On the restart, Smith got around Gravel for the lead as Schatz moved into third. The moment proved pivotal for Smith and Schatz. This led to an open red as the race exceeded the maximum number of laps run for fuel. Farther back, Donny Schatz had advanced forward two positions from his seventh place starting spot, while Daryn Pittman struggled to maintain in fourth.Ī yellow flag flew on lap 27 as Greg Hodnett stopped in the middle of turns one and two. When the race returned to green, Smith and Gravel began a 17-lap battle for the lead. A caution came out on lap 15 and bunched the field back together.
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By lap 11, as Wolfe and Blaney battled for second, Smith, who started the feature in sixth, slid past both drivers coming out of turn two and took over the position. Gravel started the feature from the pole in his Roth Motorsports car and held off Lucas Wolfe and Dale Blaney in the opening laps. He has one Outlaws victory this season at Lincoln Speedway. Smith led five laps in his Miller Brothers Chevrolet car. (Gravel) could have got me back fair and square, but running into me, that’s another problem.” We’re very thankful for that but this is a hard one to lose. “Being at our home track, we’ve had a very good year here. Smith said he was really disappointed for his team and for the hometown crowd. “I can’t say he was driving over his head, he had a really fast racecar, but he took me out.” “Basically, he wanted to win that race,” Smith said of Gravel. Smith, whose car owner Fred Rahmer won an emotional victory at the National Open last season as he retired from sprint car racing, said that after running a clean race all night he was sorry to have the night end the way it did.
I’m happy I won, but it just doesn’t feel right.”
“I’m running right behind him, trying to get around him, just racing for an inch there. It does feel good to win but obviously people are going to boo me,” Gravel said. “It really sucks that I got into the back of Stevie. Gravel went on to hold off current points leader Donny Schatz for the win. I just got him good enough and got him sideways.” “It’s so narrow on the straightaway so you hit the brakes. “I was trying to go outside of him every time and you’ve got to slow down to run the bottom,” Gravel said following the race. Smith recovered but not before losing the lead and several more positions.
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The contact helped send the 68-time World of Outlaws STP Sprint Car Series winner Smith sideways to the bottom of the track. With seven laps to go, as Gravel, then in second, was locked in a pitched battle with Stevie Smith for the lead, the two dove into turn one and Gravel made contact with the back of Smith’s car. The win did not come without a little controversy though. It was his first win at the track and his fifth World of Outlaws STP Sprint Car Series victory of the season. 4, 2014 – David Gravel led the Outlaws to a sweep of the podium as he picked up the biggest win of his young career at Saturday night’s $50,000-to-win National Open at the historic Williams Grove Speedway. Scores his first victory at Williams Grove and fifth of the Outlaws season leads the Outlaws to a podium sweep
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