Donny Schatz became a 5 time winner of the Knoxville Nationals on Saturday as he took the lead from Daryn Pittman on lap 29 and never trailed. Schatz had to hodl off a hard charging Shane Stewart who was closing rapidly with 5 laps to go, but ran out of laps in the 50 lap event. Stewart was second with Sammy Swindell in third, Tim Shaffer was fourth and Daryn Pittman was fifth.