6/3/10
Knoxville Raceway
WoO
46 410s
22 305s
410s
Danny Lasoski (4th car out to time) set quick time with a lap of 14.924 seconds. It was advantageous to get out early tonight. Joey Saldana (6th car out) was second quick, followed by Paul McMahan (9th), Steve Kinser (12th), Kerry Madsen (1st), Brian Brown (5th), Jason Sides (8th), Sammy Swindell (11th), Jason Meyers (17th) and Dusty Zomer (2nd). Davey Heskin failed to get a time in. Daryn Pittman (33rd), Ed Lynch Jr. (32nd) and Lance Dewease (30th) were the only cars to come out semi-late and make the invert.
Heat one (started): 1. Meyers 14 (2) 2. Craig Dollansky 7 (5) 3. Madsen 3 (3) 4. Lasoski 6 (4) 5. Toni Lutar 4x (10) / 6. Mark Dobmeier 13L (11) 7. Robby Wolfgang 7K (6) 8. Bronson Maeschen 1J (9) 9. Ryan Bunton 6R (8) 10. Mike Deavers 72 (7) 11. Skip Jackson 2 (1) DNS - Sid Blandford Jr. 7x
Jackson led the 8-lapper throughout and was cruising to a win when he went up in smoke while taking the white flag, ending his night. Meyers assumed the lead and Dollansky used the double-file restart to get by Madsen for the second and final dash transfer. Lutar worked by Wolfgang on the restart for the final transfer.
Heat two (started): 1. Brooke Tatnell 59 (1) 2. Saldana 9 (4) 3. Zomer 91x (2) 4. Tyler Walker 17 (5) 5. Josh Schneiderman 49J (6) / 6. Ian Madsen 55 (11) 7. Johnny Herrera 2w (10) 8. Brown 21 (3) 9. Erin Crocker 98 (9) 10. Randy Hannagan 1x (8) 11. Rager Phillips 10 (7)
Tatnell led early, and one lap was in the books when Phillips got upside down in turn four. On the restart, Brown was riding the cushion in two, when he felt the right rear of Saldana and was sent hard into the wall and upside down. The accident collected Crocker, who was done for the night. Tatnell took the pole on the restart, with Zomer beside him. Saldana and Zomer traded second before Saldana prevailed. Schneiderman snatched the final transfer, while Tatnell drove away from everyone.
Heat three (started): 1. Ed Lynch Jr. 2L (1) 2. Sides 7s (3) 3. Daryn Pittman 13 (2) 4. Donny Schatz 15 (7) 5. McMahan 91 (4) / 6. Don Droud Jr. 47 (6) 7. Adam Wilt 15x (5) 8. Jac Haudenschild R19 (8) 9. Sam Hafertepe Jr. 15H (10) 10. Cale Conley 3c (9) 11. Ben Gregg 2B (11)
Gregg spun before a lap could get in. Lynch took off from the field to lead flag to flag. Sides came back from a motor change after hot laps to grab a dash transfer. Schatz had to scramble to get in a transfer spot. He slid in front of Droud at the midway point, and got by McMahan late.
Heat four (started): 1. Lance Dewease 30c (1) 2. Swindell 1 (3) 3. S. Kinser 11 (4) 4. Chad Kemenah 63 (2) 5. Lucas Wolfe 5w (7) / 6. Brian Ellenberger 22 (5) 7. Brad Sweet 49 (6) 8. Austin McCarl 17a (8) 9. Kraig Kinser 11K (10) 10. Mike Moore 69 (9) DNS - Lynton Jeffrey 12
Dewease led the distance. Swindell dueled with S. Kinser early and took the second spot. Wolfe had a good race with Ellenberger to grab the final transfer.
Dash (started): 1. Tatnell (2) 2. Meyers (3) 3. Lynch Jr. (1) 4. Swindell (4) 5. Lasoski (8) 6. Saldana (7) 7. Sides (5) 8. McMahan (6) 9. Dewease (9) 10. Dollansky (10)
Dollansky stopped on the front chute after a lap was completed. Lynch had led lap one and looked good out front. He opted for the outside start when the green flew again, and it proved a mistake. Tatnell got the jump from the pole and never looked back, and Meyers slid in front of Lynch for second.
B main (started): 1. Brown (1) 2. Haudenschild (10) 3. Wilt (2) 4. Sweet (6) / 5. Dobmeier (15) 6. Hannagan (9) 7. McCarl (11) 8. Ellenberger (3) 9. Droud Jr. (5) 10. K. Kinser (16) 11. Maeschen (12) 12. Wolfgang (4) 13. Herrera (14) 14. Heskin (19) 15. Moore (20) 16. Bunton (8) 17. Deavers (7) 18. Conley (13) 19. Gregg (17) 20. I. Madsen (18) DNS - Hafertepe Jr., Jeffrey, Jackson, Crocker, Phillips, Blandford Jr.
Deavers front end was damaged after contact and he spun in front of the field, collecting, Conley and I. Madsen in a pile. Gregg was also caught in the melee, and all were done. After that, Brown dominated the non-stop 12-lapper. Haudenschild was the show though. Using several big-time slidejobs he moved froward from 10th to second. Wilt battled with Sweet late and the two almost made contact coming out of four for the white flag. Dobmeier also had an impressive charge by capturing fifth on the last lap. He would use a track provisional for the feature.
A main (started): 1. Tatnell (1) 2. Meyers (2) 3. Swindell (4) 4. Sides (7) 5. Saldana (6) 6. S. Kinser (10) 7. Lasoski (5) 8. Dewease (9) 9. K. Madsen (11) 10. Dollansky (24) 11. McMahan (8) 12. Sweet (17) 13. Schatz (20) 14. Kemenah (13) 15. Wolfe (22) 16. Walker (16) 17. K. Kinser (23, pr.) 18. Dobmeier (26, pr.) 19. Brown (12) 20. Haudenschild (19) 21. Schneiderman (18) 22. Hafertepe Jr. (25, pr.) 23. Lynch Jr. (3) 24. Wilt (15) 25. Lutar (21) 26. Zomer (27) 27. Pittman (14)
Pittman got caught over the cushion in turn one, hit the wall hard, and helicoptered. He was done. Zomer elected for the rear and pulled off after the restart. Tatnell took off from the pole, while a torrid battle for second, third and fourth had everyone's attention. Swindell grabbed second from Meyers early on, and those two would battle. Soon Saldana was in the mix, and you could throw a blanket over them. Swindell and Saldana battled for second, with Saldana eventually grabbing it with a wicked slider that had Swindell hard on the brakes. Both would take shots at Tatnell, but come up short. Meyers worked by Swindell, and Saldana jumped the cushion in the late stages after a slider from Meyers, to set up the top five. Dollansky was the hard-charger after starting 24th after changing a motor. Tatnell's win was worth $10,000 and was his fourth career trip to Victory Lane at Knoxville. He didn't have brakes the last half of the race.
305s
Heat one (started): 1. Randy Smith 66 (1) 2. Marty Stephenson 36 (2) 3. Matt Stephenson 55 (3) 4. Bob Lamb 47 (4) 5. Matthew Stelzer 99 (5) 6. Bobby Mincer 14s (8) 7. Bob Hildreth 55KC (3) 8. J Kinder 88 (7)
Heat two (started): 1. Tasker Phillips 7TAZ (1) 2. Mark Johnson 45 (4) 3. Chris Mallicoat 22 (5) 4. Bill Smith 33 (3) 5. Alan Ambers 93A (6) 6. Ray Evernham 19 (2) DNS - Dusty Clark 16
Heat three (started): 1. Tim St. Arnold 36s (1) 2. Mitchell Alexander 6 (3) 3. Mark Widmar 7w (2) 4. Steve Breazeale 57 (6) 5. Chad Huston 7c (4) 6. Jamie Ball 5J (5) 7. Casie Shilling 16c (7)
A main (started): 1. R. Smith (1) 2. Phillips (2) 3. St. Arnold (3) 4. Breazeale (12) 5. Stelzer (13) 6. Matt Stephenson (7) 7. Kinder (19) 8. Widmar (9) 9. Huston (15) 10. Alexander (6) 11. Marty Stephenson (4) 12. Mincer (16) 13. Ball (18) 14. Mallicoat (8) 15. Hildreth (17) 16. Van Haaften (11) 17. Clark (21) 18. Ambers (14) 19. Shilling (20) 20. Lamb (10) 21. Johnson (5) DNS - Evernham
Phillips got out to a good lead, but the veteran R. Smith, who has six 410 track championships at Knoxville, waited for traffic and rode the rim by Phillips, who was caught behind a lap car at the halfway point, to his first career 305 win. He has 35 410 wins and a Masters Classic victory. Kinder was the hard-charger.