Outlaws visit Cottage Grove.Byline: Shawn Miller The Register-Guard Size doesn't matter ... much. At least not to the World of Outlaws The World of Outlaws (often abbreviated WoO) is an American motorsports sanctioning body. The body sanctions two major national touring series. It is best known for sanctioning a national tour of sprint cars. , who visit The Cottage Grove Cottage Grove, village (1990 pop. 22,935), Washington co., SE Minn., near the St. Croix River; inc. 1965. There is farming (cattle, sheep, corn, and soybeans) and manufacturing (chemicals and machinery). Speedway on Wednesday - their only race in the state. Series points leader and defending champion defending champion n (SPORT) → defensor/a m/f del título defending champion n (Sport) → champion(ne) en titre Donny Schatz Donny Schatz (born August 10 1977 in Minot, North Dakota) is a World of Outlaws sprint car driver. He was the 2006 World of Outlaws sprint car champion. He also won the 2006 Knoxville Nationals. In 2007 he won The Kings Royal at Eldora Speedway. , who recorded his first World of Outlaws victory at the track in 1998, noted the scenic route to the quarter-mile track - the smallest the series competes on. "Probably more than anything, you kind of feel like you are going out in the woods and the next thing you know you are at the race track," Schatz said. "It's a little bit different when everybody rolls through the residential area in town and then back through by the water retention pond. Away from racing, it's got kind of a unique setting." Steve Kinser Steve Kinser (born June 2, 1954, Bloomington, Indiana), is a professional sprint car racer. He has won 20 championships in the World of Outlaws (WoO) series, and currently drives the #11 Quaker State car. , who is tied for the most World of Outlaws victories at the track with Danny Lasoski at three wins apiece, said he enjoys the smooth, quick setup of the track as well as the atmosphere that surrounds it. "It sort of lays back, out of the way there," Kinser said. "It's a nice little race track. It's sort of a fun stop. We've had some good races there." Cottage Grove native Danny Horner will be unable to race. He is still recovering from a broken vertebra vertebra /ver·te·bra/ (ver´te-brah) pl. ver´tebrae [L.] any of the 33 bones of the vertebral (spinal) column, comprising 7 cervical, 12 thoracic, 5 lumbar, 5 sacral, and 4 coccygeal vertebrae . , suffered in an accident in Tucson, Ariz., racing with the World of Outlaws last March. Tickets remain, all reserved at $36, for the event - which begins with qualifying at 5:30 p.m. - that pays $10,000 to win. Last year the track record was established by Jason Meyers at 10.000 seconds. Although it was part of the National Sprint Tour The National Sprint Tour was a sprint car racing league. It formed in 2005 as a rival to the World of Outlaws. The series folded after one season. The series was started by Brownfield Promotions, Inc. of Snohomish, Washington. The series featured 410 winged sprint cars. , a now-defunct sprint car tour founded by Northwest racer Fred Brownfield. The series was purchased by Kinser and the owners of two other cars last summer when Brownfield died after a car hit him at his track, Grays Harbor Raceway in Elma, Wash. Kinser, Meyers, Lasoski - each in the top five in points this season - and a handful of other drivers returned to the World of Outlaws, operated by DIRT MotorSports, for this season and the near future. "They've been trying this year to do the right thing," Kinser said. "They definitely have a good car count, so we're gonna stay right there and support the World of Outlaws." Schatz has a series-high 14 feature wins this season, including the Knoxville Nationals earlier this month. |
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