ALLSTAR: Attica All Star 2000-04-15

All Star Sprint Race Results - Attica (OH) Raceway Park - Sat. 4/15/00
By Scott Hall

ATTICA, OH - Craig Dollansky captured his second career All Star win Saturday night at Attica Raceway Park in the 40-lap Coors Nationals All Star feature. The win was worth $5,000, and it came for the Minnesota native after losing the lead to Shane Stewart then passing him with only six laps remaining. "Shane surprised me down low," Dollansky related." I was just trying to run my race up high and he showed me I had to run a little harder." After a lap 34 restart, Dollansky rode high around the Oklahoma driver to push his Fisher-Chevrolet powered Polydome Maxim into victory lane aboard Hoosier tires. Californian Jason Meyer started on the ButlerBuilt Hot Seat pole, with Stewart alongside. Meyer jumped out to an impressive lead in the high groove, with Stewart second and third starter Dollansky next, ahead of Jeff Shepard. Dollansky got past Stewart for second just before a lap six caution for a Danny Smith spin in turn two. After the green reappeared, Meyer drove high off the backstretch exiting turn two, handing the lead to Dollansky as Meyer recovered in eighth position. Dollansky now lead over Stewart, Dean Jacobs, Shepard and Chad Kemenah. Team-mates Stewart and Jacobs traded the runner-up spot until Shepard moved past them both on lap 10 for second. Dollansky remained on top following a lap 11 caution, and Shepard kept close by running extremely high on the backstretch, just atop the edge of the track. Another caution flew on lap 16 for an Alvin Roepke spin, allowing Shepard to close with Jacobs third, Stewart fourth, Kemenah fifth and 16th starting Kelly Kinser sixth. Kemenah moved into contention and was fourth on lap 18. By lap 21, Shepard still could not challenge the leader as Stewart began running the low groove, and was back up to third. Shepard tried Dollansky low off turn three and four on lap 23, but the move would not stick. By lap 27, Stewart was right on Shepard, and dove under him for second on lap 28, A lap later he took the lead by driving under Dollansky off turn four and it looked like the race was his. But when Brad Furr stopped off turn four on lap 34, the caution waved and Dollansky had another chance. After the green came back out, Dollansky disposed of the lapped machine of Jim Nier and the leaders rode side by side in the turns, with Stewart low and Dollansky high for three laps. Then Dollansky drove around Stewart with a high bonzai move, taking the lead on lap 38 and victory was his. Stewart held on for second over Shepard, who changed his machine around for the feature, but guessed wrong on the set-up and he couldn't run the bottom groove. Kinser was fourth, earning the TW Metals $100 bonus. Jacobs soldiered home fifth with new All Star points leader Rodney Duncan sixth after starting 14th. Byron Reed finished seventh, winning the Team Simpson Racing Lucky Seven award, ahead of Keegan, Kasey Kahne and Kemenah. "I didn't need a yellow," was what Stewart stated after the race. "I got scared when those guys began going around me on the high side, but I thought I'd stick with it and the tires would warm up and start taking off again and sure enough they did. But man, I didn't need that last yellow." The heats went to Kelly Kinser, Stewart, Todd Gracey and Greg Wilson. Kemenah was the B Main winner and Phil Gressman captured the Commercial Truck & Trailer Dash. Kenny Jacobs was the fast qualifier over the 43 car field, worth $300 from Ramsey Trucking and a new Weld Wheel. He failed to qualify through the B Main, so he started the A Main as a provisional starter. Barry Ruble took a nasty ride over the turn three concrete in time trials, tearing out a portion of the frontstretch catch fence. Ruble was unhurt. The Baumann Automotive Group put up a $1,000 bonus if an Ohio driver could win the A Main and a $5,000 bonus if a driver originally slated to start in rows 11 or 12 could win the main. The bonuses went unclaimed.

Time Trials: 1. Kenny Jacobs, Jacobs/Honecker 6, 11.454; 2. Dean Jacobs, Holbrook 18, 11.565; 3. Butch Schroeder, Daugherty 7, 11.670; 4. Jeff Shepard, Double L 4J, 11.719; 5. Craig Dollansky, Karavan 7, 11.729; 6. Shane Stewart, Holbrook 9, 11.820; 7. Jason Meyer, Carter 14, 11.826; 8. Chad Kemenah, Harble 15, 11.912; 9. Kasey Kahne, Kahne 23K, 11.970; 10. Brad Furr, Furr 2F, 12.010; 11. Brian Ellenberger, Ellenberger 20, 12.029; 12. Mark Keegan, Steinbrick 92, 12.031; 13. John Ivy, Eikelberry 20, 12.069; 14. Byron Reed, B&S 5, 12.076; 15. Rodney Duncan, Harrison 22, 12.092; 16. Phil Gressman, Reidling 9, 12.142; 17. Kelly Kinser, Kinser 4K, 12.257; 18. Alvin Roepke, R&F 99, 12.280; 19. Jim Nier, Nier 00, 12.293; 20. Greg Wilson, Hampshire 63, 12.307; 21. Danny Smith, Baker 4, 12.374; 22. Ed Neumeister, Neumeister 11n, 12.407; 23. Todd Gracey, Cooper 25, 12.441; 24. Bob Teeple, Teeple 8T, 12.457; 25. Brad Ellenberger, Ellenberger 87, 12.589; 26. Dave Calaman, Ashworth 92, 12.604; 27. Raymond Shank, Shank 7x, 12.630; 28. Eric Rankine, Sabo 8s, 12.713; 29. Bob Bennett, Mickle 3, 12.720; 30. Boston Reid, Keppel 9, 12.727; 31. Jerrod Hull, Webb 51, 12.765; 32. Jason Dukes, DHP 3, 12.812; 33. Jon Finsel, Finsel F1, 12.855; 34. Frankie Kerr, Shoff 23s,12.906; 35. Daryl Stimeling, Stimeling 30, 12.980; 36. Scott Nietzel, Nietzel 2w, 13.073; 37. John Haeni, King 21J, 13.176; 38. Bud Kaeding, Kaeding 29, 13.254; 39. Kurt Winker, Winker 10w, 13.356; 40. Chuck Wilson, Wilson 31, 13.797; 41. Bruce Robenalt, Robenalt 98, 13.897; 42. Norton Southard, Southard 00, 14.204; 43. Barry Ruble, Ruble 63, N.T.

Heat (10 laps): 1. Kinser 2. Dollansky 3. Smith 4. Kahne 5. Ivy 6. K. Jacobs 7. Haeni 8. Robenalt 9. Finsel 10. Bennett 11. Brad Ellenberger.

Heat (10 laps): 1. Stewart 2. D. Jacobs 3. Reed 4. Kerr 5. Reid 6. Furr 7. Neumeister 8. Calaman 9. Roepke 10. Southard 11. Kaeding.

Heat (10 laps): 1. Gracey 2. Nier 3. Duncan 4. Meyer 5. Brian Ellenberger 6. Hull 7. Winker 8. Stimeling 9. Schroeder 10. Shank.

Heat (10 laps): 1. G. Wilson 2. Keegan 3. Shepard 4. Gressman 5. Teeple 6. Kemenah 7. Dukes 8. Rankine 9. Nietzel 10. C. Wilson.

Commercial Truck & Trailer Dash (4 laps): 1. Gressman 2. Duncan 3. Brian Ellenberger 4. Keegan 5. Dollansky 6. Reed.

B Main (12 laps): 1. Kemenah 2. Schroeder 3. Roepke 4. Furr 5. Rankine 6. K. Jacobs 7. Hull 8. Calaman 9. Dukes 10. Nietzel 11. Winker 12. Haeni 13. Brad Ellenberger 14. Neumeister 15. Kaeding 16. Stimeling 17. Shank 18. C. Wilson 19. Finsel 20. Southard.

A Main (40 laps): 1. Craig Dollansky 2. Shane Stewart 3. Jeff Shepard 4. Kelly Kinser 5. Dean Jacobs 6. Rodney Duncan 7. Byron Reed 8. Mark Keegan 9. Kasey Kahne 10. Chad Kemenah 11. Brian Ellenberger 12. Butch Schroeder 13. John Ivy 14. Jason Meyer 15. Frankie Kerr 16. Greg Wilson 17. Danny Smith 18. Brad Furr 19. Jim Nier 20. Alvin Roepke 21. Boston Reid 22. Phil Gressman 23. Kenny Jacobs 24. Bob Teeple 25. Todd Gracey.

All Star Points: 1. Rodney Duncan 265; 2. Craig Dollansky 259; 3. Frankie Kerr 247; 4. Kelly Kinser 244; 5. Mark Keegan 217; 6. Todd Gracey 214; 7. Kenny Jacobs 204; 8. Brian Ellenberger 203; 9. Jerrod Hull 196; 10. Byron Reed 150

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