Team Reports

GREENWOOD, Neb. (June 5, 2015) – Fresh off a victory Wednesday night at Kokomo Speedway, Joey Saldana, the defending NAPA Auto Parts Showdown winner at I-80 Speedway, was hoping for back-to-back victories as the World of Outlaws sprint car drivers strapped in for a night of wheel to wheel combat.

Saldana considers I-80 his hometown track as his family hails from nearby Lincoln.

The Brownsburg Bullet was spectacular in qualifying, scorching the high-banked 4/10-mile I-80 track in 14.277 seconds, posting his fourth quick time of the season in the Motter Equipment HE&M Saw Beltline Body Shop 71M.

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Inside Line Promotions – KNOXVILLE, Iowa (June 8, 2015) – Jason Sides closed last weekend with a pair of strong performances in the Midwest.
After opening the week by missing a transfer into the World of Outlaws Sprint Car Series main event last Wednesday at Kokomo Speedway in Kokomo, Ind., by only one position during both the heat race and the Last Chance Showdown, Sides returned to form beginning on Friday at I-80 Speedway.

He kicked off the NAPA Auto Parts Outlaw Showdown by qualifying second quickest during the World of Outlaws event at the high-banked track in Greenwood, Neb.

“I went out early and was quick time until Joey (Saldana) went out and I ended up second,” he said. “Then I just maintained in the heat race to get into the dash. On the start of the dash we got into turn one I had a run on Joey and he turned down and got in front of me. I had to check up and when I did it got on the right front and went up the race track.”

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INDIANAPOLIS (May 27, 2015) – With the way Donny Schatz and his Bad Boy Buggies/Chevrolet Performance team is producing results at dirt tracks across the country, most observers of the World of Outlaws (WoO) Sprint Car Series would think it’s the middle of July. The Tony Stewart/Curb-Agajanian Racing team picked up its 11th triumph of the season last Friday night in Charlotte and heads into this weekend’s doubleheader in Ohio and Michigan having won of five of the previous seven Outlaw A-Features.

For years, Schatz, driver of the TSR No. 15 Bad Boy Buggies/Chevrolet Performance J&J, was known for turning up the heat in the summer months and reeling off wins by the bunches. This season, he and his crew of Rick Warner, Steve Swenson and Eric Prutzman have been hitting on all cylinders early in the campaign scoring victories regularly in the first 28 nights of action. And they are working to continue that trend by closing out a busy month of May first in Friday’s Kistler Engines Classic at Attica (Ohio) Raceway Park and Saturday’s NAPA Auto Parts Rumble at I-96 Speedway in Lake Odessa, Michigan.

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Inside Line Promotions – CONCORD, N.C. (May 25, 2015) – Jason Sides finished just outside of the top 10 during a pair of World of Outlaws Sprint Car Series events last week.

Sides kicked off the action on Tuesday at New Egypt Speedway in New Egypt, N.J., where he qualified 15th quickest to narrowly miss locking into the heat race inversion during the Jersey Outlaw Classic. Sides then placed sixth in a heat to advance into the main event, which he started on the inside of the eighth row.

“It seemed like it was fairly racy, but guys were a lot better than me,” he said. “I fell back to about 18th and worked my way to 12 th. We were getting better as the race went on. I think we were too snug and maybe needed a little more gear. It never was free enough until the last five or six laps.” 

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CONCORD, N.C. (May 22, 2015) – Joey Saldana and the Motter Equipment HE&M Saw Beltline Body Shop sprint car team returned to The Dirt Track at Charlotte hoping to defend last year’s Circle K/NOS Energy Drink Outlaw Showdown victory.

In preliminary action, Saldana drove the 71M to the No. 15 qualifying position posting a best lap of 14.728 seconds.

Using the qualifying order to format the heat race starting line-ups meant that Saldana rolled off fifth in the third heat. When the track went green polesitter Dave Blaney assumed the lead. During the eight-lap event, Jamie Veal also led until he was passed by eventual winner Donny Schatz. Saldana advanced to finish in the fourth position, securing the 15th starting position in the A Main.

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INDIANAPOLIS (May 21, 2015) – Reaching new heights and continuing to get better has been the ongoing goal the past few seasons for Tony Stewart/Curb-Agajanian Racing’s Donny Schatz and the Bad Boy Buggies/Chevrolet Performance team in the rugged World of Outlaws (WoO) Sprint Car Series. The six-time and reigning WoO champion is off to a tremendous start in 2015 and is looking to continue building momentum during one of the biggest weekends in motorsports at a pair of tracks where he’s traditionally been extremely successful.

Schatz resumes his quest for a seventh WoO championship behind the wheel of the TSR No. 15 Bad Boy Buggies/Chevrolet Performance J&J Friday in Charlotte with the Circle K Outlaw Showdown at The Dirt Track @ Charlotte Motor Speedway and will close the Memorial Day weekend with Monday’s race at Lawrenceburg (Ind.) Speedway.

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CONCORD, N.C. (May 20, 2015) – Joey Saldana and the Motter Equipment HE&M Saw Beltline Body Shop team are looking forward to defending last year’s World of Outlaws victory at The Dirt Track at Charlotte Friday, May 22. 

Saldana dominated competition during last year’s event, winning his heat, the dash, and then scored a wire-to-wire victory, notching his fourth career win at The Dirt Track.

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NEW EGYPT, N.J. (May 19, 2015) – The fifth night of racing in seven days for the World of Outlaws sprint cars culminated tonight at the 7/16-mile New Egypt Speedway.

The evening was off to a great start for the Motter Equipment HE&M Saw Beltline Body Shop team in time trials. Joey Saldana whipped the 71M around the track in 13.317 seconds, setting a new track record and solidifying the No. 1 qualifying spot, his third quick time this season.

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Inside Line Promotions – WEEDSPORT, N.Y. (May 18, 2015) – The pill draw played a key role last weekend for Jason Sides.
Sides didn’t draw within the top 30 during three World of Outlaws Sprint Car Series events in the Northeast, where the competition was as challenging as the track conditions.

“When you draw bad at some of those places it gets you out of it the entire night unless you get a lucky break in the heat race and cars crash out,” he said. “It’s hard to make that deficit up after you qualify bad.”

That was the case during two races for Sides, whose highlight was on Friday at Williams Grove Speedway in Mechanicsburg, Pa. Sides drew the No. 33 in the pill draw to qualify in the middle of the pack. He timed in eighth quickest, which locked him into the heat race inversion.

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The incredible start to the 2015 World of Outlaws (WoO) Sprint Car Series campaign continued over the weekend for Tony Stewart/Curb-Agajanian Racing (TSR) driver Donny Schatz. The six-time and reigning WoO champion increased his season win total to double digits by winning both Friday night at the Williams Grove Speedway in Mechanicsburg, Pennsylvania, and Sunday at Weedsport (N.Y.) Speedway behind the wheel of the TSR No. 15 Bad Boy Buggies/Chevrolet Performance J&J.

Schatz led the final eight laps in Friday night’s 25-lap A-Feature to capture his 19th career win at Williams Grove and dominated Sunday’s 30-lap A-Feature at Weedsport, leading every lap in his first appearance at the track. The victories give him 10 wins through 26 races and allowed him to build his lead in the championship standings to 69 points over Shane Stewart.

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