Breaking Down Donny Schatz’s 250 World of Outlaws Victories (February 11, 2018)

Another Donny Schatz victory in the World of Outlaws, and another incredible milestone.

Schatz scored his 250th A-Main Feature victory Saturday at Volusia Speedway Park by leading the final two laps in his No. 15 Ford owned by Tony Stewart. It marked his first victory of the 2018 season, and in doing so, he became the third driver ever to match the 250-win total (that does not include full-point shows). Steve Kinser has 577 wins, while Sammy Swindell has 294.

Schatz started his journey in 1998 with a single victory, at Cottage Grove Speedway in Oregon. It would become the first of four victories at the track and set forth a journey in which Schatz would become an icon in not just the winged sprint car world, and not just sprint car racing in general, but in all of American motorsports.

It’s crazy to think, but Schatz has scored averaged a victory in almost exactly one of every five A-Main Feature races he’s started (he’s close to 1,250 races run). The victories have come from coast-to-coast and in three countries – the United States, Canada and Australia.

Not surprisingly, the track which bares the majority of those victories is Knoxville Raceway, and a number of Knoxville Nationals wins (however, not all of those Nationals wins came under the World of Outlaws umbrella). And his best state? Pennsylvania, of course. More than a tenth of his A-Main Features have come in the Keystone State, and the majority of Pennsylvania wins at Williams Grove Speedway.

So what exactly is the breakdown? Take a closer look at the statistics surrounding Donny Schatz’s 250 wins, which have now come across 21 seasons.

Statistical Breakdown of Donny Schatz’s 250 World of Outlaws Wins

- Schatz has scored A-Main victories in 28 states, three Canadian provinces and an Australian territory. The state with the most victories is Pennsylvania (27), followed by Iowa (22), Ohio (20), California (18) and his home state, North Dakota (17). Overall, he has totaled double-digit victories in eight states.

- Schatz has won A-Main races at 72 tracks. He has 16 victories at Knoxville Raceway (Iowa), and 15 wins at Williams Grove Speedway (Mechanicsburg, Pennsylvania). He has 12 victories at Volusia Speedway Park (Barberville, Florida), 11 at The Dirt Track at Las Vegas Motor Speedway (Nevada), and nine wins each at Eldora Speedway (Rossburg, Ohio) and River Cities Speedway (Grand Forks, North Dakota).

- Schatz’s most victorious season came in 2015, when he won 31 races. The fewest he won was one race, in 1998 and 2000.

- Schatz has scored double-digit victory totals in 10 seasons, including each of the last six.

- Twelve of Schatz’s victories have come outside the United States – 11 in Canada and one in Australia. His Canadian wins include six in Ontario, five in Alberta and one in Quebec, and his Australian win came in New South Wales.