KRIMES WINS RACE, MONTIETH CLAIMS FIRST TRACK TITLE IN LINCOLN 410 SPRINTS
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ABBOTTSTOWN, PA , 8/30/08 - There's a new track champion at Lincoln
Speedway.
And the driver known as "the Edge" did it without a single win in
2008. Brian Montieth capped off his championship season with a fourth-place
finish in Saturday night's 25-lap 410 sprint car feature Saturday night.
Though he has not yet visited victory lane this season, Montieth's
fourth-place finish was his ninth top five finish and 19th top ten finish of '08.

It was a rough night for the four drivers still in points contention
for the Lincoln title. Montieth was the only driver who finished high enough
in his heat to gain a handicapped spot at the front of the feature field,
and he started tenth. Both 1996 champ Cris Eash and 10-time track champ Fred
Rahmer qualified in their heats, but missed the handicapping and started
16th and 19th, respectively. Niki Young finished fifth in the consolation
event and missed qualifying by one spot. But he made the field when Pat
Cooper scratched from the feature.

A flip by sixth-starting Chad Jumper in turn two of the opening lap
also took out the YTI Career Institute #25 of Chad Layton and damaged the
sprinter of defending champ Rahmer. Several other cars went to the pits
during the red, including Young. Rahmer was able to report out before the
race re-started, and started in the exact same 19th starting spot.
Once the race got underway, Mechanicsburg's Bill Stine took the lead
and paced the field the first eight laps before doing a wheelie exiting turn
four and collecting the Pearl Technologies #9 of Craig Keel, who was setting
up for the pass and struck the inside front stretch guardrail. Keel was done
for the night, and Alan Krimes, who started sixth after the initial red
flag, assumed the runner-up spot.
Krimes made quick work of Unlimited Fencing #71X on the restart,
grabbing the lead on the restart and leading the rest of the way. For
Krimes, is was his second win of the year and the sixth of his Lincoln
career.
Fifth-starting Cody Darrah crossed second .78 second behind, with
Jim Siegel third, Montieth fourth, and Josh Wells fifth. Completing the top
ten were 16th-starting Doug Esh, Greg Hodnett, Eash, Aaron Ott, and Scott
Geesey.
"I hated to spoil the party for those guys in the top-four in
points," said Krimes with a big smile on his face in victory lane. "It was a
rough night...the track was one groove, not my kind of track that's for
sure. Once I got out front there and I saw Cody on the outside I figured the
top was the best place to be, but, my car just didn't feel comfortable up
there at all. It was loose and bouncing all around."
"We were battling real hard there and came up on lapped traffic and
I knew that was going to get interesting. Luckily I got under the #4 car
there on the white flag lap and that sealed the deal, hung on, and got the
win."
The championship was largely determined on the ninth-lap restart,
when Cris Eash tried to go high on turns one and two and was forced to the
wall while Montieth drove under Eash into fifth. Until he recovered, Eash
found himself in eighth-place, and that's where he finished.
Young, who fought mechanical problems all night, dropped from the
field on lap 13, and Rahmer pulled into the infield on lap 16.
Montieth's point total at night's end was 7,225, twenty-five points
better than Eash (7,200). Rahmer was third with 7,135 points and Young's
final point total was 7,110.
"Crew chief Scotty Zellers told me to wing it up tonight and if we
have to put another one together for tomorrow we'd put another one
together...I knew Jerry (Parrish his car owner) didn't want to hear that in
the heat race, but I had to go," said the outwardly happy 2008 Cindy Rowe
Auto Glass Champion in victory lane. "When I saw Cris (Eash) get up there in
front of me I knew I had to go and at that point we were either going to go
out of this place or go forward. I just wasn't going to give it up tonight."
"We were good enough tonight. It was definitely a handful."
Heats for the 33 "410" Sprints were won by Adam Lawrence, Jumper, AJ
Michael, and Keel, with Esh winning the consolation.

 

RACE RESULT
Saturday - August 30, 2008
LINCOLN SPEEDWAY
Abbottstown, PA
CINDY ROWE AUTO GLASS 410 SPRINTS:
Feature (25 laps) - 1. 87-Alan Krimes; 2. 89-Cody Darrah; 3. 59-Jim Siegel;
4. 21-Brian Montieth; 5. 6W-Josh Wells; 6. 30-Doug Esh; 7. 22-Greg Hodnett;
8. 17E-Cris Eash; 9. 25O-Aaron Ott; 10. 45L-Scott Geesey; 11. 38N-Nick
Schlauch Jr.; 12. 4-John Rudisill; 13. 51-Fred Rahmer (DNF); 14. 5-Adam
Lawrence (DNF); 15. 71-Brian Leppo (DNF); 16. 10N-Niki Young (DNF); 17.
71X-Bill Stine (DNF); 18. 9-Craig Keel (DNF); 19. 45-AJ Michael (DNF); 20.
X-Bobby Weaver (DNF); 21. 49-Bobby Howard (DNF); 22. 12-Mike Bittinger
(DNF); 23. 28-Chad Jumper (DNF); 24. 25-Chad Layton (DNF). No Time

Lap Leaders - Bill Stine (1-8), Alan Krimes (9-25)

1st Heat (10 laps/5 to qualify) - 1. 5-Adam Lawrence; 2. 25-Chad Layton; 3.
21-Brian Montieth; 4. 12-Mike Bittinger; 5. 49-Bobby Howard; 6. 71-Brian
Leppo; 7. 16-Gerard McIntyre Jr.; 8. 47J-Jeff Busby; 9. 3B-Randy Baughman
(DNF). No Time

2nd Heat (10 laps/5 to qualify) - 1. 28-Chad Jumper; 2. 87-Alan Krimes; 3.
6W-Josh Wells; 4. 59-Jim Siegel; 5. 45-Scott Geesey; 6. 30-Doug Esh (DNF);
7. 23-Todd Rittenhouse Jr. (DNF); 8. 26-Pat Cooper (DNF). No Time

3rd Heat (10 laps/5 to qualify) -1. 45-AJ Michael; 2. 22-Greg Hodnett; 3.
71X-Bill Stine; 4. 4-John Rudisill; 5. 51-Fred Rahmer; 6. 10N-Niki Young; 7.
25O-Aaron Ott; 8. 11C-Cory Haas. No Time

4th Heat (10 laps/5 to qualify) -1. 9-Craig Keel; 2. 89-Cody Darrah; 3.
X-Bobby Weaver; 4. 17E-Cris Eash; 5. 38N-Nick Schlauch Jr.; 6. 15-Adam Wilt;
7. 07-Billy Schoffstall; 8. 8-Steve Petry (DNF). Time - 2:16.898

Consolation (10 laps/4 to qualify) - 1. 30-Doug Esh; 2. 71-Brian Leppo; 3.
25O-Aaron Ott; 4. 26-Pat Cooper; 5. 10N-Niki Young (DNF); 6. 15-Adam Wilt
(DNF); 7. 11C-Cory Haas (DNF); 8. 8-Steve Petry (DNF); 9. 47J-Jeff Busby
(DNF); 10. 07-Billy Schoffstall (DNF); DNS - 16-Gerard McIntyre Jr., 23-Todd
Rittenhouse Jr., 3B-Randy Baughman. No Time