Pittman wins in California – Saldana second again
Win number 5 for Daryn Pittman at Antioch Speedway
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ANTIOCH, Calif. – Sept. 13, 2015. Returning to Antioch Speedway for the second time in 2015 Daryn Pittman repeats his March 29 victory this time beating home Joey Saldana and Tyler Walker.
A win is a win but bad luck finally breached the Schatz/Tony Stewart amour when the #15 suffered a flat right rear and was forced into the work area, Schatz would return at the rear of the field.
Joey Saldana had won the pole position and lead the field to the green .Saldana controlled the race up until lap 4 with Schatz gave notice that his 30th race win was coming.
The loss of his right rear forced Schatz to the work area and put end to a possible 30th race win .Once the field got back to racing Saldana assumed the race lead but it was not long before Pittman pounced on the #71 and raced into the lead.
With 16 quick times in 2015 Anticoh was not one of them ,but Saldana landed on pole
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Pittman worked on extending his race lead over Saldana who had Tyler Walker taking his attention away from challenging Pittman .Walker making a return to outlaw racing was showing that he had lost none of his old fire and worked Saldana over. This was a something that the #71 did not need but he continued to thwart Walkers attacks. Finally Walkers attacks paid dividend and he found a way around Saldana.
A lap after passing Saldana into Second the first of four late cautions came into play. Pittman was in control, only question left was what if anything could Saldana do after Tyler Walker.Lap 27 and the final caution, last play for Saldana and after have missed previous slide opportunities the Brownsburg Bullet made the last one count, the money move and regained his second position.
Antioch win to Pittman brings his 2015 race win tally to 5, Saldana secured the runner up position for the third night in succession and Tyler Walker makes strong statement that his racing form has retuned.
Rico Abreu set the pace during qualifying with fast time but while running in 6th position he flipped and his night ended .The #24 was returned to the Abreu hauler, Rico was unhurt.
Abreu’s car on the way to the hauler after crash
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It has been a tough year for Pittman and the Great Clips KKR and win number 5 should give the team much needed confidence as they head the Clay County for the next Outlaw show.
Post race interviews with Pittman,Saldana and Walker
Pittman “This can be a tough schedule as many races as we run and as long as we’re gone from home,” Pittman said. “To have my family out here, it means the world for them to be at all the races, especially when we win… Great win, great way to leave California and hopefully we can keep it going here for the rest of the year.”
Saldana “It was weird – we tightened our car up a bunch and I was dead loose from the word go,” Saldana said. “So we just hung in there as long as we could and then Tyler was getting loose there at the end and we got a run on him there and there was only a few laps left so you’ve just got to do what you can in a short time.”
Walker
Tyler Walker is back on the podium with the WoO
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“I’ve got a great team around me, I have great fans and great support,” Walker said. “It’s a big change from where I was three or four months ago. I’ll just keep doing what I love doing and surrounding myself with good people and we’ll end up two more spots ahead next time.”
A-Main – (30 Laps) – 1. 9-Daryn Pittman [3] [$10,000]; 2. 71M-Joey Saladana [1] [$5,500]; 3. 88-Tyler Walker [5] [$3,200]; 4. 49-Brad Sweet [4] [$2,800]; 5. 51-Paul McMahan [9] [$2,500]; 6. 2-Shane Stewart [12] [$2,300]; 7. 22K-Shane Golobic [11] [$2,200]; 8. 29-Kerry Madsen [13] [$2,100]; 9. 1S-Logan Schuchart [10] [$2,050]; 10. 3C-Jonathan Allard [18] [$2,000]; 11. 15-Donny Schatz [2] [$1,500]; 12. 83JR-Kyle Hirst [17] [$1,200]; 13. OO-Jason Statler [20] [$1,100]; 14. 7S-Jason Sides [24] [$1,050]; 15. 5V-Colby Copeland [15] [$1,000]; 16. O-Bud Kaeding [16] [$900]; 17. 27-Chase Jhnson [22] [$800]; 18. 7-David Gravel [7] [$800]; 19. 98-Sean Watts [23] [$800]; 20. 41-Jason Johnson [14] [$800]; 21. 88N-DJ Netto [8] [$800]; 22. 12X-Jarrett Soares [19] [$800]; 23. 24-Rico Abreu [6] [$800]; 24. 1A-Jacob Allen [21] [$800]. Lap Leaders: Joey Saldana 1-4, Donny Schatz 5-9, Daryn Pittman 10-30. KSE Hard Charger Award: 7S-Jason Sides [+10]
The next outing on the clay for the World of Outlaws will be Friday September 18 at Clay County Fair Speedway. Will this be the race that sees Saldana crack it for his 3rd race win of 2015? Joining the Outlaws at Clay County will be Danny Lasoski and Bryan Clauson .
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