Kinser Wins
Princeton, MN — July 30, 2005 — By Bob
Jones, Special to the
Steve Kinser continued his dominance of the
As the green flag waved for the start of the feature, Brooke Tatnell got the
jump on Jac Haudenschild and pulled out to a quick lead with Craig Dollansky
and Kinser in tow. The leaders hit lapped traffic on the sixth circuit and
fought through the lapped cars on the high side of
Kinser worked past Dollansky on the Lap 23 to take over second place and set
his sights on Tatnell, the preliminary feature winner on Friday night. Kinser’s
Quaker State Maxim took the lead from Tatnell with a slide job on Lap 27 and
never looked back.
“We were running second there and the traffic was pretty thick. You never know
if running second is an advantage or not,” Kinser said. “There have been a lot
of times I’ve been leading races and gotten passed so it works both ways. It is
just a part of racing. A lot of times when you have tracks like we had tonight,
everybody gets heat in their tires and gets to running in the same groove and I
won’t even try to pass them because it will just mess me up. You get into an
open run and the cars can get to be real even so when you have a chance you
take it. I had a chance to get Brooke and I took it. You just need to keep
yourself in a position to take advantage when the time comes.”
After finishing 11th in the preliminary event — in a race after he dominated
Wednesday in Hartford, Mich. — Kinser was quick to point out the level of
competition this season with the
“It is so tough out here this year,” he said. “You can go out and win a race
one night and struggle to finish in the top 10 the next. Before the Kings Royal
we ran
Bad luck struck Stacker 2® Dash winner Jac Haudenschild and Craig Dollansky
when both suffered flat tires late in the A-main. The yellow flag was displayed
on Lap 34 as Haudenschild stopped Dennis Roth’s Beefpackers machine on the
front stretch with a flat right rear. Under the caution laps it became obvious
that Dollansky’s Karavan Trailers Maxim was also losing air pressure in the
right rear while running in the third position. On the restart Jason Solwold
brought out a red flag for a light flip in Turn 4. Solwold was done for the
night but Dollansky headed to the work area where D.J. Lindsey and crew changed
the flat tire and they resumed the race at the tail of the field.
Brooke Tatnell continued his strong showing this weekend by leading the first
26 laps before losing the lead to Kinser.
“Lapped traffic did not go in our favor tonight,” he said. “We got behind a
lapped car that decided to race us for position. When you are lapping a car and
he slides you back to get his lap back it is pretty frustrating. I may feel
differently about it tomorrow but right now I’m upset. You just cannot hesitate
for one second with Steve Kinser behind you and you don’t need those types of
things happening.
“Sometimes you just don’t make the right moves and tonight we didn’t. All in
all, second is a good place for us to be and it is good to be running up front.
This team has been running awesome here lately. In my wildest dreams I never
thought heading into the Knoxville Nationals that I would have a shot at
winning it. It has never been an issue of doubting myself, but I’ve never had
the equipment that I have now or the team behind me like I have now. It is a
great confidence booster and I really think we have a legitimate shot at it.”
Sammy Swindell piloted Guy Forbrook’s Jackpot Junction, Power 110 Racing Fuels
machine into a third place finish despite a setback in the Stacker 2 Dash.
“The track was pretty decent tonight,” Swindell said. “The top was the place to
be but if you hit it just right on the bottom you could at least be even with
them. We just got off with the car there in the Dash and got to running in the wrong
place and backed up to sixth. In the feature all the guys got to running the
same line and you just had to wait for somebody to make a mistake to pass
anybody. These little tracks can be tough like that and it is real hard to make
a perfect lap. We tried some stuff on the car tonight and some of it worked and
some of it didn’t. We ran out of time in between our warm up session and the
A-main to make all the changes we wanted but that is the way it goes
sometimes.”
Another driver on the move was Donny Schatz in the Parker Stores machine as he
came from his 10th starting spot to finish fourth.
“Lately we have had a lot of bad things happening with broken motors, flat
tires and things like that,” Schatz said. “Tonight we didn’t have anything bad
happen to us. We were decent in the beginning and then got to running single
file. We were happy to finish in the top five and hopefully this will get us
going in the right direction for next week and we can carry some momentum into
After departing Princeton, Minn., the series kicks off August with events Aug.
3 at Lawrenceburg Speedway in Lawrenceburg, Ind., and Aug. 5 at Eldora Speedway
in Rossburg, Ohio, before catching its collective breath heading into the
$140,000-to-win Knoxville Nationals Aug. 10-13.
PRINCETON NATIONAL NOTEBOOK
• Steve Kinser earned his
series-leading 16th A-feature victory by winning Saturday night at Princeton
Speedway. Kinser, the Kings Royal winner, also has a preliminary feature
victory this season in the Eagle Nationals at Eagle Raceway. … Fred Rahmer’s
victory July 23 at Williams Grove made him the 15th different
• The
• Steve Kinser paced the 22 cars that went through time trials with a lap
around the quarter-mile oval in 10.831 seconds. Craig Dollansky owns the
single-lap record of 10.138 seconds established on
After departing Princeton, Minn., the series kicks off August with events Aug.
3 at Lawrenceburg Speedway in Lawrenceburg, Ind., and Aug. 5 at Eldora Speedway
in Rossburg, Ohio, before catching its collective breath heading into the
$140,000-to-win Knoxville Nationals Aug. 10-13.
• The Outdoor Channel will air Aug. 3 the Kings Royal from Eldora Speedway. The
Outdoor Channel will then broadcast the Silver Cup at
• The Official
• If fans can’t get to a track to see the series, they can experience the
excitement of the
• The
Qualifying
1) Steve Kinser, Kinser 11,
10.831
2) Tim Shaffer, Parsons 6, 10.837
3) Brandon Wimmer, Two Winners Racing 7TW, 10.847
4) Terry McCarl, McCarl 24, 10.878
5) Joey Saldana, Woodward 2, 10.910
6) Donny Schatz, Schatz 15, 10.914
7) Paul McMahan, Helm 11H, 10.943
8)
9) Kraig Kinser, Kinser 11K, 11.003
10)
11) Jason Solwold, Carnahan R19, 11.044
12) Shane Stewart, Rudeen Racing 26, 11.049
13) Daryn Pittman, Titan Racing USA 21, 11.089
14) Jason Sides, Sides Motorsports 7S, 11.099
15) Danny Lasoski, Stewart 20, 11.131
16)
17) Travis Whitney, Whitney 9, 11.380
18) Dustin Lindquist, Lindquist Racing 55L, 11.568
19) Jerry Richart, Jr., Kouba 55, 11.583
20) Billy Balog, Balog 17, 11.843
21) Shane Spurlock, Spurlock 4S, 11.967
22) Matt Folstad, RJS Racing 1H, No time.
Top four finishers in preliminary feature
(locked into first four starting positions in Dash):
Brooke Tatnell, Rush Racing 8; Jac Haudenschild, Roth 83; Sammy Swindell,
Forbrook 5; Craig Dollansky, Karavan 7
First Heat Race (10 laps, top 5 finishers
transferred to A-feature)
1) Shane Stewart
2) Paul McMahan
3) Donny Schatz
4) Steve Kinser
5) Daryn Pittman
6)
7) Matt Folstad
8) Jerry Richart, Jr.
Second Heat Race (10 laps, top 5 finishers
transferred to A-feature)
1) Jason Solwold
2)
3) Joey Saldana
4) Tim Shaffer
5) Jason Sides
6) Travis Whitney
7) Billy Balog
Third Heat Race (10 laps, top 5 finishers
transferred to A-feature)
1)
2) Terry McCarl
3) Kraig Kinser
4) Brandon Wimmer
5) Danny Lasoski
6) Dustin Lindquist
7) Shane Spurlock
Stacker 2® Dash (6 laps, finishing order
determined first 6 starting positions of A-feature)
1) Jac Haudenschild
2) Brooke Tatnell
3) Craig Dollansky
4) Steve Kinser
5) Tim Shaffer
6) Sammy Swindell
B-main (10 laps, top 5 finishers
transferred to A-feature)
1) Dustin Lindquist [$20]
2)
3) Travis Whitney [$20]
4) Jerry Richart, Jr. [$20]
5) Billy Balog [$20]
6) Matt Folstad [$200]
7) Shane Spurlock [$175]
A-main (40 laps)
1) Steve Kinser [$12,000]
2) Brooke Tatnell [$6,000]
3) Sammy Swindell [$4,000]
4) Donny Schatz [$3,500]
5) Tim Shaffer [$3,300]
6) Joey Saldana [$3,100]
7)
8) Terry McCarl [$2,500]
9) Kraig Kinser [$2,100]
10) Paul McMahan [$2,050]
11) Daryn Pittman [$2,000]
12) Danny Lasoski [$1,600]
13) Jason Sides [$1,500]
14) Jac Haudenschild [$1,200]
15) Craig Dollansky [$1,100]
16) Brandon Wimmer [$1,000]
17) Shane Stewart [$900]
18) Travis Whitney [$800]
19) Jerry Richart, Jr. [$800]
20) Dustin Lindquist [$800]
21) Jason Solwold [$800]
22)
23)
24) Billy Balog [$800]
Lap leaders: Brooke
Tatnell 1-26, Steve Kinser 27-40
Notes: Paul
McMahan spun off the track in Turn 2 on his second qualifying lap and got into
the barrier outside the speedway. McMahan’s crew made repairs in time for heat
race action.
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