Danny Holtgraver wears the crown in victory lane after scoring the win in the 12th annual Ronald Laney Memorial Saturday night at East Bay Raceway Park. Photo by Mike Horne
Like a man on a mission, young Danny Holtgraver of Pittsburgh PA made his move early, passing race leader Tim Shaffer for the lead with an inside move in turn one on a lap three restart and was never challenged in his quest for the15th Annual King of 360s crown and the $l0,000 that also marked the 12th Annual Ronald Laney Memorial at East Bay Raceway Park in Tampa, FL Saturday night.
“This is unbelievable,” said the 23 year old after his biggest win ever, ”my mechanic Brian Kemenah had everything so close to perfect on this J&J, powered by a Kistler engine and riding on VRP shocks, that it would have been hard to screw up. What a world of difference from the last time I was here in 2009, when I flipped half way down the back straightaway.”
“My owners Rob Hunter and Bryan Grove brought on board our sponsors Canton Erectors and Berlin Natural Bakery and I want to give a special thanks to Rob Timmons and Chris Bowe for spending endless hours with Brian in the shop every night,” added Holtgraver.
Shaffer started on pole with Michael Miller outside and Jerrod Roller and Holtgraver in row two. Terry McCarl and Greg Wilson ( who broke in hot laps and didn’t report his scratch to the officials) were to start in row three followed by Jason Sides, Lou Kennedy, Scotty Thiel and Jayme Barnes were in the top ten. Shaffer, who won opening night, jumped into the early lead and led over Holtgraver and a fast moving Sides.
Once Holtgraver took over on lap four, Sides took over second ahead of Miller, Shaffer and McCarl as they entered lapped traffic on lap 12. Holtgraver had no problems with lapped traffic and picked them off one at a time without hesitation. By lap 30, the leader had a 4 second lead and once he slowed to hit his marks better, he seemed to go faster.
By lap 33 Holtgraver had a straight away lead over Sides and with five to go, he had two lapped cars between himself and Sides, who had been held up by a slower car of Glenn Styres. With the waving of the checkered flag Holtgraver’s margin of victory was 3.520 seconds over Sides.
Terry McCarl, Miller and Shaffer made up the rest of the top five. While Darren Long, last night’s winner Steve Poierier, Thiel, Lou Kennedy, who spun to the infield and didn’t take the checkered, and Danny Martin, Jr. rounded out the top ten.
Sides, Lou Kennedy, Thiel and Jayme Barnes won the heats while the first B-Main sent Ryan Ruhl, Martin, Gene Lasker and Grad Greer to the A-Main and Matt Kurtz, Styres, Darren Long and Terry Gray came from the second B.
Shane Lewis poses in victory lane after winning the Mini Sprints feature. Photo courtesy EBRP
In other action, over 45 Mini Sprints were on hand for the final night of the 37th Annual Winternationals. Over 17 states were represented for the 3 day event.
The first of four heat races were run and heat race number one went to Tyler Devault. Heat race number two went Shane Lewis. Heat three went to Dirk Miller. The final heat race went to Travis Senter, Jr.
The top six transferred into the 25 Lap Feature event. Winning the B-main was Gavin Thomas, followed by David Pleaugh, Dane Lorance, Dave Hall, Paige Moss and Connor Borah to round out the field.
On the pole for the main was Shane Lewis, with Mike Dicely on the outside. When the green dropped it was Lewis leading the field into turn one with Dicely right on his back bumper. Lewis led the first five times around until David Pleaugh spun in turn two bringing out the first caution.
When the green flag waved again it was Lewis leading the way. The red flag would come out on lap twelve when Dylan Colding tumbled in turn three. Coulding escaped injury, but his night was over. Caution would come out again on lap eighteen when Dave Hall spun in turn two.
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ASA Racing continues next Saturday night with the track’s 2013 Season Opener with the Late Models, East Bay Sprints, Street Stocks, V8 Warriors and the Motorstats.com 4 Cylinder Bombers. For further information, log on to www.eastbayracewaypark.com.
37th Annual DART Winternationals
East Bay Raceway Park – Tampa, FL
King of the 360s – Feb. 23, 2013
1. Danny Holtgraver
2. Jason Sides
3. Terry McCarl
4. Michael Miller
5. Tim Shaffer
6. Darren Long
7. Steve Poirier
8. Scotty Thiel
9. Lou Kennedy
10. Danny Martin, Jr.
11. Michael Parent
12. Glenn Styres
13. Ryan Ruhl
14. Matt Kurtz
15. Tim Crawley
16. Jerod Roller
17. Gene Lasker
18. Danny Smith
19. Jayme Barnes
20. Greg Wilson
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