After the Brad Doty Classic at Attica Raceway Park was cancelled on Tuesday night, the World of Outlaws Sprint Car Series turns its focus to a unique start to the ‘Month of money.’
Instead of Wednesday providing a rain date for the Classic at Attica, it will serve as a make-up date for the previously scheduled #LetsRaceTwo event at Eldora Speedway.
With this weekend’s Kings Royal – normally a three-day event – slated for Thursday-Saturday, it sets up four straight days of racing in Rossburg.
And the stakes are higher, too.
Looking at the World of Outlaws week at Eldora
Eldora has raised the prize money to win the Kings Royal from it’s usual $50,000-to-win to an intimidating $175,000 check for the winner.
While the total purse of $366,025 still pales in comparison to the Knoxville Nationals’ $957,320, but it stands as the biggest prize of the entire season.
Drivers will be doing anything and everything they can to win on Saturday, and the three days that lead up to the big one will tell us a lot about who’s got the best odds.
A smart pick, for starters, would be Donny Schatz.
The 10-time and defending series champion has captured the crown during each of the last three Kings Royal main events.
Not to mention, he swept last year’s weekend and won the first part of #LetsRaceTwo that was run in May.
All signs for a winner would point mostly to Schatz, but this season has been unpredictable to say the least.
In the past month or so, the No. 49 NAPA Auto Parts team headed by Brad Sweet has been racking up P1 finishes.
Sweet has never won a World of Outlaws race at Eldora, but don’t count him out this week.
A pair of other drivers come into the week with four wins, tied with Schatz, in David Gravel and Logan Schuchart.
Each of them have won races at Eldora in the past three years but went winless at the Big E in 2018.
The racing will serve as the kickoff to the Month of Money leading all the way through August and capping off the stretch with the Knoxville Nationals in August.
LWOS will have extended coverage of all the happenings in and around one of the toughest stretches in motorsports.
