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Haulmark All Star Sprint Results - Butler Motor Speedway - Sat. 6/7/03 By Scott Hall QUINCY, MI - Jeff Shepard gave car owner Bob Miller his first career All Star win Saturday night at Butler Motor Speedway in the Haulmark All Star sprint car 30 lap feature. The Miller Rigging Maxim-Kriner on Hoosier Tires team was led by crewchief Andy Potter. Shepard, who won earlier this season in Florida in the Ashworth No. 92, took over from Dean Jacobs on lap 21 and led the rest of the way. "Hats off to my crew, they picked the perfect tire. Kriner Engines, Cat Construction, Andy Potter and Bob Miller, this win is for them. We've been close to a win every night. I knew in lapped traffic when they (the leaders) got held up going into one I had to make my move or I wasn't going to make it."
The race ended just in time as Shepard's right rear was bald in victory lane. Bill Rose brought the field down to the green with Jacobs alongside. Chad Kemenah tucked in third as the green dropped and Jacobs, in the Pullins Motorsports No. 29, began to build his lead. Meanwhile Shepard, who started third, ran a steady fourth with Danny Smith fifth. Shepard was on the move by lap seven as he grabbed third, then went high on the backstretch to take second on lap 10. Shepard began reeling in Jacobs and it soon became a two car race. At the halfway mark it was Jacobs still ahead of Shepard, with Rose third, Kemenah fourth, Smith fifth and Daryn Pittman sixth. Shepard kept the pressure on Jacobs in lapped traffic, and on lap 20 Shepard went to the high groove to make a three wide pass of Jacobs and a lapped car as Jacobs got bottled up behind the backmarker. Shepard was the leader when Kelly Kinser brought out a yellow with a spin on lap 22, dropping him from ninth place to the pit area.
Lap 27 saw another caution, this one for Daryn Pittman, who stopped with engine problems, dropping him from sixth spot. It was a three lap dash to the end, but Shepard's machine was too strong for the rest of the field and he won by three car lengths. "A couple of lapped cars banged each other on the frontstretch. I had to get out of the gas for them to keep from crashing and Shepard was in the right place in the right time and beat us," Jacobs recalled of his second place run. "We were too tight at the end when the track was taking rubber," Rose recalled after his third place finish, his best finish of 2003. "This place has always bitten me with flat tires but we made it tonight." Next at the pay window were Kemenah, Smith, Ryan Coniam, Jason Johnson, Paul May, Kenny Jacobs and Greg Wilson.
The Crown Battery heat fell to Ken Mackey, the B&B Products heat went to Ryan Coniam, the Engler Machine and Tool heat was won by Chad Blonde and the TP Wings heat fell to Brett Mann. and Mark Aldrich won the Outerwears Pre-filters C Main. The United Aluminum Window Sales & Consulting B Main fell to Doug Zimmerman while Kemenah captured the Haulmark Dash. Danny Smith was the Huggins Cams Fast Time qualifier.
Huggins Cams Time Trials: 1. Danny Smith, Smith 4, 14.025; 2. Daryn Pittman, Sherdon 21, 14.044; 3. Chad Kemenah, Harble 15k, 14.180; 4. Jeff Shepard, Miller 2, 14.182; 5. Dean Jacobs, Pullins 29, 14.296; 6. Bill Rose, Rose 6, 14.410; 7. Paul May, May 71m, 14.457; 8. Kelly Kinser, Kinser 4k, 14.537; 9. Ken Mackey, Mackey 25m, 14.548; 10. Ryan Coniam, Coniam 6c, 14.576; 11. Jason Johnson, Harrison 22, 14.623; 12. Brett Mann, Johnson U2, 14.675; 13. Greg Wilson, Hampshire 63, 14.884; 14. Mark Stemen, Stemen 17s, 14.930; 15. Craig Keel, Pottorff 9, 14.935; 16. Kenny Jacobs, Ashworth 92, 14.943; 17. Ed Neumeister, Neumeister 11n, 15.139; 18. J.R. Stewart, Stewart 37s, 15.170; 19. Chad Blonde, Blonde 5, 15.192; 20. Doug Zimmerman, Zimmerman 19, 15.192; 21. Scott Cramer, Cramer 47, 15.195; 22. Tim Evelsizer, Evelsizer 9e, 15.273; 23. Cory Bevard, Bevard 8, 15.328; 24. Hud Horton, Mossbarger 80, 15.350; 25. Marvin Pifer, Pifer 32, 15.367; 26. Jason Blonde, Rice 10, 15.384; 27. Bob Thoms, Hilliard 91, 15.470; 28. Todd Wohlford, Wohlford 0, 15.556; 29. Greg Dalman, Dalman 49t, 15.569; 30. Mark Broughman, Broughman 52, 15.579; 31. Michael Schumacher, Schumacher 24, 15.677; 32. Bruce Robenalt, Robenalt 98, 15.692; 33. Keith Baxter, Baxter 1B, 15.766; 34. Barry Ruble, Ruble 63r, 15.805; 35. Steve Zabonick, Zabonick 40z, 15.833; 36. Aaron Shaffer, Shaffer 22a, 15.863; 37. Mark Boyer, Boyer 11b, 16.015; 38. Mark Aldrich, Aldrich 1a, 16.017; 39. Aaron Warnock, Warnock 28, 16.017; 40. Bob Tobolske, Tobolske 14, 16.152; 41. Jeff Smurr, Smurr 99, 16.187; 42. Duane Mackey. Mackey 1x, 16.368; 43. Joel Sherman, Sherman 22s, 17.766; 44. Daryl Shaffer, Shaffer 29, NT.
Crown Battery Heat (8 laps): 1. K. Mackey 2. Neumeister 3. D. Jacobs 4. Wilson 5. Smith 6. Dalman 7. Pifer 8. Baxter 9. Cramer 10. Smurr 11. Boyer.
B&B Products Heat (8 laps): 1. Coniam 2. Pittman 3. Rose 4. J. Blonde 5. Stewart 6. Stemen 7. Evelsizer 8. Broughman 9. Ruble 10. D. Mackey 11. M. Aldrich.
Engler Machine & Tool Heat (8 laps): 1. C. Blonde 2. Keel 3. May 4. Kemenah 5. Johnson 6. Bevard 7. Thoms 8. Schumacher 9. Zabonick 10. Warnock 11. Sherman.
TP Wings Heat (8 laps): 1. Mann 2. Horton 3. K. Jacobs 4. Shepard 5. Kinser 6. Zimmerman 7. Wohlford 8. Robenalt 9. Tobolske 10. A. Shaffer 11. D. Shaffer.
Haulmark Dash (4 laps): 1. Kemenah 2. Smith 3. D. Jacobs 4. Shepard 5. Coniam 6. Rose. Outerwears Pre-filters C Main (8 laps): 1. M. Aldrich 2. Boyer 3. Warnock 4. D. Shaffer 5. Tobolske 6. Smurr 7. Sherman 8. D. Mackey.
United Aluminum Window Sales & Consulting B Main (12 laps): 1. Zimmerman 2. Stemen 3. Cramer 4. Wohlford 5. Evelsizer 6. Dalman 7. Baxter 8. Schumacher 9. Robenalt 10. Ruble 11. Zabonick 12. A. Shaffer 13. D. Shaffer 14. Boyer 15. Warnock 16. Bevard 17. Broughman 18. Pifer 19. Thoms 20. M. Aldrich.
Haulmark A Main (30 laps): 1. Jeff Shepard 2. Dean Jacobs 3. Bill Rose 4. Chad Kemenah 5. Danny Smith 6. Ryan Coniam 7. Jason Johnson 8. Paul May 9. Kenny Jacobs 10. Greg Wilson 11. Craig Keel 12. Ken Mackey 13. Brett Mann 14. Jason Blonde 15. J. R. Stewart 16. Scott Cramer 17. Chad Blonde 18. Daryn Pittman 19. Doug Zimmerman 20. Kelly Kinser 21. Ed Neumeister 22. Hud Horton 23. Mark Stemen 24. Todd Wohlford.
Lap Leaders: Dean Jacobs 1-20, Jeff Shepard 21-30.
