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All Star Sprint Results - Volusia Speedway Park - Sat. 2/10/01 By Scott Hall

BARBERVILLE, FL - It was Survivor. Not in the Australian Outback, but Barberville, Florida as the "Crowd Pleaser," Craig Dollansky, made it three different winners in three nights Saturday night at Volusia Speedway Park. A sellout crowd watched the Minnesota driver survive to win round three of the All Star sprint Florida Speedweek series, a 20-lap event, on Kevin Gobrecht night, in honor of the late driver who won an All Star feature here in 1999. Gobrecht’s mother Donna Long presented Dollansky with a plaque in memory of her son.

Dollansky thanked his crew from victory lane and credited Charlie Fisher engines for a strong powerplant and Hoosier for great tires. Dollansky also related that it was his good luck and a bad deal for early leader Chad Kemenah who fell out of the lead with a flat tire.

Kemenah was on the pole in Jimmy Harble’s UUI No. 15 with Danny Lasoski’s Tony Stewart 20 alongside and Lasoski took the initial lead over Kemenah, third starting Dollansky and Lance Dewease, who started fourth in the Joe Harz Racing No. 88. Lasoski was still in the lead when a red appeared on lap five for Dale Blaney, who had nowhere to go when James Chesson spun. Blaney hit Chesson and executed a slow flip.

Lining up for the restart, Lasoski had a flat tire as did James Chesson, moving them to the rear of the restart lineup and handing Kemenah the lead. The restart was waved off when Jason Johnson spun after colliding with Joey Saldana. Kemenah again led for the drop of the green, with Dollansky now second followed by Dewease and 10th starting Tim Shaffer. Several green flag laps finally were entered into the record books when Mike Wagner rolled to a stop on the speedway with a rear flat, bringing out another caution on lap 15 on the hard and slick surface. Wayne Johnson also stopped with a flat when the race restarted, bringing out yet another yellow flag. Another lap was completed with the order Kemenah, Dollansky, Dewease, Shaffer and Danny Wood when a pair of Gregs stopped on the track, Hodnett and Wilson, both with tire troubles. This brought out a red flag fuel stop.

The green reappeared, followed by an immediate red for another incident. Ronald Laney flipped over the turn two wall after contact with Joe Roe. But this spelled disaster for Kemenah, who appeared headed to his first win of the season, as he too had a flat tire.

Dollansky inherited the lead and his Hoosier Tires held up for the win as he led the final four circuits. Dewease held on for second, his third top three finish in a row while battling the flu. Wood started tenth and finished third with Shaffer fourth and 20th qualifier Todd Gracey fifth. Travis Rilat, from the last row was sixth with Saldana seventh, Kim Mock eighth and Rodney Duncan ninth. Terry McCarl completed the top ten.

The K-T Equipment heat went to Danny Lasoski; the JB Enterprise Racing Products heat to Rodney Duncan; the Crown Battery Heat to Joey Saldana; the Engler Machine & Tool heat to Dale Blaney; and won the Georgia Marketing & Promotions C Main to Dean Jacobs; while the B Main was won by Rodney Duncan.

Time Trials: 1. James Chesson, Chesson 22c, 13.887; 2. Ronald Laney, Laney 52, 13.979; 3. Lance Dewease, Harz 88, 13.979; 4. Kraig Kinser, Kinser 11k, 13.985; 5. Craig Dollansky, Karavan 7, 13.995; 6. Danny Lasoski, Stewart 20, 14.015; 7. Chad Kemenah, Harble 15k, 14.023; 8. Joey SaIdana, Saldana 17, 14.024; 9. Kevin Huntley, Ashworth 92, 14.030; 10. Danny Wood, Woodburn 21w, 14.050; 11. Tim Shaffer, Shaffer 45, 14,054; 12. Joe Roe, Roe 61, 14.070; 13. Jason Johnson, Row 41, 14.071; 14. Dale Blaney, Blaney 10, 14.087; 15. Wayne Johnson, Threatt 29J, 14.088; 16. Greg Hodnett, Apple 12, 14,151; 17. Jeremy Campbell, Campbell 10c, 14.183; 18. Kelly Kinser, Kinser 4k, 14.196; 19. Greg Wilson, Hampshire 63, 14.209; 20. Todd Gracey, Cooper 25, 14.219; 21. PJ Chesson, Chesson 76, 14,234; 22. Eric Hysong, Andrews 72, 14.240; 23. Kim Mock, Osburn/Mock 1m, 14.259; 24. Jason Sides, Rhodes 7s, 14.266; 25. Travis Rilat, Archer U2, 14.273; 26. Tom Busch, Busch 4b, 14.277; 27. Rodney Duncan, Harrison 22, 14.279; 28. Billy Wilburn, Wilburn 0, 14.281; 29. Mike Wagner, Wagner 55w, 14.312; 30. Jerrod Hull, Webb 51, 14.314; 31. Brian Ellenberger, Ellenberger 20, 14,333; 32. Terry McCarl, Holbrook 8h, 14.337; 33. Jim Nier, Nier 00, 14.341; 34. Kenny Jacobs, Jacobs/Honecker 6, 14.341; 35. Steven King, King 88k, 14.369; 36. Danny Smith, Baker 4, 14.387; 37. Billy Pauch, J&M 55, 14.390; 38. Dean Jacobs, Elden 22, 14,413; 39. Jeff Shepard, Daugherty 7, 14.470; 40. Ryan Flynn, Flynn F1, 14.479; 41. Charlie Osburn, Osburn/Mock 53, 14.510; 42. John Bankston, Bankston 8, 14.659; 43. Terry Pletch, Pletch 29p, 14.638; 44. Bruce Robenalt, Robenalt 98, 14.871; 45. Mike Hudson, Hudson 1h, 15.072; 46. Mike Chadd, Chadd 4c, 15.208; 47. Joe Bustillos, Bustillos 37, 16.129; 48. Andy Zipperer, Zipperer 92z, 16.306; 49. Johnny Johnson, Johnson 72j, 16.729; 50. Curt Trainer, Trainer 29t, DQ-Too light. KT EQUIPMENT RENTALS HEAT 1 1)20L Danny Lasoski 2)12 Greg Hodnett 3)45 Tim Shaffer 4)22c James Chesson 5)4B Tom Busch 6)4 Danny Smith 7)76 PJ Chesson 8)4c Mike Chadd 9)53 Charley Osborn 10)20 Brian Ellenberger JB ENTERPRISE HEAT 2 1)22d Rodney Duncan 2)15K Chad Kemenah 3)8H Terry McCarl 4)52 Ronald Laney 5)72 Eric Hysong 6)55 Billy Pauch 7)61 Joe Roe 8)10c Jeremy Campbell 9)37 Joe Bustillos 10)8b John Bankston CROWN BATTERY HEAT 3 1)17 Joey Saldana 2)0 Billy Wilburn 3)lm Kim Mock 4)41 Jason .Johnson 5)22e Dean Jacobs 6)4K Kelly Kinser 7)00 Jim Nier 8)29P Terry Pletch 9)92z Andy Zipperer 10)88 Lance Dewease (DNS) ENGLER MACHINE & TOOL HEAT 4 1)10 Dale Blaney 2)63 Greg Wilson 3)55w Mike Wagner 4)7s Jason Sides 5)92 Kevin Huntley 6) 11 K Kraig Kinser 7)98 Bruce Robenalt 8)72J Randy Johnson 9)6 Kenny Jacobs 10)7r Jeff Shepard HEAT 5 1)25 Todd Gracey 2)7x Craig Dollansky 3)51 Jerrod Hull 4)U2 Travis Rilat 5)21W Danny Wood 6)29j Wayne Johnson 7)Fl Ryan Flynn 8)88K Steven King 9)29T Curt Trainer 10) 111 Mike Hudson GEORGIA MARKETING & PROMOTIONS C-MAIN 1)22F Dean Jacobs 2)F1 Ryan Flynn 3)7r Jeff Shepard 4)88 Lance Dewease 5)29T Curt Trainer 6)29P Terry Pletch 7)98 Bruce Robenalt 8)4c Jeremy Campbell 9)37 Joe Bustillos 14)53 Charley Osborn 11)72J Johnny Johnson DNS 8B John Bankston; 1H Mike Hudson; 92z Andy Zipperer B-MAIN 1)29J Wayne Johnson 2)21W Danny Wood 3)61 Joe Roe 4)88 Lance Dewease 5)92 Kevin Huntley 6)76 PJ Chesson 7)4K Kelly Kinser 8)10C Jeremy Campbell 9)7r Jeff Shepard 10)6 Kenny Jacobs 11)55P Billy Pauch 12)4s Danny Smith 13)F1 Ryan Flynn 14)20E Brian Ellenberger 15)4b Tom Busch 16) 11 K Kraig Kinser 17)72 Eric Hysong 18)88K Steven King 19)22E Dean Jacobs DNS 00 Jim Nier A-MAIN 1)7x Craig Dollansky 2)88 Lance Dewease 3)21w Danny Wood 4)45 Tim Shaffer 5)25 Todd Gracey 6)U2 Travis Rilat 7)17 Joey SaIdana 8)1M Kim Mock 9)22d Rodney Duncan 10)8h Terry McCarl 11)20L Danny Lasoski 12)22c James Chesson 13)7s Jason Sides 14)55w Mike Wagner 15)29j Wayne Johnson 16)0 Billy Wilburn 17)63 Greg Wilson 18)15k Chad Kemenah 19)61 Joe Roe 20)52 Ronald Laney 21)12 Greg Hodnett 22)41 Jason Johnson 23)10 Dale Blaney 24)51 Jerrod Hull