YouTube sensation Garrett Mitchell, better known as Cleetus McFarland to his 4.8 million subscribers, is set to make his Dirt Late Model debut during Dec. 3-5’s Gateway Dirt Nationals at The Dome at America’s Center in St. Louis, Mo.

The 31-year-old Bradenton, Fla., driver will pilot Gateway promoter Cody Sommer’s No. 13 DRT house car after recently getting his first taste of a Dirt Late Model during a test session at East Lincoln Speedway in Stanley, N.C.

Sommer told FloRacing the test “was a blast and he loves it,” adding that Mitchell “did surprisingly well and enjoyed it a lot.”

Mitchell has built a massive following with his fun-loving approach to motorsports. His content has spanned everything from drag racing and drifting to stock car racing and virtually anything built for speed, much of it centered around the Freedom Factory, the roughly 65-acre Bradenton-area motorsports facility he owns that features a 3/8-mile paved oval.

His own racing résumé has expanded in recent years, too, particularly in NASCAR.

Mitchell has competed in eight ARCA Menards Series events, earning a career-best runner-up finish at Talladega Superspeedway in April, and has signed a two-year, part-time NASCAR O’Reilly Auto Parts Series deal with Richard Childress Racing. He also recently made his pavement Super Late Model debut at Berlin Raceway in Marne, Mich., finishing 19th in a 27-car field.

His only previous dirt-track experience came in the 2023 Bristol 1000 for Crown Vics on a dirt-covered Bristol (Tenn.) Motor Speedway.

The transition to a Dirt Late Model, though, felt natural for Mitchell.

“I had so much fun, George. I feel like this more naturally aligns with my skillset,” Mitchell told longtime channel personality George Siciliano after the test. “So I’m having a blast.”

Before Gateway, Mitchell hopes to test once more alongside NASCAR Cup Series driver Carson Hocevar, a Dirt Late Model moonlighter for Spire Motorsports, to gain at least some experience racing around another car.

“I gotta get a little bit of passing data” before Gateway, Mitchell said. “Either way, we’re going to send it.”