ALL STARS STORY COURTESY OF 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.

  The Butler support classes on hand with the All Stars were the UMP Modifieds and the Sportsman division.

  The Sportsman feature would roll out onto the 3/8 mile with Steve Billingsley and Steve Langdon leading the field to green.  Langdon would jump to an early lead.  The field would be slowed several times early for debris issues.  A lap 12 yellow for the spinning Jake Rendel would slow the field, with Langdon leading over Logan Beckwith, Tim Wilber and Billingsley.  A single car spin for Elzie Kipp would slow the field on the 14^th circuit.  The field would charge back to green with Langdon leading Beckwith when the yellow flew for a slowing Dwayne Feltner on lap 17.  This would set up a dash to the checkers as the field went back to the wave of the green flag.  Langdon, a Butler veteran racer, would charge to his first 2012 feature win over Wilber.  Jake Rendel would recover from his earlier spin to finish 3^rd.  Deuane Morley and Fred VanEvey would round out the top 5.  Heat race wins would go to Wilber and Jake Rendel.

  The UMP Modified feature would be the final feature event to roll out, with Brandon Ordway and Jordan Bailey on the front row.  The race would go green, but go right to yellow as Jason Trennepohl would go off the backstretch.  The complete restart would see Brandon Ordway spin at the front of the field.  Ordway nearly was able to get out of harms way, but Josh Lolmaugh would be collected, ending Lolmaugh's night.  The 3^rd time was a charm as Bailey would jump to the lead.  Bailey would continue to lead thru multiple caution periods, when the red would wave on lap 8.  Corey Bevard would be checked over after an incident in turn 4, Corey would be ok, but the red would fly for the medical team to double check things over.  Bailey would surge back into the lead on the restart with Tommy Beezley, brother Jacob Bailey, and Brett Miller all giving chase.  At the checkered flag it would be Jordan Bailey with the win over Beezley, Bailey, Miller and John McClure rounding out the top 5.  With 35 UMP Modifieds in the pits, Mike Tarlton, Jacob Bailey, Trennepohl and Lolmaugh would all capture heat races.  Tim Wilber would win the B main.

  Upcoming events include August 25 for the full 4 in 1 program of Winged Sprints, UMP Modifieds, Sportsman and Street Stocks.

  Sep 1 will be the July make up date for the fireworks program that had to be postponed due to the dry weather and burn bans put on the area.  Joining the fireworks program will be the full 4 in 1 plus the Mini Sprints.  Be sure to get there early to secure your seats, since the fireworks shows will usually see a packed house.

  For more information log onto www.butlerspeedway.net

Butler Speedway Results - August 18, 2012
Winged Sprints
Feature: 1. 83 Tim Shaffer , 2. 2 Dale Blaney, 3. 1X Randy Hannagan, 4. 4 Danny Smith, 5. 4K Kody Kinser, 6. 40 Caleb Helms, 7. 25M Ken Mackey, 8. 96M Josh Mohr, 9. 14 Chad Wilson, 10. 27 Shelby Bilton, 11. 45 Paul McMahon , 12. 89G David Gravel, 13. D4 Danny Holtgraver, 14. 3W Chris Jones, 15. 7 Nic Rogers, 16. 17 Jared Hortsman, 17. 50B Mike Burns, 18. 22 Cole Duncan, 19. 9E Tim Evilsizer, 20. 54 Cap Henry, 21.  19 Doug Zimmerman, 22.  48 Scott Hull, 23. 4T Josh Turner, 24.  27K Ryan Kirkendall
Heat Winners: Randy Hannagan, Jared Hortsman, Nic Rogers

Dash:  Caleb Helms
B Main: Shelby Bilton

UMP Modifieds
Feature: 1. 52 Jordan Bailey, 2. 69 Tommy Beezley, 3. 29B Jake Bailey, 4. 8X Brett Miller, 5. 1M John McClure, 6. 17T Mike Tarlton, 7. 06 Jake Rendel, 8. 29 Steve Shellenberger , 9.  60 Shannon Fisk , 10. 19 Ryan Ordway, 11. 63S Troy Stewart, 12. 61 Mitch Kirkendall, 13. 19B Brandon Ordway, 14. 28 Terry Wilber, 15. 63J Josh Stewart, 16. 0 Tim Wilber, 17. 1T Jason Trennepohl, 18. 8 Corey Bevard, 19. 17M Doug McLachlan, 20. 25 Josh Lolmaugh
Heat Winners: Mike Tarlton, Jake Bailey, Jason Trennepohl, Josh Lolmaugh
B Main: Tim Wilber

Sportsman

Feature: 1. 38 Steve Langdon, 2. 0 Tim Wilber, 3. 06 Jake Rendel, 4. 22 Deuane Morley, 5. 24F Fred VanEvey, 6. 00 Bryan Martin, 7. 36 Dwayne Feltner, 8. 006 Jarrett Rendel, 9. 57 Tim Vrooman, 10.  57 Elzie Kipp, 11.  11 Logan Beckwith, 12.  10S Steve Woodruff, 13.  57 Steve Billingsley, 14.  10B Kevin Butters, 15.  69 Wes Bates, 16.  25 Will Smith, 17.  35R Levi Collins, 18.  7L Matt Leland
Heat Winners: Tim Wilber, Jake Rendel