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Greg Wilson perserveres for Attica opener, while Sebetto and Kingseed grab victories.
By Brian Liskai
ATTICA, Ohio, (Friday, March 30, 2007) - Greg Wilson kept his eyes on the
sign in front of the treadmill in his gym all winter..."Never, Never, Never
Give Up!" The 2006 All Star Champion followed that advice Friday to kick off
Attica Raceway Park's 20th season with his first victory of the year.
When Lee Jacobs drove the Burmeister #16 around Wilson on a lap 9 restart,
it brought Wilson to his senses.He got up on the wheel of his All-Star
Plumbing, Heating and Cooling sponsored W20 and hunted Jacobs down, passing
the Homlesville youngster with 10 laps remaining. Wilson, from Benton Ridge,
Ohio, would drive the Verl Warnimont owned J&J to the 15th win of his career
at Attica on HD Supply Night.
"When Lee drove around me, I gotta be honest, it scared the crap out of me.
But I remember the plaque in front of that treadmill I was on all
winter..."Never, Never, Never Give Up," and this team won't," said Wilson in
victory lane. "I told my crew I was going to win at least 20 this season and
Verl gives us everything we need to get there."
Fremont's Bryan Sebetto would come alive in the last four laps of the 305
sprint feature, charging from fourth into the lead with two laps remaining
and hanging on for the win.
"I kind of got mad at myself and put this thing up on the rim...as far as I
could go without slipping off the edge, and held it to the floor," said
Sebetto beside his XXX chassis #01. "I have to thank Josh Meggitt for
putting this deal together and his business Hot Shots Painting, Sandblasting
and Powder Coating and Legendz Sports Bar, Frosty's Bar and TJ's Heated
Storage for all their help. We're probably the only ones in the 305s running
one of these XXX cars and boy is it fast."
Sandusky's Larry Kingseed started the defense of his 2006 track championship
in the Fultz Fabrications & Speedshop Attica Late Models by taking advantage
of lapped traffic to sneak around early race leader Ryan Missler with just
two laps remaining to score the feature victory.
"Ryan was fast and I don't know if I could have got to him. Then I saw that
lapped car on the bottom in his groove and I had a clear track up top and I
knew I had him," said Kingseed beside his Strawberry Hill Farm Market #21.
"We weren't good early in the night, but we kept adjusting on this thing and
it came around."
Cool temperatures but sunny skies greeted the huge crowd on opening night at
"Ohio's Finest Racing Venue, with 25 of the World Auto Parts of Huron and
Cleveland 410 Sprints, 40 of the 305 sprints and 24 of the Fultz
Fabrications and Speedshop Attica Late Models signed into the pits.
The 30-lap feature for the 410 sprints was the first main of the night and
it got off to a rocky start, as Ryan Grubaugh, Ed Neumeister, Dustin Daggett
and Gus Wasson got together in turn 1, with Grubaugh getting upside down.
Rookie Chris Andrews, the 305 co-champion at ARP in 2006, spun a lap into
the race, with John Ivy leading Dale Blaney, Wilson and Craig Mintz. Ivy,
Blaney and Wilson would stage a torrid battle the next two circuits before
Wilson would slingshot into the lead around the high side of turn 2 on lap
4, only to see the yellow fly, giving the lead back to Ivy.
The red would fly on lap five for Caleb Griffith, who got upside down in
turns one and two (he was unhurt).Blaney would go pitside with mechanical
woes, making the running order Ivy, Wilson, Mintz, Jacobs and Brock Mayes.
On the restart, Wilson would blast around the high side of Ivy for the lead
with Jacobs moving into third. A lap later and the yellow would fly for a
spinning Mayes.
By lap 7, Wilson lead over Ivy, Jacobs and Mintz, with Byron Reed working
his way through the pack after being involved in an early yellow.Jacobs
would slip around Ivy for second on lap 9, with another yellow slowing the
action a lap later. On the restart, Jacobs slid around Wilson in turns 3 and
4 for the lead. At the half-way mark the running order was Jacobs, Wilson,
Ivy, Reed, Paul Weaver and Mintz. By lap 19, Wilson had pulled in on the
rear bumper of Jacobs and executed a perfect slide job for the lead with 10
laps remaining. Mayes would battle his way back from the rear to take second
with 8 laps left as Wilson began to lengthen his lead. Jacobs would regroup
and slide around Mayes back into second where he would finish. Rounding out
the top five were Mayes, Reed and Weaver.
In the 25-lap 305 A-main, a nasty crash on the front stretch on the start
saw seven cars involved. While no one was injured, Dustin Dinan, Ricky
Williams, Duane Zablocki and Jim Taddeo were through for the night.
When the race got underway, Benny Bowman jumped into the early lead with
Stuart Brubaker, Sebetto and Kevin Lee in tow. Brubacker would take the top
spot on lap three and would build a big lead as Lee moved into second with
Bowman and Sebetto duking it out for third. Brubaker would hit lapped
traffic at the half-way mark, with Lee, Sebetto, Bowman and Steve Rando
following.
With five laps remaining, the battle for second began to really heat up with
Lee, Bowman and Sebetto running side by side. Lee began putting pressure on
Brubaker with four laps to go, as the leader tangled with Shawn Colvin as he
tried to lap him, sending Colvin into a flip in turn three.
On the restart, Sebetto, who had moved into second on lap 21, blasted around
the high side of Brubaker who fought back on the bottom. Sebetto would grab
the top spot on lap 23 and would hold on for the win. Brubaker, Bowman, Lee
and Rando would round out the top five.
Ryan Missler would grab the quick lead in the Fultz Fabrications and
Speedshop Attica Late Model main, with Mike Marteney and John Mayes Jr. in
tow. Mayes would slip around Marteney a lap later, with 10th starting
Kingseed moving into third by lap 3.The top five would remain the same -
Missler, Mayes, Kingseed, John Mayes Sr. and Mike Bores until lap 8 when
Marteney stopped with a flat tire. At the half-way mark, the running order
was Missler, Kingseed, Mayes Jr., Mayes Sr., and Ken Hahn.
The battle for the lead began on lap 13 as Missler continued to utilize the
bottom and Kingseed the top. The son and father Mayes duo would follow. With
the laps winding down, Missler was in heavy lapped traffic, and
unfortunately for him, they were on the bottom of the track. The veteran
Kingseed used one of those lapped machines as a pick to slingshot around
Missler with two laps remaining as he would fly to his 23rd career Attica
victory. Missler, Mayes Jr., Mayes Sr. and Hahn would round out the top
five.
Attica Raceway Park will be back in action Friday and Saturday, April 6 and
7 as the O'Reilly All Star Circuit of Champions open their northern season
with the traditional Coors Light Spring Nationals.
For more information log onto www.atticaracewaypark.com
Attica Raceway Park (3-30-07)
World Auto Parts of Huron & Cleveland 410 Sprints
Heat 1 - Bell Helmets (Top 5 to the A-main)
1. 16-Lee Jacobs; 2. 11B-Brock Mayes; 3. 53-John Ivy; 4. OO-Ryan Grubaugh;
5. 11N-Ed Neumeister; 6. O-Gus Wasson; 7. 97-Cory Seeling; 8. 59-Kirk
Jeffries
Heat 2 - Friendship Food Stores (Top 5 to the A-main)
1. 11M-Brandon Martin; 2. X-Mark Keegan; 3. O9-Craig Mintz; 4. 15-Chris
Andrews; 5. 31-Chuck Wilson; 6. 4N-Niel Shepard; 7. 3L-Mike Linder; 8.
91-Aaron Middaugh
Heat 3 - Tin Lizzy Collision of Tiffin (Top 5 to the A-main)
1. 2-Dale Blaney; 2. 5R-Bryon Reed; 3. W20-Greg Wilson; 4. 1W-Paul Weaver;
5. 12-Caleb Griffith; 6. 48-Mike Burkin; 7. 35-Ron Blair
B-main - Computer Man Inc. (Top 5 to the A-main)
1. 4N-Niel Shepard; 2. 48-Mike Burkin; 3. 35-Ron Blair; 4. O-Gus Wasson; 5.
2M-Dustin Daggett; 6. 97-Cory Seeling; 7. 59-Kirk Jeffries; 8. 91-Aaron
Middaugh; 9. 98-Bruce Robenalt; 10. 3L-Mike Linder
A-main Starting Position [#]
1. W20-Greg Wilson[2]; 2. 16-Lee Jacobs[5]; 3. 11B-Brock Mayes[8]; 4.
5R-Bryon Reed[9]; 5. 1W-Paul Weaver[12]; 6. X-Mark Keegan[11]; 7. O9-Craig
Mintz[4]; 8. 11M-Brandon Martin[10]; 9. 48-Mike Burkin[17]; 10. 35-Ron
Blair[18]; 11. 31-Chuck Wilson[14]; 12. 15-Chris Andrews[6]; 13. 53-John
Ivy[1]; 14. 4N-Niel Shepard[16]; 15. 11N-Ed Neumeister[13]; 16. 2M-Dustin
Daggett[20]; 17. 2-Dale Blaney[3]; 18. 12-Caleb Griffith[15]; 19. O-Gus
Wasson[19]; 20. OO-Ryan Grubaugh[7]
Attica Raceway Park
305 SprintsHeat 1 - Bell Helmets (Top 4 to the A-main)
1. 21-Scott Kraylek; 2. 11W-Rickey Williams; 3. 9Z-Duane Zablocki; 4.
19R-Steve Rando; 5. 36X-Dustin Keegan; 6. 65-Mark Lang; 7. O7-Scott Mominee;
8. 15H-Mitch Harble; 9. 82-Travis Hoffbauer; 10. M28-Josh Muntz
Heat 2 - Friendship Food Stores (Top 4 to the A-main)
1. 5D-Dustin Dinan; 2. 55-Benny Bowman; 3. 14-Chad Wilson; 4. 71-Bill
Kraylek; 5. 49-Coty Runion; 6. 93-Dave Saxer Jr.; 7. 18C-Jason Crispen; 8.
92-Brandon Perkins; 9. 5JR-Jimmy Mcgrath; 10. 311-Aaron Moloney
Heat 3 - Tin Lizzy Collision of Tiffin (Top 4 to the A-main)
1. O2-Kevin Lee; 2. 10-Brad Haudenschild; 3. 4T-Jim Taddeo; 4. 11C-Shawn
Colvin; 5. 13-Junior Felver; 6. 22-Evan Helle; 7. 25P-Mark Pridemore; 8.
67M-Matt Ferrell; 9. 1A-Matt Lucius
Heat 4 - Pepsi (Top 4 to the A-main)
1. 48S-Andy Shammo; 2. O1-Bryan Sebetto; 3. 35-Stuart Brubaker; 4. 1B-Brad
Bowman; 5. 18-Todd Heuerman; 6. 3J-Bobby Foster; 7. 29F-Rich Farmer; 8.
66L-Ryan Lowe; 9. 1J-Jeremy Shambaugh; 10. 6-Ryan Dickey
B1 Main (Top 2 to the A-main)
1. 49-Coty Runion; 2. 36X-Dustin Keegan; 3. O7-Scott Mominee; 4. 65-Mark
Lang; 5. 18C-Jason Crispen; 6. 5JR-Jimmy Mcgrath; 7. 93-Dave Saxer Jr.; 8.
92-Brandon Perkins; 9. 82-Travis Hoffbauer; 10. 15H-Mitch Harble; 11.
311-Aaron Moloney; 12. M28-Josh Muntz
B2-Main (Top 2 to the A-main)
1. 18-Todd Heuerman; 2. 67M-Matt Ferrell; 3. 66L-Ryan Lowe; 4. 3J-Bobby
Foster; 5. 1A-Matt Lucius; 6. 1J-Jeremy Shambaugh; 7. 13-Junior Felver; 8.
29F-Rich Farmer; 9. 22-Evan Helle; 10. 6-Ryan Dickey; 11. 25P-Mark Pridemore
A-main Starting Position [#]
1. O1-Bryan Sebetto[8]; 2. 35-Stuart Brubaker[1]; 3. 55-Benny Bowman[4]; 4.
O2-Kevin Lee[5]; 5. 19R-Steve Rando[13]; 6. 14-Chad Wilson[9]; 7. 48S-Andy
Shammo[11]; 8. 71-Bill Kraylek[14]; 9. 1B-Brad Bowman[16]; 10. 49-Coty
Runion[17]; 11. 36X-Dustin Keegan[19]; 12. 10-Brad Haudenschild[3]; 13.
21-Scott Kraylek[12]; 14. 18-Todd Heuerman[18]; 15. 67M-Matt Ferrell[20];
16. 11C-Shawn Colvin[15]; 17. 5D-Dustin Dinan[2]; 18. 9Z-Duane Zablocki[6];
19. 11W-Rickey Williams[7]; 20. 4T-Jim Taddeo[10]
Attica Raceway Park
Fultz Fabrications & Speed Shop Late Models
Heat 1 - Bell Helmets (Top 5 to the A-main)
1. 48-John Bores; 2. 25-Chuck Hummer; 3. 15B-Mike Bores; 4. 23-Ben Elliott;
5. 9-Roger Inks; 6. 78-Terry Statton; 7. 12-Michael Stiltner
Heat 2 - Friendship Food Stores (Top 5 to the A-main)
1. 21-Larry Kingseed; 2. 45-Mike Marteney; 3. 69-John Mayes Jr.; 4. 99-Steve
Sabo; 5. 5H-Ernie Haynes; 6. 4U-Chris Elling; 7. 41-Steve Fultz; 8. 12P-Jeff
Pelton
Heat 3 - Tin Lizzy Collision of Tiffin (Top 5 to the A-main)
1. 50-Ryan Missler; 2. 99M-John Mayes Sr.; 3. 101-Chester Fitch; 4. 27-Ken
Hahn; 5. 2D-Curtis Deisenroth; 6. O5J-Joel Wildermuth; 7. 77-Steve Kester
B-Main - Computer Man Inc. (Top 5 to the A-main)
1. 4U-Chris Elling; 2. 12-Michael Stiltner; 3. 41-Steve Fultz; 4. 78-Terry
Statton; 5. 77-Steve Kester; 6. 12P-Jeff Pelton; 7. O5J-Joel Wildermuth
A-main Starting Position [#]
1. 21-Larry Kingseed[10]; 2. 50-Ryan Missler[3]; 3. 69-John Mayes Jr.[2]; 4.
99M-John Mayes Sr.[4]; 5. 27-Ken Hahn[8]; 6. 5H-Ernie Haynes[14]; 7.
99-Steve Sabo[7]; 8. 25-Chuck Hummer[11]; 9. 15B-Mike Bores[12]; 10.
12-Michael Stiltner[17]; 11. 41-Steve Fultz[18]; 12. 77-Steve Kester[20];
13. 78-Terry Statton[19]; 14. 101-Chester Fitch[6]; 15. 4U-Chris Elling[16];
16. 45-Mike Marteney[5]; 17. 9-Roger Inks[13]; 18. 48-John Bores[9]; 19.
23-Ben Elliott[1]; 20. 2D-Curtis Deisenroth[15]
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