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Pittman,
Henry end 4-year drought at Eldora
Pittman Captures
World of Outlaws STP Sprint Car Finale; Henry Prevails Over UMP
Modifieds
ROSSBURG, OH (May 4) – Daryn Pittman (World of Outlaws STP Sprint Car
Series) and Jon Henry (UMP DIRTcar Modifieds) both returned to the
Victory Lane stage at Eldora Speedway on Saturday night, putting an end
to winless streaks in their respective divisions that carry back to
2008.
Pittman, who started seventh in the WoO main event, turned in his race
car for a rocket ship when he blasted off during a restart. Pittman
shot past race leader Brian Brown, who had paced the field for the
first 22 laps, to lead the final eight and capture the 30-lap feature.
Brown finished second for his highest career Eldora finish, topping a
fifth place run last year.
“We just had great restarts all night,” said Pittman following his
third career WoO victory at Eldora and the first since winning the
Kings Royal on July 12, 2008. “(Friday) night my restarts were
pathetic. We rebounded and that’s what won us the race.”
A caution with 22 laps complete put Brown and Donny Schatz on the front
row for the double-file restart. Pittman rocketed past them both and
led by 1.6 seconds just two laps later. The win salvaged a strong
effort for the current WoO point leader following Friday night’s 13th
place finish that kicked off the doubleheader weekend at Eldora.
“We were terrible (Friday) night. I tell you what, for us to come back
tonight as bad as were (Friday night), this is probably one of the
toughest race tracks to race at,” Pittman said. “Brown, hats off to him
because he doesn’t come here very often.”
Brown was unable to mount a challenge after that restart and finished
1.9 seconds behind Pittman at the checkered flag.
“I just didn’t get it done on that last restart and it ended up costing
us,” Brown said. “Nothing to hang our head about. … It was my job as a
leader to get going and I didn’t get going like I should.”
Brown fought to keep the lead on lap 13, this time with a WoO official;
when Brown stopped on the front stretch during a yellow-light caution
as the rest of the 24-car field continued at caution speed. Brown said
he needed to make an adjustment to his safety belts and was granted his
first-place spot back.
“My belts had been undone since about the fourth or fifth lap. That’s
probably not too smart running Eldora with your belts undone,” Brown
said. “When that yellow came out I thought it was a good opportunity to
hook them back up. … Congrats to Daryn and his team. He’s got a great
team and they deserve to win. If you’re going to win these Outlaws
shows you better put 30 good laps together.”
Schatz, Jac Haudenschild and Joey Saldana rounded out the top five.
Track owner and three-time NASCAR Sprint Cup champion Tony Stewart
again made the 1,200-mile round-trip journey from Talladega, Ala., to
race with the Outlaws. After mechanical problems forced him out of his
heat race, Stewart won the Last Chance Showdown to qualify for the
feature. He started 11th and finished 17th.
In the Modified feature, Ada’s Henry started on the outside pole and
vaulted past inside pole sitter Brandon Vaughan of Spencerville. Henry
and Wapakoneta’s Jerry Bowersock recreated their duel from Limaland
Motor Sports Park on Friday night when the two battled in that Modified
feature. Henry edged out Bowersock for that win, too.
Bowersock appeared to take the lead with two laps left when Henry
slowed on the front stretch, but got back on the gas in Turn 1. Henry
said he thought a caution came out but realized it hadn’t when
Bowersock shot past him. Fortunately for Henry a caution did come out
before Bowersock could click off the lap. Without the completed lap the
lead reverted back to Henry.
He kept it this time with a two-lap shootout despite another caution on
the white flag lap. Bowersock tried to peek under Henry on the final
turn but was too far behind to pull off a slide job.
The Modified win was the first for Henry at Eldora since winning two
straight on June 4 and June 28 in 2008. It was his fifth Modified win
overall at Eldora.
“It’s absolutely awesome to be back here in Victory Lane at Eldora,”
Henry said. “I have to thank Miracle Motorsports and Dean and Jane for
letting me wheel this race car. We’re having fun out here. I’m just
blessed to be able to do this.”
Eldora Speedway returns to action when the TRAXXAS TORC Series hits the
high banks for its first-ever appearance at Eldora Speedway on May
10-11. The off-road racing series is scheduled to run its PRO Buggy,
PRO Light, PRO 2WD and PRO 4x4 divisions. Complete event and ticket
purchase information for the TRAXXAS TORC Series, along with the other
exciting race events on the 2013 Eldora calendar, is available on the
track’s website www.EldoraSpeedway.com. Race fans and race teams can
get behind-the-scenes access by following @EldoraSpeedway on Twitter,
hitting ‘Like’ at Facebook.com/EldoraSpeedway and view video highlights
at YouTube.com/EldoraSpeedwayInc. The new Eldora Speedway app for the
iPhone, iPad and Android is now available for download via iTunes and
Google Play.
World of Outlaw Sprints
TIME TRIALS - 1. 71-Joey Saldana [13.185]; 2. 9-Daryn Pittman [13.187];
3. 51-Paul Mcmahan [13.206]; 4. 21-Brian Brown [13.282]; 5. 14-Tony
Stewart [13.329]; 6. 49-Brad Sweet [13.335]; 7. 4-Cody Darrah [13.345];
8. 82-Lucas Wolfe [13.352]; 9. 15H-Sam Hafertepe Jr [13.367]; 10.
1-Sammy Swindell [13.388]; 11. 11-Steve Kinser [13.394]; 12. 63-Chad
Kemenah [13.403]; 13. 15-Donny Schatz [13.405]; 14. 59-Jac Haudenschild
[13.405]; 15. 83X-Tim Shaffer [13.407]; 16. 7-Craig Dollansky [13.413];
17. 2-Dale Blaney [13.416]; 18. 6-David Gravel [13.449]; 19. 29-Kerry
Madsen [13.488]; 20. 93-Sheldon Haudenschild [13.494]; 21. 7S-Jason
Sides [13.590]; 22. 13-Jason Leffler [13.618]; 23. 83K-Tim Kaeding
[13.620]; 24. 11K-Kraig Kinser [13.629]; 25. 28-Brian Paulus [13.635];
26. 24-Terry Mccarl [13.640]; 27. W20-Greg Wilson [13.787]; 28.
24H-Bryan Sebetto [13.804]; 29. 17-Bill Balog [13.804]; 30. 66-Randy
Hannagan [13.805]; 31. 99-Brady Bacon [13.835]; 32. 3B-Brad Greer
[13.867]; 33. 9W-Brandon Wimmer [13.889]; 34. 7K-Chad Blonde [13.896];
HEAT 1 - 1. 15H-Sam Hafertepe Jr [2]; 2. 15-Donny Schatz [1]; 3.
71-Joey Saldana [4]; 4. 7S-Jason Sides [6]; 5. 2-Dale Blaney [5]; 6.
17-Bill Balog [8]; 7. 9W-Brandon Wimmer [9]; 8. 28-Brian Paulus [7]; 9.
14-Tony Stewart [DNF];
HEAT 2 - 1. 59-Jac Haudenschild [1]; 2. 49-Brad Sweet [3]; 3. 1-Sammy
Swindell [2]; 4. 9-Daryn Pittman [4]; 5. 24-Terry Mccarl [7]; 6.
6-David Gravel [5]; 7. 7K-Chad Blonde [9]; 8. 66-Randy Hannagan [8]; 9.
13-Jason Leffler [6];
HEAT 3 - 1. 83X-Tim Shaffer [1]; 2. 51-Paul Mcmahan [4]; 3. 11-Steve
Kinser [2]; 4. 4-Cody Darrah [3]; 5. 29-Kerry Madsen [5]; 6. 83K-Tim
Kaeding [6]; 7. W20-Greg Wilson [7]; 8. 99-Brady Bacon [8];
HEAT 4 - 1. 63-Chad Kemenah [2]; 2. 21-Brian Brown [4]; 3. 7-Craig
Dollansky [1]; 4. 82-Lucas Wolfe [3]; 5. 93-Sheldon Haudenschild [5];
6. 11K-Kraig Kinser [6]; 7. 24H-Bryan Sebetto [7]; 8. 3B-Brad Greer [8];
DASH - 1. 21-Brian Brown [3]; 2. 49-Brad Sweet [2]; 3. 51-Paul Mcmahan
[4]; 4. 15H-Sam Hafertepe Jr [1]; 5. 15-Donny Schatz [8]; 6. 71-Joey
Saldana [6]; 7. 9-Daryn Pittman [5]; 8. 59-Jac Haudenschild [9]; 9.
63-Chad Kemenah [7]; 10. 83X-Tim Shaffer [10];
B-FEATURE - 1. 14-Tony Stewart [1]; 2. 6-David Gravel [2]; 3. 83K-Tim
Kaeding [4]; 4. 28-Brian Paulus [6]; 5. 11K-Kraig Kinser [5]; 6.
24H-Bryan Sebetto [8]; 7. 7K-Chad Blonde [14]; 8. W20-Greg Wilson [7];
9. 13-Jason Leffler [3]; 10. 99-Brady Bacon [11]; 11. 66-Randy Hannagan
[10]; 12. 9W-Brandon Wimmer [13]; 13. 3B-Brad Greer [12]; 14. 17-Bill
Balog [DNF];
A FEATURE - 1. 9-Daryn Pittman [7]; 2. 21-Brian Brown [1]; 3. 15-Donny
Schatz [5]; 4. 59-Jac Haudenschild [8]; 5. 71-Joey Saldana [6]; 6.
51-Paul Mcmahan [3]; 7. 11-Steve Kinser [15]; 8. 63-Chad Kemenah [9];
9. 4-Cody Darrah [12]; 10. 1-Sammy Swindell [14]; 11. 7-Craig Dollansky
[16]; 12. 82-Lucas Wolfe [13]; 13. 7S-Jason Sides [21]; 14. 6-David
Gravel [18]; 15. 24-Terry Mccarl [23]; 16. 83K-Tim Kaeding [22]; 17.
14-Tony Stewart [11]; 18. 11K-Kraig Kinser [24]; 19. 93-Sheldon
Haudenschild [DNF]; 20. 83X-Tim Shaffer [DNF]; 21. 2-Dale Blaney [DNF];
22. 49-Brad Sweet [DNF]; 23. 15H-Sam Hafertepe Jr [DNF]; 24. 29-Kerry
Madsen [DNF];
UMP DIRTcar MODIFIED
HEAT 1 - 1. 45P-Brian Post [3]; 2. 36-Brandon Vaughan [2]; 3. 18-Ryan
Sutter [1]; 4. 26-Mike Dirksen [5]; 5. 0-Brent Hole [6]; 6. 1SB-Steve
Billenstein [7]; 7. 79-Shane Unger [4]; 8. 20-Josh Morton [DNS];
HEAT 2 - 1. 23J-Jon Henry [3]; 2. 1SW-Scott Williams [2]; 3. 5JB-Jerry
Bowersock [6]; 4. 188-Aaron Orr [5]; 5. 4J-David Treon, Jr [4]; 6.
5X-Tim Richardson [1]; 7. 15-Nick Katterhenry [7]; 8. 52-John Phlipot,
Jr [8];
A FEATURE - 1. 23J-Jon Henry [2]; 2. 5JB-Jerry Bowersock [6]; 3.
36-Brandon Vaughan [1]; 4. 18-Ryan Sutter [5]; 5. 188-Aaron Orr [8]; 6.
0-Brent Hole [9]; 7. 45P-Brian Post [3]; 8. 20-Josh Morton [15]; 9.
5X-Tim Richardson [12]; 10. 52-John Phlipot, Jr [16]; 11. 79-Shane
Unger [13]; 12. 1SB-Steve Billenstein [11]; 13. 26-Mike Dirksen [7];
14. 1SW-Scott Williams [DNF]; 15. 15-Nick Katterhenry [DNF]; 16.
4J-David Treon, Jr [DNS];
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