Dirt Racing’s Winning Moment: Giovanni Scelzi managed to keep Austin McCarl and polesitter Tyler Courtney at bay to win the season opener for the High Limit Racing Series at Lakeside Speedway in Kansas Tuesday night (April 11), grabbing the largest sprint car purse of the 2023 season to date for his troubles.
Scelzi’s triumph was aided after race leader Rico Abreu cut down a tire with five laps to go.
Meanwhile, down in Tennessee, Chris Madden bested Dale McDowell with just over 10 laps to go to score a $10,000 payday with the XR Workin’ Man Series at Volunteer Speedway in Tennessee.
A strong field of 45 late models was on hand for Tuesday’s race, which served as a de facto test session as the XR Super Series prepares to compete for $100,000-to-win on the same Bulls Gap oval this weekend.
Dirt Racing’s Dramatic Moment(s): Sprint car racing as a whole again held its collective breath after Jake Neuman suffered a horrific crash during qualifying at Lakeside, running headfirst into the turn 3 wall and flipping while shedding the wing of his car. The wreck resulted in a more than 20-minute red flag, as rescue crews had to cut Neuman from his wounded racecar.
Fortunately, Neuman was found to be alert and was able to move his extremities as he was transported to a local hospital for observation. Neuman’s mother reported later in the evening that the driver was on the mend.
Neuman’s positive news was welcomed by all in the sprint car community after losing USAC racer Justin Owen in a qualifying crash at Lawrenceburg Speedway over the weekend.
What Dirt Racing Fans’ll Be Group Chatting About This Morning
The debut of Flo Racing Night in America two seasons ago was an unbridled success. The debut of the first full season of the High Limits Racing Series was anything but. The fact that Jake Neuman didn’t die in his wreck was frankly the highlight of a bloated, low-energy and glitchy stream that was not worthy of the field of sprint cars assembled in Kansas this Tuesday night. The racing on-track was decent, but Flo’s coverage didn’t convey that.
We’ll start with the handling of Neuman’s accident. Flo Racing put on a masterclass of how to handle potential tragedy at the racetrack back in January when Ashton Torgerson had his near-death experience at the Chili Bowl. Tuesday was a polar opposite demonstration. The camera crew did cut away from the accident quickly, but after that viewers…
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