Carson Macedo won on night 2 at Atomic
Carson Macedo had to hold off challenges from two of the best in World of Outlaws NOS Energy Drink Sprint Car Series competition to claim a thrilling Saturday night feature win at the Atomic Speedway. It was the second of two nights at the same track with Brad Sweet taking the Friday night victory.
The Jason Johnson Racing driver from Lemoore, California earned $10,000 for the win at the track located in Chillicothe, Ohio in a race aired live by DirtVision.com.
A total of 30 cars were signed in for competition
Qualifying Results: 1. Carson Macedo(11.433), 2. Buddy Kofoid, 3. David Gravel, 4. Brad Sweet, 5. Donny Schatz, 6. Giovanni Scelzi, 7. Sheldon Haudenschild, 8. Jacob Allen, 9. Cale Thomas, 10. Parker Price-Miller
Heat 1 Results: 1. Carson Macedo, 2. Sheldon Haudenschild, 3. Brad Sweet, 4. Brandon Wimmer, 5. Skylar Gee, 6. Nate Dussel
Heat 2 Results: 1. Buddy Kofoid, 2. Donny Schatz, 3. Jacob Allen, 4. James McFadden, 5. Brock Zear foss, 6. Cole Duncan
Heat 3 Results: 1. David Gravel, 2. Giovanni Scelzi, 3. Logan Schuchart, 4. Cale Thomas, 5. Spencer Bayston, 6. Cody Maroske
Last Chance Showdown Finish: 1. Parker Price-Miller, 2. Robbie Price, 3. Nathan Skaggs, 4. Noah Gass, 5. Lee Jacobs, 6. Nate Reeser
WoO Dash Results: 1. Carson Macedo, 2. Sheldon Haudenschild, 3. Donny Schatz, 4. David Gravel, 5. Buddy Kofoid, 6. Giovanni Scelzi
Feature Re-cap: The 35-lap feature began with Zearfoss spinning to bring out an immediate yellow before a lap had been completed. When the race did go green, Macedo took the lead ahead of Gravel, Schatz, Haudenschild and Scelzi. Wasting no time, Schatz grabbed the runner-up spot away from Gravel on the second lap.
In the early going, a three-wide fight broke out between Schatz, Gravel and Haudenschild ensued with Schatz emerging with the spot. The 10-time series champion then moved in and began to harass Macedo for the lead.
A lap 6 caution for Wimmer slowed the action briefly. On the restart, Gravel took third from Haudenschild and then moved in to wrest second from Schatz as those two battled behind Macedo. At the same time, Kofoid made his presence felt when he broke into the top-5 on lap 12.
Lap 15 saw Schatz again take second from Gravel. One lap later, Schatz got by Macedo for the top spot. That battle went on for multiple laps with Schatz running the bottom and Macedo on the top until Macedo reassumed command on lap 24.
Schatz and Gravel closed on Macedo with five laps remaining. Gravel took second from Schatz on lap 31 but was not able to capture the race lead.
In the end, it was Macedo who would score his second series win of 2023.
“I felt like in so many stages of the race, I didn’t really know where to be,” Macedo stated in his post-race interview with DirtVision. “I felt like Donny was making such good speed down on the bottom but the couple of times I moved down I felt like I was in no-man’s land down there. I thought that sticking to the top and whatever that gave me was going to be my result. I feel like the top, lucky for me, cleaned off really nice there with about 15 or 12 to go. I could feel myself grip back up and a lot of them lappers started running down in that dirty stuff and that helped me out a lot.”
Feature Results: 1. Carson Macedo, 2. David Gravel, 3. Donny Schatz, 4. Sheldon Haudenschild, 5. Giovanni Scelzi, 6. Buddy Kofoid, 7. James McFadden, 8. Logan Schuchart, 9. Jacob Allen, 10. Cole Duncan, 11. Brad Sweet, 12. Spencer Bayston, 13. Brock Zearfoss, 14. Parker Price-Miller, 15. Cale Thomas, 16. Noah Gass, 17. Cody Maroske, 18. Nate Dussel, 19. Danny Smith, 20. Lee Jacobs, 21. Robbie Price, 22. Nathan Skaggs, 23. Brandon Wimmer, 24. Nate Resse, 25. Skylar Gee
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