By T.J. Buffenbarger
KNOXVILLE, IA (August 7,2025)- KNOXVILLE, IA (August 7, 2025) – Kyle Larson continued his quest for a third consecutive title at the 64th NOS Energy Drink Knoxville Nationals Presented by Casey’s during Toyota qualifying night.
After having to qualify late and post the 15th fastest time, Larson was able to transfer through his heat race and moved up from fifth starting position to take the lead from Spencer Bayston and maintain a healthy advantage through lapped traffic with Logan Schuchart in pursuit.
The victory was the 13th of Larson’s career at Knoxville Raceway.
Derek Hagar and Spencer Bayston stared on the front row for the 25-lap main event. Hagar briefly took the lead for the first two laps before Bayston was able to wrestle it away from him with a slide job in turns one and two.
Behind Bayston, Kyle Larson was quickly moving up through the field and squeezed by Dominic Scelzi for third off turn two before disposing of Hagar for second on lap six.
Eight laps into the feature slower traffic came into play and allowed Larson to close for the lead. After an unsuccessful slide job in turns one and two on lap 11, Larson was able to make the move stick two laps later to take the lead.
Larson had built up a 2.552 second lead while Logan Schuchart took away the second position from Bayston on lap 20. Schuchart was able to cut Larson’s lead in half, but never seriously challenged him as Larson won by 1.583 seconds at the finish.
Schuchart, Bayston, Scelzi, and Carson Macedo rounded out the top five.
Brad Sweet was the fastest qualifier over the 49-car field with a lap of 15.002 seconds.
Gage Pulkrabek, Tasker Phillips, Josh Schneiderman, Christopher Thram, and Brady Bacon won heat race events.
During the fourth heat race Brian Brown and J.J. Hickle made contact racing for the final transfer position coming off turn two with Brown pounding the fence and going for a wild flip down the backstretch.
Jacob Hughes won the C-Main while Sweet was unable to transfer through his heat race to the A-Main and ended up winning the B-Main event to do so.
64th NOS Energy Drink Knoxville Nationals Presented by Casey’s
Toyota Qualifying Night #2
World of Outlaws NOS Energy Drink Sprint Car Series
Knoxville Raceway
Knoxville, Iowa
Thursday, August 7, 2025
Qualifying
1. 49-Brad Sweet, 15.002[3]
2. 4C-Cameron Martin, 15.285[10]
3. 21-Brian Brown, 15.300[21]
4. 41-Carson Macedo, 15.315[18]
5. 3L-Daryn Pittman, 15.341[28]
6. 55V-Kerry Madsen, 15.363[42]
7. 19-Brent Marks, 15.383[16]
8. 6B-Brandon Wimmer, 15.421[1]
9. 27B-Jake Bubak, 15.436[39]
10. 3P-Sawyer Phillips, 15.454[5]
11. 39-Lynton Jeffrey, 15.479[23]
12. 71P-Parker Price Miller, 15.480[34]
13. 1S-Logan Schuchart, 15.491[33]
14. 5-Brenham Crouch, 15.508[14]
15. 57-Kyle Larson, 15.524[45]
16. 2C-Cole Macedo, 15.545[7]
17. 17B-Bill Balog, 15.565[27]
18. 19H-Kevin Thomas Jr, 15.606[12]
19. 23D-Chase Dietz, 15.618[2]
20. 99-Skylar Gee, 15.635[17]
21. 7BC-Giovanni Scelzi, 15.657[36]
22. 85J-Logan Julien, 15.664[4]
23. 14-Spencer Bayston, 15.671[13]
24. 45C-Derek Hagar, 15.693[19]
25. 3Z-Brock Zearfoss, 15.699[44]
26. 83-Michael Kofoid, 15.704[43]
27. 28M-Conner Morrell, 15.749[29]
28. 1-Sammy Swindell, 15.759[31]
29. 40-Clint Garner, 15.767[11]
30. 23W-Scott Winters, 15.770[25]
31. G5-Gage Pulkrabek, 15.782[48]
32. 23L-Jimmy Light, 15.795[15]
33. 2M-JJ Hickle, 15.811[20]
34. 11-Roger Crockett, 15.865[24]
35. 21H-Brady Bacon, 15.868[38]
36. 53-Jack Dover, 15.874[40]
37. 1TZ-Tasker Phillips, 15.887[49]
38. 49J-Josh Schneiderman, 15.932[41]
39. 24T-Christopher Thram, 15.954[30]
40. 33W-Cap Henry, 15.991[47]
41. 16G-Austyn Gossel, 15.996[46]
42. 8-Jacob Hughes, 16.008[22]
43. 4-Matt Wasmund, 16.015[8]
44. 95-Tyler Drueke, 16.019[6]
45. 83H-Justin Henderson, 16.211[35]
46. 88T-Tanner Thorson, 16.250[32]
47. 24-Terry McCarl, 16.277[37]
48. 15J-Jack Potter, 16.301[26]
49. 10W-Matt VanderVere, 16.301[9]
Heat Race #1 (10 Laps)
1. G5-Gage Pulkrabek[2]
2. 53-Jack Dover[1]
3. 7BC-Giovanni Scelzi[4]
4. 39-Lynton Jeffrey[6]
5. 83-Michael Kofoid[3]
6. 49-Brad Sweet[8]
7. 55V-Kerry Madsen[7]
8. 2C-Cole Macedo[5]
9. 16G-Austyn Gossel[9]
DNS: 88T-Tanner Thorson
Milton Hershey School Heat Race #2 (10 Laps)
1. 1TZ-Tasker Phillips[1]
2. 23L-Jimmy Light[2]
3. 28M-Conner Morrell[3]
4. 17B-Bill Balog[5]
5. 85J-Logan Julien[4]
6. 71P-Parker Price Miller[6]
7. 19-Brent Marks[7]
8. 4C-Cameron Martin[8]
9. 24-Terry McCarl[10]
10. 8-Jacob Hughes[9]
Heat Race #3 (10 Laps)
1. 49J-Josh Schneiderman[1]
2. 1S-Logan Schuchart[6]
3. 14-Spencer Bayston[4]
4. 1-Sammy Swindell[3]
5. 2M-JJ Hickle[2]
6. 19H-Kevin Thomas Jr[5]
7. 6B-Brandon Wimmer[7]
8. 15J-Jack Potter[10]
9. 4-Matt Wasmund[9]
10. 21-Brian Brown[8]
Heat Race #4 (10 Laps)
1. 24T-Christopher Thram[1]
2. 41-Carson Macedo[8]
3. 11-Roger Crockett[2]
4. 45C-Derek Hagar[4]
5. 27B-Jake Bubak[7]
6. 23D-Chase Dietz[5]
7. 5-Brenham Crouch[6]
8. 40-Clint Garner[3]
9. 10W-Matt VanderVere[10]
DNS: 95-Tyler Drueke
Heat Race #5 (10 Laps)
1. 21H-Brady Bacon[2]
2. 33W-Cap Henry[1]
3. 3Z-Brock Zearfoss[4]
4. 57-Kyle Larson[6]
5. 23W-Scott Winters[3]
6. 3L-Daryn Pittman[8]
7. 99-Skylar Gee[5]
8. 83H-Justin Henderson[9]
9. 3P-Sawyer Phillips[7]
C-Main (10 Laps)
1. 8-Jacob Hughes[4]
2. 16G-Austyn Gossel[3]
3. 3P-Sawyer Phillips[2]
4. 10W-Matt VanderVere[9]
5. 4-Matt Wasmund[5]
6. 24-Terry McCarl[8]
DNS: 21-Brian Brown
DNS: 95-Tyler Drueke
DNS: 88T-Tanner Thorson
B Main (12 Laps)
1. 49-Brad Sweet[1]
2. 4C-Cameron Martin[2]
3. 71P-Parker Price Miller[8]
4. 19-Brent Marks[5]
5. 55V-Kerry Madsen[4]
6. 2C-Cole Macedo[10]
7. 83-Michael Kofoid[15]
8. 3L-Daryn Pittman[3]
9. 27B-Jake Bubak[7]
10. 6B-Brandon Wimmer[6]
11. 5-Brenham Crouch[9]
12. 2M-JJ Hickle[18]
13. 99-Skylar Gee[13]
14. 83H-Justin Henderson[19]
15. 23D-Chase Dietz[12]
16. 40-Clint Garner[16]
17. 8-Jacob Hughes[21]
18. 23W-Scott Winters[17]
19. 85J-Logan Julien[14]
20. 16G-Austyn Gossel[22]
21. 10W-Matt VanderVere[24]
22. 15J-Jack Potter[20]
23. 19H-Kevin Thomas Jr[11]
DNS: 3P-Sawyer Phillips
A-Main (25 Laps)
1. 57-Kyle Larson[5]
2. 1S-Logan Schuchart[6]
3. 14-Spencer Bayston[2]
4. 7BC-Giovanni Scelzi[3]
5. 41-Carson Macedo[8]
6. 17B-Bill Balog[4]
7. 3Z-Brock Zearfoss[9]
8. 49-Brad Sweet[21]
9. 45C-Derek Hagar[1]
10. 1TZ-Tasker Phillips[17]
11. 21H-Brady Bacon[15]
12. 71P-Parker Price Miller[23]
13. 33W-Cap Henry[20]
14. 19-Brent Marks[24]
15. 39-Lynton Jeffrey[7]
16. 4C-Cameron Martin[22]
17. 1-Sammy Swindell[11]
18. 53-Jack Dover[16]
19. 49J-Josh Schneiderman[18]
20. 24T-Christopher Thram[19]
21. 28M-Conner Morrell[10]
22. 23L-Jimmy Light[13]
23. 11-Roger Crockett[14]
24. G5-Gage Pulkrabek[12]