Chaos.
That’s what was going on all over the racing surface at Attica Raceway Park during Tuesday Night’s Brad Doty Classic Feature Race.
The 40-lap main event saw Brad Sweet re-join the action with a badly-damaged wing, the Madsen brothers each taken out on the same accident, and a push truck that was lifted too high to push the 49 car back onto the track.
In front of it all, for each and every lap, was the plain-white Silva Motorsports No. 57 machine powered by the hottest sprint car driver the United States has to offer.
That’s right, Kyle Larson has won his third-straight race against the World of Outlaws Sprint Car regulars – the other two coming last month at the Brownells Big Guns Bash at Knoxville.
It comes on the heels of a 35-race stretch for Larson across different dirt track series that has seen him win 18, that’s more than half, of the races he has been entered in.
“Three Outlaw wins in a row for us, so that’s really cool and special,” Larson said on the DirtVision broadcast. “I’ve been winning a lot of Outlaws races lately, but I’ve seen people say, ‘Well they’re not Outlaw races, they’re not with the best.’ So it was cool to come here, beat the Outlaws again, and do it in dominating fashion.”
Larson was dominant from the start of the dash, getting out front of Donny Schatz and taking the win for the Feature Qualifier by 4.85 seconds.
Schatz gave it all he had for Larson in the feature, but settled for another runner-up finish, his third in the past four
“On an open race track, we couldn’t (keep up),” Schatz said on the broadcast. “He was awful quick. We needed to stay in traffic. Towards the end there, we hit traffic, but that’s just the way it goes. Kyle’s doing a really good job at the moment and hats off to them. They’ve worked their tails off to get there.”
Schatz made it up to the tail of the 57 with seven laps to go and even got as close as touching the bumper of Larson’s car.
Although, he couldn’t make it work in turns 1 and 2 and by the time Larson made it to the backstretch, he took off past the pair of cars blocking him.
“I seen Donny show his nose a couple of times there and I felt like I was in trouble and needed to get aggressive to get by those two cars that were side-by-side,” Larson said. “I was able to do that and get some good, consistent laps strung together and then that last caution came out and I could relax with a single-file restart.”
Larson made it to the end with no issues, but it was the opposite kind of night for Brad Sweet.
The No. 49 car failed to finish the race for the third straight World of Outlaws event, and now, the points race is heating up.
Donny Schatz is a mere two points behind Sweet and Logan Schuchart stands back only 14 points behind the Kasey Kahne Racing entry.
When asked if it meant anything to Schatz, he gave a very Donny-like answer.
“It doesn’t (change anything),” Schatz said. “There’s only one thing I can control and it’s what goes on with this 15 car. Things can go for you and things can go against you. It’s all part of the game.”
Although for the fans watching at home, things are getting pretty tight as we’ve passed the halfway mark on the calendar by year.
We’ll see if things continue to heat up when the World of Outlaws return to the track, a week from today. They head to Lernerville Speedway for the annual Don Martin Memorial Silver Cup. Fans, as always, can keep up on DirtVision.
| World of Outlaws Sprint Car Standings | ||||
| Position | Driver | Points | Behind | |
| 1 | Brad Sweet | 3036 | -0 | |
| 2 | Donny Schatz | 3034 | -2 | |
| 3 | Logan Schuchart | 3022 | -14 | |
| 4 | Carson Macedo | 2980 | -56 | |
| 5 | S. Haudenschild | 2962 | -74 | |
| 6 | Daryn Pittman | 2932 | -104 | |
| 7 | David Gravel | 2876 | -160 | |
| 8 | Parker Price-Miller | 2726 | -310 | |
| 9 | Jacob Allen | 2658 | -378 | |
| 10 | Kerry Madsen | 2590 | -446 | |
