Ivy Wins Speedweek Show #2 at Fremont

By Scott Hall

FREMONT, OH – “Man it’s awesome to win a Speedweek show,” John Ivy
exclaimed after he scored a hometown win Thursday night at Fremont Speedway
in the All Star sprint Arizona Sport Shirts Ohio Speedweek 40-lap Miller
Beer sponsored feature. The $6,000 to win event was run in front of a
sellout crowd and the program started two hours late due to an afternoon
thundershower.

“I don’t think I could have run two more laps. The stress of running out
front, trying to keep Dale Blaney behind me and trying to keep the thing
straight… Thank God the yellows came out when they did. Whew!” Ivy said from
victory lane standing beside the Carousel Racing Kistler powered Eagle on
Hoosier tires. Dale Blaney was second and Greg Wilson third at the end.
Todd Kane was on the pole at the start in Dick Sabo’s No. 8s with Rodney
Duncan’s Harrison Trucking 22 alongside. Kane jumped out to the immediate
lead as Duncan began to fade, so Jeff Shepard took over second with Phil
Gressman and fourth starter Ivy battling for third. Duncan stopped on the
track near the pit entrance on lap four causing a caution. He exited, as did
runnerup Shepard. This made the restart lineup Kane, Gressman, Ivy and Mike
Wagner. Gressman jumped the cushion on lap six, getting sideways and
allowing Ivy to take over second. Then Dale Blaney moved around Gressman
with a dozen circuits in the books for third as Ivy began to challenge Kane
in lapped traffic. Lap 13 saw Kane, Ivy and Blaney three wide for the lead
at the flagstand with Kane leading, holding a slight edge. The next lap Kane
drifted high and clipped the lapped car of Shawn Chaney, allowing Ivy to
duck under and lead the race. Blaney and Gressman also got past Kane, with
Greg Wilson now fifth.

Ivy got sideways in turn four on lap 18, allowing Blaney to close right
on his bumper, but Ivy recovered in time to maintain the lead. A red flew on
lap 21 when the ninth and tenth place cars of Kelly Kinser and Mark Keegan
tangled, with Kinser flipping and Keegan smacking the wall. Paul McMahan
changed a tire under red, sending him to the rear for the restart.
Blaney tried to get Ivy on the restart, but Ivy fought back and held him
off. The leaders got into lapped traffic again by lap 30, but another
caution flew for a Byron Reed spin. Blaney got alongside Ivy when the green
reappeared, but another yellow nullified the move, setting up a nine lap
dash top the finish. Ivy pulled away on a clear track, with Blaney second,
Wilson third and Kenny Jacobs now up to fourth. Ivy continued to pull away
and won by four car lengths over Blaney, Wilson, Jacobs and Mike Wagner.
Next were Gressman, Danny Smith up from 14th, Dean Jacobs, Joe Gaerte and
Chad Kemenah who jumped the cushion on lap 35 and fell back from eighth to
tenth at the end.

“The only time I passed him (Ivy) the yellow came out,” Blaney recalled
after finishing second. “That’s just the way it goes.”

The Crown Battery heat fell to Byron Reed, the B&B Products heat went to
Paul McMahan, the Engler Machine and Tool heat was won by Bobby Clark and
the TP Wings heat fell to Dean Jacobs. Greg Wilson won the United Aluminum
Window Sales & Consulting B Main while Rodney Duncan captured the Haulmark
Dash.

Time Trials: 1. Chad Kemenah, Harble 15k, 13.024; 2. Butch Schroeder,
Courtad 9x, 13.179; 3. Mike Wagner, Wagner 55, 13.183; 4. Phil Gressman,
Miller 2, 13.215; 5. Greg Wilson, Hampshire 63, 13.258; 6. John Ivy,
Carousel 20, 13.272; 7. Jeff Shepard, Ashworth 92, 13.325; 8. Rodney Duncan,
Harrison 22, 13.327; 9. Shawn Chaney, Chaney 27c, 13.337; 10. Todd Kane,
Sabo 8s, 13.385; 11. Dale Blaney, Andrews 72b, 13.390; 12. Kenny Jacobs,
Jacobs 6, 13.411; 13. Mark Keegan, Steinbrick 92, 13.432; 14. Danny Smith,
Webb 51, 13.494; 15. Kelly Kinser, Kinser 4k, 13.538; 16. Joe Gaerte, Gaerte
3G, 13.538; 17. Byron Reed, B&S 5, 13.552; 18. Paul McMahan, Johnson U2,
13.610; 19. Bobby Clark, Clark 8, 13.625; 20. Dean Jacobs, Baker 34, 13.700;
21. Alvin Roepke, Roepke/Ford 99, 13.728; 22. Lee Jacobs, Jacobs 2, 13.757;
23. Brandon Martin, Martin 11m, 13.840; 24. Bruce Robenalt, Robenalt 98,
13.859; 25. Bill Rose, Rose 6B, 13.865; 26. Mike Linder, James 3, 13.925;
27. Jody Keegan, Keegan K60, 13.932; 28. Chuck Wilson, Wilson 31, 13.948;
29. Barry Ruble, Ruble 63r, 14.011; 30. Brian Smith, Burmeister 16, 14.060;
31. Bob Distel, Distel 18, 14.065; 32. Jim Linder, Linder X, 14.278; 33.
David Harrison, Harrison 44, 14.400; 34. John Wisbon, Stanley 12, 14.466;
35. Jim Dayton, Dayton 2x, 14.486; 36. Jack Hewitt, Kaser 31, 14.525; 37.
Bob Lime, Lime 91, 14.562; 38. Aaron Middaugh, Middaugh 91, 14.594; 39.
Brian Sebetto, Keegan K24, 14.602; 40. Andrew Palker, Palker 57x, 14.607.

Crown Battery Heat (10 laps): 1. Reed 2. Roepke 3. M. Keegan 4. Chaney 5.
Kemenah 6. G. Wilson 7. Rose 8. Harrison 9. Ruble 10. Lime.

B&B Products Heat (10 laps): 1. McMahan 2. Kane 3. L. Jacobs 4. D. Smith
5. Ivy 6. Schroeder 7. B. Smith 8. M. Linder 9. Middaugh 10. Wisbon.

Engler Machine & Tool Heat (10 laps): 1. Clark 2. Martin 3. Blaney 4.
Shepard 5. Kinser 6. Wagner 7. Distel 8. J. Keegan 9. Sebetto.

TP Wings Heat (10 laps): 1. D. Jacobs 2. K. Jacobs 3. Gaerte 4. Gressman
5. Duncan 6. Robenalt 7. Hewitt 8. C. Wilson 9. Palker 10. J. Linder.

Haulmark Dash (4 laps): 1. Duncan 2. Shepard 3. Kane 4. Ivy 5. Gressman
6. Kemenah.

United Aluminum Window Sales & Consulting B Main (12 laps): 1. G. Wilson
2. Wagner 3. Schroeder 4. Rose 5. Harrison 6. Robenalt 7. Linder 8. Distel
9. Hewitt 10. B. Smith 11. Wisbon 12. Palker 13. Ruble 14. Lime 15. J.
Keegan 16. J. Linder 17. Middaugh 18. Sebetto 19. C. Wilson.

A Main (40 laps): 1. John Ivy 2. Dale Blaney 3. Greg Wilson 4. Kenny
Jacobs 5. Mike Wagner 6. Phil Gressman 7. Danny Smith 8. Dean Jacobs 9. Joe
Gaerte 10. Chad Kemenah 11. Butch Schroeder 12. Paul McMahan 13. Byron Reed
14. Todd Kane 15. Bill Rose 16. Brandon Martin 17. Shawn Chaney 18. Bob
Clark 19. Alvin Roepke 20. Lee Jacobs 21. Kelly Kinser 22. Mark Keegan 23.
Jeff Shepard 24. Rodney Duncan.
Lap Leaders: Todd Kane 1-14, John Ivy 15-40.

Ohio Speedweek points:

1 15k Chad Kemenah 475
2 5 Byron Reed 471
3 72b Dale Blaney 469
4 4k Kelly Kinser 460
5 6 Kenny Jacobs 459
6 63 Greg Wilson 457
7 U2 Paul McMahan 456
8 3G Joe Gaerte 452
9 9x Butch Schroeder 449
10 92 Jeff Shepard 444
11 51 Danny Smith 444