In a
classic
After
taking the green flag side-by-side, the two Mean 15 racers used nearly every
inch of the track as they slid up and down and back and forth throughout the caution-free
$12,000-to-win, 25-lap finale of the two-night event.
Kinser
edged in front exiting Turn 2 on the first lap, leaving pole-sitter Lasoski to
battle with Sammy Swindell for second. Lasoski worked the low groove with
Swindell at the top.
Only six
laps in, Kinser hit traffic that allowed Lasoski and Swindell to close the
1.07-second gap. Now Lasoski slid up the track as Kinser started lapping cars
on the low side. Lasoski gained momentum at the top and pulled even with Kinser
as Swindell tucked down to the bottom to try the low groove.
Lasoski
surged to the lead coming out of Turn 2 on Lap 12, only to see Kinser slip back
in front as they exited Turn 4 on Lap 14. Kinser then stretched his advantage
as the field began to settle and took the checkered flag 0.988 seconds ahead of
Lasoski for the 519th main-event victory in his career.
Swindell
cruised to the finish in third, followed by Terry McCarl and
“It was a
fun race,” said Kinser, who won a race at
While
Lasoski certainly is never satisfied with anything but a win, after struggling
for much of the early part of the season he was all smiles Saturday night after
a weekend that saw his Tony Stewart Motorsports team win the preliminary
feature and run second in the main event.
“That’s the
way we should have been racing all year long,” said Lasoski, who has won 85
times at
With
Swindell running in third, the top three drivers at the finish represented some
of the most decorated sprint car racers in history, with a combined 23
“I ran with
Lasoski there for a little bit,” Swindell said. “Most of the time I was by
myself and passed a few cars, but there were only two or three cars in my lane
so it was pretty much just go out there and run the laps off and go as fast as
I could.”
No driver
has had as much recent success at
“I got a
little loose from the middle on and we had to run the top,” McCarl said. “I
tried to move around and catch Sammy. I’d catch him a little bit here and lose
a little bit there. Any time you run top-five with the
Paulus was
having fun from the start of the night. He was one of two drivers to break the
Knoxville Raceway single-lap record in time trials, but got loose and spun in
his heat and raced his way into the feature by winning the B-main.
“For some
reason, and maybe it’s the competition level, we always seem to step it up at
Kaeding has
had nothing but good weekends recently in his Dennis Roth-owned machine. No
matter where he starts, Kaeding always seems to work his way to the front.
“You just
have to hit your marks,” said Kaeding, who leads the battle for the Kevin
Gobrecht Rookie of the Year Award. “It went non-stop tonight so I got to keep
my momentum going. I got comfortable running around the bottom. We went with
basically the same setup as [Friday] night and just ran it. It’s just one of
those things where I’m a die-hard racer. I never give up. I think that’s one of
the reasons Dennis chose me to drive his cars. A lot of other guys give up if
something happens or they start that far back. I just go out and do what I’m
supposed to do, stand on the gas and have some fun.”
Right now,
nobody in the series is having more fun than Kinser. With his sixth feature win
this season—and the fourth in the past six nights of racing—he extended his
lead in the standings to 100 points over Craig Dollansky and the rest of the
field.
“Winning
races is something that’s always enjoyable,” Kinser said. “It never quits no
matter how many you win.”
In the
Stacker 2® Dash, Lasoski held off Kinser in a thrilling side-by-side race to
earn the pole position in the A-main.
In the
B-main, Paulus recovered from his heat race mishap and easily won ahead of Chad
Kemenah, with Jason Sides surging to the final transfer spot by 0.011 over
Stevie Smith. Jason Solwold and Peter Murphy advanced to the B-main by
finishing in the top two spots in the C-main.
The heat
race winners included Joey Saldana, Paul McMahan, Tim Shaffer and Don Droud Jr.
Saldana and
Paulus broke the Knoxville Raceway single-lap record. Saldana was quickest with
a lap around the 1/2-mile oval in 14.908 seconds at 120.741 mph. Paulus turned
a lap in 14.931 seconds at 120.555 mph. The previous mark—Don Droud Jr.’s
14.934-second run—had stood since Aug. 29, 1998.
“The
Outlaws right now are unbelievably tough,” said Saldana, whose father also owns
a speed record at
The
All the
action from Knoxville Raceway can be seen at
If fans
can’t get to a track to see the series, they can experience the excitement of
the
The
Qualifying
1)
Joey Saldana, Woodward 2, 14.908 (New Single Lap
Record)
2)
3)
Sammy Swindell, Forbrook 5, 14.966
4)
5)
6)
Brooke Tatnell, Rush Racing 8, 15.155
7)
Donny Schatz, Schatz 15, 15.210
8)
Jac Haudenschild, Elden 22, 15.223
9)
Craig Dollansky, Karavan 7, 15.240
10)
Randy Hannagan, TH Racing 1X, 15.253
11)
Shane Stewart, Rudeen Racing 26, 15.286
12)
Skip Jackson, J&S Racing 2AU, 15.308
13)
Don Droud, Jr., Gifford 17G, 15.314
14)
Tim Shaffer, Parsons 6, 15.331
15)
Paul McMahan, Helm 11H, 15.354
16)
Jaymie Moyle, Moyle 5M, 15.365
17)
Tim Kaeding, Roth 83, 15.370
18)
Jason Sides, Sides Motorsports 7S, 15.369
19)
Stevie Smith, Smith 19, 15.402
20)
Jeremy Campbell, Campbell 10C, 15.403
21)
Jon Agan, Agan 4A, 15.427
22)
Chris Walraven, Walraven 56, 15.439
23)
Ricky Logan, Vanderecken 10, 15.441
24)
Kerry Madsen, Vermeer 55, 15.444
25)
Billy Alley, Alley 22A, 15.456
26)
Clint Garner, Garner 40, 15.470
27)
28)
Jesse Giannetto, Bulldog Motorsports D1, 15.551
29)
Justin Henderson, Oswalt D11, 15.565
30)
Wayne Johnson, Fattfro 14AJ, 15.567
31)
Calvin Landis, Landis 70, 15.575
32)
Kevin Swindell, Swindell 1, 15.580
33)
Peter Murphy, Wright 35, 15.628
34)
Jason Solwold, Carnahan R19, 15.636
35)
Ryan Coniam, Bancon Racing 46, 15.722
36)
Matt Moro, Sonner 47, 15.744
37)
Barry Ruble, Ruble 63R, 15.794
38)
Brandon Wimmer, Wimmer-Luck Motorsports 7TW,
15.798
39)
Jesse Hockett, Kahne 9, 15.820
40)
Jerrel Slinkard, Slinkard 15S, 15.841
41)
Eric Vanderploeg, McCarl 7X, 15.873
42)
Daryn Pittman, Titan Racing
43)
Kaley Gharst, Gharst 44G, 15.919
44)
Lynton Jeffrey, Jeffrey 4AU, 15.976
45)
Ryan Anderson, Anderson 71R, 15.983
46)
Mike Moore, Moore 69, 16.145
47)
Michael Jones, Arrends 1A, 16.183
48)
49)
Collin Northway, Northway 60, 16.208
50)
Greg Jones, Jones 35X, 16.494
51)
Brent
52)
Robert Bell,
Top 4
finishers in preliminary A-feature (locked into first 4 starting positions in
Stacker 2® Dash): Danny Lasoski, Stewart 20; Steve Kinser, Kinser 11; Kraig
Kinser, Kinser 11K; Terry McCarl, McCarl 24
First Heat
Race (8 laps, top 4 finishers transferred to A-feature)
1)
Joey Saldana
2)
Craig Dollansky
3)
Jac Haudenschild
4)
Tim Kaeding
5)
Justin Henderson
6)
Jon Agan
7)
Billy Alley
8)
Peter Murphy
9)
Jaymie Moyle
10)
Eric Vanderploeg
11)
Ryan Anderson
12)
Barry Ruble
13)
Collin Northway (DNS)
Second Heat
Race (8 laps, top 4 finishers transferred to A-feature)
1)
Paul McMahan
2)
Donny Schatz
3)
Randy Hannagan
4)
Wayne Johnson
5)
Jason Sides
6)
Brandon Wimmer
7)
Jason Solwold
8)
Daryn Pittman
9)
Chris Walraven
10)
Greg Jones
11)
Mike Moore
12)
13)
Clint Garner
Third Heat
Race (8 laps, top 4 finishers transferred to A-feature)
1)
Tim Shaffer
2)
Shane Stewart
3)
Brooke Tatnell
4)
Sammy Swindell
5)
Ricky Logan
6)
7)
Stevie Smith
8)
Jesse Hockett
9)
Calvin Landis
10)
Ryan Coniam
11)
Kaley Gharst
12)
Michael Jones
13)
Brent Antill (DNS)
Fourth Heat
Race (8 laps, top 4 finishers transferred to A-feature)
1)
Don Droud, Jr.
2)
Kerry Madsen
3)
Jeremy Campbell
4)
Skip Jackson
5)
Matt Moro
6)
Kevin Swindell
7)
8)
9)
Lynton Jeffrey
10)
Robert Bell
11)
12)
Jesse Giannetto
13)
Jerrel Slinkard (DNS)
C-Main (10
laps, top 2 finishers transferred to B-main)
1)
Jason Solwold [$20]
2)
Peter Murphy [$20]
3)
Matt Moro [$125]
4)
Daryn Pittman [$100]
5)
Ryan Coniam [$100]
6)
Brandon Wimmer [$100]
7)
Jesse Hockett [$100]
8)
Eric Vanderploeg [$100]
9)
Mike Moore [$100]
10)
Michael Jones [$100]
11)
Ryan Anderson [$100]
12)
Barry Ruble [$100]
13)
Robert Bell [$100]
14)
Kaley Gharst [$100]
15)
Greg Jones [$100]
16)
Lynton Jeffrey (DNS) [$100]
17)
18)
Jerrel Slinkard (DNS) [$100]
19)
Brent Antill (DNS) [$100]
20)
Collin Northway (DNS) [$100]
Stacker 2®
Dash (6 laps, finishing order determined first 6 starting positions of
A-feature)
1.
Danny Lasoski
2.
Steve Kinser
3.
Terry McCarl
4.
Sammy Swindell
5.
Kraig Kinser
6.
Joey Saldana
B-main (12
laps, top 4 finishers transferred to A-feature)
·
·
·
·
Jason Sides [$20]
·
Stevie Smith [$200]
·
Billy Alley [$180]
·
Clint Garner [$175]
·
Jon Agan [$160]
·
Jason Solwold [$150]
·
Ricky Logan [$150]
·
Calvin Landis [$150]
·
Justin Henderson [$150]
·
Kevin Swindell [$150]
·
Peter Murphy [$150]
·
Chris Walraven [$150]
·
·
Jaymie Moyle [$150]
·
Jesse Giannetto (DNS) [$150]
A-main (25
laps)
·
Steve Kinser [$12,000]
·
Danny Lasoski [$6,000]
·
Sammy Swindell [$4,000]
·
Terry McCarl [$3,500]
·
·
Tim Kaeding [$3,100]
·
Joey Saldana [$3,000]
·
Tim Shaffer [$2,500]
·
Kraig Kinser [$2,100]
·
·
·
Craig Dollansky [$1,600]
·
Shane Stewart [$1,500]
·
Paul McMahan [$1,200]
·
Brooke Tatnell [$1,100]
·
Jason Sides [$1,000]
·
Daryn Pittman [$900]
·
Donny Schatz [$800]
·
Wayne Johnson [$800]
·
Randy Hannagan [$800]
·
·
Jac Haudenschild [$800]
·
Don Droud, Jr. [$800]
·
Skip Jackson [$800]
·
Peter Murphy [$800]
·
Jeremy Campbell [$800]
·
Kerry Madsen [$800]
·
Lap
leaders: Steve Kinser 1-11, 14-25; Danny Lasoski 12-13
Notes:
Daryn Pittman and Brandon Wimmer changed engines after warm-ups. … Collin
Northway scratched for the night after qualifying. …