WEST LEBANON, N.Y. — Jason Meyers thought he’d screwed up when he won the dash Sunday night at  Lebanon Valley Speedway, putting runner-up Steve Kinser in the preferred outside-front-row starting spot.
But Meyers surprised the full house, himself and Kinser when he blasted the Primerica Financial Maxim in front of Kinser on the break and stayed there for 25 trips around the high-banked half-mile track to earn his fourth World of Outlaws victory of the season.
“I was thinking in the middle of the dash that I should have let Steve go by, but it worked out OK,” Meyers said. “I’ve always hated this place, but I guess I can’t say that anymore. It was an awesome night.”
Kinser, who got close a couple of times in traffic but never showed Meyers a wheel, led sixth-starting Lucas Wolfe, Daryn Pittman and Jason Solwold to the stripe.
“I was too tight getting into the corner,” said Kinser. “The starts are everything here, and I couldn’t carry any speed into the corner. We tightened it up at the last minute and we blew it.”
With the exception of a lap-two yellow for Craig Dollansky and Jac Haudenschild, who went around together in turn two right in the middle of the tightly bunched field, the race was trouble free. But that also meant that Meyers caught the backmarkers quickly, and he, Kinser and Wolfe had to battle traffic as well as each other from lap 11 on. Wolfe got the crowd up when he drew in on Kinser, but he couldn’t make it happen.
“I gained a lot on the original start, which let me follow the king for 25 laps,” offered Wolfe. “He got down on the bottom in traffic and I really gained on him, then I lost it all in one and two. By the end, we were all running the same line, so I’m happy with third. It does a lot for our confidence.”