The World of Outlaws Late Model Series is set for a three-race stretch as it heads back toward the East Coast after two busy weeks in the upper Midwest. The run begins Wednesday, July 8, at Stateline Speedway in Busti, New York, where the Rick Briggs Memorial powered by Dave Warren Powersports will be a 40-lap feature paying $15,000 to win. DIRTcar UMP Modifieds and Pro Stocks are also on the card. Teams then have Thursday off before the series resumes at Sharon Speedway for the annual Battle at the Border on Friday and Saturday, July 10-11. Sharon’s opener is a 40-lap race paying $12,000 to win, and the Saturday finale is a 60-lap race with a $20,000 top prize. UMP Modifieds are also scheduled at Sharon.

Bobby Pierce enters the week as the headline driver and is trying to win his seventh straight World of Outlaws race, which would break the series record of six consecutive victories. He also carries a 76-point lead in the championship standings. Pierce’s run comes as the series works through a demanding eastern swing that mixes short travel with two major events in New York and Pennsylvania.

Nick Hoffman returns to Stateline Speedway, where he earned his first World of Outlaws win last year. Trey Mills and Daulton Wilson are set for their first starts at both Stateline and Sharon, while Logan Zarin is coming off a career-best sixth-place finish and will compete on two tracks he knows well.

Buddy Kofoid won World of Outlaws Sprint Car Series main events at 81 Speedway in Park City, Kansas, on March 28 and at Federated Auto Parts Raceway at I-55 in Pevely, Missouri, on April 11. In both races, he closed strongly to get to the front and held on to win the feature.

At 81 Speedway, Kofoid and Ryan Timms started on the front row in the 30-lap race. Timms took the lead on lap 5 and stayed in front for much of the event while working through heavy traffic. The race was briefly stopped on lap 4 after Ryder Laplante flipped and brought out a red flag, and Laplante climbed out of the car. Kofoid made the decisive pass coming to the white flag and crossed the finish line first.

At I-55, Kasey Jedrzejek and David Gravel started on the front row, and Gravel took the lead on lap 8. Kofoid passed Gravel for the lead on lap 27 and controlled the race after that. A caution slowed the event before additional lead changes, flat tires for Carson Macedo and Sheldon Haudenschild reshuffled the running order, and a red flag came out on lap 36 after Logan Julien and Hank Davis flipped. Kofoid then held off Gravel on the final restart to secure the victory.

World of Outlaws sprint car racing at Eldora Speedway in Rossburg, Ohio, produced back-to-back 30-lap feature winners, with Rico Abreu taking Friday’s race and Logan Schuchart winning Saturday’s event. Abreu took control on lap 16 of Friday’s feature and pulled away in the closing laps after a caution on lap 22 for Brenham Crouch, who stalled with heavy right-front damage. Giovanni Scelzi passed Brian Brown on lap 2 and led early, and Michael Kofoid also led at points before finishing second.

Schuchart won Saturday’s 30-lap race at the half-mile dirt track after Brady Bacon and Sheldon Haudenschild started on the front row. Bacon led early, Schuchart moved to the front on lap 2, and the lead changed hands several times through the middle of the race. Abreu moved into second late and briefly challenged Schuchart, but he was more than one second behind with four laps left, and Schuchart held the lead to the finish.

Zack Mitchell has signed on to drive the No. 22* car full-time for G.R. Smith Motorsports in the World of Outlaws Late Model Series, giving the team a new driver-team pairing for the rest of the 2026 season and beyond. Mitchell’s first race with the organization is scheduled for Wednesday night at Stateline Speedway.

Mitchell replaces Drake Troutman, who left the team on June 23. Jake Timm filled the seat in four races during the northern swing before Mitchell joined the lineup. G.R. Smith Motorsports entered the move sixth in the World of Outlaws owners standings, four points behind Cooney Motorsports in fifth.

Mitchell arrives with a strong resume in late model racing. He has won four Ultimate Super Late Model Series championships and the 2017 Carolina Clash Super Late Model Series title. He was also in contention for the 2026 Hunt the Front Super Dirt Series championship before taking the World of Outlaws ride, and his first week with the team also includes races at Sharon Speedway on July 10-11.

World of Outlaws driver Emerson Axsom was fined $500 and placed on probation for the remainder of the 2026 World of Outlaws NOS Energy Drink Sprint Car Series season after a physical altercation at Cedar Lake Speedway on Saturday, June 27. The incident happened off track before the event’s drivers meeting and involved physical contact.

Axsom drives the No. 27 Sprint Car for Klaasmeyer/Petry Motorsports. The sanction was issued under a World Racing Group rulebook provision covering altercations that lead to physical contact.

Bobby Pierce extended his dominant World of Outlaws Late Model Series run Tuesday at Norman County Raceway, leading every lap of the 50-lap feature and completing a perfect six-race sweep of the northern swing. He finished more than five seconds ahead of Nick Hoffman, with Ryan Gustin third, Tim McCreadie fourth and Jonathan Davenport fifth. The victory was Pierce’s sixth straight World of Outlaws win, tying the series all-time streaks set by Darrell Lanigan and Josh Richards, and left him one win short of the first seven-race run in series history.

Pierce entered the Minnesota races on a five-race swing winning streak and had won 15 World of Outlaws features this season. He has won nine of his last 10 starts and is within reach of the series single-season win record of 18. His June surge included 10 wins in 11 races, his first Dirt Late Model Dream victory at Eldora Speedway and $271,500 in earnings. The win also increased his championship lead over Hoffman to 76 points.

The northern swing is wrapping up with four races in Minnesota, starting at Norman County Raceway and continuing with the NAPA Auto Parts Gopher 50 at Deer Creek Speedway on July 2-4. Norman County’s race paid $20,000 to win, while Deer Creek will pay $10,000 to the winner on Thursday and Friday and $40,000 on Saturday. The Deer Creek weekend is also set to include fireworks, concerts, autograph sessions and other fan activities, with Hoffman, McCreadie, Dennis Erb Jr. and Dustin Sorensen among the contenders.

Persistent thunderstorms and rain in the Spring Valley, Minnesota, area forced the World of Outlaws Late Model Series and Deer Creek Speedway to cancel the NAPA Auto Parts Gopher 50 before it could be run at Deer Creek Speedway. Officials said the weather made travel unsafe for drivers and fans during the holiday weekend. No reschedule date was announced, and the series said it still expects to return to Deer Creek for the Gopher 50 in 2027.

The World of Outlaws had been scheduled to race at Deer Creek on July 2-4, with drivers competing for $10,000 on each of the first two nights and $40,000 to the winner of the finale. Advance ticket buyers will receive a face-value credit in their MyDirtTickets.com accounts valid for two years, while refund requests for tickets are available through July 30 and camping refund requests through July 31. The cancellation drew added interest because Bobby Pierce entered the week with a five-race win streak and 15 World of Outlaws victories in 2026, Nick Hoffman had won both previous World of Outlaws races at Norman County Raceway, and Minnesota native Dustin Sorensen was seeking his first series win at Deer Creek after a career-best third-place finish there in 2023.

Sheldon Haudenschild reached a career milestone Saturday night at Cedar Lake Speedway, winning the World of Outlaws Federated Auto Parts Independence Spectacular for his 50th series victory. He became the 19th driver to reach 50 World of Outlaws wins and did it in his 685th career feature start. Haudenschild said the milestone had extra meaning because he grew up watching his father, Jac Haudenschild, race.

Haudenschild took control late in the 35-lap feature, passing Michael “Buddy” Kofoid with two laps remaining after using momentum off Turns 3 and 4. The race featured three different leaders before Haudenschild secured the win. Kofoid finished second for the second straight night and moved into a tie with Carson Macedo for second in the standings. Garet Williamson, Chris Windom and Bill Balog finished third through fifth.

The win was Haudenschild’s second career victory at Cedar Lake and his fourth this season with KCP Racing. Forty-six of his 50 World of Outlaws wins have come with Stenhouse Jr./Marshall Racing. KCP Racing has now extended its streak of top-seven finishes to 15 consecutive races.

David Gravel swept Friday night’s Federated Auto Parts Independence Spectacular opener at Cedar Lake Speedway in New Richmond, Wisconsin, leading every part of the program and every lap of the 35-lap feature for his second straight World of Outlaws NOS Energy Drink Sprint Car Series victory. Driving for Big Game Motorsports, Gravel was fastest in hot laps and qualifying, won his heat race, drew the pole for the dash and won it, then held off Michael “Buddy” Kofoid in the main event.

The win came one week after Gravel’s $300,000 BillionAuto.com Huset’s High Bank Nationals triumph and gave him seven victories this season. It was also his third career win at Cedar Lake, and it moved him to within one point of Kofoid and Roth Motorsports in the 2026 standings.

Kofoid rallied from eighth to finish second, Bill Balog was third for his best World of Outlaws result at Cedar Lake, and Sheldon Haudenschild and Carson Macedo rounded out the top five in fourth and fifth.