IT'S TIME TO RACE!!

January 31, 2007 Jason Sides Wins his FIRST 410 Sprint Car Race in East Bay Opener TAMPA, FL….1/30/07…..Jason Sides had the biggest smile on his face when Todd Hutto, one of the East Bay Raceway Park owners, congratulated him in victory lane. Sides couldn’t wait to tell him, “I love taking your money!” Tuesday was opening night of the three-day 410 Sprint Car 31st Annual Winternationals here and a block-buster field of 52 of the best drivers were on hand. But, it was the Bartlett, Tennessee, pony-tailed, Sides that impressed everyone with his mastery of lapped traffic in the first 19 non-stop green flag laps of the 25-lap feature while being hounded by Danny Lasoski. Although eight other drivers timed ahead of Sides, luck was on his side, because three drivers who timed ahead of him failed to qualify through their heats. With six inverted to start the A-Main, ‘lucky’ Jason started on the pole. “The track was really good tonight…..Al (Varnadore) did a great job. I made zero changes on my car, except for a tire change for time trials,” explained Sides. “Credit goes to my Mom and Dad, my wife Farrah and daughter Skylar for their support. I couldn’t do this without my sponsor WTS Tractor Service and my crew Wade Oliver and Sumo.” When asked about the heavy lapped traffic, he admitted, “There were two lapped cars running side by side around lap 14, and that scared me, because I could see someone trying to challenge. I didn’t think I could get through, but I did.” His Maxim chassis was not new, it was his “old faithful” and he did get laps on the new Don Ott engine the night before in the Sprint Bandit race. The No. 7S was equipped with Hoosier tires, Weld Wheels, VRP shocks and a FSR radiator. Sides and Lasoski shared the front row at the start, followed by Lance Dewease and Tim Shaffer in row two with Craig Dollansky and Greg Hodnett in row three. It was Sides who took command and set a fast pace, lapping his first car on lap five. Most of the time, Sides was low and Lasoski tried several times to set him up, pulling equal at times, but never was recorded as leading a lap. As the two diced their way through traffic, they finally had a bit of clear sailing from lap 16 through lap 19. They were exiting turn four with Lasoski a car length back, when Lasoski lost the handle and spun to the inside to bring out the only yellow flag of the event. Tim Shaffer was running third at the time and advanced to second with Lasoski’s error with Dewease moving to third. They stayed in that order to the finish with Dollansky crossing fourth and Hodnett staying with a top five finish. Rounding out the top 10 it was Chad Kemenah, Zach Chappell. Jason Solwold, Lucas Wolfe (up from 24th) and Terry McCarl finishing tenth after starting 22nd. Heats went to Randy Hannagan, Tom Busch, Mark Smith and Danny Smith. The last chance race went to Michael Dehner. The C-Main sent Jeff Busby, Brady Short, Robbie Vaugh and Jeff Vandusen to the B-Main. Dustin Lindquist, Jesse Hockett , Kemenah and Wolf found their way to the A-Main by advancing from the B-Main. Hodnett topped the qualifying efforts with a lap of 12.346, far off the track record of 11.638 set by Kemenah in 2003. Thanks, Jean Lynch for East Bay Raceway Park STATS – 410 SPRINTS - EAST BAY RACEWAY PARK – TUESDAY, 1/30/07 Qualifying Results: 1. 22 Greg Hodnett – 12.346; 2. 87 Alan Krimes – 12.356; 3. 7 Craig Dollansky – 12.445; 4. 6 Tim Shaffer – 12.516; 5. 25 Lance Dewease – 12.527; 6. 83 Danny Lasoski – 12.532; 7. 70 Chad Kemenah – 12.533; 8. 75 Jesse Hockett – 12.540; 9. 7S Jason Sides – 12.583; 10. 11 Brandon Martin – 12.643; 11. 29 Travis Rilat – 12.644; 12. 8K Zach Chappell – 12.644; 13. 5 Dustin Lindquist – 12.648; 14. 6S Brad Sweet – 12.656; 15. 20 Paul McMahan – 12.688; 16. W20 Greg Wilson – 12.735; 17. R19 Jason Solwold – 12.747; 18. 15S Nick Smith – 12.750; 19. 55 Mark Smith – 12.754; 20. 4 Danny Smith – 12.804; 21. 1X Randy Hannagan – 12.815; 22. 4B Tom Busch – 12.823; 23. 10C Jeremy Campbell – 12.828; 24. 32 Justin Barger – 12.835; 25. 15 Sam Hafertepe, Jr. – 12.838; 26. 00 Danny Martin, Jr. – 12.841; 27. 36M Jason Martin – 12.852; 28. 24 Terry McCarl – 12.872; 29. 17B Steve Buckwalter – 12.919; 30. 5W Lucas Wolf – 12.928; 31. 51 Fred Rahmer – 12.941; 32. 18 Tony Bruce, Jr. – 12.963; 33. 6F Bob Felmlee – 13.067; 34. 5C Chad Hillier – 13.105; 35. 28 Brian Paulus – 13.107; 36. 20E Brian Ellenberger – 13.108; 37. 36 Brady Short – 13.111; 38. D12 Jason Meyers – 13.112; 39. 47J Jeff Busby – 13.292; 40. 4R Robbie Vaughn – 13.427; 41. 17 Michael L. Dehner – 13.561; 42. 3 Kaley Gharst – 13.630; 43. 56 Jeff Vandusen – 13.723; 44. 7V Tim Vandervere – 13.908; 45. D4 Danny Holtgraver – 14.002; 46. 89 Cody Darrah – 14.212; 47. 16 Lee Stark – 14.342; 48. 7R Riki Likowski – 14.566; 49. 07H Rob Hartman – 15.562; 50. 72J Johnny Johnson – 16.561; 51. 6X Mark T. Cole – 17.766; 52. 9 Gary Wright - N/T Last Chance Race (Top 8 tagged back of the heats) – 1)Michael L. Dehner 2)Kaley Gharst 3)Jeff Vandusen 4)Cody Darrah 5)Danny Holtgraver 6)Tim VanderVere 7)Lee Stark 8)Riki Likowski 9)Johnny Johnson 10)Rob Hartman DNS 11)Mark T. Cole DNS 12)Gary Wright DNS 1st Heat – 1)Randy Hannagan 2)Jason Soldwold 3)Lance Dewease 4)Jason Sides 5)Greg Hodnett 6)Sam Hafertepe, Jr. 7)Dustin Lindquist 8)Bob Felmlee 9)Steve Buckwalter 10)Brady Short 11)Danny Holtgraver 12)Michael L. Dehner 2nd Heat – 1)Tom Busch 2)Brandon Martin 3)Danny Lasoski 4)Nick Smith 5)Danny Martin, Jr. 6)Lucas Wolf 7)Brad Sweet 8)Jason Meyers 9)Chad Hillier 10)Tim VanderVere 11)Alan Krimes 12)Kaley Gharst 3rd Heat – 1)Mark Smith 2)Travis Rilat 3)Jeremy Campbell 4)Fred Rahmer 5)Craig Dollansky 6)Chad Kemenah 7)Brian Paulus 8)Jason Martin 9)Jeff Vandusen 10)Jeff Busby 11)Lee Stark 12)Paul McMahan 4th Heat – 1)Danny Smith 2)Zach Chappell 3)Greg Wilson 4)Terry McCarl 5)Tim Shaffer 6)Jesse Hockett 7)Justin Barger 8)Brian Ellenbergber 9)Cody Darrah 10)Robbie Vaughn 11)Riki Likowski 12)Tony Bruce, Jr. C – Main (Top 4 go to B and get times back) – 1)Jeff Busby 2)Brady Short 3)Robbie Vaughn 4)Jeff Vandusen 5)Danny Holtgraver 6)Tim VanderVere 7)Lee Stark 8)Riki Likowski 9)Cody Darrah 10)Kaley Gharst 11)Michael L. Dehner 12)Johnny Johnson 13)Jason Meyers DNS 14)Rob Hartman DNS 15)Mark T. Cole DNS 16)Gary Wright DNS B – Main (Top 4 go to A and get times back and can start no higher than 7th) – 1)Dustin Lindquist 2)Jesse Hockett 3)Chad Kemenah 4)Lucas Wolf 5)Brad Sweet 6)Jason Martin 7)Brian Paulus 8)Sam Hafertepe, Jr. 9)Bob Felmlee 10)Chad Hillier 11)Brian Ellenberger 12)Jeff Busby 13)Jeff Vandusen 14)Robbie Vaughn 15)Justin Barger 16)Steve Buckwalter 17)Brady Short 18)Alan Krimes DNS 19)Paul McMahan DNS 20)Tony Bruce, Jr. DNS A – Main (25 Laps) – 1)Jason Sides 2)Tim Shaffer 3)Lance Dewease 4)Craig Dollansky 5)Greg Hodnett 6)Chad Kemenah 7)Zach Chappell 8)Jason Soldwold 9)Lucas Wolf 10)Terry McCarl 11)Greg Wilson 12)Danny Lasoski 13)Randy Hannagan 14)Dustin Lindquist 15)Jesse Hockett 16)Mark Smith 17)Jeremy Campbell 18)Danny Smith 19)Danny Martin, Jr. 20)Brandon Martin 21)Fred Rahmer 22)Nick Smith 23)Tom Busch 24)Travis Rilat 410 SPRINTS 2007 WINTER NATIONALS POS CAR # DRIVERS 1-30Q 1-30H 1-30M 2-1Q 2-1H 2-1M TOTAL TIMES 1 22 Greg Hodnett 10 6 146 162 12.346 2 6 Tim Shaffer 7 6 149 162 12.516 3 25 Lance Dewease 6 8 148 162 12.527 4 7 Craig Dollansky 8 6 147 161 5 7S Jason Sides 2 7 150 159 6 70 Chad Kemenah 4 5 145 154 7 8K Zach Chappell 9 144 153 8 83 Danny Lasoski 5 8 139 152 12.532 9 R19 Jason Solwold 9 143 152 12.747 10 W20 Greg Wilson 8 140 148 12.735 11 1X Randy Hannagan 10 138 148 12.815 12 24 Terry McCarl 7 141 148 12.872 13 5W Lucas Wolf 5 142 147 14 55 Mark Smith 10 135 145 15 75 Jesse Hockett 3 5 136 144 16 4 Danny Smith 10 133 143 17 10C Jeremy Campbell 8 134 142 18 11 Brandon Martin 1 9 131 141 12.643 19 5 Dustin Lindquist 4 137 141 12.648 20 4B Tom Busch 10 128 138 12.823 21 00 Danny Martin, Jr. 6 132 138 12.841 22 51 Fred Rahmer 7 130 137 23 29 Travis Rilat 9 127 136 12.644 24 15S Nick Smith 7 129 136 12.750 25 6S Brad Sweet 4 123 127 26 15 Sam Hafertepe, Jr. 5 120 125 12.838 27 36M Jason Martin 3 122 125 12.852 28 28 Brian Paulus 4 121 125 13.107 29 6F Bob Felmlee 3 119 122 30 87 Alan Krimes 9 1 110 120 12.356 31 5C Chad Hillier 2 118 120 13.105 32 20E Brian Ellenberger 3 117 120 13.108 33 32 Justin Barger 4 113 117 12.835 34 47J Jeff Busby 1 116 117 13.292 35 56 Jeff Vandusen 2 115 117 13.723 36 4R Robbie Vaughn 1 114 115 37 17B Steve Buckwalter 2 112 114 38 36 Brady Short 1 111 112 39 20 Paul McMahan 1 109 110 40 18 Tony Bruce, Jr. 1 108 109 41 D4 Danny Holtgraver 1 96 97 42 7V Tim Vandervere 1 95 96 43 16 Lee Stark 1 94 95 44 89 Cody Darrah 2 92 94 14.212 45 7R Riki Likowski 1 93 94 14.566 46 3 Kaley Gharst 1 91 92 47 D12 Jason Meyers 3 88 91 13.112 48 17 Michael L. Dehner 1 90 91 13.561 49 72J Johnny Johnson LC 89 89 50 07H Rob Hartman DNS DNS 0 15.562 51 6X Mark T. Cole DNS DNS 0 17.766 52 9 Gary Wright DNS DNS 0 N/T Have an opinion on this story? Post a message on our Message Board! or Email KARNACto send a letter to the editor!