Winning Moment: A breakthrough week for Rocket Chassis at East Bay Raceway Park continued Thursday (Feb. 9), with Hudson O’Neal, the new house team driver for the company, holding off Max Blair to win the first points-paying Lucas Oil Late Model Dirt Series feature of the week.
Said the driver post-race, “I feel like the world has been lifted off my shoulders.”
Dramatic Moment: For the second night in a row, Anthony Macri’s tail tank was the center of sprint car controversy at Volusia, this time after Macri made contact blocking Danny Dietrich to score the pole Dash win.
Dietrich and Macri are no strangers to run-ins back in Pennsylvania and all eyes should be tuned to these two for tomorrow’s rescheduled feature race.
In a Nutshell: A night that felt truly anti-climactic with the World of Outlaws getting rained out at Volusia.
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It’s not irony that the season-opening feature for the WoO was rained out seconds after the four-wide salute occurred. It was the heavens weeping that instead of 2023 marking the return of “Sirius” as the kickoff music for the tour, instead we’re stuck with the same non-descript Whiskey Myers guitar riff. The most iconic intro in dirt racing remains in hiatus.
Of course, maybe that rainfall was just tears of joy after DIRTcar cut the length of the UMP modified support class races at Volusia from 20 laps to 15. That didn’t stop modifieds from wadding themselves up at every opportunity, but it did have the program moving at a better clip before the weather turned sour.
The Flo Racing booth’s comparison of David Schilling’s rout of a victory in the Short Track Super Series feature at All-Tech Raceway Thursday to Kyle Larson’s eradication of the LOLMDS field in 2021 was not out of place at all. Schilling was in another zip code even to the naked eye in scoring his first career STSS win. Anyone that laps Stewart Friesen in a center-drive modified is doing something very right.
Speaking of the naked eye, said feature marked my first visit to All-Tech Raceway. Fantastic facility. I’m going to weep the day East Bay Raceway Park is shut down, but knowing that the likely new home of the Winternationals is going to be All-Tech makes it easier…
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