Reply to:
Posted By: chilly on October 08 2013 at 08:50:13 AM
Actually, you're both right. Sammy was really fast all year that year, including Nationals... won the WoO pts title in his silver anniversary year (silver car). Like too many other Nationals, Sammy had the car to win. Don Droud Jr. flipped in turn 4 right in front of Sammy (who was leading Mark). Sammy jumped on the binders, Mark had nowhere to go, and ran him over - took them both out. I think rubber had already been laid. Blaney was no better than a 3rd place car. He inherited the lead though and won. Once the race restarted, I distinctly remember Blaney not being able to pass Larry Pinegar II to lap him... the track was dreadful.
|
The race wasn't as bad as everyone always makes it out to be, did it take rubber? yes, but with just a few laps to go it looked as though Greg Hodnett was going to win the race (he had gotten beside Blaney on more than one occasion).
Official finish per knoxvilleraceway.com - Blaney started 7th (and was obviously up to 3rd when Sammy and Mark crashed on lap 11). Sammy and Mark both restarted at the tail (Droud was the first car out of the race as the wreck) and came back up to finish 11th and 14 respectively. Other cars made some passes (when it comes down to it, for YEARS, the Saturday Night A-main usually had little to zero passing (even when you could run 4 wide) due to the line-ups being determined by points (the fast guys were already up front, who were they gonna pass??).
37th AMOCO Knoxville Nationals Championship (started), 30 laps, NT:
1. 10, Dave Blaney, Cortland, OH(7) 2. 11H, Greg Hodnett, Memphis, TN (4) 3. 1z, Danny Lasoski, Dover, MO (2) 4. 22, Jac Haudenschild,
Wooster, OH (6) 5. 47, Johnny Herrera, Tempe, AZ (5) 6. 3G, Joe Gaerte, Rochester, IN (8) 7. 1w, Craig
Dollansky, Elk River, MN (9) 8. 23s, Frankie Kerr, Fremont, OH (13) 9. 75, Paul McMahan, Oroville, CA (16)
10. 11, Steve Kinser, Bloomington, IN (10) 11. 1, Sammy Swindell, Bartlett, TN (3) 12. 2, Andy Hillenburg,
Broken Arrow, OK (17) 13. 1AU, Garry Brazier, Sydney, NSW, Aust. (12) 14. 5m, Mark Kinser, Oolitic, IN
(1) 15. Jeff Shepard (22) 16. 8h, Terry McCarl, Pleasant Hill, IA (19) 17. 12A, Kevin Gobrecht, New Oxford,
PA (20) 18. 71m, Doug Wolfgang, Sioux Falls, SD (18) 19. 92, Kenny Jacobs, Holmesville, OH (14) 20. 7,
Larry Pinegar II, Des Moines, IA (15) 21. Jeff Swindell (21) 22. Skip Jackson (23) 23. 35, Tyler Walker,
Wooster, OH (11) 24. Don Droud Jr. (24).
Lap Leaders: M. Kinser 1-8; S. Swindell 9-10; Blaney 11-30.
|