Buddy Kofoid celebrates in victory lane at Huset’s Speedway Thursday night. (Tyler Carr photo)

By Jacob Seelman, SWN News Editor

BRANDON, S.D. (June 18, 2026) – Buddy Kofoid made Huset’s Speedway his personal ATM yet again and in historic fashion Thursday night during the finale to the Hefty Seed Huset’s Hustle.

By leading all 40 laps from the pole position, Kofoid and his Roth Motorsports team banked $150,000 from track owner Tod Quiring, marking Kofoid’s record fifth straight World of Outlaws NOS Energy Drink Sprint Car Series win at the third-mile dirt track.

It’s Kofoid’s eighth overall Outlaws score at Huset’s, as well as his series-leading eighth win of the season and the milestone 30th of his career with The Greatest Show on Dirt, tying him with the late Bobby Allen for 24th all-time.

In victory lane, as he often does, Kofoid again turned the focus away from himself and onto his No. 83 team, led by crew chief Dylan Buswell and flanked by crew members Nate Knotts and Gage Tyra.

“Dylan (Buswell), Nate (Knotts), Gage (Tyra), and Snow knocked it out of the park again,” Kofoid said. “I don’t even know what to say anymore. They’re unbelievable and extremely talented in their own right too. We all do it together as best friends and enjoy it and have fun.

“All of us can’t thank Dennis and Teresa Roth enough for putting us together. I think it’s [been] three and a half years together now, and I feel like I’m at a forever home.”

The final box score made Kofoid’s victory look only slightly more dominant than it truly was, as KCP Racing’s Sheldon Haudenschild kept the Californian honest throughout much of the distance.

Twice in traffic, Haudenschild got to within a car length of Kofoid’s rear bumper as the leader was hung up lapping slower cars. But both times, Kofoid jetted away soon after and was never seriously threatened.

“Traffic was so hard,” Kofoid noted. “You’d go to slide a guy, but the middle was so slick and the top, for how slick it was to the top and how far around it was, you’d carry so much speed that it [was] hard to complete that slider. There was a couple of times I didn’t get across quickly enough.

“It’s so hard to know where you need to be or what you need to do or how much effort to give it,” he added. “Forty laps is a long race for here, but it goes by [so] quick at the same time.”

Prior to his wire-to-wire win in the main event, Kofoid won the first heat race and then topped the $1,000 Unique Movers King of the Hill showdown that set the top six feature starting spots.

That pushed his total winnings Thursday to $151,000. Kofoid has now banked a combined $677,000 from his last nine visits to Huset’s alone and, should he complete a sweep of BillionAuto.com High Bank Nationals week, would push that total to nearly a million dollars.

Only two cautions slowed the pace in the extended-distance main event, up from 35 laps the preceding night.

The first came with five laps complete, when Christopher Thram spun down the backstretch from seventh place and made contact with both Garet Williamson and Chase Randall in the process.

Of the three, only Thram sustained enough damage to bring his night to a close. He finished 24th.

Mark Dobmeier’s jaunt over the cushion and into the outside wall in turn two on lap 10 marked the second and final yellow, relegating him to 23rd in the results one night after a violent flip in his heat race.

From there, the final 30 laps ran uninterrupted, with Kofoid eventually eking out a .550-second margin of victory over Haudenschild’s NOS Energy Drink No. 18.

It marked the second straight Huset’s runner-up for Haudenschild, who continues to seek the secret to stopping Kofoid in South Dakota.

“I think our car was right there with him,” Haudenschild said. “It’s just how it played out. He’s got this place wired. I feel I have it down pretty good. The lappers were really hard tonight. I had a really good restart and got in position. I got to lapped traffic and I feel like I did pretty good. It was just hard to throw sliders and have grip off (turn) four, it was so slick right there.

“We’ll keep plugging away here. Good thing we’ve got another couple days to try for $300,000 on Saturday.”

Defending Huset’s track champion Ryan Timms completed the podium for his best-ever Outlaws finish at the track. Timms was followed by Williamson and outside polesitter Daison Pursley.

David Gravel, Chase Randall, Emerson Axsom, Austin McCarl, and Cole Macedo completed the top 10.

Logan Schuchart advanced from 22nd to 12th to garner KSE Hard Charger honors for the night.

Focus now turns to Friday and Saturday night at Huset’s, where the BillionAuto.com High Bank Nationals take center stage and offer a $300,000 winner’s share for the Saturday-night finale.

Kofoid is the defending High Bank Nationals champion and, counting Thursday night, has won four straight six-figure checks at Huset’s. Only Donny Schatz’s five straight Knoxville Nationals titles from 2011-’15 top Kofoid’s mark in terms of big-money races won at a single facility.

Every lap of World of Outlaws competition can be streamed live with a DIRTvision subscription.

The finish:

NOS Energy Drink Feature (40 laps): 1. 83-Buddy Kofoid [1]; 2. 18-Sheldon Haudenschild [3]; 3. 10-Ryan Timms [4]; 4. 23-Garet Williamson [8]; 5. 9-Daison Pursley [2]; 6. 2-David Gravel [10]; 7. 9R-Chase Randall [9]; 8. 27-Emerson Axsom [7]; 9. 88-Austin McCarl [5]; 10. 2C-Cole Macedo [11]; 11. 77-Giovanni Scelzi [12]; 12. 1S-Logan Schuchart [22]; 13. 17-Spencer Bayston [17]; 14. 15-Donny Schatz [14]; 15. 41-Carson Macedo [20]; 16. 7BC-Tyler Courtney [19]; 17. 7S-Chris Windom [13]; 18. 3-Dayne Kingshott [21]; 19. 45X-Rees Moran [16]; 20. 22K-Kaleb Johnson [18]; 21. 55-Kerry Madsen [23]; 22. 15H-Sam Hafertepe Jr. [15]; 23. 13-Mark Dobmeier [24]; 24. 24T-Christopher Thram [6].

Lap Leader(s): Buddy Kofoid 1-40.

Hard Charger: 1S-Logan Schuchart (+10)