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Busy Outlaw Slate Begins In Minnesota For Tony Stewart Racing by Tony Stewart Racing 4/28/2010 INDIANAPOLIS (April 28, 2010) - Racers want to race as much as they can. When Ted Johnson's vision of corralling the top Sprint car racers came to fruition four decades ago, a culture of racing began that still thrives today. Tony Stewart Racing's (TSR) Steve Kinser has become a racing icon thanks to thousands of nights competing with the World of Outlaws (WoO) Sprint Car Series, which paved the way for other drivers, like his TSR teammate Donny Schatz, to become household names. These drivers and crews resemble modern-day nomads by traveling around the country racing as often as possible. Mother Nature sometimes slows them down, but they are a resilient bunch of Outlaws. After only three nights of action over the last 39 days, Kinser, Schatz and the rest of the current Outlaws happily begin a stretch of eight races over the next three weeks starting Saturday when they return to Jackson (Minn.) Speedway. Schatz, who pilots the TSR No. 15 Armor All/STP/ParkerStore J&J, won the Outlaws' most recent A-Feature at Jackson in September 2006, while Kinser, driver of the TSR No. 11 Bass Pro Shops/JD Byrider Maxim, is the only driver to have won two WoO A-Features at the half-mile dirt oval. Kinser made his debut at the track during the famed Jackson Nationals in August 1986, one week after winning his fourth Knoxville (Iowa) Nationals championship. He finished sixth that night and came back to finish second the following season when the Outlaws made their debut at the facility in July 1987. The Bloomington, Ind., native captured his first WoO win at the track in the 1988 Jackson Nationals and won his second in September 2004 by passing his son Kraig for the lead late in the race to secure the win. The 20-time WoO champion finished fifth in his most recent race at the track in September 2005, giving him nine finishes of seventh or better in nine career starts at Jackson. The experience four-time and reigning WoO champion Donny Schatz gained at Jackson Speedway during the early years of his career are similar to those of many of his contemporaries. While Kinser learned his craft circling short tracks in Indiana before heading out on the road with the Outlaws, Schatz raced at tracks like Red River Valley Speedway, Huset's Speedway and Jackson Speedway during the early stages of his career. Those weekend races taught him some of the fundamentals that still help him today. He first towed his family owned No. 15 Sprint car to Jackson in June 1994 to compete in a special NCRA event at the track. He followed his 11th-place finish that night with a victory when he returned the next time in April 1995. His third race at Jackson came later that summer, when he finished second in the unsanctioned Jackson Nationals. During the 1996 season, he won four times in six starts, including a pair of August WISSOTA National Sprint car races that ultimately led to him to secure the 1996 WISSOTA title. Following that championship, he moved to the World of Outlaws series and returned to Jackson with the Outlaws in 2004. He finished ninth and came back the following season to finish second. In September 2006, he scored his 49th career WoO A-Feature and sixth career win at Jackson by leading the final 20 laps of the 30-lap race. Mother Nature was the victor last weekend when heavy rains hit southern Indiana, forcing WoO officials to reschedule the Tri-State Speedway event to Oct. 16. In their most recent action during the weekend of April 16-17, the TSR teams scored consecutive top-10 finishes. Schatz posted a fifth at Paducah (Ky.) International Raceway and sixth at I-55 Raceway in the Armor All/STP J&J, while Kinser raced the Bass Pro Shops Maxim to a ninth-place finish at Paducah and a fifth-place finish at I-55 Raceway. Both teams remain inside the top-four of the 2010 WoO championship standings. Jason Meyers and Joey Saldana lead the way with Kinser 30 points back in third and Schatz right behind him in fourth, 67 points out of first place. For Saturday's event at Jackson Speedway, the pit gates will open at 2 p.m. CDT, and the grandstands open at 4 p.m. Hot laps are scheduled to begin at 6 p.m. For tickets and more information on the event, visit www.jacksonspeedway.com. Race fans unable to attend this weekend's races can catch all of the action on DIRTVision.com. Fans can listen live as Johnny Gibson, "Voice of the Outlaws," calls the action as he does at all WoO Sprint Series events on the DIRTVision.com cybercast, as well as on the DIRT Radio Network. Go to www.DIRTVision.com for more information on all the site features, including updated results from each night of racing, as well as a chat room to interact with other race fans. |
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