At last month's Illini 100 in Farmer City, Ill., I got a chance to catch up with Jimmy and Chris Mars. For those of us in Wisconsin and Minnesota, we watched the Mars brothers move up the ranks with Jimmy turning the steering wheel and Chris turning the wrenches. These days they're at the top of the sport, building their own MB Customs Chassis along with Brian Birkhofer, and running a successful racing parts, chassis deal and shock services business. While talking with Chris and Jimmy, I MORE

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

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