It looked as if Parker Anderson of Welcome was going to have last weekend off, but the Anderson Racing team loaded up the 47P hobby stock and headed to Interstate Speedway in Jefferson, S.D. to compete in a field of 37 cars.
Anderson started first in his heat race and had the lead for the majority of the eight-lap event but hit a rut, which got the car upset and ended up hanging on for second.
He redrew sixth for the feature and placed fifth. Anderson ran in the top five of the 20-lap race and competed for the lead for several laps. He would make contact with another car and fell back to fifth.
Weekend off
Big Game Motorsports driver David Gravel didn’t intend to have last weekend off, but the weather caused cancellation of two nights of racing for the World of Outlaws at Knoxville Raceway.
On the docket this weekend are events tonight (Friday) at Tri-City Speedway in Granite City, Ill., and Saturday at Tri-State Speedway in Haubstadt, Ind.
“The track on Friday I’ve only been to once at an ASCS show,” Gravel said. “It’s a cool shaped, high-banked 3/8 mile. It seems to typically race pretty good from what I’ve seen.”
Gravel rallied through a B Main before hustling for a 12th-place result during an ASCS National Tour race at Tri-City Speedway in August 2010. He has World of Outlaws wins at Tri-State Speedway in 2016 and in 2018.
“Haubstadt is a track we race at every year, but I haven’t won there in a few years,” he said. “It’s a track I’m confident at. You have to be aggressive at a lot of tracks and know when to be and when not to be. Haubstadt can get you in trouble if you’re too aggressive, but you can’t be floating. You have to attack the racetrack.”
World of Outlaws point standings
Top 10
Carson Macedo, Lemoore, Calif. 1826
Brad Sweet, Grass Valley, Calif. 1814
David Gravel, Watertown, Conn. 1806
Logan Schuchart, Hanover, Penn. 1770
Michael Kofoid, Penngrove, Calif., 1754
Sheldon Haudenschild, Wooster, Oho 1718
James McFadden, Alice Springs, NT, AU 1692
Spencer Bayston, Lebanon, Ind. 1678
Donny Schatz, Fargo 1664
Giovanni Scelzi, Fresno, Calif. 1654