7/1/15
Lakeside Speedway
Kansas City, KS
WoO
21 cars
Jason Sides (7th car out to time) set the standard in qualifying on the 2/5 mile oval at 13.713 seconds. Joey Saldana (16th car out) was second quick, followed by David Gravel (11th), Paul McMahan (21st), Logan Schuchart (9th), Jason Johnson (19th), Donny Schatz (13th), Kraig Kinser (3rd), Danny Lasoski (2nd) and Kerry Madsen (10th).
Heat one (started): 1. K. Madsen 29 (1) 2. Schatz 15 (2) 3. Sides 7s (4) 4. McMahan 51 (3) 5. Brad Sweet 49 (7) 6. Ian Madsen 18 (5) 7. Logan Forler 2L (6)
K. Madsen led the 8-lap distance to earn a starting spot in the Dash. Schatz stayed within striking distance the whole way.
Heat two (started): 1. K. Kinser (2) 2. Saldana 71m (4) 3. Daryn Pittman 9 (1) 4. Brian Brown 21 (6) 5. Schuchart 1s (3) 6. Brad Loyet o5 (7) 7. Jacob Allen 1a (3)
K. Kinser led the duration. Brown made his move into fourth early in a mostly single-file heat.
Heat three (started): 1. Lasoski 33 (2) 2. Bryan Clauson 17w (1) 3. Gravel 7 (4) 4. Johnson 41 (3) 5. Steve Kinser 11 (6) 6. Shane Stewart 2 (5) 7. Curtis Evans 1P (7)
Lasoski shot out to an early lead, and never looked back.
Dash (started): 1. Gravel (2) 2. Saldana (3) 3. McMahan (1) 4. Sides (4) 5. Schuchart (5) 6. K. Madsen (8) 7. Lasoski (7) 8. K. Kinser (6)
Gravel rode his Parker engine to victory to lead all six laps. Saldana shot by McMahan on lap three for second.
A main (started) 1. Schatz (10) 2. Saldana (2) 3. K. Madsen (6) 4. Lasoski (7) 5. McMahan (3) 6. Stewart (15) 7. Pittman (11) 8. Sweet (19) 9. Gravel (1) 10. Schuchart (5) 11. Sides (4) 12. K. Kinser (8) 13. Clauson (12) 14. Johnson (9) 15. Brown (17) 16. Forler (16) 17. Allen (14) 18. Loyet (20) 19. I. Madsen (13) 20. Evans (21) 21. S. Kinser (18)
Saldana led Gravel and K. Madsen (up from sixth) early in the 30-lapper. By lap two, Schatz had gone from tenth to sixth. He was fifth on the next go-around. K. Madsen shot by Gravel into second on lap 11, and McMahan followed him into third. On the next circuit Schatz dove under McMahan to capture third. The caution came out for Brown with 13 laps in the books. He had a vibration in the right rear. The double-file restart saw Saldana take the inside lane ahead of K. Madsen, Schatz, McMahan and Gravel. Schatz rolled into second on the restart, and Lasoski roared to fifth. Stewart was up to sixth from his starting spot in row eight, as a classic unfolded. On lap 28, Saldana struggled to get by the lapped car of Brown when Schatz shot to the low side and made his winning pass. A final caution came when Johnson, in his first night back in action after fracturing vertebrae in California, blew his right rear. Schatz maintained his lead on the single-file restart, ahead of Saldana, K. Madsen, and Lasoski, who edged out McMahan for fourth.