July 14, 2023 | By Kirk Elliott, RacinBoys.com

Logan Schuchart wins Eldora Million!

(Rossburg, OH) -- The richest payday in the history of Sprint Car racing goes to Logan Schuchart. Thursday night, the Hanover, Pennsylvania driver led all 50 laps on his way to a $1,002,023 at Eldora Speedway.

It's the first crown jewel win of his career and he accomplished it by winning his heat race then drawing the pole position of a race slowed just three times, including a midway break at lap 20.

Schuchart chose the inside each time on the double file restarts which would be to his advantage every time. His margin of victory over second place and fellow front row starter Carson Macedo was 3.5 seconds.

"One of my biggest dreams was to win the Kings Royal because no one in my family has ever won it, and we still haven't won it but to win a million dollars at Eldora Speedway is right up there." a smiling Schuchart said following the wild victory lane celebration.

The race saw it's first stoppage on the opening lap when Cole Duncun smacked the first turn wall. Following the complete restart, the race ran clean to lap 20 when the planned break occurred when teams were allowed to fuel and change tires.

The biggest incident of the night and the entire two-day event occurred just after the double file restart when Aaron Reutzel spun sideways in turn one, collecting Kyle Larson, Gio Scelzi, Spencer Bayston and Lachlan McHugh, who took the wildest flip of the three cars that got upside down. No one was hurt.

Macedo and Brad Sweet waged a torrid battle for second as did David Gravel and Brian Brown for fourth.

"I tried to just run smooth consistent laps," said Schuchart. "I knew where I wanted to run on the race track and I knew if I hit my marks it was going to be hard for anyone to run me down, especially in traffic.

"Crossing that finish line was an amazing feeling which got even better in victory lane. It's just wild to think a sprint car race on dirt can pay a million dollars to win."

Macedo collected $100,000 for runner-up honors.

Sweet ended up third ahead of Gravel. Rico Abreu passed Brown late for fifth.

Buddy Kofoid was the biggest mover of the race coming form 20th to seventh. Donny Schatz, Justin Peck and James McFadden rounded out the top-ten.

RESULTS

A=Feature 1 (50 Laps): 1. 1S-Logan Schuchart[1]; 2. 41-Carson Macedo[2]; 3. 49-Brad Sweet[4]; 4. 2-David Gravel[5]; 5. 24-Rico Abreu[9]; 6. 21-Brian Brown[8]; 7. 83JR-Michael Kofoid[20]; 8. 15-Donny Schatz[11]; 9. 13-Justin Peck[7]; 10. 83-James McFadden[16]; 11. 19-Brent Marks[19]; 12. 19L-CJ Leary[21]; 13. 11-Cory Eliason[15]; 14. 7BC-Tyler Courtney[18]; 15. 1A-Jacob Allen[10]; 16. 67-Justin Whittall[13]; 17. 91-Kyle Reinhardt[24]; 18. 55P-Daryn Pittman[23]; 19. (DNF) 8-Aaron Reutzel[3]; 20. (DNF) 57-Kyle Larson[6]; 21. (DNF) 5-Spencer Bayston[17]; 22. (DNF) 18-Giovanni Scelzi[12]; 23. (DNF) 25-Lachlan McHugh[22]; 24. (DNF) 22-Cole Duncan[14]

B Feature 1 (15 Laps): 1. 19-Brent Marks[1]; 2. 83JR-Michael Kofoid[2]; 3. 19L-CJ Leary[4]; 4. 25-Lachlan McHugh[5]; 5. 55P-Daryn Pittman[7]; 6. 91-Kyle Reinhardt[11]; 7. 3Z-Brock Zearfoss[17]; 8. 49X-Cale Thomas[6]; 9. 26-Zeb Wise[13]; 10. 71-Shane Stewart[12]; 11. 11T-TJ Stutts[8]; 12. 29-Carl Bowser[3]; 13. 24W-Garet Williamson[19]; 14. 17B-Bill Balog[23]; 15. 9R-Chase Randall[16]; 16. 7S-Robbie Price[20]; 17. 52-Blake Hahn[18]; 18. 39M-Lance Dewease[21]; 19. 5C-Dylan Cisney[15]; 20. (DNF) 21T-Cole Macedo[9]; 21. (DNF) 17-Sheldon Haudenschild[22]; 22. (DNF) 4-Chris Windom[10]; 23. (DNS) 35-Zach Hampton

C Feature 1 (12 Laps): 1. 7S-Robbie Price[2]; 2. 17-Sheldon Haudenschild[15]; 3. 42-Sye Lynch[14]; 4. 39-Hunter Schuerenberg[5]; 5. 45-Tim Shaffer[16]; 6. 35B-Austin Bishop[1]; 7. 55T-McKenna Haase[6]; 8. 56R-Ryan Myers[8]; 9. 15M-Mitch Harble[10]; 10. 13M-Brandon Matus[4]; 11. 19W-Trent Pigdon[20]; 12. 20B-Cody Bova[17]; 13. 33-Brent Matus[13]; 14. (DNF) 4X-Bradley Ashford[12]; 15. (DNF) 23Z-Zane DeVault[3]; 16. (DNF) 11N-Harli White[11]; 17. (DNF) W20-Greg Wilson[9]; 18. (DNF) 25R-Jordan Ryan[18]; 19. (DNS) 21H-Brady Bacon; 20. (DNS) 7-Ian Madsen; 21. (DNS) 17AU-Jamie Veal; 22. (DNS) 48-Danny Dietrich; 23. (DNS) 15H-Sam Hafertepe Jr

C Feature 2 (12 Laps): 1. 39M-Lance Dewease[2]; 2. 17B-Bill Balog[5]; 3. 81-Lee Jacobs[1]; 4. 9-Kasey Kahne[10]; 5. 11K-Kraig Kinser[8]; 6. 1M-Landon Myers[6]; 7. 101-Cody Maroske[14]; 8. 46-Michael Bauer[9]; 9. 97-JJ Hickle[17]; 10. 23M-Michael Millard[13]; 11. 3-Denny Peebles[15]; 12. 6X-Frank Rodgers III[20]; 13. (DNF) 99-Skylar Gee[11]; 14. (DNF) 11C-Kory Crabtree[16]; 15. (DNF) 4S-Danny Smith[21]; 16. (DNF) 4TS-Tyler Street[7]; 17. (DNF) 9P-Parker Price Miller[3]; 18. (DNS) 5T-Travis Philo; 19. (DNS) 19P-Paige Polyak; 20. (DNS) 2MD-Conner Morrell; 21. (DNS) 55-Kerry Madsen

Heat 1 (10 Laps): 1. 41-Carson Macedo[1]; 2. 13-Justin Peck[2]; 3. 67-Justin Whittall[7]; 4. 29-Carl Bowser[13]; 5. 11T-TJ Stutts[11]; 6. 35-Zach Hampton[10]; 7. 35B-Austin Bishop[8]; 8. 13M-Brandon Matus[14]; 9. 21H-Brady Bacon[5]; 10. 19-Brent Marks[3]; 11. 4X-Bradley Ashford[12]; 12. (DNF) 17-Sheldon Haudenschild[4]; 13. (DNF) 25R-Jordan Ryan[6]; 14. (DNF) 17AU-Jamie Veal[9]

Heat 2 (10 Laps): 1. 1S-Logan Schuchart[1]; 2. 24-Rico Abreu[2]; 3. 7BC-Tyler Courtney[5]; 4. 83JR-Michael Kofoid[3]; 5. 21T-Cole Macedo[6]; 6. 5C-Dylan Cisney[4]; 7. 7S-Robbie Price[11]; 8. 39-Hunter Schuerenberg[9]; 9. 56R-Ryan Myers[13]; 10. 15M-Mitch Harble[14]; 11. 33-Brent Matus[12]; 12. (DNF) 45-Tim Shaffer[8]; 13. (DNF) 7-Ian Madsen[7]; 14. (DNF) 15H-Sam Hafertepe Jr[10]

Heat 3 (10 Laps): 1. 2-David Gravel[1]; 2. 1A-Jacob Allen[2]; 3. 83-James McFadden[3]; 4. 19L-CJ Leary[9]; 5. 4-Chris Windom[6]; 6. 9R-Chase Randall[10]; 7. 23Z-Zane DeVault[8]; 8. 55T-McKenna Haase[5]; 9. W20-Greg Wilson[7]; 10. 11N-Harli White[12]; 11. 42-Sye Lynch[14]; 12. 20B-Cody Bova[13]; 13. 19W-Trent Pigdon[11]; 14. 48-Danny Dietrich[4]

Heat 4 (10 Laps): 1. 49-Brad Sweet[1]; 2. 18-Giovanni Scelzi[2]; 3. 22-Cole Duncan[3]; 4. 25-Lachlan McHugh[6]; 5. 91-Kyle Reinhardt[5]; 6. 3Z-Brock Zearfoss[9]; 7. 81-Lee Jacobs[7]; 8. 5T-Travis Philo[11]; 9. 4TS-Tyler Street[10]; 10. 9-Kasey Kahne[8]; 11. 23M-Michael Millard[13]; 12. (DNF) 11C-Kory Crabtree[12]; 13. (DNF) 55-Kerry Madsen[4]; 14. (DNS) 15C-Chris Andrews

Heat 5 (10 Laps): 1. 57-Kyle Larson[1]; 2. 21-Brian Brown[2]; 3. 5-Spencer Bayston[4]; 4. 49X-Cale Thomas[3]; 5. 71-Shane Stewart[6]; 6. 52-Blake Hahn[5]; 7. 39M-Lance Dewease[8]; 8. 17B-Bill Balog[7]; 9. 11K-Kraig Kinser[9]; 10. 99-Skylar Gee[10]; 11. 101-Cody Maroske[11]; 12. 97-JJ Hickle[14]; 13. 6X-Frank Rodgers III[12]; 14. (DNS) 4S-Danny Smith

Heat 6 (10 Laps): 1. 8-Aaron Reutzel[1]; 2. 15-Donny Schatz[2]; 3. 11-Cory Eliason[4]; 4. 55P-Daryn Pittman[5]; 5. 26-Zeb Wise[6]; 6. 24W-Garet Williamson[10]; 7. 9P-Parker Price Miller[3]; 8. 1M-Landon Myers[11]; 9. 46-Michael Bauer[12]; 10. 19P-Paige Polyak[8]; 11. 3-Denny Peebles[13]; 12. (DNF) 2MD-Conner Morrell[9]; 13. (DNS) 20G-Noah Gass