Jason Meyers battled Lucas Wolfe to the line Saturday night at I-55 Raceway to win the Second Annual Ironman 55 by 0.092 seconds, the closest finish of the 2010 World of Outlaws Sprint Car Series season.

“To win any race here, let alone a 55-lap race is pretty special,” said Meyers. “We had a great race car tonight and learned some things last night that we were able to use tonight. We just keep getting better day after day. We struggled a bit here in the middle of the season and kept digging and kept our heads down. This entire team is doing an amazing job.”

Meyers led a total of 26 laps en route to his eighth A-Main victory of 2010.

“It was a long race and we were a little tight at the beginning, but we set up for that,” explained Meyers. “I waited for the car to kind of come to me and it did after the fuel came off a little bit. It ended up being a very good car tonight.”

Lucas Wolfe started the race from inside of row two and ran near the front for most of the race. The Pennsylvania native gained enough ground on Meyers in the final laps to make a last lap move in turns three and four.

“I was close there and got a good opportunity at the end to slide him and was pretty good the whole time,” Wolfe said. “At least I got a shot at him. I was following him and kind of biding my time waiting to get a shot and it all came together good there at the end. I just wasn’t quite able to hold him off.

Friday night winner Tim Shaffer finished third with Kraig Kinser and Joey Saldana rounding out the top-five.

Joey Saldana leaves Missouri with a 9 point advantage over Steve Kinser in the 2010 World of Outlaws Sprint Car Series championship standings.

The next stop on the 2010 World of Outlaws Sprint Car Series schedule is at Nodak Speedway in Minot, North Dakota for the Magic City Showdown Friday, August 20 and Saturday, August 21.

World of Outlaws Sprint Car Series Results Saturday, August 7, 2010
A-main (55 laps) - Starting Position [#]
1) 14-Jason Meyers[2] [$20,000]
2) 5W-Lucas Wolfe[3] [$6,000]
3) 83X-Tim Shaffer[1] [$3,750]
4) 11K-Kraig Kinser[5] [$3,250]
5) 9-Joey Saldana[6] [$2,750]
6) 11-Steve Kinser[8] [$2,500]
7) 15-Donny Schatz[7] [$2,400]
8) 91-Paul McMahan[12] [$2,300]
9) 3-Kerry Madsen[14] [$2,200]
10) 7S-Jason Sides[10] [$2,100]
11) 30C-Lance Dewease[20] [$1,700]
12) 63-Chad Kemenah[11] [$1,400]
13) R19-Doug Esh[15] [$1,300]
14) 6-Danny Lasoski[18] [$1,200]
15) W20-Greg Wilson[21] [$1,100]
16) 6R-Bill Rose[19] [$1,000]
17) 71M-Paul May[17] [$1,000]
18) 4X-Toni Lutar[16] [$1,000]
19) 3B-Brad Greer[23] [$1,000]
20) 44-AJ Bruns[24] [$1,000]
21) 7-Craig Dollansky[9] [$1,000]
22) 51-Fred Rahmer[13] [$1,000]
23) 15H-Sam Hafertepe Jr.[4] [$1,000]
24) 3X-Mark Shirshekan[22] [$1,000]

Lap Leaders: Tim Shaffer 1-9, 13-28; Sam Hafertepe Jr. 10-12; Jason Meyers 29-55
KSE Hard Charger Award: Lance Dewease
Penske Power Position Award: Toni Lutar

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