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 Camargo, IL (8-7-09) – By Kelly Brown –Public Relations Director – Before you walk, you must crawl. In the case of the O’Reilly All Star Circuit of Champions race at I-55 Raceway they got a chance to warm up on the 1/3-mile bullring for 30 laps tonight, before taking on the Ironman 55 Lap challenge tomorrow night. Tonight, Craig Dollansky was the hottest driver on the track racing three-wide for most of the thrilling A-Main event to take the win.
Dollansky took the point from the pole position leading the race early on grabbing the lead in Turn 1. Jason Myers and Donny Schatz would follow right on his tail. When Dollansky first encountered traffic on Lap 6 he was able to easily hold on to the lead, but the second place battle heated up. Schatz and Meyers would fight tooth-and-nail over the next part of the race. Schatz would get an edge on Lap 12 and pick up the second position and began his march to the front. On Lap 15 Schatz would use lapped traffic to attempt to take the top spot, but Dollansky muscled back at the line to hold on to the lead. On the following lap Schatz would take the top spot as the two split a lapped car. The first and only caution period of the event was on Lap 19. When the field restarted Schatz sprinted out to the lead, leaving Meyers and Dollansky to battle for second. With ten laps to go Jason Sides would join the battle as he got around Meyers for the third position. With six laps to go Schatz was in heavy traffic trying to defend his lead. These lapped cars allowed both Dollansky and Sides to close on him. On Lap 25 Dollansky would get a run going off of Turn 4, nearly taking the top spot away. On the following lap he took the lead in turns one and two from Schatz as Sides joined the fray and the trio ran side-by-side. With the White Flag unfurled the trip had one Lap to decide it. At the line it would be Dollansky getting the edge over Sides and Schatz, Myers and Daryn Pittman would round out the Top-five. The top finisher in the top-ten in the All Star point standings was Daryn Pittman who finished fifth. Stevie Smith who currently holds the ninth place in All Star points placed sixth in the event. Other drivers who put in a valiant effort carrying the banner for the All Star Series in the A-main included: Tim Shaffer, Greg Wilson, and Kody Kinser. 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 Craig Dollansky - “It’s a great total team effort. We had a good starting spot, but when you have a good starting spot you have to capitalize on it. We were running a good pace early and Donny (Schatz) got by us in the middle of (turns) three and four. Once he got by us, I tried to be patient on the restart and work ourselves back up in there. Fortunately for our entire race team we were able to get the win. We all had good race cars and everybody was fighting for the lead. I was just trying to go where my car felt best. I started working the middle in (turns) three and four somewhat and then went back to the top. We could hammer the top pretty good and felt good up top.” Second Place Jason Sides – “We had a great car tonight. I am so proud of my guys. They have been working hard all season and to run strong is great for this whole team. We were able to really get on up through there and the track was very racy for the feature.” Third Place Donny Schatz - “That was an exciting race for the fans. It would have really been fun if that had been 40 laps. We just got a little caught up there in traffic and those guys were right there. We’ll come back tomorrow and see if we can’t get a couple more spots with the big money on the line.”
Kistler Engines Qualifying | 1) 11-Steve Kinser 10.209 | | 2) 14-Jason Meyers 10.222 | | 3) 9-Joey Saldana 10.223 | | 4) 17-Daryn Pittman 10.224 | | 5) 83-Tim Kaeding 10.272 | | 6) 7s-Jason Sides 10.306 | | 7) 15-Donny Schatz 10.328 | | 8) 30c-Lance Dewease 10.334 | | 9) 10-Sammy Swindell 10.344 | | 10) 19-Craig Dollansky 10.375 | | 11) 71-Paul May 10.404 | | 12) 1-Stevie Smith 10.411 | | 13) 20-Kraig Kinser 10.419 | | 14) 4-Danny Smith 10.434 | | 15) 22-Brian Ellenberger 10.476 | | 16) 51-Fred Rahmer 10.503 | | 17) 5w-Lucas Wolfe 10.532 | | 18) w20-Greg Wilson 10.535 | | 19) 63-Chad Kemenah 10.536 | | 20) 89g-David Gravel 10.547 | | 21) 6-Danny Lasoski 10.562 | | 22) r19-Jac Haudenschild 10.580 | | 23) 4k-Kody Kinser 10.585 | | 24) 57d-Tom Dickerman 10.688 | | 25) 83x-Tim Shaffer 10.698 | | 26) 44-A J Bruns 10.700 | | 27) 6r-Ryan Bunton 10.719 | | 28) 55b-Joey Moughan 10.725 | | 29) 22t-Miranda Throckmorton 10.730 | | 30) 56r-Ryan Myers 10.734 | | 31) 1x-Randy Hannagan 10.742 | | 32) 1m-Jim Moughan 10.761 | | 33) 12-Jerrod Hull 10.794 | | 34) 3-Mark Shirshekan 10.829 | | 35) 97-Tommy Worley 10.882 | | 36) 8-Steve Short 10.931 | | 37) 92-Daron Clayton 10.945 | | 38) 35-Jimmy Hurley 10.977 |
MSD Ignition Heat 1 –10 Laps | 1) 10-Sammy Swindell | | 2) 20-Kraig Kinser | | 3) 11-Steve Kinser | | 4) 83-Tim Kaeding | | 5) 5w-Lucas Wolfe | | 6) 6-Danny Lasoski | | 7) 83x-Tim Shaffer | | 8) 92-Daron Clayton | | 9) 12-Jerrod Hull | | 10) 22t-Miranda Throckmorton | | 11) 19x-Jason Hunt |
Kears Speed Shop Heat 2 – 10 Laps | 1) 4-Danny Smith | | 2) 19-Craig Dollansky | | 3) 14-Jason Meyers | | 4) 7s-Jason Sides | | 5) r19-Jac Haudenschild | | 6) w20-Greg Wilson | | 7) 3-Mark Shirshekan | | 8) 56r-Ryan Myers | | 9) 39w-Alex Shanks | | 10) 44-A J Bruns | | 11) 35-Jimmy Hurley |
All Pro Heads Heat 3 – 10 Laps | 1) 15-Donny Schatz | | 2) 9-Joey Saldana | | 3) 63-Chad Kemenah | | 4) 22-Brian Ellenberger | | 5) 1x-Randy Hannagan | | 6) 97-Tommy Worley | | 7) 4k-Kody Kinser | | 8) 6r-Ryan Bunton | | 9) 2k-Ryan Kempin | 10) 71-Paul May |
Outerwears Performance Products Heat 4 – 10 Laps | 1) 1-Stevie Smith | | 2) 17-Daryn Pittman | | 3) 51-Fred Rahmer | | 4) 55b-Joey Moughan | | 5) 30c-Lance Dewease | | 6) 89g-David Gravel | | 7) 57d-Tom Dickerman | | 8) 8-Steve Short | | 9) 1M-Jim Moughan |
Rubbin Repair Dash – 8 Laps | 1) 19-Craig Dollansky | | 2) 14-Jason Meyers | | 3) 17-Daryn Pittman | | 4) 15-Donny Schatz | | 5) 9-Joey Saldana | | 6) 1-Stevie Smith | | 7) 4-Danny Smith | | 8) 11-Steve Kinser | | 9) 20-Kraig Kinser | 10) 10-Sammy Swindell |
C Main -10 Laps | 1) 92-Daron Clayton | | 2) 97-Tommy Worley | | 3) 3-Mark Shirshekan | | 4) 2k-Ryan Kempin | | 5) 39w-Alex Shanks | | 6) 8-Steve Short | | 7) 35-Jimmy Hurley | | 8) 71-Paul May | | 9) 0-Brandon Wimmer | | 10) 19x-Jason Hunt |
University of Northwestern Ohio B Main – 12 Laps | 1) w20-Greg Wilson | | 2) 6-Danny Lasoski | | 3) 83x-Tim Shaffer | | 4) 4k-Kody Kinser | | 5) 89g-David Gravel | | 6) 44-A J Bruns | | 7) 57d-Tom Dickerman | | 8) 1m-Jim Moughan | | 9) 12-Jerrod Hull | | 10) 92-Daron Clayton | | 11) 56r-Ryan Myers | | 12) 6R-Ryan Bunton | | 13) 22t-Miranda Throckmorton | 14) 97-Tommy Worley |
O’Reilly Auto Parts A Main – 30 Laps | 1) 19-Craig Dollansky[1] | | 2) 7s-Jason Sides[12] | | 3) 15-Donny Schatz[4] | | 4) 14-Jason Meyers[2] | | 5) 17-Daryn Pittman[3] | | 6) 20-Kraig Kinser[9] | | 7) 4-Danny Smith[7] | | 8) 9-Joey Saldana[5] | | 9) 11-Steve Kinser[8] | | 10) 63-Chad Kemenah[18] | | 11) 10-Sammy Swindell[10] | | 12) 1-Stevie Smith[6] | | 13) r19-Jac Haudenschild[20] | | 14) 6-Danny Lasoski[19] | | 15) 5w-Lucas Wolfe[16] | | 16) 22-Brian Ellenberger[14] | | 17) 83x-Tim Shaffer[22] | | 18) 51-Fred Rahmer[15] | | 19) 1x-Randy Hannagan[24] | | 20) 30c-Lance Dewease[13] | | 21) w20-Greg Wilson[17] | | 22) 4k-Kody Kinser[21] | | 23) 83-Tim Kaeding[11] | 24) 55b-Joey Moughan[23] |
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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.