JOEY SALDANA & STEVE KINSER
LATEST HOOSIER-SHOD WINNERS 

8-26-2002

LAKEVILLE, IN -- Chalk up two more wins for Team-Hoosier in the Pennzoil World of Outlaws Series. Joey Saldana led a sweep of the top eleven for Hoosier at Skagit Speedway on Friday night, while Steve Kinser led a top nine sweep for the purple team on Saturday at Central Washington State Fair Speedway. The wins were Team-Hoosier's 67th and 68th in 72 nights of racing in the series. It was also the 51st and 52nd time Hoosier-shod cars swept the top three positions in the final race of the night. 

ALGER, WA (August 23) -- Forty-six cars were on hand at the 3/10-mile Skagit Raceway Friday night with 44 drivers opting to run on Hoosier tires. Joey Saldana was the fastest Hoosier-shod qualifier. Saldana was a mere .057 seconds off the track record.

All four 10-lap heat races were won by Hoosier-shod drivers. Randy Hannagan, Danny Lasoski, Daryn Pittman, and Toni Lutar were the four heat race winners. 

Jason Meyers and Joey Saldana won the first and second dash races which positioned the two on the front row for the 40-lap feature.

In the feature, Joey Saldana took over the race lead on lap 24 and led the remainder of the race to take the win. Saldana used a Hoosier D10 compound on his left rear position and Hoosier's RD12 compound on his right rear position en route to the $10,000 victory. 

Finishing in second place and collecting $5,500 was Daryn Pittman. Pittman opted to run a Hoosier RD12/D12 combination. Donny Schatz took third using a D10/D12 set-up.

Rounding out the "all-Hoosier" top eleven were Brad Furr, Steve Kinser, Tim Shaffer, Mark Kinser, Craig Dollansky, P.J. Chesson, Danny Wood and Jason Meyers in fourth through eleventh, respectively.       

YAKIMA, WA (August 24) -- Twenty-eight cars posted times in qualifying on the 3/8-mile Central Washington State Fair Speedway--24 of them on Hoosiers with the remaining four drivers split among the other two competing tire manufacturers.

Brad Furr set fast time of the night with a lap of 13.714 seconds. Furr was followed by Joey Saldana who clocked a lap in 13.724 seconds. 

There were three 10-lap heat races required to narrow the field for the 40-lap feature. All three heats were once again won by Hoosier-shod drivers. P.J. Chesson, Danny Wood and Craig Dollansky each won their respective heats.

In the dash races, Steve Kinser won the first race, while Joey Saldana won the second 5-lap race.

In the 40-lap feature, Steve Kinser led every lap from his pole position to capture the $10,000 win--his 15th victory of the season. Kinser used a D12/D15 set-up in taking the win. Danny Lasoski took second and pocketed $5,500 using a D12/RD15 combination. Mark Kinser was third and used the same combination as Lasoski.

Previous night's winner Joey Saldana was fourth, while Jason Meyers, Donny Schatz, Tim Shaffer, Brad Furr and Craig Dollansky were fifth through ninth, respectively, for Team-Hoosier.

Steve Kinser (7869) extended his lead in the Pennzoil world of Outlaws Series to 259 points over Joey Saldana (7610). Danny Lasoski (7557), Craig Dollansky (7543), Mark Kinser (7480), Tim Shaffer (7465) and Donny Schatz (7396) round out the "All-Hoosier" top seven in the standings. Brad Furr and Randy Hannagan are ninth and tenth in the standings giving Team-Hoosier nine of the top ten in the series rankings.

The next stop on the series schedule is a one-night show tomorrow at Cottage Grove Speedway in Oregon where Team-Hoosier looks to extend their current consecutive win streak in the series to 38 wins in a row.      

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