Here's a tip worth taking. If you're involved with handling the points at your local dirt track, or if you're an official with a racing series, make certain - absolutely sure - your organization has a tiebreaker in place in case two drivers are knotted at the conclusion of the 2010 season.

There's absolutely no reason a racing championship should ever come down to an unbreakable tie. Yet it seems like every year, two drivers somewhere are obligated to smile at a postseason banquet and act like MORE

Fortunately for us in the Dirt Late Model world, we have a number of top notch - sometimes called crown jewel - events that draw most if not all of the top names in the sport several weekends each year. Fans and teams look forward to these events and often plan extensively around them. Yes, they generally pay the most money and have the most prestige, but they're also usually some of the most difficult races to win. Oftentimes some of the best racing of the year happens at these events.

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What's this? I take a short break from writing a blog and the entire country is up in arms about racing formats and how one is better than the other and so on and so forth. Well guess what? I'm here to officially declare something that may shock you. I don't give a damn about formats. I don't care if you qualify or draw pills or use passing points or whatever. Give me a well-prepared racing surface and I can almost promise you that good racing will follow.

We've all seen train races where the MORE

A consistent comment from drivers the past few years, this year especially, has been the level of competition in Dirt Late Models. The quality of equipment and the quick dissemination of baseline setup information have flattened the learning curve for many. First-time at a track? A quick call to your chassis manufacturer and a few drivers and you're in the ballpark. Not only setups, but also the reliability and maintenance of equipment have also moved up several notches.

It wasn't too long ago MORE

The Show-Me 100 deserves a great legacy. So I'm hoping that West Plains (Mo.) Motor Speedway owners Don and Billie Gibson can come to an agreement with the Lucas Oil Late Model Dirt Series that preserves one of my favorite Dirt Late Model events.

Having Lucas Oil Speedway in Wheatland, Mo., adopt Memorial Day weekend's Show-Me 100 - that's what the series has been negotiating with West Plains - isn't the ideal solution, but it may be the best outcome with the Gibsons heading for retirement.

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