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Sebetto edges Shaffer for thrilling $10,000
Fremont All Star win FREMONT, OH (9-17-11) By Brian Liskai – The difference was .045 seconds. Fremont, Ohio’s Bryan Sebetto edged two-time and defending All Star Circuit of Champions titlist Tim Shaffer for the biggest win of his career Saturday at Fremont Speedway. Sebetto, who has now won over $25,000 in the past two weeks, banged wheels with Shaffer as they came down the front stretch to the checkered and was able to win the Jim Ford Classic and its $10,000 prize. It was Sebetto’s fourth win of the year at “The Track That Action Built” and came after a second place finish the previous night to Shaffer. “Was that exciting?” yelled Sebetto over the roar of the hometown crowd after he climbed down from scaling the front stretch fence. “I didn’t know whether to just follow the lapped car through three and four and keep my line or push the issue and pull off the line. I could hear someone back there…I knew he (Shaffer) was coming. We banged wheels…I hope he’s not mad because that was for $10,000. We’re buddies but this is for the win,” continued Sebetto in the Engine Pro Victory Lane beside his Burmeister Racing/JLH Contractors/Stephen Mapus Tools/Schiets Motorsports/Wendy’s Restaurant/R&R Auto Wrecking/Big D’s Pizza backed machine. “This is amazing. This team deserves this more than any team in the pits. They work so hard on this thing…they put their heart and soles and life savings into this to keep it on the race track. There’s just so many people that have made this possible…my racing career from the time I was a kid,” added Sebetto of his 17th career win at Fremont, which moves him into a tie for 30th on the all-time win list with Jack Hewitt and Jim Ward. Two weeks ago, Sebetto crashed his mount at Attica Raceway Park. The car was taken to local legend Mark Keegan who had to weld and fix the frame. And it was good enough to give Sebetto the biggest win of his young career – his second All Star victory in as many years. “I’m ready for the World of Outlaw race (on Oct. 15)…bring them on,” said Sebetto. “There’s no better chassis than a Maxim in my opinion…no matter what we do to it it’s fast. Mikey Summer works his butt off and he deserves every bit of thanks he gets. And Mango and Jay and Rollie and Tommie and the whole crew…they do so much.” Shaffer was just as excited as Sebetto with the outcome. “I was inching up on him little by little and if I had a chance I knew it would be in one and two and I hit it right…boy I nailed it that time and got a run on him down the back straight away. And then it got kind of funneled down and got tight and I was like ‘man I got underneath him but I pushed up the track. It was just a great race and a lot of fun. Bryan and his guys did a great job…hats off to them,” said Shaffer beside his Kistler Engines/Kistler Racing Products backed #83. “If anyone had to beat me I’m glad it was him…he’s a good friend. We gave him a shot at it. These guys have been doing a great job here all year.” But looking at the bigger picture, the weekend gives Shaffer a big advantage in the chase for his third consecutive All Star national title and the $20,000 Ohio Region championship. And while the crowd was abuzz about the tremendous battle for the win, they were also treated to another back to front charge as Greg Wilson sliced his way from dead last – 24th – to a third place finish. “I knew if we could just get in the race – we haven’t been timing worth a darn and we hurt our real good engine last night. I have to thank Paul Kistler for helping us out with this engine. It isn’t the stoutest thing but the damn thing just keeps on trucking. Daniel Smith had this car awesome. I have to thank the good Lord above for looking out for us. We’ve had a couple of rough weeks here. But my wife and my dad and everyone that’s been helping…they’ve stuck by me,” said Wilson beside his All Star Plumbing and Heating/DNC Hydraulics/Ohio Logistics backed machine. In the 50-lap All Star feature, Sebetto and Todd Heller would lead the field to the green. Sebetto would bolt into the lead while Jac Haudenschild would steal second with Heller, Cole Duncan, Shaffer and Brad Haudenschild in tow. Shaffer would drive the bottom groove into third on lap four as Sebetto pulled away. The caution would fly for a Cap Henry spin on lap 8 with the running order Sebetto, Haudenschild, Shaffer and Duncan. Sebetto was just ready to hit lapped traffic when the caution came out and Haudenschild had been closing. With a clear track, Sebetto again pulled away, as he set a blistering pace, encountering lapped traffic by the 15th circuit. As the leaders raced through traffic, Shaffer quickly closed on Haudenschild, taking the runner-up spot on lap 20. Shaffer immediately starting reeling in Sebetto as they ran nose to tail until the caution flew on lap 26 for a Dale Blaney spin. Sebetto again had a clear track with a lapped car separating him and Shaffer while four lapped cars back it was Haudenschild in third, followed by Holtgraver, David Gravel and last place starter Greg Wilson. Sebetto would pull away again from Shaffer slightly as Haudenschild now had his hands full with Gravel and Wilson. Shaffer began slowly inching closer to Sebetto, and when they raced back into lapped traffic with 15 circuits to go, the pair again ran nose to tail. The final caution would fly on lap 41, again handing Sebetto with a clear track, which he used on the ensuing restart to pull away slightly. Meanwhile Wilson had moved into third. However, with two laps to go, Shaffer had quickly closed the game and raced to Sebetto’s inside. As they took the white flag, they raced into turns one and two with Sebetto up top and Shaffer on the bottom. The pair raced side by side into turn three with a lapped car right in front of Sebetto. Shaffer pounced, driving to the inside as Sebetto diamonded off the corner and charged at Shaffer. The pair banged wheels down the front stretch with Sebetto winning by a bumper. Fremont Speedway - 9/17/2011 All Star Circuit of Champions (31 Cars) [#]-Starting Position Qualifying - Kistler Engines 1. 45-Rob Chaney, 12.765 2. 16-Bryan Sebetto, 12.792 3. O9-Craig Mintz, 12.901 4. 10-Brad Haudenschild, 12.933 5. 7K-Cole Duncan, 12.938 6. 70-Jac Haudenschild, 12.942 7. 14H-Todd Heller, 12.968 8. 83-Tim Shaffer, 12.980 9. 3T-Tony Beaber, 12.985 10. 3-Pete Miller III, 12.994 11. 89G-David Gravel, 12.997 12. D4-Danny Holtgraver, 13.023 13. 78-Todd Kane, 13.026 14. 2-Dale Blaney, 13.045 15. 9Z-Duane Zablocki, 13.138 16. 53-Phil Gressman, 13.149 17. 4-Danny Smith, 13.162 18. 2+-Brian Smith, 13.181 19. 9X-Brandon Martin, 13.216 20. 1X-Matt Linder, 13.240 21. 5R-Byron Reed, 13.241 22. 4K-Kody Kinser, 13.243 23. 97-Dean Jacobs, 13.285 24. O-Lee Jacobs, 13.298 25. 312-Mike Linder, 13.320 26. 60-Jody Keegan, 13.330 27. O4-Cap Henry, 13.383 28. 312X-Chris Andrews, 13.404 29. W20-Greg Wilson, 13.488 30. 40-Mark Imler, 13.957 31. 40H-Caleb Helms, .001 Heat 1 - Kears Speed Shop (10 Laps - Top 6 finishers transfer to the A-feature) 1. 53-Phil Gressman[1] 2. 78-Todd Kane[2] 3. 3-Pete Miller III[3] 4. 14H-Todd Heller[4] 5. 10-Brad Haudenschild[5] 6. 45-Rob Chaney[6] 7. 312X-Chris Andrews[10] 8. 312-Mike Linder[9] 9. 4K-Kody Kinser[8] 10. 9X-Brandon Martin[7] Heat 2 - All Pro Heads (10 Laps - Top 6 finishers transfer to the A-feature) 1. 2-Dale Blaney[2] 2. 83-Tim Shaffer[4] 3. 4-Danny Smith[1] 4. 16-Bryan Sebetto[6] 5. 89G-David Gravel[3] 6. 7K-Cole Duncan[5] 7. W20-Greg Wilson[10] 8. 60-Jody Keegan[9] 9. 1X-Matt Linder[7] 10. 97-Dean Jacobs[8] Heat 3 - MSD Ignition (10 Laps - Top 6 finishers transfer to the A-feature) 1. 9Z-Duane Zablocki[2] 2. D4-Danny Holtgraver[3] 3. 2+-Brian Smith[1] 4. 70-Jac Haudenschild[5] 5. O-Lee Jacobs[8] 6. O4-Cap Henry[9] 7. O9-Craig Mintz[6] 8. 3T-Tony Beaber[4] 9. 40-Mark Imler[10] 10. 5R-Byron Reed[7] Dash - Outerwears Performance Products (6 Laps, finishing order determined first 6 starting positions of A-feature 1. 16-Bryan Sebetto[2] 2. 14H-Todd Heller[1] 3. 70-Jac Haudenschild[5] 4. 7K-Cole Duncan[6] 5. 45-Rob Chaney[3] 6. 10-Brad Haudenschild[4] B-Main - University of Northwestern Ohio (12 Laps - Top 6 finishers transfer to the A-feature) 1. O9-Craig Mintz[1] 2. W20-Greg Wilson[10] 3. 5R-Byron Reed[5] 4. 312-Mike Linder[7] 5. 3T-Tony Beaber[2] 6. 60-Jody Keegan[8] 7. 312X-Chris Andrews[9] 8. 4K-Kody Kinser[6] 9. 40-Mark Imler[11] 10. 1X-Matt Linder[4] 11. 9X-Brandon Martin[3] 12. 40H-Caleb Helms[12] A-Main - (50 Laps) 1. 16-Bryan Sebetto[1] 2. 83-Tim Shaffer[7] 3. W20-Greg Wilson[24] 4. 89G-David Gravel[9] 5. 4-Danny Smith[17] 6. D4-Danny Holtgraver[10] 7. O9-Craig Mintz[11] 8. 78-Todd Kane[13] 9. 7K-Cole Duncan[4] 10. 70-Jac Haudenschild[3] 11. 14H-Todd Heller[2] 12. 3T-Tony Beaber[12] 13. 312-Mike Linder[21] 14. 53-Phil Gressman[16] 15. O4-Cap Henry[23] 16. 45-Rob Chaney[5] 17. 3-Pete Miller III[8] 18. 10-Brad Haudenschild[6] 19. O-Lee Jacobs[20] 20. 9Z-Duane Zablocki[15] 21. 2-Dale Blaney[14] 22. 2+-Brian Smith[18] 23. 60-Jody Keegan[22] 24. 5R-Byron Reed[19] Hard Charger: W20-Greg Wilson[+21] |
