PAIGE, Texas — The World of Outlaws NOS Vitality Drink Dash Vehicles are able to two-step in Texas.
The nation’s finest Dash Automotive drivers are partnered with their 900-horsepower machines. The music selection is the roar of the engines. And the venue is Paige, Texas’ Cotton Bowl Speedway for the Federated Auto Components Texas Two-Step.
Cotton Bowl has hosted The Biggest Present on Grime on eight earlier events. The Paige, TX facility will equal North Texas Motor Speedway on Friday after which surpass it on Saturday because the seventh most visited Texas monitor by the World of Outlaws.
Final 12 months, Cotton Bowl delivered a pair of thrillers and count on no completely different as the game’s high expertise returns for 2 extra nights.
Let’s have a look at the weekend’s high storylines:
HOT SAUCE HEATING UP
After a tough begin to the season, Giovanni Scelzi and his KCP Racing workforce are on target.
It started with a high 10 and a podium throughout Volusia’s Bike Week Jamboree to start March. Mechanical points within the Warmth Race took him from a possible Sprint beginning and derailed the Talladega journey. However since then, it’s been an eighth at Magnolia Motor Speedway and a win and third at Kennedale Speedway Park.
As luck would have it, Scelzi now heads to a spot that’s been loads variety to him previously. Final 12 months’s Texas Two-Step noticed the Fresno, Calif. native take the World of Outlaws level lead for the primary time in his profession when he completed third on evening one. Then, he backed that up with a victory within the finale. He’s solely missed the highest 10 as soon as in six tries on the Texas monitor and owns a 6.67 common end.
COWBOY CARSON
Lemoore, Calif.’s Carson Macedo has excelled when he’s saddled up, placed on the cowboy boots (race sneakers) and headed to Texas in recent times.
He’s gained as soon as within the “Lone Star State” every of the previous three years. Macedo topped a visit to the monitor on this weekend’s agenda in 2022. Then, it was a Satan’s Bowl Speedway victory throughout the monitor’s remaining weekend in 2023. Final 12 months, he claimed the Collection debut at Kennedale Speedway Park.
This weekend affords up Macedo’s remaining likelihood of the season to maintain the streak alive. He and the Jason Johnson Racing crew are hungry for his or her first journey to Victory Lane because the season opener. They’ll head to Cotton Bowl on a streak of eight consecutive high 10 finishes together with a pair of podiums.
HAUD ON THE HUNT
One other confirmed driver/workforce mixture righting the ship is Sheldon Haudenschild and Stenhouse Jr.-Marshall Racing.
The thrilling Ohio gasser has completed sixth or higher in 4 of the final six races together with a season-best third at Magnolia. The current velocity lifted the 31-year-old into the highest 5 in factors.
Haudenschild continues to be chasing his first victory of the season, however the momentum he’s constructed coupled together with his Cotton Bowl résumé suggests the chances are in his favor this weekend. He’s a two-time winner, driving from sixth to victory in 2021 and from seventh to the highest of the leaderboard the subsequent 12 months. One other Texas triumph this weekend would make him the primary to a few Cotton Bowl wins with the World of Outlaws.
STILL STREAKING
David Gravel continues to look unstoppable in 2025. The 32-year-old simply made his 900th profession begin this previous weekend and appears to be coming into his prime.
After his first World of Outlaws championship in 2024, he and Massive Sport Motorsports have upped issues to a different stage this 12 months. The Watertown, Conn. native is but to overlook the highest 5 by means of 10 races. Early contact Saturday at Kennedale knocked him again so far as seventh, however he nonetheless rallied to fifth by the point the checkered flag fell. The highest 5 streak sits at 16 races courting again to final season.
Like most tracks he’s visited, Cotton Bowl has additionally been a supply off success for Gravel. He’s competed at each World of Outlaws race the monitor has hosted and boasts a 5.75 common end. The 2018 go to belonged to Gravel when he led each lap on the three-eighths mile.
TOP ROOKIE SWAP
With practically an eighth of a season full, it appears to be like just like the 2025 Kevin Gobrecht Rookie of the Yr goes to stay as much as all of the hype. Of the seven contestants, no driver has been in a position to take agency management as all of them look to jot down their title within the historical past books. The primary 5 are separated by a mere 60 factors.
Garet Williamson sits atop the category and ninth general in factors due to his finest weekend of the 12 months in Texas. The Columbia, Mo. native lastly broke into the highest 10 on evening one at Kennedale with a seventh. The following evening he took the Fischer Motorsports No. 23 to an eleventh place end. He’s been essentially the most constant of the rookies as of late with an 11.3 common end over the past six races.
Chris Windom slipped to second, simply 4 markers behind Williamson. Hunter Schuerenberg continues to sneak up on each courtesy of three high 10s within the final 5 races. “Hunter %” trails Williamson by 24 factors. Then, it’s Zach Hampton (-26 factors), Cole Macedo (-60 factors), Conner Morrell (-98 factors), and Skylar Gee (-122 factors).
