In his last six dirt races, Kyle Larson has now racked up an impressive five wins and a runner-up finish. It’s been an impressive run, and it continued with another victory on Saturday night as Larson swept the weekend events at Knoxville Raceway.
Larson started from the fourth-position in the 30-lap feature, but it wasn’t until lap 22, when the dominant driver in the event — Daryn Pittman — made contact with David Gravel while trying to lap him. The contact sent Pittman around, and Larson assumed the lead.
. @dirtvision REPLAY: @DarynPittman and @DavidGravel make contact as Pittman went to put Gravel a lap down and unfortunately for Pittman he gets the worst of the contact. That moves last night's winner Kyle Larson back into the race lead with 22 laps remaining. #LiveNOS pic.twitter.com/mlOblIJE31
— World of Outlaws (@WorldofOutlaws) June 14, 2020
The 27-year old would not look back and he would cruise to the win by nearly three-seconds over Brad Sweet.
.@dirtvision REPLAY: Kyle Larson drives away from @BradSweet49 to sweep the weekend at @knoxvilleraces! #LiveNOS pic.twitter.com/6CDZYPmDyO
— World of Outlaws (@WorldofOutlaws) June 14, 2020
Here are the full results from Saturday night’s feature event:
- 57 – Kyle Larson
- 49 – Brad Sweet
- 1S – Logan Schuchart
- 2 – Carson Macedo
- 17 – Sheldon Haudenschild
- 21 – Brian Brown
- 2M – Kerry Madsen
- 24 – Rico Abreu
- 18 – Ian Madsen
- 39 – Sammy Swindell
- 15 – Donny Schatz
- 7BC – Tyler Courtney
- 17W – Shane Golobic
- 7 – Tim Kaeding
- 39M – Anthony Macri
- 17A – Austin McCarl
- 7X – Justin Henderson
- 83 – Daryn Pittman
- 41 – David Gravel
- 14 – Parker Price-Miller
- 1A – Jacob Allen
- 56N – Davey Heskin
- 55 – Hunter Schuerenburg
- 83R – Lynton Jeffrey
Following the race, Larson did the all-to-familiar victory lane celebration, where his son Owen took to waving the checkered flag from atop the wing of Larson’s No. 57 machine.
Kyle Larson joins Owen for another wing dance celebration @knoxvilleraces. pic.twitter.com/I2rOADNP2e
— World of Outlaws (@WorldofOutlaws) June 14, 2020
The California-native, who was a fixture on the NASCAR circuit until an unfortunate slip of the tongue during an iRacing event in April, has been on an incredible roll — even by his own standards — on the dirt.