If you've stumbled this far, you've probably already seen DirtonDirt.com's announcement that Cedar Lake's $50,000-to-win USA Nationals will be live video from Cedar Lake Speedway on Aug. 5-7. To expound on our VideoCast, I just wanted to touch on a few more things regarding the production.

There have been some questions about how this will affect our coverage of events in the future. The easy answer? Not at all. The same highlights, stories, recaps, photos and everything else that you've come to MORE

If you follow DirtonDirt.com reports of West Coast racing, you know Trevor Glaser of Tangent, Ore., is among the top regional drivers. You probably also know Trevor missed nearly five months of the 2009 season after suffering serious injuries to his left arm during an event at Willamette Speedway in early April. Fortunately Trevor has suffered no permanent or lasting damage and has made a full recovery from his injuries.

To provide a brief synopsis, Trevor was caught up in a wreck, and the rear MORE

I'll almost guarantee it. At some point in your time as a racing fan, you've made the comment: "If I ran this place, (insert improvement here) would happen."

Of course, 99 percent of the time, none of us ever become race promoters, and we're just armchair quarterbacks in the stands. But there is that 1 percent.

"I really just want the racers to come back to Richmond," Joey Tackett said, "and if every once and a while, one comes through the gate, and tells us thank you, it'll all be worth it."

Tacke MORE

In Dirt Late Model racing, when you have conversations from one regional series director to the next, you learn to expect the expected. There typically aren't dramatic differences in the way regional tours handle formats, rules or purses.

And then you talk to Ed Kosiski, who manages the Nebraska-based Super Late Model Racing Series. Here's an excerpt of our phone conversation when I was previewing the series:

During the week's worth of Dirt Late Model racing at East Bay's Dart Winternationals, you always get some good one-liners when you're interviewing drivers. So, this year I decided to compile a few of my favorite quotes from the week and pass them along to you. Hope you enjoy these as much as I did:

"I'll never be happy until I win every race I run." - Scott Bloomquist, on what he hopes to accomplish

"Nah, we're big boys. We can handle it." - Matt Miller, on if single-file restarts should have been MORE