Hudson O’Neal staged a dramatic comeback to win the Duel at the Mag at Magnolia Motor Speedway, overcoming engine trouble in Friday qualifying and an overnight engine change by his K&L Rumley Enterprises team. He topped Saturday qualifying and won his heat but suffered nose damage and pitted under a Lap 25 caution.
That stop sent him to the rear with roughly 35 laps remaining, but he charged back into the top 10 within about a dozen laps. Using late cautions and a restart with 17 laps to go, he drove the inside to overtake Jonathan Davenport for the lead; his nose folded again coming to the white flag, but he held on for the victory.
The win was O’Neal’s fifth career World of Outlaws Late Model Series victory and his second of the 2026 season. Bobby Pierce climbed from 17th after winning the Last Chance Showdown to finish second and earned FOX Factory Hard Charger honors, while Jonathan Davenport was third, followed by Nick Hoffman and Tyler Erb. The World of Outlaws Late Model Series was scheduled to resume March 27 at East Alabama Motor Speedway and March 28 at Senoia Raceway.

David Gravel won the World of Outlaws NOS Energy Drink Sprint Car Series feature at Lawton Speedway’s Sooner Stampede, earning the 122nd World of Outlaws victory of his career and extending his championship points lead to 38 points.

Gravel started on the pole in the Big Game Motorsports No. 2, surrendered the early lead to Brady Bacon, then retook the lead midway through the 35-lap contest by finding a preferred midrace line in Turns 3 and 4 and pulled away to Victory Lane.

The victory was Gravel’s second straight and tied the 33-year-old from Watertown, Connecticut, with Danny Lasoski for sixth on the series’ all-time wins list. Gravel’s result, combined with trouble for championship contender Carson Macedo, stretched his points cushion to 38 markers as he pursues a potential three-peat.

Scott Bogucki charged from ninth to finish second, earning his first career World of Outlaws Series podium in the Three Stooges Racing No. 51; Brady Bacon was third in the TKH Motorsports No. 21h, Sheldon Haudenschild finished fourth and Chris Windom fifth.

Daulton Wilson’s transition to Big Frog/Viper Motorsports and his early progress in the World of Outlaws Late Model Series have defined his 2026 season. Wilson ended a four-year stint with JRR Motorsports last fall and began the year driving for Big Frog/Viper as the team stepped up from a regional southeast schedule to a full-time World of Outlaws program.

After 10 World of Outlaws races, Wilson recorded his first podium of the year at Hendry County Motorsports Park in February and followed that with back-to-back sixth-place finishes at Volunteer Speedway and Smoky Mountain Speedway. Those results, and Wilson’s ongoing work to dial into the new Big Frog/Viper program, indicate the driver/team relationship is beginning to click as they accumulate experience on the tour.

The early-season finishes left Wilson seventh in the World of Outlaws Late Model Series points standings and with a triple-digit lead in the MD3 Rookie of the Year standings. Big Frog/Viper has emphasized consistency as its priority and acknowledged the expected growing pains in stepping up to full-time national competition. Wilson, a native of Fayetteville, North Carolina, and the team will return to action when the series resumes at Magnolia Motor Speedway on March 20–21, 2026.

David Gravel reclaimed the World of Outlaws NOS Energy Drink Sprint Car Series points lead at Kennedale and now leads by six points as he pursues a third consecutive series championship. He has finished on the podium in five of the last six races, while Carson Macedo sits six points back and carries a 3.57 average finish through seven events.

The tour heads to Oklahoma for a March 20-21 doubleheader, opening Friday at Lawton Speedway and continuing Saturday at Creek County Speedway in Sapulpa. Lawton will mark the tour’s 12th visit, while Creek County will be the series’ first visit to that track and will become the ninth Oklahoma host overall.

Fields at both venues are expected to approach 40 cars, mixing American Sprint Car Series regulars and Oklahoma standouts with Midwestern entries. Big Game Motorsports notched its first win of the year at Kennedale, and notable storylines include Michael “Buddy” Kofoid, last year’s Lawton winner, who dropped to sixth in the standings after a crash at Kennedale. Bill Balog scored his first podium of the year with a runner-up finish at Kennedale and is scheduled to make his Creek County debut, and Macedo is entered alongside Oklahoma drivers Matt Covington, Blake Hahn and Seth Bergman and Midwestern challengers Brady Bacon and Ryder Laplante.

Mike Marlar led all 40 laps at the Rocky Top Rumble at Volunteer Speedway in Bulls Gap, Tennessee, to take the $12,000 winner’s payday. The victory was his first World of Outlaws Late Model Series win at Volunteer in five Series starts and the 19th World of Outlaws triumph of his career; Marlar said it continued momentum after he scaled back his schedule and completed recent testing to get his program turned around.

Marlar had been slated to start third but was moved to the front row after Bilstein Pole winner Ricky Thornton Jr. jumped the initial start. Marlar then edged past Chris Madden early to take control and stayed out front despite a late caution when Tyler Erb suffered a flat tire with 12 laps remaining, surviving several restarts as Thornton and Bobby Pierce closed in.

Thornton recovered to finish second — a Volunteer career-best — while Pierce finished third, his first top-10 at Bulls Gap. Chris Madden finished fourth and Dale McDowell fifth, and the result kept the Rocky Top Rumble trophy in Tennessee.

The World of Outlaws Late Model Series is scheduled to resume its Tennessee doubleheader Saturday at Smoky Mountain Speedway.

David Gravel staged a dramatic final-lap pass, diving low to slip past Bill Balog when Balog clipped the wall and lost momentum to win the 35-lap World of Outlaws NOS Energy Drink feature that opened the Cowtown Classic at Kennedale Speedway Park.

The victory, piloted in the Big Game Motorsports No. 2 car by the defending World of Outlaws champion, was Gravel’s 121st World of Outlaws win and his 56th different track victory, moving him within one win of equaling Danny Lasoski for sixth on the World of Outlaws all-time wins list. It also made him the sixth different winner across the seven World of Outlaws races contested so far this season.

The finish capped a race with several late-race lead changes and on-track incidents: Michael “Buddy” Kofoid executed a slider to take the lead on Lap 30 but hit the fence on Lap 31, which returned the lead to Balog; Gravel steadily closed the gap before his decisive low dive. Balog’s runner-up was his best result of the season; Carson Macedo finished third, Logan Schuchart fourth and Sheldon Haudenschild fifth.

DIRTVision launched a Multi-View multi-camera streaming option for every World of Outlaws race in 2026, giving subscribers multiple camera angles and the ability to switch between the main broadcast and alternative views. The rollout covers both the World of Outlaws NOS Energy Drink Sprint Car Series and the World of Outlaws Late Model Series and is described as a platform-wide upgrade for paying subscribers and viewers across desktop and mobile apps.

The Multi-View feature became available to subscribers online and in the DIRTVision app beginning this weekend at the Sprint Car event at Kennedale Speedway Park and at Late Model shows at Volunteer Speedway and Smoky Mountain Speedway. During broadcasts viewers can select alternative camera feeds via a right-hand side selector or tap a Multi-View icon in the lower-right of full-screen mode to toggle between the main feed and additional views; the interface also appears on the right-hand side of the regular broadcast to make switching easier.

DIRTVision general manager Jim Chiappelli said the capability was first trialed at the Knoxville Nationals in 2025 and that the feature is intended to improve the live-streaming experience for fans. DIRTVision said the rollout emphasizes subscriber control over camera angles and on-screen presentation, aims to deliver enhanced viewer choice and production flexibility, and positions the service to standardize more immersive coverage across dirt-track racing.

The World of Outlaws NOS Energy Drink Sprint Car Series returns to Kennedale Speedway Park for the Cowtown Classic on Friday–Saturday, March 13–14. The two-day stop occupies the spring slot at the track southeast of Fort Worth for a third consecutive year and is part of the series’ schedule. The series, officially sponsored by NOS Energy Drink and often billed as ‘The Greatest Show on Dirt,’ will stage sprint-car competition at Kennedale. As background, the World of Outlaws first raced in Texas on March 18, 1978, at Mesquite’s Devil’s Bowl Speedway.

The early championship is tightly contested: after six races David Gravel and Carson Macedo are tied atop the standings. Gravel has recorded four podiums this season and finished 11th at Talladega, while Macedo opened the year with five straight top-five finishes and holds a 3.67 average finish.

New driver–team pairings have already produced winners this season, including Spencer Bayston, Sheldon Haudenschild (KCP Racing) and Donny Schatz (CJB Motorsports). Past Kennedale winners since the series debuted there in 2024 include Carson Macedo, Giovanni Scelzi and Buddy Kofoid. Fischer Motorsports’ Garet Williamson is a dark-horse to watch after posting four top-10s in six races and a season-best fifth at Talladega, and local Texas drivers Sam Hafertepe Jr., Marcus Thomas and John Carney II also figure to try to exploit home-track advantage.

Preview coverage frames the Kennedale weekend as an event-level highlight for the series and a potential momentum swing in the early title fight.

The World of Outlaws Late Model Series presented by DIRTVision will resume its season following a Florida break, opening a concentrated, three-weekend stretch beginning March 13–14 with a Tennessee doubleheader. DIRTVision remains the series’ presenting partner.

The restart begins Friday, March 13, at Volunteer Speedway with the Rocky Top Rumble — the series’ first visit to Volunteer in five years — featuring a 40-lap main that pays $12,000 to the winner and a full Sportsman Late Model program.

About 90 minutes away in Knoxville on Saturday, March 14, the tour moves to Smoky Mountain Speedway for the Tennessee Tipoff, which will stage a 50-lap main that pays $20,000 to the winner and will also include Sportsman Late Model and Front Wheel Drive racing. Organizers framed the Tennessee stops as the opening stretch of the season after the Florida hiatus, highlighting the return to Volunteer and the elevated purses and race lengths as elements intended to set the tone for the early-season slate and positioning the next three weekends as a concentrated period of competition for teams and fans.