From J&J
McKENZIE, TN (May 14) – Donny Schatz continued J&J Auto Racing’s winning results at legendary Knoxville Raceway with a victory in Saturday’s World of Outlaws stop at the famed half-mile, dirt oval. Fellow J&J Auto Racing drivers Terry Gray and Lee Grosz each won ASCS events, one in Texas (Gray) and the other in South Dakota (Grosz).
WORLD OF OUTLAWS
Donny Schatz has made it a habit of coming up big at Knoxville Raceway. Saturday he scored his 16th career feature win on the famed Marion County Fairgrounds and all 16 have come in cars manufactured by J&J Auto Racing. The driver, who has won six of the last seven Knoxville Nationals, started seventh in the main event and raced into the lead with seven laps remaining. He drove away from the pack during the final five laps to capture his third WoO win of 2013 and fifth on American soil this year.
“These STP guys worked really hard tonight,” said Schatz. “We were just a little bit off in qualifying, but came back in the heat and put up 15.0 (second lap) on the board and drove away. In the feature, I could run the top or bottom and just had to go where the guys in front of me weren’t. It’s always good winning here. We’ll just put the notes in the book and come back here in June and try to continue getting better, so that we can be strong in August.”
David Gravel raced the Bill Rose Racing No. 6 J&J from 25th to 11th after dealing with a mechanical issue in the Last Chance Showdown. Dusty Zomer bounced back after qualifying 34th in the field of 51 cars by racing the No. 91 J&J from 12th to fourth in the Last Chance Showdown and then from 23rd to ninth in the 25-lap A-Feature.
ASCS – LONESTAR
Terry Gray raced his Rislone sponsored No. 10 J&J to victory in Friday night’s Smiley’s Racing Products Lone Star Regional 25-lap feature event at Timberline Speedway in Corley, Texas. Gray chased leader Blake Hahn for the first 10 laps before leading the final 15 laps of the race to score the win. Ray Allen Kulhanek (No. 21T J&J) finished eighth.
ASCS – NORTHERN REGION
Lee Grosz earned his first victory of the 2013 season Saturday night at I-90 Speedway when both Jack Dover and Gregg Baker came up light at the post-race scales. Grosz wheeled the No. 4j J&J from the 13th-starting position up to third and followed Dover and Baker to the finish, but was the first car that met the weight rule and was awarded the win in the 3rd annual Loren Barstad Memorial.
Other winners… Caleb Griffith was victorious at Attica Raceway Park on May 3 in the University of Northwestern Ohio Sprint Challenge. Griffth used the high line to take the lead on lap eight driving the Al Davis/McDonalds/Griff’s Engines/Meggitt Farms/Young’s Battered Breading Mix sponsored No. 40DD J&J. He worked lapped traffic to perfection the rest of the way to claim his first career 360 Sprint car victory.