It’s an event 20 years in the making.
Two decades after Ohio legend Donnie Moran took home a seven-figure payday, the Eldora Million returns to dirt super late model racing Thursday night, June 9, at Eldora Speedway.
The car count is expected to be astronomical, with all national super late model tours on pause already with the late model Dream scheduled for Saturday, as well as a purse that pays $5,022 just to start Thursday’s A-main.
It’s the #EldoraMillion & #DLMDream week! Over $1.9 million is up for grabs! Make your predictions now on who the champions will be! pic.twitter.com/6LXfOw9CMj
— ELDORA SPEEDWAY (@EldoraSpeedway) June 6, 2022
And with Kyle Larson and the vaunted No. 6 Rumley late model absent from the field, here are six drivers to watch heading into one of the richest events in all of motorsports in 2022.
Brandon Overton – Evans, Ga.
There are ample reasons to sleep on the winningest driver in super late model racing from 2021. For one, the No. 76 team has not proven anywhere near as invincible as it was in 2021, with Brandon Overton shut out of the win column across the myriad mega paydays that have dotted the schedule so far this season.
What’s more, Eldora has changed radically since Overton swept the two Dream races last season, with 250 loads of clay being dumped onto the track so far proving to radically alter the racing surface.
Having said that, Overton did win two six-figure races at Eldora a year ago. The No. 76 has won seven races in 2022, and assuming Tony Stewart and crew figure out the new surface as they’ve promised they will, Eldora will be in shape to resemble the track that Overton made his house a year ago.
Dale McDowell – Chickamauga, Ga.
Now, let’s assume the worst for a second and predict that Stewart and crew cannot get the Eldora surface up to par, with the Eldora Million instead resembling the quagmire that mired the track’s Flo Racing Night in America race and sent Josh Richards to the…
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