Team Reports

Donny Schatz Chasing Another Outlaw Title with Chevrolet

Iconic American Manufacturer Continues Successful Partnership with TSR

INDIANAPOLIS (April 1, 2016) – The second season of the partnership between Chevrolet Performance and Tony Stewart/Curb-Agajanian Racing (TSR) is off to a fast start for Donny Schatz as he pursues an eighth World of Outlaws Craftsman Sprint Car Series championship and second with Chevrolet. With a dozen of this year’s 92 scheduled races complete, the driver of the TSR No. 15 Bad Boy/Chevrolet Performance J&J leads the series in victories with four and heads back into action this weekend at one of the America’s most historic dirt tracks.

Schatz and the rest of the Outlaws continue their annual spring California swing with races at Ocean Speedway in Watsonville tonight and the Mini Gold Cup at Silver Dollar Speedway in Chico Saturday. “The Greatest Show on Dirt” has been racing in Chico since 1979, and last season Schatz won both the Mini Gold Cup in the spring and the Gold Cup Race of Champions at the quarter-mile dirt oval.

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Sides Picks Up Career-Best World of Outlaws Result at Stockton Dirt Track

Inside Line Promotions – STOCKTON, Calif. (March 21, 2016) – Jason Sides powered to his career-best result at the Stockton Dirt Track last Saturday to cap the FVP Western Spring Shootout with the World of Outlaws Craftsman Sprint Car Series.

“It was a lot better than the last two or three years there,” he said. “Just to get out of there without tearing anything up was good after the time we’ve had there in recent years.”

The weekend began last Friday with Sides qualifying 20th quickest. He then finished where he started – fifth – in a heat race to lock himself into the 20th starting position for the main event.

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Schatz Sweeps Outlaws’ FVP Western Spring Shootout

Tony Stewart/Curb-Agajanian Racing (TSR) driver Donny Schatz became the first World of Outlaws (WoO) Craftsman® Sprint Car Series competitor to reach four A-Feature triumphs this season after sweeping Friday and Saturday night’s FVP Western Spring Shootout at the Stockton (Calif.) Dirt Track.

Schatz raced the TSR No. 15 Bad Boy/Chevrolet Performance J&J to victory in Friday night’s 30-lap A-Feature, overtaking Brian Brown on lap 17 en route to his third triumph of the season and 207th of his career. The seven-time and reigning WoO champion followed up that performance with a charge from sixth in Saturday’s 30-lap finale to become a three-time winner in six starts at the San Joaquin County Fairgrounds 3/8-mile, dirt oval.

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Sides Looking for First Top 10 at Stockton Dirt Track This Weekend with World of Outlaws 

Inside Line Promotions – TULARE, Calif. (March 16, 2016) – Jason Sides will return to action this Friday and Saturday at the Stockton Dirt Track, where he is searching for his first career top 10.

Sides has recorded a 13th-place result each of the past two years at the 3/8-mile oval in Stockton, Calif., where the World of Outlaws Craftsman Sprint Car Series hosts the FVP Western Spring Shootout this weekend.

“There is usually a pretty big crowd there and a lot of the top California racers,” he said. “We’ve only been there a few times and haven’t put together a complete night yet so hopefully we’ll be able to accomplish that this Friday and Saturday.”

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Donny Schatz, Bad Boy/Chevrolet Performance Team Look to Continue Stockton Success 

INDIANAPOLIS (March 16, 2016) – The good news for seven-time and reigning World of Outlaws Craftsman Sprint Car Series champion Donny Schatz is that the California swing rolls on this weekend with two nights of racing at the Stockton Dirt Track. After an uncharacteristic beginning to the 11-race tour last weekend, the driver of the Tony Stewart/Curb-Agajanian Racing’s (TSR) No. 15 Bad Boy/Chevrolet Performance J&J resumes action with two races at the San Joaquin County Fairgrounds, where Schatz has earned three podium finishes in four career starts.

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Tough Weekend for TSR No. 15 Team in California 

Tony Stewart/Curb-Agajanian Racing (TSR) driver Donny Schatz and his Bad Boy/Chevrolet Performance team battled Mother Nature and extremely fast track conditions this past weekend as the World of Outlaws (WoO) Craftsman® Sprint Car Series opened its annual spring tour of California at Thunderbowl Raceway in Tulare. After Friday’s program was washed out because of rain, Schatz faced an uphill climb throughout Saturday’s program in the TSR No. 15 Bad Boy/Chevrolet Performance J&J, which concluded with the seven-time and reigning WoO champion coming up two spots short of making the field of 24.

Track officials worked throughout Saturday to get the one-third-mile dirt oval into shape following Friday’s heavy rains. The surface held a lot of moisture and remained fast throughout the night. Schatz drew an early number for qualifying and he ended up 14th in the first group as the track continued to get faster throughout the session. The Fargo, North Dakota racer started seventh in heat two and got faster each lap. He worked his way up to sixth but couldn’t overtake D.J. Netto for the fifth and final transfer spot in the eight-lap heat.

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Donny Schatz, Bad Boy/Chevrolet Performance Team Opens Outlaws California Swing

INDIANAPOLIS (March 9, 2016) – If there is one stop on the World of Outlaws (WoO) Craftsman Sprint Car Series 11-event tour through California that epitomizes West Coast Sprint car racing, it’s the first one. This weekend’s doubleheader at Thunderbowl Raceway in Tulare begins the Outlaws’ annual spring tour of the Golden State that traditionally tests a driver and team’s arsenal as they navigate the small California bullrings where contact and big cushions are the norm.

Tony Stewart/Curb-Agajanian Racing’s (TSR) Donny Schatz and his No. 15 Bad Boy/Chevrolet Performance J&J team return to action Friday in Tulare hoping to have success similar to what they enjoyed last spring. Their exceptional 2015 run through California launched their championship campaign with four wins in 11 races, but it wasn’t without its share of drama.

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Vegas Victory Highlights Outlaw Weekend for Schatz

Tony Stewart/Curb-Agajanian Racing (TSR) driver Donny Schatz added his second World of Outlaws (WoO) Craftsman® Sprint Car Series A-Feature triumph of the season during a three-race weekend that included a pair of races at The Dirt Track at Las Vegas Motor Speedway and the series’ inaugural race at Arizona Speedway just outside of Phoenix.

Schatz raced the TSR No. 15 Bad Boy/Chevrolet Performance J&J to victory in Friday night’s 30-lap FVP Outlaw Showdown to close the two-night program in Las Vegas and increase his win total to 206 for his career. The triumph was sandwiched by a run from 13th to seventh Thursday in Las Vegas and his charge from seventh to fourth Sunday in front of a standing-room-only crowd at Arizona Speedway.

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Sides Seeking First World of Outlaws Victory in Las Vegas This Weekend  

Inside Line Promotions – BAYTOWN, Texas (March 2, 2016) – Jason Sides is looking forward to his next challenge.

Sides returns to The Dirt Track at Las Vegas in Las Vegas this Thursday and Friday with the World of Outlaws Craftsman Sprint Car Series. He has earned a top-10 finish at the half-mile oval in each of the past seven seasons and a top five in all but one of those years.

In fact, Sides has captured three runner-up finishes and seven top fives in the 11 World of Outlaws races at the track since 2009.

“We’ve been really good in the past and close to winning,” he said. “I’d be happy with a pair of top threes to get some momentum going into California.”

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Donny Schatz, Seven-Time Outlaws’ Champion, Looks To Continue Vegas Success

INDIANAPOLIS (March 2, 2016) –Donny Schatz is no stranger to rolling up big numbers. And there is no better place to have a big number come up than Las Vegas. The pilot of the Tony Stewart/Curb-Agajanian Racing’s (TSR) No 15 Bad Boy/Chevrolet Performance J&J is the all-time winningest driver at The Dirt Track at Las Vegas Motor Speedway, site of the the World of Outlaws (WoO) Craftsman Sprint Car Series FVP Outlaw Showdown Thursday and Friday.

Through the first 19 years of his career with the Outlaws, Schatz has found a way to stand out when the lights are the brightest and the stakes are the highest. Success in Las Vegas has been the rule rather than the exception for the seven-time and reigning WoO champion, who will be chasing his 82 ^nd victory since the start of the 2013 season Thursday night. He has eight career wins at The Dirt Track and is the only driver to compete in all 51 WoO races – 33 A-Features and 18 preliminary programs – since the series made its debut at the Las Vegas track in November 1996.

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