1. Dirt racing disciplinarians rightly stomp out Clanton vs. Weiss
Joey Logano and William Byron wish their feud was the biggest in the South this weekend. Saturday night saw East Alabama Motor Speedway host arguably the biggest fireworks show that super late model racing has seen in 2022, with Shane Clanton and Ricky Weiss getting into a heated exchange early in the Spring Nationals feature. Watch the tape.
🚨@clanton25 and @weissracing7 getting after it at East Alabama Motor Speedway @SoNationals pic.twitter.com/VQjtiAzoft
— FloRacing (@FloRacing) May 8, 2022
The end result was that both drivers were disqualified from the event, leaving national powerhouses Tim McCreadie and Brandon Overton to settle the score (Overton would take the win).
Part of me thinks Ricky Weiss got done wrong, being lumped in with Clanton’s DQ. Clanton’s slide job that started this whole episode was close enough in my book to justify Weiss giving him a kick in the rear, and though the cameras missed it, it sure looked like it was Clanton that cut off Weiss under yellow.
On the other hand, this feud was clearly festering, and Weiss didn’t excuse himself from the gesticulating under yellow. There are plenty of good reasons for dirt late model racing to take no-contact policies very seriously, and the Spring Nationals officials were well within their rights to park both drivers.
This ain’t NASCAR. Backup cars don’t grow on trees at this level of racing.
2. The super late model split kicks off
This is shaping up to be an exciting mid-week for super late model racing fans, though said excitement is dampened a bit by having two major events running in competition with each other. Wednesday night sees the kickoff of three straight nights of racing at the Dirt Track at Charlotte leading up to Saturday’s Colossal 100 for the XR Super Series.
Meanwhile, Flo Racing’s inaugural Illinois Speedweeks also kicks off Wednesday night, with two events for the Flo Racing…
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