Days removed from racing three events in four nights over Memorial Day Weekend, the Nos Energy Drink World of Outlaws Sprint Car Series is back on the track in another new, big money event for the schedule.<\/p>\n
This weekend, the series travels to Nashville Fairgrounds Speedway for its first ever trip to the quarter-mile oval that sits inside the half-mile track at the facility.<\/p>\n
The track is back on the fast path to fame and adding the Outlaws to the yearly schedule was a big opportunity for both sides.<\/p>\n
Fairgrounds Speedway has played host to each of NASCAR\u2019s three premier series in the past, and even had the Xfinity and Truck series race as late as 2000. In 2018 they announced a partnership with Bristol Motor Speedway to make necessary upgrades to the track to once again host NASCAR events of that nature.<\/p>\n
The World of Outlaws heading there for the first time makes it all the more valuable.<\/p>\n
The back-to-back event, tabbed the Music City Nationals, will pay $1,000 to start on Friday and $15,000 to win. On Saturday it jumps to $1,500 to start and $25,000 to win \u2013 one of the biggest winner purses of the season to date.<\/p>\n
Oh yeah, and it\u2019ll be anyone\u2019s race. Practice on Thursday evening was rained out which means it will be quite literally a brand-new track this weekend.<\/p>\n
Donny Schatz <\/strong>kept the lead in the points standings and even gained six points on Brad Sweet <\/strong>after Monday\u2019s Memorial Day race at Lawrenceberg.<\/p>\n Not to mention Daryn Pittman<\/a> <\/strong>just a few points back in the No. 83 entry as the 2013 series champion is off to a fantastic start this year.<\/p>\n The top three have been impressive as expected.<\/p>\n Though all the momentum right now is with the drivers that sit fourth and fifth in the standings.<\/p>\n David Gravel <\/strong>and Logan Schuchart <\/strong>have been the only drivers to earn three wins on the young season with both of their third victories coming in the past two weeks.<\/p>\n The pair is on a tear, right now.<\/p>\n Gravel made the transition at the start of the season to the Jason Johnson Racing No. 41 entry. Granted, it took a while for them to hit their stride, but since his first win of the year on the west coast, Gravel has gone on a bit of a roll.<\/p>\n He picked up a win three races later in Arizona before earning his series leading (at the time) third win at Williams Grove five races after that.<\/p>\n It\u2019s been five races since his last victory \u2013 does that mean Gravel is due to win the first ever race at Nashville?<\/p>\n Schuchart on the other hand had a wild way of getting to win No. 3, beating out four drivers \u2013 including Gravel that saw flat right rear tires end their nights just a few laps early at Charlotte.<\/p>\n No matter who ends up winning at Nashville, it\u2019s sure to be a surprise. Tune in to Dirt Vision to see the racing live on both Friday and Saturday night<\/a>.<\/p>\n Days removed from racing three events in four nights over Memorial Day Weekend, the Nos Energy Drink World of Outlaws Sprint Car Series is back on the track in another new, big money event for the schedule. This weekend, the series travels to Nashville Fairgrounds Speedway for its first ever trip to the quarter-mile oval […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":315,"featured_media":6869,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","sfio_featured_image":false,"sfio_embed_code":"","_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[10,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6868","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-dirt","category-more-racing"],"modified_by":"Connor Ferguson","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/motorsports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6868","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/motorsports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/motorsports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/motorsports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/315"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/motorsports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6868"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/motorsports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6868\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/motorsports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6869"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/motorsports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6868"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/motorsports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6868"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/motorsports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6868"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}\n\n
\n World of Outlaws Sprint Car Standings<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n \n Position<\/strong><\/td>\n Driver<\/strong><\/td>\n Points<\/strong><\/td>\n Behind<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n \n 1<\/td>\n Donny Schatz<\/td>\n 2940<\/td>\n <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n \n 2<\/td>\n Brad Sweet<\/td>\n 2892<\/td>\n -48<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n \n 3<\/td>\n Daryn Pittman<\/td>\n 2852<\/td>\n -88<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n \n 4<\/td>\n David Gravel<\/td>\n 2830<\/td>\n -110<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n \n 5<\/td>\n Logan Schuchart<\/td>\n 2770<\/td>\n -170<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n \n 6<\/td>\n Shane Stewart<\/td>\n 2734<\/td>\n -206<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n \n 7<\/td>\n Carson Macedo<\/td>\n 2710<\/td>\n -230<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n \n 8<\/td>\n Ian Madsen<\/td>\n 2696<\/td>\n -244<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n \n 9<\/td>\n Kraig Kinser<\/td>\n 2522<\/td>\n -418<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n \n 10<\/td>\n S. Haudenschild<\/td>\n 2514<\/td>\n -426<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"