Dobmeier Passes 43 Cars This Past
Weekend…
7/20/2009
Mark Dobmeier in the
Lunstra/Dobmeier Motorsports #13 started out this last weekend of
racing at his home track of River Cities Speedway in Grand Forks, ND.
Going into the Friday evening, Dobmeier currently leads the points
chase at the speedway and has five feature wins on the high-banked
4/10ths oval.
He started in the
back of the heat race at eighth and passed his way up to third and
with the third place finish in the heat, the Senske & Son Delta
Oil machine lined up on the outside of row number 4 of the main
event. “The track fooled us for the first time in a long time,”
explains Dobmeier. “We thought the track was going to dry out a
little more that so we had the car tight for most of the race.” He
certainly made an exciting show for the fans as with the tight race
car at one time in the event, he nailed the throttle coming out of
turn four and “wheelied” down the front stretch going into turn one.
Mark raced his way up to fourth to cap off the evening finishing
behind Wade Nygaard, Dave Glennon and feature winner, Casey Mack.
Following the top
five at River Cities, it was off to Knoxville Raceway. “Going into
tonight we wanted to try a few things to prepare ourselves for the
upcoming nationals,” says Mark. “We had to work a few new ideas on
the racetrack this week so we knew if it was something we should
pursue for next week.”
The ideas didn't
exactly work out as planned as the Senske & Son Delta Oil #13
qualified 21st with a time of 15.684, almost a half second off the
quick time of 15.188 set by Seth Brahmer.
The Lunstra/Dobmeier
Motorsports team put the car back to normal and lined up 7th for the
heat race. Entering into turn 3, Mark went low on the racetrack and
caught the inside of the track causing the car to turn left abruptly
and Dobmeier backed into the famous retaining wall of Knoxville
Raceway destroying the tail tank.
The crew hurried to
fix the car to get it ready for the Semi in which another seventh
place starting position was waiting for him. Dobmeier raced up to
fourth to make the transfer in the main event.
He lined up 19th for
the start of the main event and was able to pass up inside the top
ten to ninth.
“We certainly hoped
for a better finish tonight,” explains the Grand Forks native.
“Qualifying where we did kind of put us behind the eight ball. But,
we were able to get those ideas out of our system and we’ll be more
than ready for the weeks to come and certainly for the nationals.”
After Saturday’s
Knoxville event, Huset’s Speedway was next in line. With a 3rd fast
time against the 21 cars on the fast high banked oval and a eighth to
fifth run in the heat race, Lunstra/Dobmeier Motorsports decided to
take the challenge to start in the rear of the main event.
At the beginning of
the 2009 season, Baete-Forseth put up a challenge for any driver in
the 410 Outlaw Class that elected to start at the rear of the field,
a $5000 bonus would be paid if that driver would come from the rear
of the field to win the event. Well, Mark Dobmeier took that
challenge and elected to start at the rear of the 21-car field in
hopes of making a $7500 payday.
At the drop of the
flag, Mark got a great start and began passing cars. Up to the top
five of the field, Mark nearly spun and got passed by four cars
creating the challenge even that much more difficult. He was able to
make his way up to 3rd, which as impressive as that is, disappointed
Mark. “The car was amazing,” says Dobmeier. “I could put the Senske
& Son Delta Oil #13 wherever I needed to and I think if I
wouldn’t have nearly spun towards the end I really felt we could have
won the race. But, coming from 21st to 3rd is pretty impressing and
it certainly makes us very proud!”
FAST FACTS
ON DOBMEIER:
Mark graduated from
The University of North Dakota in Grand Forks with a Bachelor’s
Degree in Business in which he then put the degree to work as he
currently has a business in his hometown called Forx Radiator where
he specializes in radiator repair and other vehicle service work.
Mark has over 125
Sprint Car Feature Wins and currently is leading the points battle at
both River Cities Speedway and Huset’s Speedway. He sits 7th in the
points standings at Knoxville Raceway behind Sydney, Australia native
Kerry Madsen.
This past weekend
“Dynamite” Dobmeier passed a total of 43 cars throughout the three
races at River Cities, Knoxville and Huset’s.
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