Travis Carr is certainly a Dirt Late Model driver with a unique back story.

“I always laugh,” Carr’s wife, Brandie Herdlitzka, said on that very subject. “When I first met him, I’m like, ‘You’re a nurse that races cars. I just don’t know that that’s very common.’ ”

A 32-year-old from Athens, Ohio, who works as a registered nurse in the emergency and critical care departments at a hospital in Lancaster, Ohio, Carr realizes that his day job isn’t typical for a short-track MORE

Before the coronavirus pandemic struck the United States, before the crisis effectively shut down motorsports across the country for an indefinite period of time, Dirt Late Model standout Michael Page enjoyed an overseas trip of a lifetime.

In late February, the 37-year-old Douglasville, Ga., racer jetted off with his brother and two friends to drive a Dirt Late Model in South Africa, providing him an utterly positive memory of 2020 no matter what the future holds for racing this season.

“It was MORE

BARBERVILLE, Fla. — Recapping the 49th annual DIRTcar Nationals at Volusia Speedway Park with a list of superlatives from the four World of Outlaws Craftsman Late Model Series programs and two DIRTcar-sanctioned event contested at the half-mile oval near Daytona Beach (complete Speedweeks coverage):

Best driver: With a spectacular second half of the week — three straight $10,000 World of Outlaws triumphs — Jimmy Owens (pictured) of Newport, Tenn., staked his claim to ownership of the 2020 MORE