HAUBSTADT, Ind.  One of the main storylines entering Saturdays World of Outlaws NOS Energy Drink Sprint Car Series visit to Tri-State Speedway was if Sheldon Haudenschild could finally break through.

The answer was a simple and emphatic yes.

Four times Haudenschild led features but had victory lane elude him at the quarter-mile track. Three times hed finished runner-up. Thered been accidents on some nights and simply coming up short on others.

The Stenhouse Jr.-Marshall Racing driver won every time he hit the track. Haudenschild got things started with a Simpson Quick Time. Then it was a heat race victory followed by coming out on top of the Toyota Dash.

All that remained was a 40-lap NOS Energy Drink Feature, and Haudenschild led every single circuit. Michael Buddy Kofoid and Tyler Courtney challenged him late, but they didnt have enough. Haudenschild wouldnt come up short again. Not this time.

Im just so glad to finally win a race here, Haudenschild said. Weve been so good here a lot of times since the first time I saw the place in the 93 car. I led a lot of that race and spun out. Led in the 17 early in my career. Yeah, its just been plaguing me here for about eight years, so Im happy to get it.

Haudenschild made it double digit winners in 2025 as he became the 10th different driver to make a trip to victory lane with The Greatest Show on Dirt. The Wooster, OH natives 43rd career victory equals him with fellow full-timer Logan Schuchart for 19th all-time.

The box score will show that Haudenschild led flag to flag, but Kofoid didnt make it easy on him. Haudenschild had to survive a late charge from the Roth Motorsports No. 83 and had just enough to hang on.

I wasnt really enjoying the restarts there at the end, Haudenschild admitted. Buddy almost had me cleared a couple times, so I just moved it down there. I figured it would be hard for him to go around me, so yeah, I just moved it down. Solid night. Drew the one, Quick Time, won the Heat, won the Dash, and won the Feature. First one to pull in the pits too. Big day.

An ill-timed caution was potentially what cost Kofoid parking in Victory Lane after the checkered flag flew. Hed pulled alongside Haudenschild coming to the white flag, but the yellow flew and set up a green-white-checkered, and Kofoid couldnt quite build the momentum to challenge again.

Sheldon and those guys were extremely good, Kofoid said. To pace them is special at a place thats not been very good to me, and then all of a sudden things have just clicked for me these last few years. I feel like in clean air we were about even. I think as runs went on I got better and better and could inch closer. Traffic worked out really good for him and good for me most of the time. Hed get a few, and Id get a few and could close in on him. I think I just needed traffic to stay a factor then the yellow would come out. I think that second to last yellow with five to go I just figured Id start bombing the bottom and actually got really stuck down there. I got close to him a couple times and thought another half a lap I wouldve cleared him, or I think I had him cleared down the back (straightaway), but the yellow came out right before it counted.

Tyler Courtney was right with the lead duo as the laps dwindled. Sunshine actually took second from Kofoid on multiple occasions in the second half of the race, but Kofoid managed to return the favor every time.

That was pure Haubstadt right there, Courtney said. Side by side, slide each other, and see who could run it harder into the next corner. That was a lot of fun. Thats good, hard, clean racing. Thats what Haubstadt produces. Its a blast to come here.

Emerson Axsom and David Gravel completed the top five.

The finish:

Feature (40 Laps): 1. 17-Sheldon Haudenschild[1]; 2. 83-Michael Kofoid[3]; 3. 7BC-Tyler Courtney[4]; 4. 27-Emerson Axsom[10]; 5. 2-David Gravel[9]; 6. 41-Carson Macedo[13]; 7. 18-Giovanni Scelzi[6]; 8. 1S-Logan Schuchart[21]; 9. 21H-Brady Bacon[15]; 10. 11-Parker Price Miller[2]; 11. 7S-Chris Windom[11]; 12. 15-Donny Schatz[7]; 13. 17B-Bill Balog[16]; 14. 21-Carson Short[20]; 15. 55-Hunter Schuerenberg[17]; 16. 99-Skylar Gee[14]; 17. 12S-Adyn Schmidt[22]; 18. 23-Garet Williamson[12]; 19. 3P-Kyle Cummins[8]; 20. 2C-Cole Macedo[5]; 21. 34-Sterling Cling[18]; 22. 37-Bryce Norris[23]; 23. 6-Zach Hampton[19]; 24. 28M-Conner Morrell[24]