 FREMONT, OH (9-16-11) By Brian Liskai– Tim Shaffer shot around Rob Chaney in lapped traffic on lap 14 and then benefitted from a caution to give him a clear track as he went on to score the All Star Circuit of Champions win to open the Jim Ford Classic at Fremont Speedway on Friday night. It marked the 98th appearance of the All Stars at Fremont Speedway.
The win on All Pro Cylinder Heads Night was the 10th series win of the year for the two-time All Star champion and the 11th career win at Fremont. He will seek to sweep the weekend on Saturday in the $10,000-to-win, 50-lap finale on Ludwig Propane Night. It was also Shaffer’s 45th career All Star win to move him into sixth on the series’ all-time win list, just eight behind Frankie Kerr.
“Things really got interesting there for awhile…it was a great race. I didn’t think we were going to get there. But Brian (Kemenah, crew chief) and guys did such a great job on the car…it came on late. That caution helped a bunch…it seemed like everything kind of fell our way tonight,” said Shaffer in the Engine Pro Victory Lane beside his Aaron Call/Janet Holbrook Motorsports entry.
“You have to take it when it happens like this because a lot of nights it don’t. That’s dirt track racing…it changes all night and my guys changed the car and hit it right on the money,” added Shaffer of his Kistler Engines/Kistler Racing Products/VRP Shocks #83. “Tomorrow’s a whole new night and things can change. You have to start with a good qualifying effort and get through your heat and go from there. It will be a longer race which I seem to like…I just hope we can be up here tomorrow.”
While Shaffer had to be considered the odds on favorite to win – he’s won the $10,000 Ohio Sprint Speed Week Finale at “The Track That Action Built in June – many of the fans were hoping local driver Bryan Sebetto could provide an upset. The 2011 Kistler Racing Products FAST champion has won three times at Fremont this season, including the previous week.
Sebetto. the track’s current point leader, would charge from 10th to finish second.
“You can’t give Tim Shaffer a clear track…he’s the best in the business…the only shot I had was lapped traffic. He’s way better in traffic than I am…it would have taken him getting hung up in the right spot and giving me an opening. Congrats to Tim and the whole crew…they did a great job. You know they are the car to beat every time you pull into the pits for an All Star race..any race for that matter,” said Sebetto beside his Burmeister Racing/Steven Mapus Tools/JLH General Contractors backed #16.
"Once started to get the wing back a little bit I could move around…I was really good on the bottom in one and two but it was hard to hit the spot without sliding up into the slick,” added Sebetto.
For Rob Chaney who led the first 13 laps, a solid third place run was just was the Bryan Grove team needed.
“I’m not disappointed at all. We’ve really struggled…we’ve been fast since speedweek and our results don’t show it. We got a top three finish and hopefully we can finish the year out with some good finishes without any problems,” said Chaney beside his Canton Erectors/Tim Hawkins Logging backed #45.
In the 30-lap All Star feature, Dale Blaney and Rob Chaney would lead the field to the green, with Chaney getting the advantage while Jac Haudenschild and Shaffer would give chase. Shaffer would take third on lap four, but Haudenschild would fight back to regain the position on the next lap.
As Chaney hit lapped traffic on the ninth circuit, Blaney would close while Haudenschild and Shaffer continued to run side-by-side for third. Meanwhile Byron Reed, Brandon Martin, Sebetto and 13th starter Dean Jacobs would race heard for fifth. Shaffer would grab third on the 11th lap and drove around Blaney into second a lap later, with Haudenschild taking third on lap 13. Just as the half-way point was completed, the caution would fly when David Gravel lost a right front wheel. The running order was Shaffer, a lapped car, Chaney, Sebetto, Haudenschild, Blaney and Jacobs.
With a clear track, Shaffer would pull away slightly while Chaney was locked in a torrid battle for second with Sebetto. With four laps to go, Sebetto was able to drive under Chaney for second with Haudenschild and Jacobs rounding out the top five. But, Sebetto ran out of time as Shaffer took the checkered. Chaney, Jacobs and Haudenschild would round out the top five.
Fremont Speedway - 9/16/2011
All Pro Heads Night
All Star Circuit of Champions (31 Cars)
[#]-Starting Position
Qualifying - Kistler Engines
1. 83-Tim Shaffer, 12.360
2. 5R-Byron Reed, 12.376
3. 45-Rob Chaney, 12.428
4. O9-Craig Mintz, 12.434
5. 14H-Todd Heller, 12.451
6. 2-Dale Blaney, 12.463
7. 70-Jac Haudenschild, 12.527
8. D4-Danny Holtgraver, 12.529
9. 9X-Brandon Martin, 12.556
10. O4-Cap Henry, 12.560
11. 312-Mike Linder, 12.560
12. 16-Bryan Sebetto, 12.568
13. 97-Dean Jacobs, 12.570
14. 89G-David Gravel, 12.578
15. W20-Greg Wilson, 12.591
16. 22-Cole Duncan, 12.616
17. 312X-Chris Andrews, 12.647
18. 10-Brad Haudenschild, 12.678
19. 40H-Caleb Helms, 12.738
20. 4K-Kody Kinser, 12.748
21. 4-Danny Smith, 12.847
22. 2+-Brian Smith, 12.861
23. O-Lee Jacobs, 12.872
24. O8-Dan Kuriger, 12.916
25. 53-Phil Gressman, 12.950
26. 1X-Matt Linder, 12.956
27. 3-Pete Miller III, 12.968
28. 60-Jody Keegan, 13.018
29. 27-Scott Euler, 13.336
30. 40-Mark Imler, 13.352
31. 9Z-Duane Zablocki, 42.944
Heat 1 - Kears Speed Shop (10 Laps - Top 6 finishers transfer to the A-feature)
1. 97-Dean Jacobs[2]
2. 22-Cole Duncan[1]
3. 70-Jac Haudenschild[4]
4. O4-Cap Henry[3]
5. 83-Tim Shaffer[6]
6. 2+-Brian Smith[8]
7. 3-Pete Miller III[10]
8. 40-Mark Imler[11]
9. O9-Craig Mintz[5]
10. 40H-Caleb Helms[7]
11. 9Z-Duane Zablocki[9]
Heat 2 - All Pro Heads (10 Laps - Top 6 finishers transfer to the A-feature)
1. 312X-Chris Andrews[1]
2. 89G-David Gravel[2]
3. 312-Mike Linder[3]
4. D4-Danny Holtgraver[4]
5. 5R-Byron Reed[6]
6. 53-Phil Gressman[9]
7. 4K-Kody Kinser[7]
8. 60-Jody Keegan[10]
9. O-Lee Jacobs[8]
10. 14H-Todd Heller[5]
Heat 3 - MSD Ignition (10 Laps - Top 6 finishers transfer to the A-feature)
1. 10-Brad Haudenschild[1]
2. 16-Bryan Sebetto[3]
3. 2-Dale Blaney[5]
4. 9X-Brandon Martin[4]
5. 45-Rob Chaney[6]
6. 4-Danny Smith[7]
7. 1X-Matt Linder[9]
8. O8-Dan Kuriger[8]
9. 27-Scott Euler[10]
10. W20-Greg Wilson[2]
Dash - Outerwears Performance Products (6 Laps, finishing order determined first 6 starting positions of A-feature
1. 2-Dale Blaney[1]
2. 45-Rob Chaney[2]
3. 70-Jac Haudenschild[4]
4. 83-Tim Shaffer[3]
5. 5R-Byron Reed[6]
6. D4-Danny Holtgraver[5]
B-Main - University of Northwestern Ohio (12 Laps - Top 6 finishers transfer to the A-feature)
1. 14H-Todd Heller[2]
2. W20-Greg Wilson[3]
3. 40H-Caleb Helms[4]
4. O9-Craig Mintz[1]
5. 4K-Kody Kinser[5]
6. O-Lee Jacobs[6]
7. 3-Pete Miller III[9]
8. 60-Jody Keegan[10]
9. 1X-Matt Linder[8]
10. 27-Scott Euler[11]
11. 40-Mark Imler[12]
12. O8-Dan Kuriger[7]
A-Main - (30 Laps)
1. 83-Tim Shaffer[4]
2. 16-Bryan Sebetto[10]
3. 45-Rob Chaney[2]
4. 97-Dean Jacobs[13]
5. 70-Jac Haudenschild[3]
6. 2-Dale Blaney[1]
7. 5R-Byron Reed[5]
8. W20-Greg Wilson[15]
9. 312-Mike Linder[9]
10. D4-Danny Holtgraver[6]
11. O4-Cap Henry[8]
12. 9X-Brandon Martin[7]
13. 4K-Kody Kinser[20]
14. 4-Danny Smith[21]
15. 14H-Todd Heller[12]
16. 312X-Chris Andrews[17]
17. 22-Cole Duncan[16]
18. 2+-Brian Smith[22]
19. 40H-Caleb Helms[19]
20. O-Lee Jacobs[23]
21. 10-Brad Haudenschild[18]
22. O9-Craig Mintz[11]
23. 89G-David Gravel[14]
24. 53-Phil Gressman[24]
Hard Charger: 97-Dean Jacobs[+9]
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