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BAYTOWN, Texas –? The wait is over. Steve Kinser, the undisputed king of sprint car racing, has won his 500th World of Outlaws Sprint Series ?A? Feature.

The defending and 18-time series champion drove his #11 Quaker State Maxim past pole-sitter Brooke Tatnell late in the 10th lap of the Fifth Annual Texas Shootout at Houston Raceway Park Saturday, and held off a furious last-lap charge by Donny Schatz to claim the milestone victory by half a car-length.

?I?m just glad to get this one over with so we don?t have to hear about it any more,? Kinser said in victory lane. ?Donny Schatz is one of those guys who gets better the longer the race goes on. I got to running the bottom of three and four pretty good through the middle of the race, but when I saw him beside me there, I really didn?t know what to do. I didn?t know if the top was any good, so I tried to stay low and block him, but I ended up missing the bottom. We were all pretty bottled up in traffic though.

Source: RaceFan

FIRST HEAT (8 laps): 1. Brandon Wimmer, 2. Jonathan Allard, 3. Donny Schatz, 4. Brian Paulus, 5. Kraig Kinser, 6. Joey Saldana, 7. Toni Lutar, 8. Aaron Berryhill, 9. Larry Howery, 10. Brian Carlson. (first six qualified for the ?A? Feature)

SECOND HEAT (8 laps): 1. Shane Stewart, 2. Dean Jacobs, 3. Brooke Tatnell, 4. Paul McMahan, 5. Danny Lasoski, 6. Erin Crocker, 7. Tim Shaffer, 8. Jason Solwold, 9. Ray Allen Kulhanek. (first six qualified for the ?A? Feature)

THIRD HEAT (8 laps): 1. Jason Sides, 2. Daryn Pittman, 3. Craig Dollansky, 4. Steve Kinser, 5. Jason Meyers, 6. Tyler Walker, 7. Terry McCarl, 8. Brian Brown, 9. Scottie McDonald, 10. Terry Parrish. (first six qualified for the ?A? Feature)

FIRST DASH (5 laps): 1. Brooke Tatnell, 2. Brian Paulus, 3. Donny Schatz, 4. Joey Saldana, 5. Craig Dollansky, 6. Jason Meyers, 7. Dean Jacobs, 8. Jason Sides. (finish determined the inside starting positions in the first eight rows in the ?A? Feature lineup)

SECOND DASH (5 laps): 1. Steve Kinser, 2. Erin Crocker, 3. Kraig Kinser, 4. Paul McMahan, 5. Danny Lasoski, 6. Shane Stewart, 7. Daryn Pittman, 8. Brandon Wimmer. (finish determined the outside starting positions in the first eight rows in the ?A? Feature lineup)

B FEATURE (12 laps): 1. Aaron Berryhill, 2. Terry McCarl, 3. Jason Solwold, 4. Tim Shaffer, 5. Toni Lutar, 6. Brian Brown, 7. Brian Carlson ($200); 8. Ray Allen Kulhanek ($180); 9. Larry Howery ($150); 10. Terry Parrish ($120); 11. Ricky Lee Whatley ($100); 12. Scottie McDonald ($90). (first six qualified for the ?A? Feature)

A FEATURE (30 laps): 1. Steve Kinser [2] ($10,000); 2. Donny Schatz [5] ($5,500); 3. Brooke Tatnell [1] ($3,200); 4. Jason Meyers [11] ($2,800); 5. Brian Paulus [3] ($2,500); 6. Craig Dollansky [9] ($2,300); 7. Danny Lasoski [10] ($2,200); 8. Paul McMahan [8] ($2,100); 9. Daryn Pittman [14] ($2,050); 10. Kraig Kinser [6] ($2,000); 11. Jason Sides [15] ($1,500); 12. Joey Saldana [7] ($1,200); 13. Dean Jacobs [13] ($1,100); 14. Erin Crocker [4] ($1,050); 15. Tim Shaffer [23] ($1,020); 16. Tyler Walker [21] ($900); 17. Terry McCarl [17] ($820); 18. Aaron Berryhill [22] ($820); 19. Brian Brown [24] ($820); 20. Jason Solwold [20] ($820); 21. Jonathan Allard [18] ($800); 22. Brandon Wimmer [16] ($800); 23. Toni Lutar [19] ($820); 24. Shane Stewart [12] ($800).

Lap leaders: Brooke Tatnell 1-9, Steve Kinser 10-30.