GASTONIA, N.C. — Coen McDaniel drove to his second Hoosier Racing Tire United Sprint Car Series 30th Anniversary Outlaw Thunder Tour Presented By XC Gear win of the season on Friday night at Carolina Speedway.
The 15-year-old 2025 USCS Rookie of the Year led all 25 laps for the victory, his second national win to go with a Winter Heat Series win.
Lance Moss finished second and Tyler Blankenship took the third spot. Jadan Bowling was fourth and Justin Barger drove to a fifth-place finish.
The start of the race was red flagged for a multi-car tangle on the opening lap that delayed the complete restart by 14 minutes. When the field took the green flag for the second time, McDaniel took the lead followed by Moss, Riggins, Blankenship and Witherspoon. By the fifth lap, McDaniel opened up a two second advantage over Moss, and Reutimann got by Witherspoon, who dropped out of the race running fifth.
The only caution flag of the feature race came out on lap 11 for Carr, who dropped out of the eighth position. McDaniel led Moss, Riggins, Blankenship, and Reutimann down for the restart in the top five.
Bowling passed Reutimann on the restart to move up to the fifth spot. McDaniel stretched his lead over Moss out to 1.7 seconds with 10 laps to go.
Riggins dropped out of the race on lap 18 while running third, and Barger moved up to the top five. With five laps to go, McDaniel had checked out to a 3.1-second lead over Moss.
McDaniel took a 4.936-second margin of victory over Moss under the checkered flag in a race that took 22 minutes and 56.234 seconds to complete the 25 tours around Carolina Speedway.
The finish:
Feature (25 Laps): 1. 48 Coen McDaniel, Gaffney, SC (1); 2. 23 Lance Moss, Cherryville, NC (3); 3. 9 Tyler Blankenship, Bakersfield, CA (4); 4. 01 Jadan Bowling, Holden Beach, NC (5); 5. 5 Justin Barger, Cornelius, NC (8); 6. 00 P.J. Reutimann, Zephyrhills, FL (7); 7. 28 Jeff Willingham, Ripley, MS (12); 8. 24 Eric Riggins, Jr., Charlotte, NC (2); 9. 7 Preston Carr, Cottonwood, CA (9); 10. 55w Randy Wilbert, Lititz, PA (14); 11. 52x Adrian Tetreault (17); 12. 43 Terry Witherspoon, Jacksonville, FL (6); 13. 19w Jackson Wellman, Belmont, NC (16); 14. 75x Brian Tyler, Parma, MI (18); 15. 15 Steve Gilroy, Cherryville, NC (15); 16. 11j Wyatt Miller, Statesville, NC (10); 17. 75 Robert Tyler Mount Pleasant, NC (11); 18. 5m Shawn Mott, Rockwell, NC (13).
