Mark Dobmeier – Memorial Weekend & Knoxville WoO
06/08/2010
The last two race
weekends for Lunstra/Dobmeier Motorsports have been pretty
exciting. The team started out Memorial Weekend with the Friday
night River Cities Speedway event, winning both the heat race and the
feature, nailing down their third win and 10th top five
finish of 2010.
Following River Cities
the team made their 10 hour trip to Knoxville Raceway and qualified
16th out of the 21 car field. Then, having to change
engines before the heat race, Dobmeier started on the pole and fell
back two spots to Skip Jackson and Brian Brown. As the race
unfolded, Mark overtook second and was catching Skip at the time of
the checkered, but ran out of time and settled for the number two
spot.
“After our engine
change, the car felt really good,” explains the veteran driver, “We
had to start on the inside of row seven for the feature and we raced
our way up to sixth to finish out the night. It was a busy
night for us in the pits, but my crew does a great job and they put
together a great car for me.”
Huset’s Speedway had a
double header for their Memorial Weekend NOSA event and Dobmeier
started the night with a fifth place time and a fourth in the
heat. As Mark was going for the lead in the main event, he
nicked the ‘burm’ of the racetrack, spinning the Senske and Son Right
Choice Electric #13, causing a caution. Starting 23rd
on the restart, Mark raced all the way up to 10th to cap
off the evening.
“We should have had this
one,” says Mark. “I just made a mistake going for the lead and
spun the car, but we came back up to tenth to make something out of
the evening. We had a great car, everything was working right,
it was just disappointing making the mistake early on.”
Monday night was a night
to remember for everyone in the stands as it was one of the most
exciting finishes the track has had for a long time.
After setting a fourth quick time on the board and finishing
third in the heat, the team elected to take the Back Row Challenge
and start the Senske and Son Right Choice Electric #13 on the outside
of row eight for the beginning of the main event.
Dobmeier raced hard
passing 13 cars throughout 24 of the 25 lap contest and then on the
last lap, Dobmeier seen an opportunity to double his payday.
The 11x of Gregg Bakker and the 12 car of Lynton Jeffery took the low
line going into turn three, so Mark kept his foot on the throttle and
slammed the car into the cushion, right up alongside the Huset’s
Speedway retaining wall to make it three wide coming out of turn
four. The three were all within inches as they came to the
line, but there just wasn’t enough room for all three racers as
Dobmeier was “pancaked” into the wall and flipped across the line to
finish third behind Bakker and Jeffery.
“It was pretty intense,”
remembers Mark. “I had the chance to take the lead, and all three of
us wanted the win so none of us were going to give it up. We
didn’t hurt the car too bad, but we took the challenge and have been
close before so I really didn’t want to lose this one. We ended
up third and I am sure the finish was a great one to watch from the stands!”
This past weekend was
all about Knoxville Raceway and the World of Outlaws. “We
didn’t qualify great at all,” says the driver of the Senske and Son
Right Choice Electric #13, talking about Thursday’s event, “We were
late out and the track slowed down a bit, but a 41st quick
time wasn’t what we were looking for.”
Dobmeier started in the
back of the heat race at 11th and raced up to 6th
right behind the 4x of Toni Lutar, just one spot outside of the
transfer spot. Having to start the B Feature from all the way
back in 17th, Dobmeier made quick work of the ½ mile and
raced up to 5th, again, just one spot out of the transfer
position of fourth.
They had an invert
starting lineup for the following event on Friday which set the
Senske and Son Right Choice Electric #13 on the inside of the second
row for the start of the 25 lap contest. He ran third
throughout 23 laps of the event, but when Donny Schatz blew a tire
while running sixth with only 2 to go, Dobmeier restarted at third
and at the drop of the green, Mark fell back fast to eighth.
“We had really soft rear
tires on the car and I used them up throughout the race,” explains
Mark. “I knew when the yellow came out that we would be in
trouble, once I got on the gas on the restart, I didn’t have any
traction and we moved backwards.”
After Saturday’s rain
out at the Mediacom Shootout World of Outlaw event, the team traveled
north to Huset’s Speedway to qualify second out of the 14 car field
and then finished third in the heat to line him up 6th for
the start of the main event. Mark finish behind the Harrisburg
native Chad Meyer, to end the night at third.
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 will be racing
River Cities Speedway, Knoxville Raceway and Huset’s Speedway weekly
throughout the 2010 season with as many close World of Outlaw, IRA
and other NOSA events to fill in the gaps of the schedule.
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