WHEATLAND, Mo. — Kory Schudy passed Korey Weyant on a restart with two laps remaining to capture the POWRi Lucas Oil WAR Sprint Car feature victory in Saturday night’s eighth annual Impact Signs Awnings & Wraps Open Wheel Showdown at Lucas Oil Speedway.
It was something of a home-track triumph for Schudy, as he pulled off the win just an hour from home in Springfield, Missouri.
“All I can say is God is good,” an excited Schudy said. “I have to thank everybody that helps out.”
Weyant passed Schudy at the start-finish line to complete lap 18 after Schudy had opened as much as a 2.5-second lead while leading laps five through-17.
Drama ensued just as Weyant was about to take the white flag with a two-second lead. A three-car tangle in turn one brought out a red flag and set up a green-white-checkered sprint to the finish with Weyant leading Schudy and Mitchell Davis.
Schudy, who drives for Sawyer Racing, made the most of the opportunity. He got a tremendous restart and made the pass in turn one and Weyant was no match from there. Schudy, 34, scored his first POWRi WAR Sprint victory.
“We definitely needed the restart,” said Schudy, who started sixth in the main event. “To be honest, I was wore out and kind of got lazy and Korey got by me there. I was able to regroup there and go back at him.”
Weyant said the red flag essentially took away the win from him.
“We would have won it if not for that,” Weyant said. “But he did a good job on the restart.”
Mitchell Davis finished third and Slater Helt was fourth.
Logan Seavey won the POWRi midget feature and Brandon Hanks topped the ASCS sprint car main event.
The finish:
Feature (25 Laps): 1. 28-Kory Schudy, [6]; 2. 99-Korey Weyant, [1]; 3. 56-Mitchell Davis, [4]; 4. 22S-Slater Helt, [8]; 5. 16-Anthony Nicholson, [14]; 6. 15B-Quinton Benson, [10]; 7. 31B-Joe B. Miller, [16]; 8. 77-Jack Wagner, [7]; 9. 90-Riley Kreisel, [11]; 10. 11-James Lyerla, [12]; 11. 12-Wesley Smith, [5]; 12. 37-Brian Beebe, [19]; 13. 7R-JD Black, [9]; 14. 65-Chris Parkinson, [17]; 15. 24H-Ty Hulsey, [13]; 16. 54-Trey Gropp, [18]; 17. 2H-Luke Howard, [15]; 18. 41-Brad Wyatt, [3]; 19. 77K-Katlynn Leer, [20]; 20. 11W-Wyatt Burks, [2]