Port Royal Speedway’s first lucrative Sprint Car event of the year — Saturday’s $15,000-to-win Keith Kauffman Classic — followed a similar, disoriented script to the last big 410 race at the Speed Palace.

Hudson O’Neal has been minding his own business these days, using these April weeks on the threshold of the busy spring season to ensure he’s both well prepared and well rested for the heart of the Lucas Oil Late Model Dirt Series schedule.

Spectators of a certain age have likely seen scores, if not hundreds, of Dirt Late Model feature races with two of the all-time greats, Scott Bloomquist and Billy Moyer, facing off. But with the Hall of Famers in the twilight — or even sunset? — of their careers, head-to-head showdowns aren’t nearly as common.

Hudson O'Neal has had the Dirt Late Model world wondering what his next move is going to be since leaving the Rocket Chassis house car team last month.

There are a few sentiments, in no particular order, that Hudson O’Neal would like the Dirt Late Model world to know and attempt to understand.

There have been nine champions in the history of the SMART Modifieds. Now, one of them will make their return to the 600-horsepower wars in the Pace-O-Matic King of the Modifieds presented by Dominion Energy on Saturday, March 23, at South Boston Speedway in Virginia.

When Elite Motorsports crew member Kelley Murphy made his NHRA Pro Stock debut at the Amalie Motor Oil NHRA Gatornationals, he found himself in the unenviable position of facing six-time world champion Erica Enders in round one. But that didn’t dampen the excitement for the 28-year-old rookie, who was finally fulfilling a dream nearly a decade in the making.

Few drivers, if any at all, have occupied more iconic Sprint Car rides than Lance Dewease.

Eight months. That’s how long it’s been since Anthony Macri last won a Sprint Car race before Sunday’s rejuvenating victory at Lincoln Speedway, the Dillsburg, Pa., driver’s first triumph since last July 4’s Pennsylvania Speedweek finale at Port Royal Speedway.

Lincoln Speedway, the 3/8-mile clay oval in Abbottstown, Pa., that’s been operating since 1953, is doing something this year that no dirt-track in the United States has done before.

Danny Dietrich and Freddie Rahmer, the drivers who've won the lion's share of races at Lincoln Speedway these past two years, are preparing to have regular company at the top of the leaderboard this season.

Racing at East Bay Raceway Park has never been Jimmy Owens’s strong suit. He typically views the third-mile oval’s Wieland Winternationals as just a week of competition that will bring him mostly misery.

Tyler Bruening could smile again. After digging himself out of an early-night hole, and longer term rut for that matter, with Friday’s 17th-to-fourth march through the field at All-Tech, the Decorah, Iowa, driver took great satisfaction in his labor.

From the looks of it, Garrett Alberson appeared so hungry — almost desperately hungry — for that breakthrough touring victory on Friday with the Lucas Oil Late Model Dirt Series at All-Tech Raceway, he was going to do whatever it took for that to come to fruition.

Blair Nothdurft has no expectations for himself this weekend at All-Tech Raceway with the Lucas Oil Late Model Dirt Series.