“The car felt good all night,” said Haudenschild. “We had a good start in the dash and ran second in the feature. We are happy with that.”
McCarl, who ran second for most of the race, finished third in the Big Game Treestands Maxim, to pick up his fourth consecutive Top-Five finish and eighth straight Top-10.
“It was a great run,” McCarl said. “We are really putting things together. I really screwed up in qualifying, so I owed it to the crew. We did a good job in that heat race getting up in the Top-Two and that kind of made the night for us. We were fast in the dash and fast in the heat. We were a little bit too tight in the feature. Jac (Haudenschild) was a little bit better than us. I didn’t think it would lay rubber as fast as it did. We just hung on and did the best we could. You can’t be too disappointed with a third.”
Steve Kinser, who had won the previous seven World of Outlaws events at Hollywood Hills Speedway, wound up fourth on Sunday night aboard the Q Oil Maxim to move into the third spot in points, one marker ahead of Joey Saldana.
Jason Meyers was fifth in the GLR Investments KPC to record his series best 45th Top-Five finish of the season.
Daryn Pittman was sixth in the Titan Garages Maxim, with Jason Martin in the Panhandle Oilfield Services Maxim in seventh. Chad Kemenah was eighth in the Kantor Oil Company Maxim, with Jason Sides just behind him in the Wetherington Tractor Service Maxim. Joey Saldana rounded out the Top-10 in the Budweiser/Open Joist Mopar-powered JEI.
Haudenschild started each of the three races he took part in on Sunday night near the front of the field on a track that was very tough to pass on. In the A-Feature he had to negotiate a number of lapped machines as he kept pace with McCarl in a battle for the second spot.
“It was very important,” noted Haudenschild of starting position on Sunday night. “I started on the outside all night and the people on the outside didn’t get as good a run on the outside. Everybody kind of dropped in line and that is kind of where they finished. The lapped cars were definitely tough to get around.”
McCarl put himself in good position after charging from the sixth starting spot in the second heat to finish second, to earn a spot in the Crane Cams Dash. He was running fourth on the last lap of the heat race and got around Brooke Tatnell and Paul McMahan to snatch the all important second spot to earn the right to redraw for the dash.
“We started sixth and dropped back to seventh at the start,” shared McCarl of the second heat race. “We got the car good and it rolled around the bottom really nice. I was desperate, because I knew if we didn’t get in the Top-Two that we were in deep trouble. That shows you how good this team is right now. We are doing a good job and knocking those Top-Fives down.”
Since transferring ownership of his team a few weeks back to Tod Quiring, McCarl has been on a roll as he can focus solely on driving the car and not have to worry about the business side of the sport. He earned his first win of the season back on September 24 at Orange County Fair Speedway in New York.
“Tod (Quiring) has taken such a burden off of me,” note the six-time Knoxville Raceway and Huset’s Speedway track champion. “I can focus on driving now and it has changed my whole outlook on racing so much. I think the results are showing it. Tod and Lisa are great car owners.”
The Advance Auto Parts World of Outlaws Sprint Car Series returns to action on Friday, October 17 at Ocean Speedway in Watsonville, California.
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