Schatz opened Thursday night's festivities by qualifying 6^th out of 64 cars. "He qualified in the 52nd position and actually did quite well for being that late in the field," stated Diane Schatz. The fastest qualifier of the night was Danny Lasoski with a time of 15.955. Donny turned in a best lap of 16.317.

In the qualifying event, Donny started in the tenth position and was able to work his way through the field to pick up the win. They did not run the dash event during Thursday night's program, as it is strictly a point system for the Knoxville Nationals.

This gave him a 6^th place starting position for the main event. Donny ran a very strong race and worked his way up to the second place position. A late race red flag placed a lap car in between race leader Tyler Walker and himself. With only nine laps remaining, he was not able to get enough momentum to get around the eventual race winner, Walker.

"The car was running really strong. I think that if we had a few more laps we could have caught Tyler. We were the fastest car out there," added Diane.

PENNZOIL WORLD OF OUTLAWS - 39TH AMOCO KNOXVILLE NATIONALS
KNOXVILLE, IOWA Date of Race: 08/12/99


NAPA AUTO PARTS HEAT 1
1. Donny Schatz, 2. Danny Lasoski, 3. Tim Monson, 4. Stevie Smith, 5.
Manny Rockhold, 6. Kenny Jacobs, 7. Larry Neighbors, 8. Travis Whitney,
9. Tim Kaeding, 10. Micah Schliemann,

NAPA AUTO PARTS HEAT 2
1. Ronnie Day, 2. Danny Wood, 3. Donny Goeden, 4. Ed Lynch Jr., 5.
Lance DeWease, 6. Gary Wright, 7. Duane Bonini Jr., 8. Nick Bellino, 9.
Jerrod Hull, 10. John Sernett,

NAPA AUTO PARTS HEAT 3
1. Dean Jacobs, 2. Brent Antill, 3. Steve Kinser, 4. Peter Murphy, 5.
Tim Shaffer, 6. Danny Smith, 7. Larry Pinegar II, 8. Jim Moughan, 9.
Blake Robertson, 10. Chris Walraven,

NAPA AUTO PARTS HEAT 4

1. Daryn Pittman, 2. Kevin Gobrecht, 3. Andy Hillenburg, 4. Scott
Whitworth, 5. James Chesson, 6. Bryan Grimes, 7. J.C. Sulawske, 8.
Kenny Hansen, 9. Travis Cram, 10. Randy Anderson,

NAPA AUTO PARTS HEAT 5

1. Tyler Walker, 2. Dale Blaney, 3. Jason Statler, 4. Chad Kememaugh,
5. Brian Paulus, 6. Matt Moro, 7. Jaymie Moyle, 8. Mark Toews, 9. Kevin
Whitworth, 10. Eddie Neumeister,

NON QUALIFIERS RACE

1. Loren Langerud. 2. Travis Rilat. 3. Steve King. 4. Jimmy Kouba. 5.
Dan Oswalt. 6. John Bankston. 7. Robert Jackson. 8. Rick Ziehl. 9.
Tommy Scott. 10. John Lambertz. 11. Bob Bennett. 12. Mallory Armfield. 13.
Ken Whitehouse. 14. Howie Gleason.

C FEATURE
1. Travis Cram. 2. John Sernett. 3. Tim Kaeding. 4. Jerrod Hull. 5.
Travis Rilat. 6. Blake Robertson. 7. Loren Langerud. 8. Steve King. 9.
Robert Jackson. 10. Eddie Neumeister. 11. Dan Oswalt. 12. Micah Schliemann.
13. Chris Walraven. 14. Jimmy Kouba. 15. Rick Ziehl. 16. Randy Anderson.
17. Kevin Whitworth. 18. John Bankston.

B FEATURE
1. Tim Shaffer. 2. Lance DeWease. 3. Brian Paulus. 4. Danny Smith. 5.
Matt Moro. 6. Gary Wright. 7. Larry Pinegar II. 8. Manny Rockhold. 9.
Kenny Jacobs. 10. Travis Whitney. 11. Kenny Hansen. 12. Mark Toews. 13.
Larry Neighbors. 14. Jim Moughan. 15. John Sernett. 16. Duane Bonini Jr..
17. J.C. Sulawske. 18. Jaymie Moyle. 19. Bryan Grimes. 20. James Chesson.
21. Travis Cram. 22. Nick Bellino.

A FEATURE 20 Laps, No Time
1. Tyler Walker. 2. Donny Schatz. 3. Danny Lasoski. 4. Kevin Gobrecht.
5. Steve Kinser. 6. Danny Wood. 7. Andy Hillenburg. 8. Stevie Smith.
9. Tim Shaffer. 10. Lance DeWease. 11. Peter Murphy. 12. Daryn Pittman.
13. Dean Jacobs. 14. Scott Whitworth. 15. Ed Lynch Jr.. 16. Ronnie Day. 17.
Donny Goeden. 18. Jason Statler. 19. Tim Monson. 20. Chad Kememaugh. 21.
Dale Blaney. 22. Brent Antill.

LAP LEADERS: STEVIE SMITH 1-10, TYLER WALKER 11-20
VIVARIN FAST TIME AWARD: DANNY LASOSKI