Dirt Racing’s Winning Moment: Brandon Overton’s reputation for smooth driving paid off Saturday night (April 22) at Talladega Short Track, where he scored the Alabama Gang 100 win after Bobby Pierce had a wheel literally disintegrate on him inside of 15 laps to go.
Pierce, along with Kyle Larson earlier in the feature, found speed running the high side of the red clay oval, but in both cases the driver saw aluminum wheels on their right-rear tires shred apart in incidents that forced them to pit road.
Chris Madden finished fifth in Saturday’s race and maintained the World of Outlaws late model points lead.
Dirt Racing’s Dramatic Moment: The Ryan Preece/Larson wreck will get all the press, but Junction City, Ky.’s Logan Walls endured arguably the most destructive wreck an oval track saw this weekend, literally turning the lights off at Tri-County Racetrack in North Carolina Saturday night.
Walls was uninjured in the crash.
The last major race of the weekend had its own dramatic finish, with Mat Williamson narrowly holding off Matt Stangle to win the King of the Big Blocks Super DIRTcar Series feature at Bridgeport Motorsports Park Sunday night.
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Despite all the new clay, new walls and facility upgrades, it took more than three hours before the WoO late models turned a competitive lap at Talladega Friday. The more things change, the more they stay the same.
Having said that, the WoO already announced they’d be returning to the track in 2024 and it’s hard to blame them. An event that draws 62 super late models and has the grandstands packed so tight that the PA announcer has to ask people not to step on each other while moving is an unmitigated success.
The race was a success. The…
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