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6/13/08

Huset's Speedway

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30 cars

Kerry Madsen (5^th car out to time) set quick time at 10.714 seconds. Sam Hafertepe Jr. (8^th car out) was second quick, followed by Jason Meyers (17^th), Terry McCarl (14^th), Jac Haudenschild (28^th), Donny Schatz (6^th), Dusty Zomer (10^th), Craig Dollansky (13^th), Johnn Cressman (26^th) and Danny Lasoski (2^nd). After struggling in qualifying, Tim Shaffer and Steve Kinser changed motors.

Heat one (started): 1. Lasoski 5 (1) 2. Zomer 5z (2) 3. McCarl 24 (3) 4. Madsen 55 (4) 5. Kraig Kinser 20 (7) 6. Jason Sides 7s (5) / 7. Mark Dobmeier 13 (9) 8. Billy Alley 22 (6) 9. John Lambertz 12L (8) 10. Marlon Jones 9m (10)

The track was heavy through the B, with little passing. Lasoski led the distance in the 8-lapper, and Zomer held off McCarl for the second transfer to the dash.

Heat two (started): 1. Shane Stewart 83 (1) 2. Dollansky 2 (2) 3. Haudenschild R19 (3) 4. Hafertepe Jr. 15H (4) 5. Chad Kemenah 8K (5) 6. Daryn Pittman 21 (7) / 7. Jake Peters 57x (6) 8. Chad Hillier 5c (9) 9. Tim Shaffer 6 (8) 10. Gordy Vogelaar 33 (10)

Stewart led flag to flag. Pittman got around Peters for the final transfer on lap one and held him off the rest of the way.

Heat three (started): 1. Justin Henderson D1 (1) 2. Schatz 15 (3) 3. Meyers 14 (4) 4. Joey Saldana 9 (6) 5. Cressman 56 (2) 6. Brian Paulus 28 (5) / 7. Steve Kinser 11 (8) 8. Tony Bruce Jr. 18 (9) 9. Gregg Bakker 11x (7) 10. Chuck McGillivray 101 (10)

Henderson led the mostly single-file affair. Saldana made a nice move on lap one into fourth, and Paulus held off S. Kinser for the final transfer.

Dash (started): 1. Stewart (1) 2. Lasoski (2) 3. Dollansky (3) 4. Zomer (4) 5. Schatz (6) 6. Henderson (5) 7. Madsen (7) 8. Meyers (9) 9. Hafertepe Jr. (8) 10. McCarl (10)

Not much going on here.

B main (started): 1. Alley (1) 2. Peters (2) 3. Lambertz (4) 4. Bakker (3) 5. Dobmeier (7) 6. S. Kinser (6) / 7. Hillier (8) 8. Shaffer (5) 9. Bruce Jr. (9) 10. Vogelaar (11) 11. Jones (10) DNS – McGillivray

Alley pulled away from the beginning and dominated on the high side in the non-stop 12-lapper. Dobmeier used a nice start to get around S. Kinser and Shaffer at the start.

A main (started): 1. Dollansky (3) 2. Schatz (5) 3. Meyers (8) 4. Haudenschild (11) 5. Kemenah (14) 6. Stewart (1) 7. Madsen (7) 8. Sides (13) 9. Saldana (18) 10. McCarl (10) 11. Hafertepe Jr. (9) 12. S. Kinser (24) 13. Alley (16) 14. Pittman (20) 15. Henderson (6) 16. Paulus (15) 17. Dobmeier (23) 18. Bruce Jr. (25, pr.) 19. Bakker (21) 20. Lambertz (22) 21. K. Kinser (19) 22. Zomer (4) 23. Peters (17) 24. Cressman (12) 25. Lasoski (2)

Henderson was slated to start sixth, but broke a bleeder in staging for the event. He started at the tail after pulling it out. Stewart shot out to an early lead and extended it in the 35-lapper until Dollansky caught up to him in traffic on lap six and took the point. Schatz moved by Stewart a few laps later, and then moved by Dollansky around lap 15. Lasoski went up in smoke early on and retired. Cressman followed suit. On lap 24, K. Kinser spun on the backstretch. His left rear looked low on the restart. Schatz led Dollansky, Meyers, Stewart, Haudenschild and a charging Kemenah back to green flag racing. Dollansky shot by the leader to take the point on the restart, and Meyers followed him. A few laps prior, Zomer was running fifth when he broke a right front arm, slowing his progress. On lap 27, he would find the backstretch wall and get upside down hard. He was uninjured. The last restart saw Dollansky ahead of Meyers, Schatz, Stewart, Haudenschild and Kemenah. Dollansky pulled away for the $10,000 win. K. Kinser pulled off with a left rear off the rim. Schatz slid Meyers into the wall to take second. Meyers went back around him, and both were banging for the runner-up spot. In the end, it was Schatz in second. After the checkers, there was plenty of contact between the two on the track.

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Poor Donnie....must be frustrating having faster cars on the track!  Keep up the pressure "Hot Foot"!

Schatz and Meyers waged an epic battle late in the race, trading the runner-up spot four times. On the last lap, there was heavy contact as Schatz got into Meyers exiting the fourth turn, causing Meyers to nearly spin as he came down the front straightaway.

“We had a really good car,” said Schatz after his runner-up finish. “We had a right front torsion bar come out at the middle of the race. We were all right as long as we were in traffic, but we got the yellows and then I made a mistake going into the first corner and there was nothing I could do to keep it up. I slammed the frame rail down and got passed.”

Schatz, who extended his lead in the championship standings on Friday night as he chases his third consecutive title, nearly got into the wall with four laps to go exiting the fourth turn.

“There was some good racing at the end,” he said. “I have always raced those guys in the (No.) 14 clean and I don’t expect them to pull over. He used me up more than eight times and I just returned the favor. That’s the way it goes, I guess.”

Meyers picked up his series leading 16^th Top-Five finish of the season as he wound up third in the GLR Investment KPC. He started the 35-lap event in the eighth spot and quickly worked his way to the front. He gained two spots on the opening lap and was in the Top-Five by just the fourth lap. He then began the first of two epic battles with Schatz. The pair jockeyed for the third position from the fourth lap through the eighth lap and then for the runner-up spot over the final 10 laps of the contest.

“It’s kind of disappointing,” said Meyers. “We have always raced Donny (Schatz) clean and tonight he decided not to do that. It was a great run for the team. I thought we had at least a second-place car. It’s just unfortunate that they want to race that way. We’ll just go on to the next race and keep doing what we are doing and keep beating that (No.) 15 car.”

Late in the race, Schatz did his best to hold on to his Armor All J&J after losing the right front torsion bar. His runner-up finish was his series leading 19^th Top-10 run of the year, as he remains the only driver that has finished in the Top-10 in each and every event. He led a total of 11 laps before Dollansky got around him on the late restart.

“There is nothing you can do about it,” said Schatz of the red flag with 11 laps to go. “I knew we had a little problem and that the bar was missing. It gave me a little time to try to figure out what to do with the race car to get around there. It was still pretty good. The (No.) 2 was out in clean race track and I thought we would have a chance at him. I was a little too busy playing bumper cars with the (No.) 14 and that’s the way it goes.”

Meyers used a strong restart with 11 laps to go to keep pace with Dollansky. After Schatz got by him on the 27^th lap, he charged back around him on the next circuit. He began the night by turning in the third-fastest lap in time trials.

“I pulled the winged back to try and get through the middle better and it didn’t really help me in the middle and hurt me on the top,” he explained. “Craig (Dollansky) is always good in open air on the cushion. I thought we kind of had something for him and we got to racing with Donny (Schatz) and that slowed us down.”

Jac Haudenschild picked up his seventh Top-Five finish of the season on Friday night, coming home fourth in the Owens-Corning Fiberglass Maxim, which moved him into the Top-Five in the championship standings.

The "Wild Child" is reeling in that #9 car for 4th in points.......next stop victory lane!

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Wish I was there to see this one. Hard to imagine what happened when both Donny and Jason say they have always raced eachother clean. Guess you can't expect them to say they race eachother dirty.

I was at Knoxville last weekened and there was some hard racing between Donny and Joey, but it was clean all the way, nothing dirty. I've always considered both the 15 and the 14 to be clean drivers. Nice to see the 14 running strong this season instead of being mid-pack like everyother year he's been on the tour. Kind of arogant of Jason to say he's just going to keep beating the 15. Seems he was beating the 15 earlier this season, but the last 2 weeks ain't hardly anybody beating Donny. Meyers is clean, but he seems to come off as a "My California shit don't stink" kind of guy.

Meyers finally steps up to tells it like it is re:Shatz & you call it a California attitude,come on when something needs to be said let it be said.Shatz is the most arrogant driver out there never giving the other drivers credit when they have a good run but instead says he should win every race & does piss & moan when he does'nt win.If he gives another car the wheel he should expect to get it back,to bad Meyers does'nt race that way somebody needs to.Shatz is a very good driver it's to bad his arrogance has to always come to the forefront,take your TSR bankroll & keep handing out non popular remarks,it must feel good to get booed by home state fans...............there has been only one intimidator,the black # 3.

when is comes to arrogance and respect for other drivers - you will never hear the driver of the 14 going into a rant saying "who in the f#ck is Daryn Pittman?" over and over again! lol

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Eldora 2287 ft/.43mile T3=135MPH
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Grove 2792 ft/.53 mile T3=135MPH
Selinsgrove 2847 ft/.54 mile T1=136MPH
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Dang, a couple of Posse fans whining about Donny Schatz, hmmmm. Must be because in his relatively short career he already has more Outlaw wins at the Grove than ANY Posse driver in history, surprise, surprise. Elbows Up Mr. Schatz and keep on truckin'. Take It Easy....

Whining? I actually think it's rather amusing that someone ruffled "Mr. Schatz's" feathers.

Just because you're not allowed to go to the races, doesn't mean you need to take out your frustrations on us.

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I think what meyers said was right on. All Schatz does is blame everybody else all the time except when he wins he wants to act like a nice guy I mean come on everybody is getting sick of it. And if you can't race a clean third why not run somebody right through the wall that sounds good it's bull#$*@ Hes just as good as anybody out there or better so just shut your mouth grow up and race!!!

Cheers!

Um...pretty sure Donny gave Joey Saldana qutie a bit of credit last week after their dual at K-ville. In his post race interview, he said Joey is always fun to race and he's a clean racer. I think you are mistaken by saying he "never gives other drivers credit when they have a good run."

Yes Meyers is a nice guy, never said he was not. I think all the drivers are nice guys. I don't know you but I am sure you are a nice guy as well.

Don't worry, if I would have been saying the same about Schatz, I most certainly would have said his North Dakota shit don't stink either. You've got to admit California sounds better though.