Pittman Pulls Off WoO Win At Royal Purple Raceway

Daryn Pittman and his crew celebrate after winning Saturday night’s World of Outlaws Craftsman Sprint Car Series race at Royal Purple Raceway. Photo: Kasey Kahne Racing

After coming just short the night before, Daryn Pittman was redeemed Saturday night as he scored his first World of Outlaws Craftsman Sprint Car Series victory of the season at Royal Purple Raceway Park in Baytown, TX.

“This is a big relief,” Pittman said. “I have had a lot of races slip away from me as the driver. My cars have been fast and we have been up front, but these races are just so hard to win so when you put yourself in position you’ve got to get the job done. We’ve let too many of these slip away.”

Pittman’s Kasey Kahne Racing teammate Brad Sweet passed him on the final turn of the final lap for the win on Friday night at Cotton Bowl Speedway. It was the second time since the start of the season Sweet had passed Pittman on the final lap for a win.

The wins by Sweet and Pittman capped off a Kasey Kahne Racing sweep of the Texas weekend.

Pittman took the feature green flag in his Great Clips/Team ASE No. 9 from the front row with Sheldon Haudenschild starting on his outside.

Pittman pulled out to an early lead over Haudenschild, as fifth place starter Jason Johnson made his way to the third position, passing reigning series champion Donny Schatz.

An early caution allowed Johnson and Schatz to pass Haudenschild who began to slip back.

With a track that allowed two and three lanes of racing, Johnson, Schatz and fourth-place starter Shane Stewart swapped the runner-up position back-and-forth, allowing Sweet to join the battle.

As Pittman started to encounter lapped traffic, the rest of the top five closed the gap on the leader creating a five-car battle for the lead near the halfway point in the feature.

Pittman increased the margin between he and the rest of the top five as Schatz worked his way past Johnson who slipped back to fifth after bobbling on the bottom of the race track. As Schatz claimed the second position, the leader controlled a one second lead with just 10 laps left.

With 5 laps remaining, Schatz reeled in the leader as he set up a shootout that Pittman has seen many times already this season. Schatz tried multiple times to complete a pass for the lead on the inside, but could not build up enough momentum to complete the pass.

Pittman fought off the hard charges from Schatz as he held on for his first victory of the World of Outlaws season.

“(Jason) Sides gave me a heart attack there at the end,” Pittman said. “He beat me off of turn four to the line and I didn’t see who it was until we had already passed the flag stand. I don’t remember lapping him so I just thought we lost again off of turn four coming to the checkered. I’m not sure how I would’ve dealt with another one like that back-to-back.”

“That’s all I had physically. I’m probably in the best physical shape that I’ve ever been in my life to start a season but the race track was just so physically demanding, especially up top where I was running most of the race.”

Schatz finished second after fending off a late-race challenge from Stewart. After the feature, Schatz said his car was good and that he tried everything to get the victory but Pittman was really good tonight and they had the best car.

Stewart’s third-place finish was his best so far of the season.

“A podium finish is good because we have been struggling a little bit this year,” Stewart said. “Last year we struggled in Florida then went to Vegas and were able to win the first night out, and last night we weren’t able to do that. We got our work cut out for us. The KKR (Kasey Kahne Racing) guys have stepped their program up from last year and we have to get a little bit quicker.”

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The World of Outlaws Craftsman Sprint Car Series will continue the western swing when the series travels to Sin City for the FVP Outlaw Showdown at the Dirt Track at Las Vegas for a double header on Thursday, March 3 and 4.

World of Outlaws Craftsman Sprint Car Series
Royal Purple Raceway – Baytown, TX
Race Results – Feb. 27, 2016

1. 9-Daryn Pittman
2. 15-Donny Schatz
3. 2-Shane Stewart
4. 49-Brad Sweet
5. 41-Jason Johnson
6. 5-David Gravel
7. 17W-Bryan Clauson
8. 11K-Kraig Kinser
9. 31B-Sheldon Haudenschild
10. 83-Joey Saldana
11. 1S-Logan Schuchart
12. 87-Aarin Reutzel
13. 7-Paul McMahan
14. 7S-Jason Sides
15. 1-Sammy Swindell
16. 29-Travis Rilat
17. 19M-Brent Marks
18. 1A-Jacon Allen
19. 8M-T.J. Michael
20. 21T-Ray Kulhanek
21. 2C-Wayne Johnson
22. 33-Danny Lasoski
23. 82-Dusty Zomer
24. 15H-Sam Hafertepe