Post by Richard on May 12, 2004 15:07:01 GMT -5
Meyers wins Freedom 40
World of Outlaws FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE......
K-C Raceway
Freedom 40
May 11, 2004
By Scott Wolfe and WoO staff reports
CHILLICOTHE, OHIO-Jason Meyers of Clovis, California, waited out a two hour rain delay before the program began, and a brief fog delay before the dashes to charge from 12th starting position to win the World of Outlaws “Freedom 40” A-feature Tuesday night before a packed house at Jim Nier’s K-C Raceway. The win was Myers third WoO win of the season and came in the 14th running of the “Freedom 40” event. In the companion Modified Lite feature Brian Woodhall edged Tracy Fritter for the win.
“People say these races are won from the first three rows, but we proved them wrong tonight,” said an elated Meyers. “I just want to thank all of you in the stands for sticking with us tonight—we had rain, we had fog, but you guys are still here and we love you for it! This is a great race track. Anytime it’s wide enough to race 4 wide and still have some room, you know it’s a great track.”<br>
Track owner/promoter Jim Nier and track the track prep crew of Dave and Brian Karshner had the track in lightening fast form. The track absorbed about a half hour of steady rain and another hour of on and off showers to remain smooth and fast with multi-lane racing.
“This is a wide, super fast race track,” continued Myers. “Despite the weather the track stayed fast and smooth. My guys Steve (Swenson) and Bob (Curtis) put a (Hoosier) RD-15 on the car tonight, and it worked perfectly. This car was awesome all night long. We’ve had some good finishes this year, and some that haven’t been as good, but as long as we keep finishing up front sometimes, we’ll take it.”<br>
In the early going, Bartlett, TN driver Jason Sides jumped out to a huge lead after getting the jump on first dash winner Donny Schatz. Immediately, Schatz and Australian driver Kerry Madsen locked horns in a race-long battle for the runner-up slot. Madsen passed Donny Schatz for 2nd low in turns 1&2, but Schatz got the spot back on the inside in 3&4.
That battle continued for at least ten circuits as Side’s once straight-away lead evaporated to twelve car lengths as lapped traffic now became a factor. Back in the pack Mark Kinser took 5th from Steve Kinser on lap ten, then on the 11th go round the caution waved for Kraig Kinser, who went pitside with a flat right rear tire.
Once again Sides continued his domination with a good restart, while the Schatz/Madsen battle became even more intense. That duo swapped positions at either end of the track, while Mark Kinser and Jason Myers pulled into the mix to make it a four-way battle for second.
As traffic once again became a factor, Sides slipped to an eight car length advantage, while Meyers, who started 12th, passed Mark Kinser for 4th on the top exiting turn four on lap 28. At one point four-wide, the fight for second continued and Sides’ lead was cut to a couple car lengths as now five cars engaged in a torrid race for the lead.
Watching in awe, fans rose to their feet as the quintet put on a classic battle on the Ross County high banks. Four wide racing continued for 2nd on lap 29 with Jason Meyers getting the best of the encounter with a bonzai high side pass with Mark Kinser in tow over Schatz and Kerry Madsen. Two laps later on lap 31, Meyers took the lead from Jason Sides on the top exiting turn four.
Sides’ mount appeared to lose traction as the race unfolded, while Meyers blitzed forward and the fight for second continued. On lap 38 Mark Kinser took second from Sides. As the leaders took the white flag, Danny Lasoski stopped in turn two. The caution flew, setting up a wild two lap dash to the finish. With two backmarkers between Meyers and Kinser, Meyers held on for a six car length victory.
Rounding out the top ten behind Meyers were Mark Kinser, Jason Sides, Donny Schatz , Kerry Madsen, Craig Dollansky, Dale Blaney, Steve Kinser, Chad Kemenah, and Paul McMahan
Some of the very best Modified Lite cars and drivers in America turned out to celebrate K-C’s “Freedom 40”. The star-studded field joined the outlaws as the support division with cars from 16 states and Australia packing the pits for an exciting night of action.
The winner of the first modified heat was former national champion Tracy Fritter over Pennsylvania's Eric Hay. Kevin Meadows claimed a big win in the second heat over Jim Adams and in the third heat Brian Woodhall took the win from sprint car driver Todd Kane who finished second. Pennsylvanian Mike Hay claimed the win over Lynn Knepper in heat number four.
The Mod-Lite feature was fast and exciting with lots of passing all the way back through the pack. Brian Woodhall grabbed the early lead and battled nose to tail with Tracy Fritter the entire race. At the end, however, Woodhall came home the winner. Following Woodhall and rounding out the top ten were Tracy Fritter, Kevin Meadows, Keith Swartzlander, Mike Hay, Tony Courtney, Lynn Knepper, Tyler Reno, Todd Kane, and David Seitz.
World of Outlaw Sprints
Qualifying
1) Chad Kemenah, Harble 15K, 11.649 2) Steve Kinser, Kinser 11, 11.665 3) Jonathan Allard, Wright 35, 11.710 4) Paul McMahan, Helm 11H, 11.735 5) Joey Saldana, Woodward 2, 11.743 6) Mark Kinser, Kinser 5M, 11.747 7) Kerry Madsen, VerMeer 55, 11.760 8) Donny Schatz, Schatz 15, 11.765 9) Craig McGuire, McGuire 4MC, 11.765 10) Danny Lasoski, Stewart 20, 11.785 11) Jason Sides, Sides Motorsports 7S, 11.785 12) Kraig Kinser, Kinser 11K, 11.801 13) Dale Blaney, Andrews 72, 11.809 14) Erin Crocker, Woodring 16, 11.815 15) Tim Kaeding, Roth 83JR, 11.817 16) Craig Dollansky, Karavan 7, 11.832 17) Jason Meyers, Elite Racing Team 14, 11.867 18) Brian Brown, Parsons 6, 11.893 19) Jon Agan, Agan 4J, 11.896 20) Danny Smith, Smith 4, 11.935 21) Randy Hannagan, TH Racing 1X, 11.947 22) Greg Wilson, Hampshire 63, 11.977 23) Nick Naber, Jarrell 22, 11.979 24) Daryn Pittman, Woodburn 21, 12.068 25) Brian Paulus, Pender 28, 12.988 26) Brian Carlson, SC Motorsports 18, 12.103 27) Tim Shaffer, Roth 83, 12.237 28) Rob Chaney, SC Racing 9X, 12.250 29) Tim Hunter, Hunter 2H, 12.258 30) Jimmy Stinson, Stinson 84K, 12.274 31) Ed Neumeister, Neumeister 11N, 12.276 32) Ryan Myers, Garrett 56R, 12.290 33) Jac Haudenschild, Miller 6M, 12.320 34) John Ivy, Carousel 20X, 12.337 35) Todd Kane, Kane 78, 12.398 36) Bob Bennett, ACME 3, 12.488 37) Keith Baxter, Baxter 1B, 12.506 38) Kyle Sauder, Kirian K, 12.535 39) Wayne McPeak, McPeak 1MC, 12.540 40) Mark Imler, Imler 40, 12.770 41) Dean Jacobs, Brown 99, 12.840 42) Eddie Slone, Slone 4X, 12.973 43) Kyle Stuchel, Stuchel 8, 12.985 44) Randy Fink, Fink 41, 13.793
First Heat Race (8 laps, top 5 finishers transferred to A-feature)--1) Daryn Pittman 2) Craig Dollansky 3) Donny Schatz 4) Jason Meyers 5) Chad Kemenah 6) Craig McGuire 7) Brian Paulus 8) Tim Hunter 9) Jac Haudenschild 10) Keith Baxter
Second Heat Race (8 laps, top 5 finishers transferred to A-feature)--1) Brian Brown 2) Nick Naber 3) Steve Kinser 4) Tim Kaeding 5) Kerry Madsen 6) Jimmy Stinson 7) Danny Lasoski 8) Kyle Sauder 9) Jason Solwold 10) Eddie Slone
Third Heat Race (8 laps, top 5 finishers transferred to A-feature)--1) Jon Agan 2) Jason Sides 3) Erin Crocker 4) Jonathan Allard 5) Mark Kinser 6) Greg Wilson 7) Todd Kane 8) Wayne McPeak 9) Ed Neumeister 10) Tim Shaffer
Fourth Heat Race (8 laps, top 5 finishers transferred to A-feature)—1) Danny Smith 2) Randy Hannagan 3) Dale Blaney 4) Kraig Kinser 5) Paul McMahan 6) Joey Saldana 7) Rob Chaney 8) Mark Imler 9) Ryan Myers 10) Randy Fink 11) Bob Bennett
C-main (8 laps, top 2 finishers transferred to B-main)—1) Keith Baxter 2) Kyle Sauder 3) Bob Bennett 4) Eddie Slone 5) Mark Imler 6) Randy Fink 7) Wayne McPeak
First Dash (5 laps, finishing order determined inside first 8 rows of A-feature)--1) Donny Schatz 2) Jonathan Allard 3) Mark Kinser 4) Chad Kemenah 5) Craig Dollansky 6) Brian Brown 7) Erin Crocker 8) Kraig Kinser
Second Dash (5 laps, finishing order determined outside first 8 rows of A-feature)—1) Jason Sides 2) Kerry Madsen 3) Steve Kinser 4) Paul McMahan 5) Dale Blaney 6) Jason Meyers 7) Tim Kaeding 8) Jon Agan
B-main (12 laps, top 4 finishers transferred to A-feature)—1) Danny Lasoski 2) Joey Saldana 3) Rob Chaney 4) Brian Paulus 5) Tim Hunter 6) Craig McGuire 7) Tim Shaffer 8) Keith Baxter 9) Jimmy Stinson 10) Greg Wilson 11) Jac Haudenschild 12) Brian Carlson 13) Todd Kane 14) Kyle Sauder 15) Ed Neimeister 16) Ryan Myers
A-main (40 laps)--1) Jason Meyers 2) Mark Kinser 3) Jason Sides 4) Donny Schatz 5) Kerry Madsen 6) Craig Dollansky 7) Dale Blaney 8) Steve Kinser 9) Chad Kemenah 10) Paul McMahan 11) Tim Kaeding 12) Danny Smith 13) Danny Lasoski 14) Kraig Kinser 15) Brian Brown 16) Jonathan Allard 17) Erin Crocker 18) Randy Hannagan 19) Joey Saldana 20) Brian Paulus 21) Nick Naber 22) Rob Chaney 23) Jon Agan 24) Daryn Pittman
MODIFIED LITES
Heat One-Tracy Fritter, Eric Hay, Tony Courtney, Steve Duty
Heat Two-Kevin Meadows, Jim Adams,Tyler Reno, Jesse Bergman
Heat Three-Brian Woodhall, Todd Kane, J.T. Jones, Ian Harris.
Heat Four-Mike Hay, Lynn Knepper, Keith Swartzlander, Shiloh Miller
B-Main- Dave Starcher, Roger Seitz, Zach Bergman T.Q. Farrar
Feature: Brian Woodhall, Tracy Fritter, Kevin Meadows, Keith Swartzlander, Mike Hay, Tony Courtney, Lynn Knepper, Tyler Reno, Todd Kane, David Seitz
Outlaw Lap leaders: Jason Sides 1-30, Jason Meyers 31-40
Notes:
A late afternoon rain shower delayed the start of the program nearly two hours.
Danny Lasoski and Daryn Pittman changed engines after qualifying
World of Outlaws FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE......
K-C Raceway
Freedom 40
May 11, 2004
By Scott Wolfe and WoO staff reports
CHILLICOTHE, OHIO-Jason Meyers of Clovis, California, waited out a two hour rain delay before the program began, and a brief fog delay before the dashes to charge from 12th starting position to win the World of Outlaws “Freedom 40” A-feature Tuesday night before a packed house at Jim Nier’s K-C Raceway. The win was Myers third WoO win of the season and came in the 14th running of the “Freedom 40” event. In the companion Modified Lite feature Brian Woodhall edged Tracy Fritter for the win.
“People say these races are won from the first three rows, but we proved them wrong tonight,” said an elated Meyers. “I just want to thank all of you in the stands for sticking with us tonight—we had rain, we had fog, but you guys are still here and we love you for it! This is a great race track. Anytime it’s wide enough to race 4 wide and still have some room, you know it’s a great track.”<br>
Track owner/promoter Jim Nier and track the track prep crew of Dave and Brian Karshner had the track in lightening fast form. The track absorbed about a half hour of steady rain and another hour of on and off showers to remain smooth and fast with multi-lane racing.
“This is a wide, super fast race track,” continued Myers. “Despite the weather the track stayed fast and smooth. My guys Steve (Swenson) and Bob (Curtis) put a (Hoosier) RD-15 on the car tonight, and it worked perfectly. This car was awesome all night long. We’ve had some good finishes this year, and some that haven’t been as good, but as long as we keep finishing up front sometimes, we’ll take it.”<br>
In the early going, Bartlett, TN driver Jason Sides jumped out to a huge lead after getting the jump on first dash winner Donny Schatz. Immediately, Schatz and Australian driver Kerry Madsen locked horns in a race-long battle for the runner-up slot. Madsen passed Donny Schatz for 2nd low in turns 1&2, but Schatz got the spot back on the inside in 3&4.
That battle continued for at least ten circuits as Side’s once straight-away lead evaporated to twelve car lengths as lapped traffic now became a factor. Back in the pack Mark Kinser took 5th from Steve Kinser on lap ten, then on the 11th go round the caution waved for Kraig Kinser, who went pitside with a flat right rear tire.
Once again Sides continued his domination with a good restart, while the Schatz/Madsen battle became even more intense. That duo swapped positions at either end of the track, while Mark Kinser and Jason Myers pulled into the mix to make it a four-way battle for second.
As traffic once again became a factor, Sides slipped to an eight car length advantage, while Meyers, who started 12th, passed Mark Kinser for 4th on the top exiting turn four on lap 28. At one point four-wide, the fight for second continued and Sides’ lead was cut to a couple car lengths as now five cars engaged in a torrid race for the lead.
Watching in awe, fans rose to their feet as the quintet put on a classic battle on the Ross County high banks. Four wide racing continued for 2nd on lap 29 with Jason Meyers getting the best of the encounter with a bonzai high side pass with Mark Kinser in tow over Schatz and Kerry Madsen. Two laps later on lap 31, Meyers took the lead from Jason Sides on the top exiting turn four.
Sides’ mount appeared to lose traction as the race unfolded, while Meyers blitzed forward and the fight for second continued. On lap 38 Mark Kinser took second from Sides. As the leaders took the white flag, Danny Lasoski stopped in turn two. The caution flew, setting up a wild two lap dash to the finish. With two backmarkers between Meyers and Kinser, Meyers held on for a six car length victory.
Rounding out the top ten behind Meyers were Mark Kinser, Jason Sides, Donny Schatz , Kerry Madsen, Craig Dollansky, Dale Blaney, Steve Kinser, Chad Kemenah, and Paul McMahan
Some of the very best Modified Lite cars and drivers in America turned out to celebrate K-C’s “Freedom 40”. The star-studded field joined the outlaws as the support division with cars from 16 states and Australia packing the pits for an exciting night of action.
The winner of the first modified heat was former national champion Tracy Fritter over Pennsylvania's Eric Hay. Kevin Meadows claimed a big win in the second heat over Jim Adams and in the third heat Brian Woodhall took the win from sprint car driver Todd Kane who finished second. Pennsylvanian Mike Hay claimed the win over Lynn Knepper in heat number four.
The Mod-Lite feature was fast and exciting with lots of passing all the way back through the pack. Brian Woodhall grabbed the early lead and battled nose to tail with Tracy Fritter the entire race. At the end, however, Woodhall came home the winner. Following Woodhall and rounding out the top ten were Tracy Fritter, Kevin Meadows, Keith Swartzlander, Mike Hay, Tony Courtney, Lynn Knepper, Tyler Reno, Todd Kane, and David Seitz.
World of Outlaw Sprints
Qualifying
1) Chad Kemenah, Harble 15K, 11.649 2) Steve Kinser, Kinser 11, 11.665 3) Jonathan Allard, Wright 35, 11.710 4) Paul McMahan, Helm 11H, 11.735 5) Joey Saldana, Woodward 2, 11.743 6) Mark Kinser, Kinser 5M, 11.747 7) Kerry Madsen, VerMeer 55, 11.760 8) Donny Schatz, Schatz 15, 11.765 9) Craig McGuire, McGuire 4MC, 11.765 10) Danny Lasoski, Stewart 20, 11.785 11) Jason Sides, Sides Motorsports 7S, 11.785 12) Kraig Kinser, Kinser 11K, 11.801 13) Dale Blaney, Andrews 72, 11.809 14) Erin Crocker, Woodring 16, 11.815 15) Tim Kaeding, Roth 83JR, 11.817 16) Craig Dollansky, Karavan 7, 11.832 17) Jason Meyers, Elite Racing Team 14, 11.867 18) Brian Brown, Parsons 6, 11.893 19) Jon Agan, Agan 4J, 11.896 20) Danny Smith, Smith 4, 11.935 21) Randy Hannagan, TH Racing 1X, 11.947 22) Greg Wilson, Hampshire 63, 11.977 23) Nick Naber, Jarrell 22, 11.979 24) Daryn Pittman, Woodburn 21, 12.068 25) Brian Paulus, Pender 28, 12.988 26) Brian Carlson, SC Motorsports 18, 12.103 27) Tim Shaffer, Roth 83, 12.237 28) Rob Chaney, SC Racing 9X, 12.250 29) Tim Hunter, Hunter 2H, 12.258 30) Jimmy Stinson, Stinson 84K, 12.274 31) Ed Neumeister, Neumeister 11N, 12.276 32) Ryan Myers, Garrett 56R, 12.290 33) Jac Haudenschild, Miller 6M, 12.320 34) John Ivy, Carousel 20X, 12.337 35) Todd Kane, Kane 78, 12.398 36) Bob Bennett, ACME 3, 12.488 37) Keith Baxter, Baxter 1B, 12.506 38) Kyle Sauder, Kirian K, 12.535 39) Wayne McPeak, McPeak 1MC, 12.540 40) Mark Imler, Imler 40, 12.770 41) Dean Jacobs, Brown 99, 12.840 42) Eddie Slone, Slone 4X, 12.973 43) Kyle Stuchel, Stuchel 8, 12.985 44) Randy Fink, Fink 41, 13.793
First Heat Race (8 laps, top 5 finishers transferred to A-feature)--1) Daryn Pittman 2) Craig Dollansky 3) Donny Schatz 4) Jason Meyers 5) Chad Kemenah 6) Craig McGuire 7) Brian Paulus 8) Tim Hunter 9) Jac Haudenschild 10) Keith Baxter
Second Heat Race (8 laps, top 5 finishers transferred to A-feature)--1) Brian Brown 2) Nick Naber 3) Steve Kinser 4) Tim Kaeding 5) Kerry Madsen 6) Jimmy Stinson 7) Danny Lasoski 8) Kyle Sauder 9) Jason Solwold 10) Eddie Slone
Third Heat Race (8 laps, top 5 finishers transferred to A-feature)--1) Jon Agan 2) Jason Sides 3) Erin Crocker 4) Jonathan Allard 5) Mark Kinser 6) Greg Wilson 7) Todd Kane 8) Wayne McPeak 9) Ed Neumeister 10) Tim Shaffer
Fourth Heat Race (8 laps, top 5 finishers transferred to A-feature)—1) Danny Smith 2) Randy Hannagan 3) Dale Blaney 4) Kraig Kinser 5) Paul McMahan 6) Joey Saldana 7) Rob Chaney 8) Mark Imler 9) Ryan Myers 10) Randy Fink 11) Bob Bennett
C-main (8 laps, top 2 finishers transferred to B-main)—1) Keith Baxter 2) Kyle Sauder 3) Bob Bennett 4) Eddie Slone 5) Mark Imler 6) Randy Fink 7) Wayne McPeak
First Dash (5 laps, finishing order determined inside first 8 rows of A-feature)--1) Donny Schatz 2) Jonathan Allard 3) Mark Kinser 4) Chad Kemenah 5) Craig Dollansky 6) Brian Brown 7) Erin Crocker 8) Kraig Kinser
Second Dash (5 laps, finishing order determined outside first 8 rows of A-feature)—1) Jason Sides 2) Kerry Madsen 3) Steve Kinser 4) Paul McMahan 5) Dale Blaney 6) Jason Meyers 7) Tim Kaeding 8) Jon Agan
B-main (12 laps, top 4 finishers transferred to A-feature)—1) Danny Lasoski 2) Joey Saldana 3) Rob Chaney 4) Brian Paulus 5) Tim Hunter 6) Craig McGuire 7) Tim Shaffer 8) Keith Baxter 9) Jimmy Stinson 10) Greg Wilson 11) Jac Haudenschild 12) Brian Carlson 13) Todd Kane 14) Kyle Sauder 15) Ed Neimeister 16) Ryan Myers
A-main (40 laps)--1) Jason Meyers 2) Mark Kinser 3) Jason Sides 4) Donny Schatz 5) Kerry Madsen 6) Craig Dollansky 7) Dale Blaney 8) Steve Kinser 9) Chad Kemenah 10) Paul McMahan 11) Tim Kaeding 12) Danny Smith 13) Danny Lasoski 14) Kraig Kinser 15) Brian Brown 16) Jonathan Allard 17) Erin Crocker 18) Randy Hannagan 19) Joey Saldana 20) Brian Paulus 21) Nick Naber 22) Rob Chaney 23) Jon Agan 24) Daryn Pittman
MODIFIED LITES
Heat One-Tracy Fritter, Eric Hay, Tony Courtney, Steve Duty
Heat Two-Kevin Meadows, Jim Adams,Tyler Reno, Jesse Bergman
Heat Three-Brian Woodhall, Todd Kane, J.T. Jones, Ian Harris.
Heat Four-Mike Hay, Lynn Knepper, Keith Swartzlander, Shiloh Miller
B-Main- Dave Starcher, Roger Seitz, Zach Bergman T.Q. Farrar
Feature: Brian Woodhall, Tracy Fritter, Kevin Meadows, Keith Swartzlander, Mike Hay, Tony Courtney, Lynn Knepper, Tyler Reno, Todd Kane, David Seitz
Outlaw Lap leaders: Jason Sides 1-30, Jason Meyers 31-40
Notes:
A late afternoon rain shower delayed the start of the program nearly two hours.
Danny Lasoski and Daryn Pittman changed engines after qualifying
