| Jason Meyers claimed redemption for last year's | | | | Motorsports, Armor All J&J) and last weekend's |
| near-miss at Paducah International Raceway by | | | | double winner Joey Saldana (Kasey Kahne Racing, |
| taking pole position by way of victory in the Crane | | | | Budweiser Maxim). With only a few laps to go series |
| Cams Dash and leading all 30 laps in Friday's Main | | | | points leader Schatz managed to pull away from |
| event to secure his 2nd victory of the season. The | | | | Saldana and make a hard run at Meyers, only for |
| 2008 race had seen Meyers take the lead with just a | | | | Saldana to suffer a blown tire which put him in the |
| few laps remaining only for a caution to fall before | | | | wall, taking a couple of others with him, and drawing |
| the lap had been completed, pushing him back to 2nd | | | | a red flag. On the restart Meyers was able to |
| where he ultimately finished. Meyers (Elite Racing | | | | reassert himself and Schatz was relegated to 2nd. |
| Team, KLR Investments KPC) ensured there would | | | | "We didn't need the reds and yellows," said a |
| be no repeat of last year's result by consistently | | | | disappointed Schatz, who finished 2nd for the third |
| gapping the field on his way to an impressive victory. | | | | time in 3 races. "That red with three to go hurt us. |
| "To be able to get our second win of the season is | | | | We ran Jason (Meyers) down and passed him and |
| very special to us," said Meyers. "We have had some | | | | the red came out. Our car normally goes well on the |
| new additions to the team recently and everyone is | | | | long runs. I guess second is a fair result, but it's not |
| working hard and it is paying off." | | | | what we wanted." |
| Meyers had begun the evening slowly, managing on | | | | Randy Hannagan (Terry Hannagan Racing, Central |
| the 22nd fastest time in qualifying, before fighting his | | | | Valley Meat Company Maxim) moved through the |
| way to 2nd in his heat, and qualifying for a spot in | | | | field from his 10th starting spot and out-dueled Steve |
| the Dash for pole. This he duly won and once the | | | | Kinser (Kinser Racing, Quaker State Maxim) for the |
| race had begun he never looked back. | | | | remaining podium spot. |
| "This team has been working very hard and they | | | | "We are really happy with it (the finish)," said |
| never quit. They keep digging. Hopefully this is not a | | | | Hannagan. "We made some changes after the dash. |
| sign of things to come, that both races we have | | | | We were ok in the dash and I think the race track |
| won, we qualified outside of the (heat race) inversion | | | | came to us more than anything. I kind of went on |
| and had to do it the hard way," said Meyers, who | | | | defense mode the last three (laps), because I had |
| had nothing but praise for his crew: "You go out and | | | | Steve (Kinser) behind me and I knew he would be |
| have a bad qualifying time and they don't give up, | | | | charging. I think if I could have broke free, I could |
| they dig deep. They made some changes to the car | | | | have gotten back to my racing. I was protecting |
| and gave me one heck of a race car for the rest of | | | | third spot and that was kind of my fault there." |
| the night. My hat is off to them. We have learned a | | | | Chad Kemenah (Chad Kemenah Racing Maxim) had |
| few things the last few weeks and they have been | | | | an excellent run to round out the top 5 after starting |
| working very hard during the week to make some | | | | 16th on the grid, and bagged KSE Race Products |
| changes to our car and building some new | | | | Hard Charger award in the process. |
| components. It's working really well and hopefully this | | | | Unfortunately mother nature intervened the following |
| is a sign of things to come." | | | | evening, preventing the scheduled race at I-55 |
| Behind Meyers there was a vigorous battle for 2nd | | | | Raceway in Pevely, Missouri from taking place. |
| place between Donny Schatz (Tony Stewart | | | | |