7.15.22 Eldora Speedway Results
SIR GRAVEL WINS SECOND THIS WEEK
For the second time in a span of three days, David Gravel once again found Eldora Speedway Victory Lane at a Crown Jewel prelim. On Wednesday, it was Joker’s Wild; today, it was The Knight Before.
Starting from fourth in the postponed Feature on Saturday afternoon, Gravel quickly worked forward in the Big Game Motorsports #2. He drove by the current championship leader, Brad Sweet, to take second on Lap four and completed a super slider on Rico Abreu to steal the lead on Lap 9.
From there, it was a bout of lap traffic and tire conservation in the 25-lap afternoon delight special. The Watertown, CT native had just enough tread left on his Hoosier Tire and cleared the scales post-race to score the victory by a margin of victory of 1.409-seconds.
His second win of the week and fourth win of the season brings him to 73 career World of Outlaws NOS Energy Drink Sprint Car Series wins, giving him sole possession of 12th on the All-Time Win List.
It’s his fifth-career Eldora Speedway victory and offers a big boost of confidence and momentum into tonight as the 30-year-old chases his first Kings Royal crown. He’s topped the Knoxville Nationals and National Open, but the throne and $175,000 payday still eludes him.
“Live I’ve been saying, we’re extremely consistent and right there ready to challenge for wins, we just needed a little tweak,” Gravel commented. “Sprint Car Racing is the toughest it has ever been and every single position, every single win is hard to come by. The day show isn’t ideal but the drivers, track, and fans all made the most of it I think. It feels damn good to grab two already this week, now we just need to add the big one tonight.”
By virtue of his victory this afternoon, Gravel once again reserves the right to qualify whenever he would like during Kings Royal Qualifying this evening.
“That takes a lot of stress off,” he noted on the unique advantage. “We’re probably gonna go fairly again and try to set QuickTime. Then we just need to win that Heat from fourth and go after that money.”
RACE RESULTS
EVENT BOX SCORE
Qualifying A (2 Laps): 1. 39-Daryn Pittman, 00:12.943[20]; 2. 5-Spencer Bayston, 00:12.996[18]; 3. 18-Giovanni Scelzi, 00:13.001[9]; 4. 11-Parker Price Miller, 00:13.021[4]; 5. 7BC-Tyler Courtney, 00:13.059[15]; 6. 3Z-Brock Zearfoss, 00:13.069[26]; 7. 1AU-Marcus Dumesny, 00:13.077[27]; 8. 49-Brad Sweet, 00:13.086[3]; 9. 1-Logan Wagner, 00:13.092[22]; 10. 49X-Tanner Thorson, 00:13.102[23]; 11. 83-James McFadden, 00:13.112[11]; 12. 11K-Kraig Kinser, 00:13.128[7]; 13. 9-Kasey Kahne, 00:13.150[13]; 14. 7S-Robbie Price, 00:13.153[6]; 15. 19-Brent Marks, 00:13.166[19]; 16. 3-Ayrton Gennetten, 00:13.183[17]; 17. 57-Kyle Larson, 00:13.186[2]; 18. 15H-Sam Hafertepe Jr, 00:13.187[21]; 19. 17-Sheldon Haudenschild, 00:13.226[1]; 20. 55-Alex Bowman, 00:13.318[16]; 21. 1S-Logan Schuchart, 00:13.328[10]; 22. 81-Lee Jacobs, 00:13.384[8]; 23. 11T-TJ Stutts, 00:13.419[12]; 24. 4-Cap Henry, 00:13.426[24]; 25. 6-Bill Rose, 00:13.453[14]; 26. 47X-Dylan Westbrook, 00:13.480[25]; 27. 2X-Stuart Brubaker, 00:13.606[5]
Qualifying B (2 Laps): 1. 71-Cory Eliason, 00:12.951[8]; 2. 2-David Gravel, 00:12.968[26]; 3. 55W-Hunter Schuerenberg, 00:12.989[11]; 4. 24-Rico Abreu, 00:13.038[10]; 5. 83JR-Kerry Madsen, 00:13.042[12]; 6. 39M-Anthony Macri, 00:13.044[6]; 7. 21-Brian Brown, 00:13.053[27]; 8. 13-Justin Peck, 00:13.101[2]; 9. 15-Donny Schatz, 00:13.102[25]; 10. 101-Lachlan McHugh, 00:13.200[5]; 11. 48-Danny Dietrich, 00:13.215[20]; 12. 26-Zeb Wise, 00:13.223[9]; 13. 1A-Jacob Allen, 00:13.224[17]; 14. 21H-Brady Bacon, 00:13.228[1]; 15. 20G-Noah Gass, 00:13.251[18]; 16. 10-Dave Blaney, 00:13.260[13]; 17. 5T-Travis Philo, 00:13.268[22]; 18. 19W-Chris Windom, 00:13.284[7]; 19. 70-Sammy Swindell, 00:13.300[4]; 20. 17B-Bill Balog, 00:13.316[19]; 21. 41-Carson Macedo, 00:13.341[23]; 22. 55T-McKenna Haase, 00:13.410[21]; 23. 99-Skylar Gee, 00:13.490[16]; 24. 97-Greg Wilson, 00:13.651[14]; 25. 40-Logan Fenton, 00:14.419[15]
Non-Qualifier (8 Laps): 1. 55T-McKenna Haase[4]; 2. 41-Carson Macedo[2]; 3. 99-Skylar Gee[6]; 4. 4-Cap Henry[7]; 5. 11T-TJ Stutts[5]; 6. 47X-Dylan Westbrook[11]; 7. 97-Greg Wilson[8]; 8. 2X-Stuart Brubaker[12]; 9. 6-Bill Rose[9]; 10. 40-Logan Fenton[10]; 11. 1S-Logan Schuchart[1]; 12. 81-Lee Jacobs[3]
Heat 1 (8 Laps): 1. 39-Daryn Pittman[1]; 2. 7BC-Tyler Courtney[3]; 3. 18-Giovanni Scelzi[2]; 4. 1-Logan Wagner[5]; 5. 17-Sheldon Haudenschild[10]; 6. 83-James McFadden[6]; 7. 1AU-Marcus Dumesny[4]; 8. 55T-McKenna Haase[11]; 9. 9-Kasey Kahne[7]
Heat 2 (8 Laps): 1. 5-Spencer Bayston[1]; 2. 49-Brad Sweet[4]; 3. 11-Parker Price Miller[2]; 4. 11K-Kraig Kinser[6]; 5. 15H-Sam Hafertepe Jr[9]; 6. 3Z-Brock Zearfoss[3]; 7. 41-Carson Macedo[11]; 8. 3-Ayrton Gennetten[8]; 9. 49X-Tanner Thorson[5]; 10. 7S-Robbie Price[7]
Heat 3 (8 Laps): 1. 55W-Hunter Schuerenberg[2]; 2. 71-Cory Eliason[1]; 3. 48-Danny Dietrich[6]; 4. 15-Donny Schatz[5]; 5. 83JR-Kerry Madsen[3]; 6. 1A-Jacob Allen[7]; 7. 21-Brian Brown[4]; 8. 70-Sammy Swindell[10]; 9. 5T-Travis Philo[9]; 10. 20G-Noah Gass[8]; 11. 99-Skylar Gee[11]
Heat 4 (8 Laps): 1. 2-David Gravel[1]; 2. 24-Rico Abreu[2]; 3. 39M-Anthony Macri[3]; 4. 13-Justin Peck[4]; 5. 26-Zeb Wise[6]; 6. 101-Lachlan McHugh[5]; 7. 21H-Brady Bacon[7]; 8. 17B-Bill Balog[10]; 9. 4-Cap Henry[11]; 10. 19W-Chris Windom[9]; 11. 10-Dave Blaney[8]
DIRTVision FAST PASS Dash (6 Laps): 1. 24-Rico Abreu[1]; 2. 49-Brad Sweet[2]; 3. 55W-Hunter Schuerenberg[3]; 4. 2-David Gravel[5]; 5. 5-Spencer Bayston[4]; 6. 7BC-Tyler Courtney[6]; 7. 39-Daryn Pittman[8]; 8. 71-Cory Eliason[7]
C Feature (10 Laps): 1. 47X-Dylan Westbrook[7]; 2. 7S-Robbie Price[1]; 3. 11T-TJ Stutts[6]; 4. 20G-Noah Gass[2]; 5. 99-Skylar Gee[4]; 6. 6-Bill Rose[10]; 7. 1S-Logan Schuchart[12]; 8. 2X-Stuart Brubaker[9]; 9. 19W-Chris Windom[3]; 10. 10-Dave Blaney[5]; 11. 97-Greg Wilson[8]; 12. 40-Logan Fenton[11]; 13. 81-Lee Jacobs[13]; 14. 19-Brent Marks[14]; 15. 57-Kyle Larson[15]; 16. 55-Alex Bowman[16]
Last Chance Showdown (12 Laps): 1. 21-Brian Brown[2]; 2. 3Z-Brock Zearfoss[1]; 3. 83-James McFadden[3]; 4. 41-Carson Macedo[7]; 5. 101-Lachlan McHugh[6]; 6. 1A-Jacob Allen[4]; 7. 1AU-Marcus Dumesny[5]; 8. 17B-Bill Balog[12]; 9. 9-Kasey Kahne[13]; 10. 47X-Dylan Westbrook[17]; 11. 4-Cap Henry[16]; 12. 3-Ayrton Gennetten[11]; 13. 49X-Tanner Thorson[15]; 14. 70-Sammy Swindell[10]; 15. 55T-McKenna Haase[9]; 16. 7S-Robbie Price[18]; 17. 21H-Brady Bacon[8]; 18. 5T-Travis Philo[14]
A Feature (25 Laps): 1. 2-David Gravel[4]; 2. 24-Rico Abreu[1]; 3. 49-Brad Sweet[2]; 4. 5-Spencer Bayston[5]; 5. 55W-Hunter Schuerenberg[3]; 6. 41-Carson Macedo[24]; 7. 18-Giovanni Scelzi[9]; 8. 15-Donny Schatz[14]; 9. 39M-Anthony Macri[12]; 10. 13-Justin Peck[16]; 11. 17-Sheldon Haudenschild[17]; 12. 1S-Logan Schuchart[25]; 13. 71-Cory Eliason[8]; 14. 48-Danny Dietrich[10]; 15. 3Z-Brock Zearfoss[22]; 16. 83JR-Kerry Madsen[18]; 17. 39-Daryn Pittman[7]; 18. 83-James McFadden[23]; 19. 11K-Kraig Kinser[15]; 20. 26-Zeb Wise[20]; 21. 11-Parker Price Miller[11]; 22. 21-Brian Brown[21]; 23. 1-Logan Wagner[13]; 24. 7BC-Tyler Courtney[6]; 25. 1A-Jacob Allen[26]; 26. 9-Kasey Kahne[27]; 27. 15H-Sam Hafertepe Jr[19]