MECHANICSBURG
 Not too often do you see fans cheering for Steve Kinser at Williams Grove Speedway.

 But in Saturday night’s Cleveland Brothers World of Outlaws Summer Nationals, fans were rooting for the King of the Outlaws to get around the new King of the Outlaws Donny Schatz.

 But in the end it was Donny Schatz pulling off the $20,000 payday in the event, adding to his already large bank account this week. Schatz won $50,000 last Saturday at Eldora Speedway then won $30,000 on Wednesday at Lernerville Speedway. He won Thursday night’s $5,000 preliminary night of the Summer Nationals and came back to claim his 13th win of the season in the finale last night.

 “I felt like we came up a little short last year in the Summer Nationals,” said the Fargo, N.D. driver. “We broke a motor and finished second. But we come out every night and try to win races. It don’t matter if it’s the Kings Royal, the Knoxville Nationals or the Summer Nationals at Williams Grove, we just love winning and we love racing.”

 Schatz got the jump over Paul McMahan at the start of the 30-lap feature and quickly set the pace over the 28-car field, which was made up of four provisional starting spots at the rear of the field.

 Kinser got around Joey Saldana on the ninth lap and quickly began to reel in the Parker Store No. 15 sprinter of Schatz.

 Kinser made a bid for the lead on lap 14 but Schatz quickly closed the door and maintained the top spot.

 With heavy traffic playing into the fold, Kinser chased Schatz lap after lap with Schatz doing everything he could to distance himself from Kinser through the traffic.

 Schatz nearly lost the top spot on lap 26 when he attempted to lap Kenny Jacobs and Jac Haudenschild in turn one and got out of the groove allowing Kinser to pull alongside off the second turn.

 Schatz won the drag race into turn three and was able to keep Kinser at bay through the remaining five laps for his 13th career Williams Grove win and season-leading fourth at the track this year.

 Tonight it was better to be out where we were with the traffic,” he commented. “Steve was good at the end and made it tough but I really didn’t expect it to lay rubber and I missed that. I’m just glad we were up front and stay out there.”

 Schatz had motor issues during the dash and the Schatz Motorsports team thrashed to get the motor changed prior to the A-Main.

 “This whole team busted their tails after the dash,” he added. “That was our Knoxville Nationals motor and something happened to it there, it broke a valve spring of something. So instead of trying to play with it, we figured we better yard that thing out of there. These guys changed motors awful quick and still made the necessary adjustments to the race car. They’re the ones that got us here tonight, not me.”
 Paul McMahan finished in the third spot over Joey Saldana and Danny Lasoski, making it a complete sweep for the World of Outlaws.

 Doug Esh was the first Pennsylvania Posse across the line in sixth spot ahead of Mechanicsburg’s Lucas Wolfe, Jeff Shepard, Tim Shaffer and Daryn Pittman.

 Saldana, Schatz, McMahan and Wolfe were the heat winners. Haudenschild won the C-Main, Jason Meyers won the B-Main and McMahan was the Dash winner.


PIT STOPS…Friday night winner Brian Leppo had driveline problems with the Swope sprinter during the dash and took one lap in the feature event…Forty-four cars returned for the third night of competition…Todd Shaffer and Lance Dewease used Williams Grove provisionals while Haudenschild and Jason Solwold used WoO provisionals to start the feature…