Whiling away the highway hours between races often means hashing out possibilities for changes in Dirt Late Model racing we’d like to see. Most of them go no farther than the dashboard, but occasionally a rental car full of DirtonDirt.com staffers hit on something worth exploring.

This is one of those times, particularly with East Bay Raceway Park’s 38th annual Winternationals upon us this week.

After the first full weekend of Georgia-Florida Speedweeks action, our Sunday night conversation MORE

Recapping the Georgia Boot Super Bowl of Racing at Golden Isles Speedway with a list of superlatives from the three Lucas Oil Late Model Dirt Series programs at the 4/10-mile oval near Brunswick, Ga. (complete Speedweeks coverage):

Fastest drivers: Neck-and-neck between Friday winners Jonathan Davenport of Blairsville, Ga., and Chris Madden of Gray Court, S.C. While each nabbed a feature victory in Friday’s doubleheader, further success eluded them. Davenport was stymied by early problems in MORE

INDIANAPOLIS, Ind. — A selection of superlatives from the three-day Performance Racing Industry Trade Show at the Indiana Convention Center:

Biggest news: In a surprise no one saw coming, driver Shane Clanton of Zebulon, Ga., parted ways with car owner John Kennedy to field his own team, likely on the World of Outlaws Late Model Series instead of his expected run on the Kennedy-backed National Dirt Racing League, a WoO rival. | Complete PRI coverage

Biggest driver change: Blairsville, Ga.’s MORE