6/11/05
Knoxville Raceway
31 410s
41 360s
410s
Billy Alley (1st car out to time) set the standard in time trials with a lap of 15.419 seconds. The track had three nice racing grooves all night long. Chris Walraven (21st car out) was second quick, followed by Wayne Johnson (10th), Skip Jackson (4th), Justin Henderson (18th), Matt Moro (7th), Tim St. Arnold (24th), Kerry Madsen (26th), Calvin Landis (12th) and Clint Garner (17th). Bob Weuve arrived too late for time trials, and didn't get a lap in.
Heat one (started): 1. Jon Agan 4 (1) 2. Ricky Logan 10 (2) 3. Jackson 2 (5) 4. Alley 22 (6) 5. Garner 40 (3) 6. Ryan Anderson 71R (8) / 7. Kaley Gharst 44G (9) 8. Jaymie Moyle 5m (10) 9. Lynton Jeffrey (7) 10. St. Arnold 7w (4)
Agan led flag to flag. St. Arnold and Garner tangled in a battle for third on lap two. St. Arnold got the worst end of the deal, breaking his front end and retiring. A lap later, Jeffrey suffered a flat right rear. When Moyle and then Gharst retired to the pits, it only left six cars on the track. The best battle was for second between Logan and Jackson. Alley moved by Garner on the last lap for fourth.
Heat two (started): 1. Don Droud Jr. 17G (2) 2. Madsen 55 (4) 3. Brian Brown 21 (3) 4. Mike Reinke 02 (1) 5. Henderson D11 (5) 6. Walraven 56 (6) / 7. Jesse Giannetto D1 (7) 8. Chad Meyer 1w (9) 9. Tyler Houseman 50 (10) 10. Mike Moore 69 (8)
Droud led flag to flag in a mostly single-file affair. Moore retired on lap three.
Heat three (started): 1. Eric Vanderploeg 7x (3) 2. Moro 47 (5) 3. Jerrel Slinkard 15s (1) 4. Landis 70 (4) 5. Johnson 14AJ (6) 6. Colin Northway 60 (7) / 7. Brent Antill 1 (2) 8. Michael Jones 1a (9) 9. Greg Jones 35 (8) DNS - Robert Bell 71, Bob Weuve 19
Vanderploeg led the distance. Slinkard and Moro put on a nice battle for second, exchanging sliders throughout. Northway got by Antill to earn the final transfer with two to go.
B main (started): 1. St. Arnold (1) 2. Meyer (6) 3. Antill (2) 4. Jeffrey (3) 5. Gharst (7) 6. Moore (5) / 7. Moyle (8) 8. M. Jones (9) 9. G. Jones (4) 10. Houseman (11) 11. Weuve (12) 12. Bell (10) DNS - Giannetto
St. Arnold dominated, while Meyer moved up nicely into second. Bell exited on lap five.
A main (started): 1. Brown (3) 2. Logan (1) 3. Johnson (10) 4. Madsen (6) 5. Alley (12) 6. Jackson (9) 7. Henderson (8) 8. Droud (13) 9. Walraven (11) 10. Reinke (15) 11. Northway (17) 12. Antill (21) 13. Meyer (20) 14. Vanderploeg (2) 15. Anderson (18) 16. Moore (24) 17. Slinkard (16) 18. Agan (14) 19. Jeffrey (22) 20. Garner (4) 21. St. Arnold (19) 22. Gharst (23) 23. Landis (5) 24. Moro (7)
Logan snagged the early advantage with Brown in tow. Agan brought out a caution with a stoppage on lap six of 20. On the restart, Landis, who was running seventh, got sideways and collected Moro. Both were done for the night. Now Logan led Brown, Garner, Vanderploeg and Madsen back to the green flag. Three laps later, Vanderploeg spun in turn two. Walraven took a hard right to avoid him and contacted St. Arnold, who hit the wall head-on and collected Gharst. Both were done for the evening. The restart saw Logan leading Brown, Garner, Madsen and Henderson back to racing. On lap 11, Brown made his move in turn one, getting under Logan for the point. Garner was running a strong fifth when he went up in smoke and retired on lap 14. Jeffrey stopped, bringing out a lap 17 caution. That caution became a red when Agan tipped over on the inside of turn two. Both were done. Brown would never look back in registering his second career 410 feature win at Knoxville. Johnson shot around the high-side of Madsen on lap 18 to secure third. Alley got around Jackson in the last corner to nail down fifth. Antill was the hard-charger, moving up nine spots.
360s
Heat one (started, *qualified for feature): 1. Jake Peters 57x (2*) 2. Terry Alexander 77 (1*) 3. Pete Crall 11 (3*) 4. Mitchell Alexander 6 (5*) 5. David Hesmer 1 (9*) 6. Jerry Crabb 12x (4) 7. Eddie Leavitt Jr. F4 (6) 8. David Hall 51 (7) 9. Ryan Jamison 51J (10) 10. Mike Houseman Jr. Y5 (11) 11. DJ Heskin 56 (8)
Peters led flag to flag and won in dominating fashion. Hesmer battled Crabb and gained fifth, enough to earn an A main transfer.
Heat two (started, *qualified for feature): 1. Jarod Smith 48 (1*) 2. Larry Ball Jr. 5J (2*) 3. Johnny Anderson 7a (3*) 4. Bronson Maeschen 96 (5*) 5. Bobby Mincer 15 (8) 6. Nate Mosher 22N (4) 7. John Schulz 2 (6) 8. Josh Higday 24 (7) 9. Gary Moyer 5m (10) 10. Randy Martin 14 (9)
Smith led the distance. Martin went up in smoke on lap four and was done for the night. Mincer did nicely in moving up to fifth, but he fell just short of earning a transfer to the A main.
Heat three (started, *qualified for feature): 1. Troy Meyer 11m (1*) 2. Dusty Zomer 1z (6*) 3. Jeff Mitrisin 10 (9*) 4. Mike Houseman Y2 (3) 5. Tom Lenz 8L (8) 6. Stevie Walsh 20 (4) 7. Nick Eastin 25 (10) 8. Alan Zoutte 33 (7) 9. Rager Phillips 9 (5) 10. Eric Mason B29 (2)
Mason won a battle with Meyer for the lead and was in control before detonating an engine on the white flag lap. He was done for the night. Meyer held off a determined Zomer for the win. Mitrisin sliced through the rest of the field in his first action since April's back injury.
Heat four (started, *qualified for feature): 1. John Kearney 83B (6*) 2. Frankie Heimbaugh 04 (2*) 3. Stacey Alexander 126 (7*) 4. Brett Mather 54 (8*) 5. John Hall 7H (3) 6. Joe Beaver 53 (5) 7. Rob Edwards 22 (1) 8. Dan Thornburg 57T (4) 9. Justin Parrish 4G (9) 10. Jon Corbin 33c (10)
Heimbaugh took the point early. Kearney moved up steadily and overtook the leader on lap five. Corbin flipped down the backstretch on the white flag lap, but was uninjured. Mather used the restart to shoot from sixth to fourth in two laps to garner an A main transfer that would set him up for a win.
B main (started): 1. Mincer (1) 2. Lenz (2) 3. J. Hall (4) 4. Schulz (11) / 5. Beaver (9) 6. Higday (12) 7. Crabb (6) 8. D. Hall (13) 9. Houseman (3) 10. Eastin (5) 11. Leavitt (8) 12. Jamison (17) 13. Houseman Jr. (20) 14. Edwards (10) 15. Mosher (7) 16. Zoutte (15) 17. Phillips (19) 18. Heskin (16) 19. Moyer (12) 20. Parrish (14) DNS - Walsh, Thornburg, Martin, Mason, Corbin
Mincer led flag to flag. The lone caution came for Mosher, who spun after being pinched to the berm on lap five of 10. The restart set up a battle for the final transfer as Houseman held it over Higday and Schulz. Schulz used the restart to shoot around the duo. He held on to the spot despite a downed nosewing. He finished a mere .031 seconds ahead of a charging Beaver at the line in a race that was worth the price of admission.
A main (started): 1. Mather (2) 2. Ball (4) 3. Crall (1) 4. Peters (9) 5. S. Alexander (6) 6. Anderson (14) 7. Maeschen (16) 8. Heimbaugh (3) 9. Meyer (7) 10. T. Alexander (5) 11. Zomer (11) 12. Smith (8) 13. J. Hall (19) 14. Lenz (18) 15. Mincer (17) 16. M. Alexander (15) 17. Hesmer (13) 18. Kearney (12) 19. Mitrisin (10) 20. Schulz (20)
Mitrisin and Schulz got together before a lap could be completed, resulting in Schulz getting upside down, and Mitrisin suffering severe damage to the fuel tank. Both were uninjured, but done. Mather beat Crall to turn one and never looked back despite several challenges from Ball, gaining his second career win and second in a row. Crall ran a steady race to come home third. Kearney retired after getting up to fifth on lap five. Hesmer flipped in turn two on the lap five restart. He was uninjured. The hard-charger was Maeschen moving up nine spots.