Quincy, MI (Saturday, Aug. 18, 2012) By Brian Liskai– Tim Shaffer, fresh off his University of Northwestern Ohio All Star Circuit of Champions Great Plains Regional Championship, held off season-long challenger Dale Blaney to earn his 50th career series win at the Butler Battlegrounds Speedway Saturday night.
The win is Shaffer’s fifth of the season with the UNOH All Stars and moves him just three victories away from tying Frankie Kerr for sixth on the series’ all-time win list. It also takes him one step closer to winning his fourth consecutive UNOH All Star championship, which has only been accomplished twice before – Kenny Jacobs (1998, 1999, 2000 and 2001) and Chad Kemenah (2002, 2003, 2004 and 2005). Shaffer was also able to nip into Blaney’s lead for the $20,000-to-win UNOH All Star Ohio Regional championship.
“The CH Motorsports team has been up and down and we’ve had a lot of seconds this year and we’re just trying to get some wins. We have Dave Lawrence on board now with James Chambers and we have some new guys on the crew and I think we’re really starting to gel and it’s a lot of fun,” said Shaffer beside his Aaron Call/Janet Holbrook owned, Kistler Engines, J&J Auto Racing, VRP Shocks backed #83. “It was hard on tires tonight. I was getting a little worried there with that green, white checkered that guys would keep blowing their tires but luckily we got the race over
For Blaney, a three time UNOH All Star Champion, another top three keeps him on pace to take the Ohio Region championship with just seven points races left.
“We were good all night. We qualified well and put ourselves in a good position. We just got single file there 10 laps into it and couldn’t do much after that. That’s the way racing goes some times,” said Blaney beside his Ti22 Performance backed machine. “On those restarts, Tim wasn’t pushing it too hard and was trying to be easy on his tires and I was trying to be easy on mine…if there was a way I could sneak by him there when he was running easy…he would have picked up the pace if he would have saw me…he saw me once and picked up the pace. I was just trying to make him run a little bit harder but it didn’t work out.”
Track conditions caused a lot of frustration for third place finisher Randy Hannagan. It was the second straight year “The Hurricane” would finish third at Butler.
“The yellow flags killed us. We should have just left those race cars on the track there the first couple of yellows because we left them there the last two laps…the one down there in three and the one down there in one. I don’t know what the yellows were for previously…the cars were stopped so we could have raced around them like we did there,” said a frustrated Hannagan beside his FK Rod Ends, Integra Shocks, Brown E. Miller Racing Solutions backed #1x.
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Butler Motor Speedway – 8/18/2012
All Star Circuit of Champions (29 Cars)
[#]-Starting Position
Qualifying – Kistler Engines
1. 2-Dale Blaney, 11.971; 2. 89G-David Gravel, 12.018; 3. 83-Tim Shaffer, 12.045; 4. 40-Caleb Helms, 12.056; 5. 54-Cap Henry, 12.116; 6. 22-Cole Duncan, 12.137; 7. 1X-Randy Hannagan, 12.389; 8. 4K-Kody Kinser, 12.505; 9. 19-Doug Zimmerman, 12.506; 10. D4-Danny Holtgraver, 12.537; 11. 4-Danny Smith, 12.601; 12. 45-Paul McMahan, 12.914; 13. 48-Scott Hull, 13.005; 14. 17-Jared Horstman, 13.119; 15. 7-Nick Rogers, 13.139; 16. 3W-Chris Jones, 13.263; 17. 25M-Ken Mackey, 13.272; 18. 4T-Josh Turner, 13.323; 19. 9E-Tim Evilsizer, 13.351; 20. 27-Shelby Bilton, 13.403; 21. 14-Chad Wilson, 13.631; 22. 27B-Brad Lamberson, 13.641; 23. 96M-Josh Mohr, 14.005; 24. 50B-Mike Burns, 14.129; 25. 27K-Ryan Kirkendall, 14.208; 26. 8-Aaron Huff, 14.327; 27. 10J-Chris Jones, 14.495; 28. 91-James Cochran, 16.492; 29. 12B-Mike Baker, 99.999
Heat 1 – Kears Speed Shop (8 Laps – Top 6 finishers transfer to the A-feature)
1. 1X-Randy Hannagan[4] ; 2. 2-Dale Blaney[6] ; 3. 3W-Chris Jones[1] ; 4. D4-Danny Holtgraver[3] ; 5. 40-Caleb Helms[5] ; 6. 9E-Tim Evilsizer[7] ; 7. 48-Scott Hull[2] ; 8. 27B-Brad Lamberson[8] ; 9. 27K-Ryan Kirkendall[9] ; 10. 91-James Cochran[10]
Heat 2 – All Pro Aluminum Heads (8 Laps – Top 6 finishers transfer to the A-feature)
1. 17-Jared Horstman[2] ; 2. 25M-Ken Mackey[1] ; 3. 4-Danny Smith[3] ; 4. 4K-Kody Kinser[4] ; 5. 89G-David Gravel[6] ; 6. 54-Cap Henry[5] ; 7. 27-Shelby Bilton[7] ; 8. 8-Aaron Huff[9] ; 9. 96M-Josh Mohr[8] ; 10. 12B-Mike Baker[10]
Heat 3 – Dragon Race Fuel (8 Laps – Top 6 finishers transfer to the A-feature)
1. 7-Nick Rogers[2] ; 2. 45-Paul McMahan[3] ; 3. 4T-Josh Turner[1] ; 4. 22-Cole Duncan[5] ; 5. 19-Doug Zimmerman[4] ; 6. 83-Tim Shaffer[6] ; 7. 14-Chad Wilson[7] ; 8. 10J-Chris Jones[9] ; 9. 50B-Mike Burns[8]
Dash – Outerwears Performance Products (6 Laps, finishing order determined first 6 starting positions of A-feature
1. 40-Caleb Helms[2] ; 2. 89G-David Gravel[1] ; 3. 83-Tim Shaffer[4] ; 4. 2-Dale Blaney[3] ; 5. 22-Cole Duncan[6] ; 6. 54-Cap Henry[5]
B-Main – MSD Ignition (12 Laps – Top 6 finishers transfer to the A-feature)
1. 27-Shelby Bilton[2] ; 2. 14-Chad Wilson[3] ; 3. 50B-Mike Burns[6] ; 4. 48-Scott Hull[1] ; 5. 96M-Josh Mohr[5] ; 6. 27K-Ryan Kirkendall[7] ; 7. 27B-Brad Lamberson[4] ; 8. 10J-Chris Jones[9] ; 9. 8-Aaron Huff[8]
A-Main – University of Northwestern Ohio (30 Laps)
1. 83-Tim Shaffer[3]; 2. 2-Dale Blaney[4]; 3. 1X-Randy Hannagan[7]; 4. 4-Danny Smith[11]; 5. 4K-Kody Kinser[8]; 6. 40-Caleb Helms[1]; 7. 25M-Ken Mackey[17]; 8. 96M-Josh Mohr[22]; 9. 14-Chad Wilson[21]; 10. 27-Shelby Bilton[20]; 11. 45-Paul McMahan[12]; 12. 89G-David Gravel[2]; 13. D4-Danny Holtgraver[10]; 14. 3W-Chris Jones[16]; 15. 7-Nick Rogers[15]; 16. 17-Jared Horstman[14]; 17. 50B-Mike Burns[23]; 18. 22-Cole Duncan[5]; 19. 9E-Tim Evilsizer[19]; 20. 54-Cap Henry[6]; 21. 19-Doug Zimmerman[9]; 22. 48-Scott Hull[13]; 23. 4T-Josh Turner[18]; 24. 27K-Ryan Kirkendall[24]
Hard Charger: 96M-Josh Mohr[+14]