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Duncan Wins All Star Show at Fremont
Story by:
Scott Hall
06/09/2001:
FREMONT, OH - A consistent Rodney Duncan led wire-to-wire Saturday
night at Fremont Speedway to win the All Star sprint 40-lap feature. He
outlasted a field of 56 cars to earn the $5,000 payday in front of a
sellout crowd for his first All Star win of the season, coming over Kenny
Jacobs and Danny Smith.
"Andy Potter, my crew chief did a great job tonight, and I have the
greatest owner in the world, Al Harrison, and I'm just thrilled to death.
We got off to a slow start this season, and hopefully we'll finish good,"
Duncan related. He also thanked promoter Jim Ford for rescheduling the
race after a rainout two weeks earlier. His Eagle chassis used Kistler
power and rode on Hoosier Tires.
Duncan started on the ButlerBuilt Hot Seat pole underneath Bruce
Robenalt with Travis Rilat and Dean Jacobs in row two. Duncan took the
lead over Rilat and D. Jacobs, with Rob Chaney next. D. Jacobs used the
high groove to pass Rilat on lap eight, and began catching Duncan in
lapped traffic. Chaney passed Rilat on the backstretch to take third on
lap ten as Duncan still held command. Jason Johnson spun in turn two for a
lap 12 caution, and Lee Jacobs stopped on the track on lap 13 for the only
two cautions of the event. The order was now Duncan, D. Jacobs, Chaney,
Rilat, Greg Wilson and K. Jacobs, who started ninth.
Duncan pulled away when the green reappeared with D. Jacobs and Chaney
following him in the high groove as K. Jacobs used the bottom of the
racetrack to take fourth. K. Jacobs took third on lap 16 and Duncan
re-entered lapped traffic on lap 20.
K. Jacobs took over second from his brother on lap 24 with Danny Smith
really on the move now, up to fourth after starting 19th. K. Jacobs kept
creeping up on the leader, but Duncan stayed on top. On the final lap,
Smith got alongside Jacobs, but a lapped car thwarted the pass, and he had
to settle for third.
"I was just playing the lapped cars and trying to get to Rodney,"
runner-up Jacobs recalled, standing alongside his Jacobs-Honecker racing
sprint car, which he tightened up more than usual for tonight's action. "I
don't think I could have gotten by him unless a lapped car messed him up.
He drove a heck of a race."
"I didn't think we had a change for the top five after starting 19th,"
third place Smith said. My guys had this car hooked up pretty nice and we
had a chance of winning with a lap to go and a lapped car got in my way
and just stopped me and that was it." Smith utilized local mechanic Mike
Manes, from Frankie Kerr's crew of last season, as an extra helper tonight.
Chaney held on for fourth, with D. Jacobs fifth and Byron Reed sixth after
starting 21st.
Kelly Kinser finished seventh, winning the Team Simpson Racing Lucky
Seven award. Greg Wilson in eighth earned the $100 TW Metals nightly cash
bonus, ahead of Chad Kemenah and David Harrison.
Jac Haudenschild's All Star debut for 2001 in the Nickles Brothers 31
ended early when he hit the wall on the start of the feature, flattening a
tire. He changed it and restarted on the tail, but eventually dropped out,
finishing 20th.
The K-T Equipment heat went to Jerrod Hull, the JB Enterprise Racing
Products heat to Jason Johnson, the Crown Battery heat to Dean Jacobs, the
Engler Machine & Tool heat to Kevin Huntley and Kenny Jacobs won the TW
Metals heat. Bobby Clark won the Georgia Marketing & Promotions C Main and
Rodney Duncan won the B Main. Jacobs also captured the Haulmark Dash. It
was TW Metals bonus night, with Duncan in first, Reed in sixth, Jerrod
Hull in 11th and Eric Hysong in 16th earning $100 bonuses. Also, John
Wisbon, who finished in the last non-transfer spot in the B, also earned
$100. The evening was sponsored by Fremont Fence.
In the 305 sprint 25-lap main, Roger Shammo led the first 19 laps
before Bobby Foster took over. Foster, who started seventh, defeated Bryan
Scott, Matt Karbler, Shammo and Dustin Keegan.
Time Trials: 1. Greg Wilson, Hampshire 63, 12.640; 2. Rob Chaney,
Courtad 9x, 12.815; 3. Dean Jacobs, Daugherty 7, 12.837; 4. Travis Rilat,
Archer U2, 12.845; 5. Bruce Robenalt, Robenalt 98, 12.886; 6. Rodney
Duncan, Harrison 22, 12.928; 7. Todd Heller, Heller 14h, 12.933; 8. David
Harrison, Harrison 44, 12.976; 9. Jim Dayton, Dayton 2x, 12.980; 10. Kenny
Jacobs, Jacobs/Honecker 6, 12.990; 11. Kelly Kinser, Kinser 4k, 13.092;
12. Brian Ellenberger, Ellenberger 20, 13.131; 13. Eric Hysong, Andrews
72, 13.137; 14. John Ivy, Carousel 20, 13.152; 15. Chad Kemenah, Harble
15k, 13.172; 16. John Wisbon, Burmeister 16, 13.318; 17. Alvin Roepke,
Roepke 99, 13.328; 18. Bob Teeple, Teeple 8T, 13.365; 19. Jac
Haudenschild, Nickles 31, 13.404; 20. Eddie Smith, Smith 3x, 13.414; 21.
Jerrod Hull, Webb 51, 13.420; 22. Jason Johnson, Elden 22e, 13.475; 23.
Danny Smith, Baker 4, 13.518; 24. Kevin Huntley, Ashworth 92, 13.555; 25.
Troy Vacarro, Vacarro 7T, 13.585; 26. Byron Reed, B&S 5, 13.585; 27. Lee
Jacobs, Jacobs/Honecker 2, 13.647; 28. Mike Hogan, Hogan 75, 13.680; 29.
Mike Lutz, Scott & Shaffer 45, 13.695; 30. Hud Horton, Mossbarger 95,
13.712; 31. Jason Dukes, JT 3, 13.738; 32. Mark Keegan, Steinbrick 92,
13.750; 33. Craig McGuire, McGuire 4mc, 13.751; 34. Bob Lime, Lime 91,
13.765; 35. Jim Nier, Nier 00, 13.772; 36. Ed Lynch, Jr., Lynch 2L,
13.836; 37. Mike Linder, Brewer 3, 13.898; 38. Andrew Palker, Palker 57x,
13.911; 39. Joe Laugherty, Laugherty 21J, 13.990; 40. Todd Kane, Pullins
29, 14.006; 41. Chad Levingston, Levingston 74L, 14.043; 42. Bobby Clark,
Miller 8, 14.080; 43. Mike Wagner, Wagner 55, 14.108; 44. Jamie McKinney,
Momentum 95, 14.338; 45. Ronnie Beale, Beale 3, 14.345; 46. Chuck Wilson,
Wilson 31, 14.459; 47. Mike Dussel, HDK 28, 14.462; 48. Barry Ruble, Ruble
63, 14.465; 49. Tony Beaber, Toth 3T, 14.572; 50. Jeremy Durst, Durst 11,
14.585; 51. Roger Campbell, Jr., Campbell ZL1, 14.590; 52. Mike Brecht,
Brecht 20, 14.645; 53. Jason Courtney, Courtney 9c, 14.710; 54. Bill Shaw,
Shaw 48, 14.763; 55. Josh Keegan, Keegan 3, 14.854; 56. John Buchy, Buchy
28, 15.440.
K-T Equipment Rental Heat (10 laps): 1. Hull 2. Reed 3. Kinser 4. G.
Wilson 5. Wisbon 6. Duncan 7. Dukes 8. Lynch 9. C. Wilson 10. Campbell 11.
Buchy 12. Levingston.
JB Enterprise Racing Products Heat (10 laps): 1. Johnson 2. L. Jacobs
3. Ellenberger 4. Chaney 5. Roepke 6. Heller 7. Linder 8. M. Keegan 9.
Clark 10. Brecht 11. Dussel.
Crown Battery Heat (10 laps): 1. D. Jacobs 2. D. Smith 3. Harrison 4.
Teeple 5. Wagner 6. Hogan 7. McGuire 8. Courtney 9. Hysong 10. Ruble 11.
Palker.
Engler Machine & Tool Heat (10 laps): 1. Huntley 2. Haudenschild 3.
Lutz 4. Rilat 5. Ivy 6. Lime 7. Dayton 8. McKinney 9. Shaw 10. Laugherty
11. Beaber.
TW Metals Heat (10 laps): 1. K. Jacobs 2. Horton 3. Kemenah 4. Robenalt
5. Vacarro 6. Nier 7. Kane 8. E. Smith 9. Durst 10. J. Keegan 11. Beale.
Haulmark Dash (4 laps): 1. K. Jacobs 2. G. Wilson 3. Robenalt 4. Rilat
5. D. Jacobs 6. Chaney.
Georgia Marketing & Promotions C Main (10 laps): 1. Clark 2. Kane 3.
Linder 4. C. Wilson 5. Dussell 6. Beale 7. Brecht 8. Courtney 9. Palker
10. Ruble 11. Shaw 12. McKinney 13. Laugherty 14. Levingston 15. J. Keegan
16. Campbell 17. Buchy 18. Wagner 19. Durst.
B Main (12 laps): 1. Duncan 2. Heller 3. Ivy 4. Hysong 5. Wisbon 6.
Roepke 7. Lynch 8. Kane 9. Nier 10. Vacarro 11. Lime 12. Dayton 13. C.
Wilson 14. Linder 15. Clark 16. McGuire 17. M. Keegan 18. Hogan 19. Dukes
20. E. Smith.
A Main (40 laps): 1. Rodney Duncan 2. Kenny Jacobs 3. Danny Smith 4.
Rob Chaney 5. Dean Jacobs 6. Byron Reed 7. Kelly Kinser 8. Greg Wilson 9.
Chad Kemenah 10. David Harrison 11. Jerrod Hull 12. Travis Rilat 13. John
Ivy 14. Todd Heller 15. Kevin Huntley 16. Jason Johnson 17. Eric Hysong
18. Lee Jacobs 19. Brian Ellenberger 20. Jac Haudenschild 21. Hud Horton
22. Bruce Robenalt 23. Mike Lutz 24. Bob Teeple.
All Star Sprint Points: 1. Chad Kemenah 721; 2. Rodney Duncan 718; 3.
Kenny Jacobs 704; 4. Danny Smith 677; 5. Greg Wilson 667; 6. Travis Rilat
645; 7. Jerrod Hull 634; 8. Jason Johnson 627 9. Dean Jacobs 606; 10.
Brian Ellenberger 576.
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