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 Camargo, IL (8-8-09) – By Kelly Brown –Public Relations Director – You could say for Joey Saldana the number 13 does not carry the bad luck connotation that it normally does since he collected his thirteenth victory of the season at a race that is the longest race on the O’Reilly All Star schedule. In a race that was 55 laps around 55 Speedway it truly took an ironman and a little luck to make his way to Victory Lane.
At the drop of the Green Flag Jason Meyers jetted out to the lead going into the first two turns of the marathon event, but the race would not stay green for long as Lance Dewease slowed on track bringing out the Yellow Flag causing a complete restart of the event. This moved Craig Dollansky to the pole position and when the race resumed he got a jump going into Turn 1 taking the lead with his teammate Saldana who started fourth quickly sliding his way into the second position. The Kasey Kahne racing teammates had the field covered the whole event, with Dollansky leading early on, working his way through lapped traffic beginning on Lap 6. Saldana would spend the first eighteen laps of the event in his tire tracks as they weaved their way through lapped traffic. On Lap 19 is when Saldana made his move. After Dollansky was held up by a lapped car, Saldana closed and used a textbook slide job coming off of turn four to take the lead. Saldana would never look back keeping an iron fist on the top spot for the final 27 laps of the race. Throughout the rest of the race Saldana would have to contend with lapped traffic allowing Dollansky to close on his teammate, but he would never be close enough to steal back the top spot. With the Checkered Flag looming after a grueling 55 Laps, Saldana would take the victory with Dollansky, Danny Lasoski, Donny Schatz and Jason Sides rounding out the top-5. Of the O’Reilly All Star drivers in the event, it was point leader Tim Shaffer carrying the banner for the series. After starting 22 “the Steel City Outlaw” showed that he was truly was made of steel as he was the hard charger of the race picking up 14 spots to finish eighth. The rookie of the year battle tightened up a little more as second place Daron Clayton finished one position in front of leader Ryan Bunton. The only Midwest All Star that made the A-main was Kody Kinser who transferred from the B-main and held his own in the A-main. Next up for the All Star Circuit of Champions is the Front Row Challenge Monday night August 10th when the series travels to Southern Iowa Speedway in Oskaloosa, IA where one lucky driver who gets the pole will have the opportunity to start from the back and win $50,000. All grandstand seats will be reserved for this event with adult seats running $25 and kids 12 and under running $15. Infield party passes will also be available for $25 for adults and $5 for children 12 and under. For more information on the event or to order tickets call 515-957-0020, or visit www.oskychallenges.com. For the most up to date information on the All Star Circuit of Champions, bookmark www.allstarsprint.com on your computer. Top Three Quotes Winner Joey Saldana - “This is a very important race. It’s the first one and nobody ever forgets who won the first one. Thanks to everyone for going through all of the hard work to make this event and the track preparation that’s what made it a great race tonight. Thanks to the fans that stuck with us and made it happen. It was a good run for us. We got a flat tire there and luckily we held on. We lost a race and a whole race car at Paducah (International Raceway in Kentucky) earlier this season because we blew a tire in the same situation. I’m glad it held air here tonight.”” Second Place Craig Dollansky - “It was a great run for Kasey Kahne Racing to have both cars one and two in a big race, it’s pretty neat. It was a good effort by both race teams. Joey (Saldana) and I were nose to tail there all the way through the race. He got me there on the bottom in (turns) three and four and it looked like the bottom was good at that point of the race. I just was on top running up there and he just snuck by us.” Third Place Danny Lasoski - “We really had a fast car. We knew that both the Kasey Kahne cars would be up on the fence and we locked our car for the bottom. Thanks to Ray (Marler) and his crew for working this track and making it like it was. Kenny Schrader is a racer and Ray Marler is a racer. I used to work for him before I started racing. To have this race here at what is the best track in Missouri is a pleasure, especially being from Missouri.”
Kistler Engines Qualifying | 1) 14-Jason Meyers 10.839 | | 2) 7s-Jason Sides 10.877 | | 3) 1x-Randy Hannagan 11.046 | | 4) 4-Danny Smith 11.049 | | 5) 22-Brian Ellenberger 11.074 | | 6) r19-Jac Haudenschild 11.104 | | 7) 15-Donny Schatz 11.156 | | 8) 11-Steve Kinser 11.159 | | 9) 30c-Lance Dewease 11.175 | | 10) 20-Kraig Kinser 11.186 | | 11) 5w-Lucas Wolfe 11.194 | | 12) 63-Chad Kemenah 11.208 | | 13) 51-Fred Rahmer 11.219 | | 14) 6-Danny Lasoski 11.244 | | 15) 9-Joey Saldana 11.275 | | 16) 19-Craig Dollansky 11.279 | | 17) 17-Daryn Pittman 11.310 | | 18) 4k-Kody Kinser 11.320 | | 19) 35-Jimmy Hurley 11.456 | | 20) 1-Stevie Smith 11.459 | | 21) 57d-Tom Dickerman 11.470 | | 22) 6r-Ryan Bunton 11.479 | | 23) 10s-Jeremy Standridge 11.492 | | 24) 56r-Ryan Myers 11.525 | | 25) 12-Jerrod Hull 11.533 | | 26) 44-A J Bruns 11.567 | | 27) 83x-Tim Shaffer 11.591 | | 28) 97-Tommy Worley 11.594 | | 29) 55b-Joey Moughan 11.630 | | 30) 22t-Miranda Throckmorton 11.689 | | 31) w20-Greg Wilson 11.809 | | 32) 92-Daron Clayton 11.836 | | 33) 1m-Jim Moughan 11.891 | | 34) 3-Mark Shirshekan 11.909 | | 35) 39w-Alex Shanks 11.947 | | 36) 2k-Ryan Kempin 12.232 | | 37) 0-Brandon Wimmer 12.315 | | 38) 89g-David Gravel 12.417 |
MSD Ignition Heat 1 –10 Laps | 1) 51-Fred Rahmer | | 2) 30c-Lance Dewease | | 3) 14-Jason Meyers | | 4) 22-Brian Ellenberger | | 5) 17-Daryn Pittman | | 6) 55b-Joey Moughan | | 7) 57d-Tom Dickerman | | 8) 0-Brandon Wimmer | | 9) 1m-Jim Moughan | | 10) 12-Jerrod Hull |
Kears Speed Shop Heat 2 – 10 Laps | 1) 20-Kraig Kinser | | 2) r19-Jac Haudenschild | | 3) 6-Danny Lasoski | | 4) 7s-Jason Sides | | 5) 6r-Ryan Bunton | | 6) 3-Mark Shirshekan | | 7) 89g-David Gravel | | 8) 4k-Kody Kinser | | 9) 22t-Miranda Throckmorton | | 10) 44-A J Bruns |
All Pro Heads Heat 3 – 10 Laps | 1) 9-Joey Saldana | | 2) 5W-Lucas Wolfe | | 3) 15-Donny Schatz | | 4) 1X-Randy Hannagan | | 5) 83X-Tim Shaffer | | 6) W20-Greg Wilson | | 7) 10S-Jeremy Standridge | | 8) 35-Jimmy Hurley | | 9) 39W-Alex Shanks Bottom of Form |
Outerwears Performance Products Heat 4 – 10 Laps | 1) 63-Chad Kemenah | | 2) 19-Craig Dollansky | | 3) 4-Danny Smith | | 4) 11-Steve Kinser | | 5) 1-Stevie Smith | | 6) 92-Daron Clayton | | 7) 56r-Ryan Myers | | 8) 2k-Ryan Kempin | | 9) 97-Tommy Worley |
Rubbin Repair Dash – 8 Laps | 1) 30c-Lance Dewease | | 2) 14-Jason Meyers | | 3) 19-Craig Dollansky | | 4) 9-Joey Saldana | | 5) 20-Kraig Kinser | | 6) r19-Jac Haudenschild | | 7) 5w-Lucas Wolfe | | 8) 63-Chad Kemenah | | 9) 7s-Jason Sides | | 10) 51-Fred Rahmer |
University of Northwestern Ohio B Main – 12 Laps | 1) 92-Daron Clayton | | 2) 4k-Kody Kinser | | 3) 3-Mark Shirshekan | | 4) 57d-Tom Dickerman | | 5) 44-A J Bruns | | 6) 55b-Joey Moughan | | 7) w20-Greg Wilson | | 8) 12-Jerrod Hull | | 9) 97-Tommy Worley | | 10) 0-Brandon Wimmer | | 11) 89g-David Gravel | | 12) 1m-Jim Moughan | | 13) 10s-Jeremy Standridge | | 14) 2k-Ryan Kempin | | 15) 39w-Alex Shanks | | 16) 35-Jimmy Hurley | | 17) 56r-Ryan Myers | | 18) 22t-Miranda Throckmorton |
O’Reilly Auto Parts A Main – 55 Laps | 1) 9-Joey Saldana[4] | | 2) 19-Craig Dollansky[3] | | 3) 6-Danny Lasoski[16] | | 4) 15-Donny Schatz[14] | | 5) 7s-Jason Sides[9] | | 6) 1-Stevie Smith[19] | | 7) r19-Jac Haudenschild[6] | | 8) 83x-Tim Shaffer[22] | | 9) 20-Kraig Kinser[5] | | 10) 14-Jason Meyers[2] | | 11) 11-Steve Kinser[15] | | 12) 5w-Lucas Wolfe[7] | | 13) 1x-Randy Hannagan[11] | | 14) 63-Chad Kemenah[8] | | 15) 22-Brian Ellenberger[13] | | 16) 51-Fred Rahmer[10] | | 17) 30c-Lance Dewease[1] | | 18) 17-Daryn Pittman[17] | | 19) 92-Daron Clayton[23] | | 20) 6r-Ryan Bunton[21] | | 21) 57d-Tom Dickerman[20] | | 22) 4-Danny Smith[12] | | 23) 4k-Kody Kinser[18] | | 24) 3-Mark Shirshekan[24] |
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The All Stars are one of the premier sprint car sanctioning bodies in the USA. It is owned by Illinois businessman, and now in their 30th year of operation, the All Stars take pride in their reputation of providing highly competitive, fair, exciting racing for outlaw sprint cars with many different winners in a year. About 400 drivers participate in All Star races yearly in front of an average of 5,000 spectators per event. Currently 40+ races are scheduled in numerous states, such as Florida, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Indiana, Michigan, Tennessee, Nebraska, West Virginia, and Kansas. 
Ohio Sprint Speedweek proves to be one of the most competitive weeks in racing during the 2010 All Star season. Tough battles happened in the 2010 Ohio Sprint Speedweek season, as it included nine straight nights of racing action in the buckeye state, it challenged the best of the best, but young David Gravel- DDR Motorsports was crowned the 2010 champion.