Dirt Racing’s Winning Moment: Defending World of Outlaws champion Brad Sweet scored his first win of 2023 Saturday night (March 26), holding off a determined David Gravel to win the Black Ice Brawl at Magnolia Motor Speedway in Mississippi.
Sweet did a masterful job in the second half of the race navigating lapped traffic, though Gravel, who had stormed from 10th place seemed to have the speed to catch the No. 49. Several late-race caution flags broke the momentum Gravel had using the high side of the track in the closing laps.
Dirt Racing’s Dramatic Moment: In arguably the hard-charger performance of the weekend, Daison Pursley successfully slid Jace Park by inches to score a last-lap, last-corner win in the POWRi National Midget feature at Port City Raceway in Oklahoma Saturday night.
Pursley went from 13th to first to score the win.
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It’s a rare weekend that this column’s “winning moment” isn’t also the nation’s richest race, but that was the case this time around. The nation’s richest race was in fact won by Dan Ebert, who catfished Terry Phillips on the low side of the Humboldt Speedway to win the King of America feature with the United States Modified Touring Series Saturday.
It’s the third year I’ve covered dirt for Frontstretch and in each of those years I’ve tried to get into the USMTS series. And failed. Which is surprising, because the pieces are all there. Deep car counts, a talented driver roster, consistent big money and a national streaming partner. But despite all that, the series has never really clicked for me as must-see viewing as I pick and choose the features to bring to this column. There’s two reasons for that.
One, there is just way too much going on to set lineups for this tour. Inverts in heat races that then use passing points to set the feature and B-main lineups makes the eventual A-mains for the series feel like the product of a blender more than an unfolding race night. And as nice as it is to see car counts consistently at the half-century mark or higher, a field that produces three B-mains based again on passing points is a lot to try to keep up with.
Second, and maybe even more problematic, is that for all the good work Racin’ Dirt does to stream the entire USMTS tour, social media during the racing programs is more barren than…
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