right time. "The Low Rider" led all 40 laps Tuesday at Hibbing Raceway to claim his second straight University of Northwestern Ohio All Star Circuit of Champions victory.

The win pads Blaney's point lead in the UNOH All Star's Great Plains Region, which will pay the champion $10,000 as part of the annual Thunder Through the Plains. It was his series' leading eighth victory of 2012 as the three time UNOH All Star champion has won nearly one third of the total features held this season. Blaney, who recorded eight UNOH All Star wins in all of 2011, now has 92 career victories with the series, just six away from tying hall-of-famer Kenny Jacobs for the most all-time wins.

"I was in the right place at the right time. The track was good for the heats, it was slick from top to bottom and you could pass. Then they went out and tilled just the bottom prior to the feature. Everyone ran down there and threw the dust up on the rest of the track so you couldn't run up there. So with everyone running the bottom, it took rubber and I was lucky enough to start on the pole," said Blaney beside his Ti22 Performance backed #2. "The track has great potential. It's a neat little joint....reminded me a lot of Waynesfield (in Ohio) or the old Lawrenceburg (in Indiana)."

Veteran Paul McMahan from Nashville, Tenn., would bring the Bryan Grove Racing #45 home in second.

"We have been going better as of late. We changed some things...got back to the basics. Right now it's just me and a buddy of mine out here. It's a lot of work, but it's what I do and the results are starting to come around," said McMahan of his Berlin Natural Bakery, Canton Erectors backed machine.

For Henry, who sits fifth in the UNOH All Star's National points and came into the event third in the Great Plains region, a third place run was just what the team needed.

"We've run good all year and just have had bad luck. The results haven't really shown what this team has accomplished. So, we will take a third and be thankful and move on to the next challenge. I can't wait till we get to Huset's (July 29 and Aug. 12)...I always run good there and now we have some momentum," said Henry beside his FK Rod Ends, Lucas Oil, K&N Filters backed #54.

Blaney and Paul McMahan would bring the field to the green for the first ever appearance of the UNOH All Stars at Hibbing Raceway, with Blaney grabbing the lead over McMahan, Cap Henry, Danny Lasoski and Cody Hahn, Mark Dobmeier and Jac Haudenschild in tow.

While the top four did not change the rest of the feature, Jac "The Wild Child" Haudenschild would make things exciting for the fans. After getting together with Dobmeier in the dash, Haudenschild would have to start sixth in the feature. He would fall back to 7th at the start, but would then move into sixth on lap three and take fifth the following lap, where he would finish.

Also thrilling the crowd was four time World of Outlaws champion Donny Schatz, who earned the feature's "hard-charger" honor by blasting from his 18th starting position to a ninth place finish.

A-Main - University of Northwestern Ohio (40 Laps) 1. 2-Dale Blaney[2]; 2. 45-Paul McMahan[1]; 3. 54-Cap Henry[3]; 4. 33-Danny Lasoski[7]; 5. 59-Jac Haudenschild[6]; 6. 13-Mark Dobmeier[5]; 7. 83-Tim Shaffer[11]; 8. 24-Terry McCarl[12]; 9. 15-Donny Schatz[18]; 10. 13G-Cody Hahn[4]; 11. 89G-David Gravel[10]; 12. 35AU-Jamie Veal[17]; 13. 17-Marty Perovich[13]; 14. 19-Lee Grosz[23]; 15. 81-Austin Johnson[20]; 16. 40-Caleb Helms[21]; 17. 92-Mitch Mack[15]; 18. 9-Jared Goerges[22]; 19. 8-Casey Mack[9]; 20. 56-Davey Heskin[8]; 21. 5-Dave Glennon[24] 22. 25-Cory Mack[19]; 23. 17A-Austin McCarl[16]; 24. 1AU-Brooke Tatnell[14];

Qualifying- 1. 59-Jac Haudenschild, 11.720; 2. 45-Paul McMahan, 11.909; 3. 54-Cap Henry, 12.000; 4. 13G-Cody Hahn, 12.067; 5. 2-Dale Blaney, 12.069; 6. 13-Mark Dobmeier, 12.076; 7. 33-Danny Lasoski, 12.104; 8. 56-Davey Heskin, 12.122; 9. 8-Casey Mack, 12.189; 10. 89G-David Gravel, 12.223; 11. 83-Tim Shaffer, 12.225; 12. 24-Terry McCarl, 12.283; 13. 17-Marty Perovich, 12.423; 14. 1AU-Brooke Tatnell, 12.443; 15. 92-Mitch Mack, 12.485; 16. 17A-Austin McCarl, 12.532; 17. 35AU-Jamie Veal, 12.580; 18. 15-Donny Schatz, 12.583
19. 25-Cory Mack, 12.590; 20. 81-Austin Johnson, 12.594; 21. 40-Caleb Helms, 12.662; 22. 9-Jared Goerges, 12.693; 23. 19-Lee Grosz, 12.736; 24. 5-Dave Glennon, 12.766

Heat 1 - 1. 89G-David Gravel[3]; 2. 59-Jac Haudenschild[6]; 3. 33-Danny Lasoski[4];4. 17-Marty Perovich[2]; 5. 13G-Cody Hahn[5]; 6. 25-Cory Mack[7]; 7. 17A-Austin McCarl[1]; 8. 9-Jared Goerges[8]

Heat 2 - 1. 83-Tim Shaffer[3]; 2. 2-Dale Blaney[5]; 3. 45-Paul McMahan[6]; 4. 56-Davey Heskin[4]; 5. 1AU-Brooke Tatnell[2]; 6. 35AU-Jamie Veal[1]; 7. 81-Austin Johnson[7]; 8. 19-Lee Grosz[8]

Heat 3 - 1. 15-Donny Schatz[1]; 2. 5-Dave Glennon[8]; 3. 13-Mark Dobmeier[5]; 4. 8-Casey Mack[4]; 5. 24-Terry McCarl[3]; 6. 92-Mitch Mack[2]; 7. 40-Caleb Helms[7]; 8. 54-Cap Henry[6]

Dash - 1. 45-Paul McMahan[1]; 2. 2-Dale Blaney[6]; 3. 54-Cap Henry[5]; 4. 13G-Cody Hahn[2]; 5. 13-Mark Dobmeier[3]; 6. 59-Jac Haudenschild[4]

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Meet Your Heroes Saturday at Mercer Raceway Park
 
Mercer, PA (July 25, 2012): This week at Mercer Raceway Park, fans can get up close and personal with their favorite drivers! In addition to the full-six division racing program, the track will host the annual Meet your Heroes Night, courtesy of Herr's. Fans young and old will be able to mingle with the racers and get photos and autographs.
 
One driver that everybody should be looking for is Scott Priester. While others have been grabbing the headlines, Priester has quietly run off a string of four fourth place finishes in the Luxaire Heating & Cooling Sprint Cars. In addidition, the veteran from Rimersburg, PA has a second and a fifth to his credit. Those finishes have put him solidly in the top five in the point standings. Priester would like to kick it up a few notches and take the win for car owner Martha Dionise.
 
Priester will face some stiff competition, however. Third-generation racer Adam Kekich dropped a bomb on the rest of the field last week, earning his first career victory. Others who have gotten to victory lane in 2012 include Eric Williams, Mike Lutz, Jack Sodeman, Jr. and Brandon Spithaler.
 
Rod George, another winner this season, damaged his Sprinter in a heat race incident last week, but he dropped his engine into a borrowed car to compete in a special event held last Sunday at another area track. We may well see him use the same combination this weekend.
 
Mix in talents like Dan Kuriger, Todd Bauer, Chris Best, the father and son teams of Brent and Brandon Matus and Gale Ruth Sr. and Jr., and you can appreciate how tough it could be for Priester to reach the podium.
 
The Ti22 Performance Outlaw Sprint Warriors will provide the winged Sprint fans with their second dose of excitement. Jimmy Morris went nonstop on the way to victory. Joe McEwen, Skip Daugherty, Mike Miller, Rob Felix, Justin Whitesell, Chris Matthews, C.J. Jones and Michael Bauer are just some of the racers who will try to stop him from getting his third win of the season.
 
The Approved Toilet Rentals 358 Modifieds will be back in action after having a week off. In their last outings, points leader Rob Curtis suffered a costly engine failure and Lonny Riggs had a rear end problem. They've had time to regroup, so look for these veterans to be in the thick of the action. Kyle Fink will be gunning for his third win, but he will also have to contend with Jimmy Holden, Eric Gabany, J.R. McGinley, Matt Reeher, Ron Eperthener and the brothers Schaffer, among others.
 
With no racing action planned for August 4, fans will surely want to head out to the Park this weekend. Remember that gates will open at 4 and racing will start at 7.
 
The normal Saturday Night Live! pricing will be in effect. That means that adults will be admitted for just $13, seniors for $11 and students for $5. Children ages 8 and under are always free. The Family Pass, good for two adults and up to four minors, will be $28. Pit passes will be just $25.
 
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National Sprint Car Museum Proud to Display Cox Design & Metal Fabrication Iowa Speed Week - Jesse Hockett “Mr. Sprint Car” Plaque Year-Round

KNOXVILLE, IOWA (July 25, 2012)  -  Just as it houses the limestone Charles R. Condra Memorial Trophy honoring the champions of the Indiana Sprint Week, the National Sprint Car Museum in Knoxville is proud to display the Cox Design & Metal Fabrication Iowa Speed Week – Jesse Hockett “Mr. Sprint Car” plaque year-round.  This year’s eleventh annual Cox Design-sponsored Iowa Speed Week begins at Knoxville Raceway on August 2-5, continues at the nearby Southern Iowa Speedway in Oskaloosa on August 6-7, and concludes back at Knoxville on August 8-11 with ‘the Granddaddy of Them All.’.

According to museum executive director Bob Baker, “As the National Sprint Car Hall of Fame & Museum, we are very pleased to be located at the home of the national championship for the sport of sprint car racing.  The fact that the Knoxville Nationals is now part of a thirteen-race, ten-night series of winged and non-winged sprint car races at both Knoxville and Oskaloosa just makes it that much bigger and that much more special.  We are proud to permanently display the Jesse Hockett ‘Mr. Sprint Car’ plaque honoring the champions of the Cox Design & Metal Fabrication Iowa Speed Week.”

The eleventh annual Cox Design & Metal Fabrication Iowa Speed Week kicks off on August 2-5 at the half-mile Knoxville Raceway dirt track with the twenty-second annual Arnold Motor Supply ‘360’ Knoxville Nationals.  The winged 305-cubic-inch sprint car feature on Saturday, August 4, will also be a points-paying round in the ten-night series.  On Sunday, August 5, Knoxville Raceway will then host the inaugural Capitani Classic for the winged 410-cubic-inch sprint cars, in honor of long-time director of racing Ralph Capitani.

Action then turns to the Front Row Challenge Enterprises-promoted half-mile dirt oval in nearby Oskaloosa, known as the Southern Iowa Speedway, for the August 6-7 events.  The Monday night seventeenth annual Musco Lighting Front Row Challenge is sanctioned by the ‘410’ All Star Circuit of Champions (ASCoC).  Plus, for the first time, the non-winged sprint cars of the United States Auto Club (USAC) will compete in a Cox Design Iowa Speed Week points-paying preliminary feature on Monday night.  The Tuesday night eleventh annual Casey’s General Stores Ultimate Challenge, presented by Don Long’s Searsboro Telephone Company and Casey’s General Stores, for traditional non-winged sprinters is also sanctioned by USAC.  In addition, the winged ‘305’ sprint cars will compete in a Hinchman Racewear-sponsored points-paying feature race.

Knoxville Raceway takes center stage August 8-11 with the fifty-second annual Goodyear Knoxville Nationals, which is the national championship for winged 410-cubic-inch sprint car teams sanctioned by the World of Outlaws (WoO).  The Iowa Speed Week points-paying rounds are the RacingJunk.com-sponsored Wednesday, August 8, main event, the Lucas Oil-sponsored Thursday, August 9, preliminary feature and the nineteenth annual Speed Sport Knoxville World Challenge invitational race for the best drivers from Australia, Canada, New Zealand and the United States on Friday, August 10.  ‘The Granddaddy of Them All’, the 52nd annual Goodyear Knoxville Nationals, takes place on Saturday, August 11.

Tickets for all events are still available.  Those seeking information on the two participating tracks are encouraged to visit their web sites at www.knoxvilleraceway.com and www.oskychallenges.com, respectively.  Those seeking more information on title sponsor Cox Design & Metal Fabrication may visit www.cox-design.com.  Those seeking more information on the National Sprint car Hall of Fame & Museum are encouraged to visit www.sprintcarhof.com.

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Tuesday, July 24, 2012 52nd Annual Goodyear Knoxville Nationals Qualifying Night Lineups Announced!

Wednesday Qualifiers
0 Jonathan Allard, Chico, CA
1K Kyle Larson, Elk Grove, CA
1X Randy Hannagan, Pittsboro, IN
2K Kevin Ingle, Huron, SD
2L Ed Lynch Jr., Apollo, PA
2s Lee Sowell, Lake Cormorant, MS
4D Danny Smith, Chillicothe, OH
D4 Danny Holtgraver, Pittsburgh, PA
5w Lucas Wolfe, Mechanicsburg, PA
6R Ryan Bunton, Morton, IL
7 Craig Dollansky, Princeton, MN
7c Critter Malone, Speedway, IN
7x Dustin Selvage, Indianola, IA
9 Joey Saldana, Pittsboro, IN
9P Rager Phillips, Pleasantville, IA
11 Steve Kinser, Bloomington, IN
12 Lynton Jeffrey, Prairie City, IA
13v Seth Brahmer, Wisner, NE
13x Paul McMahan, Nashville, TN
15 Donny Schatz, Minot, ND
17A Austin McCarl, Altoona, IA
17M Marty Perovich, Denham Court, NSW, Aust.
18 Tony Bruce Jr., Owasso, OK
20 AJ Moeller, Rockwell City, IA
20PK Ron Krysl, Atkinson, NE
28 Brian Paulus, Mooresville, IN
29 Kerry Madsen, Knoxville, IA
47 Don Droud Jr., Lincoln, NE
47AU Trevor Reynolds, Koongamia, WA, Aust.
49 Brad Sweet, Huntersville, NC
54 Cap Henry, Bellevue, OH
55 Ian Madsen, Knoxville, IA
56 Davey Heskin, St Michael, MN
57 Shane Stewart, Bixby, OK
63 Chad Kemenah, Alvada, OH
66 Geoff Dodge, Speedway, IN
75 Glen Saville, Razorback, NSW, Aust.
81 Austin Johnson, Shakopee, MN
82 Justin Henderson, Sioux Falls, SD
88 Jarrod Schneiderman, W. Burlington, IA
89G David Gravel, Watertown, CT
96AU Bruce White, Rudolph, OH
99 Brady Bacon, Broken Arrow, OK
140 Ricky Logan, Knoxville, IA

Thursday Qualifiers
01 TBA
1 Sammy Swindell, Bartlett, TN
1S Logan Schuchart, Hanover, PA
1T Chris Shirek, Thompson, ND
1z Danny Lasoski, Higginsville, MO
4 Cody Darrah, Red LIion, PA
B5 Brandon Sheppard, New Berlin, IL
5H Logan Forler, Cottage Grove, OR
6 Bill Rose, Plainfield, IN
7K Robby Wolfgang, Sioux Falls, SD
7TAZ Tasker Phillips, Pleasantville, IA
10 Sheldon Haudenschild, Wooster, OH
11K Kraig Kinser, Bloomington, IN
12P TJ Peterson, Des Moines, IA
13 Mark Dobmeier, Grand Forks, ND
17 Josh Baughman, Odessa, TX
17B Bill Balog, Hartland, WI
19 Stevie Smith, Broken Arrow, OK
21 Brian Brown, Grain Valley, MO
21m Jason Meyers, Fresno, CA
22x TBA
23 Seth Bergman, Snohomish, WA
24 Terry McCarl, Altoona, IA
24H Bryan Sebetto, Fremont, OH
24x Josh Higday, Des Moines, IA
27 Daryn Pittman, Owasso, OK
30c Lance Dewease, Fayetteville, PA
35 Tyler Walker, Hermosa Beach, CA
35AU Jamie Veal, Warrnambool, VIC, Aust.
39 Greg Hodnett, Thomasville, PA
41 Jason Johnson, Rocky Mount, MO
45x Johnny Herrera, Albuquerque, NM
49J Josh Schneiderman, W. Burlington, IA
51 Fred Rahmer, Salfordville, PA
55x Trey Starks, Puyallup, WA
69 Mike Moore, Des Moines, IA
71AU Domain Ramsay, Geelong, VIC, Aust.
71R Ryan Anderson, Deloit, IA
74x Josh Hodges, Tijeras, NM
77x Wayne Johnson, Knoxville, IA
83 Tim Shaffer, Aliquippa, PA
91 Dusty Zomer, Sioux Falls, SD
96 Bronson Maeschen, Pleasantville, IA
98 TBD

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'Australian Invasion’ Planned for $10,000-to-win Knoxville World Challenge

KNOXVILLE, IOWA (July 20, 2012) - “The Aussies are coming!  The Aussies are coming!”  Those might very well be the words of a modern-day Paul Revere as eight Australians have now filed official entries for the nineteenth annual Speed Sport Knoxville World Challenge, to be held on Friday, August 10, during the 52nd annual Goodyear Knoxville Nationals at south central Iowa’s Knoxville Raceway. 

The eight Aussies are Lynton Jeffrey (New South Wales), Ian Madsen (New South Wales), Kerry Madsen (New South Wales), Marty Perovich (New South Wales), Domain Ramsey (Victoria), Glen Saville (New South Wales), Jamie Veal (Victoria) and Bruce White (New South Wales).  The record for the number of Australians competing in the Knoxville World Challenge is twelve and that was set in 2010, which was the fiftieth edition of the sport’s richest and most prestigious event.  Kerry Madsen won the $10,000-to-win event in 2008 and Lynton Jeffrey won it a year later.  New South Welshman Brooke Tatnell, the 2006 titlist, has yet to enter the 2012 edition.

According to Tom Schmeh, who co-founded the World Challenge back in 1994 with Jon Evans, Ralph Capitani and the late Ian Sheppard, “We started the Australian/American Challenge Cup, which is now the World Challenge, for this exact reason… to encourage teams to cross the ocean and compete in each country’s biggest international events – the Grand Annual Sprintcar Classic in Warrnambool (Victoria) and the Knoxville Nationals.  I think it has encouraged fans to follow those teams and spectate at both multi-day shows, too.  The Speed Sport Knoxville World Challenge, and what it represents, really is great for true sprint car fans from the United States, Australia, Canada and New Zealand.”

The Speed Sport Knoxville World Challenge is a points-paying round of the Cox Design & Metal Fabrication Iowa Speed Week, August 2-11, which awards the Jesse Hockett “Mr. Sprint Car” title.  Those seeking more information on the Speed Sport Knoxville World Challenge or the World of Outlaws-sanctioned 52nd Goodyear Knoxville Nationals are encouraged to visit the Knoxville Raceway web site at www.knoxvilleraceway.com.

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Kekich Wins Career First at Mercer in Sprint Slugout; Drevicki Takes First of Season in Midgets;
 
Mercer, PA (July 21, 2012): Adam Kekich scored his first career victory in the Sprint Slugout for Luxaire Heating & Cooling Sprint Cars in a thrilling battle with Jack Sodeman, Jr. and Brandon Matus. Steve Drevicki held off a furious rush by Tim Buckwalter and Alex Bright in the final laps of the ARDC Midget main.
 
In a non-stop race for the Ti22 Performance Outlaw Sprint Warriors, Jimmy Morris led wire to wire. The Precise Racing Products Open Stock winner was Bob McCann.
 
Kekich entered the night full of confidence. He was joking around with his best friend, Brandon Matus. Matus said that he was going to win, and Kekich siad, "not so, buddy, I think tonight's going to be my night." Little did they know that they would finish one-two.
 
At the drop of the green for the 30 lapper, Jack Sodeman, Jr. sped away from the rest of the Luxaire Heating & Cooling Sprint Cars. However, he was not able to get too far ahead of two youthful rivals, Adam Kekich and Brandon Matus, becasue several early yellows slowed the pace. The final caution occurred on lap 5, for Francis Sesco, and the remainder of the race was run without interruption.
 
As Sodeman began to pick off lapped cars during the long green flag run, Kekich and Matus were locked in a heated battle for the second spot. Meanwhile, Scott Priester and Brandon Spithaler were contesting fourth position.
 
Kekich assumed control of second and began to close in on the leader. He made his move as the pair completed lap 25. He raced into turn one side by side with Sodeman, and exitted the corner with the lead.
 
Of his winning move, the third-generation racer said, "I snuck down off four and I rocketed off the corner, I showed the wheel to Jack, and then I did it again the next lap."
 
In the next few laps, Kekich stretched his lead to several car lengths over Sodeman, much to the delight of the crowd. Sodeman surrendered second spot to Brandon Matus on lap 27.
 
Kekich swept under the checkers for his first win ever. Brandon Matus took second, and Sodeman held on for third. Scott Priester finished fourth in Matha Dionise's 15. Brandon Spithaler crossed in fifth.
 
Newcomer Andrew Palker was sixth and Mike Lutz finished seventh. Gale Ruth, Jr. was eighth in his first run of the season at the Park. Eric Williams and All Star regular Pete Miller, III completed the top ten.
 
There were three heats for 21 Luxaire Heating & Cooling Sprints. The winners were Todd Bauer, Eric Williams, and Brandon Matus. Rod George was unable to start the feature after flipping his car in the second heat.
 
Parker Evans and Steve Drevicki led the ARDC Midget feature to the start. Evans grabbed the advantage and held the lead for the fist three laps. However, Bruce Buckwalter soon moved ahead from his fifth starting spot to challenge for the lead. He took the point with five down.
 
Bruce Buckwalter led until he retired on lap 15 with an apparent engine problem. That handed the lead over to Drevicki. However, Drevicki had his hands full with Tim Buckwalter and Alex Bright in the last five laps.
 
Drevicki, Buckwalter and Bright raced three wide through turns three and four on the final two laps. Each time around though, Drevicki was able to pull away. The last time was to get the coveted checkered flag.
 
Drevicki's win was just his first of the season, and third overall. It could not have come at at better time. He had fallen out of seven of his first eleven races. He was even worried that he maight not make it to the finish. "I heard about every noise you could hear out of that car the last five laps," he said.
 
Buckwalter was next, followed by Bright, Nick Wean and Trevor Kobylarz.
 
P.J. Gargiulo, Jimmy Glenn, Mark Gilmore, Brandon Matus, and Evans took sixth through tenth. It was Mauts' first ride in a Midget.
 
The winners in ARDC Midget preliminaries were Tim Buckwalter and Trevor Kobylarz.
 
Jimmy Morris scored the victory in the non-stop 20 lapper for the Ti22 Performance Outlaw Sprint Warriors. Skip
Daugherty raced home in second, with Rob Felix third. Justin Whitesell held off Joe McEwen for fourth. McEwen's advance was hampered somewhat by a damaged top wing.
 
Chris Matthews led the next group to the checkers. Also among them were Michael Bauer, Mike Miller, C.J. Jones and Jeff Goodman.
 
The heat winners for the 18 Ti22 Performance Outlaw Sprint Warriors were Chris Matthews and Rob Felix.
 
Next weekend, will be another exciting Saturday Night Live program. It will also be Meet Your Heroes Night presented by Herr's.
 
410 Sprint Cars: Adam Kekich, Brandon Spithaler, Jack Sodeman, Jr., Scott Priester, Brandon Spithaler, Andrew Palker, Mike Lutz, Gale Ruth, Jr., Eric Williams, Pete Miller, III, Dan Kuriger, Todd Bauer, Ralph Spithaler, Chris Best, Brent Matus, Gale Ruth, Sr., Dave Jones, John McCracken, Jr., Gary Edwards, Francis Sesco.
 
ARDC Midgets: Steve Drevicki, Tim Buckwalter, Alex Bright, Nick Wean, Trevor Kobylarz, P.J. Gargiulo, Jimmy Glenn, Mark Gilmore, Brandon Matus, Parker Evans, Steve Bull, Bruce Buckwalter, Brett Arndt, Joe Butera, Brenden Bright. DNS: Brett Wanner, Brett Guzik, Briaqn Gilmore, Shane Penny.
 
Outlaw Sprint Warriors: Jimmy Morris, Skip Daugherty, Rob Felix, Justin Whitesell, Joe McEwen, Chris Matthews, Michael Bauer, Mike Miller, C.J. Jones, Jeff Goodman, Dalton Daniels, Harold Braden, Jr., Bob McMillin, Jacob Lagastee, Joe Siembida, Dennis Wagner, Thomas Sanders. Justin Goodman (DNS).
 
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Mitchell Magical in OVSCA Sprints

By Scott Wolfe

STEWART, OHIO-It was one of those rare summer nights when everything just seems to fall into place.  Such was the case Friday night July 20th when area storms pounded villages within only a few miles of Skyline Speedway, yet the racetrack was spared for a great night of racing. The heavy, damp air and early drizzle left the 3/8 mile speedplant, tacky and fast throughout the night, setting the stage for a blistering new track record and Jack Shutts Memorial feature win by Grayson, KY driver Josh McGuire. 

The 25-lap OVSCA 410 sprint car feature was also a red-hot barnburner.  Pole-sitter Aaron Higgins had a short-lived lead, yielding the top spot to two-time champion Jimmy Stinson.  Stinson began to pull away from the rest of the pack as Higgins and Wayne McPeek sparred for second.  Following a restart, McPeek challenged Stinson, but after scrubbing off some speed McPeek saw Stinson drive off into the sunset.

Meanwhile, Greg Mitchell was strategically picking off cars in a high speed chase to the front.  As Stinson approached traffic Mitchell began to close in on the leader at a rapid pace.  On lap 12 the caution flew for Jesse McCreary who was in a top five slot after posting his second consecutive heat win.

Stinson pulled away on the restart, but Mitchell's cushion-riding mount was faster on the high side and blasted by Stinson two laps later.  There Mitchell's Maxim #001 was indeed the class of the field as the former Skyline Late Model champ frantically searched for a smooth, fast line to his first-ever feature win.

Stinson never recovered as Mitchell blasted on to the ever-popular win, where he was joined by a throng of fans in victory lane. Ironically, Mitchell's car donned a "For Sale" sign that he quickly removed after picking up the win.

As Mitchell emerged from the cockpit, he let out an echoing victory yelp.  "I attribute this win to Don Spiker. He has been with me for 14 years and all the time I've been in the sprint car," said the winning Mitchell.  " I'm better on a heavier track and not as good on a dry slick.  I was fortunate to get a good start and the car really hooked up. I thank Billy Jarrell for providing a great race track and thank God for the chance to race tonight.  I have to thank the God's for sprinkling down some goodness on me tonight.  It's a great, great night. "

Josh Davis was the hard charger in the OVSCA Sprints moving up seven positions from 9th to 2nd. Davis broke a shock in the heat, but finished the race.  In the feature the Chillicothe ace had newfound speed with all four wheels on the ground, overcoming hard charges from Wayne McPeek and making a late-race pass of Stinson. One of the best on-track battles was a Davis, Crabtree, McPeek Higgins battle over the duration of ten or so laps in the middle of the event.
 Rounding out the top ten were Mitchell, Josh Davis, Jimmy Stinson, Kory Crabtree, Wayne McPeek, Aaron Higgins, Nathan Skaggs, Dave Dickson,  and Jesse McCreary.
 
Next week July 27 Skyline hosts three-classes of Bicycle Racing for the kids with cash prizes going to the winners !  All kids are urged to bring their bikes for this great night of fun ages 0-14.  Also, July 27 will mark the final leg of Skyline's "Six-Pack Points" package with I-77 Raceway.
 
Coming Aug. 24 will be an invitational in all classes featuring $3,000 to win in the Sprints, Late Models, and Modifieds.  Details are to be released soon.
 
Sept. 7 and Sept. 8 will mark a Friday-Saturday Modified Madness weekend for the Malta AMRA Modifieds. Sept. 7 at Skyline will be the 4th annual Greg Schilling Memorial and Sept. 8 will be the Modified Madness special at Ohio Valley Speedway.
 
For more information please visit www.skylinespeedway.net  or call 304-539-4410 or the track phone at 740-662-4111. Also follow Skyline action on Facebook.
 
410 Sprint Cars Feature: Greg Mitchell, Josh Davis, Jimmy Stinson, Kory Crabtree, Wayne McPeek, Aaron Higgins, Nathan Skaggs, Dave Dickson, Jesse McCreary, Bob Tucker, Eric Martin, Lance Webb

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Shaffer dominates Fonda field for second straight UNOH All Star win

FONDA, N.Y. (July 19, 2012) By Brian Liskai– In racing, a lot of drivers say you need some LUCK. But, many also know the definition of LUCK is when preparation meets desire. The later describes the Aaron Call/Janet Holbrook Motorsports sprint car and driver Tim Shaffer.

“The Steel City Outlaw” claimed his second consecutive University of Northwestern Ohio All Star Circuit of Champions feature Thursday in front of a capacity crowd at Fonda Speedway. It was Shaffer’s fourth series’ victory of 2012. Shaffer led all 30 laps for his second straight victory at Fonda, having taken the win at “The Track of Champions” in 2011.

“Definitely, you have to be lucky, it all comes into play,” Shaffer said beside his Kistler Engines, J&J Auto Racing, VRP Shocks backed #83. “You have to have luck but you have to have a great car here. If you don’t have a great car here, I don’t care where you start; you end up in the back in a hurry. It is a tough track. When it gets slick you have to be patient but aggressive. It worked out for us again tonight.”

Shaffer and Greg Hodnett would bring the field to the green with Shaffer gaining the advantage. However, local contender Jessica Zemken of Sprakers, N.Y., would stay glued to Shaffer.

The caution would fly for Cap Henry as he spun off turn four. On the restart, Shaffer got a big jump and with a clear track, pulled away, leaving Zemken to battle with Hodnett and UNOH All Star regular David Gravel.

Shaffer’s lead evaporated on lap nine when Mark Coldren spun on the front stretch. However, Shaffer’s mount continued to be very stout as he pulled away again on the restart. The battle behind Shaffer tightened up between Zemken, Gravel, Hodnett and Tony Stewart.

Gravel found his way around Zemken for second on lap 17 and Stewart followed suit a lap later.
Gravel and Stewart got a break with seven laps remaining as Coldren spun for the second time.

However, Shaffer was not to be denied as he handled the restart, pulled away and claimed his 49th career UNOH All Star Circuit of Champions victory.

The victory pads Shaffer’s lead in the UNOH All Star’s National point standings as he seeks his fourth straight series title. It also inches him closer to Daryn Pittman for the $20,000 top prize awarded to the UNOH All Star’s Eastern Region champion.

Gravel followed with his second consecutive runner-up finish with Stewart, Pittman and Zemken rounding out the top five. Hodnett, Logan Schuchart, Michael Parent, Danny Smith and Bobby Varan completed the top 10.

“We had a lot of family and friends down here tonight so to get a great run in front of them was awesome,” said Gravel beside his P&M Transportation, Musco Fuels, Model Craft backed #89G. “Tyler (Swank, crew chief) and Ripper (Kyle, car chief) have been busting their butts and I’m glad I can finally start paying them back with consistent runs up front.”

Click Read More For Results. . . Fonda Speedway  - 7/19/2012

All Star Circuit of Champions (23 Cars)
[#]-Starting Position

A-Main - University of Northwestern Ohio (30 Laps) 1. 83-Tim Shaffer[1]; 2. 89G-David Gravel[5]; 3. 14-Tony Stewart[9]; 4. 27-Daryn Pittman[7]; 5. 1Z-Jessica Zemken[3]; 6. 39-Greg Hodnett[2]; 7. 1S-Logan Schuchart[6]; 8. 25-Michael Parent[16]; 9. 4-Danny Smith[13]; 10. OO-Bobby Varan[11]; 11. 17-Marty Perovich[15]; 12. 99L-Larry Wight[12]; 13. 87-George Suprick[10]; 14. 45-Paul McMahan[8]; 15. 27J-Jamie Russell[20]; 16. 19-Colby Womer[17]; 17. 49-Bob Howard[18]; 18. 1A-Jacob Allen[19]; 19. O7-Mark Coldren[21]; 20. 3A-Josh Pieniazek[14]; 21. X2-Curt Bradshaw[23]; 22. 29-Dick Spadaro[22]; 23. 54-Cap Henry[4]

Qualifying - Kistler Engines
1. 54-Cap Henry, 16.855; 2. 83-Tim Shaffer, 17.041; 3. 1S-Logan Schuchart, 17.224; 4. 39-Greg Hodnett, 17.434; 5. 89G-David Gravel, 17.570; 6. 1Z-Jessica Zemken, 17.601; 7. 27-Daryn Pittman, 17.683; 8. 45-Paul McMahan, 17.710; 9. 14-Tony Stewart, 17.790; 10. 87-George Suprick, 17.796; 11. OO-Bobby Varan, 18.066; 12. 99L-Larry Wight, 18.102; 13. 4-Danny Smith, 18.162; 14. 3A-Josh Pieniazek, 18.167; 15. 17-Marty Perovich, 18.175; 16. 25-Michael Parent, 18.200; 17. 19-Colby Womer, 18.246; 18. 49-Bob Howard, 18.393; 19. 1A-Jacob Allen, 18.740; 20. 27J-Jamie Russell, 18.865; 21. O7-Mark Coldren, 18.868; 22. 29-Dick Spadaro, 19.138; 23. X2-Curt Bradshaw, 19.916

Heat 1 - Kears Speed Shop (8 Laps - Top 9 finishers transfer to the A-feature)
1. 4-Danny Smith[2] ; 2. 27-Daryn Pittman[4] ; 3. 54-Cap Henry[6] ; 4. 39-Greg Hodnett[5] ; 5. 25-Michael Parent[1] ; 6. 87-George Suprick[3] ; 7. 1A-Jacob Allen[7] ; 8. 29-Dick Spadaro[8]

Heat 2 - All Pro Aluminum Heads (8 Laps - Top 9 finishers transfer to the A-feature)
1. 19-Colby Womer[1] ; 2. OO-Bobby Varan[3] ; 3. 83-Tim Shaffer[6] ; 4. 3A-Josh Pieniazek[2] ; 5. 45-Paul McMahan[4] ; 6. 89G-David Gravel[5] ; 7. 27J-Jamie Russell[7] ; 8. X2-Curt Bradshaw[8]

Heat 3 - Dragon Race Fuel (8 Laps - Top 9 finishers transfer to the A-feature)
1. 14-Tony Stewart[4] ; 2. 1Z-Jessica Zemken[5] ; 3. 1S-Logan Schuchart[6] ; 4. 17-Marty Perovich[2] ; 5. O7-Mark Coldren[7] ; 6. 99L-Larry Wight[3] ; 7. 49-Bob Howard[1]

Dash - Outerwears Performance Products (6 Laps, finishing order determined first 6 starting positions of A-feature
1. 83-Tim Shaffer[1] ; 2. 39-Greg Hodnett[2] ; 3. 1Z-Jessica Zemken[4] ; 4. 54-Cap Henry[3] ; 5. 89G-David Gravel[6] ; 6. 1S-Logan Schuchart[5]

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Shaffer holds off Gravel for Brewerton All Star win

BREWERTON, N.Y. (July 18, 2012) By Brian Liskai- Don't look now, but three time and defending University of Northwestern Ohio All Star Circuit of Champions titlest Tim Shaffer is on a roll. "The Steel City Outlaw" scored his third series victory of the season Wednesday at Brewerton Speedway, holding off a hard-charging David Gravel. It was the first ever visit by the UNOH All Stars to Brewerton Speeedway and the first time 410 winged sprint cars have competed at "The D-Shaped Dirt Demon" in its long and storied history.

The win in front of a standing-room-only crowd gives Shaffer a slight lead in the UNOH All Star's National points standings, and inches him closer to Daryn Pittman for the series' Eastern Region points lead. It is Shaffer's 48th career UNOH All Star victory, leaving him only five wins away from tying Frank Kerr for fifth on the series all-time win list. Three time series champion Dale Blaney was unable to race due to mechanical issues with the team's tow vehicle.

Shaffer led all 30 laps aboard his Aaron Call/Janet Holbrook Motorsports #83, but Watertown, Connecticut's David Gravel and Pittsboro, Indiana's Daryn Pittman didn't make it easy for the veteran from Aliquippa, Pa.

"It was a handful tonight with guys all around me," Shaffer said beside his Kistler Engines, J&J Auto Racing, VRP Shocks backed machine.

"Hats off to my guys, Dave Lawrence and James Chambers. There is just the three of us out here, doing what it takes to get up front. They did a great job on the track, they gave us a top and a bottom where ever we needed to run," added Shaffer

Shaffer would actually lose the lead briefly to Pittman as he had to avoid disaster when a lapped car slowed dramatically in front of him late in the race. But the caution would fly, handing him back the top spot. Then, on the last lap, Gravel would get a run on Shaffer, but lapped cars would prevent Gravel from taking the lead.

"Lapped cars presented a huge challenge. It was fun racing with Shaffer. He was good on the bottom in one and two and I was good up top and we both ran the same line in three and four. On the last lap I got a great run out of two, but when we got to three there were three lapped cars there and I had no place to go. I got by them and it was a drag race to the checkers and I came up just a little short. After our horrible Ohio Speedweek, this goes a long way to turning our team around for the Thunder Through the Plains. I'm excited to get back to racing with the All Stars," said Gravel beside his Musco Fuels, P&M Transportation, JRC Transportation, Model Craft, IGA Hometown Wheels backed #89G

Daryn Pittman would come home third in his Heffner Racing, Lelands.com, Pasquariello's, Rider Racing Engines #27.

Shaffer and Gravel would bring the 24 car starting field to the green with Shaffer grabbing the early lead. With five laps scored, Shaffer had built a quarter straightaway lead as Gravel, Pittman, Shawn Donath and Cap Henry gave chase. By lap 10, Shaffer and Gravel were in a tight battle for the lead as they also fought traffic. Pittman, Henry and Donath stayed close.

A caution on laps 13 and 14 slowed the pace just before the halfway point.

Shaffer avoided disaster on lap 19 as he had to get hard on the brakes for a car that got out of shape in front of him in turn one. That allowed Pittman to shoot by, but a yellow came out at the same time, allowing Shaffer to maintain the lead.

On the restart, Shaffer blasted away from the field. But, with nine laps to go, Shaffer bobbled in turn one, allowing Pittman and Gravel to close quickly. The trio raced hard through traffic before one last caution with six laps to go, putting Gravel, Pittman, Henry and Tony Stewart right with Shaffer.

With a clear track, Shaffer would dive to the bottom on the restart. But, his quick pace would put him in traffic on the final lap, and Gravel threw everything he had at Shaffer. The lapped cars would help Shaffer fend off Gravel as the duo had a drag race to the checkers. Pittman would come home third with Stewart and Cap Henry - who would celebrate his 22nd birthday the next day - rounding out the top five. Justin Barger would earn the "hard-charger" honor by driving from his 15th starting spot to a sixth place finish with UNOH All Star regular Paul McMahan, Greg Hodnett, Danny Smith and Donath rounding out the top 10.

Brewerton Speedway 
7/18/2012
All Star Circuit of Champions (24 Cars)
A-Main - (30 Laps)
1. 83-Tim Shaffer[1]
2. 89G-David Gravel[2]
3. 27-Daryn Pittman[6]
4. 14-Tony Stewart[7]
5. 54-Cap Henry[5]
6. 5-Justin Barger[15]
7. 45-Paul McMahan[3]
8. 39-Greg Hodnett[9]
9. 4-Danny Smith[13]
10. 33-Shawn Donath[4]
11. 99L-Larry Wight[11]
12. 1Z-Jessica Zemken[10]
13. 1S-Logan Schuchart[14]
14. 17-Marty Perovich[8]
15. 25-Michael Parent[21]
16. 42W-Rick Wilson[19]
17. 87-George Suprick[16]
18. 15AW-April Wilson[22]
19. O7-Mark Coldren[17]
20. 19-Colby Womer[20]
21. 49-Bob Howard[18]
22. 1A-Jacob Allen[23]
23. 45H-Chuck Hebing[12]
24. 29-Dick Spadaro[24]

(SUNY Canton Shootout 25 Laps) - KEVIN RIDLEY, Dave Marcuccilli, Ryan Cleason, Jim Spano, Jeremy Pitcher, Tom Juhl, Kyle Fink, Ron Davis III, Beth Schneider, Andrew Ferguson, Greg Kimball, Brandon Hagan, Rocky Warner, John Scarborough, Tim Schneider, Tony Finch II, Katelyn Kane, Dave Emmons, Greg Martin, Ricky Quick, Scott Duell, Greg Pessolano, Rob Humphreys, Matt Emmons, Nick Guererri

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SPRINTS AND MIDGETS AT MERCER SATURDAY
 
Mercer, PA (July 18, 2012):  This Saturday, open wheel enthusiasts will get their fill of top notch Sprint Car and Midget racing at Mercer Raceway Park when the annual Sprint Slugout will be presented courtesy of McCrudden Heating Supply Company. The event will pay a cool two grand to the winner of the Luxaire Heating & Cooling Sprint Cars! The Ti22 Performance Outlaw Sprint Warriors will also compete for extra money. Joining these two divisions of Sprint Cars will be the exciting ARDC Midgets, in their first of two appearances at the track.  The Precise Racing Products Stock Cars will again be operating under Mercer's Open Stock rules, and they, too, will race for extra money on Staurday night.
 
Rod George won the last time out at Mercer and he would like nothing more than to scoop up the extra loot offered to the 410 Sprints this weekend. He will have his hands full, though, as Eric Williams has also been red hot lately. And, don't forget that Mike Lutz is back in the Chappel number 8 and he already has a win since getting back in that car. Jack Sodeman, Jr., Brandon Spithaler, Brandon and Brent Matus, and a host of others will be there. Part of the fun, though, will be waiting to see who else comes rolling through the back gate to try to upset the Mercer regulars!
 
In the Outlaw Sprint Warriors, Mike Miller collected his second win of the season last weekend.  He'll be back, of course, along with Joe McEwen, Dennis Wagner, Justin Whitesell, C.J. Jones, Rob Felix, and many more. These Warriors are ferocious competitors and their races are always entertaining.
 
All competitors in both Sprint divisions will receive full points for their respective races.  But, despite the extra money on the line, regular track lineup procedures will apply.  So, if the most recent winners (i.e., George and Miller) are among the top 12 qualifiers, they will go to the post in the 12th position, and they will have to race their way to the front! 
 
But, the special attraction will be the ARDC Midgets.  Nick Wean, Tim and Bruce Buckwalter, Brett Arndt, Brenden Bright, Trevor Kobylarz, P.J. Gargiulo, Parker Evans and Dusty Heistand will be just a few of the hotshoes expected. Wampum's Joe Butera, a former Mercer Sprint Car ace, will try to whip them all on his home turf.  Come out and cheer for Joe, or pick one of the invaders and root him on to victory!
 
Curtis J. Bish and Rusty Moore will resume their rivalry in the Precise Stocks.  Dan Lewis, Bob McCann, Matt Wagner, Russ Byler, and Brandon Johnston will be some of the drivers in the thick of the action, too!  But, with the Stocks racing under the Open rules package, the extra money on the line may entice some other drivers to the track in the hopes of taking the gelt.
 
Due to the Open rules, the Stocks will not earn points this weekend, and their lineups will be determined in the typical Open Stock format.
 
The racing action will start at 7 p.m. and the gates will open at 4 p.m.  Come out early to get your favorite seats.
 
The special event ticket pricing will apply for this fun-filled night of racing.  Adults will be admitted for just $15, seniors for $13, and students for $7.  Children ages 8 and under are free.  Family passes will be available for the economical price of $32, which is good for two adults and up to four children of any age.  it passes will cost $30.
 
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All Stars ready to Thunder Through the Plains

CAMARGO, IL (July 16, 2012) By Brian Liskai – The teams of the University of Northwestern Ohio All Star Circuit of Champions got a little time off after the 30th Annual Ohio Sprint Speedweek. But they will go full throttle soon as the series gets ready for its annual “Thunder Through the Plains.”

The UNOH All Stars will “get back to work” with two shows in the Eastern Region points battle – Wednesday, July 18 at Brewerton Speedway in Brewerton, N.Y. and Thursday, July 19 at Fonda Speedway in Fonda, N.Y.

Daryn Pittman leads the UNOH All Stars’  Eastern Region points over three time and defending national UNOH All Star Champion Tim Shaffer, with Greg Hodnett in third, David Gravel fourth and three time national UNOH All Star champion Dale Blaney fifth. The Eastern Region champion will earn $20,000 at year’s end.

Shaffer and Blaney are tied atop the UNOH All Star’s national point standing with Paul McMahan third, Cap Henry fourth and David Gravel fifth.

Brewerton Speedway (www.brewertonspeedway.com) is known as “The D-Shaped Dirt Demon.” The one-third mile clay track has never hosted an All Star sanctioned event. Racing with the UNOH All Stars will be the SUNY Canton Sportsman division. Racing is scheduled to begin at 7:30 p.m. Adult general admission tickets are $25 and students aged 10 -16 are $10 with those 9 and under getting in free.

Last year at Fonda Speedway, Shaffer charged from his 11th starting spot to pass Fred Rahmer on the last lap to take the victory. In 2010, Pittman claimed the UNOH All Star win at Fonda over Tyler Walker and Jessica Zemken.

Three-time NASCAR Sprint Cup Champion Tony Stewart, who scored his first UNOH All Star win earlier this year, is expected to compete at Fonda.

Earlier this year Zemken scored an Empire Super Sprints victory at Fonda (www.fondaspeedway.net).

Pit gates will open Thursday, July 19 at Fonda at 4 p.m. with front gates opening at 5 p.m. General admission is $30 with kids five and under free and those ages 6-11 at $3.

From New York, the UNOH All Stars will then head west for the traditional Thunder Through the Plains, which features at least nine races and carries its own $10,000-to-win point fund for the Great Plains Region.

It kicks off Saturday, July 21 at Wilmot Raceway in Wilmot, Wisconsin, in the Kenosha County Fairgrounds (www.wilmotraceway.com). The track is a semi-banked 3/8-mile oval

The UNOH All Star event at Wilmot is co-sanctioned with the Bumper to Bumper IRA Outlaw Sprint Series. Tickets are $25 for adults with kids ages 8-11 $5 and those 7 and under getting in free.

The IRA sprints have raced at Wilmot three times in 2012 with multi-time series champion Billy Balog scoring two wins and Tommy Sexton taking the other.

The UNOH All Stars then head to Hibbing Raceway in Hibbing, Minnesota (www.hibbingraceway.com) for a Tuesday, July 24 event. There is a rain date of July 25 for this event. Motter Equipment is the night’s sponsor.

This is another new track for the UNOH All Stars. The track is a 3/8 mile semi-banked clay oval.

Tickets are $30 for those 12 and older; $5 for ages 6-12; and kids five and under get in free. Hot laps are at 6:30 p.m. with racing underway at 7 p.m.

The UNOH All Stars then make a return appearance to the Red River Co-Op Speedway in Winnipeg, Manitoba Canada on Thursday, July 26 (www.victorylane.mb.ca). The high-banked 4/10 mile dirt oval hosted the All Stars in 2011 with Shaffer snagging the victory over Blaney and Greg Wilson.

Racing is scheduled to begin at Red River at 7:30 p.m.

On Friday, July 27, the UNOH All Stars head to Jackson Speedway in Jackson, Minnesota (www.jacksonspeedway.com). The event will also feature the JSTS Sprints and 305 sprints.  Hot laps are scheduled for 6:30 p.m. with tickets $20 for adults; $15 for students ages 13-17 with kids 12 and under getting in free.

The UNOH All Stars will next visit the Red River Valley Speedway in Fargo, North Dakota (www.redrivervalleyspeedway.com) on Saturday, July 28. Last year, Shaffer passed four-time World of Outlaws champion Donny Schatz and went on to score the All Star victory. The previous year, Schatz passed Shaffer late for the series’ win.

Earlier this year Sammy Swindell won the World of Outlaws event at Red River Valley.

Husets Speedway in Brandon, South Dakota, will be next up for the UNOH All Stars on Sunday, July 29. It is the first of two shows for the UNOH All Stars during Thunder Through the Plains at Husets, the other coming Sunday, August 12. Gates will open for both shows at 5 p.m. with racing at 7 p.m. Go to www.husets-speedway.com for more information.

Husets boasts some very strong weekly competition. Terry “TMAC” McCarl leads the track’s point standings with three feature wins and is the track’s all-time winningest driver. Last year at Husets, McCarl passed race-long leader Cap Henry on the last lap to score the UNOH All Star victory.

Mark Dobmeier, who sits second on Huset’s all-time win list, sits second in the track’s 2012 points with one victory, that coming against the World of Outlaws. He scored his first career All Star win last season a Husets, holding off Shaffer and Blaney.

Gregg Bakker sits third in the track’s points and has one feature win. Jody Rosenboom, who is sixth in the points at Husets, has a pair of feature wins. Justin Henderson also has a win at Husets in 2012.

Following the first Huset’s show, the UNOH All Stars will once again be a part of the 17th Annual Musco Lighting Front Row Challenge at Southern Iowa Speedway in Oskaloosa, Iowa. The event is a big crowd hit with a party atmosphere in the big infield. If the driver scheduled to start on the pole of the feature takes the challenge and goes to the tail and comes back to win, he will take home $50,000!

Last year Sammy Swindell scored his third straight Front Row Challenge victory in 2011 over Brad Sweet and Shane Stewart.

Following the running of the Knoxville Nationals, the UNOH All Stars travel back to Husets on Sunday, Aug. 12.

The Thunder Through the Plains wraps up on Wednesday, Aug. 15 at Red River Valley Speedway in Fargo, North Dakota. There is a rain date of Thursday, Aug. 16.

Last season, Donny Schatz, coming off the Knoxville Nationals victory, took the victory over Brad Sweet and David Gravel.

While the Thunder Through the Plains is wrapped up, the UNOH All Star Circuit of Champions will continue to battle, as they travel back east to the Butler Motor Speedway in Quincy, Michigan for an Ohio Region points race on Saturday, Aug. 18.

For more information go to www.allstarsprint.com.

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Smith Again Skyline Victor

By Scott Wolfe

STEWART, OHIO- It was a typical Friday the 13th, but the mythical gloom and doom couldn't overshadow the good racing at Skyline Speedway Friday night where Chillicothe, Ohio's Danny Smith out-foxed the competition in the 410 $1,500-to-win Ohio Valley Sprint Car Association outlaw sprint feature.

Although officially Danny Smith led every lap, the battle between the Danville, Indiana native and Mineral Wells, WV driver Wayne McPeek was a classic.  Twice McPeek took the lead in turn two only to have Smith come back with a vengeance to lead at the start-finish line. 

Due to the Century-mark temperatures over the past several days, some dust started to kick up on the speedway, but the conditions didn't hamper the on-track action.  McPeek dogged Smith wildly over the first six laps and pulled up alongside the leader on several occasions.

McPeek actually took the lead the first time on lap seven, then Smith made a great comeback move to lead once again.  McPeek continued his charge as Smith's mount became increasingly loose, while the West Virginia Invader entered the turns hard, but scrubbed off speed upon the exits.

Once again, McPeek got by Smith ever-so briefly and nearly clipped Smith's rear nerf on multiple occasions. A Nick Forcum spin brought out the caution on lap 15, tightening the field. McPeek gave chase once again.

All the while Josh Davis ran a strong third, but Greg Mitchell began to charge with Nathan Skaggs in tow.  Davis fended off much of the field, but began to slow somewhat late in the race with Mitchell in third.

On lap 18 another restart bunched up the field. McPeek, Mitchell, Skaggs and Davis battled while all huddled under a blanket for a shot at second. When all was said and done Smith brought home his sixth Skyline win of the year. Rounding out the top ten were Danny Smith, Wayne McPeek, Nathan Skaggs, Greg Mitchell, Josh Davis, Eddie Slone, Jesse McCreary, Bob Tucker, Dave Dickson, and Nick Forcum. Jesse McCreary won the first heat and Smith won the dash.
 
410 Sprint Cars Feature: Danny Smith, Wayne McPeek, Nathan Skaggs, Greg Mitchell, Josh Davis, Eddie Slone, Jesse McCreary, Bob Tucker, Dave Dickson, Nick Forcum, Brian Benson, Jimmy Stinson, Eric Martin, Lance Webb

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SALDANA CAPTURES ELDORA’S KNIGHT BEFORE THE KINGS ROYAL

Randy Hannagan Joins Victory Lane with Jimmy Johnston Classic Win

ROSSBURG, OH (July 13)-- By his own admission, World of Outlaws (WoO) sprint car driver Joey Saldana has had his share of struggles and bad luck since his last win in May.  Perhaps it’s fitting then that Saldana found some good luck on Friday the 13th.

Saldana held off a hard-charging Greg Wilson to capture the Knight Before the Kings Royal at Eldora Speedway. The victory was Saldana’s fourth WoO victory this season and first since May 25, a span of 15 races. Randy Hannagan didn’t wait as long for his next win. Hannagan won the National Racing Alliance (NRA) Sprint Invaders feature, benefitting from a pair of late cautions for his fourth win this season and third in his last five races.

“This team’s been struggling the last two months,” Saldana said. “I think myself and the team, we’re probably ready to give up. But you do something like this and it gives you a little bit more motivation.”

In a full-points tune-up for the $50,000-to-win Kings Royal on Saturday, Saldana started on the pole and led all 30 lap in beating Wilson to the finish line by 1.867 seconds. It was a great run for Wilson, who started 20th. Dale Blaney, Craig Dollansky and Brian Brown rounded out the top five.

“This is a great team effort. We definitely made the right adjustments and obviously starting on the front row helps,” said Saldana, who earned a pair of Eldora wins in 2011 and has 11 A-Main feature wins at the historic speed plant. “A great accomplishment for us.”

The driver from Brownsburg, Ind., fought off several challenges early as cautions after 10, 11 and 13 laps bunched up the field behind him with double-file restarts. But Saldana held the lead each time. He solidified his lead on lap 23 when he pulled off a slide job between a pair of lapped cars coming through turns 3-4. The two-car buffer between him and Wilson helped Saldana stretch the lead, even on an off night for Saldana.

“The car really didn’t feel that good to me,” he said. “I felt like I was racing too easy and was going to give it away. I stepped it up there but I was afraid I was going to kill my tires. It’s over and I’m glad. We can enjoy this.”

Connecticut’s David Gravel set fast time around the .500 mile oval in 13.340 seconds (134.902 mph).

Blaney, Sammy Swindell, Danny Lasoski and Saldana each won heat races. Saldana won the Dash, Brian Paulus won the C-Main and Tim Shaffer won the B-Main.

Eldora Speedway owner Tony Stewart flew in after NASCAR Sprint Cup qualifying in Loudon, N.H., to run with the Outlaws. The defending Sprint Cup champion turned the 19th-fastest qualifying lap of 48 cars in 13.611 seconds. Stewart earlier qualified 10th for Sunday’s Lenox Industrial Tools 301 Sprint Cup race.

In the NRA feature, Hannagan took advantage of two late cautions to win the Jimmy Johnston Classic and add to his points lead. The driver from Pittsboro, Ind., who also won at Eldora on May 27, inherited the lead when Caleb Helms’ sprint car starting smoking on the final lap. His power plant finally expired on the closing lap of the main event, and that collected Kyle Sauder who slammed into the wall.

Helms inherited the lead after 10 laps when Jared Horstman crashed coming out of turn 4.

After Helms’ accident, Hannagan won a one-lap dash by 0.733 seconds over Dustin Dagget. Butch Schroeder, Tim Allison and Ron Blair rounded out the top five.

“I figured we were going to be a second-place race car,” said Hannagan, who instead earned his fifth career 360 win at Eldora. “I drove my butt off and the car just didn’t do what it usually does here. I gotta thank my guys. Our heads were down after the B-Main. We won.”

Findlay’s Caleb Helms set fast time in NRA qualifying with a one-lap speed of 14.287 seconds.

Luke Hall, Sauder and Brian Paulus had heat wins. Ryan Myers won the B-Main.

The Kings Royal weekend concludes Saturday with another full-points show for the World of Outlaws and the NRA Sprint Invaders. Tickets for the 29th annual Kings Royal, as well as remaining races on the schedule, are available online at www.EldoraSpeedway.com or by calling the speedway office at (937) 338-3815.

World of Outlaw Sprints
 
HEAT 1 - 1. 2-Dale Blaney [2]; 2. 83K-Tim Kaeding [1]; 3. 89G-David Gravel [4]; 4. W20-Greg Wilson [6]; 5. 45-Paul Mcmahan [5]; 6. 35W-Tyler Walker [7]; 7. 1X-Randy Hannagan [3]; 8. 55-Trey Starks [9]; 9. 2M-Dustin Daggett [11]; 10. 1R-Chad Blonde [10]; 11. 54-Cap Henry [8]; 12. 60-Kory Crabtree [12];
 
HEAT 2 - 1. 1-Sammy Swindell [1]; 2. 82-Justin Henderson [2]; 3. 4-Cody Darrah [3]; 4. 19-Stevie Smith [4]; 5. 29-Kerry Madsen [5]; 6. 15-Donny Schatz [9]; 7. 83-Tim Shaffer [6]; 8. 15H-Sam Hafertepe Jr [8]; 9. 24H-Bryan Sebetto [7]; 10. 8H-Brian Paulus [10]; 11. 35-Wes Mcglumphy [12]; 12. 2MH-Dallas Hewitt [11];
 
HEAT 3 - 1. 1Z-Danny Lasoski [2]; 2. 21-Brian Brown [3]; 3. 11K-Kraig Kinser [1]; 4. 11-Steve Kinser [6]; 5. 6-Bill Rose [4]; 6. 27-Daryn Pittman [7]; 7. 14-Tony Stewart [5]; 8. 93-Sheldon Haudenschild [8]; 9. 1S-Logan Schuchart [9]; 10. 48H-Scott Hull [11]; 11. 15A-Adam Wilt [10]; 12. 22W-Chuck Waddell [12];
 
HEAT 4 - 1. 9-Joey Saldana [2]; 2. 7-Craig Dollansky [4]; 3. 00-Jim Nier [1]; 4. 7S-Jason Sides [6]; 5. 49-Brad Sweet [3]; 6. 59-Jac Haudenschild [5]; 7. 63-Chad Kemenah [8]; 8. 5W-Lucas Wolfe [7]; 9. 78-Todd Kane [9]; 10. 59X-Joey Magaruh [11]; 11. 56R-Ryan Myers [10]; 12. 3F-Rick Fraley [DNS];
 
C FEATURE - 1. 8H-Brian Paulus [1]; 2. 2M-Dustin Daggett [4]; 3. 15A-Adam Wilt [2]; 4. 60-Kory Crabtree [8]; 5. 59X-Joey Magaruh [7]; 6. 35-Wes Mcglumphy [9]; 7. 22W-Chuck Waddell [10]; 8. 2MH-Dallas Hewitt [5]; 9. 48H-Scott Hull [6]; 10. 56R-Ryan Myers [3]; 11. 3F-Rick Fraley [DNS]; 12. 54-Cap Henry [DNS]; 

DASH - 1. 9-Joey Saldana [1]; 2. 2-Dale Blaney [4]; 3. 1-Sammy Swindell [10]; 4. 7-Craig Dollansky [6]; 5. 82-Justin Henderson [3]; 6. 21-Brian Brown [5]; 7. 83K-Tim Kaeding [9]; 8. 1Z-Danny Lasoski [2]; 9. 19-Stevie Smith [7]; 10. 89G-David Gravel [8];
 
B FEATURE - 1. 83-Tim Shaffer [4]; 2. 14-Tony Stewart [2]; 3. 59-Jac Haudenschild [3]; 4. 35-Wes Mcglumphy [5]; 5. 55-Trey Starks [12]; 6. 24H-Bryan Sebetto [6]; 7. 15-Donny Schatz [13]; 8. 5W-Lucas Wolfe [8]; 9. 8H-Brian Paulus [17]; 10. 27-Daryn Pittman [7]; 11. 63-Chad Kemenah [11]; 12. 93-Sheldon Haudenschild [10]; 13. 2M-Dustin Daggett [18]; 14. 78-Todd Kane [15]; 15. 1X-Randy Hannagan [1]; 16. 15H-Sam Hafertepe Jr [9]; 17. 1S-Logan Schuchart [14]; 18. 1R-Chad Blonde [16];
 
A FEATURE - 1. 9-Joey Saldana [1]; 2. W20-Greg Wilson [20]; 3. 2-Dale Blaney [2]; 4. 7-Craig Dollansky [4]; 5. 21-Brian Brown [6]; 6. 83-Tim Shaffer [21]; 7. 82-Justin Henderson [5]; 8. 19-Stevie Smith [9]; 9. 11K-Kraig Kinser [14]; 10. 11-Steve Kinser [22]; 11. 83K-Tim Kaeding [7]; 12. 89G-David Gravel [10]; 13. 1-Sammy Swindell [3]; 14. 15-Donny Schatz [25]; 15. 7S-Jason Sides [23]; 16. 4-Cody Darrah [12]; 17. 6-Bill Rose [11]; 18. 45-Paul Mcmahan [16]; 19. 59-Jac Haudenschild [19]; 20. 14-Tony Stewart [18]; 21. 49-Brad Sweet [13]; 22. 29-Kerry Madsen [17]; 23. 35W-Tyler Walker [24]; 24. 00-Jim Nier [15]; 25. 1Z-Danny Lasoski [8];

NRA Sprint
 
HEAT 1 - 1. 34H-Luke Hall [1]; 2. 22H-Randy Hannigan [4]; 3. 11-Tim Allison [5]; 4. 11N-Ed Neumeister [2]; 5. 40-Caleb Helms [6]; 6. 5M-Max Stambaugh [3]; 7. 22D-Dennis Yoakam [7]; 8. 7C-Chad Trout [8]; 9. X-Dan Mazy [9]; 10. 10P-Jim Perricone [10];
 
HEAT 2 - 1. 7K-Kyle Sauder [4]; 2. 27-Beau Steward [2]; 3. B20-Butch Schroeder [6]; 4. 2MDH-Dallas Hewitt [3]; 5. 35-Ron Blair [5]; 6. 9-Ryan Myers [1]; 7. 12S-Tanner Swanson [7]; 8. 2G-Joe Giebe [9]; 9. 10C-Bob Carmen [10]; 10. 66-Jeoff Dodge [8];
 
HEAT 3 - 1. 2M-Dustin Dagget [6]; 2. 17-Jared Horstman [5]; 3. 18-Todd Heuerman [2]; 4. 28H-Hud Horton [4]; 5. 49T-Gregg Dalman [8]; 6. 7-Darren Long [3]; 7. 49-Shawn Dancer [10]; 8. 16-Ryan Ruhl [7]; 9. 4T-Josh Turner [1]; 10. W11-Chris Auckland [9];
 
B FEATURE - 1. 9-Ryan Myers [2]; 2. 5M-Max Stambaugh [1]; 3. 22D-Dennis Yoakam [3]; 4. 16-Ryan Ruhl [5]; 5. 7C-Chad Trout [6]; 6. 12S-Tanner Swanson [4]; 7. W11-Chris Auckland [10]; 8. 2G-Joe Giebe [7]; 9. 10P-Jim Perricone [9]; 10. 10C-Bob Carmen [11]; 11. 49-Shawn Dancer [12]; 12. X-Dan Mazy [8]; 13. 7-Darren Long [DNS]; 14. 4T-Josh Turner [DNS]; 15. 66-Jeoff Dodge [DNS];
 
A FEATURE - 1. 22H-Randy Hannigan [7]; 2. 2M-Dustin Dagget [4]; 3. B20-Butch Schroeder [5]; 4. 11-Tim Allison [3]; 5. 35-Ron Blair [2]; 6. 18-Todd Heuerman [13]; 7. 49T-Gregg Dalman [15]; 8. 2MDH-Dallas Hewitt [10]; 9. 27-Beau Steward [12]; 10. 16-Ryan Ruhl [19]; 11. 11N-Ed Neumeister [11]; 12. 34H-Luke Hall [14]; 13. 28H-Hud Horton [9]; 14. 22D-Dennis Yoakam [18]; 15. 40-Caleb Helms [6]; 16. 7K-Kyle Sauder [8]; 17. 7C-Chad Trout [20]; 18. 9-Ryan Myers [16]; 19. 17-Jared Horstman [1]; 20. 5M-Max Stambaugh [17];
 
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