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Schatz is son of Danny Christ Schatz, a sprint car driver in the 1970s, and Diane Korgel. He started his racing career at 11 in go karts, and moved to 358 sprint cars as a 15-year-old at Red River Valley Speedway. Schatz moved to 410 sprints and The World of Outlaws series three seasons later as an 18-year-old.
Schatz got a few brief chills as he saw the curtain come down on his banner with '2022' added to the number of years that Schatz has claimed the grandest race in sprint car racing moving within ...
The race is currently known as the Valvoline Australian Sprintcar Grand Prix due to sponsorship from oil company Valvoline. The current champion is California sprint car driver Brad Sweet . The reigning World of Outlaws champion has won the event three times, most recently on 26 December 2019.
With the Kings Challenge running prior to the Classic, the event attracts the best sprintcar drivers from Australia and the United States. [1] Brooke Tatnell (1995), Skip Jackson (1998), Danny Lasoski (2001) and Donny Schatz (2002) are the only drivers to have won the Kings Challenge / Sprintcar Classic double in the same year.
The 10-time World of Outlaws NOS Energy Drink Sprint Car champion put together at ... Jul. 17—ROSSBURG, Ohio — A thread throughout Donny Schatz' career is rising to the occasion. When the ...
Donny Schatz pounced on the high side of turns 3 and 4 on the last lap of the 30-lap feature, pinning Daryn Pittman in lapped traffic to steal his first win of 2019 and 13th of his career at Las Vegas. Schatz led the opening 13 laps of the feature before Pittman got underneath him in turn 2 and led the rest of the way until the final corners.
Donny Schatz does the traditional postrace toast after winning the 61st annual NOS Energy Drink Knoxville Nationals Saturday at Knoxville Raceway
The second was for the 1986–87 season since the Australian Sprintcar Championship was held at Northline Speedway on the grounds of Hidden Valley Raceway in Darwin, and held early to avoid the October–April wet season. The 1988 race was for the 1987–88 season. The Australian sprint car racing season is technically 1 July–June 30.