Jason Meyers wound up third in the GLR Investments KPC, with Fred Rahmer coming all the way from 18th to finish fourth. Danny Lasoski was fifth in the Casey’s General Store JEI, with Pat Cannon sixth in the Highlands Tire & Service Center Maxim. Joey Saldana came all the way from 25th to finish seventh in the Budweiser Maxim to earn the KSE Racing Products Hard Charger Award, with Steve Kinser in eighth aboard the Quaker State Maxim. Mark Smith was ninth piloting the Bricker’s French Fries Mach 1, with Alan Krimes rounding out the Top-10 in the Conestoga Valley Garage Maxim.
In the completion of the Summer Nationals finale which was postponed by rain back in July and completed on Saturday night, Darrah started on the pole and led from start to finish after winning the Crane Cams Dash to earn the top starting spot for the 30-lapper, and eventually took the checkered flag over a second ahead of Joey Saldana.
“If you are going to win one, it’s good to win a big one,” said Darrah. “My hat is off to the guys that work on this race car. They put a phenomenal car under me. As long as I keep my arms straight, the car was going forward. It’s awesome to get my first World of Outlaws win here at Williams Grove my home track and in my territory. You never forget the first one.”
The only stoppage of the event came on the 17th lap when Brian Leppo got upside down while running fifth. Darrah used a strong restart to quickly open a comfortable lead on Saldana at this point. As the laps wound down, he encountered some light lapped traffic and easily worked his way through it en route to the victory aboard the J&K Salvage Maxim.
“I just had to keep my tires under me,” noted the 20-year old. “Every time we had a caution, my tires cooled off and the track was cleaned off. We kind of made a wrong decision on (tire) compounds and the long runs kind of hurt me. Other than that, we were pretty good.”
Saldana wound up second in the completion of the Summer Nationals to pick up his finish of the season at Williams Grove Speedway and remains third in the World of Outlaws championship standings with four races remaining on the 2009 schedule.
“It was a pretty good night,” Saldana stated. “We kept working on our car and had it 100 percent better for the (first) feature and had it even better than that for the second feature. We’re definitely going in the right direction and I felt good. You want to get better and we’ll just keep working.”
Lance Dewease finished third in the Infinity Design J&J, with Danny Lasoski in fourth. Steve Kinser rounded out the Top-Five, with Donny Schatz coming all the way from 22nd to finish sixth to earn the KSE Racing Products Hard Charger Award. Keith Kauffman was seventh piloting the Lelands.com J&J, with Jason Meyers in eighth. Sammy Swindell was ninth in the Tom Rolfe Trucking Maxim, and Fred Rahmer rounded out the Top-10.
The World of Outlaws return to action on Saturday, October 10 at Rolling Wheels Raceway Park in New York as part of Super Dirt Week.
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