Daryn Pittman Completes Two-Day
Outlaws Sweep At Williams Grove Speedway,
Pushes combined two-day total to $25,000 for KKR team
5/17/14
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Mechanicsburg –
Daryn Pittman of Owasso, Okla., put together a
two-day sweep of World of Outlaws sprint car action at Williams Grove Speedway
on Saturday night, wiring the field for the second night in a row at the track
to record victory.
His win on Friday was worth $8,000 but his Saturday triumph
was worth $17,000 in total, boosting his two-day total to a cool $25,000.
Pittman earned the pole by winning the
dash and was flanked by Don Kreitz Jr. for the start of the 30-lap main.
Donny Schatz and Lucas Wolfe lined up in the second
row.
And the race would be settled between,
Pittman, Kreitz and Wolfe as the case would be with the duo of Kreitz and Wolfe
dueling for second repeatedly during the mid stages as Pittman edged out to just
enough of a lead as the pair scrapped.
Kreitz gave close chase of Pittman when
action got started and as it would turn out the race would go nonstop to the
finish.
Pittman took a page out of Kreitz’s book from the start when
he glued himself to the inside groove as Wolfe thrusted around the outside
cushion.
Wolfe pushed his Zemco No. 1 into second
for the first time with nine laps away and it was then that Pittman would feel
the most pressure for control.
On two different occasions Wolfe drew directly up on Pittmans
bumper as the pair crossed underneath the historic backstretch bridge but both
times Wolfe fell just short of pulling the trigger for the lead.
Kreitz came back on Wolfe for second on
the 16th circuit only to give it up on the next lap to Wolfe again.
With 10 to go Kreitz was back into second, still trying to
close on Pittman as the race worked through traffic.
With nine laps to go Wolf was back in the
runner up position only to see Kreitz again secure the spot shortly before the
final lap.
Pittman meanwhile took advantage of the race for second
between the pair to slowly edge out to about a one-turn margin at the finish.
“It couldn’t get any better than that,”
Pittman said of his two-day Williams Grove sweep for the outlaws over the locals
known as the Pennsylvania Posse.
“This is a big weekend for this team.
I’m just a lucky guy getting’ to run this thing.”
“I pretty much made up my mind I was
gonna’ run the bottom and make them go around me on the outside,” Pittman said.
“When you beat Donnie Kreitz here on the
bottom you’ve done something.”
Pittman’s win also secured the Morgan Cup
trophy for another season for the World of Outlaws circuit.
The trophy will be put on display at outlaws
headquarters in Concord, North Carolina until the cup contest is run again at
next May’s Williams Grove event.
Kreitz finished second in the Saturday feature.
“A couple times I ran in over the berm down there,” Kreitz
said.
“We did the best we could.
Sorry to let the Posse fans down.”
Wolfe was third followed by Stevie Smith and Schatz.
Sixth through 10th went to
Dave Blaney,
Paul McMahan, Shane Stewart, Kerry Madsen and Alan Krimes.
Heats for the 45-car field went to Wolfe, Joey Saldana, Kreitz
and Pittman.
Jacob Allen took the C Main and Sammy
Swindell took the B Main.
McMahan set quick time with a lap of 16.889 seconds.
Two violent crashes took place in the qualifying heat races.
Twenty-time World of Outlaws champion Steve Kinser destroyed
his car in the third heat after contact with a right rear sent him careening
into the outside first turn wall which sent him into a vicious series of rolls
after hard contact.
Dueling with Stevie Smith in the fourth heat to hold onto the
second spot, Greg Hodnett destroyed his car as the pair raced onto the
backstretch from the second corner.
When Hodnett came back on Smith for the second spot from the inside, he swiped
the front of Smith’s car which turned him right and into the outside wall before
flipping back across the track and stopping just short of the backstretch cross
over.
May 17, 2014 Feature Finish:
410 sprints, 25 laps: 1. Daryn Pittman, 2. Don Kreitz Jr., 3. Lucas Wolfe, 4. Stevie Smith, 5. Donny Schatz, 6. Dave Blaney, 7. Paul McMahan, 8. Shane Stewart, 9. Kerry Madsen, 10. Alan Krimes, 11. Logan Schuchart, 12. Ryan Smith, 13. Joey Saldana, 14. Jac Haudenschild, 15. Cody Darrah, 16. Lance Dewease, 17. David Gravel, 18. Sammy Swindell, 19. Kraig Kinser, 20. Brent Marks, 21. Brian Montieth, 22. Steve Buckwalter, 23. Brad Sweet, 24. Steve Kinser, 25. Jason Sides, 26. Doug Esh
DNQ: Chad Layton, Nicole Bower, Jacob Allen, Kyle Reinhardt, Austin Hogue, Brock Zearfoss, Adam Wilt, Glenndon Forsythe, Cory Haas, Trey Starks, Ryan Wilson, Justin Barger, Robbie Kendall, Troy Fraker, Greg Hodnett, Danny Dietrich, Danny Holtgraver, Gerard McIntyre Jr., Tyler Ross