ALLSTAR/SPRINT: Attica report 96-09-02

• shall@4are.com (Scott Hall)
• Imperium Internet
• Wed Sep 4 23:15:14 EDT 1996

UNITED EXPRESSLINE ALL STAR SPRINT RESULTS - MON. 09/2/96
Attica Raceway Park, Attica, Ohio 

   ATTICA, OH - Pennsylvania's Kevin Gobrecht was the
suprise winner Monday night at  Attica Raceway Park in
the United Expressline All Star sprint 40-lap "Attica
Ambush" feature. With his fourth place finish, Dale
Blaney was crowned the winner of the 1996 Frigidaire
Attica Pro Series, worth $5,000. Gobrecht's victory lane
visit was his first career All Star win, and his third
overall win of 1996. 
  "We want to get out and travel some more, we were tired
of being at home and the lower payoffs," Gobrecht said
from victory lane. "We are going to go for the money and
travel and run with the big guys." he added.  "This is
pretty neat place, I'm happy now that we're here."
Gobrecht's four-race old Gambler is self owned, wrenched
by his brother Brian, powered by a Don Ott Chevy engine,
and rode on McCreary Tires.
    Mark Keegan made a charge on the cushion from sixth
to second in the last five laps aboard Lenny Ferguson's
Schnee. "We really didn't know Kevin was leading the
race," Keegan said afterward. But we're just happy for
second. I guess we needed a 50 lapper." 
   Charlie Fisher started third, ran second most of the
race and finished third, losing second to Keegan on the
last lap. "We have spark plug number seven out of the
engine tonight, and ran on seven cylinders," Fisher said
of his run aboard his self-built chassis.
   Gobrecht started on the pole, with outside front row
man Dean Jacobs grabbing an immediate lead on the cushion
of the third mile oval. Gobrecht ran the bottom groove,
with Fisher third also on the bottom of the race track.
Fifth starter Kenny Jacobs tucked in to position number
four. By lap three, K. Jacobs got past Fisher for third,
and began challenging Gobrecht for second as D. Jacobs
stretched out his lead in the Jacobs Racing Frigidiare
Stealth.
   The only caution of the race flew on lap 16, for
Frankie Kerr and Kelly Kinser who were battling for
eighth on the low groove. They made contact and spun each
other out. Both restarted the race on the tail.
   D. Jacobs led again over Gobrecht and K. Jacobs on the
restart, with Dean still high and Gobrecht low. By lap
25, Dean's tires had sealed over and he began spinning
his wheels, allowing Gobrecht to close. They ran side by
side for two laps. Finally, on lap 28, Gobrecht took over
the top spot with a low move going into turn one and was
on top going down the backstretch.
   He handled lapped traffic expertly, as the action
behind him heated up. D. Jacobs kept fading, while Fisher
took back second ahead of K, Jacobs. With five to go,
Keegan moved back to the top groove and made his last
ditch charge to the front, which fell a half straightaway
short at the end.
   Dale Blaney got past K. Jacobs to record fourth with
two laps remaining with K. Jacobs fifth. Tenth starter
Kevin Huntley was sixth, 17th starting Todd Kane seventh,
19th starter Rodney Duncan eighth, D. Jacobs holding on
for ninth and 16th starter Danny Lasoski was tenth. 
    Jeff Shepard was the fast qualifier over the 41car
field and picked up a $4,000 kitchen set from Frigidaire
for having the most quick times in the Pro Series. The
Southwest Expressline heat was won by Chad Kemenah, the
ButlerBuilt heat went to Rocky Hodges and the other heats
to Danny Smith and Danny Lasoski. Dale Blaney won the
Commercial Truck & Trailer Dash with Kevin Gobrecht the
Outerwears Pre-filters B Main winner. Jim Nier captured
the Action Sportswear-Indy C Main. Scott Miller took a
nasty end-over-end flip down the backstretch in his heat.
On the start of the B, Van Gurley, Jr., Jimmy Stinson and
Byron Reed flipped entering turn one. All were okay. In
econo sprint action, Brian Neeb took over on lap 17 to
win the 20 lap main. Mike Linder was second with Jim
Dunham, who lead early, third. 
     Time Trials: 1. Jeff Shepard, Wahlie 1w, 12.196; 2.
Frankie Kerr, Shoff 23s, 12.368; 3. Dale Blaney, Hughes
94, 12.388; 4. Jimmy Stinson, Lauman 60, 12.425; 5. Kenny
Jacobs, Ashworth 92, 12.460; 6. Daniel Coggeshell,
Coggeshell 3, 12.463; 7. Mark Keegan, Ferguson X, 12.486;
8. Charlie Fisher, Fisher 48, 12.560; 9. Van Gurley Jr.,
Gurley 3B, 12.627; 10. Dean Jacobs, Jacobs 1F, 12.659;
11. Kevin Gobrecht, Gobrecht 92x, 12.678; 12. Scott
Miller, Miller 5m, 12.679; 13. Butch Schroeder,
Gottschalk 17, 12.742; 14. Kevin Huntley, Johnson U2,
12.808; 15. Kelly Kinser, Kinser 4K, 12.820; 16. James
Fisher, Fisher 48J, 12.824; 17. Chad Kemenah, Steinbrick
92, 12.836; 18. Rocky Hodges, Holbrook 8H, 12.911; 19.
Danny Smith, Bodkins 00, 12.915; 20. Danny Lasoski,
Forbrook/Cole 5, 12.930; 21. Todd Kane, Davis 99, 13.011;
22. Tim Shaffer , Reidling 50, 13.141; 23. Rodney Duncan,
Susong 63d, 13.185; 24. Matt Linder, Linder 1x, 13.309;
25. Bob Teeple, Teeple 8T, 13.398; 26. Craig Dollansky,
Lindsey 2D, 13.472; 27. George Prosser, Prosser 57,
13.483; 28. Alvin Roepke, Whitty 99, 13.555; 29. Jim
Nier, Nier 00, 13.736; 30. Todd Heller, Heller 14H,
13.738; 31. Brian Carlson, SC Motorsports 18, 13.741; 32.
Ed Neumeister, Neumeister 11n, 13.814; 33. Sarah Fisher,
Fisher 9, 13.850; 34. Jerry Slade, Slade 1cw, 13.869; 35.
Rocky Allen, Allen 7x, 14.022; 36. John Wisbon, Wisbon
5w, 14.149; 37. Terry McCarl, Gray 51, 14.163; 38. Byron
Reed, B&S 5, 14.240; 39. Mike Zeiter, Zeiter 4Z, 14.269;
40. Dick Liskai, Liskai 6, 14.412; 41. Mark Christman,
Christman 34, NT.
   Southwest Expressline Heat (10 laps): 1. Kemenah 2.
Kane 3. K. Jacobs 4. Shepard 5. Gurley 6. Teeple 7.
Schroeder 8. McCarl 9. Christman 10. S. Fisher 11. Nier.   
   ButlerBuilt Heat (10 laps): 1.  Hodges 2. Shaffer 3.
D. Jacobs 4. Huntley 5. Kerr 6. Reed 7. Dollansky 8.
Heller 9. Slade 10. Coggeshell.
   Heat (10 laps): 1. Smith 2. Kinser 3. Blaney 4. Duncan
5. Keegan 6. Gobrecht 7. Allen 8.Carlson 9. Zeiter 10.
Prosser.
   Heat (10 laps): 1. Lasoski 2. Roepke 3. C. Fisher 4.
J. Fisher 5. Linder 6. Stinson 7. Wisbon 8. Neumeister 9.
Liskai 10. Miller.
   Commercial Truck & Trailer Dash (4 laps): 1.  Blaney
2. Kerr 3. Shepard 4. K. Jacobs 5. Coggeshell 6. Gurley.
   Action Sportswear-Indy C Main (10 laps): 1. Nier 2. S.
Fisher 3. Coggeshell 4. Christman 5. Prosser 6. Slade 7.
Zeiter.
   Outerwears Pre-filters B Main (12 laps): 1. Gobrecht
2. Kerr 3. Keegan 4. Schroeder 5. Dollansky 6. Nier 7.
Coggeshell 8. S. Fisher 9. Linder 10. McCarl 11. Allen
12. Neumeister 13. Carlson 14. Christman 15. Heller 16.
Teeple 17. Stinson 18. Gurley 19. Wisbon 20. Reed.
   A Main (40 laps): 1. Gobrecht 2. Keegan 3. C. Fisher
4. Blaney 5. K. Jacobs 6. Huntley 7. Kane 8. Duncan 9. D.
Jacobs 10. Lasoski 11. Kinser 12. Schroeder 13. Kerr 14.
Roepke 15. Smith 16. Shepard 17. Shaffer 18. Kemenah 19.
Nier 20. J. Fisher 21. Hodges 22. Dollansky.
   Final Points - Frigidaire Pro Series: Dale Blaney 526,
Frankie Kerr 490, Kevin Huntley 482, Kelly Kinser 474,
Dean Jacobs 442.