6/6/08
Knoxville Raceway
WoO
53 cars
Jason Meyers (22nd car out to time) set quick time at 14.969 seconds and was the only car under the 15 second mark. Donny Schatz (35th car out) was second quick, followed by Joey Saldana (14th), Danny Lasoski (43rd), Steve Kinser (36th), Tim Shaffer (31st), Dusty Zomer (23rd), Jason Johnson (39th), Davey Heskin (41st) and Terry McCarl (10th). The track held up well throughout time trials. Kerry Madsen had to take a lap at the end out of order because of side panel issues. He would have been eighth quick had his time been allowed, but the best he could record was 17th quick. Lucas Wolfe had the same problem as mechanical issues had him go late. His time would have been good enough for fourth quick. Saldana completed two motor changes before his heat.
Heat one (started): 1. Jac Haudenschild R19 (1) 2. Heskin 56 (2) 3. Meyers 14 (4) 4. S. Kinser 11 (3) 5. Kerry Madsen 55 (5) / 6. Jason Sides 7s (8) 7. Dion Hindi 11D (7) 8. Brian Paulus 28 (6) 9. Toni Lutar 4x (11) 10. Travis Cram 17G (9) 11. Natalie Sather 94s (12) 12. Justin Henderson D1 (10) 13. Ryan Anderson 71R (13) DNS - Randy Anderson 81
Haudenschild led flag to flag in the 8-lapper. Heskin was the show of the heat, holding off S. Kinser for second and the final transfer to the dash for seven laps, before Henderson blew a right rear tire on the white flag lap. Heskin shut the door again on the restart, and staved off a late bid from Meyers who got around S. Kinser.
Heat two (started): 1. McCarl 24 (2) 2. Schatz 15 (4) 3. Craig Dollansky 2 (1) 4. Chad Kemenah 8K (6) 5. Lucas Wolfe 5w (5) / 6. Stevie Smith 19 (7) 7. Shaffer 6 (3) 8. Jack Dover 53 (8) 9. Josh Schneiderman 49 (9) 10. Mike Moore 69 (12) 11. Randy Hannagan 1x (10) 12. Kraig Kinser 20 (11) 13. Tony Shilling 47T (13)
McCarl led the distance in a mostly single-file affair.
Heat three (started): 1. Shane Stewart 83 (2) 2. Saldana 9 (4) 3. Sam Hafertepe Jr. 15H (1) 4. Zomer 5z (3) 5. Brian Brown 21x (9) / 6. Jake Peters 57x (8) 7. Chad Hillier 5c (6) 8. Calvin Landis 70 (11) 9. Kaley Gharst 7K (12) 10. Billy Alley 22 (7) 11. Seth Brahmer 13v (10) 12. Derek Ingalls 91 (13) 13. Daryn Pittman 21 (5)
Stewart led throughout to set a new 8-lap record at 2:00.4. Pittman held down the fifth and final transfer spot until rear-end problems sidelined him with two to go. Perseverance payed off for Brown who assumed the spot from row five.
Heat four (started): 1. Tony Bruce Jr. 18 (1) 2. Brooke Tatnell 11AU (2) 3. J. Johnson 19E (3) 4. Lasoski 5 (4) 5. Ricky Logan 10 (8) / 6. Bronson Maeschen 96 (5) 7. Rager Phillips 9P (6) 8. Lynton Jeffrey 12 (13) 9. Brandon Wimmer 7TW (7) 10. Jeff Mitrisin 47 (11) 11. Mark Dobmeier 13 (12) 12. Skip Jackson 2x (9) 13. Bob Weuve 19w (10)
Bruce led flag to flag. Logan circled the third row of Maeschen and Phillips to take fifth on the first lap and never look back. Dobmeier moved up four spots before shelling his rear-end on lap five and exiting. Jackson and Weuve were other early retirees.
C main (started): 1. Hannagan (2) 2. K. Kinser (6) / 3. Brahmer (3) 4. Sather (12) 5. Landis (7) 6. Dobmeier (11) 7. Weuve (4) 8. Moore (9) 9. Ingalls (10) 10. Lutar (5) 11. Shilling (13) 12. Ry. Anderson (8) 13. Henderson (1) DNS - Mitrisin, Gharst, Jeffrey, Ra. Anderson
Hannagan checked out in the non-stop 10 lapper. Henderson was in the second and final transfer when he went pitside on lap five. Sather was impressive, moving up eight spots in her first 410 Knoxville start of 2008. Ry. Anderson pulled off after losing his left wing side panel.
Dash (started): 1. Tatnell (2) 2. Bruce Jr. (1) 3. Schatz (6) 4. McCarl (3) 5. Stewart (5) 6. Haudenschild (8) 7. Meyers (9) 8. Saldana (7) 9. Heskin (4) 10. Lasoski (10)
Tatnell led the field wire to wire in the 6-lapper determining the starting five rows of the A.
B main (started): 1. Shaffer (1) 2. Paulus (4) 3. Pittman (2) 4. Hillier (5) / 5. Smith (8) 6. Hindi (7) 7. Maeschen (3) 8. Alley (9) 9. Wimmer (10) 10. Sides (11) 11. Dover (12) 12. Jackson (16) 13. Peters (13) 14. K. Kinser (18) 15. Hannagan (17) 16. Cram (14) 17. Phillips (6) 18. Schneiderman (15)
Shaffer led the 12-lap duration in a mostly uneventful race. Schneiderman, Phillips and Cram, who left smoking were early casualties.
A main (started): 1. Stewart (5) 2. Schatz (3) 3. Meyers (7) 4. Bruce Jr. (2) 5. Haudenschild (6) 6. Saldana (8) 7. Lasoski (10) 8. Hafertepe Jr. (16) 9. Shaffer (12) 10. Dollansky (15) 11. S. Kinser (11) 12. Wolfe (18) 13. Madsen (17) 14. J. Johnson (14) 15. Pittman (19) 16. Kemenah (21) 17. Brown (24) 18. Hillier (22) 19. Zomer (13) 20. Tatnell (1) 21. Heskin (9) 22. Logan (23) 23. McCarl (4) 24. Paulus (20)
The first try at green saw Paulus drawing contact from another car after a good start, and flip into turn two. He was unhurt. Hillier suffered wing damage, put on a new one, and restarted at the rear. Tatnell got the jump on Bruce and led early in the 25-lapper. McCarl was lightning on the high side and pressure Bruce Jr. for second on lap three, when something let go in the rear-end, ending his night early. Before a lap could be completed, Zomer came out of gear and restarted at the tail. Tatnell led Bruce Jr., Schatz, Stewart and Haudenschild back to green flag racing. Schatz eventually got around Bruce, and set his sights on the leader. Despite several bids, he failed to make the pass for the point. Tatnell struck disaster on lap 18 when a puff of smoke signified a problem under the hood and he slowed to a stop. Schatz assumed the lead on the restart ahead of a surging Stewart, Bruce Jr., Meyers and Haudenschild. Stewart was noticeably faster than Schatz, but the leader did a good job of blocking the second place car before Heskin blew a right rear with three to go. A lap after the restart, Stewart was too much for Schatz and flew by him coming out of turn two. He pulled away for his third 410 win at Knoxville and fifth overall. It was worth $10,000. Hafertepe Jr. earned hard-charger honors, surging forward eight spots.