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KAEDING
SHOWS HOT HAND AT MCCOOL JUNCTION
by
Craig Murphy
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McCOOL JUNCTION,
Neb. – After a crazy Saturday night at
Knoxville, things returned to normal for the
National Sprint Tour Monday night, Aug. 14 at
Junction Motor Speedway.
In other words, Tim Kaeding won with Danny Lasoski
and Steve Kinser close behind.
Lasoski started from pole and led early in the
30-lap main. The lead lasted until lap 15, when
Kaeding trapped Lasoski in traffic to grab the
lead.
“It’s sometimes better to be in second,”
Lasoski said. “Tim did a good job there. He got
me caught behind traffic. I wasn’t aware it was
that good up high.”
Neither was Kaeding.
“I really didn’t think the top was going to be
that good,” said Kaeding, who went on to claim
his 12th win in the 30th race of the season. “I
wanted to get some momentum up. I got lucky,
because it stuck up there.”
Kaeding was glad to see Lasoski mired in traffic.
“Traffic can help out big time,” Kaeding said.
“We’ve got 12 wins. Unbelievable. I just wish
those two guys (Lasoski and Kinser) would have a
bad night.”
As it was, both Lasoski and Kinser battled up
front yet again. Kinser got by Lasoski for second
on lap 20, though Lasoski regained the position
for good on lap 28 while Kinser was third. Dean
Jacobs posted his first top-five NST finish with a
fourth, while Wayne Johnson was fifth.
Rounding out the top-10 were Jason Meyers, Shane
Stewart, Kyle Hirst, Jason Solwold and Travis
Rilat.
Even with the lead, Kaeding was aware it was
anything but safe with Kinser breathing down his
neck late.
“You can’t ever count Steve out,” Kaeding
said. “That’s why he’s The King.”
Kinser, meanwhile, had his hands full both with
his tires and Lasoski.
“I just didn’t make it,” Kinser said.
“There’s not much to tell. They laid rubber. I
killed my tires and got real loose. Again.”
Lasoski, who maintained the NST points lead,
enjoyed the battle with Kinser.
“It was a really good battle,” Lasoski said.
“After Tim got by I tried to shorten the track,
because it wasn’t doing any good to follow. That
let Steve get by. But it was a great race. The
guys here did a great job and made a great
track.”
For Jacobs, his first top-five was the latest
stroke of good news. Car owner Lonny Parsons, hit
by a water truck Aug. 5, was released from the
hospital last Friday and is back at home near Des
Moines, Iowa.
“He was at the shop quite a while today,” said
Jacobs, who continues to fill in for the injured
Tim Shaffer. “He’s going to his doctor in Des
Moines. We got to see him finally, and we got to
see that he’s doing well. He’s back to the
Lonny I knew.”
On the track, Jacobs was back to the driver fans
have come to know over the years.
“We finally had a decent run,” he said. “We
made a lot of changes, and went to Pro Shocks. Tim
and I are night and day different. It feels real
nice. We’ve got a new crew guy, and that’s
working out. I thought I was going to get Danny
and Steve at the end there.”
Trophy dashes were won by Lasoski and Paul
McMahan, with Lasoski choosing to start on the
inside pole for the 30-lap main event. McMahan’s
night came an end on lap 8 in the main when he
tangled with a lapped car and flipped multiple
times on the frontstretch. He was uninjured.
Heat races were won by Kerry Madsen, Jonathan
Allard and Rilat. Jason Solwold, celebrating his
31st birthday, was the fastest of 26 qualifiers
with a time of 14.487 seconds, his series-leading
seventh fast time of the year. All 26 cars raced
the main event.
For Kaeding, the win was a nice bounce back from a
tough night Saturday at the Knoxville Nationals,
where he spun on the first lap.
“We’ll take this win and enjoy it, just like
we would have with a Knoxville win,” said
Kaeding, who proclaimed how much he loved his car
upon climbing out in victory lane. “That’s how
our year has been. When we’re bad, we’re 10th
or worse. When we’re good, we’re top-three and
can win on any given night.”
NST teams next compete at Billings Motorsports
Park in Billings, Mont. for an Aug. 18-19
doubleheader.
Junction Motor Speedway National Sprint Tour results
August 14, 2006 - McCool Junction, Nebraska
Qualifying Results
1 JASON SOLWOLD R19 14.487, 2 STEVE KINSER 11
14.576, 3 DANNY LASOSKI 83 14.774,4 PAUL McMAHAN 20
14.890,5 SHANE STEWART 26 14.926,6 JASON SIDES 7S
14.935,7 DEAN JACOBS 6 15.023,8 Kyle Hirst 99
15.079,9 BRIAN PAULUS 28 15.091, 10 Wayne Johnson
14AJ 15.092,11 TIM KAEDING 11K 15.126,12 Ricky Logan
55 15.211, 13 KERRY MADSEN 11H 15.252,14 Jonathan
Allard O 15.327,15 Travis Rilat 29 15.405, 16 Trever
Green 11AU 15.478,17 Chad Hillier 5 15.500,18 JASON
MEYERS 14 15.520, 19 Seth Brahmer 13 15.850,20
Robert Ballou 12 16.020,21 Jamie McDonald
3NZ 16.056, 22 Bryan Gosel 6G 16.522,23 Kellen Love
71X 16.851,24 Mike Chadd 4 16.884, 25 Tony Kaus 3K
16.895,26 Don Stoutner 57 -.---
Heat One Finish
1 KERRY MADSEN 11H,2 Trever Green 11AU,3 Wayne
Johnson 14AJ,4 JASON SOLWOLD R19,5 PAUL McMAHAN 20,6
DEAN JACOBS 6,7 Seth Brahmer 13,8 Bryan Gosel 6G, 9
Tony Kaus 3K
Heat Two Finish
1 Jonathan Allard O,2 SHANE STEWART 26,3 STEVE
KINSER 11,4 Chad Hillier 5,5 TIM KAEDING 11K,6 Kyle
Hirst 99,7 Robert Ballou 12,8
Kellen Love 71X,9 Don Stoutner 57
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Heat Three Finish
1 Travis Rilat 29,2 JASON MEYERS 14,3 Ricky Logan
55,4 DANNY LASOSKI 83,5 JASON SIDES 7S,6 BRIAN
PAULUS 28,7 Mike Chadd 4,8 Jamie McDonald 3NZ,
Dash One Finish
1 DANNY LASOSKI 83,2 TIM KAEDING 11K,3 DEAN JACOBS
6,4 JASON SOLWOLD R19,
5 SHANE STEWART 26,6 BRIAN PAULUS 28
Dash Two Finish
1 PAUL McMAHAN 20,2 JASON SIDES 7S,3 Kyle Hirst 99,4
STEVE KINSER 11,5 Wayne Johnson 14AJ,6 Ricky Logan
55,
A-Feature Line-Up
83 - 20
11K - 7S
6 - 99
R19 - 11
26 - 14AJ
28 - 55
11H - 0
29 - 11AU
5 - 14
13 - 12
3NZ - 6G
71X - 4
3K - 57
A-Feature Finish
1 TIM KAEDING 11K,2 DANNY LASOSKI 83,3 STEVE KINSER
11,4 DEAN JACOBS 6,
5 Wayne Johnson 14AJ,6 JASON MEYERS 14,7 SHANE
STEWART 26,8 Kyle Hirst 99,
9 JASON SOLWOLD R19,10 Travis Rilat 29,11 Jonathan
Allard O,12 KERRY MADSEN 11H,
13 Chad Hillier 5,14 Robert
Ballou 12,15 JASON SIDES 7S,16 Ricky
Logan 55,17 Seth Brahmer 13,18 Mike Chadd 4,19 Jamie
McDonald 3NZ,20 Trever Green 11AU,21 Kellen Love
71X,22 BRIAN PAULUS 28,23 Tony Kaus 3K,24 PAUL
McMAHAN 20,25 Bryan Gosel 6G,
26 Don Stoutner 57
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