Day: August 7, 2015

PEVELY, Mo. (Aug. 5, 2015)- As the ‘Month of Money’ winds down, attention turns to one of the most grueling races on the tour, the Ironman, at Federated Auto Parts Raceway at I-55.

Friday, Aug. 7 is the Monroe Shocks and Struts Prelude to the Ironman and Saturday is the Federated Auto Parts Ironman 55, a 55-lap A Main around a high-banked 1/3-mile dirt track.

Joey Saldana, driver of the Motter Equipment HE&M Saw Beltline Body Shop 71M is a three-time winner at this track and drove to victory lane in the Ironman in 2009.

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INDIANAPOLIS (Aug. 5, 2015) – There has been no doubt who the strongest team has been throughout this year’s rugged World of Outlaws (WoO) Sprint Car Series campaign. Tony Stewart-Curb Agajanian Racing’s (TSR) Donny Schatz and his Bad Boy Buggies/Chevrolet Performance team have earned 21 victories in the first 52 races and have finished first or second in the last 18 consecutive full-points-paying WoO A-Feature events.

The next challenge for the reigning WoO champions during Sprint car racing’s richest month is the seventh annual Ironman 55 at Federated Auto Parts Raceway at I-55 near St. Louis. The 55-pound dumbbell awarded to the Ironman 55 winner is one of the few pieces of hardware that has eluded the six-time WoO champion. One goal for Schatz and his TSR team throughout 2015 has been to improve their results from seasons past. Second place is as close as Schatz has come to winning the Outlaws’ longest race of the season, and he is looking forward taking another crack at the one-third mile dirt oval Friday and Saturday nights.

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Inside Line Promotions – OHSWEKEN, Ontario, Canada (Aug. 3, 2015) – Jason Sides did a lot of driving only to face two rain outs last weekend in Canada.

Sides and the World of Outlaws Sprint Car Series were rained out on Friday at Brockville Ontario Speedway in Brockville, Ontario, and Saturday at Autodrome Drummond in Drummondville, Quebec, to cap a long week north of the United States.

“We only got one of the three races in and that wasn’t a great result for us,” he said.

Sides kicked off last week on Tuesday at Ohsweken Speedway, where he qualified 14^th quickest to narrowly miss the heat race inversion.

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