Dirt Racing’s Winning Moment: Score one for the Pennsylvania Posse, as Anthony Macri held off a persistent charge from Kyle Larson to win the High Limit Racing sprint car feature Tuesday night (April 25) in his first career visit to 34 Raceway in Iowa.
Macri’s race-winning pass came not on Larson, but on Buddy Kofoid, who made two unforced errors that cost him a likely race win. Kofoid had lost the lead to Brent Marks with around 17 laps to go after jumping the cushion in turn 1, but got bailed out by a caution flag before the lap was scored.
As Macri noted in victory lane, it appeared that momentary hesitation by Kofoid in dealing with lapped traffic opened the door for Macri to take the lead for good.
Dirt Racing’s Dramatic Moment: For the second event in a row, the High Limit tour played host to a violent crash in preliminary action, this time seeing a collision between Cup Series regular Alex Bowman and Conner Morrell send both cars into a nasty tumble in heat-race action.
Fortunately, there were no injuries from this incident, though both drivers withdrew from further competition on the evening.
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I know sprint car racing doesn’t have an R&D center, but I certainly hope that Morrell’s chassis gets a real hard look from some experts. The degree of bend seen in his car’s front end after that heat-race accident was more than enough to be concerned about.
Unless your last name is Larson, it was a bad night to be a NASCAR regular in sprint car racing. Ricky Stenhouse Jr. failed to transfer out of the C-main and Bowman wasn’t the only NASCAR-associated driver to endure a violent wreck on-track.
All things considered, night two of the High Limit Series was much improved over Lakeside. The last 15 laps of the feature were damn good, the car count stayed extremely healthy despite the race going for the standard $23,023 purse instead of the $50k that Lakeside put up two weeks ago and the entire program felt like it progressed more steadily (and not just because there was no extended red flag this time).
Having said that, the A-main didn’t end until after 10:30 local time and 11:30 for East Coast viewers. That’s still too damn late for a Tuesday night racing program. And if there was one detriment to the night, it was a crash-filled 305 sprint car support feature. The business rationale for needing a support class is well known…
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