New paint, same finish for Lasoski at Kings Speedway
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New paint or not,
the car looked much like it has lately: fast and out front.
Lasoski easily
claimed his 10th National Sprint Tour win of the year, this coming
at Kings Speedway.
Lasoski and
fellow trophy dash winner
“I knew he picked
the right line to start,” said Lasoski, who extended his points lead. “I
figured I was in trouble.”
Not for long.
After the initial
start was called off for Jonathan Allard’s turn 3 tumble, Jacobs took the lead
but was hounded by Lasoski. Following a few attempts, Lasoski got by on lap 5
while Stevie Smith also getting by Jacobs to take second.
While Lasoski
cruised around the recently reopened 3/8-mile oval, there was plenty of action
going on behind him to entertain the near-capacity crowd.
Allard wasn’t the
only NST California native having a tough night.
It was merely the
latest saga of the night for Meyers, whose team promoted the race at his home
track. He had to race a back-up car after hot laps, which were literally that
as his primary car caught fire.
Later, Meyers had
to argue his case after finishing sixth in his heat race. Only the top five
from the heats advanced to the A-Main, and one of those finishers in Meyers’
heat race, Peter Murphy, was disqualified for losing his muffler.
Meyers was eventually
moved up to the fifth and final transfer spot, which also allowed him to
compete in the second trophy dash.
“Sometimes the
breaks go your way,” Meyers said.
He finished
second in that event, and came back to finish sixth in the main.
“This place has
always been a gremlin to me,” said the native of
Meyers, who was
glad to see the healthy turnout, placed blame for his main event incident on
Kaeding.
“He run into the
back of me,” Meyers said. “But we had a good car. I got back through some of
the traffic.”
Having a better
car was Lasoski, who has won three of the last four NST races following his
sweep in
“It’s because our
guys are working hard, and because of our Kistler
engine program,” said Lasoski, who was not seriously challenged once up front.
“We come into every race with a good attitude.”
That was
especially the case Tuesday night, so close to the Roth home.
“It’s fantastic,”
Lasoski said. “This area is home to Dennis Roth. It’s great to come to the West
Coast and run so well for him.”
Even with the
strong mount underneath him, Lasoski wasn’t comfortable following the final
restart with 11 laps to go.
“You’re always
concerned when you’ve got NST guys behind you,” he said.
Jason Solwold finished second with Smith, Steve Kinser and Kerry
Madsen – returning his
Rounding out the
top-10 were Meyers, teammate Ronnie Day, Jacobs, Paul McMahan and
“I was just
patient enough to wait for a few of those guys to get out of the groove,” said Solwold, who gained a couple of spots when Meyers and
Kaeding tangled. “We needed that run. We’ve struggled the last few weeks. We
just weren’t racing that well, so second is a great finish.
“We’ve been off
on the car, and the driver has been a little off,” Solwold
added. “I think we got back on track.”
On more than one
occasion, Solwold used the high line coming to
restarts to gain positions.
“That was working
really well,” he said. “I could get a good run up there. Everyone was running
the bottom.”
Solwold felt Lasoski had the better car as the laps wound
down.
“If we had got a
lot closer, maybe we could have done something with him in traffic,” Solwold said. “But we were a straightaway behind him. We
didn’t have anything for him there, except for restarts.”
Smith was willing
to take third after intense battles on an evening when temperatures hovered
around 100 degrees in the afternoon.
“I tried
everything I could, and I still came up short,” Smith said. “It seems like the
harder I raced, the slower I went. There was a lot of pretty hard racing going
on out there. We got a third, so it could be a lot worse.”
Kinser finished
fourth after a brief and tight battle with Smith on a restart.
“It was just a
so-so run, that’s all you can say,” Kinser said. “It wasn’t much of a battle. I
just sort of hung in there.”
Heat races were
won by
The NST next
races Sept. 15-16 with a doubleheader at Sweetwater Speedway in
National Sprint Tour at Kings
Qualifying Results
1
2 TIM KAEDING 11K 12.861
3 JASON SOLWOLD R19 12.890
4 JONATHAN ALLARD 0 12.896
5 STEVIE SMITH 19 12.904
6 CHAD HILLIER 5 13.006
7 STEVE KINSER 11 13.023
8 JASON MEYERS 14 13.039
9 Andy Gregg 46 13.052
10 JASON SIDES 7S 13.057
11 Ricci Faria 89 13.066
12 DEAN JACOBS 6 13.074
13 DANNY LASOSKI 83 13.078
14 KERRY MADSEN 11H 13.132
15 SHANE STEWART 26 13.140
16 Ronnie Day 1 13.145
17
18 Brent Kaeding 69 13.175
19 PAUL McMAHAN 20
13.203
20 BRIAN PAULUS 28 13.212
21
22
23
24 Peter Murphy 1K 13.428
25 Garrett Ishii 71G 13.541
26 Jon Maiwald 6M
13.588
27 Danny Faria Jr 17V
13.725
28 Matt Shelton 44 13.729
29 TRAVIS RILAT 29 13.805
30 Mark Workentine 6W
13.985
31 Geoff Duppman 96
14.075
32 Mike Stallings 83M 14.091
33 Mark Barroso 78
14.563
34 Rick McCormick 98X 14.644
35 Brandon Wimmer 15 No Time
Heat One Finish
1
2
3 DANNY
LASOSKI, 83
4
5 STEVIE
SMITH, 19
6 Andy
Gregg, 46
7 Garrett
Ishii, 71G
8 Mark
Barroso, 78
9 TRAVIS
RILAT, 29
Heat Two Finish
1 Brent
Kaeding, 69
2 TIM
KAEDING, 11K
3 JASON
SIDES, 7S
4 KERRY
MADSEN, 11H
5
6
7 Jon
Maiwald, 6M
8 Rick
McCormick, 96X
9 Mark
Workentine, 6W
Heat Three Finish
1 PAUL
McMAHAN, 20
2
3 SHANE
STEWART, 26
4 JASON
SOLWOLD, R19
5 STEVE
KINSER, 11
6 Ricci
Faria, 89
7 Danny
Faria Jr., 17V
8 Geoff
Duppman, 96
Heat Four Finish
1 BRIAN
PAULUS, 28
2 DEAN
JACOBS, 6
3 Ronnie
Day, 1
4 JONATHAN
ALLARD, 0
5 JASON
MEYERS, 14
6 Matt
Shelton, 44
7 Mike
Stallings, 83M
8 Peter
Murphy, 1K
** 1K is disqualified for losing his
muffler during the heat, a mandatory rule in the state of
Dash One Line-Up
7S -
83
15X - 19
11 -
R19
Dash One Finish
1 DANNY
LASOSKI, 83
2 STEVIE
SMITH, 19
3 JASON
SOLWOLD, R19
4 JASON
SIDES, 7S
5 STEVE
KINSER, 11
6
Dash Two Line-Up
0 - 6
5 - 14
11H - 11K
Dash Two Finish
1 DEAN
JACOBS, 6
2 JASON
MEYERS, 14
3 JONATHAN
ALLARD, 0
4 TIM
KAEDING, 11K
5
6 KERRY
MADSEN, 11H
B-Main Finish
1 Peter Murphy, 1K
2 TRAVIS RILAT, 29
3 Garrett Ishii, 71G
4 Andy Gregg, 46
5 Danny Faria Jr,
17V
6
7 Geoff Duppman, 96
8 Jon Maiwald, 6M
9 Mark Barraso, 78
10 Matt Shelton, 44
11 Rick McCormick, 96X
12 Mark Workentine, 6W
13 Mike Stallings, 83M
A-Feature Line-up
83 -
6
19 -
14
R19 - 0
7S -
11K
11 -
5
15X - 11H
46 -
26
1 - 12
69 -
20
28 -
21
3 - 1K
71G - 29
A-Feature Finish
1 DANNY LASOSKI 83
2 JASON SOLWOLD R19
3 STEVIE SMITH 19
4 STEVE KINSER 11
5 KERRY MADSEN 11H
6 JASON MEYERS 14
7 Ronnie Day 1
8 DEAN JACOBS 6
9 PAUL McMAHAN 20
10 BRIAN PAULUS 28
11 JASON SIDES 7S
12 TIM KAEDING 11K
13 SHANE STEWART 26
14 Brent Kaeding 69
15
16 CHAD HILLIER 5
17
18 TRAVIS RILAT 29
19
20
21 Peter Murphy 1K
22 Andy Gregg 46
23 Garrett Ishii 71G
24 JONATHAN ALLARD 0