7/28/2015
IRA Interstate Racing Association
Dale Blaney Beats UNOH All Stars and IRA at Wilmot Raceway
From UNOH All-Star Media Services:
Dale Blaney Beats UNOH All Stars and IRA at Wilmot Raceway
Wilmot, WI (July 25th, 2015) - Dale Blaney concluded the UNOH All Star Circuit of
Champions road trip through Michigan and Wisconsin with yet
another main event victory; this time during the All Star/IRA “Sprintacular” at the Wilmot Raceway near Wilmot, Wisconsin. The current UNOH All Star point leader earned the $5,000 “Sprintacular” payday on Saturday, July 25th, over a stacked field of 38 Bumper-to-Bumper IRA Outlaw Sprint Series and UNOH All Star
Circuit of Champions sprint cars. Blaney survived two cautions during main event competition, as well as periods of heavy lapped traffic and a last-ditch effort
slide job by Cody Darrah to earn his eighth UNOH All Star victory of the 201season. “The Lowrider” now has 123 career series victories.
“It was a pretty good night for us” said Blaney, “I just want to thank all of my guys. They work really hard and give me a great car. It’s always special to get back to victory lane.”
Dale Blaney and Blake Nimee led the field to green at Wilmot Raceway. Nimee, who
entered the evening sixth in the current IRA Outlaw Sprint Series point standings, controlled the first four circuits of the 30-lap program before losing the top spot to Dale Blaney. The pilot of the GoMuddy.com, Big Game Treestands, CH Motorsports, #1 paced the field until the main event’s first caution on lap ten for Ryan
Irwin.
Green flag conditions would return with Dale Blaney setting the tone out front.
Cody Darrah, who started sixth on the main event grid, worked his way forward and chased Blaney for the next 13 laps; navigating heavy traffic until the caution lights reappeared for Kyle Martin with 23 laps in the books. Blaney brought the field back to green once again with only seven circuits remaining. Despite clean air and an open track for the defending UNOH All Star champion, Darrah still managed to keep pace with “The Lowrider” and would attempt one last slide job to take over the top spot with less than five laps remaining. Darrah, a Red Lion, Pennsylvania native, completed the textbook slider, but could not make it stick, as Blaney was able to drive back around the familiar J&K Salvage, #89. Blaney would go on to win the All Star/IRA “Sprintacular” at Wilmot Raceway with Cody Darrah hanging on to finish second.
“We just tried to fill the holes” said Blaney, “I knew Cody (Darrah) was going to work as hard as he could to get around me. I just tried to make myself wide and fill in all of the holes.”
“We had a good night tonight and a pretty good weekend all together” Darrah
said, “The track was pretty tricky tonight. The cushion was a little too technical for me to make it work. Hats off to my guys. They work hard and it shows.”
Greg Wilson, the 2015 Ohio Sprint Speedweek presented by Cometic Gasket champion, rallied from fifth to finish third at Wilmot Raceway. “The Kunkletown Kid” Ryan Smith would roll home where he started on Saturday night and cross under thecheckers fourth in the running order. Early leader Blake Nimee completed the top-five.
Qualifying
1.45-Tim Shaffer, 13.513; 2.1-Dale Blaney, 13.588; 3.5T-Travis Philo, 13.601;
4.10H-Chad Kemanah, 13.634; 5.6R-Bill Rose, 13.679; 6.94-Ryan Smith, 13.693; 7.W20-Greg Wilson, 13.724; 8.35-Ben Schmidt, 13.736; 9.48H-Mike Reinke, 13.753; 10.70-Raymond Hensley, 13.784; 11.89-Cody Darrah, 13.790; 12.14AJ-Wayne Modjeski, 13.825; 13.1M-Phillip Mock, 13.827; 14.5J-Jeremy Schultz, 13.834; 15.79-Blake Nimee, 13.856; 16.11K-Rick Kelsey, 13.966; 17.56-Ryan Irwin, 14.007; 18.4K-Kris Spitz, 14.051; 19.19-Todd Daun,14.113; 20.4-Danny Smith, 14.116; 21.4B-Scott Biertzer, 14.129; 22.53W-Bill Wirth, 14.131; 23.99-Kyle Martin, 14.145; 24.0-Johnny Fahl, 14.159; 25.64-Scotty Thiel, 14.160; 26.2W-Scotty Neitzel, 14.165; 27.12W-Josh Walter, 14.186; 28.44-Jason Johnson, 14.197; 29.41-Dennis Spitz, 14.209; 30.23-Russel Borland, 14.298; 31.8A-Nick Alden, 14.319; 32.68-Dave Uttech, 14.345; 33.12-Mike Decker, 14.374; 34.10V-Matt Vandervere, 14.522; 35.38-Allen Hafford, 14.577; 36.2B-Jimmy Sivia, 14.949; 37.43-Jereme Schroeder, 15.037; 38.7-Scott Uttech, 31.082;
Heat 1, Group A - (10 Laps)
- 89-Cody Darrah[2] ; 2.
45-Tim Shaffer[4] ; 3. 35-Ben Schmidt[3] ; 4. 99-Kyle Martin[6] ; 5. 11K-Rick Kelsey[1] ; 6. 4K-Kris Spitz[5] ; 7. 8A-Nick Alden[10] ; 8. 12W-Josh Walter[8] ; 9. 41-Dennis Spitz[9] ; 10. 0-Johnny Fahl[7]
Heat 2, Group B -(10 Laps)
- 4-Danny Smith[1] ; 2. 79-Blake Nimee[3] ; 3. 19-Todd Daun[2] ; 4. 4B-Scott
Biertzer[5] ; 5. 70-Raymond Hensley[4] ; 6. 2W-Scotty Neitzel[7] ; 7. 44-Jason Johnson[8] ; 8. 53W-Bill Wirth[6] ; 9. 12-Mike Decker[10] ; 10. 68-Dave Uttech[9]
Heat 3, Group C -
(10 Laps) 1. W20-Greg Wilson[1] ; 2. 10H-Chad Kemanah[4] ; 3. 94-Ryan Smith[2] ; 4. 6R-Bill Rose[3] ; 5. 48H-Mike Reinke[5] ; 6. 23-Russel Borland[7] ; 7. 2B-Jimmy Sivia[8] ; 8. 56-Ryan Irwin[6] ; 9. 7-Scott Uttech[9]
Heat 4, Group D - (10 Laps) 1. 5T-Travis Philo[3] ; 2. 1-Dale Blaney[4] ; 3. 14AJ-Wayne Modjeski[2] ; 4. 64-Scotty Thiel[6] ; 5. 1M-Phillip Mock[1] ; 6. 5J-Jeremy Schultz[5] ; 7. 43-Jereme Schroeder[9] ; 8. 10V-Matt Vandervere[7] ; 9. 38-Allen Hafford[8]
Dash 1 - (8 Laps)
- 1-Dale Blaney[2] ; 2. 79-Blake Nimee[1] ; 3. 6R-Bill Rose[3] ; 4. 94-Ryan Smith[5] ; 5. W20-Greg Wilson[6] ; 6. 89-Cody Darrah[8] ; 7. 10H-Chad Kemanah[7] ; 8. 5T-Travis Philo[4] ; 9. 4-Danny Smith[9] ; 10. 45-Tim Shaffer[10]
B-Main 1 - (12 Laps) 1. 5J-Jeremy Schultz[1] ; 2. 56-Ryan Irwin[2] ; 3. 4K-Kris Spitz[3] ; 4. 2W-ScottNeitzel[6] ; 5. 44-Jason Johnson[8] ; 6. 53W-Bill Wirth[4] ; 7. 23-Russel Borland[10] ; 8. 12W-Josh Walter[7] ; 9. 10V-Matt Vandervere[14] ; 10. 68-Dave Uttech[12] ; 11. 8A-Nick Alden[11] ; 12. 2B-Jimmy Sivia[16] ; 13. 0-Johnny Fahl[5] ; 14. 12-Mike Decker[13] ; 15. 43-Jereme Schroeder[17] ; 16. 41-Dennis Spitz[9] ; 17. 38-Allen Hafford[15] ; 18. 7-Scott Uttech[18]
A-Main 1 - (30 Laps) 1. 1-Dale Blaney[1] ; 2. 89-Cody Darrah[6] ; 3. W20-Greg Wilson[5] ; 4. 94-Ryan Smith[4] ; 5. 79-Blake Nimee[2] ; 6. 10H-Chad Kemanah[7] ; 7. 45-Tim Shaffer[10] ; 8. 4-Danny Smith[9] ; 9. 64-Scotty Thiel[16] ; 10. 6R-Bill Rose[3] ; 11. 5J-Jeremy Schultz[21] ; 12. 5T-Travis Philo[8] ; 13. 35-Ben Schmidt[11] ; 14. 4B-Scott Biertzer[15] ; 15. 70-Raymond Hensley[18] ; 16. 19-Todd Daun[12] ; 17. 99-Kyle Martin[14] ; 18. 14AJ-Wayne Modjeski[13] ; 19. 2W-Scotty Neitzel[24] ; 20. 1M-Phillip Mock[20] ; 21. 4K-Kris Spitz[23] ; 22. 48H-Mike Reinke[19] ; 23. 11K-Rick Kelsey[17] ; 24. 56-Ryan Irwin[22]
Submitted By: Jeffrey Sachse
