Dirt Racing’s Winning Moment: Austen Becerra came up one spot short of a Clash on the Coast sweep at Northwest Florida Speedway Tuesday, coming up two car lengths short of local racer Joseph Joiner in the modified feature.
Becerra again used the high side of the racetrack to make up ground through the field during Tuesday’s feature but was unable to carve through lapped traffic the same way he mowed down the top five en route to a win Monday.
Dirt Racing’s Dramatic Moment: See above. Tuesday’s racing program at Northwest Florida was frankly a lot more pedestrian than the opening night of the Clash on the Coast.
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The pure stocks replaced the stingers as the third class on the ticket at Northwest Florida Tuesday and drew only three cars, two of which actually started the feature. The race program ran as scheduled, with a heat race and a feature including the exact same cars racing against each other.
The entire idea behind most race programs is a crescendo, building from heats to urgent B-mains to the main event. In cases where the car count is that low, I’d love to see tracks set the A-main by single-car qualifying, add heat laps to the feature lap count to make sure drivers that paid their entry fee get their laps, and then turn them loose. Otherwise it’s just the same show twice.
I’d be remiss not to compliment IMCA TV for the streaming program they put on over the two nights of the Clash on the Coast. The streaming service made liberal use of video replays and had telemetry up and running (accurately) for all competition on the track. Job well done.
Stepping away from Northwest Florida Speedway, bad weather forecasts made sure that dirt racing as a sport (at least from a streaming perspective) will now stay dark until Friday. The scheduled opening night of the Spring Nationals at Rocket Raceway Park in Texas (the season opener for the United States Modified Touring Series) was preemptively canceled, with the USMTS tour opting to to move the show to a Saturday-Sunday affair.
I can appreciate this from a driver’s perspective, as the move means the opportunity to race multiple times (and collect multiple payouts) is preserved. As a fan, I can’t help but admit that once the big-money race runs, it gets a little laborious to tune in for a smaller show at the same track with the same field the next day.
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