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Blaney Makes Knoxville Nationals A Main for 11th Time

(Photo by DB3 Imaging)

Inside Line Promotions – KNOXVILLE, Iowa (Aug. 16, 2016) – Dale Blaney drove into the A Main at the 5-Hour ENERGY Knoxville Nationals last weekend for the 11th time in his career and for the sixth time in the last eight years.

“Any time you make the A Main it’s a good thing,” he said. “With the caliber of team we have we shouldn’t be happy with just making the A Main.”

Blaney and the Mainstream Holdings Inc. sponsored CH Motorsports team kicked off preliminary action on Thursday by qualifying 22nd quickest. Blaney then advanced from fourth to second place in a heat race, which earned him the final spot into the feature inversion and the pole position for the main event.

“We were disappointed with our qualifying effort,” he said. “I didn’t make two good laps. I should have been at least 10 places better on the board than I was. The way it turned out if we had been better we’d be stuck further back in the heat race and maybe we wouldn’t have made it out. The B Main was tough. Not many guys made it out of the heat and it stuck us on the pole of the A Main.”

Blane led the first seven laps of the feature before falling to second just as he was entering traffic. He ran in that position for several more laps before a restart.

“Starting second on a restart I knew where I had to go,” he said. “I had Jason Johnson sitting in third. He got underneath of me. Trying to get back by him caused me to have (Terry) McCarl get a run on me and that dropped me to fourth. (Kerry) Madsen got by a couple of laps later and put me to fifth.”

Blaney ended in the fifth position, which ranked him 18th in overall points out of more than 100 drivers. That was two spots out of locking into Saturday’s main event and lined him up on the outside of the front row for the 22-lap B Main during the finale.

Blaney led the first 18 laps of the consolation race before dropping to second in traffic. He held onto that position to transfer into the 50-lap feature, which he started 22nd.

“I just didn’t get a very good start,” he said. “If I could have got by six or seven cars early it would have put us in position to race the last half of it. I knew I had about 12 to 15 laps to really get going and I didn’t.”

Blaney was lapped just before a caution came out around Lap 15. That trapped him down a lap for the remainder of the race and he pulled off early to end with a 23rd-place result.

He will return to Arctic Cat All Star Circuit of Champions action this weekend with four races on tap – Thursday at Grandview Speedway in Bechtelsville, Pa., Friday at Williams Grove Speedway in Mechanicsburg, Pa., Saturday at Lincoln Speedway in Abbottstown, Pa., and Sunday at Lebanon Valley Speedway in West Lebanon, N.Y.

QUICK RESULTS –

Aug. 11 – Knoxville Raceway in Knoxville, Iowa – Qualifying: 22; Heat race: 2 (4); Feature: 5 (1).

Aug. 13 – Knoxville Raceway in Knoxville, Iowa – B Main: 2 (2); Feature: 23 (22).

SEASON STATS –

51 races, 7 wins, 26 top fives, 39 top 10s, 43 top 15s, 45 top 20s

UP NEXT –

Thursday at Grandview Speedway in Bechtelsville, Pa., Friday at Williams Grove Speedway in Mechanicsburg, Pa., Saturday at Lincoln Speedway in Abbottstown, Pa., and Sunday at Lebanon Valley Speedway in West Lebanon, N.Y., with the Arctic Cat All Star Circuit of Champions

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