Dirt Racing’s Winning Moment: Ricky Thornton Jr. wired Wednesday night’s Flo Racing Night in America feature at Brownstown Speedway in Indiana (April 19), holding off Mike Marlar early and then capitalizing on a rubbered-down track that allowed for no passing for the entire second half.
Dirt Racing’s Dramatic Moment(s): Cannon McIntosh used a perfectly timed diamond move through turns 3 and 4 inside of five laps to go to steal the lead and eventual race win from Tylen Trammell at Millbridge Speedway in their headline wingless micro sprint division.
NASCAR Cup Series regular Daniel Suarez scored his first checkered flag of 2023 on the evening, winning the second heat in the winged micro division.
What Dirt Racing Fans’ll Be Group Chatting About This Morning
Brownstown Speedway may be the “House that James Essex built,” but call a spade a spade. Wednesday’s racing surface was an abject failure. Yes, the heat races were highly competitive and entertaining. But the feature literally could have been run on train tracks as single-file as it was.
Which is worse, a really bad race or no racing at all? It’s a question a lot of folks that tuned into Brownstown this Wednesday night are going to end up wrestling with this weekend, as weather forecasts have laid waste to the weekend’s racing schedule. Numerous national tours, including the Lucas Oil Late Model Dirt Series and World of Outlaws have already canceled their weekend race dates, with dozens of other tracks facing a bitter cold and/or wet forecast this coming weekend.
Summer can’t get here soon enough.
One positive that dirt racing has seen over the last 48 hours is the construction of multiple improved video screens at several racetracks. Eldora Speedway last night was reported by Flo Racing to have a larger screen coming in time for the Dream later this summer, while Lernerville Speedway in Pennsylvania has also announced plans for an infield video board.
This technology is not yet feasible to expect at all dirt tracks, but this is a worthwhile investment, not window dressing. Providing race fans with the ability to see instant replays is an immediate enhancement of the at-track experience and further is a boon for racetracks, as the value of grandstand seating that can’t see the backstretch or the distant corners of the track become more practical for race fans at major events.
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