Despite living in a pretty rural place, I get a lot of questions about my race car and the races I attend. I’ve found that most people are truly interested in what’s going on. Perhaps that’s just a byproduct of a small town. I’ve lived in Lynchburg, Tenn., for more than 12 years and before anyone knew my name, I was that guy who lived by the park with the race cars in the driveway.

There have been a handful of times where we have had three or four race cars sitting around, either covered MORE

It was Sept. 23, 2003. I was sitting at my desk catching up on some work when my cell phone rang. On the other end was Richie Davis.

“Hey you heard about Hommel?” That is day I will never forget. Hommel suffered a significant head injury in a highway accident near his Newport, Tenn., home.

Since Duayne’s winning of the Southern All Star championship, I had spent many days on the road and on the phone talking with Duayne Hommel. In fact we had become fairly close friends. We shared much in MORE

When Mike Hayes sets up Jimmy Owens’s souvenir trailer at Batesville Motor Speedway in Locust Grove, Ark., for this weekend’s 23rd annual Comp Cams Topless 100, memories of his first year handling Owens’s T-shirt sales in 2007 will come flooding back to him.

Stifling, sweaty memories.

“The way we were doing it back then was brutal,” said the 41-year-old Hayes, who joined with his wife, Amy, to take over Owens’s merchandising efforts the same season the Dirt Late Model superstar from MORE

I have written here on two occasions about the National Dirt Late Model Hall of Fame regarding its importance to our sport and why we should all support it. Let’s make it an even three.

On Aug. 8 at Florence Speedway in Union, Ky., the Hall of Fame will induct its 15th class since being established in 2001. The NDLMHoF is housed in a modest building located just outside of turn four at the half-mile northern Kentucky oval that annually hosts the Sunoco North-South 100. | Complete North-South MORE