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Volusia Speedway Park Sunday race report

BARBERVILLE, FL - In a repeat of last year's performance, Danny Lasoski captured the $7,000 winner's check Sunday night at Volusia Speedway Park in the All Star sprint 30-lap feature. In front of another standing room only crowd, Lasoski became the fourth different winner in four nights of racing at VSP, wheeling the Eagle Chassis owned by Winston Cup Star Tony Stewart. Lasoski utilized a powerplant built by new All Star contingency sponsor Kistler Engines for his wire-to-wire performance.

The "Dude," from Higginsville, MO, in victory lane, stated he "had the best crew chief in the world, Jimmy Carr, and best owner, Tony Stewart." Stewart, who earlier in the day captured a NASCAR checkered at Daytona, told Lasoski it would be nice if he could win today also.

The top six in points from the previous three nights of action were inverted for the start, putting Lasoski on the pole with Danny Wood outside row one. Tim Shaffer and Rodney Duncan comprised the second row, followed by Lance Dewease and Joey Saldana.

With perfect weather and a hard and slick track surface, Lasoski took command for the 15 mile contest at the drop of the green flag, followed by Wood and Shaffer. A Ryan Flynn spin on lap three slowed the action, but Lasoski was able to pull away from Wood again on the restart with Shaffer still third ahead of Saldana and seventh starting Dale Blaney. Mike Wagner lost a left rear wheel on lap eight for the second caution flag, with Lasoski still on top.

With one third of the event complete; Blaney made a move on Saldana, snaring the fourth spot behind Lasoski, Wood and Shaffer, who were working heavy lapped traffic. Lap 13 was unlucky for California's Flynn, who tangled with Jason Sides as the running order remained the same up front. Terry McCarl pulled off a pass for fifth around Saldana following the restart as Lasoski was comfortably out front. Rodney Duncan was now on the move after fading early as he passed Saldana and McCarl to re-enter the top five behind Lasoski, Wood, Shaffer and Blaney. In traffic Blaney ducked around Shaffer for third on lap 18. The two battled back and fourth for the next five circuits until Shaffer retook the spot on lap 23. Wayne Johnson spun on lap 28, collecting Jeff Shepard, setting up a two-lap dash to the finish for Lasoski. Lasoski kept Wood at bay when the green came out again, but then Blaney blew a right rear tire for yet another yellow on the white flag lap, dropping him from fourth, moving James Chesson to that spot after starting ninth. Lasoski led the final circuit, keeping Wood at bay for the win.

"I just tried to put on a good show for the fans," Wood said of his runner-up finish. "Lapped cars kept me from catching Lasoski."

Shaffer was a steady third in his own machine, with Saldana regaining fourth on the last restart ahead of Ronald Laney, Chesson, Duncan, Greg Hodnett, up from 14th, Billy Pauch from the last row and the U2 of Travis Rilat.

The K-T Equipment heat went to Blaney, the JB Enterprise Racing Products heat to Ronald Laney, the Crown Battery Heat to James Chesson and the Engler Machine & Tool heat to fell to Hodnett. Flynn won the Georgia Marketing & Promotions C Main, Jason Sides the B Main and Shaffer captured the Haulmark Dash. A total of 48 cars were on hand.

KT EQUIPMENT RENTAL HEAT: 1)10 Dale Blaney 2)7x Craig Dollansky 3)25 Todd Gracey 4)7s Jason Sides 5)61 Joe Roe 6)76 PJ Chesson 7)92 Kevin Huntley 8)72 Eric Hysong 9)4b Tom Busch 10)29T Curt Trainer 11)4J Jeff Jansma. JB ENTERPRISE HEAT: 1)52 Ronald Laney 2)7 Jeff Shepard 3)8h Terry McCarl 4)20E Brian Ellenberger 5)41 Jason Johnson 6)00 Jim Nier 7)1M Kim Mock 8)53 Charlie Osborn 9)29P Terry Pletch 10)55P Billy Pauch 11)22E Dean Jacobs. CROWN BATTERY HEAT: 1)22c James Chesson 2)0 Billy Wilburn 3)15K Chad Kemenah 4)63 Greg Wilson 5)88K Steve King 6)55w Mike Wagner 7)11k Kraig Kinser 8)F1 Ryan Flynn 9)98 Bruce Robenalt 10)72J Johnny Johnson. ENGLER MACHINE & TOOL HEAT: 1)12 Greg Hodnett 2)29J Wayne Johnson 3)6 Kenny Jacobs 4)U2 Travis Rilat 5)4s Danny Smith 6)51 Jerrod Hull 7)4K Kelly Kinser 8)10c Jeremy Campbell 9)2s Bryan Brown 10)4c Mike Chadd. HAULMARK DASH: 1)45 Tim Shaffer 2)52 Ronald Laney 3)88 Lance Dewease 4)12 Greg Hodnett 5)22d Rodney Duncan 6)7s Jason Sides. GEORGIA MARKETING & PROMOTIONS C-MAIN: 1)F1 Ryan Flynn 2)55P Billy Pauch 3)22F Dean Jacobs 4)10c Jeremy Campbell 5)4b Tom Busch 6)98 Bruce Robenalt 7)29T Curt Trainer 8)53 Charlie Osborn 9)4J Jeff Jansma 10)72J Johnny Johnson DNS 72 Eric Hysong; 29P Terry Pletch; 4c Mike Chadd 2s Bryan Brown B-MAIN: 1)7s Jason Sides 2)20E Brian Ellenberger 3)U2 Travis Rilat 4)55W Mike Wagner 5)55P Billy Pauch 6)F1 Ryan Flynn 7)61 Greg Wilson 8)41 Jason Johnson 9)1M Kim Mock 10)22c Dean Jacobs 11)61 Joe Roe 12)76 PJ Chesson 13)4s Danny Smith 14)92 Kevin Huntley 15)51 Jerrod Hull 16)11K Kraig Kinser 17)88K Steve King 18)00 Jim Nier 19)10c Jeremy Campbell 20)4k Kelly Kinser. A MAIN: 1)20L Danny Lasoski 2)21w Danny Wood 3)45 Tim Shaffer 4)17 Joey SaIdana 5)52 Ronald Laney 6)22c James Chesson 7)22d Rodney Duncan 8) 12 Greg Hodnett 9)55p Billy Pauch 10)U2 Travis Rilat 11)8h Terry McCarl 12)7x Craig Dollansky 13)6 Kenny Jacobs 14)10 Dale Blaney 15)15k Chad Kemenah 16)20E Brian Ellenberger 17)7s Jason Sides 18)25 Todd Gracey 19)88 Lance Dewease 20)29J Wayne Johnson 21)7r Jeff Shepard 22)0 Billy Wilburn 23)F1 Ryan Flynn 24)55w Mike Wagner.