SEVENTH HEAVEN: Schatz Wins His seventh FVP Knoxville Nationals in Historic Fashion
Tony Stewart Racing driver charges from Last Chance Showdown to victory lane
KNOXVILLE, Iowa – Aug. 10, 2013 – Donny Schatz didn’t just win the 53rd running of the storied FVP Knoxville Nationals on Saturday night at Knoxville Raceway, he turned in one of the greatest performances in the history of sprint car racing on the sport’s biggest stage.
After struggling during the Wednesday preliminary feature, Schatz was forced to start Saturday on the outside of the second row in the Last Chance Showdown, or B-main. He won that race to earn the 21ststarting position in the $150,000-to-win, 50-lap A-main.
Nobody had ever won the Nationals from deeper than 14th and here was Schatz attempting to win from another area code in his STP Gas Booster J&J. Then, in one of the most dominating runs in World of Outlaws STP Sprint Car Series history, Schatz picked off car after car until finally, with nine laps to go, he caught and passed leader Brian Brown, who finished second to Schatz for the second consecutive year.
Justin Henderson, Paul McMahan and Chad Kemenah rounded out the top five finishers.
“It was a fun run,” said Schatz, of Fargo, N.D., who also turned 36 on Saturday. “We went where we had to, we go to the top, or the bottom, but we couldn’t really make the bottom work. I just can’t say enough for the STP Gas Booster guys. We tried to win the Speed Sport News World Challenge on Friday night, but we also tried something new with the car to see what we could find. We wanted to get locked in. It put a lot of doubt in a lot of minds because I usually run well on the World Challenge night, but when you’re not that good you have nothing to lose testing. I’d rather crash than run 20th or fifth.” (more…)
UNON, KY (August 10, 2013) – Don O’Neal became the third driver in the history of the Sunoco North/South 100 Presented by Lucas Oil to win the event twice, back-to-back. O’Neal led the main event, flag-to-flag, in Florence Speedway’s $50,000 signature event. Following O’Neal were Tim McCreadie, Dale McDowell, Darrell Lanigan, and Jimmy Owens at the finish.
Jim Rouse, Ocala, FL- The Limited Sprints, Limited Late Models, Hobby Stocks, 1-800-ASK GARY Thunder Stocks, and Rent-N-Roll Gladiators all put on some impressive racing on Driver Appreciation Night, a way for Bubba to reward the drivers with free entry for the night.
KNOXVILLE, Iowa – Aug. 8, 2013 – Brian Brown charged to victory on Thursday’s 53rd FVP Knoxville Nationals qualifying night at Knoxville Raceway, putting him on the front row alongside Joey Saldana for Saturday night’s $150,000-to-win main event.
Pro Late Models 100
This past Saturday night saw the FL United Promoters Series return to “The Friendliest Track in the South” Citrus Co. Speedway for the running of the Sunoco 100 Presented by Karnac.com. With twenty two Super Late Models and fifteen Legends making the trip to Inverness for another night of spectacular racing in all classes. At the wave of the green, the field chased Sarasota’s Jesse Dutilly for 26 laps as he built a commanding lead before the nights 1st caution can out for a broken radiator on the #47 of Keith Zarvel. Back to racing Daniel Webster worked his way from his 7th position starting spot to overtake Dutilly on lap thirty nine. Webster checked out from the rest of the field lapping everyone but the top five with the help of a long green flag run until lap 74 for a spin by Naples Billy Bigley Jr.. On the restart Anderson SC competitor Eric Stokes collected Daryl Shelnut, George Gorham Jr. and track favorite Scott Grossenbacher going into turn one, all four were done for the night. With Webster in the lead, he was challenged by Mike Bresanhan and series points leader Wayne Anderson who had come from his 11th starting spot. After 3 outside lane restarts Webster’s “Hot Rod” was to strong for Bresanhan and Anderson, at the checkered it was Webster, Bresanhan, Anderson, Jeff Scofield, rookie contender Anthony Cataldi rounding out the top five. In the 6th -10th slots were Herb Neumann Jr., Dutilly, Dylan Bigley, Daniel Keene Jr. & Todd Brown 
A Full night of classes were on the racing card for the night at the Full Throttle Speedway Aug 10th. After a few weeks break, the Full Throttle Speedway returned to racing action with 9 classes that had some great racing action.
Middleburg, Florida (08/07/13) – Mark Whitener powered his #58 Big Frog Motorsports/Dave’s Towing/B&B Produce/Barry Wright Late Model to the $3,000 win on Saturday night at East Alabama Motor Speedway (Phenix City, Alabama).