{"id":7065,"date":"2019-07-20T22:24:07","date_gmt":"2019-07-21T02:24:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/motorsports\/?p=7065"},"modified":"2019-07-20T22:24:07","modified_gmt":"2019-07-21T02:24:07","slug":"sammy-swindell-on-the-pole-for-2019-kings-royal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/motorsports\/2019\/07\/20\/sammy-swindell-on-the-pole-for-2019-kings-royal\/","title":{"rendered":"Sammy Swindell on the pole for 2019 Kings Royal"},"content":{"rendered":"

After winning the final Drydene Heat Race of the program at Eldora Speedway for the 2019 Kings Royal,\u00a0Sammy Swindell\u00a0<\/strong>will be leading the field to green in the 40-lap, $175,000-to-win main event later tonight.<\/p>\n

Swindell qualified 32nd out of the 62 car field, but started first in his heat thanks to the invert. He held off\u00a0Logan Schuchart\u00a0<\/strong>and\u00a0Joey Saldana\u00a0<\/strong>to win the 10-lap heat race.<\/p>\n

“Woo! What do you think,” Swindell said told DirtVision when they asked how he felt about it. “We struggled a little bit the last couple, you know? But, I haven’t gotten too many races under my belt this year. We found a couple of things every night with this and that.”<\/p>\n

Swindell, at 63 years old, becomes the oldest driver to start on the pole in Kings Royal history.<\/p>\n

“Hopefully we can get the setup just right,” Swindell told DirtVision. “These cars are just a little bit tricky here. It seems like now just a little bit can throw you either way.”<\/p>\n

Swindell will share the front row of the four-wide salute with\u00a0Donny Schatz<\/strong>,\u00a0Kerry Madsen<\/strong>, and\u00a0Aaron Reutzel.<\/strong><\/p>\n

“We’re going to give it our damndest,” Swindell said. “We’re going to go for broke.”<\/p>\n

2019 Kings Royal Starting Lineup<\/strong>
\n1. Sammy Swindell
\n2. Donny Schatz
\n3. Kerry Madsen
\n4. Aaron Reutzel
\n5. Cory Eliason
\n6. Brad Sweet
\n7. Cale Thomas
\n8. Tim Shaffer
\n9. Sheldon Haudenschild
\n10. Jac Haudenschild
\n11. David Gravel
\n12. Logan Schuchart
\n13. Daryn Pittman
\n14. Dale Blaney
\n15. Gio Scelzi
\n16. Brent Marks
\n17. Rico Abreau
\n18. Joey Saldana
\n19. Sye Lynch*
\n20. Tom Harris*
\n21. B-Main first place
\n22. B-Main second place
\n23. B-Main third place
\n24. B-Main fourth place
\n*-denotes a driver that transferred into the main event by being one of the two fastest cars in qualifying that did not transfer from their heat races.<\/p>\n

For more coverage of the Kings Royal, follow Connor Ferguson on twitter (@cfchangs9)<\/a> as well as the Racing Vault (@RacingVault)<\/a>, for all of your motorsports needs from the World of Outlaws to stock car racing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

After winning the final Drydene Heat Race of the program at Eldora Speedway for the 2019 Kings Royal,\u00a0Sammy Swindell\u00a0will be leading the field to green in the 40-lap, $175,000-to-win main event later tonight. Swindell qualified 32nd out of the 62 car field, but started first in his heat thanks to the invert. He held off\u00a0Logan […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":315,"featured_media":7066,"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":[570,1165,1179,486],"class_list":["post-7065","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-dirt","category-more-racing","tag-eldora-speedway","tag-kings-royal","tag-sammy-swindell","tag-world-of-outlaws"],"modified_by":"Connor Ferguson","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/motorsports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7065","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=7065"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/motorsports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7065\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/motorsports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7066"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/motorsports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7065"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/motorsports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7065"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/motorsports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7065"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}