Schuchart Bests Haudenschild to Earn First Career Attica Victory
Photo by Trent Gower
ATTICA, Ohio—Logan Schuchart was looking for a bounce-back race and found it Saturday night at Attica Raceway Park.
The 32-year-old from Hanover, PA, came to the Ohio oval with a DNF, a 12th-place finish and a 13th-place finish in the last three World of Outlaws NOS Energy Drink Sprint Car Series events. But he and the Shark Racing team were determined to turn their results around, and did exactly that, winning a back-and-forth battle with Ohio’s own Sheldon Haudenschild in the 35-lap main event to claim his first career win at the 1/3-mile.
“I’m hoping that what we did tonight gave us an eye-opener of what we need to do better, but we just never figured it out all weekend up there,” Schuchart said, referencing his last two results in Canada at Ohsweken Speedway. “First time I’ve really felt slow all year, but we bounced back with a win, and that’s the best thing we can do.”
Schuchart’s first Attica victory marked his second win of the season with The Greatest Show on Dirt after first going to Victory Lane in April at I-55 Federated Auto Parts Raceway Park. It also counts as his 44th career Series Feature win, which breaks the tie between he and Haudenschild for 19th on the all-time wins list. Shark Racing also gets its second Series win at the track, dating back to the team’s first in 1992 with driver Joey Allen.
Though Schuchart triumphed in the end, Haudenschild was the driver to beat early. Haudenschild, of Wooster, OH, jumped to the lead from the outside pole and led the first nine circuits as Schuchart and Skylar Gee followed.
Schuchart converted on his first pass attempt for the lead on a Lap 10 restart, taking the high line through Turns 1–2 and driving around the outside of Haudenschild as he stayed down low through the corners.
The next restart on Lap 18 brought more excitement as Haudenschild again took the bottom lane through Turns 1–2, and this time made it stick, driving past Schuchart and sliding up in front of him out of Turn 2 to take the lead back.
“Once we had the lead, I thought we could take off on the top, and I thought it would make it really tough for Sheldon to get a run, but he did a really good job at getting the jump there, getting beside me on the frontstretch and then getting to the bottom quicker than I could entering Turn 1,” Schuchart said. “That was kind of the difference maker on that restart.”
Then came the pivotal restart in their battle on Lap 25. Schuchart again gained speed on the top lane through Turns 1–2 and rode the momentum down the backstretch. When Haudenschild switched lanes from the bottom out of Turn 2 to the top side going into Turn 3, Schuchart dove to the bottom and threw a slidejob across the nose of the NOS Energy Drink No. 17 and took the lead once again out of Turn 4.
“When I was able to run off his right-rear in Turns 1–2 on one of those last restarts and kinda get with him down the backstretch, I knew that as long as he went high, I would be able to slide him,” Schuchart said. “Or I was hoping that if he went low, I could run around the top.”
“Just got that one restart on him and thought I could enter Turn 3 a little higher than I did the couple previous times and maybe get off 4 a little bit faster,” Haudenschild said. “Just left the door open for him a little bit for him to get a slidejob in and get going.”
The red flag was displayed on the next lap, briefly halting the action while Darin Naida’s No. 7N was towed back to the pits. With only 10 laps left, this made for a single-file restart.
Try as he did, Haudenschild was unable to catch Schuchart in the closing laps and settled for a runner-up finish for the second time in World of Outlaws competition at Attica.
“I knew it was gonna be tough single-file,” he said. “I tried to rip around Turns 1 and 2, on the first single-file start and didn’t make up any ground off of 2, so I kind of aborted that. Really, I got through 3 and 4 pretty good and held with him. But running with him and passing him after a single-file is pretty tough.”
Crossing the finish line third was Kevin Gobrecht Rookie of the Year Award contender Skylar Gee. In doing so, the Leduc, AB, Canada-native secured his first career podium finish with the World of Outlaws — a much-needed confidence boost after enduring the struggles of his first full-time season on the national Sprint Car tour.
“We knew we were capable of doing this,” Gee said. “It just seems like this first quarter of the season, if it could go wrong for us, it has. Truck and trailer issues, motor issues, the list goes on. It’s nothing to feel sorry for us about, we’ve just gotta keep working through it.”
Kalib Henry gained 15 spots of position in his drive from 23rd to finish eighth and earned himself the KSE Racing Products Hard Charger Award.
Donny Schatz earned his first Simpson Racing Products Quick Time Award of the season in Honest Abe Roofing Qualifying.
Heat Races were won by Conner Morrell (NOS Energy Drink Heat 1); Gio Scelzi (Real American Beer Heat 2); Logan Schuchart (WIX Filters Heat 3); Sheldon Haudenschild (TheGreatestStoreonDirt.com Heat 4).
The SPA Technique #1 Redraw Award went to Conner Morrell.
The Toyota Dash was won by Skylar Gee.
Darin Naida won the Micro-Lite Last Chance Showdown.
The Smith Titanium Brake Systems Break of the Race went to Carson Macedo.
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RESULTS
NOS Energy Drink Feature (35 Laps): 1. 1S-Logan Schuchart[4]; 2. 17-Sheldon Haudenschild[2]; 3. 99-Skylar Gee[1]; 4. 18-Giovanni Scelzi[6]; 5. 28M-Conner Morrell[5]; 6. 2-David Gravel[7]; 7. 17B-Bill Balog[19]; 8. 101-Kalib Henry[23]; 9. 83-Michael Kofoid[10]; 10. 7S-Chris Windom[8]; 11. 55-Hunter Schuerenberg[12]; 12. 23-Garet Williamson[13]; 13. 6-Zach Hampton[14]; 14. 33W-Cap Henry[9]; 15. 3J-Trey Jacobs[15]; 16. 15-Donny Schatz[3]; 17. 09-Craig Mintz[17]; 18. 41-Carson Macedo[16]; 19. 19-TJ Michael[20]; 20. 2C-Cole Macedo[11]; 21. 7N-Darin Naida[21]; 22. 29-Zeth Sabo[18]; 23. 17GP-Tim Shaffer[24]; 24. 11N-Kasey Jedrzejek[22]
MicroLite Last Chance Showdown (12 Laps): 1. 7N-Darin Naida[2]; 2. 11N-Kasey Jedrzejek[4]; 3. 101-Kalib Henry[8]; 4. 17GP-Tim Shaffer[6]; 5. 15C-Chris Andrews[1]; 6. 35-Stuart Brubaker[5]; 7. 4-Zane DeVault[3]; 8. 21-Larry Kingseed Jr[10]; 9. 32-Bryce Lucius[9]; 10. 5E-Bobby Elliott[7]; 11. 5AU-Brock Hallett[11]; 12. 32B-Brandon Spithaler[13]; 13. 15K-Creed Kemenah[12]; 14. 38-Leyton Wagner[14]
C Feature (10 Laps): 1. 32B-Brandon Spithaler[1]; 2. 38-Leyton Wagner[2]; 3. 97-Justin Clark[4]; 4. 34-Sterling Cling[5]; 5. 16-DJ Foos[9]; 6. 5-Kody Brewer[8]; 7. 75-Jerry Dahms[6]; 8. 14-Sean Rayhall[3]; 9. W20-Greg Wilson[10]; 10. 70-Henry Malcuit[7]
Toyota Dash (8 Laps): 1. 99-Skylar Gee[2]; 2. 17-Sheldon Haudenschild[3]; 3. 15-Donny Schatz[6]; 4. 1S-Logan Schuchart[5]; 5. 28M-Conner Morrell[1]; 6. 18-Giovanni Scelzi[8]; 7. 2-David Gravel[7]; 8. 7S-Chris Windom[4]
Heat 1 (10 Laps): 1. 28M-Conner Morrell[2]; 2. 15-Donny Schatz[1]; 3. 33W-Cap Henry[4]; 4. 23-Garet Williamson[5]; 5. 09-Craig Mintz[8]; 6. 4-Zane DeVault[7]; 7. 15C-Chris Andrews[3]; 8. 32-Bryce Lucius[10]; 9. 32B-Brandon Spithaler[11]; 10. 34-Sterling Cling[9]; 11. 16-DJ Foos[6]
Real American Beer Heat 2 (10 Laps): 1. 18-Giovanni Scelzi[1]; 2. 99-Skylar Gee[2]; 3. 2C-Cole Macedo[4]; 4. 3J-Trey Jacobs[3]; 5. 17B-Bill Balog[6]; 6. 35-Stuart Brubaker[5]; 7. 5E-Bobby Elliott[10]; 8. 5AU-Brock Hallett[9]; 9. 14-Sean Rayhall[7]; 10. 70-Henry Malcuit[8]
WIX Filter Heat 3 (10 Laps): 1. 1S-Logan Schuchart[2]; 2. 7S-Chris Windom[4]; 3. 83-Michael Kofoid[1]; 4. 6-Zach Hampton[3]; 5. 29-Zeth Sabo[7]; 6. 11N-Kasey Jedrzejek[6]; 7. 101-Kalib Henry[9]; 8. 7N-Darin Naida[5]; 9. 38-Leyton Wagner[10]; 10. 75-Jerry Dahms[11]; 11. W20-Greg Wilson[8]
The Greatest Store on Dirt Heat 4 (10 Laps): 1. 17-Sheldon Haudenschild[1]; 2. 2-David Gravel[2]; 3. 55-Hunter Schuerenberg[3]; 4. 41-Carson Macedo[4]; 5. 19-TJ Michael[5]; 6. 17GP-Tim Shaffer[7]; 7. 21-Larry Kingseed Jr[10]; 8. 15K-Creed Kemenah[6]; 9. 97-Justin Clark[9]; 10. 5-Kody Brewer[8]
Honest Abe Roofing Qualifying Group A (2 Laps): 1. 15-Donny Schatz, 00:12.909[5]; 2. 18-Giovanni Scelzi, 00:12.964[16]; 3. 28M-Conner Morrell, 00:13.042[10]; 4. 99-Skylar Gee, 00:13.106[9]; 5. 15C-Chris Andrews, 00:13.159[11]; 6. 3J-Trey Jacobs, 00:13.182[17]; 7. 33W-Cap Henry, 00:13.209[13]; 8. 2C-Cole Macedo, 00:13.233[19]; 9. 23-Garet Williamson, 00:13.306[1]; 10. 35-Stuart Brubaker, 00:13.328[3]; 11. 16-DJ Foos, 00:13.343[14]; 12. 17B-Bill Balog, 00:13.364[8]; 13. 4-Zane DeVault, 00:13.405[12]; 14. 14-Sean Rayhall, 00:13.447[4]; 15. 09-Craig Mintz, 00:13.457[6]; 16. 70-Henry Malcuit, 00:13.462[15]; 17. 34-Sterling Cling, 00:13.573[21]; 18. 5AU-Brock Hallett, 00:13.626[20]; 19. 32-Bryce Lucius, 00:13.656[7]; 20. 5E-Bobby Elliott, 00:13.883[18]; 21. 32B-Brandon Spithaler, 00:13.999[2]
Honest Abe Roofing Qualifying Group B (2 Laps): 1. 83-Michael Kofoid, 00:12.937[15]; 2. 17-Sheldon Haudenschild, 00:12.951[16]; 3. 1S-Logan Schuchart, 00:13.038[17]; 4. 2-David Gravel, 00:13.103[4]; 5. 6-Zach Hampton, 00:13.106[21]; 6. 55-Hunter Schuerenberg, 00:13.127[20]; 7. 7S-Chris Windom, 00:13.209[9]; 8. 41-Carson Macedo, 00:13.271[12]; 9. 7N-Darin Naida, 00:13.301[6]; 10. 19-TJ Michael, 00:13.332[7]; 11. 11N-Kasey Jedrzejek, 00:13.406[13]; 12. 15K-Creed Kemenah, 00:13.492[19]; 13. 29-Zeth Sabo, 00:13.511[8]; 14. 17GP-Tim Shaffer, 00:13.516[5]; 15. W20-Greg Wilson, 00:13.645[11]; 16. 5-Kody Brewer, 00:13.911[10]; 17. 101-Kalib Henry, 00:13.963[2]; 18. 97-Justin Clark, 00:14.050[14]; 19. 38-Leyton Wagner, 00:14.172[18]; 20. 21-Larry Kingseed Jr, 00:14.278[3]; 21. 75-Jerry Dahms, 00:14.410[1]
WORLD OF OUTLAWS SERIES STANDINGS
Points Updated: May 24, 2025
Pos. No. Driver Hometown Points Gap Starts Wins Top 5s Top 10s
1 2 David Gravel Watertown, CT 3420 24 8 21 24
2 1S Logan Schuchart Hanover, PA 3248 -172 24 2 14 20
3 83 Michael Kofoid Penngrove, CA 3236 -184 24 3 8 19
4 41 Carson Macedo LeMoore, CA 3200 -220 24 2 12 19
5 17 Sheldon Haudenschild Wooster, OH 3184 -236 24 1 12 16
6 15 Donny Schatz Fargo, ND 3086 -334 24 0 4 15
7 18 Giovanni Scelzi Fresno, CA 3070 -350 24 1 4 16
8 17B Bill Balog North Pole, AK 2960 -460 23 1 4 10
9 7S Chris Windom Canton, IL 2884 -536 24 0 1 8
10 23 Garet Williamson Columbia, MO 2866 -554 24 0 0 5
11 2C Cole Macedo LeMoore, CA 2788 -632 20 0 3 6
12 55 Hunter Schuerenberg Sikeston, MO 2768 -652 20 0 0 5
13 6 Zach Hampton Mooresville, IN 2756 -664 21 0 0 4
14 99 Skylar Gee Leduc, AB, CA 2630 -790 16 0 1 3
15 28M Conner Morrell Bradenton, FL 2626 -794 18 0 2 3
16 27 Emerson Axsom Franklin, IN 2182 -1238 15 0 2 6
17 39M Anthony Macri Dillsburg, PA 1440 -1980 12 1 2 5
18 32 Bryce Lucius Findlay, OH 1330 -2090 4 0 0 0
19 88 Austin McCarl Altoona, IA 1236 -2184 11 0 0 2
20 71 Parker Price Miller Kokomo, IN 1218 -2202 9 0 0 3
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