Brad Sweet
Brad Sweet took a major step toward the Eldora Million by winning the Group A preliminary race on Wednesday night at Eldora Speedway. All of the Wednesday on-track action builds points toward setting the heat races for Thursday’s seven-figure race.
The Kasey Kahne Racing driver from Grass Valley, California earned $12,000 from the track located in Rossburg, Ohio in a race shown live by FloRacing.com.
A total of 83 cars were signed in for competition
Qualifying Results: 1. Logan Schuchart(12.908), 2. Danny Dietrich, 3. Giovanni Scelzi, 4. Cale Thomas, 5. Daryn Pittman, 6. Brent Marks, 7. Brad Sweet, 8. Kyle Larson, 9. Donny Schatz, 10. McKenna Haase
Heat 1 Results: 1. Logan Schuchart, 2, Donny Schatz, 3. James McFadden, 4. Brady Bacon, 5. Ian Madsen
Heat 2 Results: 1. Cole Macedo, 2. Bill Balog, 3. Spencer Bayston, 4. Blake Hahn, 5. McKenna Haase
Heat 3 Results: 1. Austin Bishop, 2. Aaron Reutzel, 3. Giovanni Scelzi, 4. Brad sweet, 5. Kyle Reinhardt
Heat 4 Results: 1. Hunter Schuerenberg, 2. Kyle Larson, 3. Greg Wilson, 4. Noah Gass, 5. Cale Thomas
B-Main Results: 1. Danny Dietrich, 2. Brent Marks, 3. Daryn Pittman, 4. Zeb Wise
Feature Re-cap: The 25-lap feature took the lead with Reutzel leading Schatz, Sweet, Larson and Thomas. By the end of lap 5, Reutzel had built an advantage of two seconds. However, slower traffic would help to negate that lead.
Schuchart entered the top-5 on lap 6. Soon thereafter, Sweet would get by Schatz for the runner-up spot. One lap later, Larson would also pass Schatz for third. Schuchart followed suit by getting around Schatz for fourth.
A lap 12 caution for Bishop slowed the pace and regrouped the field.
Sweet went to the lead on the restart while Larson challenged Reutzel for second. Sweet quickly built a big lead ahead of the fighting behind him.
Sweet began to encounter traffic on lap 18 which allowed Reutzel to close. But in the end, it was Sweet who would take the checkered flag ahead of the pack.
Feature Results: 1. Brad Sweet, 2. Aaron Reutzel, 3. Kyle Larson, 4. Logan Schuchart, 5. James McFadden, 6. Brent Marks, 7. Donny Schatz, 8. Giovanni Scelzi, 9. Zeb Wise, 10. Spencer Bayston, 11. Brady Bacon, 12. Cale Thomas, 13. Cole Macedo, 14. Kyle Reinhardt, 15. Greg Wilson, 16. Blake Hahn, 17. Danny Dietrich, 18. McKenna Haase, 19. Bill Balog, 20. Daryn Pittman, 21. Noah Gass, 22. Austin Bishop, 23. Ian Madsen, 24. Hunter Scheurenberg
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