6/28/13
La Salle Speedway
La Salle, IL
WoO
32 cars
Paul McMahan (24th car out to time) broke Brandon Wimmer's 2004 track record with a time of 10.330 seconds around the ΒΌ-mile oval. Donny Schatz (11th car out) was second quick, followed by Daryn Pittman (27th), Jason Sides (22nd), Brian Paulus (20th), Kraig Kinser (1st), Joey Saldana (8th), Chad Kemenah (23rd), Sammy Swindell (25th) and Steve Kinser (13th).
Heat one (started): 1. Kerry Madsen 29 (1) 2. Swindell 1 (2) 3. McMahan 51 (4) 4. Paul Nienhiser 9x (6) 5. Cody Darrah 4 (5) / 6. Paulus 28 (3) 7. Jordan Goldesberry 65 (7) 8. Patrick Haynes 5H (8)
Madsen led green to checker in the 10-lapper. Nienhiser made a move on the high side by Darrah and Paulus to grab fourth on the first lap.
Heat two (started): 1. S. Kinser 11 (2) 2. Billy Balog 17B (1) 3. Schatz 15 (4) 4. Kr. Kinser 11K (3) 5. Jason Solwold 82 (6) / 6. Wayne Johnson 77x (5) 7. Blake Nimee 79 (8) 8. Logan Faucon 52F (7)
S. Kinser led the distance. Schatz briefly challenged Balog, who closed on the leader at the checkers.
Heat three (started): 1. Tim Kaeding 83 (2) 2. Craig Dollansky 7 (1) 3. Saldana 71m (3) 4. Pittman 9 (4) 5. Kody Kinser 4m (5) /; 6. Ben Wagoner 84 (8) 7. Kris Spitz 4K (7) 8. Matt Vandervere 10V (6)
Wagoner was penalized a row for being late to staging. Kaeding led the distance in a mostly single-file affair.
Heat four (started): 1. James McFadden 55XM (2) 2. David Gravel 6 (1) 3. Sides 7s (4) 4. Kemenah 63 (3) 5. AJ Bruns 44 (5) / 6. Bill Rose 6R (6) 7. Nick Alden 8A (7) 8. Tim Moore 10T (8)
It was smooth sailing for McFadden, who leads the world in sprint car wins this year and was making his first American appearance. He almost tangled with the lapped machine of Moore on the last lap.
Dash (started): 1. Kaeding (2) 2. McFadden (1) 3. McMahan (6) 4. Swindell (4) 5. Schatz (5) 6. Madsen (7) 7. Gravel (10) 8. Dollansky (9) 9. Balog (8) 10. S. Kinser (3)
Kaeding led green to checker in the 6-lapper. S. Kinser was battling with Swindell on lap three, when he did a wheelstand down the frontstretch into the infield. He reentered the track wildly in turn one, but disaster was averted and he got back up to speed at the rear.
B main (started): 1. Johnson (2) 2. Paulus (1) 3. Rose (4) 4. Goldesberry (5) / 5. Wagoner (3) 6. Alden (8) 7. Faucon (6) 8. Spitz (7) 9. Nimee (10) 10. Haynes (9) 11. Moore (12) 12. Vandervere (11)
Johnson got out to a lead in the 12-lapper before Faucon spun. A second caution came out for Moore, who spun and collected Vandervere. Johnson avoided disaster by sneaking between the pair and the wall. The rest of the race went green with Johnson winning going away. The battle was for the final transfer between Goldesberry and Wagoner who traded the spot. Goldesberry rode the cushion around Wagoner in the last corner to grab the spot.
A main (started): 1. Kaeding (1) 2. Schatz (5) 3. Dollansky (8) 4. McMahan (3) 5. Balog (9) 6. Swindell (4) 7. Sides (12) 8. Gravel (7) 9. Kr. Kinser (14) 10. S. Kinser (10) 11. Darrah (17) 12. Madsen (6) 13. Saldana (15) 14. Pittman (11) 15. Ko. Kinser (19) 16. Rose (23) 17. Bruns (20) 18. McFadden (2) 19. Solwold (22) 20. Johnson (18) 21. Nienhiser (21) 22. Goldesberry (24) 23. Kemenah (16) 24. Paulus (13)
The race needed four tries to get a lap in. Bruns spun after contact from another car on the first try. Saldana spun and Solwold got into the fronstretch wall to avoid him on the next try. Solwold broke his front end and repaired it after the race was yellow flagged again. Madsen biked and Paulus, Pittman and Kemenah, who broke his front end got together trying to avoid him. Madsen flattened a left rear and he and Pittman were to only ones to continue. McFadden had grabbed the lead on the first three tries in the 40-lapper, but Kaeding took command now. A yellow came out with three laps in when Nienhiser spun and collected Goldesberry. The restart would not fly as Pittman ran over Johnson's left rear tire, sending both flipping down the frontstretch. Johnson's car was destroyed, but the Kasey Kahne teams got Pittman ready to go by the time the three push trucks and two tow trucks got everyone going again. Kaeding led McMahan, McFadden, Dollansky and Swindell back to green, and the last 37 laps went non-stop. By lap 13, Schatz got by McFadden for third, and a lap later, took second from McMahan. Kaeding was making some awesome moves in lapped traffic to stay ahead of him despite a few challenges. Around the halfway point, Balog, who has won the last two IRA shows at La Salle, moved into the top five and stayed there. Dollansky took third from McMahan on lap 31. Kaeding stayed out front to win, holding off Schatz.