Daryn Pittman Slides to
Billings, MT — August 20, 2005 — By Chris
Dolack, WoO Sprint Series Public Relations Director
One night after BMP Speedway chewed up several cars, the track was completely
transformed Saturday into a fast, slick surface with multiple grooves that
allowed Donny Schatz to dominate the first 38 laps of the main event that
launches the
The only problem for Schatz was that the feature was 40 laps. The rear end on
his ParkerStore J&J failed him with two laps to go, marking the third time
this season he’s had a mechanical problem while on his way to victory.
Daryn Pittman took advantage of Schatz’s misfortune. After starting ninth,
Pittman worked his way past Jac Haudenschild, then Kraig Kinser and finally
Steve Kinser to position himself behind Schatz in the waning laps. When Schatz
slowed heading into Turn 3 and eventually stopped as he was coming around to
take the white flag, Pittman swooped into the lead before the caution waved.
Once in front, Pittman locked his Titan Racing Maxim to the bottom of the track
and had a lapped car behind him as a slight buffer that made Kinser have to
beat him on the top. Kinser, the preliminary feature winner Friday night, ran
second for much of the event but no matter which lane he chose around the
3/8-mile oval he wasn’t able to catch Schatz or Pittman.
Pittman never flinched on the green-white-checkered restart as he held off
Kinser by 0.18 to win an A-feature for the first time since he took the
checkered flag in April at
“I really didn’t know what was happening behind me,” said Pittman, a Mean 15
racer and native of
“I knew at the restart he was going to have a good run at us and luckily we
were able to hold him off. The racetrack was probably a little tough to pass at
the end but if there’s a way around he’s going to find it.”
Kinser knew his only way to win a race for the fourth consecutive time in
“I didn’t have a shot on the bottom,” said Kinser, a Mean 15 racer from
Bloomington, Ind., who has a 450-point lead in the championship standings in
his quest for a 20th series title. “I told [Paulus] to go to the bottom that
last time. I wasn’t going to pass [Pittman] by following him so I thought I’d
take a shot around the top, but I got my wing back too far and I couldn’t get
it back forward and I had it bouncing around. On that last yellow I ran it back
forward and took a stab but just didn’t quite get it made.
“Donny was a little faster than I was. I’d get up on the top, but I was a
little tight up there. He had the fastest car tonight. It looked like he was
going to win the race. It was a shame they had to break.”
For Kraig Kinser, a third-place finish in his Remy Maxim wrapped up a whirlwind
week that started with a victory in the Knoxville Nationals last Sunday, a
16th-place finish Tuesday in Fargo, N.D., an eighth-place run in an ARCA Re/Max
Series race Friday afternoon in Brooklyn, Mich., followed by a cross-country
flight and a seventh-place finish in the preliminary feature Friday night.
After setting quick time to start Saturday’s program, he was consistently among
the leaders for much of the main event.
“I think we had a chance to win that thing after Donny blew,” said Kraig
Kinser, the 2004 Kevin Gobrecht Rookie of the Year. “He was pretty much gone
until then. We goofed up on one restart and were passed by numerous cars and
had to work our way back up to third. It was a good solid finish to the
weekend.
“It was a totally different track tonight. It was kind of like it was last year
with a lot of good racing. When this track gets slicked off it has some
unbelievable racing on it. [Promoter] Fred [Brownfield] did a good job getting
the track ready tonight and put on a pretty good show I think.”
Schatz, a four-time A-feature winner this season, was obviously disappointed
with the result Saturday, one night after finishing second in the preliminary
to be locked into the main event. Still, his dominating run is another sign the
team is coming together with the help of new crew chief Ricky Warner.
“That’s all we’re concerned about,” said Schatz, a Mean 15 racer from
The change to the racing surface certainly benefited Pittman. In the
preliminary on Friday, he was one of five cars to flip and bring out a red flag
in the 30-lap race that had 10 cautions. While he won from the pole at 81
“I prefer half-miles, but I’m not as good on them,” said Pittman, who was
coming off of a third-place finish Tuesday at Red River Valley Speedway and has
finished in the top 10 in the past five A-feature events. “These 3/8ths are my
type of deal. When they get real slick like this it’s great. [Friday] night was
not my type of racetrack. We turned over and still finished 12th and we thought
that was a good night because I just don’t do good on rough, heavy racetracks.
We’re geared up for these types of deals. These fit me and my crew and it’s
good to get another win like that. It’s a little more special starting ninth
and winning rather than starting on the pole in Wichita because we definitely
know we earned this one.”
The
BILLINGS MOTORSPORTS PARK NOTEBOOK
• Steve Kinser, Donny Schatz, Jac
Haudenschild and Danny Lasoski were locked into the Stacker 2® Dash by virtue
of their top-four finishes in the preliminary feature Friday night and did not
go through time trials or heats on Saturday.
• Kraig Kinser paced the 30 cars that went through time trials by turning an
AMB i.t.-timed lap around the 3/8-mile oval in 12.391 seconds at 108.950 mph.
Jason Sides set the track record Friday night after turning a lap in 12.236
seconds at 110.330 mph. Tim Kaeding was second quick with a 12.569-second lap,
followed by Joey Saldana’s 12.570-second lap, Brooke Tatnell’s 12.579-second
lap and Daryn Pittman’s 12.627-second lap.
• Daryn Pittman’s victory at BMP Speedway in
• Billings Motorsports Park is a semi-banked 3/8-mile oval. Including
preliminaries, the series has raced 11 times this season on tracks that length,
at Pike County Speedway, Houston Raceway Park, Batesville Speedway, Outlaw
Motor Speedway, 81 Speedway, Huset’s Speedway, Cedar Lake Speedway, Attica
Raceway Park, Fulton Speedway and BMP Speedway. Steve Kinser held off Brooke
Tatnell to win at Pike County, Donny Schatz edged Steve Kinser at Houston,
Kraig Kinser dominated at Batesville, Steve Kinser snuck past
• In the Stacker 2® Dash that set the top six positions for the A-feature,
Steve Kinser quickly charged out front and led flag-to-flag to start on the
pole for the 10th time this season. Jac Haudenschild started on the inside of
Row 2 and followed Kinser to the front, finishing second and earning the
outside pole position. Donny Schatz was third, followed by Tim Kaeding, Kraig
Kinser and Danny Lasoski.
• In the B-main, Jason Solwold raced to the lead in the first corner and drove
away, increasing his lead on each of the 12 laps, not even slowing as he slid
through traffic and won by 3.483 seconds. Mean 15 racer
• In the first heat, Brandon Wimmer set the pace for the first nine laps before
Terry McCarl reeled him in by cutting to the bottom in Turns 1 and 2 after taking
the white flag. McCarl sliced to the lead off of Turn 2 and powered to the
checkered flag. Wimmer held on to finish second as
• In the second heat, Jason Sides easily led flag-to-flag, but behind Sides was
a big scramble for the four remaining transfer spots. Tim Kaeding worked the
cushion to grab second with Paul McMahan, Shane Stewart and Daryn Pittman also
earning spots in the A-feature.
• The third heat featured Tim Shaffer and Craig Dollansky, two drivers who led
Friday night in the preliminary A-main but had separate incidents that cost
them a chance at winning. In the third heat on Saturday, Shaffer and Dollansky
shot out to the lead and turned 10 smooth laps, easily sliding through traffic
to finish first and second. Also transferring to the main event were Joey
Saldana, Brooke Tatnell and Roger Crockett.
• The
• The Outdoor Channel will air the Polydome Princeton National from Princeton
Speedway at
• The Official
• If fans can’t get to a track to see the series, they can experience the
excitement of the
• The
WoO Sprint Series Statistical Report; BMP Speedway
A-feature; Aug. 20, 2005
Qualifying
1) Kraig Kinser, Kinser 11K, 12.391
2) Tim Kaeding, Roth 83, 12.569
3) Joey Saldana, Woodward 2, 12.569
4) Brooke Tatnell, Rush Racing 8, 12.579
5) Daryn Pittman, Titan Racing USA 21, 12.627
6) Terry McCarl, McCarl 24, 12.662
7)
8) Paul McMahan, Helm 11H, 12.688
9) Craig Dollansky, Karavan 7, 12.700
10) Tim Shaffer, Parsons 6, 12.729
11) Jason Sides, Sides Motorsports 7S, 12.731
12) Brandon Wimmer, Two Winners Racing 7TW, 12.779
13) Jonathan Allard, Williams 0, 12.795
14) Shane Stewart, Rudeen Racing 26, 12.810
15) Roger Crockett, Doyle 11C, 12.914
16)
17) Jason Solwold, Carnahan R19, 13.113
18) Brandon Johnson, Johnson 14J, 13.199
19) Brent Kronfuss, Kronfuss 9, 13.591
20) Joe Ramaker, Ramaker 98, 13.644
21) Phil Dietz, Dietz 72, 13.813
22) Paxton Lambrecht, Lambrecht 7X, 13.986
23) Ned Powers, Powers 0P, 14.008
24) Shane Liebig, Ostermiller 12X, 14.163
25) Jay Burns, Burns 0B, 14.207
26) Jeremy McCune, McCune 0J, 14.218
27) Trevor Kirkland, Boisvert Motorsports 37, 14.245
28) Josh Ostermiller, Ostermiller 12, 14.625
29) Teri Snedigar, Snedigar 240, 14.895
30) Calvin
Top four finishers in preliminary feature (locked into first four starting
positions in Dash): Steve Kinser, Kinser 11; Donny Schatz, Schatz 15; Jac
Haudenschild, Roth 83JR; Danny Lasoski, Stewart 20
First Heat Race (10 laps, top 5 finishers transferred to A-feature)
1) Terry McCarl
2) Brandon Wimmer
3)
4) Kraig Kinser
5) Jonathan Allard
6)
7) Brent Kronfuss
8) Josh Ostermiller
9) Paxton Lambrecht
10) Jay Burns
Second Heat Race (10 laps, top 5 finishers transferred to A-feature)
1) Jason Sides
2) Tim Kaeding
3) Paul McMahan
4) Shane Stewart
5) Daryn Pittman
6) Jason Solwold
7) Joe Ramaker
8) Ned Powers
9) Jeremy McCune
10) Teri Snedigar
Third Heat Race (10 laps, top 5 finishers transferred to A-feature)
1) Tim Shaffer
2) Craig Dollansky
3) Joey Saldana
4) Brooke Tatnell
5) Roger Crockett
6) Phil Dietz
7) Brandon Johnson
8) Shane Liebig
9) Trevor Kirkland
10) Calvin
Stacker 2 Dash (6 laps, finishing order determined first 6 starting
positions of A-feature)
1) Steve Kinser
2) Jac Haudenschild
3) Donny Schatz
4) Tim Kaeding
5) Kraig Kinser
6) Danny Lasoski
B-main (12 laps, top 5 finishers transferred to A-feature)
1) Jason Solwold [$40]
2)
3) Joe Ramaker [$40]
4) Ned Powers [$40]
5) Brandon Johnson [$40]
6) Phil Dietz [$400]
7) Brent Kronfuss [$360]
8) Paxton Lambrecht [$350]
9) Josh Ostermiller [$320]
10) Jay Burns [$300]
11) Shane Liebig [$300]
12) Trevor Kirkland [$300]
13) Calvin
14) Teri Snedigar [$300]
15) Jeremy McCune [$300]
A-main (40 laps)
1) Daryn Pittman [$12,000]
2) Steve Kinser [$6,000]
3) Kraig Kinser [$4,000]
4) Jac Haudenschild [$3,500]
5) Danny Lasoski [$3,300]
6)
7) Craig Dollansky [$3,000]
8) Tim Kaeding [$2,500]
9) Jason Solwold [$2,100]
10) Joey Saldana [$2,050]
11) Tim Shaffer [$2,000]
12) Jason Sides [$1,600]
13) Terry McCarl [$1,500]
14) Paul McMahan [$1,200]
15) Shane Stewart [$1,100]
16)
17) Brandon Wimmer [$900]
18) Donny Schatz [$800]
19) Brandon Johnson [$800]
20) Joe Ramaker [$800]
21) Jonathan Allard [$800]
22) Roger Crockett [$800]
23) Ned Powers [$800]
24) Brooke Tatnell [$800]
Lap leaders: Donny Schatz 1-38, Daryn Pittman 39-40
Driver Team Team
Team Team A-feature
Rank Driver Points Points Earnings Diff. Wins Top 5 Top 10
1 Steve Kinser 7421 7421 $375,830 0
17 37 48
2
3 Craig Dollansky 6909 6909 $161,370 -512 2 18 33
4 Kraig Kinser 6769 6769 $302,450 -652 6 20 32
5 Danny Lasoski 6618 6618 $154,485 -803 0 11 28
6 Donny Schatz 6586 6586 $204,210 -835 4 13 27
7 Paul McMahan 6476 6476 $102,940 -945 0 7 20
8 Brooke Tatnell* 6448 6724 $156,235 -697 2 16 28
9 Tim Shaffer 6414 6414 $145,115 -1007 3 10 21
10 Terry McCarl 6376 6376 $110,600 -1045 0 9 21
11 Daryn Pittman 6362 6362 $122,215 -1059 2 9 22
12 Shane Stewart 6235 6235 $113,485 -1186 0 5 20
13 Joey Saldana 6173 6173 $120,655 -1248 0 10 20
14
15 Jason Sides 5988 5988 $65,660 -1433 0 2 7
16 Jason Solwold 5745 5745 $78,240 -1676 0 4 10
17 Tim Kaeding** 5624 6348 $123,560 -1073 2*** 9 22
18 Brandon Wimmer 5315 5315 $40,720 -2106 0 0 2
19 Sammy Swindell 4212 4062 $110,880 -3359 2 14 17
20 Kevin Swindell 2978 2978 $25,105 -4443 0 1 3
*Rush Racing’s No. 8 car driven by Brooke Tatnell is fifth in owners’
points.
**Dennis Roth’s No. 83 car driven by Tim Kaeding is 12th in owners’ points.
***The second of the two victories for the No. 83 car driven by Tim Kaeding was
earned by Jac Haudenschild.