One of the most promising young winged Sprint Car drivers in the country is making his pavement Late Model debut on Saturday night at Hickory Motor Speedway.
Corey Day will drive the JR Motorsports No. 88 at the Birthplace of the NASCAR Stars.
He was seventh fastest in the first practice session against a field of 11 cars against the likes of Landon Shane Huffman in the Performance Racing Group car, Justin T. Carroll in his Carroll Speedshop entry, Matthew Gould, Michael Bumgarner and Annabeth Barnes-Crum.
Day, who leads the High Limit Sprint Car Series with three wins, is considered something of a prodigy at 18-years-old. Kyle Larson recently compared Day to himself and said he will be able to race in whatever discipline he applied himself towards.
“He’s basically me” Larson said of his fellow Californian. “He’s better than I am, or I was obviously at that age. He is in a lot better rides than I was at that age.”
But Larson also says Day has earned those rides too.
“His race craft, his maturity on the track, off the track, like all that, he’s really, really good,” Larson said. “He can run harder than anybody on the race track and be in control. So, he’s definitely the next kid coming up that probably will make it.”
And now he gets his first taste of NASCAR style racing at Hickory with a pair of Twin 40s.
