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Haulmark All Star Sprint Results - Attica Raceway Park - Fri. 4/11/03 By Scott Hall ATTICA, OH - Chad Kemenah recorded his first win of the year Friday night at Attica Raceway Park in the Haulmark All Star sprint car 30-lap Coor's Nationals preliminary feature. It was Attica's season opener which paid the driver of Jim Harble's Eagle Chassis $4,000 to. Kemenah's win came over Paul McMahan and a hard charging Greg Wilson, who came up from 15th starting spot to record third on the last lap.
"My brother made me look good tonight, Kemenah recalled. "He made my job easy from the time we pulled in the gate. It was just perfect all night long. I have to thank the Harble family, John from Underground Utilities, Kear's Speed Shop, Kistler Engines and Hoosier for an awesome tire."
"We started catching him and our car got better near the end," McMahan said of second. "We just didn't have enough for Chad tonight. We brought our Miller Rigging J&J home second and I can't complain a bit. I found the middle of the track towards the middle of the race and got going pretty good."
Wilson was happy with third, "We just stood up over the steering wheel and got after it a little bit," he related. "Luckily the big guy upstairs kept us on the racetrack and not on the horse track when the guys got bottled up on the bottom. We had the right American Race tires on tonight. About halfway through they got locked down real good and our Hampshire engine was running great."
For the start of the 10-mile contest it was Mark Keegan on the pole with Rob Chaney alongside and Jason Johnson and Kenny Jacobs in row two. Keegan jumped out into the lead at the start in the high groove, with Chaney second until he slid off turn two on the second go round, putting Kemenah into second. Kemenah, who started sixth, kept inching in on Keegan's bumper and dove low under Keegan exiting turn four to lead lap six. Keegan was now second ahead of Johnson, Jacobs and Paul McMahan.
The action was stopped on lap eight when Byron Reed, who started 17th, got into trouble and flipped once on the frontstretch, bringing out the red. Kemenah led when the race resumed, and had built a half-straightaway lead over Keegan when Sean Chaney spun to a stop on lap 10. When the green reappeared, Kemenah jumped out into the lead again with Johnson making a low groove pass of Keegan for second. Kemenah pushed out to another half-straightaway lead and the action was really heating up for second third among Johnson, Keegan, Jacobs and McMahan. Lap 15 saw Johnson and Keegan side-by-side at the start-finish line with Keegan a nose ahead for second a lap later. Johnson retook second the next go round and Keegan was ahead of him again the next lap. As Kemenah entered heavy lapped traffic, Keegan held second as McMahan challenged him.
On lap 25, McMahan was right on his bumper and on lap 26 McMahan went high around Keegan for second as Wilson was now fifth. As Kemenah pulled away in heavy lapped traffic, Wilson put on a last lap high side charge to sneak into third at the finish line over Keegan and Kinser. The final rundown was Kemenah, McMahan, Wilson, Keegan, Kinser, Jacobs, Dean Jacobs, up from 11th, Lee Jacobs, Phil Gressman in the Holbrook 8H and a fading Johnson.
The Crown Battery heat fell to Danny Smith, the B&B Products heat went to Byron Reed, the Engler Machine and Tool heat was won by 16-year-old Brandon Wimmer and the TP Wings heat fell to Craig Keel. Barry Ruble won the last chance race and Andy James won the Outerwears Pre-filters C Main. Lee Jacobs won the United Aluminum Window Sales & Consulting B Main and Chad Kemenah was the Huggins Cams Fast Time qualifier.
"America's Series, The All Star Circuit of Champions" will present a slate of over 60 sprint car race dates in 2003 from February to October in action at 31 speedways in 17 states.
Huggins Cams Time Trials: 1. Chad Kemenah, Harble 15k, 11.572; 2. Paul McMahan, Miller 2, 11.603; 3. Kenny Jacobs, Ashworth 92, 11.675; 4. Jason Johnson, Harrison 22, 11.677; 5. Rob Chaney, Courtad 9x, 11.685; 6. Lee Jacobs, Jacobs 2, 11.787; 7. Mark Keegan, Steinbrick 92, 11.797; 8. Kelly Kinser, Kinser 4k, 11.804; 9. Phil Gressman, Holbrook 8H, 11.810; 10. Ryan Coniam, Coniam 6c, 11.817; 11. Dean Jacobs, Pullins 29, 11.860; 12. Dale Blaney, Andrews 72b, 11.869; 13. Ben Rutan, Fisher Bros. 75, 11.895; 14. Bill Rose, Rose 6B, 11.898; 15. Stevie Smith, Smith 19, 11.905; 16. Greg Wilson, Hampshire 63, 11.972; 17. Danny Smith, Smith 4, 12.014; 18. Byron Reed, B&S 5, 12.025; 19. Brandon Wimmer, Wimmer 7tw, 12.065; 20. Craig Keel, Pottorf 9, 12.107; 21. Shawn Chaney, Chaney 27c, 12.138; 22. Bruce Robenalt, Robenalt 98, 12.156; 23. Ed Neumeister, Neumeister 11n, 12.221; 24. Alvin Roepke, Roepke/Ford 99, 12.277; 25. David Harrison, Ludwig 10, 12.332; 26. John Ivy, Carousel 20, 12.354; 27. Hud Horton, Mossbarger 80, 12.378; 28. Rodney Morgan, Morgan 21, 12.395; 29. Andrew Palker, Palker 57x, 12.414; 30. Jody Keegan, Keegan 60, 12.547; 31. Todd Heller, Heller 14h, 12.558; 32. Ricky Ferkel, Ferkel 0, 12.608; 33. Brandon Martin, Martin 11m, 12.611; 34. Jimmy Hawley, Grove 70, 12.623; 35. Mike Hogan, Hogan 75, 12.636; 36. Brock Mayes, Mayes 11, 12.687; 37. Craig Mintz, Sabo 8s, 12.698; 38. Jason Courtney, Courtney 9c, 12.865; 39. Tim Hunter, Hunter 2H, 12.957; 40. Kent Wolters, K&L 12, 13.072; 41. Barry Ruble, Ruble 63r, 13.075; 42. Scott Kraylek, Kirian 21, 13.107; 43. Kevin Briscoe, Briscoe 5x, 13.129; 44. Andy James, James 72, 13.151; 45. Marty Ling, Ling 26, 13.158; 46. Tony Beaber, Toth 3T, 13.318; 47. Aaron Middaugh, Middaugh 91, 13.545; 48. Butch Beasley, Beasley 1, 13.776; 49. Scott Euler, Euler 27, 14.090; 50. Tim Aldrich, Aldrich 58, 14.575; 51. Mike Linder, James 3, NT; 52. Matt Lucius, Adkins 1a, NT.
Last Chance Race (10 laps): 1. Ruble 2. Briscoe 3. Beaber 4. James 5. Middaugh 6. Kraylek 7. Aldrich 8. Euler 9. Lucius.
Crown Battery Heat (10 laps): 1. D. Smith 2. S. Chaney 3. Kemenah 4. Gressman 5. R. Chaney 6. Rutan 7. Palker 8. Harrison 9. Martin 10. Ruble 11. Mintz.
B&B Products Heat (10 laps): 1. Reed 2. Coniam 3. McMahan 4. Ivy 5. Robenalt 6. Hawley 7. L. Jacobs 8. Rose 9. Courtney 10. J. Keegan.
Engler Machine & Tool Heat (10 laps): 1. Wimmer 2. D. Jacobs 3. S. Smith 4. M. Keegan 5. K. Jacobs 6. James 7. Horton 8. Neumeister 9. Hogan 10. Hunter. 11. Heller.
TP Wings Heat (10 laps): 1. Keel 2. Wilson 3. Kinser 4. Johnson 5. Roepke 6. Mayes 7. Ferkel 8. Morgan 9. Beaber 10. Wolters.
Outerwears Pre-filters C Main (10 laps): 1. James 2. Briscoe 3. Hunter 4. Courtney 5. Beaber 6. Ling 7. Wolters.
United Aluminum Window Sales & Consulting B Main (15 laps): 1. L. Jacobs 2. Rose 3. Rutan 4. Harrison 5. Palker 6. Martin 7. Mayes 8. James 9. Hawley 10. Morgan 11. Horton 12. Neumeister 13. Courtney 14. Ferkel 15. Mintz 16. Hunter 17. Briscoe 18. J. Keegan 19. Heller DNS 20. Hogan DNS.
Haulmark A Main (30 laps): 1. Chad Kemenah 2. Paul McMahan 3. Greg Wilson 4. Kelly Kinser 5. Mark Keegan 6. Kenny Jacobs 7. Dean Jacobs 8. Lee Jacobs 9. Phil Gressman 10. Jason Johnson 11. Danny Smith 12. Stevie Smith 13. Bill Rose 14. Ben Rutan 15. Craig Keel 16. Alvin Roepke 17. David Harrison 18. Rob Chaney 19. John Ivy 20. Ryan Coniam 21. Brandon Wimmer 22. Shawn Chaney 23. Bruce Robenalt 24. Byron Reed.
Lap Leaders: Mark Keegan 1-5, Chad Kemenah 6-30. -www.allstarsprint.com-