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Kaeding sneaks by McMahan for Bloomington win

By Craig Murphy

 

Steve Kinser had already been honored quite a bit Friday, June 2 as the National Sprint Tour raced at his home track of Bloomington Speedway in Bloomington, Ind.

Kinser’s homecoming – 410 winged Sprints had not raced at the Kinser family’s home track since 1999 – included a chance for Steve to run some laps with his dad, Bloomington legend Bob Kinser.

 

Steve Kinser got to celebrate his 52nd birthday in grand style, as the winning car owner.

 

Only Kinser wasn’t driving the winning entry.

 

Instead, it was Tim Kaeding in the second Steve Kinser Racing car sneaking past Paul McMahan in lapped traffic coming to the white flag for his fifth win in 11 races this year.

 

“I was cruising, just trying to save my tires,” Kaeding said. “Lapped traffic can be a blessing, but it can also hurt you sometimes. I feel bad taking a win away from another Californian, but not too bad. You’ve got to take them when you can.

 

“I thought we would be a top-five car,” added Kaeding, who extended his NST points lead with the win. “I was way surprised. I knew we would be up front. I just kind of held out and waited for the end. I didn’t want to burn off my tires.”

 

McMahan had been stuck behind a back marker for a few laps, and tried to guess the right away around. As it turned out, the high side wasn’t the way.

 

“It’s racing,” said McMahan, who set fast time in qualifying at the ¼-mile track with a lap of 9.72 seconds. “That’s just part of it. I followed that lapped car way too long. The guy would enter the turn at the top, and be on the bottom on the exit. I needed to squeeze him out of the way, but that’s not how I race.

 

“I wish I could tell you how frustrating it is,” the runner-up added. “You can’t imagine. Opportunities don’t come along too often, so you have to take advantage.”

McMahan noted speed hasn’t been the issue with his Tony Stewart Motorsports team this year.

 

“We’ve been fast, we just haven’t had luck,” he said. “This wasn’t bad luck. I just made a mistake.”

 

Tim Shaffer and McMahan battled side-by-side for the lead the first few laps before Shaffer took the lead on lap 3. Shaffer held the lead until a near-collision with a lapped car on lap 11 forced Shaffer off the outside cushion. By the time Shaffer recovered, he was back to eighth and Danny Lasoski had the lead.

 

“It was bad judgment,” Shaffer said of the near miss. “We had a good car, but we don’t have anything to show for it. It’s frustrating. I wanted to get back up there, but it’s hard to pass.”

Lasoski held onto the lead until lap 23 of the 40-lap race, when McMahan got by. Kaeding followed for second a lap later.

 

“We put on way softer tires,” said Lasoski, who held on for third. “When I got the lead, I burned off the tires. I could only run half-throttle or I would blow the tires.”

 

At the end it was Kaeding, McMahan, Lasoski, Shane Stewart and Jason Sides in the top-five. Rounding out the top-10 were Jason Meyers, Jason Solwold, Kinser, Shaffer and Kevin Swindell.

 

Heat race winners were Solwold, Kerry Madsen and Nick Smith. Dash winners were McMahan and Shaffer.

 

For Kaeding, the dream season continues.

 

“That’s way too much for me to handle,” he said of the five wins. “To win almost half the races is an unbelievable feeling.”

 

Kinser wanted that feeling at his home track after the multitude of celebratory events, but struggled all night.

 

“We just didn’t get the job done,” Kinser said. “I would spin (the tires) all the way out of the corners. That’s about as bad as we’re run all year.”

 

NST RESULTS – Bloomington Speedway, 06/02/06

 

QUALIFYING

 

 

#

 

First

Last

Owner

Time

1)

 

20

 

PAUL

McMAHAN

Stewart

9.720

2)

 

7

S

JASON

SIDES

Sides

9.752

3)

 

14

 

JASON

MEYERS

Stockbridge

9.756

4)

 

6

 

TIM

SHAFFER

Parsons

9.758

5)

 

83

 

DANNY

LASOSKI

Roth

9.766

6)

 

26

 

SHANE

STEWART

Rudeen

9.783

7)

R

19

 

JASON

SOLWOLD

Carnahan

9.785

8)

 

28

 

BRIAN

PAULUS

P & P Mtrsprts

9.794

9)

 

11

K

TIM

KAEDING

Kinser

9.844

10)

 

4

K

Kelly

Kinser

Kinser

9.921

11)

 

17

 

Matt

Neely

Neely

9.944

12)

 

6

N

Nick

Nabor

Nabor

9.952

13)

 

1

 

Kevin

Swindell

Swindell

9.975

14)

 

11

 

STEVE

KINSER

Kinser

9.987

15)

 

81

 

Nick

Smith

Mulvaney

9.989

16)

 

11

H

LUCAS

WOLFE

Helm

10.036

17)

 

55

 

Kerry

Madsen

Ver Meer

10.086

18)

 

4

B

Tom

Busch

Busch

10.091

19)

 

70

 

Kevin

Huntley

Groves

10.098

20)

 

5

H

Patrick

Haynes

Haynes

10.234

21)

 

5

 

Kevin

Briscoe

Briscoe

10.276

22)

 

4

N

Neil

Shepherd

Shepherd

10.307

23)

 

1

H

Kyle

Cummins

Harpe

10.331

24)

 

36

 

Brady

Short

Short

10.338

25)

 

29

 

Eddie

Lynch

Lynch

10.353

26)

 

5

J

Joss

Moffatt

Moffatt

10.633

27)

 

48

 

Ty

Deckard

Deckard

10.752

28)

 

44

 

Eric

Edwards

Edwards

11.579

           

HEAT 1 - 10 LAPS (TOP 6 TRANSFER TO A-MAIN)

 

First

Last

1)

JASON

SOLWOLD

2)

LUCAS

WOLFE

3)

Kevin

Swindell

4)

TIM

SHAFFER

5)

PAUL

McMAHAN

6)

Kelly

Kinser

7)

Eddie

Lynch

8)

Neil

Shepherd

9)

Eric

Edwards

10)

Kevin

Huntley

           

HEAT 2

1)

Kerry

Madsen

2)

DANNY

LASOSKI

3)

STEVE

KINSER

4)

JASON

SIDES

5)

Kyle

Cummins

6)

BRIAN

PAULUS

7)

Patrick

Haynes

8)

Joss

Moffatt

9)

Matt

Neely

           

HEAT 3

 

1)

Nick

Smith

2)

TIM

KAEDING

3)

SHANE

STEWART

4)

Tom

Busch

5)

JASON

MEYERS

6)

Kevin

Briscoe

7)

Ty

Deckard

8)

Brady

Short

9)

Nick

Naber

 

DASH 1 - 6 LAPS

 

First

Last

1)

PAUL

McMAHAN

2)

DANNY

LASOSKI

3)

TIM

KAEDING

4)

Kevin

Swindell

5)

JASON

MEYERS

6)

JASON

SOLWOLD

 

 

 

DASH 2 - 6 LAPS

 

First

Last

1)

TIM

SHAFFER

2)

SHANE

STEWART

3)

STEVE

KINSER

4)

JASON

SIDES

5)

BRIAN

PAULUS

6)

Kelly

Kinser

 

B-MAIN - 12 LAPS (TOP 6 TRANSFER TO A-MAIN)

 

1)

Kevin

Huntley

2)

Brady

Short

3)

Neil

Shepherd

4)

Nick

Naber

5)

Matt

Neely

6)

Ty

Deckard

7)

Eddie

Lynch

8)

Eric

Edwards

9)

Joss

Moffatt

10)

Patrick

Haynes

 

A-MAIN 40 LAPS     [STARTED]  [$]

1)

TIM

KAEDING

[5]

[$10,000]

2)

PAUL

McMAHAN

[1]

[$5,500]

3)

DANNY

LASOSKI

[3]

[$3,200]

4)

SHANE

STEWART

[4]

[$2,800]

5)

JASON

SIDES

[8]

[$2,500]

6)

JASON

MEYERS

[9]

[$2,300]

7)

JASON

SOLWOLD

[11]

[$2,200]

8)

STEVE

KINSER

[6]

[$2,100]

9)

TIM

SHAFFER

[2]

[$2,050]

10)

Kevin

Swindell

[7]

[$2,000]

11)

BRIAN

PAULUS

[10]

[$1,500]

12)

Kerry

Madsen

[17]

[$1,200]

13)

Nick

Smith

[15]

[$1,100]

14)

LUCAS

WOLFE

[16]

[$1,050]

15)

Kevin

Huntley

[19]

[$1,000]

16)

Kelly

Kinser

[12]

[$1,000]

17)

Kyle

Cummins

[22]

[$1,000]

18)

Neil

Shepherd

[21]

[$1,000]

19)

Ty

Deckard

[24]

[$1,000]

20)

Brady

Short

[23]

[$1,000]

21)

Matt

Neely

[13]

[$1,000]

22)

Tom

Busch

[18]

[$1,000]

23)

Nick

Nabor

[14]

[$1,000]

24)

Kevin

Briscoe

[20]

[$1,000]

 

 

Laps lead:  Paul McMahan 1-2, Tim Shaffer 3-10, Danny Lasoski 11-22,

                  Paul McMahan 23-38, Tim Kaeding 3-40                       

 

 

 

 

 

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