Dirt 5 sprint cars impossible6/30/2023 ![]() ![]() Apart from the time Kerry Madsen was in command Schatz was untouchable as his raced past the stripe twice at Eldora’s Mother of all Sprint events. Two 30 lap A Mains and Schatz lead for all but the first 13 laps of the first night at Eldora. The Schatz achievements are forging a legend that will surpass any Outlaw achievement. With the additions of Rico Abreu, Christopher Bell, the Posse ,the Ohio Boys and the Californians all together make it difficult to cross the Outlaw stripe first. In 2014 in 91 events Schatz had 80 top 10 and 23 wins. Twenty 23 events to date in 2015 and Schatz with 8 wins and 20 top 10 finishes. Winning is something but their race management when conditions and car speed are not where they want it shows as they gather championship points every time they hit a race track The ability of his racing crew to prepare race cars that rarely if ever fail to finish. The ability that the TSR/Donny Schatz team has to maintain reliability, adapt to differing track conditions anywhere and of most importance the talent and luck to miss the carnage resulting from the high speed racing accidents that are a feature of the give no quarter racing that is the Outlaws. Schatz and Tony Stewart once again highlighted just how far ahead of all the other teams they are. The Mothers Day weekend of racing took Schtaz wins to 8 for the season. Donny Schatz and his Bad Boys Buggies/Tony Stewart/Curb-Agajanian Racing team took their first Eldora win in 6 years. Over the weekend of May 8 and 9 the World of Outlaws and the USAC Sprint teams laid their power right across the mighty Eldora clay. The final 40 lap feature was wire and totally dominated by Clauson and his Joe Dooling /Rusty Krunz Esslinger. Rico Abreu and Bryan Clauson were the most recent winners sharing the show at the Belleville High banks Nationals. Tracy Hines seats a top of the standing from Kevin Thomas Jr and Tanner Thorson in the National Honda Midgets standing. Robert Ballou leads the National Sprint with defending Champ Brady Bacon sitting in fourth place. The USAC series with the National Midget and AMSOILS Sprint Cars show some surprising leaders of the Championships as we go to press. The Australian is strong, well prepared and hungry. With a win purse of $150K for the winner, it will be hammer down and hold on for this the 55th running of this iconic dirt show. On recent form Shane Stands out as the clear second favorite but the competition on over the three days of racing leaves little room for mistakes. Can Donny Schatz continue his ruthless domination of the Nationals, 8 win from his last nine National Finals. The next three days at Knoxville is shaping up as one of the most exciting nationals for some sometime. The Madsen Brothers, Brooke Tattnall and Lynton Jeffery and Glen Saville backed up by Jamie Veal, James McFadden, Garry Brazier, Bruce White and Scott Boqucki. The only place for Sprintcar fans this week is Knoxville and the 55th running of the Knoxville Nationals starting August 12th and running to August 15th the entries include 10 from Australia. During that time the PA Posse has shown their strength again and continue to frustrate the Outlaws by taking the both nights of the Summer Nationals, one each to Danny Dietrich and Stevie Smith. Schatz has claimed 22 wins and Stewart 7 including the Kings Royal. In the World of Outlaws Donny Schatz and Shane Stewart continue to dominate the top step of the podiums after 63 shows. While we have been away a lot has happened in Speedway but my stand in correspondent has had some trouble communicating with the site, I think he became so engrossed in the action he just plain forgot.I did receive this from twitter. has been quite for a few weeks while I took my family on a cruise around the Pacific and then move home and office up to the beautiful central Coast of NSW. ![]()
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