ELBRIDGE, N.Y. — Steve Kinser has a lot of laps at Rolling Wheels Raceway Park and he proved it Memorial Day night, rolling to his 545th-career Advance Auto Parts World of Outlaws Sprint Cars Series victory.
Kinser led all 25 laps to post his second triumph of the season.
Kinser started outside the front row aboard the Q Oil Maxim and was dominant throughout. He led the full distance on the five-eighths-mile oval, taking the checkered flag in eight minutes and 14 seconds.
“We’ve always run around this place pretty good, and always have a good set-up,” Kinser said. “It’s one of those race tracks that fits our race cars and fits my style of driving. We’ve always been exceptionally fast here. I always enjoy coming here.”
Kinser entered lapped traffic just five laps into the 25-lap contest. He ran the high side of the track, as he opened a sizeable lead.
“I got held up a little bit,” Kinser said. “I tried to run in the middle of (turns) one and two and finally, I went back up there and was easing into the throttle coming off of (turn) two and got a pretty good run at them.”
Point-leader Jason Meyers got around polesitter Shane Stewart for second on the 21st lap, with Donny Schatz just behind him. Kinser pulled away at the end to win by nearly three seconds.
“The way it worked out it was pretty good,” Kinser said. “Anytime you get the checkered flag first, you can’t complain about anything.”
Meyers earned his 10th top-five finish of the season, as he came home second in the GLR Investments KPC. He wrapped up the East Coast swing with three finishes of first or second, with a win at Virginia Motor Speedway on Saturday night highlighting that.
“It’s been a great weekend for this entire team,” said Meyers. “They worked hard for it and we are proud of it. I thought we may have had something for him tonight, but we weren’t good enough early. We got kind of close there at the end in lapped traffic, but Steve has always been good here. He was good enough tonight that we could not quite get to him. We’ll take second here tonight, and it capped off a great weekend.”
Schatz took third, ahead of Stewart and Kraig Kinser.