EAGLE, Neb. — Buddy Kofoid led all 40 laps on Tuesday night, but it was a barnburner from start-to-finish at Eagle Raceway.
Kofoid banked $55,555 for his first High Limit Racing victory of the season.
It was all California, all the time when the 40-lapper started as Penngrove’s Buddy Kofoid established early command from the pole position before Clovis’ Corey Day circled Grass Valley’s Brad Sweet to take the runner-up spot.
From there, the first 28 laps ran unstopped as a cat-and-mouse chase developed with Day following, hounding, and bothering Kofoid through a series of close calls in lapped traffic.
Day was able to always remain in the hunt, throwing a slider for the lead and briefly taking it at one point aboard his Jason Meyers Racing No. 14bc, but Kofoid kept the point the Roth Motorsports No. 83 back by to maintain the top spot.
The first stoppage of the race, for a four-car pileup including the likes of Carson Macedo, Kyle Larson, Chase Randall and Danny Sams III, came on Lap 28 and set up a restart with 12 laps left.
The moment of the race quickly followed on Lap 35 when Day, pressuring Kofoid for the $55,555 victory, made one slight bobble down the backstretch, hit the wall and flipped. The 19-year-old gasser earned roars from a packed crowd at Eagle Raceway when he climbed out unharmed.
The final five-lap dash to the checkered saw Anthony Macri briefly challenge Kofoid on the bottom, but ultimately Kofoid pulled away to a 1.135-second victory.
The win for Kofoid earned redemption for the World of Outlaws regulars after a pair of High Rollers topped their series events over the weekend in Wisconsin.
No stranger to winning with Kubota High Limit Racing, Kofoid topped the first-ever event in series history back in August 2022 at Indiana’s Lincoln Park Speedway.
The win wasn’t the first for the Roth Motorsports organization either, as they enjoyed a trio of trips to Whiskey Myers Victory Lane in 2024 with James McFadden driving.
It’s Kofoid’s fifth overall win of the season, to go along with four World of Outlaws triumphs.
Macri came from eighth to second to cash a $20,000 runner-up check in his family-owned No. 39m.
Rounding out the podium, for the sixth time in 2025, was Aaron Reutzel with a $10,000 third-place finish. The Ridge & Sons Racing No. 87 continues marching up the championship standings with Kubota High Limit Racing, only 13 points behind fourth-place finisher Brad Sweet for the points lead.
Tyler Courtney finished fifth.
The finish:
Feature (35 Laps): 1. 83-Michael Kofoid[1]; 2. 39M-Anthony Macri[8]; 3. 87-Aaron Reutzel[6]; 4. 49-Brad Sweet[2]; 5. 7BC-Tyler Courtney[10]; 6. 88-Tanner Thorson[18]; 7. 55-Kerry Madsen[11]; 8. 18-Giovanni Scelzi[7]; 9. 5-Brenham Crouch[5]; 10. 14-Spencer Bayston[20]; 11. 9R-Chase Randall[14]; 12. 23-Garet Williamson[12]; 13. 88W-Austin McCarl[4]; 14. 2C-Cole Macedo[21]; 15. 10-Ryan Timms[23]; 16. 26-Justin Peck[13]; 17. 13-Daison Pursley[9]; 18. 24-Rico Abreu[25]; 19. 19-Brent Marks[16]; 20. 9-Kasey Kahne[24]; 21. 21-Brian Brown[15]; 22. 31-Koby Werkmeister[19]; 23. 14BC-Corey Day[3]; 24. 24D-Danny Sams III[26]; 25. 41-Carson Macedo[17]; 26. 57-Kyle Larson[22]
