National winged Sprint Car racing has an emerging prodigy in the form of 18-year-old Corey Day.
Driving the Clauson Marshall Racing No. 14BC, Day has now swept the first two races of the High Limit Racing Midweek Money championship and is also overall the first driver to reach three wins towards the national championship.
Day races in a series that includes five-time World of Outlaws champion Brad Sweet, teammate Tyler Courtney, Chili Bowl champions Rico Abreu and Tanner Thorson and NASCAR veteran Kasey Kahne. Midweek Money is a championship within a championship that also feature Kyle Larson each week.
So again, that Day is winning with such regularity against the highest caliber of competition, is quite the statement this spring after a winter that also included a podium in a Midget at the Chili Bowl. It was also a statement in how he won on Tuesday night, enduring slider after slider in lap traffic from Thorson, at Riverside International Speedway in West Memphis, Arkansas.
“Trying to pass Rico when he’s a lap car, he’s no slouch, whether he’s leading or in that position,” Day said in Victory Lane. “This track changed a lot more than we thought. I’m glad we got that open red so we could work on our car.