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Don Schatz's increased fitness, aggressiveness (not cheating) has led to more success on the racetrack

Well that does it, I thought all the other competitors were beat when the 15 rolled into the pits. Now I believe if any of them read that article, they're beat before they leave the shop. That is one very confident individual. I found it to be an interesting and insightful point to read that running a heavy cushion isn't his strong suit. People think he must be cheating the way he passes cars in the middle of the race track. Maybe the rest of the teams just haven't spent as much time trying to dial in the middle and/or just resigned to believing it doesn't work.

Hes getting fit and attributing his success to it only to hide where he is really cheating in other areas so people stop looking! Tricking the competition to try and improve their bodies and not their cars.... Only kidding of course! Donny is mostly just that good but racing for TSR certianly doesnt hurt him either.

No, it sure doesn't. Let's get a look at this personal trainer of his. Then we'll see what's keeping him in the gym. She's probably very motivating. 

Come on, everyone knows he has a secret team of Chinese & Rusian hackers programming his traction control.... its got to be true.... some guy on Hoseheads said it...

But Fast Freddy & Stevie Smith are waiting for him....

Yes wizzard I agree.  Summer Nats and Knoxville Nats will be very telling. I think the 51 can hang with anyone, including #15..

Haha classic! There's no question that the pig's cheating. Shatz's fitness....that's the most hilarious thing I've ever heard. Maybe he could consider laying off the McDonald's for a little while. It's alright folks....for the first time since May the Fargo fa@@@t and the Tony Stewart Junk actually have a little competition hahaha!!! The fatface could learn a few things this week if he follows that beautiful gorgeous Black Bandit. I know there's no chance of him keeping up but he could watch that black tail tank for a lap or so. Hey....Mr Mike Nelligan, are you going to be present or won't they let you out of the old folks home? I understand if not buddy, at your age it's probably not healthy to be breathing in Methanol and dirt and beer. It's will be too bad if you can't bring your little toy to take some pictures of the greatest athletes on earth....THE PENNSYLVANIA POSSE!!!!!!!! 

Thank God for Wendal, he always adds so much to the discussion. A very good representation of the PA Posse fan. haha

Like I've said so many times, Donny is the very best driver on the tour right now. It took him 10 years of getting his ass handed to him by some quality drivers along the way to better his craft, and then, he landed Ricky Warner, aka Karl Kinser Jr, the very best crew chief since Karl. And thats when Donny started winning. Ricky is head and shoulders above every other crew chief in the country. What the Outlaws need but will never have is a driver who can compete with Ricky and Donny. It could have been Kyle Larson, Rico, or Christopher Bell but those guys will bypass the WOO and move on to Nascar leaving the series to Ricky and Donny to keep dominating. A lot of fans have no interest in an Outlaw show anymore because of the Ricky and Donny show, and I don't blame them. That and a major lack of passing. Other than Donny, they all pretty well finish where they start. And I might add, it costs 35 or 40 dollars to sit in the stands and watch 5 or 6 passes in an entire night of racing.  What the Outlaws need is a rivalry like Steve, Sammy, and Doug had. But that will never happen again because that talent bypasses the WOO for the big money in NASCAR. If fans want to see the best RACING you will ever see, take a week and go to the Indiana Sprint Speedweek. You would want to see the Outlaw drivers tear them wings off and find out who the real racers are. 

I try lol. Ya gotta have a sense of humor man, life's too short lol.

This post right here is the reason why most people think Posse fans are slack jawed idiots. My apologies to the small minority of Posse fans who are not representative of this type of low functioning moron. Seriously? The "fargo fa@@@t"???? What the fuck is wrong with you?

Cheers!

Like Henry said, thanks for making us PA fans look like knobs.  If you were trying to joke and talk some smack, don't try so hard next time.

I think he meant the "Fargo Flash". Wendal123 can we get your seat number for the nationals? That way we can all witness your meltdown when the Posse is struggling to transfer from the B main and Schatz whips them all in the Amain.

I've always been a proud fan of the Pa regulars since those are the guys I watch race every week. No doubt about it, I'm Posse and I used to be proud of it. Now, I'm almost ashamed of it and idiots like you are why so for that reason, I hope Donny Schatz absolutely smokes everyone this weekend and in my humble opinion, he will. Reason being, he's the best on earth right now which is a FACT.  I don't care where he's from or who he races with, what you just said is TOTALLY out of line and what I'd really like to see is for you to walk up to Donny and say those things to his face. Would you? I highly doubt it. So thank you and all of the other simple minded fucks who make the rest of us posse fans look like inbred morons for making me root against the posse. I never thought I'd feel this way but I sincerely hope Donny dominates Williams Grove this weekend like he never has before. All of the Schatz haters have actually made me a fan of the guy.

Whoa, whoa, whoa, let's not get too carried away.  Rooting for Schatz to dominate this weekend?  That's a bridge too far, my man.  All kidding aside, I agree with you in that I have respected him more this year than any other because of how vocal his critics have been while he's been dominating the tour.  It used to irritate me when he'd win as much as he did, but now I just tip my cap.  

What turned it for me was last year at Port when Ryan Smith won and the crowd went nuts (justifiably so) chanting Posse. It was a great moment for Ryan and I was very happy he won.  They interviewed Donny after finishing second, and he got booed loudly while giving his answers.  The dude was all class while answering the questions too.  I wouldn't have been able to hold my tongue if I were him.  I would have trolled the fans a bit, but he never did.  It's one thing to not like a guy, because he drives over his head, or runs his mouth too much, but Schatz just wins.  Would I rather someone else wins when the Outlaws race?  Sure.  If he wins though, so what, it's hardly ever a fluke.  The guy earns it.

It won't be a 51 car for a while.. It's returning to the ORIGINAL Black Bandit car for the entire month of August. Not to be a nag about the car but man you gotta see that amazing looking scheme.

Strangely enough, that same instance was the tipping point for me as well. I never hated Donny and I've always respected him but I always wanted to see him get beat as well. After Port Royal, I was disgusted with the way a lot of those people were acting. Talk about classless. At that point, I actually fully understood what it is that makes people from the rest of the country feel the way they do about Posse fans. And as a Posse fan myself, I actually feel the same way about the select but far too vocal few who give us a bad reputation. Schatz could've easily taken Ryan Smith out or pulled a questionable slider to take that win but he didn't. He ran him 100% clean and then gave as classy of a 2nd place interview as you will ever hear despite being heckled and booed by a bunch of drunken morons. 

Out of line.... common now don't play dumb like MSPN, traction control is nothing new, anybody with a brain knows that.  Look at his boss, quite the track record of hiring drivers.....NOT!! lol Kurt Busch.....d Patrick...d shatz, haha boy what a classy bunch they are.....NOT!! Pretty bad when your cheating and still can't beat Shane Stewart at Eldora. A fuel starve with 4 laps to go and the moron tries to limp it home, the 19m ends up getten taken out cause that arrogant @@@@ didn't have enough respect for the competition to pull off the track. There's 23 other cars on the track and does not give a damn about any of them but himself. The 19m has every right to knock that @@@ @@ @ @@@@@ out of the racetrack this weekend. What comes around goes around. One of these days someone's gonna drive that @@@@ straight through the guardrail. Maybe that will knock some sense into that air pocket between his ears. He sure as h@ll is NO champion, it takes more than winning points to be a champion. It takes having respect for competitors and they're equipment, not racing them like a jack@ss and sure as heck not cheating. If Donny and Tony want to be the best, guess what....you got to beat the best. If he truly wanted to he could jump up from minor league circus and try to race against the best (Major League)every week in central PA. Would he ever win a track championship at the grove or Lincoln? Hahaha If he came to this neck of the woods he'd probably have trouble competing in the thunder car division let alone a 410 sprint car haha. So there it is....I'm calling you out Donny and Tony....do you want to race with the best? Do you want to try and be a Champion in the major leagues of sprint car racing? Greg Hodnett had the balls to do it. Daryn Pittman had that balls to do it. What's wrong Donny? Are ya scared??? ARE YOU SCARED Donny?

LOL, seriously you can't call it stupid or clueless, that wouldn't be justice.  Retarded, short bus and challenged are more appropriate but they might be tooo accurate, then some will feel bad, I certainly won't....

Wendal: I seem to remember one of your beloved Posse stepping on his pecker and sending the King for a wild ride down the back stretch during the King's Royal heat races. Steve was probably really wishing Bent Parts had done what the Posse do so well: Stay on the porch!