Buddy Kofoid Wins World of Outlaws Feature at Texarkana 67 Speedway

Buddy Kofoid turned a late restart into the decisive move of the 40-lap World of Outlaws Sprint Car feature at Texarkana 67 Speedway, passing Cole Macedo to win the Short Track Nationals finale. Macedo had led much of the race after starting from the pole, but Kofoid stayed close through traffic and made his final charge from the high line. The finish hinged on timing: Kofoid had already shown he could challenge Macedo, but needed another opening to make the pass stick.

The event took place on the quarter-mile dirt track in Texarkana, Arkansas, with $25,000 going to the winner. The results list Michael Kofoid first, Macedo second and Garet Williamson third, followed by Tyler Courtney and David Gravel in the top five. The report identifies the winner in its race account as Buddy Kofoid, so its naming of him differs between the narrative and results. That discrepancy is worth resolving before publication; the rest of the account refers to the winner as Kofoid.

Kofoid makes the late pass

Macedo took the lead at the start, while Kofoid worked forward from fourth and began closing as the leaders reached traffic. On a short dirt track, lapped cars can compress gaps and make a clean passing lane hard to hold, so pressure can matter even before a driver attempts a pass. Their contest intensified in the closing laps. On lap 33, Kofoid slid across Macedo’s line, but Macedo crossed underneath and reclaimed the lead.

That exchange showed Macedo could answer a direct challenge, and it left Kofoid needing another opportunity. Two laps later, Macedo struck the wall after jumping the cushion. He kept moving, but the incident brought out a caution and reset the field. On the restart, Kofoid carried speed off the cushion, then turned underneath Macedo and completed the pass. He held the lead to the finish. This is more significant than it looks: the winning move depended on combining momentum up high with a route underneath the leader.

The race had several interruptions before that final exchange, making it difficult for anyone to settle into a long, uninterrupted run. A lap-five tangle brought the first caution, and Ashton Torgerson’s lap-seven rollover stopped the race under a red flag; the report said he was okay. Blake Hahn also rolled over on lap 26 and climbed out of his car. Later, Sheldon Haudenschild and Logan Schuchart made contact, with Schuchart spinning out after a suspension failure.

Repeated stoppages can change how drivers manage a feature, since each restart offers a chance to gain ground while also disrupting a rhythm built over several laps. Kofoid’s final opportunity came after Macedo’s contact with the wall, but the pass still required a precise choice of line and enough speed to finish the move. Macedo had led for much of the race. Kofoid had to make the last restart count.

Full 40-lap feature results

Kofoid won from fourth on the starting grid, turning a position near the front into the race’s decisive advantage. Macedo, who started first, held on for second, while Williamson advanced from third to finish third. Courtney moved from fifth to fourth, and Gravel, who started second, placed fifth. The top five therefore included the pole starter and the second-place starter, but the winner came from fourth.

Haudenschild finished sixth after starting 13th, while Brent Marks made one of the larger advances among the listed finishers, climbing from 21st to seventh. Tanner Thorson took eighth from 12th. Emerson Axsom finished ninth, with Bill Balog rounding out the top 10. Starting position gives useful context here, though it doesn’t tell the whole story of how each driver moved through a race interrupted by cautions.

Chris Windom was 11th, followed by Donny Schatz in 12th and Carson Macedo in 13th. Skylar Gee finished 14th, Bryce Lucius 15th, Rees Moran 16th, Spencer Bayston 17th, Conner Morrell 18th and Brady Baker 19th. These positions extend the finishing order beyond the lead battle, where the race account puts most of its attention.

Six drivers didn’t finish: Logan Schuchart, Landon Crawley, Hahn, Howard Moore, Torgerson and Cody Gardner. Schuchart’s suspension failure was reported during the race; the results list the other five as DNFs without giving a cause. That distinction matters when reading a results sheet: a non-finish identifies the outcome, but it doesn’t establish what happened to every car.

Qualifying and support races

Kofoid was quickest in Flight A qualifying with a two-lap time of 12.557 seconds. Williamson followed at 12.693, ahead of Brady Baker at 12.715. Gravel led Flight B in 12.658 seconds, with Torgerson second in 12.804 and Schuchart third in 12.827. The flight results set the early pace, but they didn’t determine who would control the feature.

Gravel topped the earlier hot-lap session at 12.814 seconds. Bill Balog was second at 12.898, and Carson Macedo third at 12.906. Kofoid ranked fourth in that session at 12.965 before taking the lead in his heat and later winning the feature. The sequence is a reminder that early speed and feature results measure different things: a fast lap can show pace, while the long race asks drivers to manage traffic, restarts and changing track conditions.

Kofoid and Cole Macedo finished first and second in Heat 1. Williamson won Heat 2, Gravel Heat 3 and Torgerson Heat 4; each heat ran 10 laps. Macedo won the eight-lap Dash, ahead of Gravel and Williamson, to secure the pole for the feature. Landon Thompson won the eight-lap C Main, while Marks led the 12-lap B Main. Those preliminary races shaped the starting order and offered several drivers a route into the feature.

What the finish says about the race

The results show two contrasting routes to the front: Macedo built his advantage from the pole, while Kofoid converted a fourth-place feature start into a win. The late restart gave Kofoid a fresh chance to attack, but his earlier pressure had already made the lead contested. And yet, the decisive margin came down to one exchange of lines after Macedo’s contact with the wall.

If you’re working in this space, the useful detail is how the full race story differs from a simple starting-position comparison. Kofoid’s qualifying and heat performance put him in the mix, but the feature demanded that he respond after Macedo reclaimed the lead on lap 33. He did that on the next restart, using the high line to carry speed before turning underneath. The numbers here are underwhelming as a complete explanation of the result; position changes alone can’t show the choices that settled the race.

For the series, the finale offered a compact example of why sprint car races can turn quickly: traffic, cautions and a driver’s line choice can all reshape a lead that looked established. The result doesn’t erase Macedo’s control for much of the feature, and it doesn’t make the earlier incidents incidental. They’re part of the conditions the field had to manage. Kofoid’s late move was the clearest answer to them.

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