Donny Schatz provided an update on his search for a long-term deal after he was fired by Tony Stewart Racing last week.

After being fired a week ago on Tuesday, August 12th, Schatz initially found a lifeline with Tod Quiring and Big Game Motorsports for the next seven races to close out the month of August.  However, that plan went awry when Schatz was involved in a wreck in the Big Game Motorsports car in turn 1 on the first lap at Ogilvie Raceway.

With the Big Game Motorsports car not available for the World of Outlaws race at Jackson Motorplex due to the wreck, Schatz received help from Dave Lunstra and Lunstra Motorsports. Schatz explained, “When Tod and Cody and all the Big Game guys presented me the opportunity to run these 7 races it was really based on the pretenses not tearing stuff up and not having any engine issues. Two things that really don’t happen around me or them, either one. We tore up last night pretty good so that leaves us to where we won’t be in Jackson tonight with the Big Game 15 ShopHusets.com car. It needs some frame repair.”

“So thanks to Dave Lunstra, I will be at Jackson tonight racing. I’ll be driving the Lunstra Motorsports car with the number 15 on it, it sounds like,” he continued. “After that we just have to take and analyze where it’s at. There’s no guarantee on anything. See what happens. See if the car can be fixed or not fixed. Appreciate the support. I just guess that’s the way the racing world is. When it rains, it pours.”

It’s no secret that last night didn’t go according to plan, but thanks to Lunstra Motorsports, we’ll be in action at @jacksonmotorplx! pic.twitter.com/H20KMRXfxs

— Donny Schatz (@DonnySchatz) August 16, 2025

Now, in an update provided to FloRacing’s Kyle McFadden, Schatz shared that he will continue to race with Lunstra Motorsports through August, but will receive support from Big Game Motorsports. He said, “[Brad Alexander and Stephen Hamm-Reilly have] done a tremendous job and obviously got shifted over to the Lunstra car when we ran Saturday night after crashing Friday night. They’re still there and obviously going to help me through this whole stretch, and see what happens after that. Both of them have been awesome to upend their lives to make sure I have the best opportunity I can have.”

As far as any long-term deals, Schatz revealed, “I’m working on it. I’m absolutely working on it, but, you know, it’s not quite as simple as a person thinks from all aspects. I mean, all these years I’ve had people trying to get me to go do other things, and now I’m in that position. Am I closer? No, I’m no closer than I was. Obviously, you got to get started. I mean, it’s been, what, five or six days since this happened? I mean, it is what it is. That’s just such a short period of time that you can’t move mountains. Rome wasn’t built in the day. I’m trying.”

While he’s trying to put something together, he’s not sure if he’ll make the World of Outlaws trip to New Mexico and then up into California, which begins on September 5th at Vado Speedway Park and concludes on  September 20th at Thunderbowl Raceway with trips at Bakersfield Speedway and Perris Auto Speedway in between. Schatz said, “At this point, I want to get to the West Coast, but I’m kind of crippled just trying to get through what I’m doing here. y focus, as I said, are these first seven races. I mean, I’m borrowing seats and trying to make everything work to do this without doing something that gets me hurt in the process. I’m going to be in good equipment, but I’m so used to being in what I’m supposed to be in, it’s kind of a challenge.”

While he’s not sure if he’ll make the trip to New Mexico and California, he did indicate he’s had plenty of offers, “I’ve had numerous people call. Ultimately I was trying to put something together to finish out the rest of the year. So, you know, obviously I’m going to have to start saying, ‘Hey, this doesn’t work, this works, this doesn’t work, this works.’ And, it’s crazy. If I was to put on a list of paper all the people have reached out and made offers, you wouldn’t even believe it, honestly, and it’s probably better that I don’t. I mean, it’s absolutely insane. It makes me feel good, but yet it makes me feel like an asshole that there’s many people out trying to help and wanting to do something and I have to tell almost a majority of them no, you know?”

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