ATTICA, OH (9-3-11) By Brian Liskai – Tim Shaffer dominated the 40-lap feature Saturday at Attica Raceway Park, leading all 40 laps to claim his third straight All Star Circuit of Champions victory to increase his lead in the series’ national and Ohio Region points standing.
Shaffer has now won nine All Star events in 2011. His victory in the Baumann Auto Group Attica Ambush brings his career total to 44 with the All Stars and moves him into a tie for sixth on the all-time win list with former champion Kevin Huntley and Dave Blaney. The Steel City Outlaw needs 9 more All Star feature wins to catch four-time series champion Frankie Kerr for fifth.
The cautions flew perfect for Shaffer throughout the 40-lap affair…just as he was getting into heavy lapped traffic. Shaffer would use the clear track and clean air to pull away each time.
“It’s amazing…it really is. It’s a lot of fun. When you have a great team and great people behind you…Paul Kistler with the engines and J&J Chassis…every body,” said Shaffer in the Engine Pro Victory Lane beside his Aaron Call/Janet Holbrook owned machine.
“It all goes back to a great team from the owners to the people working on it…just everything,” added Shaffer of his Kistler Racing Products/Kistler Engines backed #83.
Shaffer and Phil Gressman would lead the field to the green with Shaffer grabbing the lead while fast qualifier Danny Holtgraver and Cole Duncan would get around Gressman with Todd Kane and David Gravel giving chase. The first caution would fly on the third circuit for a Greg Wilson spin.
Following two more green flag laps the caution would fly for Cap Henry who suffered a broken wheel. On the restart Shaffer would pull away from the great battle for second between Holtgraver, Duncan and Gressman while sixth starter Gravel would vault into fifth. The car on the move was Bryan Sebetto, who had won the last two features at Attica, as he blasted from his 15th starting spot to eighth by the eighth lap.
Shaffer would catch the rear of the field by the 12th lap, but Holtgraver and Duncan could not close. The caution would fly for Wilson again on lap 13, giving Shaffer a clear track. The running order was Shaffer, Holtgraver, Duncan, Gressman, Gravel, Kane, Byron Reed and Sebetto. On the restart Sebetto would drive into sixth and was pressuring Gravel for fifth. Disaster would strike on lap 19 when fourth running Gressman appeared to have something break on his machine, sending him upside down in turn three and Sebetto made heavy contact with the crashing car, ending his night.
The red came just as Shaffer was getting into lapped traffic once again. With a clear track, Shaffer would pull away on the restart while Holtgraver, Duncan, Gravel and 13th place starter Dean Jacobs waged a great battle. Holtgraver would slip over the cushion exiting turn two on lap 25, following to fifth as Duncan, Gravel and Jacobs got by.
Shaffer would hit lapped traffic on lap 27, but Duncan and Gravel could not close. With eight laps to go, Shaffer was in heavy traffic with Gravel taking second from Duncan as Jacobs and Reed closed. Jacobs would slide off turns three and four on lap 33, doing a 360 spin to bring out the caution. Shaffer now had two lapped machines between himself and Gravel.
Shaffer would pull away on the restart while Gravel worked his way around the lapped machines. Meanwhile Holtgraver had rallied to take third on lap 34 with Reed moving into fifth.
Shaffer would take the checkered by two car lengths over Gravel, Holtgraver, Reed and 16th place starter Randy Hannagan.
For Gravel, who has been staying at Shaffer’s crew chief Brian Kemenah’s home, it was his third straight runner-up finish to Shaffer.
"He’s freaking killing me…I gave him one last night (at Lernerville). I wish this was 50 laps…usually I get tired in 40 lap races but we were coming at the end. It’s crazy, we finish one, two every night and we sleep in the same house," said Gravel beside his P&M Transportation/JRC Transportation/DDR Motorsports #89.
Holtgraver was excited about his third place showing.
“We ran second the whole race. That cushion is mean…it bit me. But we were able to battle back and we’re standing here on the front stretch so I’m pretty happy,” said Holtgraver beside his Buckeye Steering Products/Spinnwebbers Auto Sales backed machine. “You never quit…no matter what happens never give up…just keep digging and digging.”
Attica Raceway Park - 9/3/2011
Baumann Auto Group Night
All Star Circuit of Champions 410 Sprints (38 Cars)
[#]-Starting Position
Qualifying - Kistler Engines
1. D4-Danny Holtgraver, 12.528; 2. 5-Jac Haudenschild, 12.697; 3. 53-Phil Gressman, 12.740; 4. 89G-David Gravel, 12.752; 5. 2-Dale Blaney, 12.761; 6. 1Z-Jessica Zemken, 12.765; 7. 45-Rob Chaney, 12.774; 8. 60-Jody Keegan, 12.777; 9. 9Z-Duane Zablocki, 12.804; 10. 22-Cole Duncan, 12.807; 11. 83-Tim Shaffer, 12.809; 12. 78-Todd Kane, 12.812; 13. 40-Caleb Helms, 12.839; 14. 5T-Travis Philo, 12.845; 15. 5R-Byron Reed, 12.864; 16. O4-Cap Henry, 12.906; 17. 97-Dean Jacobs, 12.915; 18. O9-Craig Mintz, 12.936; 19. 16-Bryan Sebetto, 12.941; 20. 22H-Randy Hannagan, 12.959; 21. 7-Darren Long, 12.998; 22. 4-Danny Smith, 13.002; 23. 312X-Chris Andrews, 13.010; 24. 1-Chad Blonde, 13.017; 25. 312-Mike Linder, 13.036; 26. 45L-Brian Lay, 13.039; 27. W20-Greg Wilson, 13.059; 28. 9X-Brandon Martin, 13.064; 29. O-Lee Jacobs, 13.134; 30. 7K-Kyle Sauder, 13.144; 31. 91-Aaron Middaugh, 13.199; 32. 27-Scott Euler, 13.248; 33. 98-Robert Robenalt, 13.336; 34. 11D-Bryce Dickson, 13.427; 35. 3-Pete Miller III, 13.570; 36. 83M-Broc Martin, 13.639; 37. 51C-Roger Campbell, 13.863; 38. 6Z-Zack Ames, 14.363
Heat 1 - Kear's Speed Shop (10 Laps - Top 5 finishers transfer to the A-feature)
1. 97-Dean Jacobs[2] ; 2. 7-Darren Long[1] ; 3. 2-Dale Blaney[5] ; 4. D4-Danny Holtgraver[6] ; 5. 312-Mike Linder[7] ; 6. 9Z-Duane Zablocki[4] ; 7. 51C-Roger Campbell[10] ; 8. 40-Caleb Helms[3] ; 9. O-Lee Jacobs[8] ; 10. 98-Robert Robenalt[9]
Heat 2 - MSD Ignitions (10 Laps - Top 5 finishers transfer to the A-feature)
1. 4-Danny Smith[1] ; 2. O9-Craig Mintz[2] ; 3. 22-Cole Duncan[4] ; 4. 7K-Kyle Sauder[8] ; 5. 5T-Travis Philo[3] ; 6. 1Z-Jessica Zemken[5] ; 7. 45L-Brian Lay[7] ; 8. 11D-Bryce Dickson[9] ; 9. 6Z-Zack Ames[10] ; 10. 5-Jac Haudenschild[6]
Heat 3 - Kinsler Fuel Injections (10 Laps - Top 5 finishers transfer to the A-feature)
1. 16-Bryan Sebetto[2] ; 2. 83-Tim Shaffer[4] ; 3. 53-Phil Gressman[6] ; 4. W20-Greg Wilson[7] ; 5. 5R-Byron Reed[3] ; 6. 45-Rob Chaney[5] ; 7. 312X-Chris Andrews[1] ; 8. 91-Aaron Middaugh[8] ; 9. 3-Pete Miller III[9]
Heat 4 - All Pro Cylinder Heads10 Laps - Top 5 finishers transfer to the A-feature)
1. O4-Cap Henry[3] ; 2. 22H-Randy Hannagan[2] ; 3. 78-Todd Kane[4] ; 4. 89G-David Gravel[6] ; 5. 9X-Brandon Martin[7] ; 6. 83M-Broc Martin[9] ; 7. 27-Scott Euler[8] ; 8. 60-Jody Keegan[5] ; 9. 1-Chad Blonde[1]
Outerwears Performance Products Dash - (6 Laps, finishing order determined first 6 starting positions of A-feature
1. 83-Tim Shaffer[2] ; 2. 53-Phil Gressman[4] ; 3. D4-Danny Holtgraver[3] ; 4. 22-Cole Duncan[1] ; 5. 2-Dale Blaney[5] ; 6. 89G-David Gravel[6]
B-Main - University of Northwestern Ohio (12 Laps - Top 4 finishers transfer to the A-feature)
1. 5-Jac Haudenschild[1] ; 2. 45-Rob Chaney[3] ; 3. 312X-Chris Andrews[7] ; 4. 1-Chad Blonde[8] ; 5. 9Z-Duane Zablocki[5] ; 6. 45L-Brian Lay[9] ; 7. 11D-Bryce Dickson[14] ; 8. 91-Aaron Middaugh[11] ; 9. 6Z-Zack Ames[18] ; 10. 3-Pete Miller III[15] ; 11. 98-Robert Robenalt[13] ; 12. 1Z-Jessica Zemken[2] ; 13. 27-Scott Euler[12] ; 14. 51C-Roger Campbell[17] ; 15. 60-Jody Keegan[4] ; 16. 40-Caleb Helms[6] ; 17. 83M-Broc Martin[16]
A-Main - (40 Laps)
1. 83-Tim Shaffer[1]; 2. 89G-David Gravel[6]; 3. D4-Danny Holtgraver[3]; 4. 5R-Byron Reed[7]; 5. 22H-Randy Hannagan[16]; 6. 4-Danny Smith[18]; 7. 22-Cole Duncan[4]; 8. 312-Mike Linder[19]; 9. 1-Chad Blonde[20]; 10. 2-Dale Blaney[23]; 11. W20-Greg Wilson[22]; 12. O9-Craig Mintz[14]; 13. 97-Dean Jacobs[11]; 14. 7K-Kyle Sauder[24]; 15. 9X-Brandon Martin[21]; 16. 45-Rob Chaney[12]; 17. 5-Jac Haudenschild[9]; 18. 78-Todd Kane[5]; 19. 5T-Travis Philo[8]; 20. O4-Cap Henry[10]; 21. 53-Phil Gressman[2]; 22. 16-Bryan Sebetto[13]; 23. 312X-Chris Andrews[17]; 24. 7-Darren Long[15]
Hard Charger: 2-Dale Blaney[+13] |
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