Daryn Pittman has four career wins at Eldora. He is another of the drivers that has two starts at the track this season, as in addition to the World of Outlaws event on April 11, he competed in the All Star Circuit of Champions race as well.
Tim Shaffer came from the 23rd starting position last month to finish sixth at Eldora. He is currently just outside of the Top-10 in the series championship standings.
Shane Stewart had a Top-Five run going at Eldora last month when he too lost a tire. The native of Bixby, Oklahoma has two Top-Five finishes in the last three starts and also leads the series with three quick time honors.
Jason Sides scored his best finish of 2008 at the half-mile last month, coming home third. He is the 2004 winner of the Kings Royal. He too is just outside of the Top-10 in points.
Sam Hafertepe Jr. was second fastest in time trials at Eldora last month, though problems in the early going of the main event knocked him out of contention. The sophomore driver recently earned his best series finish at Virginia Motor Speedway where he came home third.
Lucas Wolfe, the current Kevin Gobrecht Rookie of the Year Award leader made his first starts at Eldora Speedway last season and was a very solid ninth in the event last month.
Kraig Kinser will make his third start of the season at Eldora on Saturday, as he too competed in the All Star Circuit of Champions event last month in addition to the World of Outlaws race on April 11. The third generation driver earned a season-best fifth-place finish on Memorial Day at Rolling Wheels Raceway Park in New York.
Tony Bruce Jr. and Chad Hillier, who both continue their sophomore seasons with the World of Outlaws, both gained nine spots last month at Eldora. Bruce charged from the 20th spot on April 11 to finish 11th while Hillier turned in a very respectable run as well, coming from 25th to finish 16th.
2008 Race Recap: Craig Dollansky earned his sixth career win at Eldora Speedway, taking the checkered flag.
Dollansky lined up second behind two-time defending series champion Donny Schatz on a restart with 10 laps to go and slid under him exiting the second turn. Schatz battled back down the stretch, with Dollansky holding him off after a restart with just two laps remaining.
The race began with Joey Saldana leading from the pole position. Early in the race, he opened a comfortable lead over Schatz. Saldana was out front for the first 20 laps, before having a tire explode, giving the lead to Schatz under caution. There were a number of drivers that lost tires while running in the Top-10 over the course of the 30-lap event. There were also a couple of drivers that ran out of fuel late in the going.
Schatz, lined up second and ran there for the entire distance, after being the fastest driver in time trials and finishing second in the Crane Cams Dash. Several times early in the race he caught Saldana right as the pair was about to enter lapped traffic, only to have the caution flag fly. While he inherited the lead under caution, he was never officially credited with leading a lap under green flag conditions.
Jason Sides recorded his best finish of the season, coming home third. The native of Bartlett, Tennessee who won the Kings Royal in 2004 at Eldora started ninth on Friday night and steadily worked his way to front, passing Chad Kemenah and Kerry Madsen in the middle of the race and taking advantage of some bad luck that plagued Terry McCarl and Shane Stewart late.
Kerry Madsen finished fourth, to earn his first Top-Five finish of the season. The reigning Kevin Gobrecht Rookie of the Year started sixth and found himself locked in an early battled with Terry McCarl. He too gained a couple of spots late when Stewart suffered a flat tire and McCarl ran out of fuel.
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