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Lincoln Speedway report

ABBOTTSTOWN, PA - Lance Dewease made it two-in-a-row Thursday night at Lincoln Speedway in the All Star sprint 30-lap All Star vs. NCRA Eastern Showdown. His dominating performance in the Harz Racing J&J with a Don Ott engine came on American Racer tires by a full straightaway over runner-up Sean Michael and Todd Shaffer.

"I heard the motor crackling the last five laps," Dewease recalled in victory lane. "We had a cylinder dying." He then recalled his race strategy. "I thought I showed my hand too soon on Todd (Shaffer). I got high by him on that one start and I didn't know if he'd move out and he didn't. We were able to run the top good at the end."

Shaffer started on the ButlerBuilt Hot Seat pole with Dean Jacobs in position two, followed by Dewease, Johnny Mackison, Jr., Donnie Kreitz, Jr. and Greg Hodnett. Shaffer jumped out to the immediate lead as Jacobs brushed the outside wall in turn four and fell back to third behind Shaffer, Dewease and Kreitz. It quickly became a two-car race, with Shaffer leading Dewease as Kreitz faded back a few lengths, but he began reeling in the leaders as they approached lapped traffic by lap nine. As Dewease was poised to make a pass for the lead, Gary Wright spun out in turn two for a lap 10 yellow flag. On the restart, Brian Ellenberger ended up on top of Bobby Weaver's car, with Aaron Berryhill stalling to miss the crash. This brought out another caution.

Lap 11 saw yet another caution as Byron Reed and Mike Wagner tangled and spun, with Danny Smith getting a flat as he grazed off the accident.

With a dozen laps completed, Shaffer still led over Dewease, who was applying heavy pressure to the leader. On lap 14 Dewease went high to try a pass, but it did not stick. He tried to shoot low under the leader on the front stretch a lap later, but Shaffer still remained on top. Then Dewease made his move on the middle of the backstretch to lead lap 16 and pull away to a convincing win.

Meanwhile, Michael, Kreitz and Cris Eash were having a battle royale for the third spot. Johnny Mackison stopped on the track on lap 23, and Dewease had a three lapped car advantage for the restart over Michael, who took second just before the yellow appeared. Shaffer was third, with Kreitz, Eash and Fred Rahmer next after starting 14th.

Rahmer began picking off cars, and got past Kreitz on the last circuit to come home fourth behind Dewease, Michael and Shaffer. Kreitz was fifth and Eash sixth with Steve Siegel seventh, followed by Jason Johnson, who started 11th, Chris Knopp and Jacobs.

"We just all have to do our homework because Lance has us covered," runnerup Michael revealed. "We were good through the middle be he was good up top."

Shaffer said of his third place run, "Sean and I raced out butts off, but Lance made it easy, he ran off from us."

The K-T Equipment heat went to Jeff Rohrbaugh, the JB Enterprise Racing Products heat to Kenny Jacobs, the Crown Battery heat to Byron Reed and the Engler Machine & Tool heat went to Travis Rilat. Brian Ellenberger won the B Main and Dean Jacobs captured the Haulmark Dash.

Time Trials: 1. Greg Hodnett, Apple 12, 13.389; 2. Donnie Kreitz, Jr., Kreitz 69, 13.472; 3. Johnny Mackison, Jr., Swope 65, 13.472; 4. Lance Dewease, Harz 88, 13.496; 5. Dean Jacobs, Daugherty 7, 13.530; 6. Todd Shaffer, Beam 88, 13.544; 7. Cris Eash, Eash 17g, 13.594; 8. Sean Michael, Zemaitis 1, 13.607; 9. Chris Knopp, Neiderer 10n, 13.616; 10. Steve Siegel, Singer & Foulk 66, 13.635; 11. Jason Johnson, Elden 22e, 13.646; 12. Greg Wilson, Hampshire 63, 13.658; 13. Mark Smith, Smith 22, 13.678; 14. Mike Wagner, Wagner 55, 13.681; 15. Chad Kemenah, Harble 15k, 13.704; 16. Fred Rahmer, Hamilton 77, 13.721; 17. Jeff Rohrbaugh, Tanger 07, 13.736; 18. Curt Michael, JMO 3, 13.750; 19. Aaron Berryhill, Grandstaff 66, 13.750; 20. Danny Smith, Baker 4, 13.756; 21. Rodney Duncan, Harrison 22, 13.758; 22. Kenny Jacobs, Jacobs/Honecker 6, 13.785; 23. Byron Reed, B&S 5, 13.816; 24. Travis Rilat, Archer U2, 13.820; 25. Brook Weibley, Shellada 32, 13.841; 26. Brian Ellenberger, Ellenberger 20, 13.844; 27. Glenndon Forsythe, Forsythe 94, 13.867; 28. Keith Kauffman, Middleswarth 7, 13.873; 29. John Sernett, Sernett 91, 13.882; 30. Gary Wright, Wright 9, 13.951; 31. Bobby Weaver, Weaver x, 13.967; 32. Jerrod Hull, Webb 51, 13.970; 33. Niki Young, Young 17n, 14.004; 34. Darren Eash, Leach 30, 14.005; 35. Billy Sims, Sims 55s, 14.083; 36. Pierron Reasner, Reasner 15p, 14.329; 37. Sean Walden, Walden 14, 14.414; 38. Jerrod Wilson, Wilson 88, 14.674; 39. Pat Cooper, Cooper 26, 14.861; 40. Barry Ruble, Ruble 63, 14.938; 41. Earnest Jennings, Jennings 61, 15.203; 42. Josh Wells, Wells 6, NT. K-T Equipment Rental Heat (10 laps): 1. Rohrbaugh 2. D. Jacobs 3. Knopp 4. Duncan 5. Hodnett 6. Weibley 7. M. Smith 8. Young 9. Sernett 10. Walden 11. Jennings. JB Enterprise Racing Products Heat (10 laps): 1. K. Jacobs 2. Wagner 3. Shaffer 4. Siegel 5. Kreitz 6. C. Michael 7. Wright 8. Ellenberger 9. D. Eash 10. J. Wilson 11. Wells (DNS). Crown Battery Heat (10 laps): 1. Reed 2. Berryhill 3. Mackison 4. Kemenah 5. C. Eash 6. Johnson 7. Weaver 8. Sims 9. Forsythe 10. Cooper (DNS). Engler Machine & Tool Heat (10 laps): 1. Rilat 2. Rahmer 3. D. Smith 4. Dewease 5. S. Michael 6. Kauffman 7. Ruble 8. Reasner 9. G. Wilson 10. Hull. Haulmark Dash (4 laps): 1. D. Jacobs 2. S. Michael 3. Dewease 4. Hodnett 5. Wagner 6. Kemenah. B Main (12 laps): 1. Ellenberger 2. C. Michael 3. Johnson 4. D. Eash 5. Kauffman 6. Young 7. Weibley 8. Sims 9. Ruble 10. Reasner 11. Sernett 12. J. Wilson 13. Walden 14. Jennings 15. Weaver 16. Forsythe 17. M. Smith 18. G. Wilson 19. Wright 20. Hull. A Main (30 laps): 1. Lance Dewease 2. Sean Michael 3. Todd Shaffer 4. Fred Rahmer 5. Donnie Kreitz Jr. 6. Cris Eash 7. Steve Siegel 8. Jason Johnson 9. Chris Knopp 10. Dean Jacobs 11. Chad Kemenah 12. Greg Hodnett 13. Travis Rilat 14. Kenny Jacobs 15. Mike Wagner 16. Byron Reed 17. Aaron Berryhill 18. Jeff Rohrbaugh 19. Danny Smith 20. Johnny Mackison Jr. 21. Darren Eash 22. Curt Michael 23. Rodney Duncan 24. Bobby Weaver 25. Brian Ellenberger 26. Gary Wright. -www.allstarsprint.com-