From T.J. Buffenbarger

Lake Odessa, MI – (September 24, 2011) – Dustin Daggett won a spectacular Engine Pro ASCS Sprints on Dirt presented by ARP feature event Saturday night at I-96 Speedway. Daggett battled former ASCS SOD champion Brett Mann swapping the lead back and forth before Daggett pulled away for the victory. The win also allowed Daggett to clinch the 2011 ASCS SOD Point Championship.

“That was so much fun racing side by side with (Mann),” said Daggett in victory lane. “If you didn’t like that race you must not like racing. It was a great way for us the clinch the championship.”

Gregg Dalman and Davey Brown started on the front row for the 25-lap feature event. Dalman led off turn two while Brett Mann moved into the second spot. That duo opened up some sizeable distance between themselves and the rest of the field while Dustin Daggett, Dain Naida, and Jamie Collard raced for third through fifth.

Daggett moved past Naida on lap four to take the fourth spot while Collard and Mann raced for the second spot. Dalman opened up about a five car length lead as he approached slower traffic. Daggett then went to the outside of Collard to take third in turn three. Collard crossed back over, but could not retain the position off turn four.

By lap seven Dalman started catching slower traffic and allowed Mann to close with Daggett close behind. Daggett got a look under Mann, but was blocked by a slower car. Soon the top three cleared slower traffic and were right together on the race track.

Then on lap 10 Mann found an opening and slid by Dalman for the lead, one lap later Daggett moved past Dalman for second and closed in on Mann to challenge for the lead. From the next four laps Daggett and Mann swapped the lead in every corner until the caution flew for Collard, who ended up backwards in turn one with front end damage. Collard was unable to continue.

Daggett held the lead during the restart, but was immediately under pressure from Mann. Mann was better in turns one and two and could get along side or by Daggett, but each time Daggett was better off turns three and four and would retain the lead at the start finish line.

With five laps to go Mike Daggett and Joe Bares tangled in turn two to bring out the caution flag. Both drivers went pit side after the incident.

Mann mounted one last challenge, but Daggett was able to pull away while Mann tried holding off Dalman for second. Daggett held on to win over Mann, Dalman, Naida, and Jared Horstman.

Mann, Dalman, Naida, and Collard won heat race events. Joe Bares and Andy Chehowski won the “B” features. During the second heat race Tim Champlin took a wild end over end flip down the front straightway. Champlin emerged from his car uninjured.

Engine Pro ASCS Sprints on Dirt presented by ARP
I-96 Speedway – Lake Odessa, MI
Saturday September 24, 2011

Heat Race events (Top 16 drivers in passing points transferred to the “A” Feature)

Engler Machine at Tool Heat Race #1 (8 Laps): 1. 3w – Brett Mann, 2. 16 – Ryan Ruhl, 3. 21t – Troy Chehowski, 4. 4 – Josh Turner, 5. 89 – Chris Pobanz, 6. 50B – Mike Burns, 7. 77 – Keith Love. DNS: 2t – Ralph Brakenberry

Lane Automotive/Comp Cams Heat Race #2 (8 Laps): 1. 49t – Gregg Dalman, 2. 31 – Andy Teunessen, 3. 10 – Davey Brown, 4. 91 – Joe Bares, 5. 46 – Robert Huisken, 6. 70 – Jim Lingar, 7. 21 – Matt Lumbert, 8. 8 – Tim Champlin

ARP Fasteners Heat Race #3 (8 Laps): 1. 07x – Dain Naida, 2. 88 – Mike Daggett, 3. 5 – Keith Dempster, 4. 0 – Dave Dykstra, 5. 10s – Jay Steinbach, 6. 27K – Ryan Kirkendall, 7. 29s – Marques Huffer, 8. 77 – Keith Love

Hoosier Tire Heat Race #4 (8 Laps): 1. 7x – Jamie Collard, 2. 17 – Jared Horstman, 3. 2m – Dustin Daggett, 4. 20A – Andy Chehowski, 5. 11 – Trey Smith, 6. 55 – Kirk Cheney, 7. 2G – Joe Geibe, 8. 22T – Tank Brakenberry

B-Mains (Top two finishers transferred to the “A” Feature)

B-Main #1 (8 Laps): 1. 91 – Joe Bares, 2. 11 – Trey Smith, 3. 89 – Chris Pobanz, 4. 2G – Joe Geibe, 5. 50B – Mike Burns, 6. 21 – Matt Lumbert, 7. 22t – Tank Brakenberry. DNS: 2t – Ralph Brakenberry

B-Main #2 (8 Laps): 1. 20A – Andy Chehowski, 2. 10s – Jay Steinbach, 3. 55 – Kirk Cheney, 4. 77 – Keith Love, 5. 27K – Ryan Kirkendall, 6. 29s – Marques Huffer, 7. 70 – Jim Lingar. DNS: 8 – Tim Champlin

A-Main (25 Laps): 1. 2m – Dustin Daggett, 2. 3w – Brett Mann, 3. 49t – Gregg Dalman, 4. 07 – Dain Naida, 5. 17 – Jared Horstman, 6. 0 – Dave Dykstra, 7. 16 – Ryan Ruhl, 8. 22 – Aaron Shaffer, 9. 21t – Troy Chehowski, 10. 5 – Keith Dempster, 11. 31 – Andy Teunessen, 12. 4 – Josh Turner, 13. 11 – Trey Smith, 14. 46 – Robert Huisken, 15. 10s – Jay Steinbach, 16. 10 – Davey Brown, 17. 91 – Joe Bares, 18. 88 – Mike Daggett, 19. 7x – Jamie Collard, 20. 20A – Andy Chehowski.

Lap Leaders: Dalman 1-10, Mann 11-15, D. Daggett 16-25

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By Lonnie Wheatley
TULSA, Okla. (September 19, 2011) – With the Engine Pro ASCS Sprints on Dirt presented by ARP season winding down, the series makes one last stop atop the 3/8-mile I-96 Speedway dirt oval in Lake Odessa, MI, this Saturday night.

Only Hartford Motor Speedway’s rescheduled King of Michigan event on September 30 remains after Saturday’s tilt at I-96 Speedway.

Saturday marks just the second stop of the season at I-96 after two other scheduled stops fell victim to rain. Current series points leader Daggett picked up one of his seven series wins on the season in the June 18 card at I-96.

With those seven triumphs, Daggett holds a 174-point lead over Brett Mann, with Ryan Ruhl, Robert Huisken and Davey Brown filling out the current top five. The rest of the top ten includes Matt Lumbert, Andy Teunessen, Jim Lingar, Ryan Grubaugh and Marques Huffer.

While I-96 Speedway has been a regular SOD stop over the years, the series has only taken to the 3/8-mile on two previous occasions with Daggett winning both times.

Saturday’s racing action fires off at 7:00 p.m.

Lake Odessa, Michigan’s I-96 Speedway is located off I-96 Exit 64, then 0.5 miles south, then 0.7 miles west. For more information, contact the track at 616-642-0555.

The 32nd year of competition for the Engine Pro ASCS Sprints on Dirt presented by ARP consists of 27 scheduled nights of action at 13 different tracks throughout Michigan, Ohio and Ontario.

The 2011 season marks the 20th year of sanctioning Sprint Car racing for the American Sprint Car Series, with approximately 200 nights of competition at tracks throughout the nation and into Canada. Anchored by the Lucas Oil Sprint Car Series presented by K&N Filters, ASCS also consists of ten different Regions throughout the nation.

Additional information regarding the American Sprint Car Series is available at www.ascsracing.com.

By T.J. Buffenbarger
OHSWEKEN, Ont. (September 16, 2011) – Shane Stewart and Dustin Daggett won the twin features during the Night Before the Nationals program Friday at Ohsweken Speedway. Stewart survived a brush with the wall with his right rear tire on his way to victory while Daggett inherited the lead after Robbie Stillwaggon drove off the top of the track in turn two.

In the first feature Collard and Shane Stewart started on the front row after a false start moved Mitch Brown and Jessica Zemken back to row two. Stewart led at the start with Collard and Zemken falling into second and third. Collard and Zemken immediately started battling for second when the caution appeared for Ron Blair, who spun in turn two. Blair was able to restart.

After the restart Stewart pulled away while Johnson moved past Zemken and started exchanging slide jobs with his teammate Collard. The slide jobs continued until Collard made contact with the back stretch wall. While Johnson moved to second Collard had to deal with Chuck Hebing who was charging after starting near the back of the field. On lap nine Collard and Hebing made contact with Collard sliding to a halt while Hebing continued on with some top wing damage, bringing out the caution flag. Collard retired pit side.

After the restart Stewart, Zemken, and Johnson pulled away from the rest of the field. Johnson and Zemken exchanged slide jobs until lap 10 when Zemken made contact that caused Johnson’s left rear tire to go flat, bringing out another caution flag. Johnson was unable to continue. Just before the caution flag Stewart made hard contact with the front stretch wall, but was able to continue without losing the lead.

Hebing started to gain on Zemken and Stewart after the restart when the power steering failed on Hebing’s car and he spun in turn two. Blair had nowhere to go and made heavy contact with Hebing and turned over in turn two. Both drivers were okay, but retired pit side.

After the restart Stewart motored to victory over Zemken, Alain Bergeron, Keith Dempster, and Mitch Brown.

Stillwaggon led at the green flag in the second feature with Daggett racing Kyle Sauder for the second spot. Sauder slid up in front of Daggett on the backstretch and Daggett made contact with the rear bumper of Sauder before taking over second spot. After a caution for April Wilson’s spin in turn two Daggett immediately began challenging Stillwaggon for the lead. Each time Stillwaggon was able to hold back Daggett’s advances using the top of the race track.

With four laps in Stillwaggon pushed the top side a bit too far and slide off the top of turn two, bringing out the caution flag and giving the lead to Daggett. Stillwaggon restarted at the back of the field.

From there Daggett opened up a sizeable lead and Sauder found himself battling with Shawn Donath and Dain Naida for second. Naida made a daring move coming off turn two moving from fourth to second and set out after Daggett using the middle of the track. Daggett though was fast enough to keep Naida at bay winning the feature over Naida, Sauder, Michael Parent, and Donath.

Collard, Stewart, Johnson, Sauder, Stillwagon, and Daggett won heat race events. In the third heat race Chris Steele spun out and Kyle Patrick had nowhere to go, climbed a wheel, and took a fiery end over end flip down the front stretch. Patrick emerged from his car uninjured.

In the special events on Friday night Collard capitalized on Steve Poirier’s misfortune to win the Ohsweken Shootout while Johnson won the Dave MacLeod Mr. Sprint Car Challenge match race event.

Night Before the Canadian Sprint Car Nationals
Ohsweken Speedway – Ohsweken, ON
Friday September 16th, 2011

Heat Race #1 (8 Laps): 1. 7x – Jamie Collard, 2. 1z – Jessica Zemken, 3. 22H – Randy Hannagan, 4. 5 – Keith Dempster, 6. 71 – Travis Cunningham, 7. 42w – Rick Wilson, 8. 10x – Jeff Cook, 9. 31 – Andy Teunessen, 10. 25x – Cory Sparks, 11. 81 – Derek Jonathan. DNS: 32 – Justin Barger. (Top five finishers transferred to the A-Main)

Heat Race #2 (8 Laps): 1. 3g – Shane Stewart, 2. 10 – Mitch Brown,3. 6 – Ben Rutan, 4. 8 – Alain Bergeron, 5. 45 – Chuck Hebing, 6. 51 – Bryan Howland, 7. 52K – Scottt Krueter, 8. 9jr – Tim Zack, 9. 7 – Kyle Moffit. DNS: 90 – James Evans, 30G – Steve Goldner (Top five finishers transferred to the A-Main)

Heat Race #3 (8 Laps): 1. 77x – Wayne Johnson, 2. 35 – Ron Blair, 3. 0 – Dave Dykstra, 4. Jamie Turner, 5. 51L – Lee Ladouceur, 6. 5H – Paul Habeck, 7. 24K – Devon Caron, 8. 3 – Wayne Ashton, 9. 80 – Chris Steele, 10. Kyle Patrick DNS: 49t – Gregg Dalman

Heat Race #4 (8 Laps): 1. 14 – Kyle Sauder, 2. 13 – Kevin Ward, Jr., 3. 14 – Jim Huppunen, 4. 35 – Jared Zimbardi, 5. 15aw – April WIlson, 6. 52L – Daniel Lampron, 7. 98 – Paul Pekkonen, 8. 5c – Conner Mahoney, 9. 45 – Doug Banks, 10. 21 – Matt Lumbert. DNS: 28fm – Steve Poirier.

Heat Race #5 (8 Laps): 1. 89 – Robbie Stillwagon, 2. 33 – Shawn Donath, 3. 07x – Dain Naida, 4. 30 – Adam West, 5. 25 – Michael Parent, 6. 67c – Steve Collins, 7. 38 – Brad Knab, 8. 5m – Brad Malloy, 9. 55x – Kirk Cheney, 10. 52 – Jesse Costa. DNS: 17J – Lance Younge

Heat Race #6 (8 Laps): 1. 2m – Dustin Daggett, 2. 17 – Jared Horstman, 3. 87 – Jason Barney, 4. 27H – Tom Huppunen, 5. 49 – Todd Hoddock, 6. 67 – Chris Durand, 7. 10c – Bob Crawford, 8. ChWa7a – Al Blanchard, 9. 36 – Mike Stelter, 10. 55 – Patrick Vigneault

Feature #1 (15 Laps): 1. 3g – Shane Stewart, 2. 1z – Jessica Zemken, 3. 8B – Alain Bergeron, 4. 5 – Keith Dempster, 5. 10 – Mitch Brown, 6. 0 – Dave Dykstra, 7. 6s – Ben Rutan, 8. 71 – Travis Cunningham, 9. 45 – Chuck Hebing, 10. 35 – Ron Blair, 11. 51L – Lee Ladouceur, 12. 77x – Wayne Johnson, 13. 11 – Jamie Turner, 14. 7x – Jamie Collard, 15. 22H – Randy Hannagan.

Lap Leaders: Stewart 1-15

Feature #2 (15 Laps): 1. 2m – Dustin Daggett, 2. 07x – Dain Naida, 3. 14 – Kyle Sauder, 4. 25 – Michael Parent, 5. 33 – Shawn Donath, 6. 14H – Jim Huppunen, 7. 87 – Jason Barney, 8. 49 – Todd Hoddick, 9. 17 – Jared Horstman, 10. 12 – Kevin Ward, Jr., 11. 89 – Robbie Stillwaggon, 12. 27H – Jim Huppunen, 13. 30 – Adam West, 14. 15aw – April Wilson, 15. 35 – Jared Zimbardi.

Lap Leaders: Stillwaggon 1-4, Daggett 5-15.

2011 Ohsweken Shootout (10 Laps): 1. 7x – Jamie Collard, 2. 14H – Jim Huppunen, 3. 35 – Ron Blair, 4. 2m – Dustin Daggett, 5. 22H – Randy Hannagan, 6. 7 – Kyle Moffit, 7. 71 – Travis Cunningham, 8. 17 – Jared Horstman, 9. 51L – Lee Ladouceur, 10. 35 – Jared Zimbardi, 11. 49 – Todd Hoddock, 12. 14 – Kyle Sauder, 13. 32x – Scott Kreuter, 14. 33 – Shawn Donath, 15. 10c – Bob Crawford, 16. 31 – Andy Teunessen, 17. 28fm – Steve Poirier, 18. 45 – Chuck Hebing.

Dave MacLeod Mr. Sprint Car Challenge

Round #1: 14 – Kyle Sauder def. 33 – Shawn Donath; 14 – Jim Huppunen def. 45 – Chuck Hebing (DQ); 7x – Jamie Collard def. 3g – Shane Stewart; 71 – Travis Cunningham def. 22h – Randy Hannagan (DNS); 35 – Jared Zimbardi def. 32 – Justin Barger; 17 – Jared Horstman def. 38 – Brad Knabb, 2m – Dustin Daggett; def. 51 – Lee Ladouceur; 77x – Wayne Johnson def. 51 – Bryan Howland.

Round #2: 7x – Jamie Collard def. 14 – Kyle Sauder (DQ); 14H – Tom Huppunen def. 71 – Travis Cunningham; 35 – Jared Zimbardi def. 2m – Dustin Daggett (DQ); 77x – Wayne Johnson def. 17 – Jared Horstman.

Round #3: 7x – Jamie Collard def. 35 – Jared Zimbardi; 77x – Wayne Johnson def. 14H – Tom Huppunen.
Final Round: 77x – Wayne Johnson def. 7x – Jamie Collard.

The Engine Pro ASCS Sprints on Dirt presented by, ARP series is looking for photos to include in our Slideshow for the 2011 awards banquet. Please contact Mike Strevel via our contact page for more information on sending in your images.