Sep 26, 2016 12:47 AM EST
‘The Hurricane’ Shreds Outlaw Fall Nationals & Siri’s Shot At Sunoco $25,000
Media Contact: Steven Ovens - pr@outlawspeedwayllc.com or (315) 729-3825
For Immediate Release – September 26th, 2016 – Don Romeo photo -
(Dundee, NY) – It has been a great year for Steve Paine at Outlaw Speedway, as well as a lucrative one recently.
Paine picked up several wins this season as well as locking up his ninth track championship. He picked up $5,000 for winning the 2016 track championship and matched that $5,000 with a victory in Saturday’s Outlaw Fall Nationals over track owner and promoter Tyler Siri.
The victory was Paine’s ninety-sixth of his career at Outlaw Speedway’s four-tenths-mile oval and dashed Siri’s opportunity to cash in on the Sunoco Outlaw Challenge. That challenge was worth a potential $25,000 bonus- but will now leave Siri and Paine as the only two drivers that can win the partial bonus of $12,500 at the Dutch Hoag Memorial in late October.
Siri took the lead on the opening lap in his efforts to try and sweep the Outlaw Summer Nationals, Fall Nationals and Dutch Hoag Memorial. The caution flag was displayed on lap seven for a spinning Eldon Payne Jr., which bunched up the field for a restart.
Several failed restarts created some drama and controversy, but did not deter ‘The Hurricane’ from working his way from the twelfth position on the starting grid to Siri’s back bumper.
Paine would take over the lead on lap ten and try to run away and hide. But a lap twenty-three caution bunched the field back up for the restart. As the race closed in on five laps remaining, Siri was closing the gap on Paine for the lead.
Paine had gone into tire conserve mode to finish off the forty-lapper and Siri was throwing caution to the wind on the outside with $5,000-to-win and a potential $25,000 on the line. But Siri would run out of laps, as Paine would go on to win the Outlaw Fall Nationals by 0.2 seconds over Siri and 0.3 seconds over Vic Coffey who followed Siri in the charge to try and catch Paine.
Event pole sitter Jordan Siri and invader Danny Creeden filled out the rest of the top five.
Paine and Siri will now set their sights on the Dutch Hoag Memorial on Saturday October 22nd, where they will have an opportunity to take home the race winnings as well as $12,500 with a victory. The Dutch Hoag Memorial will be round three of three for the Sunoco Outlaw Challenge presented by Outlaw Speedway and Insinger Performance of Dushore, Pennsylvania.
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Outlaw Speedway is located at 82 Main St in Dundee, NY and holds dirt track racing weekly on Friday nights from mid-April through Labor Day Weekend in September. The speedway also hosts special events on the grounds with special races run during the fall months of September and October. A new era is being ushered in for 2016 as Tyler Siri takes over ownership of the Yates County oval nestled in the heart of the Finger Lakes.
Outlaw Speedway Outlaw Fall Nationals Night 2 Official Results 9/24/2016:
BIG BLOCK/SMALL BLOCK MODIFIEDS, 31 cars (40 Laps): STEVE PAINE, Tyler Siri, Vic Coffey, Danny Creeden, Alan Johnson, Andy Bachetti, Joe Dgien, Brady Fultz, Dillon Groover, Randy Chrysler, Brad Rapp, Derrick Podsiadlo, Brad Szulewski, Ray Bliss, Marcus Dinkins, Jordan Siri, Justin Wright, Ron Cartwright, Brian Malcolm, Donnie Lawson, Nick Nye, Lee Bills, Cory Costa, Eldon Payne Jr., Roy Shields
Heat 1: Coffey, Paine, AJohnson, Creeden, Payne, Nye, Hears, Tracy
Heat 2: Bachetti, Cartwright, TSiri, Chrysler, Szulewski, Bills, Bliss, Jackson
Heat 3: Malcolm, JSiri, Wright, Groover, Shields, Hilton, Greenier
Heat 4: Fultz, Dgien, Costa, Lawson, Dinkins, Rapp, Slover, Podsiadlo
Consi: Nye, Bills, Rapp, Bliss, Hears, Podsiadlo, Jackson, Tracy, Hilton, Greenier, Slover
