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Maybe we don't drive backwards around the track to get revenge | Daily 6-30-2025

It looked like scenes out of the Madhouse at Bowman Gray Stadium, but it was actually late models at Port Royal. We'll talk you through a wild sequence from Saturday night and penalties likely coming. Plus Tim McCreadie's charge, PA Speedweek off and running, the end for Clarksville, and more. Let's go!

It's Monday, June 30th, I'm Justin Fiedler. This is DIRTRACKR Daily presented by Kubota Genuine Parts.

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Did you guys see this deal back on Saturday at Port Royal Speedway? You may have, as there were FloRacing videos of the incident floating around on social media. During the night's limited late model feature, Taylor Farlling completely lost his mind over an incident with Dillan Stake, and took not one, but two attempts to get revenge under the preceding caution. But these attempts were next level revenge attempts. The type of stuff you normally only see at the Madhouse, Bowman Gray Stadium. The two drivers started together on row two in the feature. On the opening lap, Stake slid high out of turn four, and got into second place running Ryan Zook. Stake's car was big sideways, but he collected it and kept rolling. The issue though allowed Farlling to get to Stake's outside into turn one. And this is when the trouble really started. Stake made a simple mistake, misjudged the bottom, and caught the inside wall with his left front. That shot him up the track into Farlling and the two made at least some contact. This began one of the longest spins I've seen, with the contact happening right in the middle of one and two, and Farlling somehow spinning once all the way to the backstretch. The initial contact didn't even turn Farlling around, with it being what looked like a pretty square hit to the door, or maybe left front. When you watch it, it's hard not to ask why he didn't just keep driving, but maybe he just overcorrected. But since the two drivers were at the front, when the eight car spun, the whole field was coming behind. Farlling collected several cars sitting the wrong direction, and ended up with nose and front end damage. It was a crap deal for Farlling, but clearly no intent there from Stake. From this point, the shenanigans began. Farlling drove around the track backwards, and initially tried to hit Stake in turn one, but Stake was able to avoid him. Farlling, undeterred by his failed attempt, then kept driving backwards around the track, before eventually finding Stake in turn four. And in the midst of all of this, I'm assuming the Port Royal race director was on the driver radio telling Farlling to knock it off. Stake was stopped there in four, and Farlling took the opportunity to first hit Stake head on, driving his car up onto Stake's hood. He then backed up, and drove over the left front. From there, both drivers ended up out of their cars, there were words and some scuffling, people came onto the track, and it was several minutes before the feature was able to be restarted. Stake was done for the night, and Farlling was DQ'd. Farlling apparently still upset then posted to Facebook around 1AM quote "Figured since the Port Royal Princess knocked the front off the car for the second time we could return the favor. Next time take your helmet off so I can show ya how I really feel" unquote. Normally, I'm fine with a little under-the-caution bang doors, give the guy the finger, yell at some crew guys type-stuff. But driving around the track for half a lap backwards and hitting another car head on is a level of escalation that has no place in the sport. As we talked about last year when Brandon Anderson got suspended for a year by the ASCS, using your car as a weapon, especially when you have officials and safety workers on the track, is maybe a sign that a driver needs to find another way to spend their Saturday nights. I also never understand this idea that a driver is mad about their car getting damaged, so in response, they are going to damage their car more to get revenge. These are the types of things that need to be handled in the pits, without the opportunity of there being someone in the wrong place at the wrong time when a driver decides to use their car this way. You wanna holler and push and shove in the pits afterwards, by all means. But don't do it like this. And at the end of the day, none of the initial contact was even on purpose. Based on Farlling's Facebook post and asking around a bit, it sounds like there is at least some history here, but in this case Stake just screwed up, and Farlling overreacted. I wouldn't be surprised if Port Royal announced further sanctions against Farlling this week. I don't know that the DQ is the end of this story.

In Sunday racing action, we had a great World of Outlaws late model race up at Nodak Speedway in North Dakota. Ethan Dotson led the bulk of the laps, but things got wild late. At one point we had a four way battle for the lead with Dotson, Bobby Pierce, Nick Hoffman, and Tim McCreadie all going at it, and a three wide moment or two. McCreadie got away late though to score the win, with Pierce and Hoffman on the podium. After that incredible weekend back in May, McCreadie has had more good runs, but this trip up north had been quiet so far. 13th at River Cities, 10th at Norman County. And last night, he started down in 12th, so I don't think anyone was looking his way as a potential win pick. Especially with Pierce and Hoffman and Drake Troutman starting towards the front. That's now three Outlaw wins on the season, and McCreadie and that Boom Briggs team are now top five in the Outlaw standings. Up next it's Gopher 50 time at Deer Creek Speedway. Pierce's lead back to Hoffman is 78 points, with Ryan Gustin in third and on down all triple digits back.

Pennsylvania Speedweek finally got started last night, with the first two races rained out. Lucas Wolfe out front early at BAPS Motor Speedway, but Danny Dietrich took over on lap four and led the rest of the way. Dietrich trying to become the first driver to win both the Ohio and PA Speedweeks titles in the same season and certainly off to a good start. Chase Dietz and Ryan Smith rounded out the podium. Looking ahead, there should be quite a few other drivers rolling through Speedweek at some point, and several wil new faces are slated to run today at Lincoln. Drivers expected to make scattered appearances include Christopher Bell back in the Kreitz Racing 69K. FloRacing's Kyle McFadden says Kyle Larson will be at Lincoln today, plus Grandview, Port Royal, and Hagerstown. And Brent Marks and Ashton Torgerson could make starts this week after running High Limit this past weekend. The speedweeks races are bouncing around the different streaming services all week, so make sure to head over to dirtrackr.com/watchtonight to see the daily offerings.

With the Summer Nationals, Brandon Sheppard closed out the week three championship with the win at Clarksville Speedway. He topped Jason Feger and Dillon McCowan at the end. Tyler Nicely won the night's modified feature. Feger still leads Tyler Erb for the overall Summer Nationals championship, with 58 points between the two. Feger, Terbo, McCowan, and Kyle Bronson are the only four drivers to have run every race so far. Week four starts today at Old No. 1 Speedway, with Benton, Spoon River, LaSalle, Red Hill, Haubstadt, and Duck River up next through Sunday.

There was a bunch of talk yesterday around Clarksville Speedway's future, and how last night was likely the final Summer Nationals race there ever. There has been a very slow process in place for the town of Clarksville to eventually acquire the speedway for development, with the track's owner saying back in January that they had two more years, 2025 and 2026, before that finally happened. I guess that process has been sped up, with the track talking this week about the rest of their 2025 schedule. I can't find a real announcement about it anywhere, or further details, but I guess the end is actually near for Clarksville.

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