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“Street Outlaws” fan-favorite “Daddy Dave” Comstock earned a popular win Saturday night “No Prep Kings” in Bowling Green, Kentucky — his first career victory in the series. Comstock, competing in just his second-ever final round in the series, drove his ProCharger/Hemi-powered Audi S5 past Nate Sayler in the finale, earning himself $40,000, and both he and his team valuable points toward the individual Great 8 and team championship standings.
Comstock, on the heels of early exits at Virginia and Minnesota, was forced to race his way into Saturday’s invitational, but his weekend in Kentucky was nearly over before it began, as a broken rearend on his lone test run Friday evening forced him to stand and watch from the sidelines as opponent Tim Brown solo’ed to the win and the automatic invitational bid. But his fortunes took a turn when he was one of just two drivers drawn to fill in the final two spots in Saturday’s main event. A replacement rearend was built offsite overnight and delivered to the racetrack in time to make Saturday’s opening round.
Comstock, who had FuelTech’s Luis de Leon inputting his wizardry into the laptop all weekend, defeated Joe “Dominator Woods, David Gates, Justin Swanstrom, and Scott Taylor on his road to the final.
With the win, Comstock moved all the way up to a tie for 10th in the individual points and a tie for 8th in the Great 8, but more importantly, put the team that he captains into a neck-and-neck tie with Kye Kelley’s squad atop the team leaderboard, as the series heads to New England Dragway in Epping, New Hampshire next weekend, the fifth stop of 14 races this season.
