{"id":6926,"date":"2019-06-09T22:54:28","date_gmt":"2019-06-10T02:54:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/motorsports\/?p=6926"},"modified":"2019-06-09T22:54:28","modified_gmt":"2019-06-10T02:54:28","slug":"schuchart-sweet-heat-up-woo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/motorsports\/2019\/06\/09\/schuchart-sweet-heat-up-woo\/","title":{"rendered":"Schuchart, Sweet heat up as World of Outlaws Sprint Cars visit Knoxville"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I know, I know.<\/p>\n<p>Picking the two previous winners from the NOS Energy Drink World of Outlaws Sprint Car Series weekend looks like a lazy move on my part.<\/p>\n<p>I mean, surely there&#8217;s better storylines coming in to the Sprint Car Capital of the World than just the previous past pair of winners.<\/p>\n<p>Although, I insist that you keep your eyes on both\u00a0<strong>Logan Schuchart\u00a0<\/strong>and\u00a0<strong>Brad Sweet<\/strong> when the series comes to America&#8217;s heartland this weekend.<\/p>\n<h2>Schuchart, Sweet heat up as World of Outlaws Sprint Cars visit Knoxville<\/h2>\n<p>Both of the pair of drivers&#8217; stock might be as high as it has been all season.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_6917\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-6917\" style=\"width: 463px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-6917\" src=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/motorsports\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2019\/06\/Schuchart_8-300x203.jpg\" alt=\"Schuchart earns fourth win\" width=\"463\" height=\"313\" srcset=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/motorsports\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2019\/06\/Schuchart_8-300x203.jpg 300w, https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/motorsports\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2019\/06\/Schuchart_8-768x520.jpg 768w, https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/motorsports\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2019\/06\/Schuchart_8-696x472.jpg 696w, https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/motorsports\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2019\/06\/Schuchart_8-620x420.jpg 620w, https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/motorsports\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2019\/06\/Schuchart_8.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 463px) 100vw, 463px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-6917\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Logan Schuchart wheels the No. 1S at Tulare. Photo courtesy World of Outlaws.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Schuchart captured yet another win for Shark Racing on Friday night in North Dakota, giving him a series-leading fourth win on the year.<\/p>\n<p>Not only was that big for Schuchart, but he followed it up with a third-place finish at Granite City Speedway on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>If Schuchart can keep up the success, he&#8217;ll keep pulling away from\u00a0<strong>Shane Stewart\u00a0<\/strong>in the series standings and inching closer and closer to\u00a0the top four in the standings.<\/p>\n<p>Granite City was bigger, however, for Sweet.<\/p>\n<p>The driver of the<a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/motorsports\/2019\/06\/03\/haudenschild-looks-for-first-win\/\" target=\"_self\"> No. 49 NAPA Auto Parts<\/a> car powered by Kasey Kahne Racing drove to a victory to take over the series points lead after\u00a0<strong>Donny Schatz\u00a0<\/strong>finished at the tail end of the field.<\/p>\n<p>Sweet will be the biggest name to keep an eye on for a different reason, too.<\/p>\n<p>After his commanding drive last fall, the Grass Valley, California native is the defending Knoxville Nationals champion.<\/p>\n<p>Sweet overcame a charge from both Schatz and NASCAR veteran\u00a0<strong>Kyle Larson\u00a0<\/strong>showing that he has mastered the track like Schatz had when he during his pair of long win streaks.<\/p>\n<p>Him and Schatz are the only two active, full-time WoO drivers to win the major money event, and conquer the half-mile that is Knoxville Raceway.<\/p>\n<p>All of that being said, it&#8217;s still anyone&#8217;s race. This season has proved that no matter what night it is, anyone can take home the big check when it&#8217;s all said and done.<\/p>\n<p>Jason Johnson Racing&#8217;s\u00a0<strong>David Gravel\u00a0<\/strong>has been hot as of late, too, passing\u00a0<strong>Daryn Pittman\u00a0<\/strong>in the Roth Motorsports entry for third place in the standings.<\/p>\n<p>Each of them are making new rides for this season pay off so far and winning at Knoxville this weekend will be something that is utilized during Nationals week.<\/p>\n<p>Hot laps are scheduled to begin at 6:45 p.m. on both nights and as always the action can be watched live on <a href=\"http:\/\/dirtvision.com\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">DirtVision<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The fans in Iowa will be in for a good show this weekend with the drivers that the series is bringing down.<\/p>\n<p>Oh, and did we mention that the Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series is on a bye week?<\/p>\n<table width=\"305\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"text-align: center;\" colspan=\"4\" width=\"305\"><strong>World of Outlaws Sprint Car Standings<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><strong>Position<\/strong><\/td>\n<td><strong>Driver<\/strong><\/td>\n<td><strong>Points<\/strong><\/td>\n<td><strong>Behind<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>1<\/td>\n<td>Brad Sweet<\/td>\n<td>3622<\/td>\n<td><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>2<\/td>\n<td>Donny Schatz<\/td>\n<td>3610<\/td>\n<td>-12<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>3<\/td>\n<td>David Gravel<\/td>\n<td>3502<\/td>\n<td>-120<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>4<\/td>\n<td>Daryn Pittman<\/td>\n<td>3488<\/td>\n<td>-134<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>5<\/td>\n<td>Logan Schuchart<\/td>\n<td>3450<\/td>\n<td>-172<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>6<\/td>\n<td>Shane Stewart<\/td>\n<td>3384<\/td>\n<td>-238<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>7<\/td>\n<td>Carson Macedo<\/td>\n<td>3358<\/td>\n<td>-264<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>8<\/td>\n<td>Ian Madsen<\/td>\n<td>3318<\/td>\n<td>-304<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>9<\/td>\n<td>Brent Marks<\/td>\n<td>3174<\/td>\n<td>-448<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>10<\/td>\n<td>Kraig Kinser<\/td>\n<td>3156<\/td>\n<td>-466<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p>Schuchart Sweet heat up<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I know, I know. Picking the two previous winners from the NOS Energy Drink World of Outlaws Sprint Car Series weekend looks like a lazy move on my part. I mean, surely there&#8217;s better storylines coming in to the Sprint Car Capital of the World than just the previous past pair of winners. Although, I [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":315,"featured_media":6927,"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":[603,1016,1014,1020,486,1141],"class_list":["post-6926","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-dirt","category-more-racing","tag-brad-sweet","tag-kasey-kahne-racing","tag-logan-schuchart","tag-shark-racing","tag-world-of-outlaws","tag-world-of-outlaws-sprint-car-series"],"modified_by":"Connor Ferguson","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/motorsports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6926","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=6926"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/motorsports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6926\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/motorsports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6927"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/motorsports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6926"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/motorsports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6926"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/motorsports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6926"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}