The fact that Clarksville (Tenn.) Speedway was the site of my first DIRTcar Summer Nationals race 22 years ago is strange in a couple of ways. | Complete Summer Nationals coverage

For starters, I’m a native Tennessean, yet it wasn’t until I moved to North Carolina and went to work at National Dirt Digest that I attended my first race of any kind at Clarksville. Secondly, I actually lived in Illinois — the heart of Summer Nationals country — for more than a year before I moved to North MORE

The first time I went to Eldora Speedway, Billy Moyer won the World 100. That was 1991. The next year I went and watched Donnie Moran win. I returned in 1993 and to my surprise — not really — Billy Moyer won again. For a reason I can no longer recall, I decided not to go back in 1994. Possibly I had to work or I couldn’t afford to go. Or maybe I didn’t go because I thought it a forgone conclusion that either Batesville, Ark.’s Moyer or Dresden, Ohio’s Moran would win the 100-lapper. MORE

It didn’t take long after Billy Moyer’s May 26 MARS Championship Series victory at Farmer City (Ill.) Raceway for a handful of loons to head for their keyboards and suggest that the National Dirt Late Model Hall of Famer was cherry picking by skipping Memorial Day weekend's Show-Me 100 at Lucas Oil Speedway in Wheatland, Mo.

The suggestion was so absurd that I chose — wisely for once — to stop reading. I didn’t want to go down that rabbit hole as the strain to climb back out would have MORE