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Eldora
Speedway
Saldona seeking
Eldora World of Outlaws 3-Peat
Amid Formidable Company in May 4 & 5 Outlaw Thunder by Goodyear
Weekend
ROSSBURG, Ohio (April 28) – World of Outlaws (WoO) Sprint driver Joey
Saldana will be coming into Eldora Speedway’s Outlaw Thunder by
Goodyear weekend (May 4 & 5) with momentum, renewed confidence and
impressive statistics. In fact, he will be seeking a three-peat
when he goes up against his WoO peers, and all challengers, Friday
night on the famed Eldora high-banks.
Nicknamed “the Brownsburg Bullet”, the second-generation driver has
captured the Eldora WoO opener in each of the past two
years. Last year’s opening win was complemented with a
triumph at the Four Crown Nationals.
Saldana’s Four Crown victory was especially satisfying and served as
redemption of sorts. A devastating crash in July’s WoO sanctioned Kings
Royal sidelined the popular driver, and dashed all hopes for a WoO
crown, for two months with arm injuries. The September date
was his second time back behind the wheel.
Those two wins moved Saldana into legendary company at Eldora.
With a total of ten WoO wins, he is tied for third in the all-time win
list with Doug Wolfgang. Only twenty-time WoO champion
Steve Kinser with 35 wins and three-time WoO champion Sammy Swindell
with 18 wins are ahead of them.
Still seeking that elusive WoO championship, Saldana will have steep
company during the two-night Eldora swing, including veterans Kinser
and Swindell.
Another driver figuring in the mix is current point leader and
four-time WoO champion Donny Schatz. It took several
seasons for Schatz to get into Eldora’s hallowed victory lane, a fete
he accomplished with his 2007 Kings Royal triumph, but he now knows the
road. With four WoO wins at Eldora, including a 2009 repeat
in the celebrated Kings Royal, Schatz is hungry to increase that
victory total.
Among the challengers seeking to idle Saldana’s momentum are All Star
Circuit of Champions frontrunners Tim Shaffer and Dale
Blaney. Shaffer, the defending All Star champion, turned
the tables last season with a Knight Before the Kings Royal win, while
Blaney, a former Kings Royal crown wearer is anxious to return to the
WoO victory lane that he has been absent from since 2004.
A full program of WoO Sprint Car racing will take place Friday and
Saturday in the Goodyear sponsored weekend, with Eldora’s Stock Cars
completing the doubleheader program on Friday night and the UMP DIRTcar
Modifieds on Saturday night. The event featuring being another flame,
firework and pyrotechnic-filled weekend of sensory overloading
excitement mixed with unleashed horsepower.
Tickets for the Outlaw Thunder by Goodyear, the Kings Royal weekend,
and all other Eldora events are available through the track office at
(937) 338-3815 or online 24 hours a day at
www.EldoraSpeedway.com. Like us at
www.Facebook.com/EldoraSpeedway or catch all the behind-the-scenes
preparation for the event on Twitter @EldoraSpeedway.
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