WoO Notes: Outlaws Vs. The PA Posse

ABBOTTSTOWN, Pa. — Dash automotive racing’s fiercest rivalry is able to be renewed.

The World of Outlaws NOS Vitality Drink Dash Collection is heading to Pennsylvania for the primary time in 2025 the place the PA Posse await. The 2 sides have battled for bragging rights for many years, and so they’re set for one more three battles this week.

First up is the Gettysburg Conflict at Lincoln Speedway on Tuesday, Might 6. Then it’s over to Mechanicsburg’s Williams Grove Speedway for the HVAC Distributors Morgan Cup on Friday-Saturday. Saturday’s winner will financial institution $20,000, a $15,000 winner’s share plus a Morgan Cup $5,000 bonus.

There may also be some off-track enjoyable on Thursday, Might 8 because the Hershey Dash Automotive Expertise takes place at Hersheypark Stadium.

ADVANTAGE OUTLAWS

Bragging rights belong to the World of Outlaws because the rivalry is introduced again to life.

The Best Present on Grime took 5 of the showdowns in 2024, making it two straight seasons of supremacy for the vacationers. The 2022 chapter was the final time the Posse got here out on high when the final battle was full.

Fortuitously for the Posse, they do maintain one benefit over the World of Outlaws because the week begins. The one characteristic they claimed final 12 months was the Morgan Cup as T.J. Stutts shocked the world at Williams Grove, that means the coveted cup is within the Posse’s possession till it’s put up for grabs on Saturday night time.

POWER IN PA

Irrespective of how loud the followers might boo, Pennsylvania has by no means intimidated Donny Schatz throughout his legendary World of Outlaws profession.

His Williams Grove résumé is astonishing. Twenty-one instances he’s slayed the Posse on the historic half mile. That’s probably the most quantity he’s received with The Best Present on Grime at any monitor. Amongst these victories is a file six Nationwide Open titles. He’s additionally been on the rostrum in 57 of his 144 characteristic begins at Williams Grove, that means he comes house within the high three almost 40% of the time. Over at Lincoln Schatz is the newest sequence victor, topping final October’s go to for his second win within the Pigeon Hills.

Schatz will head to Pennsylvania on the heels of his finest end of the 12 months. He wheeled the No. 15 from tenth to second at Eldora Speedway and almost challenged for the victory.

GRAVEL AT THE GROVE

Schatz isn’t the one World of Outlaws champion with a protracted listing of accomplishments at Williams Grove.

It’s the place he first raced a 410 dash automotive. It’s the place the seventh win of his World of Outlaws profession got here when he took the Roth Motorsports No. 83 to a Nationwide Open title. That was the primary of now 9 sequence scores on the half mile.

The latest lifted him to 100 profession victories, making Gravel solely the eighth driver to succeed in the mark. If he can choose up his tenth Williams Grove World of Outlaws win, he’d be a part of Steve Kinser (38), Donny Schatz (21), Mark Kinser (18), Lance Dewease (17), and Sammy Swindell (16) because the sixth driver with double digits.

The defending champion is recent off bagging his sixth victory of the 12 months by main each lap at Eldora Speedway. His level lead is at 80 markers.

HOME WATERS

A trio of races in Pennsylvania means a trio of races on house turf for World of Outlaws veteran Logan Schuchart. The Hanover, Pa., native lower his tooth within the “Keystone State” earlier than starting what’s blossomed right into a 12-year World of Outlaws profession with Shark Racing.

13 years in the past, Schuchart topped the All Star Circuit of Champions at Williams Grove for his first 410 dash automotive win on the Mechanicsburg facility. It took him greater than 50 makes an attempt to beat The Best Present on Grime there, however he lastly broke by with a last-lap move in 2023. At Lincoln Schuchart is a two-time native winner, claiming a pair in 2013. His closest name to a Lincoln World of Outlaws win was a 2020 runner-up.

The No. 1s workforce is second in factors with 19 races within the books. Schuchart has been within the high 5 in 5 of the final six races.

GOLDEN STATE GASSERS

Regardless of California’s bullrings being wildly completely different from the traits of Pennsylvania’s tracks, a trio of “Golden State” gassers with the World of Outlaws have discovered success in PA.

Lemoore’s Carson Macedo has visited Williams Grove victory lane 4 instances. He bested the Posse in a 2020 native race aboard the Kyle Larson Racing No. 2. Since becoming a member of forces with Jason Johnson Racing, he’s received thrice in World of Outlaws motion together with a pair of Nationwide Opens. He’s received twice at Lincoln, claiming an ASCoC race in 2018 earlier than a neighborhood rating in 2020.

Williams Grove is the place Giovanni Scelzi grew to become the youngest competitor to win a World of Outlaws characteristic in 2018. “Sizzling Sauce” was solely 16 years outdated when he took the Indy Race Components No. 71 to his first sequence victory. The Fresno native received a neighborhood Lincoln race along with his present KCP Racing workforce in 2022.

Michael “Buddy” Kofoid was the newest Californian to beat Williams Grove as he and Roth Motorsports took the Nationwide Open prelim final October. Like Scelzi, Kofoid invaded Lincoln in 2022 to steal a neighborhood occasion.

THE POSSE

The rationale the World of Outlaws and Pennsylvania Posse is the game’s largest rivalry is PA has confirmed to constantly give the nation’s finest drivers their hardest native competitors and count on no completely different this week.

Anthony Macri leads the native contingent towards the World of Outlaws. He’s already received 5 instances in 2025 together with two apiece at Lincoln and Williams Grove. “The Concrete Child” claimed the 2023 Gettysburg Conflict in thrilling vogue with a final lap move. He’s but to win at Williams Grove with the World of Outlaws, however he’s been within the high 5 in 9 of his final 17 tries together with a pair of podiums.

Lance Dewease is all the time one to look at, particularly at Williams Grove. Of the Fayetteville, PA native’s 20 profession sequence triumphs, 17 of them have come at The Grove.

Danny Dietrich will probably be on the hunt for his first World of Outlaws checkered flag since 2019. The primary two of his profession got here at Lincoln (2012 and 2013), and he added two extra at Williams Grove in 2015 and 2016). He’s a three-time native winner this season with a pair at BAPS Motor Speedway and one at Lincoln.

Chase Dietz has elevated his title into the favorites to defend house turf for the Posse. He hasn’t completed worse than fourth in 4 tries at Lincoln this 12 months with Stehman Motorsports together with a win within the monitor’s season opener. Final October he picked up a World of Outlaws podium at Williams Grove.

Anticipate loads of extra Posse energy this week together with reigning Morgan Cup champion T.J. Stutts, Freddie Rahmer, Lucas Wolfe, Troy Wagaman Jr., Kyle Moody, Matt Campbell and extra.