{"id":7060,"date":"2019-07-20T03:52:56","date_gmt":"2019-07-20T07:52:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/motorsports\/?p=7060"},"modified":"2019-07-20T03:52:56","modified_gmt":"2019-07-20T07:52:56","slug":"donny-schatz-does-it-again-winning-the-knight-before-the-kings-royal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/motorsports\/2019\/07\/20\/donny-schatz-does-it-again-winning-the-knight-before-the-kings-royal\/","title":{"rendered":"Donny Schatz does it again, winning The Knight Before the Kings Royal"},"content":{"rendered":"

Donny Schatz solidified his prowess and ability to master a track like Eldora Speedway on Wednesday night when he won the makeup date to #LetsRaceTwo.<\/a><\/p>\n

He followed it up with a runner-up finish to Brad Sweet on Thursday.<\/p>\n

On Friday, though, he drove the stake home. The Kings Royal will once again be his to lose.<\/p>\n

Donny Schatz does it again, winning The Knight Before the Kings Royal<\/strong><\/h2>\n

Schatz led all 30 laps of the main event of The Knight Before, holding off a charging No. 41 of\u00a0David Gravel<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

The win was his seventh race in the past 10 features at the famed Eldora Speedway, setting him up as the favorite to win on Saturday.<\/p>\n

However, the group of immediate contenders is exclusive and prestigious at the same time.<\/p>\n

The trio of\u00a0Brad Sweet<\/strong>, Logan Schuchart<\/strong>, and Gravel have been fast all week at Eldora, racking up the finishes near the top of the grid.<\/p>\n

Wednesday
\n<\/strong>1. Donny Schatz
\n2. David Gravel
\n3. Logan Schuchart
\n4. Brad Sweet<\/p>\n

Thursday
\n<\/strong>1. Brad Sweet
\n2. Donny Schatz
\n3. David Gravel
\n4. Logan Schuchart<\/p>\n

Friday
\n<\/strong>1. Donny Schatz
\n2. David Gravel
\n3. Logan Schuchart
\n*7. Brad Sweet<\/p>\n

The group is consistently running near the top this week and each will have a shot to take the crown on Saturday.<\/p>\n

With the biggest winner’s purse on the tour this season coming in at $175,000 to win, quite literally anything could happen.<\/p>\n

That’s why Schatz wasn’t celebrating on this Friday night in Ohio.<\/p>\n

\u201cEverything is about tomorrow night,\u201d Schatz told Worldofoutlaws.com. \u201cThe night is over. We\u2019ll forget about it. It\u2019s all about the Kings Royal now.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Kings Royal will be run on Saturday night at Eldora paying a lobsided $175,000 to the winner. The format for the event can be found here.<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
World of Outlaws Sprint Car Standings<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Position<\/strong><\/td>\nDriver<\/strong><\/td>\nPoints<\/strong><\/td>\nBehind<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1<\/td>\nBrad Sweet<\/td>\n5618<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2<\/td>\nDonny Schatz<\/td>\n5598<\/td>\n-20<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
3<\/td>\nDavid Gravel<\/td>\n5498<\/td>\n-120<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
4<\/td>\nDaryn Pittman<\/td>\n5416<\/td>\n-202<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
5<\/td>\nLogan Schuchart<\/td>\n5358<\/td>\n-260<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
6<\/td>\nCarson Macedo<\/td>\n5228<\/td>\n-390<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
7<\/td>\nShane Stewart<\/td>\n5214<\/td>\n-404<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
8<\/td>\nIan Madsen<\/td>\n5114<\/td>\n-504<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
9<\/td>\nS. Haudenschild<\/td>\n4944<\/td>\n-674<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
10<\/td>\nBrent Marks<\/td>\n4882<\/td>\n-736<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Donny Schatz solidified his prowess and ability to master a track like Eldora Speedway on Wednesday night when he won the makeup date to #LetsRaceTwo. He followed it up with a runner-up finish to Brad Sweet on Thursday. On Friday, though, he drove the stake home. The Kings Royal will once again be his to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":315,"featured_media":7061,"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":[603,602,569,570,1165,1014,1178,486,1141],"class_list":["post-7060","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-dirt","category-more-racing","tag-brad-sweet","tag-david-gravel","tag-donny-schatz","tag-eldora-speedway","tag-kings-royal","tag-logan-schuchart","tag-the-knight-before","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\/7060","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=7060"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/motorsports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7060\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/motorsports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7061"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/motorsports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7060"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/motorsports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7060"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/motorsports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7060"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}