Many of you reading this are fortunate to be able to drive just about any direction for 50 miles and find a number of different dirt tracks or racetracks of some kind, and more importantly find more than one Dirt Late Model race within an hour's drive. That’s not the case here in the Western states. If you want to race in Oregon, more specifically, or if you want to race a Dirt Late Model in the Western states at more than one track, you better be ready to spend some time on the highway.

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Here in the Pacific Northwest, the centerpiece of Dirt Late Model racing has to be the newly formed Northwest I-5 DIRTcar Late Model Series. An evolution of the former Bud I-5 Series that ran for many years here in Oregon and Washington, this tour presents the teams up here with a different set of rules, a different format, and different leadership under the DIRTcar banner. All of these I feel are good things, and good for Super Late Model racing here in the Northwest, and through the first half MORE

How does the West fit into Dirt Late Model Racing on a national level?

That's tough question and I don't claim to have an easy answer. What I do have is an opinion on what I would like to see happen and how I would like to see the West incorporated into the “national” Dirt Late Model scene.

First off, I have a beef with both the World of Outlaws Late Model Series and Lucas Oil Late Model Dirt Series touting themselves as "national" tours. To truly be a national series, you must incorporate the MORE