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Meet the Drivers @sharkracingWoO

Logan Schuchart

Grandson of team owner Bobby Allen and nephew of fellow Shark Racing driver Jacob Allen, Logan Schuchart drives the 1A sprint car for Shark Racing.

Since he was able to walk, Logan Schuchart has been driven to race. At 8 years old, Schuchart was the Rookie of the year at Hunterstown Speedway. Schuchart progressed into 358 Sprint Cars and competed at several Pennsylvania tracks, including Trail-Way Speedway, Lincoln, Williams Grove and Susquehanna, and he became the youngest driver ever to win the Lincoln Speedway 348 track championship. In his first year in a 410 Sprint car, 2012, Schuchart was voted the National Sprint Car Rookie of the Year by the by the National Sprint Car Hall of Fame.

Schuchart joined the World of Outlaws Sprint Car Series in 2012, consistently improving each season. Now in his sixth season competing with the World of Outlaws, Schuchart is on pace for a career-best year.

 

Jacob Allen

Son of sprint car hall of famer Bobby Allen and uncle of fellow World of Outlaws Sprint Car Series driver Logan Schuchart, Jacob Allen drives the 1A Sprint Car for his family-owned Shark Racing. Allen began in 358 sprint cars, capturing victories at Lincoln Speedway, Trail-Way Speedway, and Susquehanna Speedway throughout 2012.

Allen joined the World of Outlaws Sprint Car Series tour full time in 2014, improving in each year of full-time racing, including two podium performances in 2016. Still vying for his first World of Outlaws win, Jacob Allen had a career-best, breakout year in 2018, leading a total of 67 laps, racing to nine top-five finishes and 16 top-ten finishes and finishing 11th in the Series Championship Point Standings.

 

SHARK RACING GOT ITS NAME FROM THE LOVE OF A SON FOR HIS FATHER AND AS A TRIBUTE TO THE SACRIFICES ALL OF AMERICA’S VETERANS MADE FOR OUR COUNTRY.      

 
    JOSEPH ALLEN, BOBBY ALLEN’S FATHER, WAS A PILOT FOR THE U.S. ARMY AND A MEMBER OF THE FAMOUS “FLYING TIGERS.” THE TIGERS’ SHARK-FACED FIGHTERS REMAIN AMONG THE MOST RECOGNIZABLE OF ANY INDIVIDUAL COMBAT AIRCRAFT AND COMBAT UNIT OF WORLD WAR II. THEY DEMONSTRATED INNOVATIVE TACTICAL VICTORIES WHEN THE WAR WAS NOT GOING WELL FOR THE UNITED STATES.
 

 

    AFTER THE WAR JOE ALLEN WAS A COMMERCIAL AIRLINE PILOT.HE ALSO DROVE RACE CARS, INCLUDING SOME ON THE BEACH AT DAYTONA IN THE EARLY DAYS OF NASCAR. HIS SON GOT HIS LOVE OF SPEED HONESTLY. BOBBY ALLEN STARTED TO INCLUDE “SHARK TEETH” ON HIS SPRINT CARS AFTER JOE ALLEN DIED OF CANCER IN THE EARLY 1980S.
 
     THIS TRIBUTE HAS GROWN THROUGH SEVERAL FORMATS UNTIL IT WAS FORMALLY ESTABLISHED AS THE TEAM’S NAME IN 2008 WHEN LOGAN SCHUCHART, BOBBY ALLEN’S GRANDSON, STARTED DRIVING 358 SPRINT CARS.
 
    TODAY SHARK RACING IS A PROFESSIONAL RACING TEAM AND A TRIBUTE TO JOE ALLEN AND THE OTHER AMERICAN MILITARY VETERANS AND ACTIVE SERVICE PEOPLE WHO SACRIFICE TO MAKE AMERICA GREAT.
    NOW RETIRED AS A SPRINT CAR DRIVER, BOBBY ALLEN OWNS AND MANAGES THE TEAM AND FIELDS SPRINT CARS FOR HIS SON, JACOB ALLEN, AND HIS GRANDSON, LOGAN SCHUCHART, WHO IS NOW THE FOURTH GENERATION OF RACERS IN THIS ALL-AMERICAN FAMILY.