River Cities Recap: Brad Sweet wins World of Outlaws Feature

Troftgruben Sweeps Late Model Portion

Grand Forks, N.D. (August 26, 2022) - One year and one day following his first win at the Bullring, three-time and defending World of Outlaws series champion Brad Sweet parked in RydellCars.com victory lane for the second time Friday night, while Brody Troftgruben swept Late Model competition at the Outlaw specials, scoring his second victory of the year.

June's fast qualifier Sheldon Haudenschild and Spencer Bayston led the Outlaws to the green flag to start the 35 lap main event.

Sweet wasted little time moving forward, as the third place starter, and quickest qualifier of the night, moved into second on the second trip around the Bullring.

Already in thick lapped traffic seven laps into the race, Sweet had Haudenschild within his reach, with Sweet eventually taking the top spot on lap 11.

From there, David Gravel and June winner Carson Macedo moved in on Haudenschild for the second spot.

Both passed Haudenschild, and brought the now eleven-time Knoxville Nationals champion, Fargo's Donny Schatz with them before a caution with 20 laps remaining.

Sweet didn't let the sight of his championship rival faze him through three restarts through the middle of the race, as Gravel had to fend off a hard charging Donny Schatz to keep second.

The race came to a halt due to Austin Pierce rolling off the fourth turn with eleven laps left, but Sweet went unchallenged in the waning laps to win his second feature at the Bullring.
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Gravel, Macedo, Schatz, and Haudenschild completed the top five.

Joey Pederson and Brody Troftgruben brought the Cirrus Aircraft Late Model feature to green to finish the night, but were joined by Greg Friestad and Ryan Corbett in an epic four car battle for the top spot.

Corbett, Pederson, and Troftgruben went three-wide on opposite corners of the track on lap two, with Pederson leading the lap.

Pederson jumped the cushion a bit to start lap three, leaving Corbett and Troftgruben to battle for the lead.

Pederson regained second as the field worked traffic on lap six. Troftgruben was able to keep a solid lead as Jason Strand moved in on Pederson for second early on in the second half of the race.

​Troftgruben went unchallenged from there, winning his second feature of the year in front of the big Outlaw crowd. Pederson, Jason Strand, Corbett, and Jesse Teunis completed the top five.

WORLD OF OUTLAWS SPRINT CARS
NOS Energy Drink Feature (35 Laps): 1. 49-Brad Sweet[3]; 2. 2-David Gravel[4]; 3. 41-Carson Macedo[5]; 4. 15-Donny Schatz[11]; 5. 17-Sheldon Haudenschild[1]; 6. 5-Spencer Bayston[2]; 7. 83-James McFadden[7]; 8. 3Z-Brock Zearfoss[10]; 9. 5T-Ryan Timms[17]; 10. 1A-Jacob Allen[9]; 11. 13-Mark Dobmeier[8]; 12. 14T-Tim Estenson[13]; 13. 21K-Thomas Kennedy[12]; 14. 7S-Robbie Price[14]; 15. 11K-Kraig Kinser[21]; 16. 11M-Brendan Mullen[18]; 17. 6-Bill Rose[16]; 18. 20G-Noah Gass[19]; 19. 2A-Austin Pierce[20]; 20. 8H-Jade Hastings[22]; 21. 9N-Wade Nygaard[15]; 22. 1S-Logan Schuchart[6]; 23. 20A-Jordan Adams[24]; 24. 0-Nick Omdahl[23]

Last Chance Showdown (12 Laps): 1. 11K-Kraig Kinser[2]; 2. 8H-Jade Hastings[10]; 3. 0-Nick Omdahl[1]; 4. 20A-Jordan Adams[3]; 5. 8-Jack Croaker[5]; 6. 26-Blake Egeland[7]; 7. 10-Josh Swangler[4]; 8. 31-Shane Roemeling[12]; 9. 17S-Zach Omdahl[8]; 10. 811-Todd Mickelson[13]; 11. 99-Jordan Graham[11]; 12. 13T-Ty Hanten[9]; 13. 41T-Travis Strandell[6]; 14. 6N-Greg Nikitenko[14]; 15. 14-Tom Egeland[15]

DIRTVision FAST PASS Dash (6 Laps): 1. 17-Sheldon Haudenschild[1]; 2. 5-Spencer Bayston[2]; 3. 49-Brad Sweet[3]; 4. 2-David Gravel[4]; 5. 41-Carson Macedo[5]; 6. 1S-Logan Schuchart[6]; 7. 83-James McFadden[7]; 8. 13-Mark Dobmeier[8]

Heat 1 (8 Laps): 1. 83-James McFadden[2]; 2. 49-Brad Sweet[1]; 3. 1A-Jacob Allen[3]; 4. 14T-Tim Estenson[4]; 5. 5T-Ryan Timms[5]; 6. 20A-Jordan Adams[8]; 7. 11K-Kraig Kinser[6]; 8. 13T-Ty Hanten[9]; 9. 6N-Greg Nikitenko[7]

Heat 2 (8 Laps): 1. 41-Carson Macedo[1]; 2. 13-Mark Dobmeier[3]; 3. 3Z-Brock Zearfoss[4]; 4. 7S-Robbie Price[2]; 5. 11M-Brendan Mullen[5]; 6. 10-Josh Swangler[7]; 7. 41T-Travis Strandell[8]; 8. 8H-Jade Hastings[6]; 9. 811-Todd Mickelson[9]

Heat 3 (8 Laps): 1. 1S-Logan Schuchart[1]; 2. 5-Spencer Bayston[2]; 3. 15-Donny Schatz[3]; 4. 9N-Wade Nygaard[5]; 5. 20G-Noah Gass[4]; 6. 8-Jack Croaker[6]; 7. 26-Blake Egeland[7]; 8. 99-Jordan Graham[8]; 9. 14-Tom Egeland[9]

Heat 4 (8 Laps): 1. 17-Sheldon Haudenschild[2]; 2. 2-David Gravel[1]; 3. 21K-Thomas Kennedy[3]; 4. 6-Bill Rose[7]; 5. 2A-Austin Pierce[5]; 6. 0-Nick Omdahl[4]; 7. 17S-Zach Omdahl[6]; 8. 31-Shane Roemeling[8]

Qualifying (2 Laps): 1. 49-Brad Sweet, 00:09.885[31]; 2. 41-Carson Macedo, 00:09.894[28]; 3. 1S-Logan Schuchart, 00:09.912[6]; 4. 2-David Gravel, 00:09.912[22]; 5. 83-James McFadden, 00:09.929[16]; 6. 7S-Robbie Price, 00:09.992[32]; 7. 5-Spencer Bayston, 00:10.021[24]; 8. 17-Sheldon Haudenschild, 00:10.031[15]; 9. 1A-Jacob Allen, 00:10.038[18]; 10. 13-Mark Dobmeier, 00:10.051[14]; 11. 15-Donny Schatz, 00:10.075[2]; 12. 21K-Thomas Kennedy, 00:10.094[1]; 13. 14T-Tim Estenson, 00:10.107[25]; 14. 3Z-Brock Zearfoss, 00:10.139[19]; 15. 20G-Noah Gass, 00:10.155[27]; 16. 0-Nick Omdahl, 00:10.195[9]; 17. 5T-Ryan Timms, 00:10.226[8]; 18. 11M-Brendan Mullen, 00:10.245[13]; 19. 9N-Wade Nygaard, 00:10.252[20]; 20. 2A-Austin Pierce, 00:10.254[10]; 21. 11K-Kraig Kinser, 00:10.257[12]; 22. 8H-Jade Hastings, 00:10.268[29]; 23. 8-Jack Croaker, 00:10.291[17]; 24. 17S-Zach Omdahl, 00:10.486[4]; 25. 6N-Greg Nikitenko, 00:10.495[11]; 26. 10-Josh Swangler, 00:10.520[33]; 27. 26-Blake Egeland, 00:10.557[23]; 28. 6-Bill Rose, 00:10.680[5]; 29. 20A-Jordan Adams, 00:10.712[7]; 30. 41T-Travis Strandell, 00:10.906[26]; 31. 99-Jordan Graham, 00:10.911[21]; 32. 31-Shane Roemeling, 00:10.928[30]; 33. 13T-Ty Hanten, 00:11.076; 34. 811-Todd Mickelson, 00:11.076[34]; 35. 14-Tom Egeland, 00:11.076[3]

NLRA LATE MODELS
A Feature 1 (25 Laps): 1. 14-Brody Troftgruben[2]; 2. 7P-Joey Pederson[1]; 3. E85-Jason Strand[9]; 4. C4-Ryan Corbett[5]; 5. 70-Jesse Teunis[4]; 6. 21S-John Seng[6]; 7. 17-Lance Schill[18]; 8. 12S-Brad Seng[10]; 9. F9-Brandon Fuller[7]; 10. T1-Tom Corcoran[11]; 11. 29K-Ryan Kereluk[13]; 12. 12F-Greg Friestad[3]; 13. 1M-Nicholas Minske[16]; 14. 97-Dan McNamee[15]; 15. 54-Terry Nelson[17]; 16. 16S-Jeff Hapala[12]; 17. (DNF) 71S-Dustin Strand[8]; 18. (DNF) 2*-Cole Babcock[14]

Heat 1 (10 Laps): 1. 7P-Joey Pederson[3]; 2. 21S-John Seng[2]; 3. F9-Brandon Fuller[5]; 4. 12S-Brad Seng[1]; 5. 29K-Ryan Kereluk[6]; 6. (DNF) 54-Terry Nelson[4]

Heat 2 (10 Laps): 1. C4-Ryan Corbett[3]; 2. 70-Jesse Teunis[2]; 3. 71S-Dustin Strand[1]; 4. T1-Tom Corcoran[6]; 5. 2*-Cole Babcock[5]; 6. 1M-Nicholas Minske[4]

Heat 3 (10 Laps): 1. 14-Brody Troftgruben[6]; 2. 12F-Greg Friestad[4]; 3. E85-Jason Strand[3]; 4. 16S-Jeff Hapala[2]; 5. 97-Dan McNamee[1]; 6. (DNF) 17-Lance Schill[5]