Brad Sweet drove to the World of Outlaws Craftsman Sprint Car Series victory Friday night at Plymouth Speedway. Photo courtesy Brad Sweet/Facebook
Brad Sweet captured the lead from pole-sitter Joey Saldana early, then held off a challenge from teammate Daryn Pittman late in the race to claim the World of Outlaws Craftsman Sprint Car Series inaugural race at Indiana’s Plymouth Speedway Friday night.
Sweet’s victory, his first since Bakersfield Speedway on April 15, is his sixth of the season, which breaks a tie with seven-time World of Outlaws champion Donny Schatz for most in 2016.
“Typically, I’m not that great on these quarter-mile tracks, but for whatever reason, this year with this package we built it seems we are better on the short tracks but need to get better on the half-miles,” Sweet said. “That’s part of racing – you’re always searching and trying to find things. It’s great to get another win under our belts and build momentum.”
The Grass Valley, CA native was never able to build a large lead during the 30-lap feature, as he had to fight around Saldana early, then fend off Logan Schuchart during the middle stages of the race before holding off Pittman at the end for the win.
“It was a great effort by our Great Clips team – congrats to Brad, he did a heck of a job,” Pittman said. “We have been running good, just have a lot of second place finishes and we want a win. Kale (Kahne) and Michelle had their baby boy on Tuesday so that was a pretty awesome week for them, just would’ve liked to get them a win.”
At the beginning of the day, Schuchart appeared to be the man to beat after setting a new track record during qualifying.
Unfortunately for Schuchart, the dash draw did not work out in his favor as he had to start at the rear of the six-lap race. Saldana, in the No. 83 Roth Enterprises/HR Livestock car, started from the first position and dominated his way to the victory and the pole position for the feature.
Once the green flag fell, Saldana pulled out to an early lead, then held off second-place starter Sweet on an early race restart.
Following a second early-race caution, Sweet was able to get the jump on the leader for the top spot, as Saldana slid back into the field. When his slide ended, Saldana was marred in the fourth position behind Sweet, Pittman and Schuchart.
As the laps winded down, Sweet maintained his lead, but his teammate remained glued to his bumper.
“Daryn (Pittman) would shorten the corner up and gain ground on me and put pressure on me,” Sweet said. “I knew I had the lane covered, I just needed to not make a mistake.
“My guys gave me a great race car all night. Once we got the lead, I had a really good car, I just needed to move around a bit there in lapped traffic.”
Pittman tried on several occasions to muscle his way around Sweet but could never complete the pass as the leaders navigated through slower traffic.
As Sweet and Pittman fought lapped traffic and each other, a hard charging David Gravel had managed to claw his way from the 14th starting position to crack the top three. Gravel joined the Kasey Kahne Racing cars in the battle for the top spot, but came up just short of claiming his second win of the season.
“The track changed and I was able to kind of find the line but Brad had the advantage because he was leading,” Pittman said. “We were so much better than him in the middle of three and four that I thought that was going to be the corner I was going to get him, so I was just trying to maintain in one and two.
“He must’ve really messed up on the cushion in one and two and I got beside him. It must’ve looked like I was trying to pull a slider on him but I wasn’t trying to pass him at that point, I was just trying to get close enough so I could pass him in three and four. Once I showed him my nose, he moved down and that was pretty much the end of the race.”
When the checkered flag dropped, it was Sweet who was able to lead a race-high 21 laps and hold off Pittman and Gravel at the end to claim the $10,000 to-win inaugural victory at Plymouth Speedway.
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World of Outlaws Craftsman Sprint Car Series
Plymouth Speedway – Plymouth, IN
Race Results – May 13, 2016
1. 49-Brad Sweet
2. 9-Daryn Pittman
3. 5-David Gravel
4. W20-Greg Wilson
5. 83-Joey Saldana
6. 15-Donny Schatz
7. 1S-Logan Schuchart
8. 29-Kerry Madsen
9. 17W-Bryan Clauson
10. 71-Jamie Veal
11. 1A-Jacob Allen
12. 41-Jason Johnson
13. 7S-Jason Sides
14. 7-Paul McMahan
15. 2-Shane Stewart
16. 6-Bill Rose
17. 24-Terry McCarl
18. 97-Dean Jacobs
19. 4K-Kody Kinser
20. 19-Paige Polyak
21. 17B-Bill Balog
22. 2X-Parker Price-Miller
23. 99-Brady Bacon
24. 20N-Hunter Schuerenberg
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