Fremont Ohio-September 28, 2013.

Schatz pinches points from Pittman with his 21^st win for season 2013 at Fremont Speedway. The remaining 6 races for both the Schatz and Pittman Teams will have added pressure with the inclusion of local drivers at the remaining shows,

Schatz wins 21st for 2013 at Fremont

The experience of the Fremont show where the Ohio Bunch reminded the traveling Outlaws that considerable strength lies outside the Outlaw group. Joining Donny Schatz on the Podium were Ohio drivers  Celeb Griffith and Bryan Sebetto . Dale Blaney finish fourth and Pittman recovered to run home into ninth position restricting the points loss to Schatz to 18 points.

The Fremont win was Schatz’s 145 career win moving within 8 wins of Mark Kinser’s win total of 153, third on the all time winning list.

After the race Schatz was full of praise for his team.”These guys keep building great race cars,” said Schatz, of Fargo, N.D. “I started sixth and kept picking them off, I had to kind of wait for the right time. People were kind of aggressive early and bouncing off of each other. The way my car was working it felt like it got more drive if I got the wheels spinning. It sure was a long race. I was a bit nervous with all the yellows and the red with the stop and start and stop and start just waiting for something to go, but it didn’t.”

Celeb Griffith a former track champion, who was fifth in Fremont points this year, represented the locals well with his runner-up finish…

“Donny certainly had a better car and has a ton more experience than me,” said Griffith, of Castalia, Ohio. “So to get beat by him here, I’m not too worried about it. We’ll take it and feel pretty good about it. If he would have got himself jammed up in traffic was the only way we could have caught him, but he’s smart enough he’s not going to let that happen as the cautions fell the way he needed them to.”

Sebetto brought home a strong finish in what was his final run in the 24H Hammer team.

“We’ve had a pretty rough year this year and to get a top three with these guys means a lot,” said Sebetto, of Fremont, Ohio. “It means a lot to me parting ways with these guys next year. There are a lot of eyes here tonight and maybe it will lead into something next year..

Qualifying: 1. 6G-David Gravel, 12.154; 2. 22-Cole Duncan, 12.166; 3. 2-Dale Blaney, 12.203; 4. 40-Caleb Helms, 12.217; 5. 71M-Joey Saldana, 12.240; 6. 40DD-Caleb Griffith, 12.242; 7. 24H-Bryan Sebetto, 12.269; 8. 11-Steve Kinser, 12.286; 9. 97-Dean Jacobs, 12.309; 10. O9-Craig Mintz, 12.318;

Seven out of the top 10 in qualifying were drivers from outside the travelling Outlaws .

 Heat 1 – (10 Laps – Top 4 finishers transfer to the A-feature): 1. 9-Daryn Pittman [2]; 2. 3G-Shane Stewart [1]; 3. 40DD-Caleb Griffith [3]; 4. 9X-Rob Chaney [5]; 5. 7S-Jason Sides [6]; 6. 6G-David Gravel [4]; 7. 5R-Byron Reed [7]; 8. 6-Bill Rose [8]; 9. 3F-Rick Fraley [10]; 10. 80-Trey Gustin [9].

Heat 2 – (10 Laps – Top 4 finishers transfer to the A-feature): 1. 53-Christopher Bell [6]; 2. 51-Paul McMahan [2]; 3. 24H-Bryan Sebetto [3]; 4. 1-Sammy Swindell [5]; 5. 45-Danny Holtgraver [1]; 6. 9Z-Duane Zablocki [8]; 7. 45L-Brian Lay [9]; 8. 35-Stuart Brubaker [7]; 9. 22-Cole Duncan [4].

Heat 3 – (10 Laps – Top 4 finishers transfer to the A-feature): 1. 59-Jac Haudenschild [2]; 2. 60-Jody Keegan [1]; 3. 54-Cap Henry [5]; 4. 11-Steve Kinser [3]; 5. 29-Kerry Madsen [8]; 6. 2-Dale Blaney [4]; 7. 83M-Brock Martin [7]; 8. 9W-Lucas Wolfe [6]; 9. 63-Chad Kemenah [9].

Heat 4 – (10 Laps – Top 4 finishers transfer to the A-feature): 1. 15-Donny Schatz [2]; 2. 11K-Kraig Kinser [1]; 3. 97-Dean Jacobs [3]; 4. 4-Cody Darrah [5]; 5. 40-Caleb Helms [4]; 6. 71-Kevin Swindell [7]; 7. 53X-D.J. Foos [6]; 8. 70-Danny Mumaw [9].

Heat 5 – (10 Laps – Top 4 finishers transfer to the A-feature): 1. W20-Greg Wilson [2]; 2. 33M-Sheldon Haudenschild [1]; 3. 55XM-Tim Shaffer [7]; 4. 7-Craig Dollansky [5]; 5. 81-Paige Polyak [8]; 6. 5T-Travis Philo [9]; 7. O9-Craig Mintz [3]; 8. 55-Brad Bowman [6]; 9. 71M-Joey Saldana [4].

Dash – (6 Laps, finishing order determined first 12 starting positions of A-feature): 1. 40DD-Caleb Griffith [4]; 2. 9-Daryn Pittman [2]; 3. 24H-Bryan Sebetto [3]; 4. 51-Paul McMahan [1]; 5. 53-Christopher Bell [12]; 6. 15-Donny Schatz [6]; 7. 11K-Kraig Kinser [10]; 8. W20-Greg Wilson [7]; 9. 3G-Shane Stewart [8]; 10. 33M-Sheldon Haudenschild [11]; 11. 59-Jac Haudenschild [5]; 12. 60-Jody Keegan [9].

A-Main – (40 Laps): 1. 15-Donny Schatz [6] [$10,000]; 2. 40DD-Caleb Griffith [1] [$5,500]; 3. 24H-Bryan Sebetto [3] [$3,200]; 4. 2-Dale Blaney [15] [$2,800]; 5. 59-Jac Haudenschild [11] [$2,500]; 6. 51-Paul McMahan [4] [$2,300]; 7. 1-Sammy Swindell [19] [$2,200]; 8. 55XM-Tim Shaffer [24] [$2,100]; 9. 9-Daryn Pittman [2] [$2,050]; 10. 3G-Shane Stewart [9] [$2,000]; 11. 6G-David Gravel [13] [$1,500]; 12. W20-Greg Wilson [8] [$1,200]; 13. 71M-Joey Saldana [25] [$300]; 14. 22-Cole Duncan [14] [$1,050]; 15. 11K-Kraig Kinser [7] [$1,000]; 16. 9X-Rob Chaney [18] [$900]; 17. 11-Steve Kinser [16] [$800]; 18. 29-Kerry Madsen [27] [$]; 19. 7S-Jason Sides [23] [$800]; 20. 97-Dean Jacobs [17] [$800]; 21. 7-Craig Dollansky [22] [$800]; 22. 33M-Sheldon Haudenschild [10] [$800]; 23. 60-Jody Keegan [12] [$800]; 24. 53-Christopher Bell [5] [$800]; 25. 54-Cap Henry [20] [$800]; 26. 53X-D.J. Foos [28] [$]; 27. 5R-Byron Reed [26] [$]; 28. 4-Cody Darrah [21] [$800]. Lap Leaders: Caleb Griffith 1-8, Donny Schatz 9-40. KSE Hard Charger Award: 55XM-Tim Shaffer [+16].

The World of Outlaws STP Sprint Car Series heads to Williams Grove next Friday and Saturday for the historic National Open. Only five A-mains are left to decide this year’s champion, with the upcoming weekend at Williams Grove followed races on Saturday, Oct. 12, Rolling Wheels Raceway Park in Elbridge, N.Y., and then the Nov. 7-9 World Finals at The Dirt Track at Charlotte in Concord, N.C.

Racing at Williams Grove

The Pennsylvania Posse will certainly mix up the racing at the two shows in Pennsylvania and the World Finals at Charlotte will have locals in the mix .

Earlier in the year Paul McMahan won the when the Outlaws last visited Charlotte from Daryn Pittman Donny Schatz ended up in 12^th position after the 30 lap Feature.