ALLSTAR: Lawrenceburg report 96-09-14

UNITED EXPRESSLINE ALL STAR SPRINT RESULTS - SAT. 09/14/96 Lawrenceburg Speedway, Lawrenceburg, IN.

LAWRENCEBURG, IN - The master of the low groove, Kelly Kinser, scored his fourth series feature win Saturday night at Lawrenceburg Speedway in the 50-lap Hoosier Fall Classic, recording the biggest payday of his career at $14,000 in the United Expresslines All Star sprint feature.

Kinser's win, aboard the Crone Lumber, JB's Salvage, Franklin Power Products Sealth, came on McCreary tires with a Gaerte-Chevy under the hood. He held off the challenges of Jeff Shepard and Frankie Kerr to win in a race that saw five lead changes.

"This track just fits my style," Kinser said. "(Jeff) Shepard was really running good around the top, I thought he might keep his momentum up, but we had a real good pull getting off the turns and that's really what won it for us." Kerr started on the pole, led at several points in the race, and finished second, a full straight behind the low groove master Kinser. He was celebrating his 36th birthday, from the previous day, at the track.

"Me and Dale were racing pretty hard," Kevin Huntley said of his third place finish after battling Dale Blaney for that spot. "We were decent, we just weren't quite as good as these guys," he concluded of his Warren Johnson United Expresslines Doemelt chassis.

Jeff Shepard rode home fourth after leading several times while battling side-by-side with Kinser. Blaney, a winner in Friday's unsanctioned preliminary feature here, spun on the last turn, but still finished fifth.

Kerr led the first three laps before Mike Bowling spun for caution number one. Shepard went high on the restart to get alongside Kerr, taking the lead on lap six. Shepard led three laps before he bobbled on the cushion exiting turn four, allowing Kerr to take the lead again. Meanwhile Kinser had worked up to third, passed Shepard and began to challenge Kerr. In lapped traffic, Shepard retook second, but by lap 13 Kinser passed Shepard again and moved under Kerr with a low backstretch move to lead lap 14. Shepard then passed Kerr to take second again, running the cushion while Kinser ran the low groove.

Craig Dollansky stopped on the track with loose seatbelts for a lap 17 caution, with the order now Shepard, who just nipped Kinser at the start finish line on lap 16, Kinser, Kerr, Huntley and Blaney. Kinser went low on the restart to take over the lead again, leading the rest of the way to victory. Meanwhile, Shepard and Kerr were exchanging the second spot almost every lap and Blaney began moving up.

At lap 30, when Gary Wright slowed and could not make it off the track, the order was Kinser, Shepard, Kerr, Huntley and Blaney. Blaney moved past Huntley, but Huntley got him back 10 laps later. Lap 36 saw Kerr move under Shepard for second and he began closing on Kinser in traffic. Once clear of traffic, Kinser began stretching it out again. Kerr maintained second, with Huntley ahead of Blaney for third. Shepard regained fourth when Blaney spun on the last circuit.

Todd Gracey in the Jim Walker Maxim started fourth and ran a steady sixth, a lap down. Lee Dunn was next across, followed by 15th starter Jim Nier, Van Gurley, Jr. and Danny Lasoski.

Lasoski was the fast qualifier over the 47 car field and won the Outerwears Pre-Filters B Main. The Southwest Expressline heat fell to Pete Abel, the ButlerBuilt heat to Charlie Fisher and the other heats went to Kevin Briscoe and Dollansky. Kinser won the Commercial Truck & Trailer Dash . Troy Shields won the Action Sportswear Indy C Main. Ted Nobbe won the 20 lap modified feature.

Time Trials: 1. Danny Lasoski, Forbrook/Cole 5, 10.716; 2. Kelly Kinser, Kinser 4K, 10.776; 3. Kevin Huntley, Johnson U2, 10.778; 4. Lee Dunn, Dunn 81, 10.823; 5. Todd Gracey, Walker 1j, 10.856; 6. James Fisher, Fisher 48J, 10.872; 7. Jeff Shepard, Wahlie 1w, 10.913; 8. Van Gurley Jr., Gurley 3B, 10.929; 9. Frankie Kerr, Shoff 23s, 10.940; 10. Dale Blaney, Hughes 94, 10.949; 11. Gary Wright, Action 9, 10.973; 12. Dean Jacobs, Jacobs 1F, 10.985; 13. Danny Smith, Bodkins 00, 11.004; 14. Kenny Jacobs, Ashworth 92, 11.084; 15. Rocky Hodges, Holbrook 8H, 11.095; 16. Craig Dollansky, Lindsey 2D, 11.128; 17. Jim Nier, Nier 00, 11.130; 18. Charlie Fisher, Fisher 48, 11.145; 19. Kevin Briscoe, Briscoe 5, 11.147; 20. Byron Reed, B&S 5, 11.174; 21. Pete Abel, Abel 04, 11.179; 22. Mike Bowling, Bowling 98, 11.226; 23. Tim Shaffer, J&M 55, 11.245; 24. Phil Gressman, Holbrook 8x, 11.246; 25. Randy Kinser, Kinser 14, 11.296; 26. Nick Naber, Naber 6, 11.326; 27. Troy Shields, Shields 156, 11.345; 28. Bobby Allen, Allen 1a, 11.353; 29. Matt Linder, Linder 1x, 11.358; 30. Rodney Duncan, Susong 63d, 11.405; 31. Jeremy Minton, Minton 1, 11.426; 32. Chad Kemenah, East Harbor 92, 11.496; 33. Todd Kelley, Kelley 21K, 11.504; 34. Tony Jarrett, Jarrett 29, 11.517; 35. Todd Kane, Davis 99, 11.540; 36. Joe Miller, Miller 4, 11.566; 37. Eric Davis, Davis 96, 11.586; 38. Kevin Septer, Stepter 38, 11.637; 39. Brian Carlson, SC Motorsports 18, 11.686; 40. Jimmy Stinson, Lauman 60, 11.703; 41. Steve Suever, Suever 36s, 11.738; 42. Bill Pembleton, Pembleton 42, 11.746; 43. Steve Bixler, Bixler 51, 11.753; 44. Brenda Buster, Buster 31, 11.821; 45. Dave Freed, Freed 8, 11.901; 46. Fred Boso, Javelina 7, 11.920; 47. Mike Reilmann, Reilmann 10, 14.114.

Southwest Expressline Heat (10 laps): 1. Abel 2. Nier 3. Gracey 4. Smith 5. Kerr 6. R. Kinser 7. Lasoski 8. Kelley 9. Davis 10. Freed 11. Linder.

ButlerBuilt Heat (10 laps): 1. C. Fisher 2. Bowling 3. K. Kinser 4. Blaney 5. K. Jacobs 6. Duncan 7. Jarrett 8. Stepter 9. Boso 10. J. Fisher 11. Naber 12. Pembleton.

Heat (10 laps): 1. Briscoe 2. Shaffer 3. Huntley 4. Wright 5. Shepard 6. Kane 7. Hodges 8. Minton 9. Shields 10. Carlson 11. Bixler 12. Reilmann.

   Heat (10 laps): 1. Dollansky 2. D. Jacobs 3. Dunn 4. Reed 5. Gurley
6. Miller 7.  Kemenah 8. Gressman 9. Stinson 10. Buster 11. Allen.

   Commercial Truck & Trailer Dash (4 laps): 1.  K. Kinser 2. Huntley
3. Shepard 4.  Gracey 5. Gurley 6. J. Fisher.

Action Sportswear-Indy C Main (10 laps): 1. Shields 2. Naber 3. Davis 4. Carlson 5. Freed 6. Linder 7. J. Fisher 8. Boso 9. Pembleton 10. Buster 11. Bixler 12. Reilmann 13. Stinson.

Outerwears Pre-filters B Main (12 laps): 1. Lasoski 2. Kerr 3. K. Jacobs 4. Gurley 5. Shepard 6. Duncan 7. Jarrett 8. Kane 9. R. Kinser 10. Stepter 11. Miller 12. Kelley 13. Carlson 14. Kemenah 15. Minton 16. Gressman 17. Naber 18. Shields 19. Davis 20. Freed 21. Hodges (DNS).

A Main (50 laps): 1. K. Kinser 2. Kerr 3. Huntley 4. Shepard 5. Blaney 6. Gracey 7. Dunn 8. Nier 9. Gurley 10. Lasoski 11. Briscoe 12. K. Jacobs 13. Duncan 14. C. Fisher 15. D. Jacobs 16. Abel 17. Smith 18. Shaffer 19. Reed 20. Wright 21. Dollansky 22. Bowling.