Day: September 29, 2015

Inside Line Promotions – MARNE, Mich. (Sept. 28, 2015) – Jason Sides picked up his fourth top-10 finish of the season at Eldora Speedway to highlight last weekend with the World of Outlaws Sprint Car Series.

Sides registered a seventh-place finish at the half-mile oval near Rossburg, Ohio, on Friday to kick off a two-race weekend with the Outlaws.

“We had a good run at Eldora,” he said. “We qualified ninth quickest, which started us on the outside of the front row for a heat race. The start was critical there. The polesitter got a better jump. I ran with him for a lap or two and then he pulled away. Shane Stewart and I got to racing after that and I finished third.”

That locked Sides into the main event, which he started on the inside of the seventh row.

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Tony Stewart/Curb-Agajanian Racing (TSR) driver Donny Schatz became only the second driver in World of Outlaws Sprint Car Series (WoO) history to win 30 A-Features in a single season Saturday night at Berlin Raceway in Marne, Michigan. Schatz made a dramatic late-race push in the TSR No. 15 Bad Boy Buggies/Chevrolet Performance J&J to claim the victory by .138 seconds over Daryn Pittman.

“Nothing like leading one corner, but I guess it’s the right corner to lead,” Schatz said following his second consecutive win at Berlin. “Daryn had a good car. He was going through traffic so well but, the last laps there, the track started changing off. My car started getting a little bit better and we kind of expected a little bit of that. I honestly didn’t think we were going to get him. The last couple of laps, I just drove it as hard as I could without trying to get myself in too much trouble. I was hoping we would be able to get him coming off four. We were just kind of locked down around the bottom and were able to get by him. This feels great. It’s a privlegde to drive for Tony Stewart, Bad Boy Buggies and Chevrolet Performance and work with the guys on this team.”

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MARNE, Mich. (Sept. 26, 2015) – The World of Outlaws teams and drivers played to a huge crowd at Berlin Raceway tonight. It was the season finale for dirt track racing activity at Berlin.

In preliminary action, Saldana drove the Motter Equipment HE&M Saw Beltline Body Shop Sprint Car to the No. 12 qualifying position with a 14.828-second lap. In World of Outlaws qualifying to heat race formatting, Saldana earned the pole of the third heat.

When the field went green for the heat, Saldana made contact with a yuke tire (big bulldozer-type tire put around the track to define racing area vs. infield) going into turn two and damaged the front axle. He was unable to make it back out to join the field and had to earn a position in the A Main through participation in the Last Chance Showdown (LCS).

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ROSSBURG, Ohio (Sept. 15, 2015) – Joey Saldana and the Motter Equipment HE&M Saw Beltline Body Shop team came to the famed Eldora Speedway tonight as the World of Outlaws 4-Crown Nationals defending champion.

This is Saldana’s favorite track and he has scored 23 victories on the half-mile including 4-Crown victories in 2007, 2008, 2011 and 2014.

Though Saldana qualified in the uncustomary No. 15 position with a13.582-second lap, in World of Outlaws formatting, he was allotted the pole position of the third heat.

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Inside Line Promotions – SPRING VALLEY, Minn. (Sept. 21, 2015) – Jason Sides will have his right-hand man back on the road for the remainder of the World of Outlaws Sprint Car Series season.

His brother, Paul, returns to the team beginning this weekend as the series races on Friday at Eldora Speedway near Rossburg, Ohio, and Saturday at Berlin Raceway in Marne, Mich.

“It’s great to have Paul back on the road and hopefully we can pick up where we left off in the spring and early summer,” Jason Sides said.

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