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O’Reilly World of Outlaws Eldora Speedway August 8, 2003
Qualifying 1) Stevie Smith, Smtih 19, 13.138 2) Kasey Kahne, Roth 83JR, 13.201 3) Danny Lasoski, Stewart 20, 13.275 4) Greg Hodnett, Apple 12, 13.323 5) Brian Paulus, P&P Motorsports 28, 13.327 6) Kraig Kinser, Kinser 11K, 13.340 7) Jason Meyers, Karavan 7, 13.348 8) Joey Saldana, Saldana 17, 13.352 9) Donny Schatz, Schatz 15, 13.357 10) Ryan Coniam, Coniam 6C, 13.397 11) Jimmy Stinson, Stinson 84, 13.414 12) Sammy Swindell, Roth 1, 13.415 13) Kenny Jacobs, Grove 70, 13.433 14) Rob Chaney, SC Racing 9X, 13.437 15) Jason Sides, Sides Motorsports 7S, 13.445 16) Jac Haudenschild, Woodward 4, 13.446 17) Randy Hannagan, TH Racing 1X, 13.450 18) Dale Blaney, Andrews 72, 13.462 19) Steve Kinser, Kinser 11, 13.465 20) Daryn Pittman, Sher-Don Motorsports 21, 13.476 21) Chad Kemenah, Harble 15K, 13.500 22) Tim Shaffer, Roth 83, 13.556 23) Bill Rose, Rose 6, 13.569 24) Brandon Wimmer, Two Winners Racing 7TW, 13.593 25) Jason Johnson, Harrison 22, 13.616 26) Paul McMahan, Helm 11H, 13.616 27) Jim Nier, Nier 00, 13.684 28) Nick Naber, Jarrell 22N, 13.718 29) Ben Rutan, Fisher Bros. 75, 13.731 30) Craig Keel, Pottorff 9, 13.869 31) Brandon Ferguson, Ferguson 15X, 15.279 32) Jonathan Allard, Wright 35, No time
First Heat Race (8 laps, top 5 finishers transferred to A-feature)--1) Randy Hannagan 2) Jac Haudenschild 3) Brandon Wimmer 4) Donny Schatz 5) Stevie Smith 6) Joey Saldana 7) Ben Rutan 8) Jason Johnson
Second Heat Race (8 laps, top 5 finishers transferred to A-feature)--1) Dale Blaney 2) Kasey Kahne 3) Ryan Coniam 4) Bill Rose 5) Jason Meyers 6) Jason Sides 7) Craig Keel 8) Paul McMahan
Third Heat Race (8 laps, top 5 finishers transferred to A-feature)--1) Tim Shaffer 2) Steve Kinser 3) Jimmy Stinson 4) Rob Chaney 5) Danny Lasoski 6) Kraig Kinser 7) Jim Nier 8) Brandon Ferguson
Fourth Heat Race (8 laps, top 5 finishers transferred to A-feature)—1) Daryn Pittman 2) Sammy Swindell 3) Chad Kemenah 4) Kenny Jacobs 5) Brian Paulus 6) Greg Hodnett 7) Jonathan Allard 8) Nick Naber
First Dash (5 laps, finishing order determined inside first 8 rows of A-feature)--1) Ryan Coniam 2) Stevie Smith 3) Jason Meyers 4) Sammy Swindell 5) Steve Kinser 6) Danny Lasoski 7) Randy Hannagan 8) Rob Chaney
Second Dash (5 laps, finishing order determined outside first 8 rows of A-feature)—1) Donny Schatz 2) Kasey Kahne 3) Jimmy Stinson 4) Kenny Jacobs 5) Jac Haudenschild 6) Brian Paulus 7) Dale Blaney 8) Daryn Pittman
B-main (12 laps, top 4 finishers transferred to A-feature)—1) Greg Hodnett 2) Joey Saldana 3) Paul McMahan 4) Kraig Kinser 5) Nick Naber 6) Jason Sides 7) Jonathan Allard 8) Ben Rutan 9) Jason Johnson 10) Brandon Ferguson 11) Jim Nier
A-main (30 laps)--1) Jason Meyers 2) Jac Haudenschild 3) Steve Kinser 4) Stevie Smith 5) Sammy Swindell 6) Ryan Coniam 7) Kasey Kahne 8) Greg Hodnett 9) Danny Lasoski 10) Brian Paulus 11) Dale Blaney 12) Daryn Pittman 13) Joey Saldana 14) Kraig Kinser 15) Tim Shaffer 16) Rob Chaney 17) Jimmy Stinson 18) Randy Hannagan 19) Brandon Wimmer 20) Paul McMahan 21) Chad Kemenah 22) Kenny Jacobs 23) Donny Schatz 24) Bill Rose
Lap leaders: Ryan Coniam 1-7, Stevie Smith 8-21, Jason Meyers 22-30
Notes: (courtesy John Gibson)
Lap 1—Ryan Coniam got the jump off of turn 4 to take the lead.
Lap 3—Jason Meyers passed Jimmy Stinson for 5th low in 1&2
Lap 4—Sammy Swindell took 6th from Jimmy Stinson low in 3&4
Lap 6—Traffic. Ryan Coniam’s lead 2 carlengths over Stevie Smith
Lap 8—Stevie Smith took the lead from Ryan Coniam low in 1&2. Donny Schatz took 2nd from Coniam low in 3&4
Lap 9—Jason Meyers got by Ryan Coniam for 3nd low in 3&4
Lap 10—Sammy Swindell passed Kasey Kahne for 5th low in 1&2
Lap 12—Caution for Donny Schatz (2nd at the time), who stopped in turn 2 with a broken rear end. Schatz was unable to continue.
Lap 13—Steve Kinser took 6th from Kasey Kahne low in 3&4. With 13 laps complete, caution for Kenny Jacobs, who lost an engine on the frontstretch
Lap 14—Steve Kinser passed Ryan Coniam for 5th low in 3&4
Lap 15—Jac Haudenschild got by Stevie Smith for 2nd on the top in 1&2
Lap 17—Kasey Kahne took 6th from Ryan Coniam low in 3&4
Lap 19—Traffic. Stevie Smith’s lead over Jason Meyers 7 carlengths
Lap 22—Jason Meyers took the lead from Stevie Smith low in 1&2
Lap 23—Jac Haudenschild passed Stevie Smith for 2nd on the top in 1&2. Leader Jason Meyers hit the wall exiting turn 2, got sideways, but gathered it up and maintained the lead. With 23 laps complete, caution for Paul McMahan, who stopped in turn 3. McMahan was unable to continue. Under caution, Chad Kemenah dropped out of the race as well
Lap 24—Steve Kinser got by Stevie Smith for 3rd with a slide job in 3&4. Ryan Coniam took 6th back from Kasey Kahne low exiting turn 2
Lap 28—Traffic. Jason Meyers’s lead 1 carlength over Jac Haudenschild
Lap 30—Jac Haudenschild got into the wall in turn 2 while trying to make a run at leader Jason Meyers on the high side of the speedway. Meyeres won by 2 carlengths.
Quotes
Jason Meyers “This is just awesome. DJ Lindsey and Bryan Sundby have given me a great car not only tonight, but the whole time I’ve been in this car. Scott Benic was here helping out tonight as well, and this Maxim chassis and Hoosier tires worked to perfection. It was getting pretty thin up there getting off of turn 2, and I smacked the wall pretty hard there. I was surprised that nobody went by me. Jac (Haudenschild) did a great job—he started pretty far back there, so congratulations to him and his team. I kind of let my guys down in the dash, and gave up a front row starting spot, but the sign of a great team is when guys stick beside you when you make a mistake. We made some changes to the car after the Dash, and we were really good all the way through the feature. Charlie Garrett worked really hard building us this brand new motor, and I’m sure he’ll be tickled to death that we won the first night out with it. My mom, my sister and my wife just came out today. I haven’t seen my wife in a couple of weeks, so we have a lot of reasons to celebrate tonight.”
Jac Haudenschild “We had a pretty good run tonight. We were right there at the end, and I just kind of brushed the wall there in (turn) 2 on that last lap, but Mike Thurman and the guys did a great job. My car owner Larry Woodward has given me everything we need. It’s good to have a good car owner and to be able to run up front again. We’ve had kind of an up and down season, and haven’t gotten to race much. It’s good to be able to be back out here on the road. We feel pretty good about our chances for tomorrow night. We’ll just have to come back here and run one spot better.”
