Brad Sweet celebrates after winning Saturday night’s World of Outlaws Craftsman Sprint Car Series race at Stockton Dirt Track. Photo: Courtesy Kasey Kahne Racing
A late-race battle between the top two drivers in World of Outlaws Craftsman Sprint Car Series points thrilled the crowd on Saturday at the California’s Stockton Dirt Track.
In the end, it was Grass Valley, California’s Brad Sweet coming out on top to earn his first victory of the 2017 campaign.
Sweet out-dueled current series point leader Donny Schatz in a back and forth fight to claim his first ever Stockton triumph at the annual FVP Western Spring Shootout. After earning back-to-back podium finishes last weekend in Tulare, the win on Saturday marked the 14th of Sweet’s series career.
“That was a tough race with Donny Schatz right there and I’m definitely glad we came out on top,” said Sweet. “You don’t have many opportunities to beat Donny the way he’s running, so you always want to capitalize whenever you have the chance. Sometimes the cautions work in your favor and sometimes they don’t, luckily they fell at the right times for me tonight. It’s always the hardest to get that first win out of the way and I’m excited to do it with a lot of friends and family here tonight. Big thanks to all of my guys for working hard and continuing to give me great cars.”
The 30-lap feature started out with pole sitter Jason Sides jumping into the lead, but it didn’t last long as the caution lights came on after just one lap was complete. On the restart, Sweet blasted around the outside to take the lead away, with Schatz also coming along for second. Shortly after that Sides slowed with reported steering issues that unfortunately ended his night prematurely.
A number of yellows and a couple of reds slowed the pace over the first half of the feature, but through it all Sweet did a solid job out front.
Following a restart with 11-laps remaining, things began to heat up as Schatz started to reel in the leader once lapped traffic hit. The duo then proceeded to exchange the lead a couple of times through heavy traffic as the crowd came to their feet. Sweet was able to fend him off until Schatz executed a picture perfect move entering turn one on lap 27 to grab the lead. At that same time however, the caution lights came on for a stalled car off the second corner, which saved the lead for Sweet.
With the champ on his back bumper, Sweet knew he had to be perfect on the restart with just three laps remaining. When the green came back out he put together three perfect laps to take the checkered flag by 1.065 seconds over Schatz.
Shane Stewart, Brian Brown and David Gravel rounded out the top five.
For more information on the World of Outlaws Craftsman Sprint Car Series, visit WoOSprint.com.
World of Outlaws Craftsman Sprint Car Series
Stockton Dirt Track – Stockton, CA
Race Results – March 25, 2017
1. 49-Brad Sweet
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8. 18-Ian Madsen
9. 19-Brent Marks
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24. 7S-Jason Sides
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