Eldora Saturday Results 99-05-15

All Star Sprint Race Results - ELDORA Speedway, Rossburg, OH - Sat. 5/15/99 By Scott Hall

ROSSBURG, OH - All Star points leader Kenny Jacobs led wire to wire and held off a hard charge by Joey Saldana at the end to win his 18th career Eldora Speedway All Star sprint 30-lap feature Saturday night on $10 general admission night. Byron Reed ended up third. "It wasn’t easy," Jacobs recalled. "When Joey Saldana’s behind you it’s not going to be easy. I knew exactly what was going to happen on that last lap. But the Eagle chassis, Goodyear, Kriner-Chevy engine car worked so good it took off like a bullet on that last start. Les and Lynda Stewart started helping me the last week or so and this is Les’s motor here tonight and I think this is the first one he’s ever won at Eldora and I’m so happy to get it for him." Jacobs drives his own machine, wrenched by Barry Jackson and Lee Jacobs. Once Dean Jacobs dropped out of second with mechanical problems on lap ten, Saldana, who started sixth, ran second the rest of the way.

"We were pretty good. I wish we could have got into lapped traffic," Saldana revealed when asked about his last lap slide job try on Jacobs. "You can’t do it (pass) in just a lap. You need to work on him pretty good to get by him." Kenny Jacobs started on the ButlerBuilt Motorsports Equipment Hot Seat pole position for the 15 mile run with his brother Dean alongside. K. Jacobs shot into the lead on the initial green with Dean in tow. Kenny stretched his advantage as third starting Reed held third ahead of Saldana and Butch Schroeder. K. Jacobs held his lead and even stretched it in lapped traffic, running the high groove only inches from Eldora’s concrete wall. Saldana got Reed for third on lap ten just as D. Jacobs fell by the wayside with engine problems, so the order was Kenny, Saldana, Reed and Schroeder when a lap 12 yellow appeared for a stalled Kasey Kahne in turn four. Jacobs rocketed away on the restart, with Saldana trying to stay close but to no avail. The action for fifth was heating up among Ed Lynch Jr., and Paul McMahan, as Lynch tried to get around Schroeder for fourth. Lynch took fourth on lap 16 as Kenny motored away with a half a lap lead on Saldana. Now Jac Haudenschild moved in on Schroeder, and the pair waged war side by side as did McMahan and Nier for eighth. Tenth place runner Dale Blaney broke his front end and stopped on the track on lap 21 for another caution with the order Kenny, Saldana, Reed, Lynch, Schroeder, Haudenschild, Frankie Kerr and Nier. On this restart, Saldana stayed within striking distance of Jacobs and both ran high, up against the wall. Schroeder repassed Lynch following the restart, then Haudenschild passed Lynch for fifth on lap 26. Ninth place McMahan stopped on the track with a flat tire on lap 29, setting up a green-white-checkered dash to the finish line. Saldana dove under Jacobs going into turn one following the restart cone, getting beside Kenny, but he didn’t have enough momentum to make the lead pass. Jacobs drove on to a win by two seconds over Saldana, with Reed third and Lynch fourth. Haudenschild exploded a right rear on the last lap, failing to finish and dropping him form a third place finish and Schroeder also had problems on the last lap, stopping on the track also as the checkered flew. That put Nier fifth with Kerr sixth and Paulus finished seventh, earning the "Team Simpson Racing Lucky Seven" award. The top ten was rounded out by Jerrod Hull, who started 15th, Danny Smith and McMahan. "My car was great in the beginning," third place finisher Reed said. "We have a new Kistler motor and it was really driving forward, bus as we went ion it got a little loose, but it still wasn’t too bad." The United Expressline heat fell to Shepard, the Southwest Expressline heat to Chad Kemenah, the Southwest Glass heat was won by Frankie Kerr and the United Specialties heat went to Haudenschild. Butch Schroeder won the Commercial Truck & Trailer Dash with Nick Naber the United Expressline B Main winner while Saldana was the Red Devil Brakes fast qualifier. Eldora’s fans donated $2,702 to injured driver Kevin Huntley during intermission when sprint drivers went through the stands to take up a collection for the driver injured here earlier this season.

Time Trials: 1. Joey Saldana, Mox 17, 13.154; 2. Ed Lynch, Jr., Lynch 2L, 13.272; 3. Butch Schroeder, Schroeder 17, 13.292; 4. Byron Reed, B&S 5, 13.350; 5. Dean Jacobs, Holbrook 8, 13.423; 6. Kenny Jacobs, Jacobs 6, 13.430; 7. Paul McMahan, W&J U2, 13.451; 8. Jim Nier, Nier 00, 13.501; 9. Jeff Shepard, Zemco 1, 13.523; 10. Kasey Kahne, Kahne 23K, 13.572; 11. Frankie Kerr, Shoff 23s, 13.586; 12. Jac Haudenschild, Elden 22, 13.618; 13. Dale Blaney, Hughes 94, 13.621; 14. Rodney Duncan, Harrison 22, 13.670; 15. Danny Smith, Ashworth 92, 13.713; 16. Jerrod Hull, Webb 51, 13.802; 17. Brad Furr, Furr 2F, 13.832; 18. Chad Kemenah, Harble 15, 13.841; 19. Tracy Hines, Willoughby 97, 13.845; 20. Fred Boso, Javelina 7, 13.850; 21. Jonathan Stevens, Davis 99, 13.871; 22. Rocky Hodges, Brown 99, 13.914; 23. Dwain Leiber, Leiber 62, 13.950; 24. Jason Dukes, Dukes 3, 13.957; 25. Rob Chaney, Chaney 42, 13.989; 26. Nick Naber, G&N 6, 14.004; 27. Brian Paulus, P&P 28, 14.012; 28. Brian Ellenberger, Ellenberger 20, 14.017; 29. Tim Allison, Lotz 11x, 14.091; 30. Brian Carlson, SC Motorsports 18, 14.119; 31. Greg Wilson, Hampshire 63, 14.129; 32. Dave Freed, Freed 8F, 14.133; 33. Kent Wolters, Wolters 12, 14.238; 34. James Fisher, Fisher 48, 14.409; 35. Mike Miller, Miller 82, 14.535; 36. John Buchy, Buchy 28, 15.053; 37. Jim Damon, Damon 50x, 15.620; 38. Mark Imler, Imler 40, 15.672; 39. Marty Ling, Ling 47, 16.210; 40. Scott Orr, Orr 88, 16.638. United Expressline Heat (8 laps): 1. Shepard 2. Saldana 3. Blaney 4. D. Jacobs 5. Stevens 6. Furr 7. Allison 8. Chaney 9. Wolters 10. Damon. Southwest Expressline Heat (8 laps): 1. Kemenah 2. K. Jacobs 3. Kahne 4. Lynch 5. Fisher 6. Naber 7. Carlson 8. Imler 9. Hodges 10. Duncan. Southwest Glass Heat (8 laps): 1. Kerr 2. Smith 3. McMahan 4. Leiber 5. Schroeder 6. Paulus 7. Hines 8. Wilson 9. Miller 10. Ling. United Specialties Heat (8 laps): 1. Haudenschild 2. Dukes 3. Boso 4. Nier 5. Reed 6. Hull 7. Ellenberger 8. Freed 9. Buchy 10. Orr. Commercial Truck & Trailer Dash: (4 laps): 1. Schroeder 2. Reed 3. Saldana 4. K. Jacobs 5. Lynch 6. D. Jacobs. United Expressline B Main (12 laps): 1. Naber 2. Allison 3. Hull 4. Paulus 5. Furr 6. Hines 7. Wilson 8. Miller 9. Buchy 10. Carlson 11. Orr 12. Imler 13. Damon 14. Wolters 15. Freed 16. Duncan 17. Ellenberger 18. Chaney. DNS - Ling, Hodges. A Main (30 laps): 1. Kenny Jacobs 2. Joey Saldana 3. Byron Reed 4. Ed Lynch, Jr. 5. Jim Nier 6. Frankie Kerr 7. Brian Paulus 8. Jerrod Hull 9. Danny Smith 10. Paul McMahan 11. Jac Haudenschild 12. Butch Schroeder 13. Tim Allison 14. Chad Kemenah 15. Jason Dukes 16. Jeff Shepard 17. Dale Blaney 18. Nick Naber 19. James Fisher 20. Kasey Kahne 21. Dean Jacobs 22. Fred Boso 23. Jonathan Stevens 24. Dwain Leiber. All Star Points: 1. Kenny Jacobs 813; 2. Dean Jacobs 746; 3. Jerrod Hull 657; 4. Rodney Duncan 613; 5. Greg Wilson 601; 6. Paul McMahan 599; 7. Brian Ellenberger 578; 8. Kasey Kahne 553; 9. Brian Carlson 446; 10. Jonathan Stevens 444. n www.allstarsprint.com -

All Star Ohio Speedweek Tuesday Date Finalized

ZANESVILLE, OH - (5/15/99) All Star sprint car Ohio Speedweek co-ordinator Jean Lynch announced Saturday that the Tuesday night race for the 17th annual Ohio Outlaw Sprint Speedweek series will be held at Muskingum County Speedway in Zanesville, OH on June 29. Speedweek returns to Muskingum for the first time since 1993 when Johnny Mackison, Jr. visited victory lane there. Ohio Speedweek kicks off Sunday, June 27 at Millstream Speedway in Findlay, followed by stops at Wayne Co. Speedway in Orrville Monday, Muskingum Tuesday, K-C Raceway near Chillicothe Wednesday, Sharon Speedway in Hartford Thursday, Lima Motorsports Park in Lima Friday and the big $10,000 to win final at Attica Raceway Park is set for July 3.

ALL STAR SPRINTS SET FOR MEMORIAL DAY WEEKEND

PONCE INLET, FL - The All Star Circuit of Champions sprint car series visits a pair of high banked tracks over Memorial Day weekend, May 29 and 30. Limaland Motorsports Park in Allentown, near Lima, hosts the series on Saturday night, May 29 for a $5,000 to win race on the quick quarter mile. Then the series heads south for a Sunday night show on the high banked 3/8 mile oval of K-C Raceway in Alma near Chillicothe with another five grand on the line.