It’s true that Josh Richards won his first World of Outlaws Late Model Series event of 2006 after starting from the pole position.
But that fact doesn’t show how hard the teenage sensation worked to score a dramatic victory in Saturday night’s ‘Battle at the Bullring 50’ at Columbus Speedway.
Richards, 18, of Shinnston, W.Va., authored a powerful rally to defeat tour points leader Tim McCreadie of Watertown, N.Y., who appeared ready to ruin Kid Rocket’s evening when he took the lead on lap 33. A lap-46 caution flag, however, allowed Richards one final shot and he seized the moment, regaining the top spot from McCreadie on lap 48 and then roaring to the checkered flag.
“That was fun,” said Richards, who earned a $10,000 paycheck for his first-ever visit to the high-banked, three-tenths-mile oval. “To lead the first 30-some laps and then have to get back past McCreadie – man, that makes this win pretty satisfying.”
McCreadie, who started the race from the outside pole, settled for second place in his Sweeteners Plus Rocket No. 39. The run helped him expand his WoO LMS points lead from 16 to 42 points over defending tour champion Billy Moyer of Batesville, Ark., one of three title contenders who ran into trouble during a marathon event that was slowed by 10 caution flags.
Shane Clanton of Locust Grove, Ga., ran near the front of the pack for the entire distance in the RSD Enterprises Rocket and finished third -- the same position he started. Eric Jacobsen of Santa Cruz, Calif., recorded a season-best finish of fourth in his Well Pict Berries/Soil Fume Inc. Rocket after starting 16th, and Chub Frank of Bear Lake, Pa., battled from the 11th starting to take fifth in his Lester Buildings Rocket.
Richards was behind the wheel of his father Mark’s familiar Seubert Calf Ranches-sponsored Rocket House Car No. 1. Ironically, it was the same machine he drove to his only previous WoO LMS triumph, on Aug. 15, 2005, at Lebanon Valley Speedway in West Lebanon, N.Y.
The rising star’s second career victory came one race after he had registered his best finish this season on the WoO LMS: second place on Aug. 15 at Lake Ozark Speedway in Eldon, Mo.
“We struggled some at the beginning of the year, but ever since we had a good run at (Ohio’s) Sharon (Speedway on July 8) we’ve been getting consistently better,” said Richards. “I don’t know what it is, but we’ve really started running well and having more fun.”
There was little doubt Richards had the feature’s fastest car on Saturday, as evidenced by the half-straightaway lead he built during a rare period of extended green-flag racing from lap 14 to 28.
Nevertheless, he came precariously close to absorbing a tough loss after McCreadie passed him to assume command on lap 33.
“I was lost for a little bit with the racetrack,” revealed Richards. “After leading so long (from the initial green flag) I didn’t know where the fastest lane was, and before I knew it Timmy was by me.”
With some assistance from his father, who was stationed in the infield, Richards found his footing.
“My Dad was trying to tell me to slow down and get to the bottom,” said Richards. “I didn’t see him signaling me for awhile, but once I moved down there I realized that’s where I needed to be.”
Richards dived underneath McCreadie’s car entering turn one on a lap-46 restart. The next circuit Richards’s dirt Late Model bounced off the ground when he caught a rut between turns one and two, but he maintained control and surged ahead of McCreadie down the backstretch.
When Richards slid across the track in front of McCreadie through turns and four and emerged with the lead as lap 48 was scored, he was home free.
“The car just stuck right around the bottom,” said Richards, who used a Cornett engine. “I ran in too hard (on lap 47) and just about flipped in one and two, but then it grabbed the track when it came down and I got a great run off two.”
McCreadie, 32, certainly did not like losing in the race’s final moments, but he conceded that Richards deserved to win the event.
“He had a better car than us all night,” said McCreadie. “I should’ve never got by him. He just made a mistake. The track actually got a lot better from the middle to the bottom, and I found it when he didn’t know it was there.
“Once I showed him the groove, we never pulled away from him.”
McCreadie knew Richards was faster after the last restart, but he gave it everything he had to stay in front.
“I raced him hard into one. I didn’t give him an inch,” McCreadie said of the race’s deciding moment. “He just ran it down hard into three and bounced across the track in front of me. That was good, hard racing.
“Josh did a heck of a job. There’s no shame in losing to him. He drove the wheels off it.”
A bit behind the leaders at the finish was Clanton, who was in the mix throughout the race but had to be satisfied with a third-place finish rather than his first WoO LMS victory of the season.
“We went a little hard on tires and I think it cost us the race,” said Clanton. “I needed eight or 10 laps to get going, and every time we got that many laps strung together there would be a caution.”
Clanton, who turns 31 on Aug. 29, did move from fifth to third in the WoO LMS points standings. He’s 44 markers behind McCreadie.
Clanton’s advance in the standings was helped by the misfortune suffered by Moyer, Darrell Lanigan of Union, Ky., and Steve Francis of Asland, Ky., who entered the event ranked second through fourth.
Francis was the first driver to be struck down. After cracking the top 10 from the 13th starting spot, his Mopar No. 15 fell off the pace and stopped on lap seven due to a bent panhard bar and broken driveshaft.
Moments later Lanigan experienced the same mechanical failure as Francis on the difficult track, which tested equipment with rough spots in the corners. He pulled into the infield on a lap-seven restart while running third.
Moyer appeared headed to a top-five finish that would allow to keep pace with McCreadie in the standings when he spun between turns one and two while holding fourth place on lap 36. Moyer’s prone car was hit by Mike Boland of Cuba, Ala., and Ronny Lee Hollingsworth of Northport, Ala., inflicting front-end damage that ended his night.
Rounding out the top 10 in the event was Dale McDowell of Chickamauga, Ga., who pitted to change a flat tire on lap 36; regional racers Jay Blair of Angie, La., Rick Rickman of Columbus, Miss., and Boland; and Eddie Carrier Jr. of Salt Rock, W.Va.
DIRT MotorSport’s $1,000 non-touring/local driver bonus – for the top-finishing racers who are not in the top-20 of a national touring series and haven’t won a WoO LMS event – was divided by Blair ($500), Rick Rickman ($300) and Boland ($200).
Francis started the program off on a high note during the 39-car time-trial session, setting fast time with a lap of 13.75 seconds.
Heat winners were McCreadie, Clanton, Moyer and Richards. Eddie Rickman of Columbus, Miss., and Garrett Durrett of Simsboro, La., captured the B-Mains, and Richards topped the pole dash.
Results of WoO Late Model Series(Finishing Position/Start/Driver/Laps Completed/Money Won): 1. (1) Josh Richards/50 $10,000; 2. (2) Tim McCreadie/50 $6,000; 3. (3) Shane Clanton/50 $3,500; 4. (16) Eric Jacobsen/50 $2,500; 5. (11) Chub Frank/50 $2,200; 6. (7) Dale McDowell/50 $2,000; 7. (22) Jay Blair/50 $1,800; 8. (24) Rick Rickman/50 $1,600; 9. (14) Mike Boland/50 $1,400; 10. (6) Eddie Carrier Jr./50 $1,200; 11. (18) Garrett Durrett/50 $1,000; 12. (12) Jamie Elam/46 $900; 13. (20) David Breazeale/45 $800; 14. (9) Ronny Lee Hollingsworth/39 $700; 15. (4) Billy Moyer/36 $700; 16. (19) Jack Sullivan/34 $700; 17. (8) Wendell Wallace/34 $700; 18. (23) John Blankenship/31 $700; 19. (15) Rick Eckert/28 $700; 20. (17) Eddie Rickman/17 $700; 21. (13) Steve Francis/11 $700; 22. (5) Darrell Lanigan/8 $700; 23. (21) Chris Wall/6 $700; 24. (10) Clint Smith/2 $700.
Yellow Flags: 10 (Laps 3, 7, 14, 28, 29, 32, 32, 36, 39, 46)
Lap Leaders: Richards (1-32); McCreadie (33-47); Richards (48-50).
Time Trial Results (Position/No./Driver/Hometown/Best Lap):
1. 15-Steve Francis/Ashland, KY 13.75
2. 28-Eddie Carrier Jr./Salt Rock, WV 13.93
3. 21-Billy Moyer/Batesville, AR 13.96
4. 1-Josh Richards/Shinnston, WV 13.96
5. 29-Darrell Lanigan/Union, KY 13.97
6. 25-Shane Clanton/Locust Grove, GA 14.10
7. 17M-Dale McDowell/Chickamauga, GA 14.19
8. 12E-Jamie Elam/Sanitobia, MS 14.22
9. 39-Tim McCreadie/Watertown, NY 14.23
10. 44-Clint Smith/Senoia, GA 14.24
11. 12-Jason Smith/Laurel, MS 14.32
12. 88-Wendell Wallace/Batesville, AR 14.32
13. 33d-Scott Dedwylder/Vossburg, MS 14.33
14. 222-Mike Boland/Cuba, AL 14.34
15. 24-Rick Eckert/York, PA 14.35
16. 5-Eric Jacobsen/Santa Cruz, CA 14.35
17. 18-Ronny Lee Hollingsworth/Northport, AL 14.38
18. 18s-Jack Sullivan/Greenbriar, AR 14.40
19. 58c-Garrett Durrett/Simsboro, LA 14.43
20. 86-Rick Rickman/Columbus, MS 14.45
21. 71-Chris Wall/Holden, LA 14.46
22. 23-John Blankenship/Williamson, WV 14.51
23. 2x-Jay Blair/Angie, LA 14.55
24. 54-David Breazeale/Four Corners, MS 14.56
25. 51-Dean Carpenter/Coldwater, MS 14.61
26. c16-Chris Ragan/Ramer/TN 14.61
27. 1*-Chub Frank/Bear Lake, PA 14.64
28. 1F-Scott Flurry/Smithville, MS 14.64
29. 68-Eddie Rickman/Columbus, MS 14.70
30. 5E-Shawn Edwards/Louisville, MS 14.76
31. 1c-Chad Thrash/Meridian, MS 14.80
32. 07-Randy Walters/Laurel, MS 14.93
33. 74-Scott Randolph/Baxter, TN 14.93
34. 760-Jimbo McDuffie/Meridian, MS 14.96
35. 0K-Kelly Hanvey/Coleman, AL 14.98
36. 33-Terry Wilson/West, MS 15.15
37. 20-Tombo Callahan/Weir, MS 15.31
38. 57-Roger Shirley/Meridian, MS 15.34
39. 16-Mike Poyner/Grenada, MS N/T
Heat No. 1 (10 laps - Top 4 Transfer): McCreadie, Lanigan, Hollingsworth, Francis, Wall, E. Rickman, Carpenter, Callahan, Randolph, Dedwylder.
Heat No. 2 (10 laps - Top 4 Transfer): Clanton, Carrier, C. Smith, Boland, Ragan, Blankenship, Edwards, Sullivan, McDuffie, Shirley.
Heat No. 3 (10 laps - Top 4 Transfer): Moyer, McDowell, Frank, Eckert, Blair, Durrett, Thrash, J. Smith, Hanvey, Poyner.
Heat No. 4 (10 laps – Top 4 Transfer): Richards, Wallace, Elam, Jacobsen, Flurry, Wilson, Breazeale, Walters, R. Rickman.
B-Main No. 1 (12 laps – Top 3 Transfer): E. Rickman, Sullivan, Wall, Blankenship, Callahan, Carpenter, Randolph, Raga, Edwards, Shirley (DNS) McDuffie, Dedwylder.
B-Main No. 2 (12 laps – Top 3 Transfer): Durrett, Breazeale, Blair, R. Rickman, Thrash, Wilson, Flurry, Poyner (DNS) Walters, J. Smith, Hanvey.
Dash (6 laps): Richards, McCreadie, Clanton, Moyer.
WoO Late Model Series Points Standings (after Aug. 26): 1. Tim McCreadie 3,576; 2. Billy Moyer 3,534; 3. Shane Clanton 3,532; 4. Darrell Lanigan 3,516; 5. Steve Francis 3,512; 6. Chub Frank 3,498; 7. Rick Eckert 3,454; 8. Dale McDowell 3,398; 9. Clint Smith 3,355; 10. Josh Richards 3,346; 11. Eddie Carrier Jr. 2,963; 12. John Blankenship 2,922; 13. Eric Jacobsen 2,878; 14. Garrett Durrett 2,832; 15. Mike Balzano 998.
LISTEN ONLINE: If fans can’t get to a track to see the series, they can experience the excitement of the World of Outlaws Late Model Series live on Dirtvision.com through the DIRT Radio Network.
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The World of Outlaws Late Model Series is brought to fans across the country by several sponsors and partners, including Series sponsor Hoosier Tire; Promotional sponsors AMB i.t., Choice Hotels International, COESfx, The University of Northwest Ohio and Snap-on. Contingency sponsors include DART Machinery, Holley Performance Products Inc., MSD Ignition, Quarter Master, Ohlins and Wrisco Industries.
But that fact doesn’t show how hard the teenage sensation worked to score a dramatic victory in Saturday night’s ‘Battle at the Bullring 50’ at Columbus Speedway.
Richards, 18, of Shinnston, W.Va., authored a powerful rally to defeat tour points leader Tim McCreadie of Watertown, N.Y., who appeared ready to ruin Kid Rocket’s evening when he took the lead on lap 33. A lap-46 caution flag, however, allowed Richards one final shot and he seized the moment, regaining the top spot from McCreadie on lap 48 and then roaring to the checkered flag.
“That was fun,” said Richards, who earned a $10,000 paycheck for his first-ever visit to the high-banked, three-tenths-mile oval. “To lead the first 30-some laps and then have to get back past McCreadie – man, that makes this win pretty satisfying.”
McCreadie, who started the race from the outside pole, settled for second place in his Sweeteners Plus Rocket No. 39. The run helped him expand his WoO LMS points lead from 16 to 42 points over defending tour champion Billy Moyer of Batesville, Ark., one of three title contenders who ran into trouble during a marathon event that was slowed by 10 caution flags.
Shane Clanton of Locust Grove, Ga., ran near the front of the pack for the entire distance in the RSD Enterprises Rocket and finished third -- the same position he started. Eric Jacobsen of Santa Cruz, Calif., recorded a season-best finish of fourth in his Well Pict Berries/Soil Fume Inc. Rocket after starting 16th, and Chub Frank of Bear Lake, Pa., battled from the 11th starting to take fifth in his Lester Buildings Rocket.
Richards was behind the wheel of his father Mark’s familiar Seubert Calf Ranches-sponsored Rocket House Car No. 1. Ironically, it was the same machine he drove to his only previous WoO LMS triumph, on Aug. 15, 2005, at Lebanon Valley Speedway in West Lebanon, N.Y.
The rising star’s second career victory came one race after he had registered his best finish this season on the WoO LMS: second place on Aug. 15 at Lake Ozark Speedway in Eldon, Mo.
“We struggled some at the beginning of the year, but ever since we had a good run at (Ohio’s) Sharon (Speedway on July 8) we’ve been getting consistently better,” said Richards. “I don’t know what it is, but we’ve really started running well and having more fun.”
There was little doubt Richards had the feature’s fastest car on Saturday, as evidenced by the half-straightaway lead he built during a rare period of extended green-flag racing from lap 14 to 28.
Nevertheless, he came precariously close to absorbing a tough loss after McCreadie passed him to assume command on lap 33.
“I was lost for a little bit with the racetrack,” revealed Richards. “After leading so long (from the initial green flag) I didn’t know where the fastest lane was, and before I knew it Timmy was by me.”
With some assistance from his father, who was stationed in the infield, Richards found his footing.
“My Dad was trying to tell me to slow down and get to the bottom,” said Richards. “I didn’t see him signaling me for awhile, but once I moved down there I realized that’s where I needed to be.”
Richards dived underneath McCreadie’s car entering turn one on a lap-46 restart. The next circuit Richards’s dirt Late Model bounced off the ground when he caught a rut between turns one and two, but he maintained control and surged ahead of McCreadie down the backstretch.
When Richards slid across the track in front of McCreadie through turns and four and emerged with the lead as lap 48 was scored, he was home free.
“The car just stuck right around the bottom,” said Richards, who used a Cornett engine. “I ran in too hard (on lap 47) and just about flipped in one and two, but then it grabbed the track when it came down and I got a great run off two.”
McCreadie, 32, certainly did not like losing in the race’s final moments, but he conceded that Richards deserved to win the event.
“He had a better car than us all night,” said McCreadie. “I should’ve never got by him. He just made a mistake. The track actually got a lot better from the middle to the bottom, and I found it when he didn’t know it was there.
“Once I showed him the groove, we never pulled away from him.”
McCreadie knew Richards was faster after the last restart, but he gave it everything he had to stay in front.
“I raced him hard into one. I didn’t give him an inch,” McCreadie said of the race’s deciding moment. “He just ran it down hard into three and bounced across the track in front of me. That was good, hard racing.
“Josh did a heck of a job. There’s no shame in losing to him. He drove the wheels off it.”
A bit behind the leaders at the finish was Clanton, who was in the mix throughout the race but had to be satisfied with a third-place finish rather than his first WoO LMS victory of the season.
“We went a little hard on tires and I think it cost us the race,” said Clanton. “I needed eight or 10 laps to get going, and every time we got that many laps strung together there would be a caution.”
Clanton, who turns 31 on Aug. 29, did move from fifth to third in the WoO LMS points standings. He’s 44 markers behind McCreadie.
Clanton’s advance in the standings was helped by the misfortune suffered by Moyer, Darrell Lanigan of Union, Ky., and Steve Francis of Asland, Ky., who entered the event ranked second through fourth.
Francis was the first driver to be struck down. After cracking the top 10 from the 13th starting spot, his Mopar No. 15 fell off the pace and stopped on lap seven due to a bent panhard bar and broken driveshaft.
Moments later Lanigan experienced the same mechanical failure as Francis on the difficult track, which tested equipment with rough spots in the corners. He pulled into the infield on a lap-seven restart while running third.
Moyer appeared headed to a top-five finish that would allow to keep pace with McCreadie in the standings when he spun between turns one and two while holding fourth place on lap 36. Moyer’s prone car was hit by Mike Boland of Cuba, Ala., and Ronny Lee Hollingsworth of Northport, Ala., inflicting front-end damage that ended his night.
Rounding out the top 10 in the event was Dale McDowell of Chickamauga, Ga., who pitted to change a flat tire on lap 36; regional racers Jay Blair of Angie, La., Rick Rickman of Columbus, Miss., and Boland; and Eddie Carrier Jr. of Salt Rock, W.Va.
DIRT MotorSport’s $1,000 non-touring/local driver bonus – for the top-finishing racers who are not in the top-20 of a national touring series and haven’t won a WoO LMS event – was divided by Blair ($500), Rick Rickman ($300) and Boland ($200).
Francis started the program off on a high note during the 39-car time-trial session, setting fast time with a lap of 13.75 seconds.
Heat winners were McCreadie, Clanton, Moyer and Richards. Eddie Rickman of Columbus, Miss., and Garrett Durrett of Simsboro, La., captured the B-Mains, and Richards topped the pole dash.
Results of WoO Late Model Series(Finishing Position/Start/Driver/Laps Completed/Money Won): 1. (1) Josh Richards/50 $10,000; 2. (2) Tim McCreadie/50 $6,000; 3. (3) Shane Clanton/50 $3,500; 4. (16) Eric Jacobsen/50 $2,500; 5. (11) Chub Frank/50 $2,200; 6. (7) Dale McDowell/50 $2,000; 7. (22) Jay Blair/50 $1,800; 8. (24) Rick Rickman/50 $1,600; 9. (14) Mike Boland/50 $1,400; 10. (6) Eddie Carrier Jr./50 $1,200; 11. (18) Garrett Durrett/50 $1,000; 12. (12) Jamie Elam/46 $900; 13. (20) David Breazeale/45 $800; 14. (9) Ronny Lee Hollingsworth/39 $700; 15. (4) Billy Moyer/36 $700; 16. (19) Jack Sullivan/34 $700; 17. (8) Wendell Wallace/34 $700; 18. (23) John Blankenship/31 $700; 19. (15) Rick Eckert/28 $700; 20. (17) Eddie Rickman/17 $700; 21. (13) Steve Francis/11 $700; 22. (5) Darrell Lanigan/8 $700; 23. (21) Chris Wall/6 $700; 24. (10) Clint Smith/2 $700.
Yellow Flags: 10 (Laps 3, 7, 14, 28, 29, 32, 32, 36, 39, 46)
Lap Leaders: Richards (1-32); McCreadie (33-47); Richards (48-50).
Time Trial Results (Position/No./Driver/Hometown/Best Lap):
1. 15-Steve Francis/Ashland, KY 13.75
2. 28-Eddie Carrier Jr./Salt Rock, WV 13.93
3. 21-Billy Moyer/Batesville, AR 13.96
4. 1-Josh Richards/Shinnston, WV 13.96
5. 29-Darrell Lanigan/Union, KY 13.97
6. 25-Shane Clanton/Locust Grove, GA 14.10
7. 17M-Dale McDowell/Chickamauga, GA 14.19
8. 12E-Jamie Elam/Sanitobia, MS 14.22
9. 39-Tim McCreadie/Watertown, NY 14.23
10. 44-Clint Smith/Senoia, GA 14.24
11. 12-Jason Smith/Laurel, MS 14.32
12. 88-Wendell Wallace/Batesville, AR 14.32
13. 33d-Scott Dedwylder/Vossburg, MS 14.33
14. 222-Mike Boland/Cuba, AL 14.34
15. 24-Rick Eckert/York, PA 14.35
16. 5-Eric Jacobsen/Santa Cruz, CA 14.35
17. 18-Ronny Lee Hollingsworth/Northport, AL 14.38
18. 18s-Jack Sullivan/Greenbriar, AR 14.40
19. 58c-Garrett Durrett/Simsboro, LA 14.43
20. 86-Rick Rickman/Columbus, MS 14.45
21. 71-Chris Wall/Holden, LA 14.46
22. 23-John Blankenship/Williamson, WV 14.51
23. 2x-Jay Blair/Angie, LA 14.55
24. 54-David Breazeale/Four Corners, MS 14.56
25. 51-Dean Carpenter/Coldwater, MS 14.61
26. c16-Chris Ragan/Ramer/TN 14.61
27. 1*-Chub Frank/Bear Lake, PA 14.64
28. 1F-Scott Flurry/Smithville, MS 14.64
29. 68-Eddie Rickman/Columbus, MS 14.70
30. 5E-Shawn Edwards/Louisville, MS 14.76
31. 1c-Chad Thrash/Meridian, MS 14.80
32. 07-Randy Walters/Laurel, MS 14.93
33. 74-Scott Randolph/Baxter, TN 14.93
34. 760-Jimbo McDuffie/Meridian, MS 14.96
35. 0K-Kelly Hanvey/Coleman, AL 14.98
36. 33-Terry Wilson/West, MS 15.15
37. 20-Tombo Callahan/Weir, MS 15.31
38. 57-Roger Shirley/Meridian, MS 15.34
39. 16-Mike Poyner/Grenada, MS N/T
Heat No. 1 (10 laps - Top 4 Transfer): McCreadie, Lanigan, Hollingsworth, Francis, Wall, E. Rickman, Carpenter, Callahan, Randolph, Dedwylder.
Heat No. 2 (10 laps - Top 4 Transfer): Clanton, Carrier, C. Smith, Boland, Ragan, Blankenship, Edwards, Sullivan, McDuffie, Shirley.
Heat No. 3 (10 laps - Top 4 Transfer): Moyer, McDowell, Frank, Eckert, Blair, Durrett, Thrash, J. Smith, Hanvey, Poyner.
Heat No. 4 (10 laps – Top 4 Transfer): Richards, Wallace, Elam, Jacobsen, Flurry, Wilson, Breazeale, Walters, R. Rickman.
B-Main No. 1 (12 laps – Top 3 Transfer): E. Rickman, Sullivan, Wall, Blankenship, Callahan, Carpenter, Randolph, Raga, Edwards, Shirley (DNS) McDuffie, Dedwylder.
B-Main No. 2 (12 laps – Top 3 Transfer): Durrett, Breazeale, Blair, R. Rickman, Thrash, Wilson, Flurry, Poyner (DNS) Walters, J. Smith, Hanvey.
Dash (6 laps): Richards, McCreadie, Clanton, Moyer.
WoO Late Model Series Points Standings (after Aug. 26): 1. Tim McCreadie 3,576; 2. Billy Moyer 3,534; 3. Shane Clanton 3,532; 4. Darrell Lanigan 3,516; 5. Steve Francis 3,512; 6. Chub Frank 3,498; 7. Rick Eckert 3,454; 8. Dale McDowell 3,398; 9. Clint Smith 3,355; 10. Josh Richards 3,346; 11. Eddie Carrier Jr. 2,963; 12. John Blankenship 2,922; 13. Eric Jacobsen 2,878; 14. Garrett Durrett 2,832; 15. Mike Balzano 998.
LISTEN ONLINE: If fans can’t get to a track to see the series, they can experience the excitement of the World of Outlaws Late Model Series live on Dirtvision.com through the DIRT Radio Network.
To listen to the audio broadcasts, log on to www.dirtvision.com and click on the DIRT Radio Network logo.
Listeners will need Windows Media Player 9 or higher to listen to the DIRT Radio Network. For technical support or questions, e-mail webmaster@dirtvision.com.
The World of Outlaws Late Model Series is brought to fans across the country by several sponsors and partners, including Series sponsor Hoosier Tire; Promotional sponsors AMB i.t., Choice Hotels International, COESfx, The University of Northwest Ohio and Snap-on. Contingency sponsors include DART Machinery, Holley Performance Products Inc., MSD Ignition, Quarter Master, Ohlins and Wrisco Industries.
