Knoxville World Challange

After meeting up with Steve Bombak and his family at the Smiths house for the Aussie breakfast and the parade, we are finally at the track again ready for the delayed World Challenge.

The first heat of last chance qualifying sees Mitch Dumsney, Paul Jeffrey and Jamie Veal battling it out among 21 other cars for the spot.
Veal finishes 8th, Dumsney finishes 10th and Jeffrey finishes 14th.

In the second heat of last chance of qualifying, we have Brooke Tatnell, Domain Ramsey, Bruce White, Trevor Green battling 15 laps with 18 other cars.
White ends with a DNF after pulling into the pits at lap 12, Ramsey finishes 17th, Green finishes 5th, and Tatnell finishes 4th.

The feature qualifying race sees Tatnell starting 8th, Green starting 10th, Veal starting 15th, and Dumsney starting 20th.
Dumsney finishes 16th, Veal finishes 10th, Green finishes 11th, and Tatnell finishes 6th.

The next and final race we have is the World Challenge.
The line up is as follows;

Trevor Green
Lucas Wolf
Max Dumsney
Jonathan Allard
Ricky Logan
Ian Madsen
Craig Dollansky
Paul McMahan
Joey Saldana
Jason Sides
Lynton Jeffrey
Skip Jackson
Kerry Madsen
Jason Johnson
Sammy Swindell
Toni Lutar
Mitch Dumsney
Brooke Tatnell
Jamie Veale
Domain Ramsey
Paul Jeffrey
Bruce White
Donny Scatz
Colin Entwisle

Sammy Swindell was out due to a flat tyre before the race even started as he and Kerry Madsen came into contact.
Unfortunately we lost out, the line up across the line went;

Craig Dollansky
Lucas Wolfe
Max Dumsney
Trevor Green
Jonathon Allard
Kerry Madsen
Paul McMahan
Joey Saldana
Brooke Tatnell
Ian Madsen
Jason Johnson
Lynton Jeffrey
Jason Sides
Ricky Logan
Skip Jackson
Mitchell Dumsney
Toni Lutar
Colin Entwisle
Jamie Veal
Domain Ramsey
Paul Jeffrey
Bruce White

Trevor did well to hold off Dollansky until about the 8th lap. Kerry Madsen was going hard and got up to 3rd but in the final laps about 3 to go he slowed a little moving back 3 places on the last lap, looked like his engine was starting to over heat which is unfortunate. Hopefully they can get the car back up and roaring before tonights big night.


That's about it for today. Our next and final race for Knoxville is tonight at 7:30, Skip is in the A main, hopefully he can be the first Aussie to win The huge event.


Just an update back at home, Mr. Mike Armstrong asked me to buy him a Craig Dollansky t shirt, I asked him why on earth he'd want one of those. His reply was that once we all see his new paint job we'd know why. Keep an eye out. Just remember, if you have heard anything, or have any updates we can add to the blog then send Crabby an email so we can keep everyone else update.

Regards,
Crabbe Junior.

Location:Knoxville, Iowa, USA