Dirt Racing’s Winning Moments: Carson Macedo survived two late-race restarts after besting Giovanni Scelzi in lapped traffic to win opening night of the World of Outlaws Spring Showdown at Volusia Speedway Park in Barberville, Fla. Sunday night (March 5).
The biggest payday of the weekend was scored by Chris Ferguson, who survived a race of pure attrition to win the annual March Madness super late model feature at Cherokee Speedway in Gaffney, S.C. Sunday evening (more on that later).
Dirt Racing’s Dramatic Moments: A myriad of late tire failures during Cherokee’s March Madness late model feature (surprise surprise) led to contact between Brandon Overton and Chris Madden on a lap 36 restart, triggering a scuffle in the pits shortly after both cars left the track.
The incident, which appeared to result in a member of the Wells Motorsports team being handcuffed during RaceXR’s broadcast, was the highlight of a disastrous season opener for the Southern All-Stars tour.
Port Royal Speedway’s season opening sprint car feature in Port Royal, Pa. was the finish of the weekend, with hometown driver Dylan Cisney trading slide jobs and besting Parker Price-Miller coming to the white flag
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When super late model racing has been good in 2023, it’s been realllyyy good (Vado, Golden Isles, Volusia). Likewise, when it’s been bad, it’s been realllyyy bad (Talladega). And this weekend it was realllyyy bad.
Fifty-lap races at Cherokee Speedway need to be made illegal. The end. I counted 11 drivers in a 29-car field that suffered flat right-rear tires in the second half of Sunday’s March Madness race, to include polesitter Mike Marlar, who led the opening 35 laps before succumbing to a flat. That’s not drama as Southern All-Stars announcer Dewayne Keith insisted it was, that’s Russian roulette that did nothing but ensure fans weren’t seeing green-flag racing as the sun went down at Cherokee.
Speaking of Keith, between his inane yelling on the mic about absolutely anything but specifics actually happening on the racetrack and Overton and Madden fighting about absolutely nothing off of it, we had the perfect metaphor for racing at Cherokee. A huge amount of hype over absolutely nothing.
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