Smith Completes PA Posse Sweep Of Williams Grove

Stevie Smith scored the homestate victory Sunday night with the World of Outlaws Sprint Car Series win at Williams Grove Speedway. Photo by WRT Speedwerx

Stevie Smith put together a dominant performance Saturday night at Williams Grove Speedway’s Summer Nationals night two, as he bested Aaron Ott and Donny Schatz to score his first World of Outlaws Sprint Car Series victory in over a year and brought home the Morgan Cup to Pennsylvania for the first time ever.

The night was made even more special as Smith drove under the familiar colors of the No. 19 Black Bandit car, made legendary by his father, Steve Smith, Sr.

If the crowd was loud for Danny Dietrich the night before, the noise and feeling was only amplified as Smith climbed from his car to a roaring Williams Grove Speedway, happy to see a Pennsylvania Posse sweep of the weekend.

“It feels great. It seems so long and hard to win these Outlaw races. I know we won one at Lincoln last year but until then it’s been a difficult task for myself to accomplish,” Smith said. “I know this gets old, but I’ve got to thank these guys, they’ve given me a really, really good racecar. I’m glad it’s getting old that I can say that. I’m very, very proud of them. Things went our way tonight. It’s a great feeling winning a World of Outlaws show.”

The win came with a $25,000 payday and brought the coveted Morgan Cup trophy to Pennsylvania for the first time since its inception.

The win held a special meaning for Smith.

“I was also happy to win on my sister’s birthday. She’s passed away several years ago and today was her birthday so that makes it even more special,” Smith said. “You add in the Outlaws and you add in the $25,000, and you add these guys in, the crowd, it’s just a really awesome night.”

After polesitter Sammy Swindell was penalized for jumping the initial start, Aaron Ott was moved on to the front row with Joey Saldana. Ott jumped out to an early lead and caught the back of the field by lap five. As he worked his way through lapped traffic, Smith, who quickly got around Saldana, began closing on Ott, eventually catching and passing the young driver as the two worked their way around for the eighth circuit.

Farther back, Swindell battled Saldana for the third position. The three-time Outlaws champion got around Saldana on the back as they completed lap 15. Swindell soon had his hands full with Schatz, who started in fifth. As the cars worked their way through traffic, Schatz closed the gap and finally worked his way around Swindell as the two exited turn four on lap 27.

A yellow flag and subsequent red flag flew late in the feature. Smith maintained his lead on both single file restarts as Ott worked to hold off Schatz. With two laps to go, Schatz threw the slider on Ott as they came through turns one and two and held on to take over second. Schatz was not able to catch Smith though as he pulled away from the field.

“It feels great. It seems so long and hard to win these Outlaw races,” Smith said. “I know we won one at Lincoln last year but until then it’s been a difficult task for myself to accomplish. I know this gets old, but I’ve got to thank these guys, they’ve given me a really, really good racecar. I’m glad it’s getting old that I can say that. I’m very, very proud of them. Things went our way tonight. It’s a great feeling winning a World of Outlaws show.”

Smith’s car owner, Hall of Fame driver Fred Rahmer, said he thinks driving under his father’s old colors and number lit a special fire underneath Smith.

“I tell you, when you’re at a World of Outlaws race, you’ve got a lot of worries,” Rahmer said. “There’s a lot of great teams, a lot of great drivers and I still think I’ve got one of the best. We got lucky. All of our guys did a great job. A Don Ott engine has won the last two nights and the XXX cars are working good for us but I’ll tell you, we’ve got a good group of people working on this car. We aren’t the highest financed team, but we’ve got all good people.”

Schatz said he was disappointed with his finish but knew where his team needed to improve for next time.

“Running second is kind of hard to swallow. Especially as many times as we’ve done it here lately,” Schatz said. “That’s racing. It works that way, when you’re good enough to win the race, you win the race and we weren’t good enough to win the race. We’ll work on it and try to get ourselves better. I know we’re getting beat, so at least we can work on that.”

Schatz has finished first or second in 16 consecutive full points Outlaws races and 18 of the past 19.

Ott, who led the first seven laps of the feature, said it was a great race for he and his No. 25 Don Ott Racing Engines car but traffic was a struggle for them.

“We were right there with Stevie the whole race, we just weren’t real good in traffic and I don’t think Stevie was either,” Ott said. “I caught the No. 3 car there and I caught him so quick I didn’t know where to go. I shouldn’t have dropped down to the center but I had to go somewhere because I couldn’t follow up. We were definitely good all night.”

“I would have liked to have run in second and be the top-two in motors but the two cars I got beat by, Donny and Stevie, I think they’re the two greatest drivers in the country. They’re very tough and to finish behind them, we won’t hang our heads.”

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World of Outlaws Sprint Car Series
Williams Grove Speedway – Mechanicsburg, PA
Race Results – July 25, 2015

1. 19-Stevie Smith
2. 15-Donny Schatz
3. 25-Aaron Ott
4. 1-Sammy Swindell
5. 71M-Joey Saldana
6. 21-Brian Montieth
7. 19M-Brent Marks
8. 1Z-Lucas Wolfe
9. 27-Greg Hodnett
10. 51-Paul McMahan
11. 48-Danny Dietrich
12. 29-Kerry Madsen
13. 11K-Kraig Kinser
14. 9-Daryn Pittman
15. 1S-Logan Schuchart
16. 2-Shane Stewart
17. 49-Brad Sweet
18. 7S-Jason Sides
19. 14-Lance Dewease
20. O7-Doug Esh
21. 44-Rodney Westhafer
22. 41-Jason Johnson
23. 3Z-Brock Zearfoss
24. 1A-Jacob Allen
25. 21K-Kyle Reinhardt
26. 37-J.J. Grasso
27. 17B-Steve Buckwalter
28. 3-Pat Cannon