Sometimes we take the little things for granted. When your racing includes any kind of travel — even just a 30-mile weekly ride — you have to have somewhat decent equipment to get your car safely to the track and back. It hasn’t always been that way.

I remember my stepdad’s old single-axle trailer that he used in the ’70s. That thing was short and bowed in the middle from the heavy weight of those old ’55 Chevys. Back then I never thought much about getting to the races. You just MORE

Just when drivers think they have something figured out, a rule comes along that changes what they think they know. Toward the end of last season, a couple of sanctioning bodies and tracks began experimenting with their tire rules. Tire rules in our sport are already about as varied as paint schemes, so naturally, as promoters and series directors began tweaking those tire rules, those little adjustments have been almost as varied.

Last August, officials at Eldora Speedway, which is a MORE

We should be talking right now about how Jared Landers is chasing a Lucas Oil Late Model Dirt Series championship this year. We should be discussing the Batesville, Ark., driver’s ascension to certified star status in the Dirt Late Model world.

Unfortunately, we’re not. Landers has been out of sight, if not exactly out of mind, since last summer when his burgeoning career took a sudden, dramatic detour into uncertainty, and only in the last couple weeks has he finally emerged from the MORE