Joey Saldana finished third Saturday night in the World of Outlaws Sprint Car feature at Eagle Raceway in Nebraska. Craig Dollansky finished fourth. Both drive Maxims for Kasey Kahn Racing with Mike Curb.
Danny Lasoski won the race and took the $10,000 prize.
“It was a pretty good night,” said Saldana. “We just couldn't really get a handle on this track. It was pretty tight and we did the best we could. We got caught up with a lapped car and that cost me a spot and I rode around in third after that.”
Saldana tried to use a couple of different lines with the Budweiser Maxim on a track that was very fast and tough to pass on due to the vast amount of rain it received in the days leading up to the race. For Saldana, who is second in the championship standings, he gained 22 points on Donny Schatz and now trails him by 44 markers.
“I moved to the top and kind of got back to him, but passing him is another story,” he shared. “I just couldn't roll as good as those two could. They were both really good. We just struggled most of the night. It was just one of those nights.”
Dollansky started eighth and wound up fourth in the DirecTV Maxim on Saturday night. The 2008 winner of the Eagle Nationals got around Jason Sides and Sam Hafertepe Jr. on the first lap to move into sixth. He then worked on Jac Haudenschild for a number of laps before moving into the Top-Five. He spent the whole second half of the race working on Lucas Wolfe and got him on the last lap to take the fourth spot.
“It seemed like our car was getting better as the race wore on,” said Dollansky. “I was trying to conserve my tear-offs, I was going through quite a few out there. I had a few more left at the end of the race than I thought I would have left. I would have liked to have seen it stay green. We didn't need the caution at that point. We would have been pretty good if that thing would have gone green to checker.” (7/5/2009)(WoO PR)
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