World Of Outlaws Thunder Into Attica Raceway Park

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Two bullrings await the World of Outlaws this weekend, beginning on Friday, April 20 at the recently revamped Attica Raceway Park in Ohio. This will be the series first visit to the always racy facility since 2005, after last season’s event fell to rain. In the six previous A-Feature events contested at the track, there have been five different drivers visit victory lane.

Joey Saldana and Donny Schatz will continue their torrid battle atop the World of Outlaws standings as they head to Attica Raceway Park. The pair is separated by just four points heading into this weekend’s events. Saldana, driving for NASCAR star Kasey Kahne has racked up four wins, including three in-a-row at the end of March. His first win of the season came at Thunderbowl Raceway in California, which like Attica Raceway Park is a high-banked 1/3-mile.

The 1996 Kevin Gobrecht Rookie of the Year has 12 Top-10 finishes in the first 13 races of 2007. The native of Brownsburg, Indiana, leads the series in laps led with 122. He also has set fast time in qualifying on four occasions, which is also tops in the series. He also has a dash win which earned him a pole position earlier in the season. He has turned numerous laps at Attica in the past with the World of Outlaws as well as with the All Star Circuit of Champions.

Schatz, the reigning World of Outlaws champion is coming off a very strong secondplace run at Eldora last weekend. It was his series leading 10th Top-Five finish of the season. The native of Fargo, North Dakota has three wins in 2007, including on the opening night of the season. He has led 68 laps on the season, in addition to winning two dashes to earn two pole positions. Also, the 1997 Kevin Gobrecht Rookie of the Year, has stopped the clocks first in time trials once this season. In the series last visit to Attica in 2005, Schatz earned a Top-10 finish.

Steve Kinser, the 20-time World of Outlaws Champion has won twice at Attica. He is the only driver to have multiple wins at the 1/3-mile in the series previous six visits. He won in the World of Outlaws inaugural trip to the track in 1990, and followed that up the next season with a victory as well. He earned his 534th win with the series earlier this season at USA Race Park in Arizona in his first ever visit to the track. The native of Bloomington, Indiana currently is eighth in championship points on the strength of seven Top-10 finishes.


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