Meyers Outduels Schuchart For Grove Open Prelim
9/30/11
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Mechanicsburg –Jason Meyers won his second World of Outlaws feature in a row Friday night at Williams Grove Speedway, scoring the National Open Preliminary for sprint cars worth $8,000.
Meyers was also the winner the last time the WoO appeared at the track back in July for the Summer Nationals.
Meyers, of Clovis, Calif., earned the pole for the feature by winning the dash and was flanked by teenage Hanover pilot Logan Schuchart.
In just his third ever appearance in a 410 sprint car and his first at the Grove, Schuchart flew the PA Posse colors high during the night and throughout the 25-lap feature event.
The initial start of the main was yellow flagged when Justin Henderson and Chad Layton tangled on the backstretch with Layton’s car drifting into the infield via the backstretch pit entrance after he lost the steering and brakes on his mount.
Meyers set the pace when action resumed and in the end would be scored the leader of every lap of the feature but that’s not to say he didn’t get passed.
In fact, Schuchart passed him twice only to see Meyers retake control.
Schuchart’s first and best stab at getting control came on lap nine when he flew deep into the first corner and slid up in front of Meyers in the middle of the second turn only to see Meyers drop off of the cushion and drive back by for control on the backstretch.
But Schuchart wasn’t done and after trailing for two more laps, he took a shot again, this time low in the third and fourth turns but couldn’t make the move stick.
After that, although he kept the leader in his sights, Meyers maintained control in traffic and with six to go, Schuchart’s good run came to an end after a slap of the outside turn one wall resulted in a flat right rear tire.
Third starter Greg Hodnett was up to second for the restart but failed to challenge over the final six laps.
“Winning an outlaw race is hard, winning at Williams Grove is really, really hard,” Meyers said from victory lane before turning his remarks to challenger Schuchart.
“How ‘bout him,” Meyers said.
“I’ve been hearing about him. Those young kids, they got the talent and they’re not afraid of anything.”
Defending Open Preliminary winner Hodnett ended up second and talked about the restart with six to go and his inability to challenge Meyers.
“I stumbled really bad. It just didn’t take off and I don’t know why,” he said.
Fourth starter Fred Rahmer finished third followed by Joey Saldana and Jason Sides.
Sixth through 10th went to Kerry Madsen, Sammy Swindell, Brian Montieth, Steve Kinser and fast timer Daryn Pittman.
Pittman’s fast time over the 53-car field was 16.740 seconds.
Heats went to Schuchart, Hodnett, Meyers, Madsen and Sides. Meyers won the dash.
Brad Sweet scored the C Main with the B Main going to Justin Henderson.
The $50,000 to win, 40-lap National Open is Saturday night. The race is carrying a raindate of Sunday evening.
Feature Finish
September 30, 2011
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