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Kevin Swindell surprises
Charlotte fans with big win - Tony Veneziano, WoO Sprint Series PR
Director – May 24, 2006
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Concord, NC—Kevin Swindell has been
in victory lane many times at World of Outlaws races. Most of those
times he was helping his father Sammy celebrate one of his many victories in
his storied career. On Wednesday night at The Dirt Track @ Lowe’s Motor
Speedway, the 17-year old won his first career World of Outlaws Feature event, leading
all 25 laps in the Eckerd Outlaw Showdown, matching his
father who won the inaugural World of Outlaws event at the track in
2000.
Though he was out front for all the laps, Swindell was
challenged many times by Chad Kemenah, who finished in the second spot. In
traffic Kemenah closed on Swindell and made a couple of attempts to get
closer, but a late caution allowed Swindell to restart with a clean track in
front of him. The youngster was a master of restarts all night, and pulled away
and extended his lead in the waning laps.
Brooke Tatnell caught Kemenah in traffic late in the race,
and was challenging for the runner-up spot, and settled for a second place run.
For Tatnell it was his sixth top-five finish of the year.
Tim Shaffer in his first start filling in for the injured
Terry McCarl came home fourth, after starting ninth. Donny Schatz rounded out
the top five.
Qualifying
1) Justin Henderson, Oswalt D1, 12.461 2) Brooke Tatnell, Rush Racing 8,
12.568 3) Joey Saldana, Kahne 9, 12.633 4) Donny Schatz, Schatz 15,
12.660 5) Tyler Walker, Forbrook 5, 12.715 6) Danny Smith, Smith 4,
12.724 7) Daryn Pittman, Titan Racing USA 21, 12.725 8) Jason Meyers, Elite Racing Team 14,
12.736 9) Dion Hindi, Hindi 11D, 12.778 10) Tony Bruce, Jr., Bruce
18T, 12.810 11) Chad Kemenah, Kemenah 15K, 12.846 12) Kevin
Swindell, Swindell 1, 12.865 13) Brandon Martin, Martin 11M, 12.867
14) Tim Shaffer, McCarl 24, 12.869 15) Jason Solwold, Carnahan R19,
12.873 16) Paul McMahan, Stewart 20, 12.886 17) Jason Johnson, Row
41, 12.889 18) Bob Bennett, ACME 3, 12.956 19) Gary Wright, TH
Racing 1X, 12.968 20) Becca Anderson, Woodring 19, 12.989 21)
Jeremy Campbell, Campbell 10C, 13.015 22) Bill Rose, Rose 6, 13.018
23) Jason Martin, Martin 36, 13.019 24) Jesse Hockett, VKCC Motorsports
75, 13.022 25) Craig Dollansky, Karavan 7, 13.058 26) Jac
Haudenschild, Wright 35, 13.082 27) Travis Rilat, Threatt 29,
13.090 28) Stevie Smith, Smith 19S, 13.110 29) Brian Carlson, SC Motorsports
18, 13.393 30) Justin Collett, Collett 69, 13.399 31) Lance Moss,
Cox 7M, 13.543 32) Matt Linder, Linder 1XT, 13.672 33) Lee Jacobs,
Meggitt 8J, 13.692 34) Josh Wells, Wells 6W, 13.780 35) Johnny
Bridges, Bridges 07, 13.824 36) Butch Pendergrass, Pendergrass 11B,
13.860 37) Randy Helton, Helton 27X, 13.880 38) Brian Smith, Smith 11,
13.948 39) Doug Gold, Gold 8X, 13.986 40) Jimmy Burns, Burns 1B,
14.012 41) Jeff Young, SSJJ Motorsports 29J, 14.026 42) Coby Adams,
SSJJ Motorsports 28, 14.067 43) Scott McClaren, McClaren 21M,
14.078 44) Greg Wilson, Warnimont 20W, 14.135 45) Kris Brooks, SSJJ
Motorsports 27, 14,327 46) Brian Thomas, Thomas 67,
14.740 47) Josh Harris, Harris 44, 14.776 48) Dale Arnold, Gold 22,
15.276 49) Brandon McLain, McLain 21X, 15.676 50) Eddie Hamilton,
Hamilton 90, 21.046 51) Abe Sherwood, Sherwood 44J, 24.508
First Heat Race (8 laps, top 5 finishers transferred to A-feature)--1) Jason
Johnson 2) Paul McMahan 3) Jesse Hockett 4) Jason Meyers 5) Justin
Henderson 6) Brian Carlson 7) Dion
Hindi 8) Lee Jacobs 9) Randy Helton 10) Craig Dollansky
Second Heat Race (8 laps, top 5 finishers transferred to A-feature)--1) Jason
Solwold 2) Daryn Pittman 3) Jason Martin 4) Jac
Haudenschild 5) Brooke Tatnell 6) Tony Bruce, Jr. 7) Bob
Bennett 8) Justin Collett 9) Brian Smith 10) Josh
Wells (DNS)
Third Heat Race (8 laps, top 5 finishers transferred to A-feature)--1) Chad
Kemenah 2) Gary Wright 3) Tim Shaffer 4) Danny Smith 5)
Joey Saldana 6) Travis Rilat 7) Bill Rose 8) Lance Moss
9) Johnny Bridges 10) Doug Gold
Fourth Heat Race (8 laps, top 5 finishers transferred to A-feature)-1) Kevin
Swindell 2) Jeremy Campbell 3) Brandon Martin 4) Stevie
Smith 5) Becca Anderson 6) Matt Linder 7) Jimmy Burns
8) Butch Pendergrass 9) Tyler Walker 10) Donny Schatz
C-main (10 laps, top 2 finishers transferred to B-main)-1) Greg
Wilson 2) Jeff Young 3) Coby Adams [$125]
4) Kris Brooks [$100] 5) Scott McClaren [$100] 6)
Eddie Hamilton [$100] 7) Dale Arnold [$100] 8) Brian Thomas [$100]
9) Brandon McLain [$100] 10) Johnny Bridges [$100] 11)
Butch Pendergrass [$100] 12) Randy Helton [$100]
13) Brian Smith [$100] 14) Doug Gold
[$100] 15) Jimmy Burns [$100] 16) Abe Sherwood
[$100] 17) Josh Harris [$100]
Dash (8 laps, finishing order determined first 10 starting positions of
A-feature)--1) Kevin Swindell 2) Chad Kemenah 3) Jason Meyers 4) Daryn
Pittman 5) Brooke Tatnell 6) Justin Henderson 7) Joey
Saldana 8) Brandon Martin 9) Tim Shaffer 10) Danny Smith
B-main (12 laps, top 4 finishers transferred to A-feature)- 1) Donny
Schatz 2) Tyler Walker 3) Dion
Hindi 4) Travis Rilat 5) Bob Bennett
[$200] 6) Brian Carlson [$180] 7)
Bill Rose [$175] 8) Craig Dollansky [$160] 9) Lee Jacobs
[$150] 10) Matt Linder [$150] 11) Justin Collett
[$150] 12) Lance Moss [$150] 13) Jeff Young
[$150] 14) Tony Bruce, Jr.[$150] 15) Greg Wilson
[$150] 16) Josh Wells [$150]
A-main (25 laps)--1) Kevin Swindell [$10,000] 2) Chad Kemenah
[$5,500] 3) Brooke Tatnell [$3,200] 4) Tim Shaffer
[$2,800] 5) Donny Schatz [$2,500] 6) Jason Meyers [$2,300] 7)
Daryn Pittman [$2,200] 8) Joey Saldana [$2,100]
9) Craig Dollansky [$1,250] 10) Tyler Walker [$2,000]
11) Stevie Smith [$1,500] 12) Justin Henderson [$1,200]
13) Dion Hindi [$1,100] 14) Becca Anderson [$1,050] 15)
Travis Rilat [$1,000] 16) Jeremy Campbell [$900] 17)
Brandon Martin [$800] 18) Jason Martin [$800] 19) Jason
Solwold [$800] 20) Gary Wright [$800] 21) Paul
McMahan [$800] 22) Jesse Hockett [$800] 23) Danny
Smith [$800] 24) Jason Johnson [$800] 25)
Jac Haudenschild [$800]
Lap leaders: Kevin Swindell 1-25
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