ALLSTAR/SPRINT: WaKeeney Report 96-08-19

• Shall@4are.com (Scott Hall)
• Imperium Internet
• Tue Aug 27 23:27:37 EDT 1996

United Expressline All Star/NCRA Sprint Results
WaKeeney Speedway, WaKeeney, KS - Mon 8/19/96

   WAKEENEY, KS - Dean Jacobs rode the Frigdaire Stealth high around
Dale Blaney on the last lap to win Monday's opening round of the
Thunder Through the Plains Tour II at WaKeeney Speedway. The event was
co-sanctioned by the United Expressline All Star sprints and the
NCRA and was viewed by a sellout crowd.
   "I thought, if you don't take a chance, you don't win," Jacobs said
following his second All Star win of the year in the machine wrenched
by Robert Hubbard, Ed Haudenschild and Chris Hager
with Gaerte-Chevrolet power and riding Goodyear tires. Jacobs, who
started fourth, also set fast time with a new track record, and won
the Commercial Truck and Trailer Dash for his night's
work.
   Blaney, the current All Star points leader, finished second after
starting on the pole in the Hughes Wheel and Axle J&J. Jeff Shepard
came up from sixth to third in the Wahlie Motorsports
Maxim sponsored by Conn West Trucking, followed by NCRA points leader
Gary Wright's Action Motorsports mount.
   After battling side-by-side in the early stages of the race, Blaney
was enjoying a nice lead over Jacobs in the 30-lap affair on  the 3/8
mile Fairgrounds oval when the track surface began to
take rubber. Blaney was running the inside groove of the speedway,
while Jacobs toyed with the cushion.  By lap 18, Blaney's half lap
advantage began to evaporate, and he began to get
bogged down in lapped traffic with a few laps to go. After the white
flag appeared, Jacobs closed as Blaney became pinned behind three
lapped cars. Jacobs entered turn one high in the outside
groove as Blaney dove low to try to duck under the lapped cars. Jacobs
passed all four with a wild move only inches from the wall to lead
exiting turn two and win by only a few feet at the drop of the
checkered flag. His victory paid $4,000.
   Wright held third most of the race, with Shepard right on his tail.
Shepard was able to get better traction off the turns than Wright, but
Wright could accelerate better down the straightaways. Finally, on lap
25 Shepard got by to grab third, where he finished.
   Daniel Coggeshell ran a consistent race to finish fifth in his
father's Viper Chassis with Gaerte power. Seventh starting Paul
McMahan rode home sixth in Dennis Roth's Beef Packers Stealth,
with 13th starter Frankie Kerr next in Stan Shoff's familiar orange
and blue J&J. Aaron Berryhill started ninth and was eighth at the end,
ahead of Danny Smith, up from 12th. Tim Shaffer started 14th in the
J&M Motorsports Cook and completed the top ten.
   Kerr won the Southwest Expresslines heat race, Shane Stewart
captured the ButlerBuilt heat race and Smith snared the third heat
win. Craig Dollansky was the Outerwears Pre-filters B main
winner, but finished last in the feature with mechanical problems.

   Time Trials: 1. Dean Jacobs, Jacobs 1f,  14.930; 2. Gary Wright,
Action 9, 15.325; 3. Daniel Coggeshell, Coggeshell 3, 15.327; 4. Dale
Blaney, Hughes 94, 15.337; 5. Van Gurley, Jr. Gurley 3b, 15.349; 6.
Jeff Shepard, Wahlie 1w, 15.358; 7. Paul McMahan, Roth 83, 15.459; 8.
Don Droud Jr., Cormack 1bk, 15.517; 9. Aaron Berryhill, Berryhill 97,
15.521; 10. Gary Lee Maier, Rogers 11x, 15.530; 11. Craig Dollansky,
Lindsey 2d, 15.531; 12. Danny Smith, Bodkins 00,
15.570; 13. Frankie Kerr, Shoff 23s, 15.623; 14. Tim Shaffer, J&M 55,
15.645; 15. Jeremy Minton, Minton 13, 15.681; 16. Kevin Huntley,
Johnson U2, 15.732; 17. Shane Stewart, Stewart 61a, 15.737; 18. Rich
Bubak, Bubak 9x, 15.759; 19. Devlin Polkinghorn, Polkinghorn 65v,
15.969; 20. Shane Carson, Helms 12$, 15.995; 21. Earnest Jennings,
Jennings 61, 16.003; 22. Nick Losasso, Losasso 51, 16.053; 23. Brian
Carlson, SC Motorsports 18, 16.119; 24. Larry Neighbors, Neighbors
29n, 16.145; 25. Steve King, King 65, 16.269; 26. Clay Bontrager,
Bontrager 7b, 16.278; 27. Randy Richardson, Richardson 0, 16.304; 28.
Jon Johnson, Johnson 86, 17.038; 29. CJ Johnson, Johnson 45, NT.

Southwest Expresslines Heat (8 laps): 1.  Frankie Kerr 2. Kevin
Huntley 3. Dale Blaney 4. Dean Jacobs 5. Paul McMahan 6. Gary Lee
Maier 7. Devlin Polkinghorn 8. Steve King 9. Nick Losasso
10. Jon Johnson.

ButlerBuilt Heat (8 laps): 1. Shane Stewart 2. Van Gurley Jr. 3. Gary
Wright 4. Tim Shaffer 5. Don Droud Jr. 6. Shane Carson 7. Clay
Bontrager 8. Brian Carlson 9. Craig Dollansky.

Heat (8 laps): 1. Danny Smith 2. Jeff Shepard 3. Rich Bubak 4. Aaron
Berryhill 5. Daniel Coggeshell 6. Larry Neighbors 7. Randy Richardson
8. Jeremy Minton 9. Earnest Jennings.

Commercial Truck & Trailer Dash (4 laps): 1. Dean Jacobs 2. Dale
Blaney 3. Van Gurley Jr. 4. Jeff Shepard 5. Daniel Coggeshell 6. Don
Droud Jr.

Outerwears Prefilters B Main (12 laps): 1. Craig Dollansky 2. Gary Lee
Maier 3. Shane Carson 4. Jeremy Minton 5. Devlin Polkinghorn 6. Nick
Losasso 7. Steve King 8. Randy Richardson  9.
Brian Carlson 10. Jon Johnson 11. Clay Bontrager 12. Earnest Jennings
13. Larry Neighbors 14. C.J. Johnson.

A Main (30 laps): 1.  Dean Jacobs 2. Dale Blaney 3. Jeff Shepard 4.
Gary Wright 5. Daniel Coggeshell 6. Paul McMahan 7. Frankie Kerr 8.
Aaron Berryhill 9. Danny Smith 10. Tim Shaffer 11. Van Gurley Jr. 12.
Shane Stewart 13. Shane Carson 14. Rich Bubak 15. Devlin Polkinghorn
16. Steve King 17. Nick Losasso 18. Kevin Huntley (dnf) 19. Don Droud
(dnf) 20. Jeremy Minton (dnf) 21. Gary Lee Maier  (dnf) 22. Craig
Dollansky (dnf).