| Sunday, February 10, 2002 | |
| Lasoski Grabs All Star Sprint Feature at Volusia |  It was a beautiful Florida night and #20 Danny Lasoski, Dover, MO took advantage of it as he won his first feature race of the 2002 Raceweek event at Volusia Speedway Park. The 24 ALL STAR Sprints started their 25 lap feature in the 'missing' man formation and 4 abreast in memory of a fellow racer that lost his life last year. John Bankston, Beumont, TX, 1939-2001, died tragically in August of 2001 at the Eldora Speedway.
Before the first lap was on the board, #7d Craig Dollansky, St. Zimmerman, MN, lost in in turn 2 and it was a complete restart with #U2 Paul M McMahan, Bristol. IN on the inside of #20 Lasoski, by lap three it was #20 Lasoski all the way and lapping cars by lap 6.
On lap 10 the caution was thrown as #51 Danny Smith, Danville, IN spun to avoid the car of #12 Greg Hodnett, York PA spun out in turn 2. On the restart Lasoski wasted no time putting a lot of track between himself and #U2 McMahan.
On lap 12 #35, Tyler Walker, Tulsa OK went low and brushed the inside wall in turn 3 but was able to recover and continue without bringing out the caution but #35 Walker went on to have more troubles on lap 20, Walker was the only car off the track for the remainder of the race. After the caution with #35 Walker on lap 20 the restart was risky for all the top cars as lapped cars threaded their way through the field. #U2 McMahan was able to get ahead of lapped traffic but was unable to catch the fast leader, #20 Danny Lasoski.
In victory lane Lasoski spoke of car owner Tony Stewart and his team as well as saying "everything was lookin good, were having a great time and I hope to do a good job representing dirt track racers". The top 5 spots went to: #20 Danny Lasoski, Dover, MO - #U2 Paul McMahan, Bristol, IN - 15k Chad Kemenah, Findlay, OH - #51K Kasey Kahne, #1AT Travis Rilat, Texas City, TX
The feature race was dedicated to John Bankston, sending a chill up your spine to see the cars line up 4 wide with the inside pole position empty.
UMP MODIFIEDS Ray Walsh, St. Louis MO, took his first feature win the second night of Raceweek 2002 at Volusia Speedway Park. It is without a doubt the most unbelievable feeling as these open wheel 'monsters' of the dirt fire it up coming out of turn 4! Its hard to believe that these race cars can take up the entire track but they do and they do it 4 wide sometimes.
The third caution of the race was on lap 7 in turn 3 as XXV Paul Miles, Owensburg, KY involved in his second caution of the night got together with #67j Billy Jewell, Norman Ok, Jewell was taken off the track by the wreckers and XXV Miles attempted to return to the race only to get caught up in the worst wreck of the night in turn 3 again on lap 21.
 It was a battle for first place between #1pj Shawn Holliday, Ironton, OH, 1W Ray Walsh and #11z Bryan Collins, Muskogee, OK. On lap 21 cars spun in turn 3 and #1pj Holliday had nowhere to go ending his chance at a win. With 4 laps to go #1W Ray Walsh put it hard to #11z Collins, Collins wasnt able to hold on to 2nd as #17s Jim Shereck, St. Charles, MO and #12l Jeff Leka, Buffalo, IL were able to get around him taking 2nd and 3rd. #1w Walsh and was able to pull out his first win this year. Series announcer Steve Nelson made it trackside to interview a very happy winner. Walsh stated "we had bad luck in GA and bad luck last night so we started early, 9am worked on the car and it paid off!"...Nelson asked for Walsh' secret all Walsh had to say was there was no way he was saying anything! ALL STAR SPRINTS results
Heat #1 1)20-Danny Lasoski, 2)1a-Travis Rilat, 3)24-Terry McCarl, 4)51k-Kasey Kahne, 5)7s-Jason Sides, 6)4B-Tom Busch, 7)6B-Bill Rose, 8)16L-Lenord Lee, 9)K60-Jody Keegan, 10)V8-Jeff Hodgson, 11)10c-Jeremy Campbell.
Heat #2 1)6-Kenny Jacobs, 2)U2-Paul McMahn, 3)45-Tim Shaffer, 4)4k-Kelly Kinser, 5)11-Mike Erdley, 6)41-Jason Johnson, 7)36-Curt Trainer, 8)61a-Toby Brown, 9)12-Greg Hodnett, 10)1-Doug Berryman.
Heat #3 1)88H-Fred Rahmer, 2)7-Craig Dollansky, 3)51s-Danny Smith, 4)19s-Stevie Smith, 5)55W-Mike Wagner, 6)15k-Chad Kemenah, 7.Shane Stewart, 8)27c-Shawn Chaney, 9)4M-Mike Dupuy, 10)10G-Spud Gastin, 11)63R-Barry Ruble.
Heat #4 1)92-Joey Saldana, 2)34-Dean Jacobs, 3)77-Lance Dewease, 4)35-Tyler Walker, 5)22D-Rodney Duncan, 6)19w-Mike Woodring, 7)2K-Kevin Frey, 8)1ax-Christi Passmore, 9)9G-Phil Gressman, 10)98-Bruce Robenalt, 11)72J-John Johnson.
B-Main 1.Chad Kemenah, 2.Greg Hodnett, 3.Jason Johnson, 4.Greg Wilson, 5.Shane Stewart, 6.Mike Woodring, 7.Phil Gressman, 8.Curt Trainer, 9.Tom Busch, 10.Kevin Frey, 11.Lenord Lee, 12.Christi Passmore, 13.Shane Chaney, 14.Jody Keegan, 15.Jeff Hodgson, 16.Bill Rose, 17.Bruce Robenalt, 18.Barry Ruble, 19.Doug Berryman, 20.Toby Brown, 21.John Johnson, 22.Spud Gastin.
ALL STAR SPRINTS FEATURE RACE FINISH
1.Danny Lasoski, 2.Paul McMahn, 3.Chad Kemenah, 4.Kasey Kahne, 5.Travis Rilat, 6.Joey Saldana, 7.Stevie Smith, 8.Lance Dewease, 9.Danny Smith, 10.Jason Johnson, 11.Tim Shaffer, 12.Rodney Duncan, 13.Fred Rahmer, 14.Kenny Jacobs, 15.Dean Jacobs, 16.Craig Dollansky, 17.Mike Wagner, 18.Terry McCarl, 19.Greg Hodnett, 20.Mike Erdley, 21.Jason Sides, 22.Kelly Kinser, 23.Greg Wilson, 24.Tyler Walker.
U.M.P. OPEN WHEEL MODIFIED RESULTS
U.M.P. Open Wheel Modified Heat #1 (1)1W Ray Walsh, St. Louis, MO (2) 1R Bart Richardson, Bradford, IN (3) 22 Marvin Burton, Georgetown, IL (4) 45 James Mills, Marshall, IL (5) K5 David Baker, Peoria, IL (6) 7K Kent Corbin, Bunnell, FL (7) 707 Corey Conley, Wellsburg, WV (8) M40 Scott May, East Peoria, IL (9) 17s Jim Shereck, St. Charles, MO (10) 37f Dan Fugate, Lawrenceburg, IN (11) 555 Ryan Ruter, Kanawha, IA (12) DQ 88 Scott Orr, Columbia City, IN
U.M.P. Open Wheel Modified Heat #2 (1) 79 Shawn Nolan, Aunandale, MN (2) 0J Ronnie Perrine, Jr. Lima OH (3) 87 Eddie Harmon, Ironton, OH (4)17H David Hughes, Brooksville, KY (5) 71 Bill Davis, Chesterton, IN (6) 1GRS Dave Groves, Morgantown, WV (7) 7W Jason Wheatley, Loretto, KY (8) 67J Billy Jewel, Norman, OK (9) 43 Mike Harding, Lowell, MI (10) A Junior Nolan, St. Clarksville, OH (11) 7m Bryan Millican, Cleveland, TX (12) 20 Jimmy Owens, Newport, TN
U.M.P. Open Wheel Modified Heat #3 (1) 74 N Scott Nesteby, Asbury, IA (2) 18 Dean Wray (3) 33 Steve Wetter, Platteville, WI (4) 11L Travis LaCombe, Holland, MI (5) 69 Junior Hotovy (6) 37K Kenny Patterson, Cincinnati, OH (7) 2* Don Gumke, Jamestown, NH (8) 12m Kenny Myracle, Mattoon, IL (9)18m David McWilliams, Verona, KY (10) D1 Donald Necessary, Bristol. VA (11) 7t Jeremy Tibben, Red Oak, IA (12) 88e Barry Elliott, Chandler, IN
U.M.P. Open Wheel Modified Heat #4 (1)1st Brook Phillips, Wichita, KS (2) 67s Warren Shingleton, Dayton, OH (3) 64 Gary Cook, Deer Creek, IL (4) 45 Brandon Maxwell, Milan, TN (5) 1H Chuck Haga, Bismark, IL (6) 36s Brady Short, Bedford, IN (7) 63 Matthew Weston, Muskogee, OK (8) 12D Scott Drake, Muskogee, OK (9) 36p Billy Palmer, Knoxville, TN (10) 93 Rick Germar, Red Park, IN (11) 2w Darryn Waldo, Billings, MO (12) 2r Marc Robe, Manhattan, KS
U.M.P. Open Wheel Modified Heat #5 (1) 1pj Shawn Holliday, Ironton, OH (2) 37b Ron Barker, Dubuque, IA (3)11z Bryan Collins, Eisberry, MO (4) XXV Paul Miles, Owensboro, KY (5) 20b Mike Brecht, Deshler, OH (6) 05m Mike Mashl, Deper, WI (7) 03 Benji Lee, Raywick, KY (8) 21 Kenny Carlson, Hobart, IN (9) 0H Lee Hobbs, Mitchell, IN (10) 88w Chad Wheeler, Muskogee, OK (11) c11 Mike Gee, Arcola, IL (12) 812 Marvin Hotovy
U.M.P. Open Wheel Modified Heat #6 (1) 12L Jeff Leka, Buffalo, IL (2) 75 Dusty Moore, Swanton, OH (3) 26h Justin Houston, Hazel KY (4) 72 Brian Mullen, Seymour, WI (5) 182 Randle Sweeney, Clifty, KY (6) 55 Tom Moore, Zanesville, OH (7) 9I Steve Isenberg, Marshfield, WI (8) 74o Scotty Owens, Crofton, KY (9) 5P Randy Purcell, Gary, IN (10) 4G Gary Clark, Walker, MO (11) 157 Mike Marler, Warfield, TN
U.M.P. Open Wheel Modified Consi #1 (1) 17(2) 45 Brandon Maxwell, Milan, TN (3) 1 Chuck Haga, Bismark, IL (4)707 Corey Conley, Wellsburger, WV (5) 2 (6) 555 Ryan Ruter, Kanawha, IA (7) K5 David Baker, Peoria, IL (8) 36 Brady Short, Bedford, IN (9) 63 Matt Weston, Muskogee, OK (10) 36 Billy Palmer, Knoxville, TN (11) 2w Darryn Waldo, Billings, MO (12) 12 Scott Drake, Muskogee, OK (13) 45m James Mills, Marshall, IL (14) 7k Kent Corbin, Bunnell, FL - DNS m40 Scott May, East Peoria, IL - 37 - 93 Rick Germar, Red Park, IN
U.M.P. Open Wheel Modified Consi #2 (1) 71 Bill Davis, Chesterton, IN (2) XXV Paul Miles Owensboro, KY (3) 20b Mike Brecht, Deshler, OH(4) 17h David Hughes, Brooksville, KY (5) 0H Lee Hobbs, Mitchell, IN (6) 05 Mike Mashl, Deper, WI (7) 7m Bryan Millican, Cleveland, TX (8) 88w Chad Wheeler, Muskogee, OK (9) 7w Jason Wheatley, Loretto, KY (10) 03 Benji Lee, Raywick, KY (11) 43 Mike Harding, Lowell, MI (12) 67j Billy Jewell, Norman, OH (13) 21 Kenny Carlson, Hobart, IN (14) A Junior Nolan, St. Clarksville, OH (15) 1grs Dave Groves, Morgantown, WV -- DNS c11 Mike Gee, Arcola, IL - 20o Jimmy Owens Newport, TN - 812 Marvin Hotovy
U.M.P. Open Wheel Modified Consi #3 (1) 157 Mike Marler, Warfield, TN (2) 69 Junior Hotovy (3) 72 Brian Mullen, Seymour, WI (4) 4G Gary Clark, Walker, MO (5) 55 Tom Moore, Zanesville, OH (6) 2* Don Gumke, Jamestown, NH (7) 182 Randle Sweeney, Clifty, KY (8)9i Steve Isenberg, Marshfield, WI (9)18m David McWilliams, Verona, KY (10)11L Travis LaCombe, Holland, MI (11) 37k Kenny Patterson, Cincinnati, OH (12) 74o Scotty Owens, Crofton, KY (13)5p Randy Purcell, Gary IN (14) 12m Kenny Myracle, Mattoon, IL --DNS D1 Donald Necessary, Bristol, VA - 7t Jeremy Tibben, Red Oak, IA - 88 Barry Elliott, Chandler, IN
U.M.P. Open Wheel Modified Feature Finish (1) 1W Ray Walsh, St. Louis, MO (2) 17S Jim Shereck, St. Charles, MO (3) 12l Jeff Leka, Buffalo, IL (4)11z Bryan Collins, Eisberry, MO (5) 71 Bill Davis, Chesterton, IN (6) 64 Gary Cook Jr., Deer Creeek, IL (7) 74n Scott Nesteby, Asbury, IA (8) 157 Mike Marler, Warf8ield, TN (9) 18w Dean Wray, (10) 45 Brandon Maxwell, Milan, TN (11) 87 Eddie Harmon, Ironton, OH (12) 0 Ronnie Perrine, Jr. Lima OH (13) 75 Dusty Moore, Swanton, OH (14) 1pj Shawn Holliday, Ironton, OH (15) 1r Bart Richardson, Bradford, TN (16) 79 Shawn Nolan, Aunandale, MN (17) 26h Justin Houston, Hazel, KY (18) XXV Paul Miles, Owensboro, KY (19) 1st Brook Phillips, Wichita, KS (20) 37b Ron Barker, Dubuque, IA (21) 67j Billy Jewell, Norman, OK (22) 33 Steve Wetter, Platteville, WI (23) 69 Junior Hotovy (24) 22 Marvin Burton, Georgetown, IL
Next Race: Sunday 2/10/02 the Finale for the ALL STAR SPRINTS ALL STAR SPRINTS and U.M.P. Open Wheel Modifieds Gates open: 5PM - Qualifying 6:15PM - Racing starts at 7:30pm
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