ALLSTAR: Lawrenceburg Results 1999-09-18

All Star Sprint Race Results - Lawrenceburg Speedway - Sat. 9/18/99 By Scott Hall

LAWRENCEBURG, IN - Chad Kemenah picked the right time to win his first All Star feature in the 17th Annual Hoosier Fall Classic 50-lap main Saturday night at Lawrenceburg Speedway. Kemenah's win was worth $10,000 out of the $33,830 purse and came over Kenny Jacobs and local hotshoe Kevin Briscoe.

"My brother and I talked about it and said 'we need to be around the top'. I got tired of following the leader and went down low and stuck and I thought 'I better try this for a while," Kemenah said of his strategy of moving to the bottom of the track. "This is great, I'm kind of speechless. My brakes were getting a little warm from running around the bottom. And the driver didn't even spin out tonight," he concluded, referring to an Attica loss earlier this season. He drove the Jim Harble, UUI Utilities sponsored Gambler with Kistler-Chevy power, on Goodyear tires.

Boston Reid started on the ButlerBuilt Motorsports Equipment Hot Seat pole position with Butch Schroeder outside him. Schroeder grabbed the initial lead over Reid and fourth starter Danny Smith. Smith snared second on lap three and went high around Schroeder to lead lap six after battling with Schroeder for three laps. Smith then led until a lap nine restart when Schroeder was just ahead by a nose when the yellow appeared.

Schroeder led when the green came back out, with Smith second and Jacobs third. Jacobs took over second on lap 12 on the front stretch, and began pressuring Schroeder. Meanwhile Saldana was working Smith for third as the leaders moved into lapped traffic. At lap 20, Schroeder and Jacobs were nose to tail and it took Jacobs another three laps to take the lead for good with a low groove move down the back stretch. Kemenah moved into second on lap 24 after starting tenth and discovering the inside groove. He began reeling in Jacobs, and by lap 26 the pair were side by side. Jacobs dropped to the lower groove to try and block Kemenah, and it was a cat and mouse game through heavy lapped traffic. Jacobs pulled away a bit in the clear by lap 30 as 13th starting Briscoe moved into third over Schroeder.

As the laps wound down, Kemenah was getting faster in the low groove, and was right on the leader with 10 laps to go. The lead duo were nose to tail on lap 43 and side by side in turn two, with Kemenah going under Jacobs to lead lap 44.

"I guess I didn't stay on the bottom and I should have," Jacobs said. "I saw a lapped car underneath me one lap and it was a blue car, Kasey Kahne, so when I saw Chad I thought it was Kasey and I didn't crowd him because I didn't want a lapped car to run into me but, heck, it was Chad."

So Kemenah had the lead and drove away from Jacobs for his first All Star win. Briscoe was thrilled with third.

"The Briscoe Mobile Homes, Hoosier Tire, Afco Shock Stealth car was really hooked up, Briscoe related. To run third with these guys, we're just really happy. We're using a five year old Kinser motor."

Saldana held on for fourth, ahead of Alvin Roepke, up from 12th, and Rodney Duncan. Smith finished seventh, earning the "Team Simpson Racing Lucky Seven" award ahead of Paul McMahan, Derek Scheffel and Dean Jacobs.

K. Jacobs has clinched the 1999 All Star driver's championship, And just by signing in at Eldora Speedway on Oct. 2 will clinch the owner's title as well.

The United Expressline heat fell to fast qualifier Kenny Jacobs, the Southwest Expressline heat to Paul McMahan, the Southwest Glass heat was won by Saldana, the United Specialties heat went to Derek Scheffel and the second United Expressline heat went to Dean Jacobs. Butch Schroeder won the Commercial Truck & Trailer Dash Greg Wilson with the United Expressline B Main winner. Scott Simion won the Georgia Marketing & Promotions C Main. Frankie Kerr took a nasty end-over-end flip after jumping the cushion in time trials. He was okay but done for the night. Gary Wright left early after heat race problems. Eric Davis barrel rolled in the B but was also okay.

In the 20 lap UMP Modified main, Gary Burton won over Joshua Shaw, Greg Beem, Shane Mugavin, Doug Wethington and Jerry Back.

Time Trials: 1. Kenny Jacobs, Jacobs 6, 11.288; 2. Rodney Duncan, Harrison 22, 11.656; 3. Danny Smith, Ashworth 92, 11.658; 4. Derek Scheffel, Scheffel 21s, 11.733; 5. Jim Nier, Nier 00, 11.817; 6. Butch Schroeder, Daugherty 7, 11.949; 7. Boston Reid, Keppel 9, 11.965; 8. Joey Saldana, Mox 17, 11.978; 9. Bob Burkle, Burkle 21b, 11.984; 10. Frankie Kerr, Shoff 23s, 12.086; 11. Kelly Kinser, Kinser 4K, 12.151; 12. Paul McMahan, Johnson U2, 12.152; 13. Terry McCarl, McCarl 24, 12.158; 14. Chad Kemenah, Harble 15, 12.172; 15. J.C. Sulawaske, Hobgood 12, 12.195; 16. Byron Reed, B&S 5, 12.204; 17. Alvin Roepke, R&F 99, 12.210; 18. Jeremy Minton, Minton 7, 12.295; 19. Kevin Briscoe, Briscoe 5, 12.297; 20. Paul Weaver, Nickles 31, 12.308; 21. Jerrod Hull, Webb 51, 12.325; 22. Bill Knisley, Knisley 4x, 12.357; 23. Gary Wright, Wright 9, 12.423; 24. Kasey Kahne, Kahne 23K, 12.430; 25. Dean Jacobs, Holbrook 8, 12.466; 26. Paul May, May 71m, 12.470; 27. Brian Carlson, SC Motorsports 18, 12.498; 28. Randy Kinser, Kinser 14, 12.502; 29. Greg Wilson, Hampshire 63, 12.540; 30. Jason Knoke, Knoke 54, 12.543; 31. Matt Linder, Pullins 29, 12.591; 32. Jimmy Stinson, Brown 99, 12.612; 33. Eric Davis, Davis 96, 12.632; 34. Kent Wolters, Wolters 12, 12.703; 35. Jonathan Stevens, Stevens 4J, 12.752; 36. Terry Pletch, Pletch 29, 12.768; 37. Hud Horton, Horton 80, 12.792; 38. Nick Naber, G&N 6, 12.857; 39. Scott Simion, Simion 4f, 12.874; 40. Brenda Buster, Buster 31, 12.888; 41. Keith Baxter, Baxter 1, 12.919; 42. Todd Kelley, Kelley 21k, 12.938; 43. Jack Hewitt, Dewit 17, 13.007; 44. Dwayne Spille, Spille 71, 13.088; 45. Steve Bixler, Bixler 51, 13.101; 46. Chris Borgman, Borgman 6c, 13.208; 47. Shannon Jodrey, Jodrey 10j, 13.294; 48. Lonnie Darst, Darst L5, 13.350; 49. John Buchy, Buchy 28, 13.377; 50. Dan Dobbins, Dobbins D8, 13.598; 51. Steve Wilmot, Wilmot 73, 17.447.

United Expressline Heat (10 laps): 1. K. Jacobs 2. Hull 3. Schroeder 4. Pletch 5. May 6. Linder 7. Baxter 8. Borgman 9. Reed 10. K. Kinser.

Southwest Expressline Heat (10 laps): 1. McMahan 2. Roepke 3. Duncan 4. Carlson 5. Stinson 6. Horton 7. Jodrey 8. Kelley 9. Reid 10. Knisley.

Southwest Glass Heat (10 laps): 1. Saldana 2. Smith 3. Hewitt 4. R. Kinser 5. Naber 6. Davis 7. Wright 8. McCarl 9. Darst 10. Minton.

United Specialties Heat (10 laps): 1. Scheffel 2. Kahne 3. Briscoe 4. Burkle 5. Kemenah 6. Wilson 7. Spille 8. Buchy 9. Simion 10. Wolters.

United Expressline Heat (10 laps): 1. D. Jacobs 2. Weaver 3. Knoke 4. Sulawaske 5. Stevens 6. Nier 7. Bixler 8. Dobbins 9. Buster 10. Kerr (DNS).

Commercial Truck & Trailer Dash (4 laps): 1. Schroeder 2. Duncan 3. Smith 4. K. Jacobs 5. Saldana 6. McMahan.

Georgia Marketing & Promotions C Main (12 laps): 1. Simion 2. Naber 3. Kelley 4. Buchy 5. Darst 6. Spille 7. Jodrey 8. Baxter 9. Borgman 10. Buster 11. Dobbins 12. Bixler 13. Wilmot.

United Expressline B Main (15 laps): 1. Wilson 2. Reid 3. Kemenah 4. May 5. K. Kinser 6. Wolters 7. Stinson 8. Minton 9. Kelley 10. Horton 11. Linder 12. Buchy 13. Naber 14. Knisley 15. Reed 16. McCarl 17. Stevens 18. Davis 19. Nier 20. Simion.

A Main (50 laps): 1. Chad Kemenah 2. Kenny Jacobs 3. Kevin Briscoe 4. Joey Saldana 5. Alvin Roepke 6. Rodney Duncan 7. Danny Smith 8. Paul McMahan 9. Derek Scheffel 10. Dean Jacobs 11. Butch Schroeder 12. Jerrod Hull 13. Jack Hewitt 14. Kasey Kahne 15. Randy Kinser 16. Bob Burkle 17. Paul May 18. Boston Reid 19. Greg Wilson 20. Jason Knoke 21. Brian Carlson 22. Paul Weaver 23. JC Sulawaske 24. Terry Pletch.

All Star Points: 1. Kenny Jacobs 4124, 2. Dean Jacobs 3823, 3. Rodney Duncan 3475; 4. Jerrod Hull 3357; 5. Joey Saldana 3096; 6. Greg Wilson 3030; 7. Paul McMahan 2932; 8. Danny Smith 2872; 9. Brian Carlson 2672; 10. Brian Ellenberger 2511.

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