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7/30/08

34 Raceway

West Burlington, IA

WoO + 305s

23 410s

20 305s

410s

Steve Kinser (23^rd car out to time) set a new record at the 3/8 mile oval coming out dead last at 12.250 seconds. Sam Hafertepe Jr. (19^th car out) was second quick, followed by Paul McMahan (22^nd), Jason Meyers (3^rd), Shane Stewart (15^th), Donny Schatz (4^th), Terry McCarl (16^th), Joey Saldana (10^th), Josh Schneiderman (13^th) and Chad Hillier (6^th).

Heat one (started): 1. Hillier 5c (1) 2. S. Kinser 11 (2) 3. Meyers 14 (3) 4. Jac Haudenschild R19 (4) 5. Kerry Madsen 55 (5) 6. Ryan Jamison 51J (6) 7. Bronson Maeschen 96 (7) DNS – Terry McCarl 24

McCarl had ignition issues and failed to start from his front row starting spot. Hillier led flag to flag in a mostly single-file 10 lap event, and then chucked a rear-end after the checkers.

Heat two (started): 1. Saldana 9 (2) 2. Tony Bruce Jr. 18 (1) 3. Hafertepe Jr. 15H (4) 4. Stewart 83 (3) 5. Craig Dollansky 2 (5) 6. Kraig Kinser 20 (6) 7. Jesse Hockett 75 (7) 8. Bobby Mincer 15x (8)

Saldana led the duration in another parade.

Heat three (started): 1. Jason Sides 7s (1) 2. Schneiderman 49 (2) 3. McMahan 6 (4) 4. Schatz 15 (3) 5. Daryn Pittman 21 (5) 6. Chad Kemenah 8K (6) 7. Joey Moughan 55B (7)

The heavy track worked in the favor of the front row starters again. The crowd was on its feet cheering the local boy Schneiderman to a dash starting spot. Schatz did make a brief bid for third at the line.

Dash (started): 1. Bruce Jr. (1) 2. Schneiderman (2) 3. Hillier (4) 4. S. Kinser (3) 5. Saldana (5) 6. Sides (6) 7. Hafertepe Jr. (7) 8. Stewart (10) 9. Meyers (9) 10. McMahan (8)

Bruce Jr. led throughout, and Schneiderman held on for second. McMahan exited on lap four.

A main (started): 1. Bruce Jr. (1) 2. S. Kinser (4) 3. Schneiderman (2) 4. Sides (6) 5. Meyers (9) 6. Pittman (14) 7. Schatz (11) 8. Haudenschild (15) 9. Hillier (3) 10. Dollansky (13) 11. Madsen (12) 12. Hafertepe Jr. (7) 13. K. Kinser (16) 14. McCarl (19) 15. Kemenah (17) 16. Jamison (18) 17. Stewart (8) 18. Saldana (8) 19. Moughan (20) 20. Hockett (21) 21. McMahan (10) 22. Mincer (22) DNS – Maeschen

Bruce Jr. led the 35 lapper wire to wire to win his first career WoO feature. The track stayed heavy, so passes were earned. S. Kinser moved around Schneiderman on the first lap and Saldana followed suit into third after a lap five slowdown for McMahan who was having ignition problems. The restart saw Bruce ahead of S. Kinser, Schneiderman, Saldana and Hillier. Schneiderman shot out at the next 17 laps went non-stop. While running third, Saldana appeared to lose a rear-end on lap 22 while third. The slowdown saw Bruce still leading ahead of S. Kinser, a steady Schneiderman who held off the advances of Sides and Meyers. Four more laps were recorded before Stewart, who was running in the top ten, made heavy contact with the turn three wall, and retired. The last nine laps went undeterred, with the best racing occurring between Sides Meyers and a charging Pittman, who earned hard-charger honors. Schneiderman's finish was the highlight for much of the partisan crowd.

305s

Heat one (started): 1. Justin Newberry 36 (2) 2. Tasker Phillips 7 (3) 3. Dakota Carroll 11c (1) 4. Ryan Jamison 23 (10) 5. Nick Guernsey 0 (5) 6. Justin Giannetto D1 (9) 7. Jarrod Schneiderman 88 (6) 8. John Draper 44 (7) 9. Cale Hutchings 87 (8) 10. Jesse Hockett 35x (4)

Hockett driving a back-up Hetrick entry, surged into the lead on the first circuit, but exited with a smoking motor on lap four. Jamison was the mover in this one, advancing six spots in Kevin Hetrick's machine.

Heat two (started): 1. Donnie Steward 16HD (2) 2. Bobby Mincer 14P (3) 3. Nick Eastin 16x (8) 4. Jayson Ditsworth 1 (6) 5. Matt Krieger 56 (5) 6. Alexsha Alexander 27 (10) 7. Brian Hetrick 35 (1) 8. Tim Rose 5 (7) 9. Chad Huston 7H (9) 10. Seth Wilke 38 (4)

Steward pulled away from the outset. Wilke broke his front end on the first try at a green flag after contact with Ditsworth, who returned without a nose wing. Eastin was racing with Huston when the latter got squeezed on the frontstretch and the two made contact breaking Huston's front end. The car veered into the infield, through a sign and into a radio station's van. No one was hurt, and Huston returned for the A.

A main (started): 1. Steward (1) 2. Phillips (2) 3. Mincer (3) 4. Jamison (5) 5. Schneiderman (12) 6. Newberry (4) 7. Krieger (7) 8. Guernsey (8) 9. Carroll (6) 10. Rose (15) 11. Alexander (18) 12. Ditsworth (9) 13. Draper (14) 14. Hutchings (16) 15. Hetrick (13) 16. Giannetto (11) 17. Huston (17) 18. Wilke (19) 19. Eastin (10) DNS – Hockett

Steward led the 20-lap distance, but Phillips stuck with him. A lap six restart incident saw Hetrick try to squeeze between Giannetto and the wall. It didn't work and the two cars were torn up, and Huston was also collected. No one was hurt. Steward dominated the rest of the way, with Schneiderman garnering hard-charger honors.

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WoO show with the top 3 finishers in order: T. Bruce Jr.  S. Kinser and Josh Schneiderman ??  If there was para-mutual betting allowed in sprint car racing that would have been close to the biggest tri-fecta (top 3 finishers in EXACT order) in the history of WoO racing. Bruce Jr. certainly wasn't a huge upset but he would have went off at around 20 to 1 Kinser is always going to be in the 3 to 1 area but Schneiderman would have been at 99 to 1 (as high as the board shows) but he would have paid over a $100.00 in the show (3rd) position. All speculations here are based BEFORE time trials. A $2.00 tri-fecta  ticket would have prolly paid like $18,000.00.  

 p.s. This is not a knock on ANY one,  just the wanderings of a active mind !!!

R. A.

S.H.S.

Track was heavy. Almost no passing. Heats could have been just green, white, checker cause the way they went down the back stretch on lap 1 was the way they finished. Friday nights rain must have been to much.

I also wonder how McCarl did not start last in the A? He never even got the motor running for a heat race. Those starting behind him ran a heat.

WoO website says Kinser got beside Bruce several times? I saw him get under Bruce coming off 4 once but Bruce pulled away down the front stretch.

Those not finishing in the top six in their heat, lined straight up by time...

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My question Bill is how come none of the Knoxville locals come off of the porch?

From the other post about the guy complaining about the ticket price and everything else is Bill W's reply:

"A Knoxville regular was third, and the other was unable to start, so good showing despite low numbers. I know several Knoxville guys wanted to be there, but for one reason or another it was bad timing before the 360 and 410 Nationals. I can think of a few that probably could have been there, and probably would have been if they knew the field was short. The original July date earlier in the year may have worked better as far as car count for the locals, but when they saw the great job Josh did, maybe they were kicking themselves! Regardless, it was a great event"

My take on it is that I wish more had showed, but realize that times are tough and getting back to the bad timing - a few of them probably take the end of this week off and all of next week off from work to get ready for the biggest 4 days of the year.

Missed Bills earlier reply, but we both know that people are up in arms about Rahmer and he has been to both Ohio and Lernerville this year for shows.  I realize that some of those Brownie and Alley come from a ways, but they also can parlay that into more races. 

Remember when Jackson ran the 410 show a couple of years ago with 14 cars.  If the 410 guys can't produce any better than that, to heck with them.  If you can't race for 800 to start, why would anyone ever run a show that paid less in the local area unless the IRA is involved.  To make it worse, watch Belvue get 14 cars tonight.  The local 410's need to start supporting local shows if the Midwest is going to have any long term 410 racing.

Belleville has 18 cars tonite.Dale Blaney fast time.

Did it ever occur to any of you whiners that just MAYBE some of them 410 er's from K-ville are running the 360 Nat.s???? Could this MAYBE the reason that they didn't make it to 34???? Some people would bitch if they were hung with a NEW rope!!!!! Congrats!! 34 Raceway for a job well done!!!!!