10/27/06
I-30 Speedway Little Rock, AR
Short Track Nationals Night #1
98 cars
Passing points were used in the heats. The top forty cars were inverted into four qualifiers. The other 58 were place in Last Chance Races. The top four in each LC race tagged the tail of a qualifier. The top 20 in points in the heats and qualifiers were lined heads-up in the A main, which locked the top three finishers in Saturday's main event.
Heavy rains made for an extremely rough surface and tricky conditions.
Flip victims: Skip Wilson (HL), Jack Dover (H3), Forrest Sutherland (H6), Eric Baldaccini (H7), Wayne Johnson (H5), Jeff Mitrisin (H10), Mitch Runge (LC3), Steve Short (LC3), Eric Sandage (Q1), Jon Corbin (A)
Heat one (started): 1. Tim Crawley 87 (6) 2. Marshall Skinner 26 (1) 3. Darren Stewart 91 (5) 4. Kaley Gharst 44G (8) 5. Chris Morgan 7c (2) 6. Dale Blaney 6B (7) 7. Bryce Vowan 2m (3) 8. Lee Sowell 51 (10) 9. AJ Bruns 44A (9) 10. Rick Pringle 38 (4)
Heat two (started): 1. Brad Best 35B (2) 2. Tim Montgomery 32 (4) 3. Raymond Stull 21R (3) 4. Justin Sturch 4t (5) 5. Travis Rilat 27 (8) 6. Rafe Essary 26E (10) 7. Justin Barger 32B (6) 8. Tyler Thompson 11 (9) 9. Robert Bell 71 (1) 10. Greg Merritt 12m (7)
Heat three (started): 1. Brian Bell 23 (1) 2. Jeff Day 95 (9) 3. Robbie Standridge 12x (4) 4. Kenny Coke 24w (3) 5. Joe Beaver 53x (6) 6. Preston Peebles II 11P (8) 7. Tommy Bryant 12mt (5) 8. Travis Jenkins 4am (2) 9. Ryan Anderson 71R (7) 10. Jack Dover 53D (10)
Heat four (started): 1. Jason Johnson 41 (2) 2. Claud Estes III 74E (1) 3. Dusty Wasmund 20 (3) 4. Brian McClelland 10B (7) 5. Justin Melton 99 (4) 6. Joe Young 12T (6) 7. Donny Howard 44H (9) 8. Nathan Brown 42 (10) 9. Ron Blair 35R (5) 10. Don Young 75Y (8)
Heat five (started): 1. Jesse Hockett 75 (1) 2. Chuck Swenson X (2) 3. Gary Wright 9 (6) 4. Kent Lewis Jr. 21T (9) 5. Brad Bowden 15B (5) 6. AG Rains 3 (8) 7. Jody Rosenboom K9 (4) 8. Jason Meyers D12 (10) 9. Wayne Johnson 94J (7) 10. Josh Howard 45 (3)
Heat six (started): 1. Steven Tiner 94T (1) 2. Kent Buckley 1* (2) 3. Ricky Stenhouse Jr. 40R (4) 4. Nick Smith 15s (6) 5. Brian Brown 21 (10) 6. Wade Oliver 0 (7) 7. Brad Sweet 77 (8) 8. Skip Wilson 65 (9) 9. Forrest Sutherland 85s (3) 10. Joey Montgomery 21c (5)
Heat seven (started): 1. Terry Gray 10 (2) 2. Kevin Ramey 7m (8) 3. Eric Sandage 60 (1) 4. Channin Tankersley 71T (4) 5. Travis Rilat 29 (10) 6. Cody Gardner 1G (6) 7. Eric Lutz 5 (5) 8. Ronny Howard 44 (3) 9. Eric Schrock 86s (7) 10. Eric Baldaccini B4 (9)
Heat eight (started): 1. Zach Pringle 8 (2) 2. Clint Garner 40G (1) 3. Sam Hafertepe Jr. 15 (6) 4. Sean McClelland 1 (3) 5. Mitch Runge 28 (5) 6. Mike Ward 88 (9) 7. Steve Short 8s (10) 8. Jake Simmons 71s (7) 9. Dex Eaton 59 (8) 10. Rob Hartman 07H (4)
Heat nine (started): 1. Tim Kaeding 01 (8) 2. Scott Winters R19 (1) 3. Jan Howard 4x (6) 4. Larry Pinegar II 13F (7) 5. Scotty McDonald 41m (4) 6. Cody Branchcomb 94B (2) 7. Ryan Grubaugh 00 (9) 8. Buster Dickerson 86 (3) 9. Josh Baker 42s (5)
Heat ten (started): 1. Dale Howard 47 (3) 2. Jon Corbin 33 (9) 3. Derek Hagar 9JR (7) 4. Rodney Droud 2D (1) 5. Ernie Ainsworth 40 (2) 6. Jeff Mitrisin 10J (4) 7. Foster Landon 11F (5) 8. Ryan Marsch 2 (6) DNS - Sean Walden 14v (8)
Last Chance Race one (started): 1. Ainsworth (2) 2. Bowden (3) 3. J. Montgomery (12) 4. Coke (1) / 5. Vowan (7) 6. R. Howard (8) 7. Baker (13) 8. D. Young (10) 9. N. Brown (6) 10. Branchcomb (4) 11. Landon (9) 12. Bruns (11) 13. J. Young (5) DNS - Ward, W. Johnson
Last Chance Race two (started): 1. Tankersley (1) 2. Blaney (4) 3. Rains (3) 4. Sowell (7) / 5. Rosenboom (8) 6. Do. Howard (5) 7. R. Bell (9) 8. Simmons (10) 9. Morgan (2) 10. R. Pringle (11) 11. Grubaugh (6) DNS - Thompson, Sutherland, Josh Howard, Walden
Last Chance Race three (started): 1. S. McClelland (1) 2. Beaver (2) 3. Oliver (5) 4. Meyers (8) / 5. Schrock (12) 6. Mitrisin (6) 7. Dickerson (10) 8. Jenkins (9) 9. Merritt (11) 10. Runge (3) 11. Barger (7) 12. Short (4) DNS - R. Anderson, Baldaccini
Last Chance Race four (started): 1. McDonald (3) 2. Sweet (6) 3. Droud (1) 4. Melton (2) / 5. Lutz (8) 6. Peebles (4) 7. Eaton (10) 8. Blair (9) 9. Bryant (5) 10. Hartman (11) 11. Wilson (7) DNS - Gardner, Marsch, Dover
Qualifier one (started, *qualified for feature): 1. Stull (2*) 2. Hockett (7*) 3. Stewart (5*) 4. Kaeding (10*) 5. Gray (8*) 6. B. McClelland (3) 7. Ainsworth (11) 8. Corbin (9*) 9. J. Montgomery (13) 10. Coke (14) 11. Bowden (12) 12. Lewis (6) 13. Sandage (1) 14. Buckley (4)
Qualifier two (started, *qualified for feature): 1. Stenhouse (3*) 2. Wasmund (2*) 3. Garner (4*) 4. Tankersley (11*) 5. Dale Howard (9*) 6. Blaney (12) 7. Gharst (5) 8. Crawley 87 (10*) 9. Tiner (7) 10. Hafertepe (6) 11. Rains (13) 12. Z. Pringle (8) 13. Sowell (14) 14. Sturch (1)
Qualifier three (started, *qualified for feature): 1. Whitney (1*) 2. Winters (4*) 3. Rilat (3*) 4. Josh Howard (6*) 5. T. Montgomery (8*) 6. Estes (5) 7. Hagar (7) 8. S. McClelland (11) 9. Day (10) 10. N. Smith (2) 11. Best (9) 12. Beaver (12) 13. Oliver (13) 14. Meyers (14)
Qualifier four (started, *qualified for feature): 1. Standridge (4*) 2. J. Johnson (9*) 3. Essary (1) 4. Pinegar (3) 5. Wright (7*) 6. Swenson (5) 7. Skinner (6) 8. Sweet (12) 9. B. Bell (8) 10. Droud (13) 11. McDonald (11) 12. Melton (14) 13. Ramey (10) 14. B. Brown (2)
A main (started): 1. Kaeding (1) 2. J. Johnson (2) 3. Dale Howard (6) / 4. Jan Howard (14) 5. Standridge (4) 6. Hockett (3) 7. Gray (10) 8. Winters (7) 9. Stenhouse (5) 10. Garner (13) 11. Tankersley (15) 12. Wasmund (16) 13. Whitney (11) 14. Rilat (17) 15. Stewart (9) 16. Stull (8) 17. Crawley (18) 18. Corbin (20) 19. T. Montgomery (12) 20. Wright (19)
J. Johnson shot out to an early lead on the wicked, heavy surface. A number of cars jammed together on the second lap causing the exit of T. Montgomery and Wright. Two laps later, Corbin tipped over in turn two bringing caution. J. Johnson led Kaeding, Standridge, Hockett and Dale Howard back to green flag racing on the restart. As J. Johnson and Kaeding started entering lapped traffic, J. Johnson drifted high in turns one and two on lap 13, and Kaeding shot by on his inside in what would prove to be the winning pass. On lap 17, Tankersley spun, clearing the track ahead of Kaeding, J. Johnson, Dale Howard who had gotten by Standridge, and Stewart. Two laps later, Stewart banged the infield tires bringing the final slowdown. J. Johnson had nothing for Kaeding, who scored his 16th win of the year and first away from the NST. Dale Howard had passed J. Johnson before the last restart, but was passed. Nonetheless, he grabbed third and locked himself into Saturday's main event along with the two leaders. Brother Jan Howard was the hard-charger, cruising from 14th to 4th, but running out of laps to challenge his brother.