4/12/2014
Kears Speed Shop
Dale Blaney Wins Fremont Speedway
FREMONT, Ohio – Though it’s a new “team” and car number, the results are already the same for Dale Blaney. The Low Rider opened Fremont’s Speedway’s 64th season of racing in dominating fashion Saturday on JRC Transportation Night, leading all 30 laps to claim his 20th career win at “The Track That Action Built.”
Blaney teamed up with car owner Tony Kennedy to form a new team in 2014 bringing in long-time mechanic George Fisher. While the familiar #2 was replaced with a #14k, the GF1 chassis was also a part of the new team. The result? Blaney picked up the UNOH All Star win at Attica last week followed by the Fremont victory in the Fort Ball Pizza Palace 410 Sprint Division Saturday.
“Tony Kennedy’s put together a great team. A lot of the same stuff we’ve had the past couple of years…GF1 cars, Ti22 is helping us but the main thing is George is back working on it. We’re getting rolling. We are getting better and better. We had a pretty decent Florida…hurt a couple of motors but we’ve been pretty fast every night and that’s all I can ask for,” said Blaney beside his Kennedy Cattle/Penske Shocks/Ti22 Performance backed machine.
“We’re looking forward to this year. I hate to lead races but my car was really good and when your car is that good you try to get out there and get as many lapped cars between you and them and I was picking them off pretty decent. Car was really good on the bottom and I could float the top in one and two if I had to and that’s all I could ask for,” added the Hartford, Ohio driver.
Shane Stewart and Blaney would bring the field to the green for the 30-lap 410 sprint feature. The pair would race side by side the first lap with Sheldon Haudenschild, Byron Reed, Rob Chaney and Broc Martin in tow. Blaney would gain the upper hand on lap two but the action would grind to a halt when Duane Zablocki tipped over in turn four. On the restart Randy Hannagan would get side ways and then coast to a stop necessitating another restart.
When the green flew again Blaney pulled away from Stewart with Haudenschild, Reed and Brian Lay (up from his 9th starting position) in tow. Lay would take fourth on lap five.
Blaney would catch the rear of the field on lap nine and got his first challenge as the lapped cars were racing side by side. Blaney patiently picked them off one by one. Stewart pulled close on lap 11 as Blaney worked traffic. But, once he got a clear track Blaney pulled away again until he once again encountered traffic battling in front of him on lap 16.
But once again Blaney worked through traffic like a surgeon and Stewart could not gain ground. The final caution flew on lap 21 when D.J. Foos spun, putting Stewart, Haudenschild, Lay, Brock Martin, Chaney and Reed right on Blaney’s rear bumper. With the clear track Blaney pulled away while Haudenschild drove under Stewart for second. Reed would rebound to move back into the fifth spot on lap 23.
The remaining laps ticked off quickly as Blaney cruised to the win over Haudenschild, Stewart, Lay and Reed.
Qualifying - Fricker’s Restaurant/Callie’s Performance
- 53-DJ Foos, 12.868; 2. 9X-Rob Chaney, 12.945; 3. 35-Stuart Brubaker, 12.955; 4. 14-Dale Blaney, 13.007; 5. 5R-Byron Reed, 13.039; 6. 9Z-Duane Zablocki, 13.069; 7. 77-Shane Stewart, 13.078; 8. 11N-Randy Hannagan, 13.167; 9. 93-Sheldon Haudenschild, 13.169; 10. 2+-Brian Smith, 13.216; 11. 40DD-Caleb Griffith, 13.268; 12. 83M-Broc Martin, 13.303; 13. 45L-Brian Lay, 13.351; 14. 40-Caleb Helms, 13.360; 15. 5T-Travis Philo, 13.399; 16. 60-Jody Keegan, 13.409; 17. 55-Brad Bowman, 13.518; 18. 16-Chris Andrews, 13.559; 19. 6M-Max Stambaugh, 13.592; 20. O9-Craig Mintz, 13.612; 21. O7X-Dain Naida, 13.682; 22. 81-Lee Jacobs, 13.692; 23. 39M-Matt Merrill, 13.730; 24. 46AU-Stuart Williams, 13.735; 25. 9W-Jac Haudenschild, 13.770; 26. 63-Chad Kemenah, 13.787; 27. 17H-Jarod Horstman, 13.846; 28. 33M-Bryan Sebetto, 14.083; 29. 312-Mike Linder, 17.000; 30. 17-Scott Euler, 99.990
Heat 1 American Powersports - (8 Laps - Top 4 finishers transfer to the A-feature)
- 93-Sheldon Haudenschild[4] ; 2. 45L-Brian Lay[3] ; 3. 5R-Byron Reed[5] ; 4. 53-DJ Foos[6] ; 5. O7X-Dain Naida[1] ; 6. 9W-Jac Haudenschild[7]
Heat 2 - Kistler Racing Products (8 Laps - Top 4 finishers transfer to the A-feature)
- 16-Chris Andrews[2] ; 2. 81-Lee Jacobs[1] ; 3. 9X-Rob Chaney[6] ; 4. 40-Caleb Helms[3] ; 5. 63-Chad Kemenah[7] ; 6. 2+-Brian Smith[4] ; 7. 9Z-Duane Zablocki[5]
Heat 3 - Hoosier Racing Tire (8 Laps - Top 4 finishers transfer to the A-feature)
- 77-Shane Stewart[5] ; 2. 5T-Travis Philo[3] ; 3. 40DD-Caleb Griffith[4] ; 4. 6M-Max Stambaugh[2] ; 5. 39M-Matt Merrill[1] ; 6. 35-Stuart Brubaker[6] ; 7. 17H-Jarod Horstman[7]
Heat 4 - The Computer Man (8 Laps - Top 4 finishers transfer to the A-feature)
- 46AU-Stuart Williams[1] ; 2. O9-Craig Mintz[2] ; 3. 83M-Broc Martin[4] ; 4. 14-Dale Blaney[6] ; 5. 60-Jody Keegan[3] ; 6. 11N-Randy Hannagan[5] ; 7. 33M-Bryan Sebetto[7]
Dash - Borer Mirror and Glass (6 Laps, finishing order determined first 6 starting positions of A-feature
- 77-Shane Stewart[2] ; 2. 14-Dale Blaney[4] ; 3. 93-Sheldon Haudenschild[1] ; 4. 5R-Byron Reed[3] ; 5. 9X-Rob Chaney[5] ; 6. 53-DJ Foos[6]
B-Main - Computer Man Inc. (10 Laps - Top 4 finishers transfer to the
A-feature)
- 35-Stuart Brubaker[1] ; 2. 2+-Brian Smith[4] ; 3. 9Z-Duane Zablocki[2] ; 4. 11N-Randy Hannagan[3] ; 5. 9W-Jac Haudenschild[9] ; 6. 60-Jody Keegan[5] ; 7. 33M-Bryan Sebetto[12] ; 8. 55-Brad Bowman[6] ; 9. 63-Chad Kemenah[10] ; 10. 17H-Jarod Horstman[11] ; 11. 39M-Matt Merrill[8] ; 12. O7X-Dain Naida[7]
A-Main - (30 Laps)
- 14-Dale Blaney[2]; 2. 93-Sheldon Haudenschild[3]; 3. 77-Shane Stewart[1]; 4. 45L-Brian Lay[9]; 5. 5R-Byron Reed[4]; 6. 83M-Broc Martin[8]; 7. 9X-Rob Chaney[5]; 8. 40DD-Caleb Griffith[7]; 9. O9-Craig Mintz[18]; 10. 53-DJ Foos[6]; 11. 81-Lee Jacobs[19]; 12. 2+-Brian Smith[14]; 13. 35-Stuart Brubaker[11]; 14. 16-Chris Andrews[16]; 15. 40-Caleb Helms[10]; 16. 5T-Travis Philo[15]; 17. 46AU-Stuart Williams[20]; 18. 6M-Max Stambaugh[17]; 19. 11N-Randy Hannagan[13]; 20. 9Z-Duane Zablocki[12]
Hard Charger: O9-Craig Mintz[+9]
Submitted By: ANN TUSING
