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All Star Sprint Ohio Speedweek Results - Fremont Speedway - Tue. 7/02/02 By Scott Hall FREMONT, OH - Kelly Kinser made it three different winners in three Ohio Speedweek events Tuesday night at Fremont Speedway in the Arizona Sport Shirt All Star Ohio Sprint Speedweek "Budweiser 40" feature. The event paid Kinser $6,000 for his second win of the year. John Ivy started 12th and finished second, using the track's spec Goodyear tire on the right rear of his Carousel Racing No. 20.
Chad Kemenah and Byron Reed started on the front row with Kinser and Shane Stewart in row two. Kinser led Kemenah by a nose on lap one when the first of two cautions for the evening appeared for a Jim Linder and Danny Smith spin. Smith restarted on the tail and Linder exited. Reed led again under green with Kinser second ahead of Stewart and Kemenah. Once Reed entered lapped traffic in the Reebar Die Casting Maxim, Kinser closed on him in his familiar low groove.
Kinser nosed ahead on lap 14, and once by Reed, he pulled ahead slightly as Stewart followed Kinser past Reed. Stewart was using the high groove, cutting into Kinser's lead each lap. Kinser led by a wheel on lap 17 over Stewart, and only by a nose on lap 18. At the half way point, Kinser still led by a car length over Stewart, Reed, Mike Wagner, Dale Blaney, Kenny Jacobs and Ivy. As Kinser expertly sliced through lapped traffic in the low groove, Wagner and Blaney battled furiously for fourth.
On lap 26 Wagner and Blaney banged wheels, allowing Ivy to get past them both for the number four spot. Ivy then moved in on Reed as Stewart began slowing slightly each lap as his right rear tire was losing air. Ivy ducked around Reed for second as Stewart's tire exploded, ending his run and setting up a five lap dash to the finish once Stewart was towed off. With four lapped cars after the leader Kinser, it took Ivy two laps to clear them and try to move in on Kinser, but the checkered fell as time ran out on Ivy. Kinser's margin of victory was half a straightaway. "I was worried about my tire sealing up," Kinser recalled after the event was over. "I was trying to keep it a little bit warm under the yellow. We've finally got this Eagle car figured out." Kinser's machine utilized Gaerte power and rode Hoosier tires.
"I watched my cousin Brian (Smith) in the C Main and then we threw on the spec tire and figured 'what do we have to loose?' We figured 'let's try it' and here we are," Ivy said with a smile from the runnerup spot. After Reed in third was Blaney, Wagner, Jacobs, Joe Gaerte up from 17th, Paul McMahan who started tenth, Kemenah and 14th starter Rodney Duncan.
The Crown Battery heat fell to Dale Blaney, the B&B Products heat went to Mike Wagner, the Engler Machine and Tool heat was won by Chad Kemenah and the TP Wings heat fell to Shane Stewart with the fifth heat to Joe Gaerte. Brian Smith won the Georgia Marketing & Promotions C Main and Butch Schroeder won the United Aluminum Window Sales & Consulting B Main. Byron Reed captured the Haulmark Dash while fast time by Blaney was worth $50, courtesy of Tri-State Outlook. T
ime Trials: 1. Dale Blaney, Andrews 72b, 12.827; 2. Mike Wagner, Wagner 55, 12.850; 3. Butch Schroeder, Courtad 9x, 12.917; 4. Shane Stewart, Holbrook 8h, 12.930; 5. Rob Chaney, Pullins 29, 13.060; 6. Kelly Kinser, Kinser 4k, 13.091; 7. Byron Reed, B&S 5, 13.155; 8. Chad Kemenah, Harble 15k, 13.155; 9. Brandon Martin, Martin 11m, 13.171; 10. Jeff Shepard, Ashworth 92, 13.211; 11. Dean Jacobs, Baker 34, 13.226; 12. Danny Smith, Webb 51, 13.282; 13. Joey Montgomery, Montgomery C21, 13.366; 14. Alvin Roepke, Roepke/Ford 99, 13.370; 15. Shawn Chaney, Chaney 27c, 13.389; 16. Jason Dukes, JT 3, 13.400; 17. Paul McMahan, Johnson U2, 13.508; 18. Tim Hunter, Hunter 2H, 13.534; 19. Kenny Jacobs, Jacobs 6, 13.586; 20. John Ivy, Carousel 20, 13.605; 21. Chuck Wilson, Wilson 31, 13.625; 22. Ed Neumeister, Neumeister 11n, 13.653; 23. Bobby Clark, Clark 8, 13.673; 24. Lee Jacobs, Jacobs 2, 13.750; 25. Jody Keegan, Keegan K60, 13.758; 26. Rodney Duncan, Harrison 22, 13.785; 27. Bob Lime, Lime 91, 13.826; 28. Mike Linder, James 3, 13.855; 29. Jim Dayton, Dayton 2x, 13.895; 30. Joe Gaerte, Gaerte 3G, 13.942; 31. Bill Rose, Rose 6B, 13.945; 32. Jack Hewitt, Kaser 31, 13.970; 33. Chris Knopp, Neiderer 10n, 13.997; 34. Bruce Robenalt, Robenalt 98, 14.054; 35. Bob Distel, Distel 18, 14.058; 36. Greg Wilson, Hampshire 63, 14.102; 37. David Harrison, Harrison 44, 14.133; 38. Brian Smith, Burmeister 16, 14.170; 39. Chuck Waddell, Waddell 22, 14.236; 40. Todd Kane, Sabo 8s, 14.246; 41. Barry Ruble, Ruble 63r, 14.401; 42. Scott Cramer, Cramer 47, 14.403; 43. Phil Gressman, Miller 2, 14.447; 44. Tim Montgomery, Montgomery 32, 14.496; 45. Mark Keegan, Steinbrick 92, 14.515; 46. Jim Linder, Linder X, 14.738; 47. Chad Levingston, Levingston 74L, 14.864; 48. Nick Naber, Jarrell 22, 14.986; 49. Brian Sebetto, Keegan K24, 15.060; 50. Jeremy Keegan, Keegan 24, 15.068; 51. Troy Vacarro, Vacarro 7T, NT.
Crown Battery Heat (10 laps): 1. Blaney 2. Duncan 3. Kinser 4. Rose 5. Dukes 6. C. Wilson 7. Cramer 8. Levingston 9. Harrison 10. D. Jacobs.
B&B Products Heat (10 laps): 1. Wagner 2. Gressman 3. Reed 4. Lime 5. B. Smith 6. D. Smith 7. Neumeister 8. Naber 9. McMahan 10. Hewitt.
Engler Machine & Tool Heat (10 laps): 1. Kemenah 2. J. Montgomery 3. Clark 4. T. Montgomery 5. Schroeder 6. Hunter 7. Waddell 8. Knopp 9. Sebetto 10. M. Linder (DQ - lost muffler).
TP Wings Heat (10 laps): 1. Stewart 2. K. Jacobs 3. M. Keegan 4. Dayton 5. Roepke 6. Kane 7. Martin 8. Distel 9. Je. Keegan 10. L. Jacobs.
Fifth Heat (10 laps): 1. Gaerte 2. Wilson 3. Ivy 4. J. Linder 5. Shepard 6. S. Chaney 7. Ruble 8. Jo. Keegan 9. R. Chaney.
Haulmark Dash (4 laps): 1. Reed 2. Kinser 3. Kemenah 4. K. Jacobs 5. Wagner 6. Ivy.
Georgia Marketing & Promotions C Main (10 laps): 1. B. Smith 2. Hewitt 3. Knopp 4. Distel 5. Harrison 6. Kane 7. Sebetto 8. Waddell 9. Ruble 10. Je. Keegan 11. Cramer 12. Naber 13. Levingston.
United Aluminum Window Sales & Consulting B Main (12 laps): 1. Schroeder 2. Shepard 3. McMahan 4. B. Smith 5. Roepke 6. D. Smith 7. L. Jacobs 8. M. Linder 9. Martin 10. S. Chaney 11. Harrison 12. Dukes 13. Neumeister 14. Hunter 15. Distel 16. D. Jacobs 17. Jo. Keegan 18. Hewitt 19. Knopp 20. C. Wilson 21. R. Chaney (DNS).
A Main (40 laps): 1. Kelly Kinser 2. John Ivy 3. Byron Reed 4. Dale Blaney 5. Mike Wagner 6. Kenny Jacobs 7. Joe Gaerte 8. Paul McMahan 9. Chad Kemenah 10. Rodney Duncan 11. Greg Wilson 12. Brian Smith 13. Danny Smith 14. Bobby Clark 15. Jeff Shepard 16. Phil Gressman 17. Mark Keegan 18. Jim Dayton 19. Shane Stewart 20. Butch Schroeder 21. Bob Lime 22. Alvin Roepke 23. Joey Montgomery 24. Tim Montgomery 25. Bill Rose 26. Jim Linder.
Lap Leaders: Byron Reed 1-13, Kelly Kinser 14-40.
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