When I was a teenager helping out on a Dirt Late Model team, I remember the graphics guy coming over to letter the car. He had a whole box full of paints, thinner, reducer and all kinds for brushes and other items. He would spend the better part of the day lettering that car with all of us doing a little work around the shop as we watched the new creation come to life and the bare panels take on a whole new look. The paint job came along with a warning: don’t crash because it will be several MORE

In a recent conversation I had with DirtonDirt.com's Michael Rigsby, he suggested I write a blog about being the new voice of Eldora Speedway. I told him that’d be fine except, at the time, I hadn’t even announced a race at Eldora yet. Finally, after an ill-fated attempt to start their season on April 3, Eldora was able to get their first race in the books on April 17 and there I was calling the action at arguably the most famous dirt track in the country.

The last time I announced regularly MORE

A nor’easter is defined as a macro-scale storm along the East Coast of the United States and Atlantic Canada, so named because the winds come from the northeast, especially in the coastal areas of the northeastern United States and Atlantic Canada. More specifically, it describes a low pressure area whose center of rotation is just off the East Coast and whose leading winds in the left forward quadrant rotate onto land from the northeast. Nor'easters can occur at any time of the year and can MORE

One thing we've often worried about with DirtonDirt.com is if visitors to the website always discover the content we post.

A computer screen is only so big, and with the extensive video, photos and stories frequently uploaded to the site, especially during a major weekend, we realize some things might get overlooked. That's one reason we rotate popular photos, stories and videos into different positions on the site, but one thing that doesn't always get big play is our weekly results section.

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Imagine that you have spent countless hours the past week preparing a race car. You take your immaculately prepared car on a 10-hour drive to a special event. You pay your car registration and pit passes, hot lap, qualify and race your car and spend your weekend at the track only to end up with a severely damaged car and receive less money back than the cost of your team's entry fees. For racer Matt Lux, he doesn’t have to imagine it — he experienced it first-hand on April 9-10 at Farmer MORE