SALDANA AND TIEMANN BEAT THE WEATHER FOR ELDORA WINS

Eldora speedway

From Larry Boos

ROSSBURG, OH (May 7) – Against all odds of even getting the show in, Joey Saldana captured night number one of the Outlaw Thunder by Goodyear at Eldora Speedway, to capture his seventh career World of Outlaw (WoO), but he will have to wait until Saturday night to celebrate in victory lane. With four laps to go in the 30-lap main event, Mother Nature let loose with torrential rains to bring a halt to any further action. Earlier in the night Doug Tiemann captured his first-ever Stock car win.

Despite storm warnings and forecasts showing an 80% chance of rain, Eldora and WoO officials opted to proceed. Everyone teamed together to run off the entire show, minus the final four laps, in one hour and 36 minutes.

Paul McMahan out-timed the 35 car WoO field with a clocking of 13.413, but a fifth place finish in the dash moved deeper into the starting field.

Defending Kings Royal champion Donny Schatz started on the pole of the schedule 30-lap Outlaw Thunder by Goodyear main event by virtue of his dash win and, as expected, jumped into the early lead of the chase.

Schatz’s momentum was moving him into lapped traffic by the 7th circuit, but keeping pace with him was a quick-running Lucas Wolfe. Wolfe begin reeling in Schatz two laps earlier and when the lapped traffic came into play, he jumped at the opportunity.

On the ninth tour around the one-half mile clay oval, Wolfe shot by Schatz and began opening his own margin over the field.

But the track was Saldana’s liking – smooth, fast and up to the wall.

Like a shot out of a cannon, Saldana got by Schatz on the next lap and then on the 12th lap, it was all Saldana, as he flew by Wolfe.

At about that time; however, his top mounted aerodynamic wing began to buckle. As the laps wound down, the wing began to look worse for the wear. However, with only two caution flags to slow the pace, Saldana remained focus and drove with finesse, and deep down inside, may have welcomed the rain storm.

Wolfe turned in an impressive run to hold off multi-time WoO champion Steve Kinser for second. Following that trio across the line were McMahan and current WoO point leader Jason Meyers.

Jeremy Creech shot into the early lead of the A-Main for the Stockers, with Earnie Woodard in second, as Tiemann rode in third. That trio remained in that order for the first ten laps before Tiemann made his move. On lap 11 he moved from third to the lead, as both Creech and Woodard began suffering engine woes. Wooded dropped off the pace and into the pits with one lap to go, while on the final circuit, Creech’s engine let go, but not before he crossed the line in the runner-up spot. Jason Kinney came home third, followed by Rob Trent and Shawn Phillippi.

Leg number two of the Outlaw Thunder by Goodyear will find the same two divisions on the bill Saturday night, along the with UMP (United Midwestern Promoters) Modifieds in a tripleheader program.

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OUTLAW THUNDER PRESENTED BY GOODYEAR
MAY 7, 2010

World of Outlaws Sprints – 35 cars
Fast Qualifier – Paul McMahan: 13.413
Heat 1:
1. Donny Schatz[1]; 2. Steve Kinser[3]; 3. Dale Blaney[2]; 4. Paul McMahan[4]; 5. Kraig Kinser[5]; 6. Tyler Walker[7]; 7. Rob Chaney[6]; 8. Dustin Daggett[8]; 9. Brian Paulus[9];

Heat 2:
1. Randy Hannagan[2]; 2. Lucas Wolfe[1]; 3. Jac Haudenschild[4]; 4. Tim Shaffer[6]; 5. Craig Dollansky[3]; 6. Chad Kemenah[5]; 7. Jessica Zemken[8]; 8. Ben Gregg[9]; 9. Ed Neumeister[7];

Heat 3:
1. Sam Hafertepe Jr.[2]; 2. Kerry Madsen[1]; 3. Jason Sides[3]; 4. Danny Lasoski[4]; 5. Brad Sweet[5]; 6. Brian Ellenberger[6]; 7. Lee Jacobs[8]; 8. Toni Luter[7];

Heat 4:
1. Tim Kaeding[2]; 2. Joey Saldana[1]; 3. Jason Meyers[4]; 4. Sammy Swindell[3]; 5. Cale Conley[5]; 6. Daryn Pittman[6]; 7. Bill Rose[7]; 8. Justin Henderson[8];

B Main :
1. Chad Kemenah[1]; 2. Rob Chaney[2]; 3. Daryn Pittman[4]; 4. Brian Ellenberger[3]; 5. Tyler Walker[5]; 6. Justin Henderson[12]; 7. Toni Luter[7]; 8. Dustin Daggett[9]; 9. Jessica Zemken[10]; 10. Brian Paulus[13]; 11. Bill Rose[8]; 12. Ben Gregg[14]; 13. Lee Jacobs[11]; 14. Edward Neumeister[6];

Dash:
1. Donny Schatz[2]; 2. Lucas Wolfe[1]; 3. Steve Kinser[6]; 4. Sam Hafertepe Jr.[4]; 5. Paul McMahan[8]; 6. Joey Saldana[10]; 7. Jac Haudenschild[7]; 8. Tim Kaeding[3]; 9. Randy Hannagan[5]; 10. Kerry Madsen[9];

A Main :
1. Joey Saldana[6]; 2. Lucas Wolfe[2]; 3. Steve Kinser[3]; 4. Paul McMahan[5]; 5. Jason Meyers[12]; 6. Danny Lasoski[11]; 7. Craig Dollansky[13]; 8. Sammy Swindell[15]; 9. Kerry Madsen[10]; 10. Chad Kemenah[18]; 11. Dale Blaney[16]; 12. Tim Shaffer[22]; 13. Cale Conley[20]; 14. Jason Sides[14]; 15. Brad Sweet[19]; 16. Kraig Kinser[17]; 17. Randy Hannagan[9]; 18. Donny Schatz[1]; 19. Tim Kaeding[8]; 20. Daryn Pittman[24]; 21. Brian Ellenberger[23]; 22. Rob Chaney[21]; 23. Sam Hafertepe Jr.[4]; 24. Jac Haudenschild[7];

Eldora Stocks – 27 cars

Heat 1:
1. Doug Tiemann[2]; 2. Shawn Phillippi[1]; 3. Barney Craig[6]; 4. Ed Johnson[9]; 5. Dean Pitts[8]; 6. Rob Trent[7]; 7. Keith Ralston[4]; 8. Jeff Coate[5]; 9. Adam Schaeff[3];

Heat 2:
1. Anthony Goode[1]; 2. Jeremy Creech[6]; 3. Ryan Sutter[2]; 4. Mike Dirksen[4]; 5. Jeff Koz[7]; 6. Rodney Lacey[3]; 7. Jamie Heiser[5]; 8. Eric Sandlin[8];

Heat 3:
1. Earnie Woodard[6]; 2. Jason Kinney[1]; 3. John Phlipot Jr.[3]; 4. Ronnie Bloomfield[4]; 5. Jeff Smith[7]; 6. Andy King[9]; 7. Cale Ramey[8]; 8. Casey Barr[5]; 9. Matt Phlipot[2];

A Main :
1. Doug Tiemann[6]; 2. Jeremy Creech[2]; 3. Jason Kinney[1]; 4. Rob Trent[16]; 5. Shawn Phillippi[3]; 6. Mike Dirksen[11]; 7. John Phlipot Jr.[9]; 8. Keith Ralston[19]; 9. Jeff Koz[14]; 10. Ronnie Bloomfield[12]; 11. Rodney Lacey[17]; 12. Casey Barr[24]; 13. Matt Phlipot[26]; 14. Earnie Woodard[4]; 15. Anthony Goode[5]; 16. Jamie Heiser[20]; 17. Cale Ramey[21]; 18. Jeff Smith[15]; 19. Dean Pitts[13]; 20. Ryan Sutter[8]; 21. Andy King[18]; 22. Ed Johnson[10]; 23. Eric Sandlin[23]; 24. Barney Craig[7];