Volusia Thrusday Race Report

All Star Sprint Race Results - Volusia Speedway Park (FL) - Thu. 2/4/99 - By Scott Hall

BARBERVILLE, FL - Greg Hodnett led wire-to-wire in the All Star sprint 20-lap feature Thursday night at Volusia Speedway Park. It was the opening event for the All Stars’ 20th anniversary season, worth $3,000 to the Tennessee speedster now in his second season racing for the Apple Motorsports Chevrolet/Maxim team out of Pennsylvania. Hodnett got the jump on pole man Terry McCarl and survived a Lance Dewease lap 14 challenge to win the first 410 sprint car main of 1999. From victory lane, Hodnett thanked his owner Bob Stewart, sponsors and the All Stars for putting on the Florida Speedweeks series. The top five finishers in the A Main all rode aboard Hoosier tires. McCarl started on the ButlerBuilt Motorsports Equipment Hot Seat pole position with Hodnett alongside. Frankie Kerr and Lance Dewease gridded row two, with Danny Lasoski and Joey Saldana next. Dewease grabbed second on lap two, dropping McCarl to third. Tim Shaffer, Brian Ellenberger and Dean Jacobs were involved in a turn four crash on lap three to bring out a red. There were no injuries, but Shaffer's J&M Motorsports Cook car was destroyed, and Jacobs flipped. Hodnett was still on top over Dewease, McCarl and Kerr, stretching his advantage until he hit lapped traffic on lap nine. The halfway mark saw the order Hodnett, Dewease, McCarl, Kerr, Gary Wright, Lasoski, Jeff Shepard and Kelly Kinser. With heavy traffic ahead, Dewease was right on Hodnett’s back bumper, but he could not move the Walt Dyer Eagle past the leader. Freddie Rahmer stopped on the track on lap 18, bringing out the final caution. Rahmer was able to restart on the tail as Hodnett pulled away to win over Dewease and Kerr, who got past McCarl on lap 19 for third. McCarl was next, followed by Lasoski and Wright. Wright charged from 11th to fifth before losing the spot to Lasoski on the last lap. Shepard finished seventh, earning the "Team Simpson Racing Lucky Seven" award. Kinser, Billy Pauch and Saldana completed the top ten.

The United Expressline heat fell to Pauch, the Southwest Expressline heat to Kevin Gobrecht, the Southwest Glass heat was won by P.J. Chesson and the United Specialties heat went to Wright. Paul McMahan was the United Expressline B Main winner and Bob Felmlee won the Georgia Marketing & Promotions C Main. Saldana was the Red Devil Brakes fast qualifier.

Time Trials: 1. Joey Saldana, Mox 17, 14.219; 2. Danny Lasoski, Black 1, 14.248; 3. Lance Dewease, Dyer 461, 14.268; 4. Frankie Kerr, Shoff 23s, 14.271; 5. Joe Gaerte, Holbrook 8H, 14.290; 6. Greg Hodnett, Stewart 12,14.317; 7. Terry McCarl, McCarl 24, 14.433; 8. Kelly Kinser, Kinser 4K, 14.450; 9. Jeff Shepard, Stewart 4J, 14.468; 10. Dean Jacobs, Holbrook 8, 14.490; 11. Dale Blaney, Blaney 93, 14.504; 12. Gary Wright, Wright 9, 14.526; 13. Fred Rahmer, Hamilton 77, 14.588; 14. Kenny Jacobs, Holbrook 8KJ, 14.595; 15. Danny Smith, Ashworth 92,14.722; 16. Kevin Huntley, Daugherty 7, 14.732; 17. Billy Pauch, Zemaitis 1Z,14.740; 18. Kevin Gobrecht, Zemaitis 11, 14.747; 19. Jamie Chesson, Chesson 22, 14.796; 20. Jac Haudenschild, Elden 22, 14.798; 21. Todd Shaffer, Beam 88, 14.813; 22. Brian Ellenberger, Ellenberger 20, 14 863; 23. Rodney Duncan, Harrison 22, 14.955; 24. Tim Shaffer, J&M 55, 14.987; 25. P. J. Chesson, Chesson 76, 15.013; 26. Paul McMahan, W&J U2, 15.015; 27. Leonard Lee, Lee 16L, 15.090; 28. Kenny Adams, Harz 88, 15.096; 29. Joe Roe, Miller 52, 15.103; 30. Scott Whitworth, Whitworth 96, 15.184; 31. Johnny Bankston, Bankston 8, 15.255; 32. Greg Wilson, Hampshire 63, 15.268; 33. Brian Schnee, Schnee 20, 15.305; 34. Jim Moughan, Smith 1M, 15.308; 35. Jerrod Hull, Webb 57, 15.384; 36. Larry Pinegar II, Pinegar 11, 15.400; 37. Butch Schroeder, Schroeder 7B, 15.410; 38. John Eldreth, Eldreth 25, 16.681; 39. Robbie Standridge, Smith 2S, 15.709; 40. Howie Gleason, Gleason 21G, 15.931; 41. Bill Robertson, Eckley 16, 16.189; 42. Bobby Smith, Epperson 8S, 16197; 43. Jeff Barnhart, Barnhart 2B,16.994; Johnny Johnson, Johnson 72J, 18.628; Bob Felmlee, Felmlee 6, NT; 46. Justin Via, Via 24V, NT.

UNITED EXPRESSLINE HEAT 1 - 1) Billy Pauch 2)Jeff Shepard 3) Joey Saldana 4) Todd Shaffer 5) Fred Rahmer 6) P.J. Chesson 7) Dave Hanna 8)Butch Schroeder 9) Brian Schnee 10) Bill Robertson 11) Joe Gaerte.

SOUTHWEST EXPRESSLINE HEAT 2 - I) Kevin Gobrecht 2) Dean Jacobs 3) Kenny Jacobs 4) Greg Hodnett 5) Danny Lasoski 6) Brian Ellenberger 7) Paul McMahan 8) Breezy Whitworth 9) Jim Moughan 10) Bobby Smith 11) Jon Eldreth.

SOUTHWEST GLASS HEAT 3 - 1)P.J. Chesson 2)Rodney Duncan 3) Dale Blaney 4) Lance Dewease 5) Terry McCarl 6) Danny Smith 7) Leonard Lee 8) Jerrod Hull 9) Robbie Standridge 10) Jeff Barnhart 11) John Bankston.

UNITED SPECIALTIES HEAT 4 - 1.) Gary Wright 2) Jac Haudenschild 3) Kelly Kinser 4) Tim Shaffer 5) Frankie Kerr 6) Kevin Huntley 7) Kenny Adams 8) Greg Wilson 9) Larry Pinegar 11 10) Howie Gleason 11) Johnny Johnson 12) Justin Via.

GEORGIA MARKETING AND PROMOTIONS C-MAIN - 1) Bob Felmlee 2) Joe Gaerte 3) Robbie Standridge 4)Howie Gleason 5)Jeff Barnhart 6) Bobby Smith 7)Justin Via 8 )Johnny Johnson 9)Bill Robertson.

UNITED EXPRESSLINE B-MAIN - 1)Paul McMahan 2)Kevin Huntley 3)Brian Ellenberger 4) Danny Smith 5)Leonard Lee 6) Joe Roe 7)Joe Gaerte 8) P.J. Chesson 9)Scott Whitworth 10) Greg Wilson 11) Kenny Adams 12)Brian Schnee 13) Robbie Standridge 14) John Bankston 15) Larry Pinegar II 16) Howie Gleason 17) Jerrod Hull 18) Jim Moughan 19)Butch Schroeder 20)Bob Felmlee.

A-MAIN - 1) Greg Hodnett 2) Lance Dewease 3) Frankie Kerr 4) Terry McCarl 5) Danny Lasoski 6) Gary Wright 7) Jeff Shepard 8) Kelly Kinser 9) Billy Pauch 10)Joey Saldana 11) Dale Blaney 12) Jac Haudenschild 13) Todd Shaffer 14) Kenny Jacobs 15) Paul McMahan 16) Rodney Duncan 17) Kevin Huntley 18) Fred Rahmer 19) James Chesson 20) Danny Smith (DNF) 21) Dean Jacobs (DNF) 22) Kevin Gobrecht (DNF) 23) Brian Ellenberger (DNF) 24) Tim Shaffer (DNF).