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World of Outlaws Sprint Series Reaches Rolling Wheels Raceway On May 30 Elbridge, NY – May 26, 2006 – By Tom Skibinski, DIRT NorthEast PR Director The nationally acclaimed World of Outlaws Sprint Car Series brings its popular brand of open-cockpit competition to New York State as it invades the DIRT MotorSports™ NorthEast circuit for the 28th consecutive year. A big doubleheader leads off Monday, May 29 at Orange County Fair Speedway and concludes Tuesday, May 30 at Rolling Wheels Raceway. The Empire State trip marks WoO's 19th stop in Middletown and the 28th A-Main held at Rolling Wheels. Lebanon Valley Speedway stages its customary Outlaws Sprint show on July 23 while Fulton Speedway plays host to just its second-ever World of Outlaws Sprint show on Tuesday, July 25, which marks the final WoO winged show of the year in New York. Middendorf Contracting Inc., Ferris Industries, Advantage Auto, Castrol Lubricants, Pearl Technologies and Pick-N-Pull Auto Parts combine to present the second 'Sprint Car Spectacular' at RWR that features a 25-lap main event for the WoO Sprints plus a 20-lap A-Main for the Bobcat of Buffalo (NY) sponsored ASCS Patriot Sprint Group. WoO time trials are slated to start at 6:30 p.m. in Rolling Wheels' annual mid-week showdown. Adult general admission tickets are $30 each, Senior Citizens (60 yrs. + over) $27, Students (11-18 yrs) $15 and Children (10 yrs. + under) Free, with an additional $3 charge for each reserved seat. Free on-site camping is also available. Heading to Williams Grove Speedway in Mechanicsburg, Pa. this weekend (May 26-27), Donny Schatz tops the current World of Outlaws points chart on the strength of a series-high four wins in the potent No. 15 ParkerStore J&J entry. In the interstate title chase, Schatz (2083 pts.) from Fargo, N.D. has cracked the front-five in half of the tour’s 16 events to lead Indiana’s Joe Saldana (2021), Oklahoma’s Daryn Pittman (2000), Australian Brooke Tatnell (1995), Ohioan Jac Haudenschild (1991), Minnesota’s Craig Dollansky (1942) and Iowa’s Terry McCarl (1936), who remains on injured reserve. Haudenschild has a pair of A-Main victories to his credit while Saldana, Tatnell and Dollansky have a one win apiece entering the Keystone State twin-bill. Lynn Paxton won the initial race at Rolling Wheels in 1980. Last season Brian Paulus became the 10th different feature winner on the ’05 World of Outlaws Sprint Series when he led all 25 laps to post his first career RWR win. Using a line around the big 5/8-mile oval he worked on through hot laps, heats and the Dash, Paulus started on the pole and was untouchable as he ran the bottom in Turns 1 and 2 and the middle in Turns 3 and 4. Lance Dewease raced into second on the first lap and held his ground as Jason Meyers came from eighth to finish third, with Craig Dollansky and Cody Geldart rounding out the top-five. Dollansky holds the one-lap track record (15.952sec/141.048mph) at Rolling Wheels, a mark he established in June of 2004 while Chad Kemenah was clocked at 17.402 sec. last season. With the Patriot Sprint Group losing two events to rain, round number three is now slated for Stateline (NY) Speedway on May 27. Chuck Hebing sits atop the points standings on the heels of both season-opening victories at Canandaigua (May 20) and Utica-Rome (April 30). Last season at Rolling Wheels, Bryan Howland inherited the lead on lap three from Tim Zimbardi and checked out from the rest of the pack, lapped up to the 11th-place car by the end of the run to earn his 2nd career PSG A-Main by nearly eight seconds. Ray Preston and Dave Ely followed yet the story of the night was Jessica Zemken who finished fourth in her first Patriot Sprint Group start and just her second 360 race. Rounding out the top-five was Canadian standout Rick Wilson who fought for that spot the entire race with Hebing. The DIRT MotorSports™ Advance Auto Parts Modified Series is brought to fans across the Northeast by several sponsors and partners, including series sponsors Advance Auto Parts, Hoosier Racing Tire and Sunoco Race Fuels. Promotional partners include AMB i.t. and the University of Northwestern Ohio and the contingency sponsors are Bert Transmission, Bicknell Racing Products, Bilstein Shocks, Brodix Cylinder Heads, DART Machinery, Holley HP Carburetors, Integra Shocks, MSD Ignitions, Miller Electric Manufacturing Company, Penske Shocks and Wrisco Industries. WORLD OF OUTLAWS A-MAIN WINNERS IN NEW YORK STATE (1979-2005) |