ONE: World Finals Has a Title on the Line
Matt Sheppard and Dennis Erb Jr. enter the World Finals at Charlotte this week as champions of the Super DIRTcar Series and World of Outlaws late model tour, but the headline World of Outlaws sprint cars enter the World Racing Group season finale with the title very much in play. Three-time defending champion Brad Sweet heads into Wednesday night (Nov. 2) with a narrow 16-point lead over last season’s runner-up, David Gravel.
There might be a 16-point difference between @BradSweet49 and @DavidGravel entering @World_Finals, but Sweet views the title fight as being tied.
Three races @TheDirtTrack will settle the 2022 championship duel. #AllDirtRoads
𝗥𝗘𝗔𝗗 𝗠𝗢𝗥𝗘: https://t.co/4907HmLMdW
— World of Outlaws (@WorldofOutlaws) October 27, 2022
Sweet, who saw a season-long streak without a DNF end at Williams Grove in the series’ last race, would seem to be the favorite entering the Finals, given he’s won three straight titles and suffered his DNF at the Grove courtesy of a mechanical failure. But Gravel is easily the best qualifier in the series and on a big track like Charlotte, that’s likely to play into his hands as far as garnering track position early. Gravel ended 2021 on a red-hot streak and is completely capable of winning multiple races at Charlotte.
Buckle up folks, this one is coming down to the wire. No “playoffs” needed.
TWO: Tanner English Plans Offer Welcome Schedule Tidbit
With late model silly season in full effect, Tanner English’s Facebook page was forced to put out a lengthy explanation of how the driver will contest the Gateway Dirt Nationals as scheduled, though his new home at Viper Motorsports had been slated to contest the XR event at All-Tech Raceway in Florida the same weekend.
The bigger takeaway I had from the driver’s social media was looking forward to 2023, where the team announced not just that they’d contest the World of Outlaws full time, but also planned to contest the full XR Super Series schedule as well.
Translation: the XR schedule is expected not to conflict with the World of Outlaws tour. And from there it’s a reasonable leap that the tour won’t conflict with the Lucas Oil Late Model Dirt Series tour either.
Can you say bring on 2023?
THREE: Afton Racing Moving to Saturdays
Five Mile Point Speedway ran what is expected to be their final race ever after 70-plus years of operation Saturday night (for more on that…
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