The weekend began with Donny Schatz starting from the pole on Friday night at Attica Raceway Park in Ohio. Starting up front, the three-time champion seemed to be in the prime spot to take yet another win in 2009. However, the red flag was waved before the opening lap could be completed calling for a complete restart.

On the ensuing restart, Jason Meyers was able to get a good jump on Schatz to take the early lead. Meyers was unable to hold the lead for the remainder of the race. On the 10th lap Schatz reclaimed the top spot and began to pull away.

Heading into Attica, Donny Schatz is leading the series point standings by 53 points over Steve Kinser. Joey Saldana, Jason Meyers and Craig Dollansky conclude the top-5 in the standings.

Looking at last year’s statistics, it is a strong possibility that Schatz will widen the gap. Schatz won last year’s event at the 1/3-mile dirt track with Saldana closely following.

Schatz also has the momentum of Monday’s win at Canandaigua Speedway propelling him into Attica.

Joey Saldana capped a memorable week for the Kasey Kahne Racing team by tacking victory in front of the team's home crowd at The Dirt Track in Concord, NC. The team opened its new race shop located in close proximity to the track just this week, and Saldana wasted no time in decorating it with a new trophy, picking up his series leading 6th win of the season with his boss watching.

“Tonight was a great night,” said Saldana. “I am so proud of this entire team. Kasey (Kahne) expects us to get results with all that he does, so this was a great one to get for him. It was a great effort by everyone involved here tonight.”

Following a two year absence caused by rain, The Hoosier Hundred was held on the one-mile dirt oval at The Indiana State Fairgrounds on its traditional Friday night on `Memorial Weekend. Shane Hollingsworth led flag to flag to capture the United States Auto Club’s Silver Crown Series event.

“We’ve had some good runs. We were never able to put the one hundred miles together the way we wanted to,” said the excited winner from victory lane. “Today was the day. Everybody was here. I had my whole family here. It can’t get any better.”

Hollingsworth had to fend off the challenges from second running Jerry Coons, Jr. for much of the race before Coons blew his right rear tire as the leaders were starting the final lap. The caution flag waved for Coons’ disabled car, which set up a two-lap finish and sent the race to 104 laps per USAC rules for a green flag ending.