Sammy Swindell zipped past Steve Kinser under the flagstand on lap 24 and drove away from the field to win the World of Outlaws-sanctioned Don Martin Memorial Silver Cup feature last night at Lernerville Speedway in Sarver.

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It was the 15th career victory at Lernerville for Swindell, of Germantown, Tenn., who won the Silver Cup for the third time. Steve Kinser, a 14-time winner at Lernerville, finished second, followed by Outlaws regulars Mark Kinser, Greg Hodnett and Joey Saldana.

Swindell, 48, credited his success at the Sarver dirt track to experience.

"Both ends are a little bit different, and you have to drive it a little bit different," Swindell said. "You can't run wide open in the middle. A lot of tracks we go to are really easy to drive. The cars are getting closer, the motors are getting closer and every time we run wide open I can't run any more wide open than anybody else, but this place has one corner that's quite a bit bigger than the other. It's banked more in turns three and four, but it's tighter. It's not banked as much in turns one and two, but it's longer. You have to feel what the car needs and not just sit there and hold it wide open."

Many of the Outlaws drivers couldn't have been more happy to be at Lernerville last night. Sure, the $30,000 first-place prize was nice, but the drivers were just glad to race on a track that wouldn't tear apart their cars. Over the weekend at Eldora Speedway, only two drivers completed the Kings Royal feature with the same set of tires.

It prompted Swindell to suggest a change in the rules. Swindell would like to see all the cars race with one tire compound, as well as weighing the cars before a feature rather than after when low fuel and tire wear might force a driver to be bellow the 1,375-pound minimum weight.

At the heart of the debate are the different tire compounds drivers choose. Most select a hard compound that will eventually soften and gain grip. Some choose a softer tire that gives drivers traction from the drop of the green flag but might fade after about 20 laps.

"The problem we've been running into this year is that there are a lot of racetracks that have been dry or they get real abrasive and start putting rubber down," Swindell said. "A lot of guys have cars set up for the amount of laps we're supposed to run. When it gets to that point, there will be some guys that maybe gamble a little bit and run a softer tire. If their car isn't set up quite right, they'll use up their tires."

A driver can setup his car for a 30-lap feature, but rarely do the Outlaws run the minimum number of laps. Caution laps don't count, and all races finish under two laps of green-flag racing before the white flag comes out to signal the last lap.

"All of a sudden we start running 40 laps [instead of 30] when we lose a lap on a restart," he said. "If it's down to the last lap, they'll go back and run three laps. They must have done that seven or eight times [last weekend at Eldora]. When you add that up, you can be at an extra 20 to 25 laps. When you have tires that are made to run 40 laps and you wind up running 50 or 60, you're going to have problems. It's probably a problem they need to address and do something about.

"I'd rather see them weigh the cars before the race and make everybody go out on the same tire. That would be simple enough. Then, if they have a problem, they can stop it and say they made the wrong decision."

The only way that would work is if the Outlaws had an exclusive tire supplier. About 90 percent of the teams race with Hoosier tires, but 18-time series champion Steve Kinser would hate to see the tire competition disappear.

"I guess you could come up with a compound rule, but the only way you could have a tire rule is if you run strictly on Hoosiers or Goodyears or American Racers," Kinser said.