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Tony Kanaan enjoys Prelude experience

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Finishing fourth in his heat race at the eighth Prelude To The Dream at Eldora (Ohio) Speedway on June 6 bolstered Tony Kanaan’s confidence heading into the 40-lap feature.

Unfortunately for the KV Racing Technology driver, other drivers had difficulty handling the Dirt Late Model stock cars on the half-mile, 24-degree-banked oval. Kanaan, competing in the charity event at the Tony Stewart-owned racetrack for the third consecutive year, placed 22nd after being taken out early. Only 15 of the 26 starter were running at the finish.

“As usual, we received great hospitality from Tony (Stewart) and everybody there,” said Kanaan, who was one spot behind Stewart in his qualifying heat (Danica Patrick crashed in the heat). “It was for a good cause. We were doing much better this year. It’s too bad we got caught up in someone else’s wreck, but overall it was fun.”
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Prelude To The Dream Pre-Race Quotes

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Stars From NASCAR, NHRA, INDYCAR and the World of Outlaws
Ready for Dirt Late Model Race Benefitting Feed The Children

Wednesday, June 6 Presented Live by HBO Pay-Per-View®

The following are pre-race quotes from select drivers participating the eighth annual Prelude To The Dream on Wednesday, June 6 at Eldora Speedway in Rossburg, Ohio.

Racing stars representing NASCAR, NHRA, INDYCAR and the World of Outlaws Sprint Car Series will battle for dirt supremacy on Eldora’s half-mile clay oval where HBO Pay-Per-View® will present the event LIVE in high-definition to the entire nation. Net proceeds from the telecast will support Feed The Children, a U.S.-based charity that domestically has helped more than 365,000 families since 2009 through its Americans Feeding Americans Caravan.
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Speedway Motors reaches two more milestones with IMCA

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IMCA’s longest tenured sponsor reaches two more milestones with the sanctioning body this season.

Speedway Motors returns as title sponsor for the 30th annual Super Nationals, to be held Sept. 3-8. The premier dirt track racing event in the nation has brought 800-plus cars to Boone Speedway each of the last four years, including a record 843 last year.

The Lincoln, Neb., speed shop is also in its fifth year as title sponsor of the sanctioning organization’s weekly racing program and will provide promoter jackets and shirts, tech offi­cial shirts, flags and banners, among other items, to tracks crowning IMCA champions in 2012.
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STEVE KINSER & DONNY SCHATZ – Tony Stewart Racing Tandem Continues Outlaws’ Tour of California

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INDIANAPOLIS (March 13, 2011) – After staging races last weekend in “Sin City” and Southern California, the stars of the World of Outlaws (WoO) Sprint Car Series will set up camp for the next three weekends in the Golden State and compete six times in central California. Tony Stewart Racing’s (TSR) Steve Kinser and Donny Schatz are looking to avoid any upsets of the March Madness variety and charge through the competition like number-one seeds racing through their brackets when they resume action on Friday and Saturday night at Thunderbowl Raceway in Tulare, Calif.

Kinser is coming off a pair of third-place finishes behind the wheel of the TSR No. 11 Bass Pro Shops/J.D.Byrider/Chevy Maxim, and the 20-time WoO champion is still seeking his first triumph in 2012. Kinser won the Outlaws’ first-ever race at Thunderbowl back in September 2003. It was the first of 18 times he’s raced at the track with his best weekend coming in February 2006, when he swept a pair of feature races staged by the National Sprint Tour. “The King of the Outlaws” has seven top-10 finishes in his last eight starts at the track, including a charge from 17th to sixth in the series’ most recent stop there last March.
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Schatz Off to Strong Start in 2012 Outlaws Campaign

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Tony Stewart Racing’s Kinser, Stewart Also Show Well in UNOH DIRTcar Nationals

Dates: Feb. 18-19, 2010
Event: UNOH DIRTcar Nationals
Series: World of Outlaws (WoO) Sprint Car Series
Location: Volusia Speedway Park (Barberville, Fla.)
Winners: Danny Lasoski of Lasoski Motorsports – Feb. 18
Donny Schatz of Tony Stewart Racing – Feb. 19*
Craig Dollansky of Big Game Racing – Feb. 19
TSR Results: Donny Schatz (Started 15th, Finished 4th) – Feb. 18
Steve Kinser (Started 3rd, Finished 9th) – Feb. 18
Donny Schatz (Started 1st, Finished 1st) – Feb. 19*
Steve Kinser (Started 25th, Finished 17th) – Feb. 19*
Donny Schatz (Started 1st, Finished 2nd) – Feb. 19
Tony Stewart (Started 13th, Finished 11th) – Feb. 19
Steve Kinser (Started 15th, Finished 12th) – Feb. 19
*Feb. 17th program was postponed by rain and held on Sunday afternoon, Feb. 19.

Four-time World of Outlaws (WoO) Sprint Series champion Donny Schatz led the Tony Stewart Racing (TSR) contingent in the 41st Annual University of Northwestern Ohio DIRTcar Nationals at Volusia Speedway Park in Barberville, Fla., earning a victory, a runner-up finish and a fourth-place run in a span of just over 24 hours on Saturday and Sunday.
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Interview Donny Schatz

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Donny Schatz, Driver of the No. 15 TSR/STP/Armor All/Chevy J&J:

With the way you ended last year’s World of Outlaws campaign, would you have liked the 2012 season to start right away?

“We finished the season off pretty strong and really started to get that feeling back. Any time you are winning, you want to keep racing. Last year, we had some struggles and fortunately found our way toward the end of the year. The crew needed some time to get our program where we need it to be. I was happy to be able to stay active and race both in New Zealand and Australia. I spent some time at the raceshop recently and I can tell you Ricky, Steve and Bob worked hard this winter. I’m excited to get things going.”
You mentioned your team. How important is it that you have all the same people working together for the second year in a row?

“It’s really big when you are in a competitive environment like we are. At the end of last year, we were all getting along great and having an absolute blast. Even though we struggled at times during the year, we just had to keep working together. You can’t have success without failure. If you don’t learn what not to do, you don’t know what to do. The team that Tony has assembled, we’re all competitive people. We pushed each other to the limit and maybe even over the limit. The same mentally that got us in trouble is what brought us back to the winning stages and having a dominant racecar. I know how hard they work and it motivates me to be the best I can in the car and win races for those guys.”
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Schatz Looks To Continue Winning Ways

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Tony Stewart Racing Driver Opens World of Outlaws Campaign in Florida

INDIANAPOLIS (Feb. 15, 2012) – When the 2011 World of Outlaws (WoO) Sprint Series season concluded last November, there was a bug going around the Tony Stewart Racing (TSR) camp. It was something that not only TSR’s Donny Schatz felt, but his boss, Tony Stewart, also caught it. The 2012 WoO season is set to open this weekend with the 41st Annual Florida DIRTcar Nationals by University of Northwestern Ohio at Volusia Speedway Park in Barberville, Fla., and Schatz is hoping he hasn’t been cured.

Schatz closed 2011 by sweeping the WoO World Finals in Charlotte. Two weeks later, he scored his second straight Western World Championships triumph in Arizona, and he followed that by winning in New Zealand in his first-ever race at Western Springs Speedway near Auckland. The victories didn’t stop there as he picked up two more wins during the holiday season while competing in Australia.

The late-season surge boosted the psyche of the TSR team as it enters the 2012 season. Schatz will campaign with the WoO for the 16th season, and he’ll once again be behind the wheel of the TSR No. 15 STP/Armor All/Chevy J&J. The Fargo, N.D., racer has finished second in the WoO championship standings the past two seasons after winning four consecutive titles.
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Video – Clint Bowyer Racing 2012 Preview

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Clint Bowyer Racing 2012 Preview