Dillon Raffurty Brings Sugar Bowl Home to Kansas City

Dirt Racing’s Dramatic Moment: The stock car feature of the Workin’ Man Nationals at the Dirt Track at Las Vegas was decided by only 44 thousandths of a second, with Dent, Minn.’s Ryan Satter edging Gresham, Ore.’s Kevin Roberts after the two waged a pitched battle up front for nearly the entirety of the feature event.

What Dirt Racing Fans’ll Be Group Chatting About This Morning

World Racing Group definitely took some flack Saturday night for deeming the week’s final DIRTcar Nationals event as beyond halfway, and thus complete, when the World of Outlaws program was rained out minutes after the Last Chance Showdown race was run. The program had already deviated twice from regularly scheduled action; first, that the sprint car races were all run without interruption from the modified support class and that the LCS was run before the pole dash.

This procedure is public information, so it shouldn’t have been an unknown for ticket holders. But I can understand the frustration of race fans in this situation. This isn’t NASCAR, where a rainout means that fans got to see at least two stages of racing with the full field on track. In this instance, a race ticket means that fans only got to see four heat races and the LCS, meaning they at no point actually saw a full field race. 

Of course, judging from the crowds at Volusia this week, there doesn’t appear to be much need for a change in business practice from WRG. Still, if I’m them, this type of reaction may be worth considering a straight rainout in the future.

One other note from the weekend, that incomplete WoO feature will be made up when the series returns to Volusia in March.