GIBSONTON, Fla. — Recapping the 45th annual Wrisco Winternationals at East Bay Raceway Park with a list of superlatives from six Lucas Oil Late Model Dirt Series events at the third-mile oval near Tampa (complete Speedweeks coverage):

Best driver: Brandon Overton of Evans, Ga., scored his lone win in Friday’s 50-lap feature, but the $12,000 score clinched his status as the week’s most consistently fast and steady entrant. The 29-year-old Wells Motorsports chauffeur was the only competitor MORE

QUEEN CREEK, Ariz. — Recapping the 15th annual Keyser Manufacturing Wild West Shootout with a list of superlatives from the six Super Late programs that were contested at FK Rod Ends Arizona Speedway (complete Wild West Shootout coverage):

Best driver: Jonathan Davenport of Blairsville, Ga., whose first WWS appearance since 2016 at USA Raceway in Tucson, Ariz., could scarcely have gone much better. Debuting a new Double L Motorsports Longhorn Race Car, the 37-year-old superstar put a subpar MORE

The 2021 Lucas Oil Late Model Dirt Series schedule was released on Wednesday morning. Roughly six hours later the ’21 World of Outlaws Morton Buildings Late Model Series schedule went public.

Both national tour slates coming out within hours of each other? Talk about an unprecedented day for Dirt Late Model racing.

After digesting the schedules, here’s some highlights and other nuggets that caught my attention:

• As long as the coronavirus pandemic dies down and allows the return of an MORE