David Gravel is perfect at Weedsport
Photo by Trent Gower
WEEDSPORT, N.Y.—People wonder what happens when an unstoppable force meets an immovable object, but what would the result be of the two working together? It probably looks a lot like David Gravel and Big Game Motorsports at Weedsport Speedway.
The two joined forces in 2021 and have effectively owned the New York track. It started with a victory in their first Weedsport trip that season, and they backed it up with another the following year. The next night Gravel started ninth and nearly pulled it off, driving to second. They returned to the top step of the podium in 2023 and stayed on top in 2024. Then that brought us to 2025.
The World of Outlaws NOS Energy Drink Sprint Cars invaded Weedsport on Sunday for the Empire State Challenge and the only New York stop for the Series this season. This trip proved to be no different as Gravel and the Tod Quiring-owned team dominated once again.
Gravel began the night by setting the fastest time in his Flight of Honest Abe Roofing Qualifying and parlayed that into a Heat Race win. The SPA Technique #1 Redraw put him on the pole of the Toyota Dash, which he also won. All that remained was the Feature.
The green flag waved and Gravel got the early jump, but Cole Macedo didn’t make it easy through the early circuits. He stayed within striking distance, but as the laps clicked away Gravel got stronger and stronger through traffic. The defending Series champion led from flag to flag, and the margin of victory was north of six seconds.
“You just never know,” Gravel said. “The pace gets so slow. They did track work, had the tiller out, and they haven’t done that all night. So, I just didn’t know if the top was going to be the place to be or not. We had a lot of aggressive guys behind us, so you know they were going to try it. I saw Cole (Macedo) in (Turns) 1 and 2 those first couple laps, but other than that I didn’t really see him.”
Gravel already owned the most World of Outlaws triumphs at Weedsport entering the night, and he extended that record with his fifth score. He’s won 33-percent of the Series’ visits to the D-shaped track. His 11th checkered flag of 2025 is the 114th of his career with The Greatest Show on Dirt as he continues to close in on Danny Lasoski’s total of 122 for sixth all-time.
Michael “Buddy” Kofoid took the second spot on Lap 22 and held on to finish runner-up. He was one of many sliding across Turns 1 and 2 to meet the cushion in the center of the corners, and it nearly cost him multiple times as he biked the Roth Motorsports machine up on two wheels. But the Penngrove, CA native managed to keep things under control for his 18th podium of the season.
“Just hit the fence basically,” Kofoid said with a laugh of his line in Turns 1 and 2. “The cushion seems to always kind of build here center off (Turn) 2. The entry to (Turn) 1 is just hard to wrap your head around just because the wall is almost like a square. You have to cut across (Turn) 1 otherwise you kind of get hung out in no man’s land and the wall comes at you. It seems better to just slide across. At least for me and our car it was better to be leaning against something.”
Sheldon Haudenschild took the Stenhouse Jr.-Marshall Racing/NOS Energy Drink No. 17 from eighth to third to round out the top three and notch his second straight Weedsport podium. He equaled Logan Schuchart for the fifth most podiums this year and now trails him by a manageable 56 markers for the fourth spot in points.
“It was just tough starting eighth,” Haudenschild explained. “The 1A (Ashton Torgerson) ran her down in there and parked it, and I was running about 10th there, so I was happy for that early caution. I just found the top and was able to get a few guys and just get my tires under me and get a little bit of heat in them and be able to move around.”
The brothers Carson Macedo and Cole Macedo completed the top five.
New York’s own Danny Varin wheeled from 19th to 10th to earn the KSE Racing Products Hard Charger.
Carson Macedo took the Jason Johnson Racing ride to his third Simpson Quick Time of 2025 in Honest Abe Roofing Qualifying.
Heat Races belonged to Carson Macedo (NOS Energy Drink Heat One), Buddy Kofoid (Real American Beer Heat Two), David Gravel (WIX Filters Heat Three), and Ryan Turner (TheGreatestStoreonDirt.com Heat Four).
The SPA Technique #1 Redraw went to David Gravel.
Gravel also topped the Toyota Dash.
Alex Therrien won the Micro-Lite Last Chance Showdown.
The Smith Titanium Brake Systems Break of the Race went to Chris Windom.
UP NEXT: The World of Outlaws NOS Energy Drink Sprint Cars head to the always exciting I-55 Federated Auto Parts Raceway Park in Pevely, MO on Aug. 1-2 for the grueling Ironman 55. The winner of the 55-lap finale takes the title of Ironman and $25,000. For tickets, CLICK HERE.
If you can’t make it to the track, catch every lap live on DIRTVision.
RESULTS
NOS Energy Drink Feature (30 Laps): 1. 2-David Gravel[1]; 2. 83-Michael Kofoid[3]; 3. 17-Sheldon Haudenschild[8]; 4. 41-Carson Macedo[7]; 5. 2C-Cole Macedo[2]; 6. 1S-Logan Schuchart[6]; 7. 15T-Ryan Turner[4]; 8. 18-Emerson Axsom[10]; 9. 38-Zach Sobotka[9]; 10. O1-Danny Varin[19]; 11. 23-Garet Williamson[11]; 12. 17B-Bill Balog[18]; 13. 28-Jordan Poirier[20]; 14. 15-Donny Schatz[14]; 15. 99L-Larry Wight[16]; 16. 79-Jordan Thomas[24]; 17. 99-Skylar Gee[15]; 18. 6-Zach Hampton[25]; 19. 45-Cory Eliason[13]; 20. 1A-Ashton Torgerson[5]; 21. 41R-Dalton Rombough[23]; 22. 55-Hunter Schuerenberg[22]; 23. 21-Alex Therrien[21]; 24. 7S-Chris Windom[12]; 25. 2X-Dave Axton[17]
MicroLite Last Chance Showdown (12 Laps): 1. 21-Alex Therrien[4]; 2. 55-Hunter Schuerenberg[3]; 3. 41R-Dalton Rombough[1]; 4. 79-Jordan Thomas[8]; 5. 98-Joe Trenca[2]; 6. 7NY-Matt Farnham[6]; 7. 6-Zach Hampton[12]; 8. 8-Billy Dietrich[10]; 9. 17A-Sammy Reakes IV[7]; 10. 36-Logan Crisafulli[11]; 11. 100-Chris Hulsizer[15]; 12. 3G-Dale Gosselin[17]; 13. 5-DJ Christie[9]; 14. 28M-Conner Morrell[20]; 15. 3-Parker Evans[19]; 16. 88C-Chad Miller[14]; 17. 22-Jonathan Preston[16]; 18. 17X-Cory Turner[5]; 19. 5H-Chris Hile[13]; 20. 23B-Travis Billington[18]
Toyota Dash (6 Laps): 1. 2-David Gravel[1]; 2. 2C-Cole Macedo[4]; 3. 83-Michael Kofoid[3]; 4. 15T-Ryan Turner[2]; 5. 1A-Ashton Torgerson[8]; 6. 1S-Logan Schuchart[5]; 7. 41-Carson Macedo[6]; 8. 17-Sheldon Haudenschild[7]
Heat 1 (8 Laps): 1. 41-Carson Macedo[1]; 2. 2C-Cole Macedo[2]; 3. 38-Zach Sobotka[6]; 4. 45-Cory Eliason[4]; 5. 2X-Dave Axton[7]; 6. 55-Hunter Schuerenberg[5]; 7. 41R-Dalton Rombough[3]; 8. 5-DJ Christie[8]; 9. 5H-Chris Hile[9]; 10. 3G-Dale Gosselin[10]
Real American Beer Heat 2 (8 Laps): 1. 83-Michael Kofoid[2]; 2. 17-Sheldon Haudenschild[3]; 3. 23-Garet Williamson[1]; 4. 99-Skylar Gee[9]; 5. O1-Danny Varin[5]; 6. 17X-Cory Turner[4]; 7. 17A-Sammy Reakes IV[8]; 8. 36-Logan Crisafulli[7]; 9. 100-Chris Hulsizer[6]; 10. 3-Parker Evans[10]
WIX Filters Heat 3 (8 Laps): 1. 2-David Gravel[1]; 2. 1A-Ashton Torgerson[2]; 3. 18-Emerson Axsom[4]; 4. 15-Donny Schatz[3]; 5. 17B-Bill Balog[5]; 6. 21-Alex Therrien[7]; 7. 79-Jordan Thomas[6]; 8. 8-Billy Dietrich[9]; 9. 88C-Chad Miller[8]; 10. 23B-Travis Billington[10]
The Greatest Show on Dirt Heat 4 (8 Laps): 1. 15T-Ryan Turner[1]; 2. 1S-Logan Schuchart[3]; 3. 7S-Chris Windom[2]; 4. 99L-Larry Wight[5]; 5. 28-Jordan Poirier[8]; 6. 7NY-Matt Farnham[6]; 7. 98-Joe Trenca[4]; 8. 6-Zach Hampton[7]; 9. 22-Jonathan Preston[9]; 10. 28M-Conner Morrell[10]
Honest Abe Roofing Qualifying Group A (2 Laps): 1. 41-Carson Macedo, 00:13.826[11]; 2. 23-Garet Williamson, 00:14.074[9]; 3. 2C-Cole Macedo, 00:14.231[3]; 4. 83-Michael Kofoid, 00:14.249[7]; 5. 41R-Dalton Rombough, 00:14.309[19]; 6. 17-Sheldon Haudenschild, 00:14.331[12]; 7. 45-Cory Eliason, 00:14.366[2]; 8. 17X-Cory Turner, 00:14.573[13]; 9. 55-Hunter Schuerenberg, 00:14.607[18]; 10. O1-Danny Varin, 00:14.612[8]; 11. 38-Zach Sobotka, 00:14.703[5]; 12. 100-Chris Hulsizer, 00:14.740[4]; 13. 2X-Dave Axton, 00:14.768[15]; 14. 36-Logan Crisafulli, 00:14.849[6]; 15. 5-DJ Christie, 00:14.865[10]; 16. 17A-Sammy Reakes IV, 00:14.895[1]; 17. 5H-Chris Hile, 00:14.909[16]; 18. 99-Skylar Gee, 00:14.932[14]; 19. 3G-Dale Gosselin, 00:15.078[17]; 20. 3-Parker Evans, 00:15.250[20]
Honest Abe Roofing Qualifying Group B (2 Laps): 1. 2-David Gravel, 00:14.619[18]; 2. 15T-Ryan Turner, 00:14.743[1]; 3. 1A-Ashton Torgerson, 00:14.778[12]; 4. 7S-Chris Windom, 00:15.040[9]; 5. 15-Donny Schatz, 00:15.050[7]; 6. 1S-Logan Schuchart, 00:15.057[5]; 7. 18-Emerson Axsom, 00:15.190[2]; 8. 98-Joe Trenca, 00:15.200[19]; 9. 17B-Bill Balog, 00:15.214[4]; 10. 99L-Larry Wight, 00:15.263[6]; 11. 79-Jordan Thomas, 00:15.271[10]; 12. 7NY-Matt Farnham, 00:15.326[13]; 13. 21-Alex Therrien, 00:15.326[8]; 14. 6-Zach Hampton, 00:15.392[16]; 15. 88C-Chad Miller, 00:15.404[11]; 16. 28-Jordan Poirier, 00:15.455[17]; 17. 8-Billy Dietrich, 00:15.639[3]; 18. 22-Jonathan Preston, 00:15.757[14]; 19. 23B-Travis Billington, 00:16.054[20]; 20. 28M-Conner Morrell, 00:16.491[15]
CURRENT WORLD OF OUTLAWS STANDINGS
Points Updated: July 27, 2025
Pos. No. Driver Hometown Points Gap Starts Wins Top 5s Top 10s
1 2 David Gravel Watertown, CT 6004 44 11 37 43
2 83 Michael Kofoid Penngrove, CA 5822 -182 44 7 24 37
3 41 Carson Macedo Lemoore, CA 5776 -228 44 6 23 33
4 1S Logan Schuchart Hanover, PA 5666 -338 42 2 19 31
5 17 Sheldon Haudenschild Wooster, OH 5610 -394 44 2 18 28
6 15 Donny Schatz Fargo, ND 5500 -504 44 0 7 24
7 17B Bill Balog North Pole, AK 5278 -726 42 2 9 21
8 7S Chris Windom Canton, IL 5210 -794 40 0 4 17
9 23 Garet Williamson Columbia, MO 5204 -800 42 0 3 14
10 18 Giovanni Scelzi Fresno, CA 5160 -844 40 1 7 27
11 2C Cole Macedo Lemoore, CA 5074 -930 37 0 4 11
12 55 Hunter Schuerenberg Sikeston, MO 4936 -1068 35 0 1 10
13 6 Zach Hampton Mooresville, IN 4828 -1176 33 0 0 4
14 99 Skylar Gee Leduc, AB, CA 4746 -1258 27 0 2 5
15 28M Conner Morrell Bradenton, FL 4622 -1382 30 0 2 3
16 18 Emerson Axsom Franklin, IN 3312 -2692 23 0 2 9
17 39M Anthony Macri Dillsburg, PA 2682 -3322 23 3 6 12
18 21H Brady Bacon Broken Arrow, OK 1988 -4016 9 0 1 3
19 10 Ryan Timms Oklahoma City, OK 1882 -4122 15 0 1 6
20 49 Brad Sweet Grass Valley, CA 1770 -4234 14 1 6 11
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