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1991 World of Outlaws Copenhagen-Skoal Shootout Sprint Car Series
Inaugural Asphalt Nationals
Lakeside Speedway, Kansas City, Kansas
Saturday, November 9th, Preliminary Feature
Historic first racing event on asphalt for the WoO Sprint Car Series. Non points race as the season has already ended. The two-day purse is about $70,000 which ranks as the highest in the 36-year history of the Lakeside Speedway facility. Mid America Motorsports runs Lakeside Speedway and leased the track to RED Racing Inc. for the financial backing and promotion of the event. RED Racing is primarily owned by businessmen Bob Reid, Clyde Ellis and Jim Davis. A Friday test session was scrubbed due to ice and snow on the track from the weather issues earlier ion the week. Lakeside Speedway General Manager, John Renfro Jr. recruits notable Doug Clark to flag the events.
Steve Kinser had made previous end of season commitments to race in Australia and not in competition in this event.
-An estimated 2,100 fans were in attendance for both of the cold afternoon shows.
Qualifications: Previous track record: Dave Strickland, 16.872.
1. Frankie Kerr, Shoff 23S, 14.890 / 120.97 MPH (New Track Record); 2. Joey Allen, Allen 1A, 15.072; 3. Dave Blaney, Weikert 29, 15.205; 4. Sammy Swindell, Annett 1, 15.244; 5. Kenny Jacobs, Wimmer 7TW, 15.369; 6. Mark Kinser, Williams 5M, 15.573; 7. Shane Carson, Vielhauer 12X, 15.588; 8. Hank Lower, Lower 37L, 15.673; 9. Greg Fedewa, Nosal 42, 15.679; 10. Danny Lasoski, Vance 3V, 15.733; 11. Darrell Dodd, Dodd 11, 16.124; 12. Jeff Bloom, Bloom 67, 16.368; 13. Johnny Parsons, Plummer-Walker 0, 16.501; 14. Rick England, England 30, 16.705; 15. Greg Schaefer, Schaefer 12, 16.718; 16. Mike Blake, Blake 81, 16.745; 17. Ed Perryman, Perryman 29X, 17.764; 18. Mike Thomas, Thomas 37, 18.192; 19. Jim Braden, Braden 94, No Time; 20. Danny Smith, Nance 1N, No Time.
Danny Smith suffers from a blown engine and was done for the night.
Bar’s Leaks Heat Race (8 Laps)
1. Hank Lower, 2. Johnny Parsons, 3. Darrell Dodd, 4. Frankie Kerr, 5. Kenny Jacobs, 6. Mike Blake.
Lower takes the immediate lead from the pole and the distance.
Snap-On Tools Heat Race
1. Joey Allen, 2. Greg Fedewa, 3. Dave Blaney, 4. Mark Kinser, 5. Rick England.
Allen into the lead at the drop of the green and the distance.
Ford Trucks Heat Race
1. Sammy Swindell, 2. Jeff Bloom, 3. Shane Carson, 4. Danny Lasoski, 5. Greg Schaefer, 6. Mike Thomas, 7. Jim Braden.
Swindell takes the lead from Carson on the backstretch with one-to-go.
Sammy-“We came close to each other, but we did not touch.”
Tums Trophy Dash (5 Laps)
1. Mark Kinser [1] $100; 2. Shane Carson $50; 3. Sammy Swindell $50; 4. Kenny Jacobs $50; 5. Frankie Kerr $25;
6. Dave Blaney $25.
Kinser into an immediate lead and dominated.
Preliminary Feature (25 Laps)
1. Mark Kinser [1] $5,010; 2. Sammy Swindell [3] $3,510; 3. Joey Allen [7] $2,010; 4. Frankie Kerr [5] $1,510;
5. Kenny Jacobs [4] $1,210; 6. Dave Blaney [6] $1,010; 7. Shane Carson [2] $1,010; {-1}8. Greg Fedewa [9] $860;
9. Hank Lower [8] $760; 10. Danny Lasoski [10] $710; 11. Rick England [14] $610; 12. Mike Blake [16] $510;
13. Greg Schaefer [15] $410; 14. Ed Perryman [17] $410; 15. Jim Braden [18] $410; 16. Jeff Bloom [12] $410;
17. Darrell Dodd [11] $410; 18. Johnny Parsons [13] $410. DNS-Mike Thomas, DNS-Danny Smith.
Lap leader: Mark Kinser 1-25.
Eleven-time Indy 500 participant-Parsons suffers from a blown engine at the end and was only able to take the pace lap and ducks pit side.Start: The only Yellow flag of the day is out after Dodd stalls on the frontstretch. Lap-4: Traffic. Lap-14: Kinser has lapped into the top-10. Lap-18: Kinser is cruising putting the 8th and 9th running spots a lap down. Lap-25: Sammy would trail by as much as half-a-lap until working his way to Kinser’s tail tank only to slide high out of turn 4 coming down to the white flag. Kinser wins by three car lengths.
Mark Kinser-“I’m happy we’re able to hold off Sammy, I’ve been in enough of these to know you can’t breathe a sigh of relief until it’s over. A lot of things can happen when you think you have it in the bank with as much as ten feet to go. This is our standard dirt car, and we didn’t make any changes, I owe Jeff Bloom some thanks for suggesting some changes to help us get ready. My owners had been stressing this race since it was going to happen. I’m hoping the rules remain structured so we can stay with the same type of cars we use on dirt. I’m also hoping they stay with tracks like this one and they don’t race on high banked asphalt tracks. This will help keep things affordable for everyone.”
Sammy Swindell-“I didn’t know if we could catch him our not, we were having a little bit of trouble with lapped traffic and the car was pushing a bit. We were trying to make up lost ground and we got in the dust when we drifted high. We were there for s split second, but that’s all it took for Mark to get away from us.”
Frankie Kerr-“We just ran a good lap and we didn’t expect to have that kind of time, we were too slow at first and got it going late, we got better as the race got longer. I really like racing on asphalt. This is my fourth time on it and I think it will be really good for TV.”
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1991 World of Outlaws Copenhagen-Skoal Shootout Sprint Car Series
Inaugural Asphalt Nationals
Lakeside Speedway, Kansas City, Kansas
Sunday, November 10th
The cold temperatures were taken into consideration and competitors were given five warm-up laps prior to taking their official qualification attempts.
Autolite Pacesetter Qualifications:
1. Hank Lower, Lower 37L, 15.342; 2. Mark Kinser, Williams 5M, 15.426; 3. Sammy Swindell, Annett 1, 15.440;
4. Frankie Kerr, Shoff 23S, 15.536; 5. Joey Allen, Allen 1A, 15.679; 6. Dave Blaney, Weikert 29, 15.707; 7. Greg Fedewa, Nosal 42, 15.726; 8. Danny Smith, Nance 1N, 15.863; 9. Danny Lasoski, Vance 3V, 16.174; 10. Darrell Dodd, Dodd 11, 16.466; 11. Rick England, England 30, 16.570; 12. Jeff Bloom, Bloom 67, 16.665; 13. Greg Schaefer, Schaefer 12, 17.100; 14. Mike Blake, Blake 81, 17.323; 15. Ed Perryman, Perryman 29X, 17.749; 16. Mike Thomas, Thomas 37, 18.005; 17. Jim Braden, Braden 94, 18.698; 18. Ron Lefholz, Lefholz 20, 18.858; 19. Kenny Jacobs, Wimmer 7TW, No Time; 20. Shane Carson ,Vielhauer 12X, No Time; 21. Johnny Parsons, Plummer-Walker 0, No Time.
Bar’s Leaks Heat Race (8 Laps)
1. Darrell Dodd, 2. Frankie Kerr, 3. Hank Lower, 4. Greg Fedewa, 5. Greg Schaefer, 6. Mike Thomas
Snap-On Tools Heat Race
1. Danny Smith, 2. Joey Allen, 3. Mike Blake, DNF-Mark Kinser, DNF-Rick England, DNF-Jim Braden
Kinser tangles with another competitor and suffers severe front end and frame damage after spinning into an infield tire barrier.
Ford Trucks Heat Race
1. Dave Blaney, 2. Sammy Swindell, 3. Danny Lasoski, 4. Kenny Jacobs, 5. Ron Lefholz, 6. Jeff Bloom, 7. Ed Perryman
Tums Trophy Dash (5 Laps)
1. Joey Allen $100; 2. Sammy Swindell $50; 3. Dave Blaney $50; 4. Frankie Kerr $50; 5. Hank Lower $25.
Allen leads the distance as Sammy nips Blaney at the checkers.
A Feature (35 Laps)
1. Sammy Swindell [2] $8,200; 2. Joey Allen [1] $5,010; 3. Mark Kinser [18] $3,310; 4. Dave Blaney [3] $3,010;
5. Frankie Kerr [4] $2,260; 6. Hank Lower [5] $2,060; 7. Danny Smith [6] $2,010; 8. Danny Lasoski [9] $1,610;
9. Greg Fedewa $1,710; 10. Kenny Jacobs $1,610; 11. Darrell Dodd $1,510; 12. Jeff Bloom $1,310; 13. Rick England $1,210; 14. Greg Schaefer $1,110; 15. Mike Blake $1,010; 16. Ron Lefholz $710; 17. Mike Thomas $710;
18. Ed Perryman $710. DNS-Johnny Parsons.
Lap leader: Sammy Swindell 1-35.
Kinser was slated to start in the 6th spot, but was unable to have the car ready in the seven pace laps-penalty was served to start at the tail. Start-Swindell wins the drag race over Allen taking the lead into turn 1 onto dominating the event. Lap-22: Yellow flag is out after Lefholz, stalled. Lap-33: Kerr and Blaney swap the 3rd spot until Kinser passed them both. Lap-35: Sammy Swindell wins by a ¼ lap for a 4 race winning streak.
Sammy Swindell-“It had been since 1976 that we’ve raced Sprints on asphalt I can understand why there may be a big desire on the part of the World of Outlaws to race more on asphalt. There are more and more asphalt tracks being built and it’s easier to televise. I think it’s the new thing coming. The purpose of the wings is to push the car to the ground and make it faster and safer. I have had the car go 175-180 miles per hour on a mile before. I think were going too fast. The car was working good and it’s nice to be on a roll like we are, but this race was different to what we are used to, as far as Mark, I wish his car could have been together, it would have been more challenging-but it would have been a lot tougher for him since he was starting behind us today. I was able to get into position and quickly run him down to lap him and run him down pretty quick. With the lead, I didn’t want to take any down trying to get around him.”
Mark Kinser-“I would like to thank my crew for being able to get my car back out on the track, we only had about thirty minutes to get the car put back together and it was our only goal to get the car on the track, we thought we could run with Sammy. I thought we showed it when he came up to lap us and could not get around us. With starting at the tail we just wanted to get a feel of the car and we took it easy, I was real happy with how we were able to move up by the end.”
Ted Johnson-“We are pleased with how it went off, when we come here next year we expect the weather to be warmer to where they can run a little higher on the track. We’ll probably run a two-day show and a one-day show next year. It’s a matter with working out the final details. I am glad we kept everyone off the wall. That was one of the things in the back of my mind. I though the fans saw some really good racing. I though the track worked hard at getting their facility ready.”
Rick Ferkel, WoO Competition Director-“Whenever you try something totally 180 degrees different, you could have to be concerned with what could happen, but it went pretty smooth. I am concerned about the time it took to get the program in and the lull we may have while drivers to get their tires heated up. But I think we learned a little from the experience. I thought we put on a race when was pleasing to the fan. It was good to see a race with no crashes. I’m quite happy about the whole thing. (On Lakeside Speedway): It’s quite impressive, I think this track is the type of facility promoters around the country will flock to and copy many of the things they have done here. A facility like this really helps upgrade the image of the sport. VIP suites are the kind of place to take corporate sponsors and encourage them to become involved in the sport, it’s fantastic.”
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