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July 02, 2011 at
11:34:24 AM by CDR
Dollansky Defeats Dodge City for 5th Win!
- Watch Dollansky's post race interview HERE! -
Craig
Dollansky and Big Game Treestands #7 team are hot right now. Having
won two of the last three events, the team took on the 'Old West' of
Dodge City, Kansas as Mother Nature did her best to compete with the
professional sprint car team as temperatures sizzled into the 100's for
the opener of the Boothill Showdown on Friday.
With
26 competitors assembled at the 3/8-mile track coined Dodge City
Raceway Park, Dollansky went out early to qualify and turned a lap of
14.038 seconds, 13th fastest. Missing the heat inversion by one spot
put the Elk River, Minnesota driver in a bit of a hole, but only
momentarily. In the third heat Dollansky would muscle the Aggressive
Hydraulics Maxim from the fifth start spot up to 2nd to secure a spot
in the dash. Dollansky continued to battle back as he climbed from
tenth up to the 6th position by the completion of the 6-lap dash event.
In
the 30-lap feature event, the Karavan Trailers #7 started outside row
three and used a great start to move up to fourth by just the second
lap. By lap 13 the #7 caught up with Jason Sides as the two battled for
third. Dollansky continued to keep pace with Sides and would take the
position on lap 21 and quickly reel in Jason Meyers until the first
caution came on lap 23. Caught between a Big Game sandwich, 'The Crowd
Pleaser' disposed of Meyers on the restart to take the runner-up
position and track down teammate Sammy Swindell. Following a red flag
with just three laps to go, Dollansky lined up alongside Swindell for
the double-file restart as the two drivers raced hard into turn one and
down the backstretch where the #7 put a slide job on the #1 to assume
the lead on lap 28 and never look back as 'The Crowd Pleaser' raced to
his 5th victory of the season.
The
victory marked the 9th victory combined this year for Big Game
Motorsports of the 25 events and the second time the teammates have
finished 1-2.
"What
a great night," commented Dollansky. "We started out in a hole and
didn't get qualified very well and didn't have the car where we wanted
but kept working on it and dug ourselves out of a hole in the heat race
and got a pretty good starting spot for the feature out of the dash.
Sammy
went to the middle in one and two (on the last restart) and I went to
the top and got a run on him coming out of two and was able to slide
him going into three. Sammy's been running strong, we've been running
strong, and it's always a great team effort when you win. DJ, Luke,
and Troy are doing a great job and working hard. Both these Big Game
Treestands teams are strong and doing a great job and to come home one
and two is something we're very proud of with Tod Quiring who is behind
both of these teams and a great guy to have behind us and can't thank
him enough."
Racing resumes on Saturday at Dodge City Raceway Park for the finale of the Boothill Showdown.
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