Event statistics following the 10th race of the 2018 World of Outlaws season, the 40-lap feature at Riverside International Speedway in West Memphis, Arkansas.
Daryn Pittman led a 1-2 assault for Kasey Kahne Racing, holding off teammate Brad Sweet by just over a half second for his first victory of the 2018 season.
Riverside International Speedway – West Memphis, Arkansas
- A-Main Winner (starting position): Daryn Pittman (4th)
- Top Five: Daryn Pittman, Brad Sweet, Paul McMahan, Rico Abreu, David Gravel
- Full Results: Daryn Pittman, Brad Sweet, Paul McMahan, Rico Abreu, David Gravel, Joey Saldana, Hunter Schuerenberg, Donny Schatz, Jason Johnson, Kraig Kinser, Derek Hagar, Jason Sides, Logan Schuchart, Kerry Madsen, Cory Eliason, Shane Stewart, Brent Marks, Carson Short, Sheldon Haudenschild, Howard Moore, Cale Thomas, Ian Madsen, Jacob Allen, Sammy Swindell, Ernie Ainsworth
- Laps Completed: 40
- Laps Led: Daryn Pittman (39), Sheldon Haudenschild (1)
- Lead Changes: 2
- Fast Qualifier: Sheldon Haudenschild (11.746 seconds)
- B-Main Winner: David Gravel
- Dash Winner: Sheldon Haudenschild
- Heat Winners: Daryn Pittman, Hunter Schuerenberg, Rico Abreu, Sammy Swindell
- Hard Charger: David Gravel (+16; 21st to 5th)
- Margin of Victory: 0.518 seconds
- Cars to Finish on Lead Lap: 18 (out of 25)
- Car Count/Cars in A-Main: 32/25
Notes of Interest – Race Recap (Riverside International Speedway)
- This is Daryn Pittman’s first World of Outlaws A-Main feature victory of the season and the 73rd of his career, moving him into sole possession of 10th all-time.
- This is Pittman’s second victory at Riverside. Pittman also won an A-Main at Riverside in 2007. Only Pittman and Steve Kinser have multiple victories at Riverside.
- Pittman is the fifth driver this season to win a World of Outlaws A-Main, joining Donny Schatz (four); Sheldon Haudenschild (three); Cory Eliason (one); and Aaron Reutzel (one).
- Pittman’s victory came from the fourth starting position, joining Aaron Reutzel, who won at the Tulare Thunderbowl in California. Only one of the 10 races this season has been won from the pole position.
- This is Pittman’s first top-five finish of the season and fifth top-10. He had finished a previous-best sixth at Tulare, and has three eighth-place finishes as well.
- Pittman led 39 of the 40 laps of the race, with Sheldon Haudenschild leading one lap. Those 39 laps are the most of a driver in any A-Main this season. It also marked Pittman’s first race led this season.
- Brad Sweet matched his season-best finish of second, which he earned in the third race of the DIRTcar Nationals at Volusia Speedway Park. It marked Sweet’s sixth top-10 finish and ended a three-race slide of finishing outside the top 10; his last top-10 was a seventh-place result last month at Tulare.
- Sweet moved from fourth to third in the points standings.
- Paul McMahan finished third, his best result since finishing second in the season opener at Volusia. McMahan now has two top fives and five top 10s this season.
- Rico Abreu finished a season-best fourth, topping his previous best of sixth in the first race of the season at Volusia.
- David Gravel finished fifth, advancing a race-high 16 positions from 21st. Gravel was seeking to become the first driver to win both the B-Main and A-Mains in a single event this season.
- Joey Saldana finished sixth, his third consecutive race of finishing sixth or better.
- Hunter Schuerenberg finished a season-best seventh.
- Points leader Donny Schatz finished eighth, his series-leading ninth top-10 finish in 10 races this season.
- Jason Johnson, finished ninth, his fourth consecutive top-10 finish. That streak is currently the longest of any driver.
- Kraig Kinser finished 10th, his season-best result.
- Others earning or tying their season-bests in an A-Main were: Jason Sides (12th) and Jacob Allen (23rd).
- Six drivers made their A-Main season debuts: Derek Hagar (11th); Carson Short (18th); Howard Moore (20th); Cale Thomas (21st); Sammy Swindell (24th); and Ernie Alnsworth (25th). A total of 56 drivers have competed in at least one World of Outlaws A-Main this season.
- Shane Stewart finished 16th, ending his streak of three consecutive top fives.
- Fast qualifier Sheldon Haudenschild finished 19th, only his third finish outside the top seven this season. Haudenschild led one lap, in his series-leading seventh race led this season.
- A total of 18 drivers finished the race on the lead lap.
- Three drivers have completed all 320 A-Main feature laps this season: Donny Schatz, Brad Sweet and Shane Stewart.
- All four heat winners were first-time heat winners for 2018: Daryn Pittman, Hunter Schuerenberg, Rico Abreu and Sammy Swindell. That’s the first time since the season opener every heat winner in an event was a first-time heat winner.
- The next race will be Saturday, April 21, with the Spring Classic at Federated Auto Parts Raceway at I-55 at Pevely, Missouri.
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