KANSAS CITY, Kan. — The biggest sprint car race of the season, Shane Stewart’s Heartland Of America Showdown, is scheduled for tonight (April 11) at Lakeside Speedway.
With $50,000 on the line for the winner of the main event, 56 drivers and teams have pre-entered the event and the driver roster is a who’s who of sprint car racing. Tonight’s roster includes the 26 drivers scheduled to run the full High Limit Sprint Car Series schedule, as well as the top contenders from the World of Outlaws Sprint Car Series and other racing series and tracks from across the nation.
Co-promoters Kyle Larson and Brad Sweet, the four-time and reigning World of Outlaws champion, headline the entry list for the 35-lap event that pays $2,000 to start the feature at the four-tenths-mile dirt track.
Larson leads the High Limits contingent of drivers that includes Ryan Timms, Tyler Courtney, Aaron Reutzel, Parker Price-Miller, Buddy Kofoid, Justin Peck, Sam Hafertepe Jr., Brent Marks, Brian Brown, Rico Abreu, Anthony Macri and Cory Eliason.
Sweet will be among the Outlaws taking advantage of new rules in place this season that allow them to compete outside of the WoO sanction. He’s scheduled to be joined by Logan Schuchart, David Gravel, Spencer Bayston, Kasey Kahne, Donny Schatz, Sheldon Haudenschild, Gio Scelzi and Carson Macedo.
Ian Madsen, Austin McCarl, Zeb Wise, Brady Bacon, Cole Macedo and Tim Shaffer are among the other drivers entered in the star-studded field.
Hafertepe won last year’s ASCS Lucas Oil Sprint Car Series feature at Lakeside Speedway, while Gravel picked up a World of Outlaws triumph there last October.
The action can be seen via FloRacing.
The Entries
1 Justin Henderson
1s Logan Schuchart
2 David Gravel
2b Brett Becker
2ks Ian Madsen
2md Conner Morrell
3 Ayrton Gennetten
3j Dusty Zomer
3n Jake Neuman
3tk Tim Shaffer
5 Spencer Bayston
5t Ryan Timms
6 Carson McCarl
6r Frank Rodgers
7 Brooke Tatnell
7bc Tyler Courtney
8 Aaron Reutzel
9 Chase Randall
9k Kasey Kahne
9p Parker Price-Miller
10 Paulie Colagiovanni
11 Buddy Kofoid
11m Brendan Mullen
12x Blake Feese
13 Justin Peck
14 Cole Macedo
14e Tim Estenson
15 Donny Schatz
15h Sam Hafertepe Jr.
17 Sheldon Haudenschild
17b Bill Balog
18 Giovanni Scelzi
19 Brent Marks
21 Brian Brown
21h Brady Bacon
22 Riley Goodno
22s Slater Helt
24 Garet Williamson
24r Rico Abreu
25 Scott Bogucki
26 Zeb Wise
31 Joe B. Miller
39 Justin Sanders
39m Anthony Macri
41 Carson Macedo
44 Chris Martin
47 Dylan Westbrook
48 Danny Dietrich
49 Brad Sweet
52 Blake Hahn
55 Hunter Schuerenberg
55b Alex Bowman
57 Kyle Larson
71 Cory Eliason
88 Austin McCarl
97 J.J. Hickle