Dirt Racing’s Winning Moment: Capitalizing on Mike Marlar’s misfortune while leading, regional hot shoe Cory Hedgecock forced the hand of Dale McDowell, taking the lead with 10 laps to go and driving off to score his second career World of Outlaws late model win at the 411 Motor Speedway in Tennessee Thursday night (April 20).
The win marked Hedgecock’s fourth consecutive feature victory at 411 dating back to last November’s Leftover super late model race.
Dirt Racing’s Dramatic Moment(s): The season opener for the ASCS national sprint car tour was decided by inches, with a dominant Jason Martin narrowly escaping with the win at Jackson Motor Speedway in Mississippi after Seth Bergman ran him down on the high side in the closing laps, erasing almost all of a 0.4-second lead on the final circuit.
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Maybe someone needs to screen The Mighty Ducks for Cory Hedgecock, namely, the scene that goes “score, don’t spike.” Hedgecock has clearly supplanted Jimmy Owens as the master of the Tennessee red dirt and from what social media had to say, there’s a strong contingent of fans that believe it was Owens, not Hedgecock, that triggered a heat-race spat between the two that led to a fireworks display during Dirtvision’s interviews.
Yes, it was a spicy exchange, but it came off awfully whiny for a driver that’s undefeated at 411 in 2023.
Ruben Morales’s comment that 411’s front-wheel-drive class were in fact “four-wheel-drive” vehicles was amusing.
What was not amusing was that DirtVision, between their booth announcer and their pit reporter, provided exactly zero updates about how Brandon Overton, one of the top qualifiers on the night, was relegated to the back of his heat race (the series Twitter page did clarify that Overton lost his starting spot due to a tire change after qualifying).
The layout at 411, where the infield is completely devoid of any competitors, may have contributed to this, but between knowing what’s happening to competitors and listening to Hedgecock play tough guy, I’d rather have Hannah Newhouse at tech…
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