Dirt Racing’s Winning Moment: Two-time defending World of Outlaws runner-up David Gravel continued a red-hot start to 2023, blasting by polesitter Jacob Allen on the opening lap and went flag-to-flag to win his third feature in four races at Volusia Speedway Park in Barberville, Fla. on Monday (March 6).
Gravel maintains the series points lead following the win over Carson Macedo, who finished second.
Dirt Racing’s Dramatic Moment: The WoO sprint car feature was no slouch, but the dramatic moment of the night Monday at Volusia came in the three-quarter modified support feature, where Lake Helen, Fla.’s Timmy Hogan prevailed in a pitched battle with his cousin Mikey Kopka coming to the checkered flag.
As of this writing DirtVision has not made a replay of the winning move available, but Hogan prevailed on turn 2 exit after the white flag flew, with Kopka’s last-gasp move in turn 4 sending him spinning as Hogan took the checkers.
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Whether this is by design or not, Friday’s World of Outlaws feature at Port Royal Speedway may go down as the most anticipated race of 2023 for the series outside of Knoxville. Why? Because the season is nearly a month old and it hasn’t left Volusia. There’s been nothing wrong with the racing at the Florida oval, but contesting the entirety of the first two tour events on the same track means that analysis like this is exceedingly premature.
How exactly did the entire Outlaws field miss a spinning Brian Brown on lap 20? The world may never know.
The scariest incident of the night also came in the modified support feature, with Robert Fleming Jr. enduring a nasty roll-over accident with five laps to go that tore down a billboard in turn 3. Fleming fortunately walked away, but his incident exposed just how little wall there actually is in Volusia’s turns 3 and 4.
Considering just how vocal I’ve been the past two seasons about the walls at Williams Grove Speedway needing an upgrade to prevent racecars from leaving the ballpark, I’ll say the same thing here. Turns 3 and 4 at Volusia would seem to be a good home for the Armco walls that Knoxville and Jackson Motorplex…
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