FINDLAY, Ohio — It doesn’t matter the place they’re, David Gravel and Massive Sport Motorsports simply win.
The defending World of Outlaws NOS Vitality Drink Dash Automotive Collection champions gained $83,000 at Thunderbowl Raceway’s Dennis Roth Traditional in California final Saturday. Six days later the scene shifted greater than 2,000 miles east to Ohio’s Millstream Speedway for Sheldon Haudenschild’s Buckeye Brawl offered by NOS Vitality Drink. The consequence was one other journey to victory lane for Gravel and the Massive Sport crew.
The Watertown, Conn., native lined up on the entrance row, but it surely was polesitter Michael “Buddy” Kofoid main the way in which early on.
Gravel saved Kofoid inside his sights to arrange a duel between the present high two in World of Outlaws factors and the 2 winningest drivers on the tour this 12 months.
Gravel stalked Kofoid in visitors and made the profitable transfer on Lap 9 when Kofoid slipped in visitors. The Massive Sport No. 2 rolled below the Roth Motorsports No. 83 out of Flip 4 to take the highest spot. A number of cautions lined Kofoid up alongside Gravel for restarts, however Gravel didn’t flinch. He saved Kofoid behind on his technique to a $17,000 triumph. Add that to his Dennis Roth Traditional paycheck, and that’s a fair $100,000 for his final two days of labor.
“Generally it’s higher to be operating second,” Gravel stated. “Buddy was looking round and operating low beneath guys, and I acquired actually huge runs on him on the highest. He didn’t know. He was simply making an attempt to get by lapped vehicles, and I used to be fortunate to reap the benefits of it. He type of went low and slid throughout, and I type of adopted him in to hit the underside actually good and acquired in entrance of him off of (Flip) 4. That was the profitable transfer. I knew it was going to return all the way down to a nook or two.”
Gravel’s fifteenth victory of the 12 months equaled his 2024 complete, and he’s now three away from reaching his profession finest mark of 18 in a 12 months. The 118th of his profession additionally moved him inside 4 of tying Danny Lasoski for the sixth most all-time with The Biggest Present on Grime. Gravel turns into the sixth completely different World of Outlaws winner at Millstream.
Kofoid claimed the second spot value $11,000 after main the opening eight circuits.
“I simply really feel like that’s most likely the place I gave the race away is visitors,” Kofoid stated. “It’s simply disappointing. I really feel like my automobile was good in visitors, however I really feel like I made dangerous selections in visitors. I acquired an excellent run and simply anticipated them to possibly slide throughout or run the highest, and so they simply went to the underside, and I simply misplaced the momentum. I did that most likely one or two turns too many.”
The ultimate spot on the rostrum went to Logan Schuchart as he saved his latest sizzling streak rolling aboard the Shark Racing No. 1s.
“I simply felt like I used to be on the sting of catastrophe the entire time,” Schuchart defined. “Generally that’s enjoyable. Generally that places on one of the best races for followers, and that’s what we’re right here for is to placed on a present. I’m joyful that we might put this factor on the rostrum.”
Garet Williamson and Kasey Jedrzejek accomplished the highest 5.
Carson Macedo set a monitor document and grabbed his seventh fast time of the season.
The end:
Characteristic (30 Laps): 1. 2-David Gravel[2]; 2. 83-Michael Kofoid[1]; 3. 1S-Logan Schuchart[4]; 4. 23-Garet Williamson[3]; 5. 11N-Kasey Jedrzejek[11]; 6. 17-Sheldon Haudenschild[5]; 7. 2C-Cole Macedo[14]; 8. 17B-Invoice Balog[15]; 9. 41-Carson Macedo[6]; 10. 15-Donny Schatz[17]; 11. 55-Hunter Schuerenberg[19]; 12. 7S-Chris Windom[16]; 13. 17GP-Tim Shaffer[12]; 14. 18-Emerson Axsom[13]; 15. 10RR-Darin Naida[24]; 16. 28N-Trey Jacobs[21]; 17. 98-Ricky Peterson[22]; 18. 33W-Cap Henry[9]; 19. 6-Zach Hampton[18]; 20. 15S-Kerry Madsen[8]; 21. 99-Skylar Gee[7]; 22. 28M-Conner Morrell[20]; 23. 15C-Chris Andrews[10]; 24. 17R-Tylar Rankin[23]
