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Reed, Ivy share Fremont victories; Shammo
wins 3rd in 305 sprints; Arnold in Dirt Trucks
By Brian Liskai
FREMONT, Ohio (Saturday, May 19, 2007) -
Fremont's John Ivy broke out a
different car for this weekends's racing - a
tribute car to long-time crew
member and friend Lin Potter who passed away
recently - and it propelled him
to the Engine Pro Victory Lane at Fremont Speedway
Saturday on Roots Poultry
Night in the Fort Ball Pizza Palace 410 Sprints.
Ivy might have made it two wins on the evening
had it not been for Byron
Reed getting by him late to take the win during the
make-up feature event
from the April 28 rainout on Kistler Engines Night.
Millbury's Andy Shammo planned for a late race
charge in the Fremont Federal
Credit Union 305 Sprint's feature and it paid off
as he grabbed the lead
with one lap remaining to score his third win of
the season.
Tiffin's Brian Arnold led wire to wire in the
20-lap feature for the Fremont
Fence Dirt Trucks to score his 8th career victory
at "The Track That Action
Built." It wasn't easy for the defending dirt truck
track champion, as
three-time Fremont track champion Steve Sabo
hounded him most of the way.
"Lin was a true racer....he kept coming to the
shop and to the track while
he was battling his illness...right to the very
end. I know he was looking
down on us," said an emotional Ivy on his 25th
career Fremont victory. "This
one is for Andy (Potter, Ivy's crew chief) and his
family."
"Ricky (Stenhouse) made this car look good (he
won in the same car last year
at Fremont during Ohio Sprint Speedweek) and I
couldn't let the team down,"
said Ivy. "We put a harder tire on and it really
locked the car down the
last half of the race...that was the difference. I
have to thank Dee Genzman
for believing in me and putting this deal together
for us."
Reed, the 2003 Fremont champion, also paid
tribute to Lin Potter after his
11th career Fremont victory.
"It was great to race hard with John (Ivy). I
want to say how much I admired
Lin Potter...he was a true racer, and Andy is one
of the best wrenches out
there," said Reed in the Engine Pro Victory Lane
beside his Reebar
Diecasting sponored #5. "I also have to thank my
mom. My dad had major
surgery and is at home recouperating and Mom was my
crew at the shop this
morning."
Shammo's three wins at Fremont have not come
easy, as the driver of the
Village Inn/KS Sales & Service #48 has had to work
his way up through the
pack. Saturday was no different, as he started 9th,
and battled with Kevin
Lee and Rich Farmer the last 15 laps before
grabbing the top spot as the
white flag flew.
"That was one of those deals where it's better
to be in second when you get
into lapped traffic. We're doing some things
different as far as set-up with
shocks and it seems to be working. I'm just going
to enjoy this because I've
been around long enough to know your luck can
change over night," said
Shammo beside his Lamar and Yvonne Burkin owned
#48.
Brian Arnold's 8th career Fremont win almost
didn't come to be as the third
row starter made contact with Art Ball in the first
turn of the start.
"I got into Art...I want to apologize to
them...that wasn't intentional. I
wasn't coming off the bottom for anything. If they
were going to beat me
they were going to have to drive around me," said
Arnold beside his Burns
Electric, Crown Battery sponsored dirt truck. "I
almost screwed up on the
last turn...got in too hard and nearly gave Steve
(Sabo) the door around. I
have to give him credit...he could have taken me
out, but he raced me
clean."
In the make-up 410 sprint feature, pole-sitter
Jamie Miller grabbed the
early lead, with Ivy and Troy Vacarro in tow. Ivy
would grab the lead on lap
four with a high move exiting turn 2, with Miller,
and third starting Reed
following. The action for the lead would heat up on
lap 12 as Ivy and Reed
raced side by side, while Miller and Caleb Griffith
trailed.
The action would come to a halt on lap 17 for a
flipping Rodney Morgan (he
was uninjured), with the running order Ivy, Reed,
Griffith, Miller and Todd
Heller.
With no traffic ahead of him, Ivy took a three
car length lead. But, when he
got to back markers on lap 24, Reed began to close
rapidly and the two raced
side by side again - nearly touching wheels several
times. Reed would slide
under Ivy on lap 28 and would go onto score the
victory. Ivy, Griffith,
Heller and Mike Linder would round out the top
five.
In the Roots Poultry A-main for the 410 sprints,
rookie Chris Andrews would
grab the early lead and would hold the top spot
until Todd Heller sped
around the high side to take the point on the fifth
lap. Heller would
continue to lead with Andrews, Miller, Reed and
Griffith racing hard right
on his rear bumper.At the half-way mark of the
30-lap feature, Heller lead,
but 7th starter Ivy began to charge forward,
running second, with Andrews,
Reed and Griffith in tow.
Ivy would take the top spot on lap 19, while
Heller and Griffith battled
hard for second. Ivy would go on to score the win,
as Heller nipped Griffith
at the checkered. Reed and Andrews would round out
the top five.
In the 305 sprint feature, Rich Farmer would
lead the first 14 laps as first
Mark Pridemore and then Kevin Lee would put on the
pressure. Meanwhile Shamo
would steadily march through the pack, moving into
third by lap 10. Lee
would use a lapped machine to pin Farmer to the
bottom and grab the lead on
lap 15, only to see Farmer fight back and regaining
the top spot a lap
later.
Farmer would lead until lap 20 when again he got
hung up on a lapped
machine, allowing Lee to jump around for the top
spot. Shammo would move
around Farmer with three laps remaining and set his
sights on Lee. On lap
23, Lee and Shammo raced side by side for the lead,
with Shammo holding the
slight advantage as they crossed the start-finish
line with the white flag
waving. Shammo would pull away for the win over
Lee, Farmer, 10th-starter
Bryon Sebetto and Matt Merrill rounding out the top
five.
The dirt truck feature was another barn-burner,
with Arnold grabbing the
lead at the drop of the green with Dwight
Waltermeier and Steve Sabo in tow.
While Arnold stayed glued to the bottom groove,
Sabo was able to get under
Waltermeier for second on lap 4. Cory Ward would
move into thired a lap
later and Arnold, Sabo and Ward would run nose to
tail until lap 13 when
veteran Art Ball would utilize the middle groove to
move into thired and
challenge Sabo for second.
That remained the running order the final seven
circuits, as Arnold took the
checkered over Sabo, Ball, Ward and Waltermeier.
Fremont Speedway will be back in action
Saturday, May 26 as Crown Battery
and KOT Trucking Night features a 50-lap feature
for the Fort Ball Pizza
Palace 410 Sprints paying $5,000 to win! The
Fremont Federal Credit Union
305 Sprints and Fremont Fence Dirt Trucks are also
in action.
For more information log onto
www.fremontohspeedway.com or call the track
office at 419-862-2206.
The "New" Fremont Speedway - Roots Poultry Night
Fort Ball Pizza Palace 410 Super Sprints Make-up
from Kistler Engines Night
(4-28-07)
Qualifying
1. X-Mark Keegan, 12.54; 2. 10-David Harrison,
12.65; 3. 5R-Byron Reed,
12.69; 4. 2M-Dustin Daggett, 12.78; 5. 12-Caleb
Griffith, 12.95; 6. W20-Greg
Wilson, 13.00; 7. 14H-Todd Heller, 13.02; 8.
11B-Brock Mayes, 13.05; 9.
53-John Ivy, 13.12; 10. 27-Scott Euler, 13.15; 11.
10S-Roger Shammo, 13.16;
12. O-Gus Wasson, 13.17; 13. 7T-Troy Vaccaro,
13.19; 14. 11M-Brandon Martin,
13.21; 15. 4M-Jamie Miller, 13.22; 16. 33-Steve
Irwin, 13.25; 17. 16-Lee
Jacobs, 13.27; 18. 3L-Mike Linder, 13.28; 19.
6B-Mike Dussell, 13.28; 20.
55-Brian Smith, 13.35; 21. 21-Rodney Morgan, 13.51;
22. 15C-Chris Andrews,
13.53; 23. 1W-Paul Weaver, 13.53; 24. 31-Chuck
Wilson, 13.58; 25. 2-Dale
Blaney, 13.63; 26. 8S-Bobby Clark, 13.63; 27.
91-Aaron Middaugh, 13.66; 28.
49T-Gregg Dalman, 13.72; 29. O9-Craig Mintz, 13.72;
30. OO-Ryan Grubaugh,
13.74; 31. 3T-Tony Beaber, 13.74; 32. 3B-Tim
Bottles, 15.71; 33. 48B-Bill
Shaw
Heat 1 (8 laps, top 4 transfer to A-Main)
1. 16-Lee Jacobs; 2. 53-John Ivy; 3. 2-Dale Blaney;
4. 7T-Troy Vaccaro; 5.
12-Caleb Griffith; 6. 21-Rodney Morgan; 7. O9-Craig
Mintz; 8. X-Mark Keegan
Heat 2 (8 laps, top 4 transfer to A-Main)
1. 3L-Mike Linder; 2. 15C-Chris Andrews; 3.
W20-Greg Wilson; 4. 10-David
Harrison; 5. 8S-Bobby Clark; 6. 11M-Brandon Martin;
7. OO-Ryan Grubaugh; 8.
27-Scott Euler
Heat 3 (8 laps, top 4 transfer to A-Main)
1. 5R-Byron Reed; 2. 1W-Paul Weaver; 3. 6B-Mike
Dussell; 4. 4M-Jamie Miller;
5. 14H-Todd Heller; 6. 10S-Roger Shammo; 7. 3T-Tony
Beaber; 8. 91-Aaron
Middaugh
Heat 4 (8 laps, top 4 transfer to A-Main)
1. 55-Brian Smith; 2. O-Gus Wasson; 3. 11B-Brock
Mayes; 4. 49T-Gregg Dalman;
5. 2M-Dustin Daggett; 6. 31-Chuck Wilson; 7.
33-Steve Irwin; 8. 3B-Tim
Bottles
B-main (10 laps, top 4 transfer to A-Main)
1. X-Mark Keegan; 2. 2M-Dustin Daggett; 3. 12-Caleb
Griffith; 4. 14H-Todd
Heller; 5. 33-Steve Irwin; 6. 8S-Bobby Clark; 7.
21-Rodney Morgan; 8.
27-Scott Euler; 9. 3T-Tony Beaber; 10. 31-Chuck
Wilson; 11. 10S-Roger
Shammo; 12. 3B-Tim Bottles; 13. 11M-Brandon Martin;
14. 91-Aaron Middaugh;
15. OO-Ryan Grubaugh; 16. O9-Craig Mintz
A-main (30 laps) Starting Position [#]
1. 5R-Byron Reed[3]; 2. 53-John Ivy[4]; 3. 12-Caleb
Griffith[7]; 4. 14H-Todd
Heller[8]; 5. 3L-Mike Linder[10]; 6. 4M-Jamie
Miller[1]; 7. 55-Brian
Smith[12]; 8. 27-Scott Euler[20]; 9. 7T-Troy
Vaccaro[2]; 10. 8S-Bobby
Clark[18]; 11. 10-David Harrison[6]; 12. 1W-Paul
Weaver[14]; 13. 49T-Gregg
Dalman[16]; 14. 15C-Chris Andrews[13]; 15. 3T-Tony
Beaber[19]; 16. 6B-Mike
Dussell[11]; 17. 33-Steve Irwin[15]; 18. X-Mark
Keegan[5]; 19. 21-Rodney
Morgan[17]; 20. 16-Lee Jacobs[9]
Fort Ball Pizza Palace 410 Super Sprints
(5-19-07)
Qualifying
1. X-Mark Keegan, 12.42; 2. 51X-John Ivy, 12.43; 3.
5R-Byron Reed, 12.45; 4.
10-David Harrison, 12.57; 5. 7T-Troy Vaccaro,
12.64; 6. 3L-Mike Linder,
12.72; 7. 16-Lee Jacobs, 12.73; 8. 14H-Todd Heller,
12.80; 9. 12-Caleb
Griffith, 12.93; 10. 4M-Jamie Miller, 12.93; 11.
15C-Chris Andrews, 12.94;
12. 10S-Roger Shammo, 12.95; 13. 8S-Bobby Clark,
12.96; 14. 55-Brian Smith,
12.96; 15. 31-Chuck Wilson, 13.00; 16. 21-Rodney
Morgan, 13.03; 17. 33-Steve
Irwin, 13.10; 18. 1W-Paul Weaver, 13.19; 19. 6-Mike
Dussell, 13.20; 20.
91-Aaron Middaugh, 13.22; 21. 3T-Tony Beaber,
13.44; 22. 97-Cory Seeling,
13.45; 23. 97S-Aaron Shaffer, 13.54; 24. 51-Aaron
Higgins, 13.56; 25.
M20-Mike Brecht, 13.67; 26. 27-Scott Euler, 14.24;
27. 41-Randy Tusing,
14.46; 28. 49T-Gregg Dalman, NT
Heat 1 (8 laps, top 5 transfer to A-Main)
1. 4M-Jamie Miller; 2. 8S-Bobby Clark; 3. 16-Lee
Jacobs; 4. X-Mark Keegan;
5. M20-Mike Brecht; 6. 6-Mike Dussell; 7. 49T-Gregg
Dalman; 8. 97-Cory
Seeling; 9. 10-David Harrison
Heat 2 (8 laps, top 5 transfer to A-Main)
1. 14H-Todd Heller; 2. 55-Brian Smith; 3. 51X-John
Ivy; 4. 27-Scott Euler;
5. 15C-Chris Andrews; 6. 7T-Troy Vaccaro; 7.
97S-Aaron Shaffer; 8. 91-Aaron
Middaugh; 9. 33-Steve Irwin
Heat 3 (8 laps, top 5 transfer to A-Main)
1. 1W-Paul Weaver; 2. 5R-Byron Reed; 3. 10S-Roger
Shammo; 4. 12-Caleb
Griffith; 5. 31-Chuck Wilson; 6. 3L-Mike Linder; 7.
3T-Tony Beaber; 8.
51-Aaron Higgins; 9. 41-Randy Tusing
B-main (10 laps, top 5 transfer to A-Main)
1. 3L-Mike Linder; 2. 10-David Harrison; 3. 7T-Troy
Vaccaro; 4. 6-Mike
Dussell; 5. 3T-Tony Beaber; 6. 33-Steve Irwin; 7.
91-Aaron Middaugh; 8.
97-Cory Seeling; 9. 49T-Gregg Dalman; 10. 51-Aaron
Higgins; 11. 97S-Aaron
Shaffer; 12. 41-Randy Tusing
A-main (30 laps) Starting Position [#]
1. 51X-John Ivy[7]; 2. 14H-Todd Heller[4]; 3.
12-Caleb Griffith[3]; 4.
5R-Byron Reed[6]; 5. 15C-Chris Andrews[1]; 6.
8S-Bobby Clark[11]; 7. 16-Lee
Jacobs[5]; 8. 3L-Mike Linder[9]; 9. X-Mark
Keegan[8]; 10. 4M-Jamie
Miller[2]; 11. 1W-Paul Weaver[16]; 12. 31-Chuck
Wilson[13]; 13. 7T-Troy
Vaccaro[10]; 14. 55-Brian Smith[14]; 15. M20-Mike
Brecht[17]; 16. 27-Scott
Euler[20]; 17. 10S-Roger Shammo[12]; 18. 3T-Tony
Beaber[18]; 19. 6-Mike
Dussell[15]; 20. 33-Steve Irwin[19];
Fremont
Federal Credit Union 305 Sprints
Heat 1 - Riverside Machine & Tool (8 laps, top 4
transfer to A-Main)
1. 25P-Mark Pridemore; 2. 31-Chad Gullett; 3.
11-Shawn Colvin; 4. 65-Mark
Lang; 5. 5-Dustin Dinan; 6. 18C-Jason Crispen; 7.
6-Ryan Dickey; 8. O7-Scott
Mominee; 9. 9-Craig Kays
Heat 2 - R & R Auto Wrecking (8 laps, top 4
transfer to A-Main)
1. 48S-Andy Shammo; 2. 29L-Chris Lang; 3.
36X-Dustin Keegan; 4. 9Z-Duane
Zablocki; 5. O4-Cap Henry; 6. 14-Chad Wilson; 7.
19R-Steve Rando; 8.
M28-Josh Muntz; 9. 27K-Ryan Kirkendall
Heat 3 - Gressman Powersports (8 laps, top 4
transfer to A-Main)
1. O2-Kevin Lee;
2. 3J-Bobby Foster; 3. 71-Bill Kraylek; 4. 35-Stuart
Brubaker; 5. 66L-Ryan Lowe; 6. 1A-Matt Lucius; 7.
7-Jarrid Potter; 8.
22-Evan Helle; 9. 23-Jay Kiser
Heat 4 - Reco Equipment (8 laps, top 4 transfer
to A-Main)
1. 29F-Rich Farmer; 2. O1-Bryan Sebetto; 3.
39M-Matt Merrill; 4. 49-Coty
Runion; 5. 3X-Brad Keckler; 6. 34-Mark Whaley; 7.
22D-Dan Hammond; 8.
82-Travis Hoffbauer
Dash - Computer Man Inc. (4 laps)
1. 48S-Andy Shammo; 2. 25P-Mark Pridemore; 3.
71-Bill Kraylek; 4. O2-Kevin
Lee; 5. 29F-Rich Farmer
B1 Main (8 laps, top 2 transfer to A-main)
1. O4-Cap Henry; 2. 5-Dustin Dinan; 3. 19R-Steve
Rando; 4. 14-Chad Wilson;
5. 6-Ryan Dickey; 6. 27K-Ryan Kirkendall; 7.
M28-Josh Muntz; 8. 18C-Jason
Crispen
B2 Main (8 laps, top 2 transfer to A-Main)
1. 66L-Ryan Lowe; 2. 1A-Matt Lucius; 3. 3X-Brad
Keckler; 4. 22D-Dan Hammond;
5. 34-Mark Whaley; 6. 22-Evan Helle; 7. 82-Travis
Hoffbauer; 8. 7-Jarrid
Potter; 9. 23-Jay Kiser
A-main (25 laps) Starting Position [#]
1. 48S-Andy Shammo[9]; 2. O2-Kevin Lee[5]; 3.
29F-Rich Farmer[1]; 4.
O1-Bryan Sebetto[10]; 5. 39M-Matt Merrill[4];
6. 3J-Bobby Foster[6]; 7.
35-Stuart Brubaker[13]; 8. 31-Chad Gullett[7]; 9.
71-Bill Kraylek[8]; 10.
25P-Mark Pridemore[3]; 11. 19R-Steve Rando[19]; 12.
65-Mark Lang[11]; 13.
O4-Cap Henry[15]; 14. 9Z-Duane Zablocki[14]; 15.
49-Coty Runion[16]; 16.
66L-Ryan Lowe[18]; 17. 11-Shawn Colvin[12]; 18.
29L-Chris Lang[2]; 19.
1A-Matt Lucius[20]; 20. 5-Dustin Dinan[17]
Fremont Fence & Guardrail Dirt Trucks
Heat 1 (8 laps, top 4 transfer to A-Main)
1. 8K-Zack Kramer; 2. O1-Art Ball; 3. 8H-Art Howey
Jr.; 4. 6-Linda Sabo; 5.
2-Bob Sinkevitch Jr.; 6. 34M-Kevin Miller; 7.
92-Loren Schwochow; 8.
P51-Paul Brown Jr.
Heat 2 (8 laps, top 4 transfer to A-Main)
1. 33-Brian Arnold; 2. 18W-Cory Ward; 3. 5-Jim
Mcgrath; 4. 34-Aaron
Schatzinger; 5. 96-James Mcclure; 6. 4X-Brian Sorg;
7. 56-Alex Wiechman; 8.
7B-Dave Bryant
Heat 3 (8 laps, top 4 transfer to A-Main)
1. 16-Steve Sabo; 2. 39-Dwight Waltermier; 3.
17-Bob Dible; 4. 20-Andy
Maynard; 5. 30-Dave Gibbs; 6. 3R-Chuck Roelle; 7.
14-Scott Beard
Heat 4 (8 laps, top 4 transfer to A-Main)
1. 28-Shawn Valenti; 2. 8-Steve Endicott; 3.
69-Mark Warnick; 4. 37-Eric
Devanna; 5. 83B-Dave Brewer; 6. 23M-Brad Mitten; 7.
97-Jim Maglosky
B-main (8 laps, top 4 transfer to A-Main)
1. 30-Dave Gibbs; 2. 23M-Brad Mitten; 3. 96-James
Mcclure; 4. 56-Alex
Wiechman; 5. 92-Loren Schwochow; 6. 4X-Brian Sorg;
7. 2-Bob Sinkevitch Jr.;
8. 97-Jim Maglosky; 9. 14-Scott Beard; 10. 83B-Dave
Brewer; 11. 3R-Chuck
Roelle; 12. P51-Paul Brown Jr.
A-main (20 laps) Starting Position [#]
1. 33-Brian Arnold[5]; 2. 16-Steve Sabo[7]; 3.
O1-Art Ball[2]; 4. 18W-Cory
Ward[8]; 5. 39-Dwight Waltermier[1]; 6. 28-Shawn
Valenti[4]; 7. 8K-Zack
Kramer[12]; 8. 37-Eric Devanna[16]; 9. 5-Jim
Mcgrath[6]; 10. 69-Mark
Warnick[11]; 11. 17-Bob Dible[9]; 12. 30-Dave
Gibbs[17]; 13. 20-Andy
Maynard[15]; 14. 56-Alex Wiechman[20]; 15. 34-Aaron
Schatzinger[14]; 16.
8-Steve Endicott[10]; 17. 6-Linda Sabo[13]; 18.
23M-Brad Mitten[18]; 19.
96-James Mcclure[19]; 20. 8H-Art Howey Jr.[3]
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