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Did Schatz put Meyers in the wall last night.

I wasn't there in person, but I did listen to the race live...sure sounded like it to me.

Didn't Craig even make reference to the "pass" during his post race comments? Of course the TSR - Donny Schatz home page (www.worldofoutlaws.com) makes bare mention of the "pass".

If he's sitting in a flaming heap this weekend and someone tackles Brent as he's trying to perform Rescue II...it wasn't me!

Sadly...Jason's too nice, and that fat little garden gnome knows it! Think he'd try that crap under Steve, TMac...HELL NO!!!

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any reason, return it, without damage, and we'll 
refund all your money, build you a new car, or better 
yet, bring me someone else's design and I'll use that 
to build your next ride!

haha go figure. it was Donny's fault. where have you people been all summer? Meyers has made a real bad habit of blocking Donny the best he can all year and usually 15 will avoid contact and try again. well maybe last night he got tired of it. maybe it was just a racing deal. i don't know i wasn't there but i hope someone who was will tell us what they saw.

Did he use the "chomp" we've been hearing so much about? Oh that's right... that's a top to bottom move, not a bottom and straight through move.

Didn't Craig even make reference to the "pass" during his post race comments? Of course the TSR - Donny Schatz home page (www.worldofoutlaws.com) makes bare mention of the "pass".

Dollansky's comments were on how tuff it was to pass because of the rubber down track. He said something to the effect of, I guess I could have bumped him out of the way.

My guess is Donny got tired of being "used up" by Jason again. I wasn't there either.

"Just the facts ma'am", Sgt. Joe Friday, Detective, 
LAPD

Well while your at the Gold Cup, go ask Steve and TMAC how Donny races.

Your talking about a 3 time Knoxville Nationals Champion and a 2 time WoO Champion [soon to be a "3peat"]

"Just the facts ma'am", Sgt. Joe Friday, Detective, 
LAPD

Used Up??? Seriously how?

"As long as I can have a fast boat, a margarita 
machine and can light my hair on fire, I'll be just 
fine."

Jason Giambi

OF & RailB ,if you were'nt there then shut up ! As you put it "chomping" is trying to protect the spot your in or do you just move over & wave the 15 by ? The thing that makes this diferent is the fact the 15 finished every race, last nite it caused major damage to the 14 car,it took the crew well over 1 hour of work just be able to get the car in the trailer . Was Meyers crying over spilled milk,no he was getting his hands dirty helping as well as taking the time to sign cards for his fans,would Schatz be doing that.hell no ! Schatz vowed he'd get him,I"d say the incident was pre meditated,sometimes it"s better to let a sleeping dog lye.

GO MEYERS!

My guess is that Meyers tried one two many chop blocks and this time it bit him in the ass. But that is just an educated guess....

Phil Taylor

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Have you seen his chop blocks or read about them ? I"d say read about em,just an educated guess.

"fat little garden gnome"

I guess when Meyers and Dollansky got together at River cities speedway and took them both out, that it was premeditated by whoever was running second. Also at I96 when Steve and dollansky got together, it was Dollansky who was at fault. Come on, these things happen. Donny got upside down a week or two ago and was able to get back into the race. Unfortunate for Meyers - but as the saying goes THAT'S RACIN'!!! It happens to all of them.

I was watching from the infield...Meyers did get off the bottom a bit and Donny clearly got underneath him, but I'm not sure whether or not they actually made contact. Schatz told me they didn't touch and Meyers kept sliding up to the wall after he got underneath him. Just what I saw from the infield and then told in the pit area after the races...

drivers can only take so much from one another threw the course of the yr.im sure other drivers are mad at others but sometimes its better to beat them at the line than destroy a race car or hurt someone.this could fall under $hit happens.

I would like to know how many of you have ever driven a sprint car? Drivers can hear a car behind them but can not see them until they get their nose way up there by the driver. This whole blocking thing just blows me away! What do you do, pull over and let the other motor you hear go by. No, you hold your line!!! Yes I did see this happen and it was very obvious that Meyers has been gaining too many points on chicken Schitz so what better way to set him back than to destroy Meyers car. Near the end of race could not possibly get back in, will get close to last points. BINGO there's your answer as to what happened! It was made worse by Donny's father walking by as the crew tried to get the car in shape to roll in the trailer and states "what goes around comes around". Now try and tell me that it wasn't deliberate!

Maybe Donny was just helping Meyers out so he could build a car that is legal

This is the offical write up from the world of outlaws. Quotes from the drivers also. Just because Johnny Gibson announces something, doesn't make it true. Often the case, he gets very excited and calls things the way he would like them to be, and forgets to correct what he says wrong. This is not the first time Gibson has called things on the air that did not happen, and did not correct himself. Sometimes it appears that he is not an objective announcer. I am not a Schatz, Meyers, Dollansky or anybody die hard fan, but I do like keeping up with the races. Andrewkunus reply does seem to agree with the write up from the outlaws, and he was there. Sounds like a lot of the other replies are just a way for other people to support their driver and not the facts. Racing is racing!

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Schatz Slides to Win at Cottage Grove Speedway

Cottage Grove, OR— September 2, 2008— Donny Schatz only gets to race at Cottage Grove Speedway in Oregon once a year, but it’s always an event that he looks forward to. After all, he earned his first Advance Auto Parts World of Outlaws Sprint Car Series A-Feature win at the track in 1998. Since that race, he has added 82 more A-Feature victories, including on Tuesday night at the high-banked ¼-mile, as he took home the $10,000 top prize.

The two-time defending Advance Auto Parts World of Outlaws Sprint Car Series champion took the lead from Jason Meyers on the 28th lap and then held off Craig Dollansky down the stretch to earn his 13 A-Feature win of the season.

“It was a good night,” said Schatz. “We went out in the middle of qualifying and were able to get a good lap. We got rolling in the heat race. We had to play a little bit of catch-up because we didn’t know what the track was going to do. They worked on it a few times and they did a great job.”

The race took two starts to get going, after a caution on the initial green flag. Both times, Lucas Wolfe who started on the pole led the field into turn one using the low side of the track, with Meyers charging around him exiting the second turn to take the lead. Wolfe fought back and powered his way around Meyers off the fourth turn to officially be credited with leading the first lap, with Meyers again taking the lead on the high side of turn two.

By just the fourth lap, the leaders were in traffic, with Schatz looking to the high side of turns three and four as he looked for a way around Meyers. The next lap Meyers cleared some of the lapped car to pull away, before a red flag on the fifth lap halted the field.

Meyers used another strong restart to maintain his lead, when the caution flag flew on the seventh lap. Then next drop of the green saw him jump to a few car length lead. As the halfway point of the 40-lap contest neared, Meyer retained his lead over Schatz.

A caution for Daryn Pittman who had trouble while running third on the 18th lap, led to a fuel stop. On the ensuing restart, Schatz kept pace with Meyers and began to pressure him for the lead.

“I was actually running a little bit lower from the start of the race,” Schatz noted. “I thought we would be in a good position to be leading a little bit earlier. We got to lapped traffic and he (Meyers) just didn’t keep coming down enough and we got down there before he did. That’s where we were able to get underneath him off (turns) three and four and get a run on him.”

Schatz dove under Meyers exiting the fourth turn on the 28th lap to take the lead. As he fought back, Meyers slipped out of the low groove and up the track, getting into the wall, which ended his night.

Schatz aboard the Armor All J&J led Craig Dollansky on the restart, and held off the veteran driver to pick up his second win of the season on a ¼-mile track, as he chases his consecutive series title.

“It was hard to get off that bottom,” shared the winner. “I kept trying to squeeze out a little bit when I was behind a lapped car and I couldn’t do it, so I got back in line. The guys behind me were all over me and I was all over the guys ahead of me, but we couldn’t really pass, but that’s the way it goes.”

Craig Dollansky lined up fifth and fell back to seventh on the opening lap, before working his way back to the front aboard the Snap-on Tools Maxim. He has three consecutive Top-Five finished at Cottage Grove.

“It was a good run on a track like this that was tough to pass on,” said Dollansky. “You could make a few passes early on and once the rubber came in that made it more difficult. To start where we did and to finish second was a good performance for this Larry Woodward team.”

Jared Ridge finished third on Tuesday night to earn his best career finish with the World of Outlaws. The Washington native started eighth and picked up three spots on the opening lap. He had a late battle with Roger Crockett for the third spot, trading the lead several times with the fellow native of the Pacific Northwest, before taking third for the final time with just two laps to go.

“I am very happy with how tonight went,” said Ridge. “It’s almost a dream come true and the time of my life. We now get to go to Chico (Silver Dollar Speedway) and if we keep doing well, we can keep going south and running with these guys. I love running with them.”

Dollansky was able to stay with Schatz on all of the late restarts and closed to within a couple car lengths of him as the laps wound down and the leaders encountered heavy lapped traffic. For Dollansky, the runner-up performance was his 30th Top-Five performance of the season.

“A couple of times Donny (Schatz) slid and it opened the door a little bit, but not quite enough where we could get in there and make a pass without getting into him,” explained the second-place finisher. “You are worried about your tire wear and are not sure how much tire you have left and you have to get to the end of the race as well. I tried to take a few shots there at the end, but had to also make sure we had enough tire to make it to the end of the race.”

Dollansky has 12 Top-10 finishes in the last 14 World of Outlaws events and head into the 55th Annual Gold Cup Race of Champions this weekend with momentum on his side. He has won seven times this season and is solidly in the third spot in points.

“We’ve been running strong lately,” said the native of Elk River, Minnesota. “We had some bad luck and some things out of our control at Skagit (Speedway). Other than that, we are up there most nights. We’ll head into the Gold Cup prepared and see what we can do.”

Ridge, who was competing for the first time in his career in a World of Outlaws A-Feature event on Tuesday night, was one of a few drivers that were able to take advantage of heavy lapped traffic on the high-baked ¼-mile aboard the Mystique Metals & Engineering JEI.

“Traffic was very important for me,” he noted. “Everyone was on the bottom groove and the lapped cars slowed those guys up, because they were all running the same groove. It definitely helped me out and allowed me to close up on the guys ahead of me.”

Ridge, who began racing sprint cars in 2005, spent most of last season on the road working as a crew member for Joey Saldana’s Kasey Kahne Racing team. He has had a very strong 2008 campaign, picking up 12 Top-Five finishes.

“I would owe about 50 percent of this to Joey (Saldana) and those guys and all the hard work that I did,” explained the Washington native. “They taught me so much and I don’t think I would be here without them. They were so good about teaching me stuff. I have a whole lot more confidence driving now that I had before.”

After having his streak of consecutive Top-10 finishes broken on Labor Day at Grays Harbor Raceway, Schatz and his team quickly rebounded, with the 55th Annual Gold Cup Race of Champions just around the corner at Silver Dollar Speedway in Chico, California.

“We’ve always been pretty confident,” said the current series point leader. “We have been testing some stuff and playing around. We have been on some race tracks that really weren’t to our liking and our favor. That’s just the way that racing is. We’ve been good there in the past, and were going their gangbusters. We’re going there to try to win that thing. This car is rolling around pretty and we’re excited.”

Roger Crockett picked up his second Top-Five finish in the last four days with the World of Outlaws aboard the Omlid & Swinney Fire Protection KPC.

Danny Lasoski, the 2001 World of Outlaws champion finished fifth at Cottage Grove in the Doyle’s Harley-Davidson Eagle. Lucas Wolfe, who won the Crane Cams Dash to earn his first pole of the season, was sixth in the Allebach Racing Maxim.

Chad Kemenah, who began the night by turning the fastest lap in time trials, was seventh in the Kantor Oil Company Maxim, with Monday night’s winner Kraig Kinser just behind him in the Bass Pro Shops Maxim. Jac Haudenschild was ninth in the Owens-Corning Fiberglass Maxim, with Paul McMahan rounding out the Top-10 aboard the Casey’s General Store Maxim.

The Advance Auto Parts World of Outlaws Sprint Car Series returns to action September 4-6 in the 55th Annual Gold Cup Race of Champions at Silver Dollar Speedway in Chico, California.

On several occasions this year, Donny has put his car under Jason to make a pass and Jason makes a left and blocks Donny off. Donny has to jam on the brakes or hit him. Also know as "Chop Blocking" or "getting used up".

"Just the facts ma'am", Sgt. Joe Friday, Detective, 
LAPD