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Solwold scores huge Hagerstown win

By Fran Engelcke

Jason Solwold (City Wide) captured his first National Sprint Tour win Saturday night at Hagerstown Speedway.  It was a contested win that came after a slow start for the evening with a 15^th fastest qualifying time.  Solwold showed his determination at the start of the 30 lap feature by moving from his fourth place starting position to leading by the start of the 2^nd lap.  Mark Coldren (Keeler Company) flipped in the back bringing out a red flag resulting in a complete restart putting Solwold back into his starting position. 

Solwold knows it takes patience.  “It’s good to finally win one.  I have the nervous itch out of my system from being on the road.  I know how it is when you come out here for the first time.  You just have to keep working at it and eventually it will come.”

Local Pennsylvania Posse hot shoe Jeff Shepard (York Excavating) took the lead from the inside pole of the restart but Solwold was there again moving from 4^th to 2^nd in the first turn.  By turns 3and 4 he was outside of Shepard but unable to complete the pass.  Solwold commented saying, “From the start I thought we had a really good car.  I took a little while to get by Shepard but I knew I could get around him it was just going to be where I could do it.” 

By lap five with just a little more momentum he floated by Shepard on the outside of turns 3 and 4 leaving him behind. “We made the wrong decision.  We changed our set-up and a couple of things to make the car go better.  We didn’t quite make the right decision and we went from first to fifth.  “We learned a lot,” said Shepard.   “We’re in one piece and we can capitalize on that.  When the NST comes back here in August, we’ll be a lot better.”

Outside pole sitter Stevie Smith (RAACE) was a mere fast spectator to the charge of Solwold and Lasoski.  He summed up his race by saying, “We started strong.  We put a little bit harder tire on for the feature race and it wouldn’t take off on the starts.  We just fell in position and stayed there.”

By lap 9 Danny Lasoski (Roth) had moved up to challenge Shepard in turns 3 and 4 using his favored low groove to complete the pass into second place.  Lasoski’s hard charge paid off as he slid in front of Solwold low in 3 and 4 of lap13.  Solwold would have none of that and put a slide job back on Lasoski at the end of the front stretch.  Solwold knew Lasoski was there.   “Once I saw Lasoski there I figured we were going to have a race,” said Solwold. 

While Lasoski would keep up the pressure he was unable to get by.  Solwold led to the checkers.  Lasoski stated, “Jason did a good job.  We can’t take anything away from his first win.  We ran second and we’ll just go on to the next race.  My hat is off to his whole crew.  They’ve been right there all year long.  They’ve had a bunch of seconds and they deserve the win.”

Lance Dewease (HAAM) moved up to the third spot during the race. The outside pole sitter, Smith held on to fourth followed by Shepard in fifth place.

The B feature, with the top six transferring to the A was won by Shane Stewart (Rudeen)

wearing a borrowed Solwold wing after crashing.  He was followed by Josh Wells, Todd Hestor, Lucas Wolfe (Selma Shell), and Judd Shepard.

Dash one was dominated by the Shepard with a strong second by Brian Paulus (Arnold)

followed by Lasoski, Tim Shaffer (Casey's), Jason Meyers (Elite Landscaping) and

Paul McMahan (Bass Pro Shops).

Dash two had Smith showing the way home with Solwold, Steve Kinser (Quaker State),

Dewease, Todd Schaffer, and Brian Leppo following.

Heat one was won by Greg Hodnett taking the checkers followed by Kinser, Paulus, Schaffer, and Lasoski.

Heat two saw Shaffer take the win followed by Dewease, Scott Lutz, Meyers and McMahan.

Heat three had Solwold showing his slow qualifying time didn’t matter as he took the checkers followed by Smith, Coldren, Leppo, and Shepard.

Fast time was 17.854 set by NST driver Lasoski.

Tomorrow June 11, the National Sprint tour completes its central Pennsylvania swing at Selinsgrove Speedway.

NST RESULTS – Hagerstown Speedway, 06/10/06

QUALIFYING

		#		First	Last	Owner	Time
1)		83		DANNY	LASOSKI	Roth	17.854
2)		25		Lance	Dewease	Postupack	18.015
3)		4	J	Jeff	Shepard	Shepard	18.048
4)		5	W	Todd	Schaffer	Allebach	18.080
5)		14		JASON	MEYERS	Stockbridge	18.119
6)		19		STEVIE	SMITH	RAACE	18.130
7)		28		BRIAN	PAULUS	P&P Motorsports	18.153
8)		26		SHANE	STEWART	Rudeen	18.207
9)		71		Brian	Leppo		18.371
10)		6	W	Josh	Wells		18.405
11)		20		PAUL	McMAHAN	Stewart	18.558
12)		4		Todd	Hestor		18.600
13)		11		STEVE	KINSER	Kinser	18.667
14)		6		TIM	SHAFFER	Parsons	18.681
15)	R	19		JASON	SOLWOLD	Carnahan	18.746
16)		77		Greg	Hodnett	Hamilton	18.788
17)		33		Scott	Lutz	McGuire	18.941
18)		07		Mark	Coldren	Coldren	18.972
19)		9		Craig	Keel	Portoff	18.987
20)		7	S	JASON	SIDES	Sides	19.009
21)		11	K	TIM	KAEDING	Kinser	19.042
22)		11	H	LUCAS	WOLFE	Helm	19.225
23)		69		Justin	Collett	Collett	19.385
24)		21	M	Danny	Murray		19.462
25)		3	j	Judd	Shepard		19.528
26)		71	c	Jack	Helget		19.907
27)		3		Robert	Bennett	Mickle	20.011
28)		89		Cody	Darrah	Darrah	20.279
29)		23		Todd	Zinn		20.412
30)		17	t	Jeff	Taylor		20.581

HEAT 1 - 8 LAPS (TRANSFER 6)

1)	Greg	Hodnett
2)	STEVE	KINSER
3)	BRIAN	PAULUS
4)	Todd	Schaffer
5)	DANNY	LASOSKI
6)	Craig	Keel
7)	Josh	Wells
8)	LUCAS	WOLFE
9)	Cody	Darrah
10)	Judd	Shepard

HEAT 2

1)	TIM	SHAFFER
2)	Lance	Dewease
3)	Scott	Lutz
4)	JASON	MEYERS
5)	PAUL	McMAHAN
6)	JASON	SIDES
7)	SHANE	STEWART
8)	Justin	Collett
9)	Todd	Zinn
10)	Jack	Helget

HEAT 3

JASON	SOLWOLD
Stevie	Smith
Mark	Coldren
Brian	Leppo
Jeff	Shepard
TIM	KAEDING
todd	Hestor
Danny	Murray
Jeff	Taylor
Bob	Bennett

DASH 1 – 6 LAPS

1)	Jeff Shepard
2)	BRIAN PAULUS
3)	DANNY LASOSKI
4)	TIM SHAFFER
5)	JASON MEYERS
6)	PAUL McMAHAN

DASH 2 – 6 LAPS

1)	Stevie Smith
2)	JASON SOLWOLD
3)	STEVE KINSER
4)	Lance Dewease
5)	Todd Schaffer
6)	Brian Leppo

B-MAIN - 12 LAPS (TRANSFER 6)

1)	SHANE STEWART
2)	Josh Wells
3)	Todd Hestor
4)	LUCAS WOLFE
5)	Judd Shepard
6)	Cody Darrah
7)	Justin Collett
8)	Bob Bennett
9)	Todd Zinn
10)	Danny Murray
11)	Jeff Taylor
12)	Jack Helget

A-MAIN         30 LAPS        [STARTED]  [$]

1)	JASON	SOLWOLD	[4]	[$10,000]
2)	DANNY	LASOSKI	[5]	[$5,500]
3)	Lance	Dewease	[8]	[$3,200]
4)	Stevie	Smith	[2]	[$2,800]
5)	Jeff	Shepard	[1]	[$2,500]
6)	TIM	SHAFFER	[7]	[$2,300]
7)	SHANE	STEWART	[11]	[$2,200]
8)	STEVE	KINSER	[6]	[$2,100]
9)	TIM	KAEDING	[19]	[$2,050]
10)	Todd	Schaffer	[10]	[$2,000]
11)	JASON	SIDES	[20]	[$1,500]
12)	PAUL	McMAHAN	[9]	[$1,200]
13)	BRIAN	PAULUS	[3]	[$1,100]
14)	Brian	Leppo	[12]	[$1,050]
15)	Cody	Darrah	[24]	[$1,000]
16)	Todd	Hestor	[13]	[$850]
17)	Craig	Keel	[17]	[$750]
18)	Greg	Hodnett	[16]	[$700]
19)	Josh	Wells	[14]	[$700]
20)	Justin	Collett	[23]	[$700]
21)	Scott	Lutz	[15]	[$700]
22)	Judd	Shepard	[21]	[$700]
23)	LUCAS	WOLFE	[22]	[$700]
24)	Mark	Coldren	[18]	[$700]

Laps lead:  Jeff Shepard 1-6, Jason Solwold 6-13

                  Danny Lasoski 14, Jason Solwold 15-30

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