2025 World of Outlaws

This is shaping up to be a great last two nights of the Nationals. Friday will be absolutely stacked with fast cars that did not make it into the show on their qualifying nights. The lineup for Saturday has a lot of intrigue. Larson can do it because he's Larson, but it will not be easy for him to win from the fifth row with who is starting in front of him.
 


The top four secure spots 21-24 in the Nationals main event. The rest go to B-C-D features tomorrow.
 
A very, very long main event punctuated by multiple accidents and oddities. The top four who make the field tomorrow are Gravel, Kofoid (from 19th), Cole Macedo, and Daryn Pittman. Just missing are Schatz and Ashton Torgerson.
 
Really cool to see Pittman make the show again. Kerry Madsen was in the last transfer late and developed mechanical problems. Ashton Torgerson continues to impress in the 1A. He had never raced at Knoxville before this week and almost put it in the show.
 
Thrilling finish to the B-Main. Schatz slips into the final transfer position and barely makes his 27th straight Nationals main event. Macri finishes one spot short in fifth.
 
Utter domination by Timms! He was never challenged. Amazing performance by a teenager. One of the bigger upset victories in the history of the race.

Rico comes up one spot short in second. Gravel finishes third from 21st starting spot. Macedo fourth, Schuchart fifth.

Larson was fading in the second half and blew the RR with four laps to go while running eight. Sweet was running around fifth when he lost a motor.
 
Holy ****.

I will say that Madsen did a hell of a job driving the second TSR car a few years back. But that program has gone steadily downhill in ways that mirror all of Tony Stewart's racing teams that aren't drag racing. Donny may have lost a step, but he isn't the only one.
 
I'm very surprised they didn't let him finish the season. Unless he didn't want to.
 
Almost like it wasn't the Ford motor this whole time and that was jettisoned because it was easier than tossing Donny.
 
virtualbalboa said:
Almost like it wasn't the Ford motor this whole time and that was jettisoned because it was easier than tossing Donny.
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The Ford stuff was very strange. They couldn't get any parts they said, but somehow the #26 had plenty.
 
I mean Donny is still one of the best ever, but he's also 48 years old. Every driver has that cliff where the results fall off. He'd still have e good runs and I think in the right circumstances he's still easily capable of winning. But the 20+ win years are behind him
 
I'm surprised this didn't happen at the end of last season. Tony is fully invested in his drag racing operation. He got out of NASCAR and now is probably getting out of sprint car racing.
 
MRM said:
I'm surprised this didn't happen at the end of last season. Tony is fully invested in his drag racing operation. He got out of NASCAR and now is probably getting out of sprint car racing.
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You think he is going to sell Eldora Speedway or something lol. I think not.
 
kkfan91 said:
I mean Donny is still one of the best ever, but he's also 48 years old. Every driver has that cliff where the results fall off. He'd still have e good runs and I think in the right circumstances he's still easily capable of winning. But the 20+ win years are behind him
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I dunno how many drivers are reeling off 20+ win seasons these days TBF. I know enough to know that drivers as diverse as Stevie Smith to Dave and Dale Blaney ran sprints well past being full time and on the road and we're competitive and I expect something like that from Schatz. Or maybe he just has seen all the injuries of late, sees himself being midpack, and realized he's at greater risk now at getting hurt.
 
Watching Dirtrackr Daily last night and a few items came out:

-Tony fired Donny
-Not only did he fire Donny, apparently he (and others) decided to spend the last couple of weeks trying to convince James McFadden that he really wants to live in America and race for them full time
-Donny wants to race
-Donny demanded Tony get rid of the Ford engines, which when I think back to earlier this year when Chaz on YouTube was interviewing Donny (and Tony) while also posting long form nonsense content about how Tony needs to buy Chevy 410s sure makes it clear that Chaz was being used as a mouthpiece IMO to convince Tony to go a different route.

Sounds to me like Donny made demands blaming Tony in effect for not being fast, Tony made changes, Donny didn't get faster, and he decided to just hire the Roberto Moreno of Sprint Cars to make it through the remainder of the year.
 
StandOnIt said:
You think he is going to sell Eldora Speedway or something lol. I think not.
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Probably not any time soon. But when Tony gets involved in something else, most of his focus is on that. Remember, he retired from NASCAR so he could go sprint car racing. He did that and had his run-ins with the WoO people. He basically quit that (about the same time Larson came in and started winning all his sprint car races), got involved with Leah and is now heavily involved with drag racing. All the while getting out as a NASCAR team co-owner.
 


Stewart sidesteps the question of whether there will be a TSR sprint car team next year with a bunch of bluster.
 
I get the sense that Tony might field a car still based on the other noise. I'll say this: I think there was a lost opportunity to sell some shirts and do some merch up the remainder of this year while also freeing up Donny to, if he desired, jump ship elsewhere as part of silly season (or whatever). Tony's interview makes it sound like he went through every variable on the car before getting to Donny and that's probably not untrue. Won't make Donny any happier about it though.
 
Yep, plenty of stupid sh*t to read.


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