McMahan Wages Fierce Battle At Tri-State For WoO Win

Paul McMahan scored the World of Outlaws Sprint Car Series victory Sunday night at Tri-State Speedway. Photo courtesy Paul McMahan Racing

Paul McMahan lived up to his nickname, ‘Pauls to the Walls,’ Sunday night at Tri-State Speedway in Haubstadt, IN, as he waged a fierce battle with Brady Bacon and scored his second World of Outlaws Sprint Car Series win of the season on a slider with eight laps to go.

“I’ll tell you what, man I love this place,” McMahan said in victory lane. “This place has been so good to me.”

McMahan, who started the night in third, maintained through a caution plagued first third of the race. He got his opportunity to take a shot at the lead on lap 13.

Rico Abreu, who stole the show in the opening laps as he tried every possible line and move to get around Bacon, tried to cross under the leader in turns 1 and 2 for the lead. As he hit the middle of the corner, the lapped car of Kerry Madsen was on the bottom of the track. Abreu made contact with Madsen and subsequently flipped. He was okay.

That moved McMahan into the second position. On the restart, McMahan took up Abreu’s mantle and searched for a way around the young driver.

“Brady had an awesome racecar,” McMahan said. “In clean air he was a lot better than we were.”

Bacon eventually got himself free of McMahan, but as he approached lapped traffic on lap 21, McMahan began closing the gap once again. The pivotal restart came on lap 32 after Shane Stewart got into the turns 1 and 2 wall and brought out a red flag.

“I had one shot at (Bacon) on that restart,” McMahan said. “I was able to get a pretty good restart and get a good run on him. Instead of trying to slide him down there in one and two I just thought I’ll follow him there and then try to slide him down there. Down in three and four, you get down in there and it takes off on you in the dust. I didn’t know if I had enough room or not to go for the lead.”

Bacon tried to block McMahan and got pushed up into the turn four wall.

“When he slid me into three I should have just let him go and just crossed back underneath him,” Bacon said. “But I tried to block him and we both about crashed off of four.”

Bacon lost momentum and was forced to hold off Joey Saldana running in third. He eventually ran McMahan back down but a caution flag came out with three to go.

“That yellow came out and he was just a little better on restarts than I was,” Bacon said. “I need to get my car a little better on restarts, that’s pretty much what cost me the race.”

McMahan parked his car in victory lane, taking home his second World of Outlaws Sprint Car Series win of the season.

“We were getting better as the race went on but I still don’t think I had enough for Brady until that caution came out,” McMahan said.

The win came a night after McMahan got a DNF following an expired engine late in the feature at Pevely. McMahan credited his team and crew chief Barry Jackson with bouncing back after a frustrating night and some recent bad luck.

“Yesterday we were all down in the dumps when we lost a motor,” McMahan said. “This is just the way our team is. We just bounce right back and come back and win the race.”

With his win Sunday night, McMahan tied Bobby Allen for 17th on the World of Outlaws all-time wins list. Both drivers have 25 wins.

Joey Saldana, who started on the pole, spent much of the night fending off challenges from Kraig Kinser and, later, a surging Donny Schatz for the third position. Saldana briefly gave up the position to Kinser in the middle portion of the race but was able to hold Kinser and Schatz off through multiple restarts.

Saldana said he was disappointed with the night and the finish after starting up front.

“We just missed it,” Saldana said. “We over adjusted on our racecar and never had anything for him. Just have to do a better job of it and head into next week. Hopefully we can continue to be consistent like this.”
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Late in the night Schatz battled with Saldana for the third position but was unable to make the move. He took home the KSE Racing Hard Charger Award after advancing 16 positions to finish in fourth.

The World of Outlaws Sprint Car Series returns to action next week at historic Eldora Speedway in Rossburg, Ohio. For more info, visit WoOSprint.com.

World of Outlaws Sprint Car Series
Tri-State Speedway – Haubstadt, IN
Race Results – May 3, 2015

1. 51-Paul McMahan
2. 99-Brady Bacon
3. 71M-Joey Saldana
4. 15-Donny Schatz
5. 11K-Kraig Kinser
6. 49-Brad Sweet
7. O5-Brad Loyet
8. 7S-Jason Sides
9. 1ST-Gary Taylor
10. 71MX-Paul May
11. 9-Daryn Pittman
12. 87-Aaron Reutzel
13. O1-Sammy Swindell
14. 7-David Gravel
15. 2-Shane Stewart
16. 67-Christopher Bell
17. 2B-A.J. Bruns
18. 83-Kyle Hirst
19. 41-Jamie Veal
20. 29-Kerry Madsen
21. 3-Tim Kaeding
22. 1S-Logan Schuchart
23. 9P-Parker Price-Miller
24. 24-Rico Abreu
25. 10H-Chad Kemenah