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Wolfe’s Wait is Over after World of Outlaws Win in Bloomington

He leads the final 22 laps and survives a green-white-checkered finish

BLOOMINGTON, Ind. — Aug. 3, 2012 — It’s finally over.

There were hugs and high fives, smiles and tears, greeting a subdued Lucas Wolfe in Victory Lane on a muggy Friday evening at Bloomington Speedway. Wolfe led the final 22 laps to claim his first career World of Outlaws Sprint Car Series feature victory.

“I’m not very loud of any kind; I stay pretty even,” he said. “Obviously I’m usually this way on a terrible night and on the best of nights I stay pretty calm, but I’ll be pretty happy. I might do a bit of screaming in the helmet, but I’ll try to keep it pretty cool for right now.”

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Stewart Returns to Victory Lane at Ohsweken – Again

The NASCAR star earns his second World of Outlaws win this month and third overall

OHSWEKEN, Ontario — July 31, 2012 — Tony Stewart, Ohsweken Speedway and Victory Lane are beginning to become synonymous.

The NASCAR driver led all 30 laps on Tuesday to claim his third career World of Outlaws Sprint Car Series victory and his second in a row at the 3/8-mile oval. Counting Monday’s win in Corr/Pak Sprints action, he has ended his last three events at Ohsweken Speedway a top the podium.

“Last year we won the thing running through the middle and tonight we were really good right on the top edge of the race track,” Stewart said. “It wasn’t really anything consistent between the nights. It’s just a neat, little race track. It’s a lot of fun. You can race all over the place.

“And what an honor it is to stand here with this group of guys. To win with the World of Outlaws is awesome.”

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Schatz Cruises to Victory in Outlaws Debut at Cornwall Motor Speedway

He snaps a 33-race winless streak after leading all 40 feature laps at the quarter mile

CORNWALL, Ontario — July 29, 2012 — A quarter-mile track couldn’t have come at a better time for Donny Schatz.

A night after a violent flip destroyed his sprint car and left him beaten and bruised, Schatz rebounded in a backup car to lead all 40 laps on Sunday in the World of Outlaws Sprint Car Series debut at Cornwall Motor Speedway.

It was his third victory in six races at a quarter-mile track this season and it snapped a 33-race winless streak.

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Saldana Relies on Experience to Claim Autodrome Drummond

Dollansky rides podium finish to World of Outlaws championship standings lead

DRUMMONDVILLE, Quebec — July 28, 2012 — A night after experience beat him, Joey Saldana repaid the favor.

Saldana capitalized on his knowledge and patience to maneuver around James McFadden late in the World of Outlaws Sprint Car Series feature Saturday at Autodrome Drummond, where he earned his fifth feature win of the season and 83^rd career with the Outlaws.

“Last night, racing Sammy, I think I got beat because he had the experience,” said Saldana, who finished second to veteran Sammy Swindell on Friday at Autodrome Granby. “Tonight, for me, I won the race because just the experience and just seeing where the cars were and being able to know, ‘Hey, I needed to make sure I was on the bottom coming off of (turn) two to get a good run.’ I would say experience definitely helped me tonight.”

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Swindell Dominates in Outlaws Debut at Autodrome Granby

He leads all 25 laps to pick up his eighth World of Outlaws feature win of the season

GRANBY, Quebec — July 27, 2012 — Uh oh.

Sammy Swindell recently found the problem for his so-called slump and he answered it with an emphatic victory on Friday during the World of Outlaws Sprint Car Series inaugural visit to Autodrome Granby.

“We’ve kinda been struggling a bit, but we found out we had a car from some of those little skirmishes that we had was a little twisted so our setup wasn’t where it was supposed to be,” he said. “It’s nice to be back in a car that you can just run hard.”

Swindell did just that to dominate for his series-leading eighth feature win of the season in the Outlaws first of six races in Canada this season. He set a blistering pace while claiming the dash and then led all 25 laps of the main event, although it wasn’t decided until the checkered flag.

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Dollansky Continues Winning Ways at Lebanon Valley Speedway

He wins for the third time in the last four World of Outlaws races at the half mile

WEST LEBANON, N.Y. — July 22, 2012 — It was quite an eventful 24 hours for Craig Dollansky.

A night after flipping twice in the Summer Nationals at Williams Grove Speedway, Dollansky and his team fixed the damaged sprint car and hauled nearly six hours to put on a show at the only World of Outlaws Sprint Car Series event of the season in the New England area.

Dollansky set quick time and squeezed by polesitter Joey Saldana with five laps remaining to secure his 50^th career World of Outlaws feature victory and third in the last four years at Lebanon Valley Speedway on a warm Sunday evening.

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Darrah Delivers for Outlaws at Williams Grove Summer Nationals

Pennsylvania native picks up his first World of Outlaws feature win of the season

MECHANICSBURG, Pa. — July 21, 2012 — Vindication. Atonement. Redemption.

Cody Darrah doesn’t mind what his performance on Saturday is called because he ended the night covered in confetti in Victory Lane. Darrah captured his first World of Outlaws Sprint Car Series feature win of the season at the 11^th annual Summer Nationals at Williams Grove Speedway – site of his first career Outlaws victory in 2009.

Sandwiched between those signature wins at a home track located a little more than a half hour from where he grew up, Darrah’s life has been a roller coaster.

“It’s awesome to be back home and it’s even better to be on the frontstretch,” Darrah said. “I got my first World of Outlaws win at this race in 2009 back in my dad’s car. It’s been a long road since then. We’ve had struggles.”

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Dollansky Conquers Don Martin Memorial Silver Cup at Lernerville

NASCAR’s Tony Stewart earns his second career World of Outlaws feature victory

SARVER, Pa. — July 17, 2012 — Conservative was a little harder than Craig Dollansky anticipated on a humid Tuesday evening at Lernerville Speedway.

Dollansky climbed from his sprint car in Victory Lane, visibly exhausted after a pair of 30-lap, $10,000-to-win features at the 21^st annual Don Martin Memorial Silver Cup Presented by GottaRace.com. After he and NASCAR star Tony Stewart split the main event victories, Dollansky was declared the overall champion because he had a higher average finish than Stewart.

“With all the stuff that went on in the first one, I really just wanted to try to run a conservative race but get us a decent finish out of it to win the overall title,” Dollansky said after earning the $5,000 bonus and talking to the television cameras for the event, which is scheduled to air on SPEED on Saturday, Aug. 11, at 1 p.m. (Eastern).

“That wasn’t easily done. There was a lot going on back there. You definitely had to go into survival mode a little bit.”

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